Engin Altan Düzyatan

Moritz

Chief Technology Officer

Moritz is a game industry veteran with almost 20 years of experience in the business, having proudly shipped more than 30 titles on a spectrum ranging from hardcore strategy and city builders to puzzle and arcade games. As an alumnus of King.com, HandyGames, and 5th Planet, Moritz has led and inspired game studios to embrace disruptive transformations and futuristic technologies.

Moritz is now applying his massive skill set in technology to bring Medieval Empires to life. He is well on the path to innovate GameFi and gameplay while making the best, most ethical and creative use of blockchains for the ultimate gaming experience!

Joaquim

Art Lead

Joaquim is a Spanish-born artist with 36 years of experience in the entertainment and video game industry. With a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Joaquim has a profound passion in drawing, painting and video game design. He has previously worked in the Feature Animation department with Walt Disney on popular movies such as Tarzan, Atlantis the Lost Empire, Tarzan II, A Goofy Movie, Runaway Brain, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules.

With Medieval Empires, Joaquim intends to bring his vast experience in visual development, animation and art direction to the blockchain gaming industry to create an extraordinary and magnificent game world. His knowledge and expertise will help build the world of Ertugrul into a true spectacle!

Qing

Lead Producer

Qing is a veteran in mobile gaming and digital services along the rise of the smartphone industry. He worked on many brands that are familiar to consumers such as the Candy Crush franchise, N26 bank, and Ada Health. He has a vast experience working in start-ups, disruptive tech companies and Unicorns across disciplines, building high performance teams that have a great business impact.

As the Lead Producer for Medieval Empires, Qing will be applying his remarkable expertise in product management to collaborate with a team of ambitious and accomplished engineers, artists and designers, aiming to make Medieval Empires the next big success story in the blockchain gaming industry!

Felix

Game Design Director

Felix has more than 15 years of game design experience in browser and mobile games within a genre range from strategy, RPG and simulation, puzzles, and even hyper casual games. He has worked at big names in the industry such as Wooga and Huuuge, and possesses a mindset driven by numbers and analytics.

At Medieval Empires, Felix is using his exceptional game design skills to create a game universe that will take gamers on a historical journey and give them countless action-packed, thrilling gameplay options. By designing exciting missions, tasks and events in the strategy game, Felix is geared up to create an unforgettable experience for the gaming community!

Jan

Chief Executive Officer

Jan has worked in various markets and IT companies such as Accenture and Atos for over 20 years. With a master’s degree in management and IT, he has established himself as a structured and methodical business expert who has led successful IT teams across different companies.

Now, Jan is bringing his strong leadership skills, along with his IT prowess into the metaverse by stepping into the world of blockchain gaming. Applying his extensive expertise in IT, management and blockchain technology, Jan is set to make Medieval Empires into a high-growth and prosperous venture!

Assad

Chief Visionary Officer & Co-Founder

Meet Assad Dar, Co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Medieval Empires – helming a cutting-edge mid-core strategy game that's set to revolutionize the gaming world. With over 15 years of experience in the digital arena, he has been leading organizations into the future with one goal in mind: to drive positive change, profitability, and process improvement.

From implementing global strategies to digital transformation, marketing, and go-to-market strategies, Assad knows how to get results. He's a master of change, leading teams and departments through transitions with ease, and his areas of expertise are truly mind-blowing. Blockchain technology, game development, information technology, program and project management, leadership and team management, digital transformation and marketing, business and strategy planning, market analysis and research, and change management – Assad has proven experience of delivering results in all of these areas. He has worked with conglomerates worth multi-billions and startups on both global and local levels. His focused approach to drive ROI, attract more customers, and grow revenue is exemplary and we at Medieval Empires are glad to have him at our helm.

Engin

Turkish Film & Television Actor & Producer

Engin Altan Düzyatan, the award-winning actor, is the face of Ertugrul in Medieval Empires. Engin will be reviving his most beloved character, this time, on the game screen.

With Engin’s association, Medieval Empires is set to become a game fitting of the legendary Ertugrul, and the historical legacy associated with him. Players will get the true feel of reliving some of the most action-packed and iconic events in history, right through the eyes of Ertugrul himself!

Carl

Angel Investor

Carl, also known as ‘The Moon’ is an Angel Investor in MoonGaming, the parent company behind Medieval Empires. He is a serial entrepreneur who has invested in more than 300 blockchain-based startups and has been featured in the Top 30 Under 30 list by Forbes. The crypto evangelist has also been featured in top business publications such as CNBC, Business Insider, Coin Telegraph and Tech Telegraph UK.

Carl is also the co-founder of Bitcoinsensus and Kasta, and is a well-known speaker, a respected philanthropist and a multimillionaire crypto expert who has a massive social media influence. With more than 2 million followers across YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, Carl is already well on his way to be a frontrunner in the mass adoption of blockchain technologies and crypto currencies.

Scott

Former CMO at Illuvium & Crypto Game Advisor

Scott has over 20 years of experience in marketing and development ranging from gaming to mobile content management. He has worked with highly talented teams across various projects, and has successfully launched many products, including major PlayStation platforms. As Head of Games Marketing Partnerships at Twitch, he witnessed the power creators bring to the games industry and how businesses can partner with these communities to achieve historic milestones.

Oliver

Crypto Game Advisor / Commercial Officer Lockwood Publishing Ltd

Oliver has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and advertising, including with industry giants such as Rovio and Wargaming. He is a mobile marketing guru that has helped many app companies achieve tremendous success. He has marketed hundreds of casual, core, and MMO games in the online and mobile space and currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Lockwood Publishing, the creator of the virtual 3D world AVAKIN LIFE.

Josh

Managing Director of Andromeda Capital

Josh is the Managing Director of Andromeda Capital and a senior partner at Latitude Blockchain Services. He has worked as a strategist and advisor on more than 35 crypto projects and his experience and acumen provides key insights on market conditions, messaging, and how to avoid crucial mistakes. Josh also specializes in post-launch strategy to help create stronger, more active communities. As an early-stage strategic investor in well over two-hundred startups, Josh has procured a trusted network of industry heavyweights, influencers and developers to guide synergistic partnerships and collaborations.

Justin

Former COO Decentraland Advisor

Justin has over 20 years of production and operations experience. He was instrumental in developing RuneScape while at Jagex and was an integral part of their success story. Justin also ran operations at Lockwood Publishing for several years, working on Avakin Life, a successful mobile free-to-play metaverse. Recently, he served as COO at Decentraland, responsible for scaling their operations against the product’s success and supporting the team in defining future strategies.

Hüseyin

Professor of History / PhD from Harvard University

Hüseyin Yılmaz is an associate professor in history at George Mason University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2005. He previously taught at Stanford University and the University of South Florida. He has worked at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna and the International University of Sarajevo as a research fellow and visiting scholar. His research interests include state formation, geographic imageries, and social movements of the early Ottoman Empire and the Anatolian Seljuks, 1100-1600. He is the author of Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2018).

Ararat

Jewelry Designer

Ararat Arpaci is an exceptionally talented and internationally acclaimed artist, who is famous for his unique, handcrafted jewelry designs. From an early age, Ararat started learning about traditional jewelry skills in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, giving him this opportunity to work with accomplished jewel experts and well-known designers. Ararat aims to introduce his amazing artistry to everyone and become a global name by crafting rare NFT rings which will bring NFT utility into the physical world from the virtual realm of video games.

DaVinci Jeremie

Angel Investor

DaVinci Jeremie is one of the key investors in Medieval Empires. He is a famous Bitcoin enthusiast and early crypto adopter. He earned his popularity in recent years when the video of him advising to "just buy $1 worth of Bitcoin" nine years ago suddenly resurfaced and quickly gained more than four million views on Youtube. Other than being a savvy crypto investor, he is also a self-educated software developer, enterprise level system designer, and extensive bitcoin architecture knowledge, with the knowledge of coding in many software languages with key efficiencies in Delphi, C++, SQL and C#.