Jon Torrens
Communications Coach
Jon's worked as a designer at games companies including Sony Cambridge and Criterion, and as a professional stand-up comic for a few years, so he knows how to engage and motivate. Occasionally he can be funny too.
For the past ten years as a coach and speaker, he has taught confident communication, using his personal skills to both show and tell. He has delivered training for Creative Assembly, Ninja Theory, Rare, Sumo and Jagex.
Unique insights from the worlds of computer game design and stand-up comedy enable even the most introverted of his clients to deliver presentations that delight and motivate their audiences.
'Once in a generation, someone comes along who changes everything. Jon Torrens is not that person, but he met them once and tried to wow them with his Alec Guinness impression.
Jon Torrens is speaking at the following session/s
The Final Countdown & Indie Showcase Winners Announced
End your Develop 2025 on a high (or at least a very weird note)...
Join us for a Taskmaster-style showdown featuring:
🎮 Video game trivia
🧠 Puzzling nonsense
💥 Physical challenges of questionable purpose
🏆 Prizes include actual items (Develop passes) and concepts like ‘smug satisfaction’ and ‘mild regret’
The Rules?
They’re made up on the spot. But we can confirm that fire beats leaf beats water beats fire. Expect that logic to settle more than one argument.
Your hosts, Stevie Ward and Jon Torrens, will be your gloriously biased BOSSES. Will they be fair? Or petty? Only the fates (and their caffeine levels) can say. They’re easily bribed, too. And vain.
Expect:
✔ Tomfoolery
✔ Shenanigans*
✔ Silliness
(*the value of shenanigans may go down as well as up)
Also: There’s beer. Which probably should have been the first bullet point.
Will you survive the madness?
Of course you will*.
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