Wertandrew

Starting out as a young boy bobbing along with popular 90's rock hits and playing a variety of video-games, Wertandrew has matured into a designer, musician, producer, coordinator and story-writer, who jumps around from project to project as he paves his way towards a career in what he calls the UGC industry. What started as a hobby is now a way of life, ranging but not limited to movies, games, music, sketches, poems, movie scripts and various types of art. But that's not how it all started. After finishing school, Wert studied in a Greek Merchant Marine Academy where he got his Captain Class C' certificate. Before the age of 22, he had already traveled to 6 continents and to over 40 different locations around the earth. After working for another year, he studied at Plymouth University in UK where he got his BSc in Shipping & Logistics and the next year his MSc in International Shipping. However, just before finishing his thesis, Wert found Project Spark and Gameglobe, and then a strange turn of events occurred. Gameglobe was an editor where you could use existing art assets and logic to create your own games, developed by Bigpoint and published by Square Enix. After a month creating in Gameglobe, Wert had already won the fourth place in an international competition held by Gameglobe staff. After that, he ranked first in another three weekly challenges. Finally, he won first place in the Quest Creation Challenge, where he got his game converted to an official Gameglobe campaign, featuring 5 levels and roughly an hour of gameplay. Realizing his ability to make games, Wert quit from his merchant marine career and started exploring more of this new path. He moved into Project Spark, a UGC engine developed by Team Dakota and published by Microsoft Studios. Project Spark was the most exciting game editor that Wert had ever experienced, so he decided to help develop a community website and a wiki which are today the largest resources in the Project Spark community. In addition, he formed a community advisory group that was in direct contact with the developers of Project Spark. This group came to be known as the "Community Advisory Group" and it was used to help Team Dakota with in-game moderation and critical design decisions. But he didn't stop there. Wert was passionate about creating games, so he continued making experiences in Project Spark. He has now acclaimed the most features in the game, with over 15 different games and designs being featured for more than 20 weeks in total. He also has a total of 194k plays, 6k followers, has participated in multiple official streams and was one of the community members that promoted Project Spark in Pax East 2014. Aside from his interest in UGC/video-game development, Wert is also a musician. Under the name of DJ Nvn, he has a range of more than 300 music tracks and an album distributed in 32 retailers around the globe. He also signed a contract with Sony Picture's subsidiary Motion Picture Corp. to produce a soundtrack for a movie and his music can also be found in the Unreal Engine Marketplace (Game Music Mega Pack). Wert now creates UGC in Fortnite Creative, where he has been featured more than 9 times. Some of his works include the Dungeon Prison Saga, Detective Stories and Lachy's Landing (created along with Lachy and Dolphin Dom for the Fortnite Creative World Cup 2019).