Matthias Sala
Zurich, Switzerland
Matthias "Babalunda" Sala tries to blur fiction with reality, sometimes also his very own. He studied computer science at ETH Zürich, studied abroad at the Stellenbosch University. He did research internships at Siemens Smart Home Lab and Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. In his younger days, Matthias created his first MOD based on Gorillas in Qbasic and SCUMM games. For the IBM Leonardo Da Vinci contest in the early 90ies, he created a maze game for MS-DOS. Besides working at Gbanga, he throws parties such as the SuperHappyDevFlat and StartupCamp Switzerland. He also is founding member and president of the Swiss Chapter of International Game Developer Association (IGDA) and founding member of Mobile Monday Switzerland.