Thomas Mahler

Thomas Mahler
Nationality	Austria
Education	Traditional Sculpture
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Occupation	CEO
Employer	Moon Studios
Notable work	Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Thomas Mahler is an Austrian game developer, game director and project manager best known for being co-creator of the 2015 indie game title, Ori and the Blind Forest.

Mahler was interested with video games and artwork at an early age and studied traditional sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He worked at Blizzard Entertainment on visual effects as a Cinematic Artist before founding Moon Studios GmbH in Vienna together with Gennadiy Korol in 2010.

In 2015, Mahler co-created the critically acclaimed and award-winning indie game title, Ori and the Blind Forest, which became profitable within weeks after release, with Korol. He won the NAVGTR Award in the Game, Original Adventure category in 2016 with Ori and the Blind Forest. The game is considered an example of video games becoming closer to art, and it won, among others, the BAFTA Games Award for Artistic Achievement and the Game Award for Best Art Direction. For example, Chris Melissinos commented that the video game audience was not used to seeing Ori and the Blind Forest's dreamlike sensitivity style of art usually reserved for high profile animated films.

Mahler is currently developing Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

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