Ilke graduated from CGL in 2019 with his Bachelor-Thesis on “Representation of Politics in Video Games” and also developed a functional prototype alongside the thesis that led to the game concept of the game “Suzerain” that was awarded as “Best Expert Game” at Deutscher Computerspielpreis in 2021.

He is now a game designer, writer & artist at Torpor Games, an indie games company he founded together with Ozgun Kilit, Ekin Keserer und Ata Sergey Nowak in Berlin in 2019. Torpor Games creates thought-provoking entertainment in all forms to expand horizons, shift perspectives and challenge morality in all facets of the human experience. Combining a wide variety of disciplines and experience, the team of nine is working on the critically acclaimed, community-boosted, and financially successful Suzerain title and a new unannounced game project set in the same fictional universe.