Simon Carless is a video game industry businessperson and former game designer and editor. Simon is the founder of GameDiscoverCo,[1] a video game discoverability consultancy firm, and previously worked overseeing the worldwide Game Developers Conference event and Black Hat information security events.
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Carless is Chairman Emeritus of the Independent Games Festival, and he co-founded the Independent Games Summit as part of Game Developers Conference in 2007.[2]
Carless formerly edited the games section on Slashdot, and he worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari.[3] He wrote Gaming Hacks, a book published by O'Reilly Media.[4]
Carless was also active in the demoscene of the early 1990s, releasing modules under the moniker Hollywood.[5] He operated the netlabel Monotonik from 1996 to 2009.[6]
References
edit- ^ "GameDiscoverCo". www.gamediscover.co.
- ^ "Gamasutra - The Art & Business of Making Games". www.gamasutra.com.
- ^ "You Might Know Me From… - Simon Carless". www.simoncarless.com.
- ^ Carless, Simon. "Gaming Hacks".
- ^ Asle, Crown, CurtCool, Monty. "Amiga Music Preservation -". amp.dascene.net.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Monotonik". Discogs.
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