Episode 1 - Rise of the Indie Mini-Series
10The opening event, bringing together developers to discuss, live on Twitch, the rise of the indie scene.
Participants:
Brad Cook - Out of the Park Baseball 16
Brad Cook has been the PR and marketing manager for Out of the Park Baseball for PC/Mac and MLB Manager (formerly iOOTP Baseball) for iOS/Android since January 2011. He lives with his wife and two kids in northern California and has been a Phillies fan since he was a kid. More information about OOTP Developments’ games can be found here: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/
Simon Dean - Folk Tale
Simon Dean is a game producer. Fresh out of university he co-developed Beasts and Bumpkins, published by Electronic Arts in 1997. As a survivor of the dotcom bubble, Simon co-founded several successful businesses, two of which went on to be acquired. Simon now heads Games Foundry, a team of 8 indie developers working on Folk Tale.
Christopher Rubyor - Savage Lands
Christopher Rubyor has been working professionally in games for over 20 years and has shipped more than 40 titles across multiple platforms. He got his shot in the industry back in 1994 working on the critically acclaimed Command & Conquer series created by Westwood Studios. Over the last two decades Chris has worked for such high profile publishers and developers such as Electronic Arts, Petroglyph, and Microsoft. His contributions and leadership helped to define unique gameplay experiences for such AAA franchises as Star Wars, Lord of The Rings, and Command & Conquer. In 2014 Chris joined the Signal Studios team as Studio Design Director overseeing the development of Savage Lands while cultivating new IP and game concepts for their digital business portfolio on Steam.
Zeno Žokalj - Starpoint Gemini 2
Zeno Žokalj is Community & PR Manager in Little Green Men Games studio. He is responsible for media relations, community on Steam, GoG and official forums, along with Facebook and Twitter pages. His gaming career started back in 1986. on ZX Spectrum, continued on his favorite Amiga 1200 and then PC. In his free time, Zeno writes game reviews for croatian gaming portal goodgame.hr and plays other games (both AAA and Indie) on his PC, PS3 and PS4. He lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia with his girlfriend. Although he has a degree in information technologies (bacc. ing. techn. inf.) and he's Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), working in gaming industry was his dream for a long time.