Simon Carless is a video game industry journalist, editor and game designer. The video game industry (formally referred to as Interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, Marketing A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer He was born in London, England, but has since moved to San Jose, California. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Simon commutes to San Francisco where he works for CMP Technology as the Editorial Director in the CMP Game Group including editing both Game Developer Magazine and the Webby Award winning Gamasutra. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Game Developer magazine is a Monthly trade Periodical for the Video game industry. Gamasutra is a Web site founded in 1997 for Video game developers It is owned and operated by CMP Media, and acts as the online sister publication to the Simon is chairman and a judge for the Independent Games Festival and in 2007 led the Independent Games Summit as part of the Game Developers Conference. The Independent Games Festival ( IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry The Game Developers Conference ( GDC) is the largest annual gathering of professional Video game developers focusing on learning inspiration and networking Simon regularly contributes to GameSetWatch. com, an alternative video game web log which is part of Gamasutra. Gamasutra is a Web site founded in 1997 for Video game developers It is owned and operated by CMP Media, and acts as the online sister publication to the
He was formerly the editor of the games page on Slashdot, and he has also worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari, to name a couple. Slashdot, often abbreviated as /, is a technology-related news Website owned by SourceForge Inc Kuju Entertainment is a British Computer and video game Corporation. Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and Computer games with its parent company based in England. Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. His best known work is probably Gaming Hacks, a book published by O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly [1]
Carless has also operated the netlabel Monotonik continuously since 1996. A netlabel (also online label, web label or MP3 label) is a Record label that distributes its music primarily through Digital audio
External links
- Simon Carless's profile at MobyGames
- Simon Carless's blog
- solipsistic NATION No. 66: NetLabels Podcast. MobyGames is a Website devoted to cataloging computer and video games, both past and present Interviews and music from the Konfort Records, Thinner and Monotonik (Simon Carless, founder) electronic music netlabels.
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