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I’m currently a Group Publisher at Think Services, encompassing products such as the Maggie award-winning Game Developer magazine and the double Webby award-winning Gamasutra website, the top information sources for professional video game developers - plus the GameSetWatch editor weblog and a plethora of other sites.

I also function as Chairman of the yearly ‘Sundance Festival for games’, the Independent Games Festival, which holds its awards at Game Developers Conference yearly. In relation to GDC, which Think Services also runs, I’m a member of the GDC advisory board, I chair the committee for the Game Developers Choice Awards, and help program the Independent Games Summit and several other summits at the show.

Expert Blogs

GDC: 'Phaedrus' Returns From Beyond To Give GDC Lecture?  Featured Blogs
Posted by Simon Carless on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:13:00 EST in
Who is Phaedrus?
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Gamma IV Sets Up Kickstarter Appeal To Finish Funding GDC Event  Featured Blogs
Posted by Simon Carless on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:40:00 EST in
Kokoromi, the organizers of the Gamma IV 'one button games' event taking place alongside GDC next month, are looking for funding to help complete event preparations - can you help?
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Note: Indie Game Trends/Sales - Autumn 2009 Update
Posted by Simon Carless on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:33:00 EDT in Game Design
Links to some slides (and a taped lecture) about independent game trends and stats that I presented in recent weeks in Asia and Australia.
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GDC Austin Indie, iPhone Summits - A Cog Speaks Out
Posted by Simon Carless on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:10:00 EDT in Game Design
Though I don't update my Gamasutra Expert Blog too often, a semi-sekrit GDC Austin pass discount code has roused me from my slumber, to inform and hector.
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A Brief Statement On The Mobigame/Edge Games Article
Posted by Simon Carless on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:03:00 EDT in
I just wanted to use my Gamasutra blog to make a brief comment about the article that GameSetWatch and Gamasutra posted about 10 days ago regarding the iPhone game Edge and its removal from the App Store.
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GDC: Indie Game Sales 101 - The Slides
Posted by Simon Carless on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:31:00 EDT in Production
Slides from my Indie Games Summit talk discussing what indie developers on PC, XBLA, WiiWare, PSN, and iPhone can hope to sell, with public and estimated data.
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Simon Carless's Comments

Comment In: Activision Exceeds Expectations With Profit Increase [News - 05/06/2010 - 04:37]

Brent/TK, thanks for the heads ...

Brent/TK, thanks for the heads up - these new GAAP-infused earnings are complex. We've corrected and enhanced the article.

Comment In: ESA Canada Urges Copyright Law Update [News - 05/04/2010 - 11:03]

ESA Canada is a completely ...

ESA Canada is a completely stand-alone organization based in Canada - it's not got the same management as the U.S. office, to be clear. So it seems like the Canadian game publisher trade organization also supports the U.S. comments. I don't have an opinion on this, but we reached out ...

Comment In: U.S. Trade Rep Creates Piracy Watch List [News - 05/03/2010 - 09:45]

Fair comment on the simple ...

Fair comment on the simple reprinting re: Canada, folks. We are, of course, just passing on what the ESA and the U.S. Government is saying here, and one of the problems we've found is that there's not a lot of data to refute the claims. However, these comments make us ...

Comment In: Competition: Upload Your Resume To Gamasutra, Win A DSi [News - 04/29/2010 - 09:59]

Reid: We meant the resume ...

Reid: We meant the resume upload service. : Edited. And Alex - I guess if you want to be eligible for each drawing and you're being clever, you could go do that. Obviously we're expecting each person to update their resume once and be eligible for that month's prize.

Comment In: Analysis: Splinter Cell: Conviction And Moral Quandaries [News - 04/27/2010 - 08:29]

Francis: fair comment on the ...

Francis: fair comment on the title, we tried punching it up - it wasn't the column's original title when it ran on GameSetWatch - but I think we overdid it : It's been edited now.

Comment In: Nintendo's Sakamoto: True Collaboration Essential To Great Games [News - 04/23/2010 - 08:59]

Tim, we'll employ you as ...

Tim, we'll employ you as a copy editor yet, but we edited the sentence/para so it's a bit more elegant :

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