Jeffrey Paine, founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology incubator based in Singapore, tells us that the more they travel in a region, the more they understand why entrepreneurs do what they do. There are plenty of local problems to solve, and often a start-up company doesn’t want to solve huge global problems,…
Jhondie T. Abenaza of Zeenoh Games has been passionate about playing games since childhood. His dream has always been to develop his own games and have his own development studio. He has seen how his passion and advocacy can produce more talents in game development, which has kept him going in this industry. At Zeenoh,…
Alastair Burns is Director for Developer Relations and Partnerships at Gramble, a company dedicated to optimizing the cross-platform social gaming experience. Gramble is laser focused on mobile and tablet technology that includes the development of a social gaming network that will host an entertaining suite of mobile games from developers across the world. We don’t ask…
Torsten Oppermann is the founder and CEO of indigo pearl brand communications, a consulting business focused on building successful game brands. He is also co-founder and CEO of indigo pearl games financing (IPGF), a joint venture with a private placement firm that manages a portfolio of game-related investments. For IPGF, Torsten screens target companies, provides…
Michael Kalkowski is co-founder and managing/creative director of GameDuell, one of the leading casual and social games providers in the Western markets. Michael is responsible for GameDuell’s games, website, player community and user experience; a universe of more than 80 million registered players. As Creative Director, he spends most of his time interacting with GameDuell…
Stefan Damasena is a founding partner of Alegrium, a company which creates games and applications on the web and mobile platforms, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company’s major goal is to create happiness for others as well as themselves. As CEO, he is learning, along with his close friend and business partner, Yan Gunawan, to…
Sean Clark has worn many hats during his time in the games industry. From designer to studio director and everything in between, Sean’s passion never seems to run out. He worked at Playdom, Electronic Arts, and LucasArts before settling as Director of Content Production at Big Fish Games. He enjoys everything he does in games,…
Creative Mobile Games, located in Tallinn, Estonia…about as far from the global “centers” of the game business as one is likely to get. Despite that, Creative Mobile Games might be the most successful mobile game development studio that you’ve never heard of. CMG develops and publishes social and mobile games, including the Android and iOS…
Founded by two former Electronic Arts’ employees, BlueBat Games’ mission is to entertain through games that are fun and unique. As the brain child of Kenny Huang and Tim Harris, this studio works to build an atmosphere that allows passion to shine. Recently, we were able to talk to Kenny about his unusual studio and…
Eric Seufert is head of Marketing and User Acquisition at Grey Area Labs in Helsinki, Finland. Before joining Grey Area, Seufert led the analytics team at Digital Chocolate in Helsinki and was product manager of the quality analytics platform at Skype in Tallin, Estonia. Seufert was an avid gamer through his growing up years and…