British video game designer
Simon Carless at the Game Developers Conference in 2007
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.
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]
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