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Game Trust Gets Robbins For Director Of Games

Casual game publisher and distributor Game Trust has announced that it has hired Brian Robbins, co-founder of the International Game Developers Association’s (IGDA) Casua...

Simon Carless, Blogger

March 8, 2006

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Casual game publisher and distributor Game Trust has announced that it has hired Brian Robbins, co-founder of the International Game Developers Association’s (IGDA) Casual Games Special Interest Group (SIG) and the current Chair for the IGDA’s Online Games SIG, to be its newly created Director of Games. Most recently Director of Online Gaming at Fuel Industries, Robbins was the lead programmer for SWITCH Wakeboarding, which launched last year on Game Trust. At Game Trust, Robbins will be charged with: working with game developers to release high quality games both online and for download; extending Game Trust’s API; managing Game Trust’s integrated game catalog; and further building the company’s relationships with the development community. “Today, the casual games industry is at a tipping point,” said Adeo Ressi, CEO of Game Trust. “Brian has long been a champion of casual games and understands the potential of casual games, perhaps, better than anyone else. As an award-winning developer, he will help ensure that Game Trust remains at the forefront of delivering the leading edge of content and technology.”

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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