slides (< 1 MB)Breaking down the costs of game production. A realistic look!
Delivered at Casual Connect Seattle, June 2006
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Juan Gril (email)
Juan has been involved in the casual games industry even before the casual games term was coined. He is currently focusing on the production of innovative casual games for PC, Mobile and consoles.
Previously, and as one of the first members of the Yahoo! Games team, Juan was the lead producer for the downloadable games area and community manager of multi player games. In the last year of his tenure at Yahoo!, Juan was the head of Yahoo! Games Studios, producing the first 8 mobile titles the company has released.
Juan holds a BFA in Electronic Media from the University of Illinois.
Wade Tinney (email)
Wade co-founded Large Animal Games (www.largeanimal.com) with partner Josh Welber in 2001. Large Animal was founded in 2001 and has since released dozens of web-based games and eleven downloadable PC games. Wade serves on the IGDA Casual Games Special Interest Group steering committee and is the founding editor of the Casual Games Quarterly. He is also the Coordinator for the NYC chapter of the IGDA and has taught game design courses at Parsons School of Design and New York University.
Patrick Wylie (email)
