Simon Carless
Simon Carless is a video game industry journalist, editor and game designer. He was born in London, England, and presently resides in San Jose, California. Simon works in San Francisco for UBM TechWeb as Global Brand Director for its Game Network, including overseeing the worldwide Game Developers Conference shows, and as publisher of the Webby Award-winning Gamasutra and Game Developer Magazine.
Carless is Chairman Emeritus of the Independent Games Festival. He co-founded and led the Independent Games Summit since 2007 as part of the yearly San Francisco-based Game Developers Conference. He regularly contributes to GameSetWatch, an alternative video game weblog which is a sister site to Gamasutra.
Carless edited the games page on Slashdot, and he worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari. He wrote Gaming Hacks, a book published by O'Reilly Media.[1]
Carless operated the netlabel Monotonik[2] from 1996 to 2009.
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