Simon Carless is a

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businessperson and former game designer and

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. Simon is the founder of GameDiscoverCo, a video game

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consultancy firm, and previously worked overseeing the worldwide

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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

in 2007. Carless formerly edited the games section on Slashdot, and he worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and

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. He wrote Gaming Hacks, a book published by

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. Carless was also active in the

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of the early 1990s, releasing modules under the moniker ''Hollywood''. He operated the

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Monotonik from 1996 to 2009.

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