Week 12 Guest Speaker: Adrian Crook

Adrian Crook is our guest speaker this week. Adrian is the Managing Director of Adrian Crook & Associates (http://adriancrook.com) and will be speaking about the structures and opportunities of the video game industry. In the words of his firm’s website “Adrian Crook is an award-winning game design consultant with over 20 years experience in the social, casual and core games sectors. He has produced and designed over two dozen products across platforms ranging from early Nintendo and Sega Genesis to PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox 360, Wii, Facebook, iOS and Online. In 2006, Adrian was named Producer of the Year by the Canadian New Media Awards and his products have won numerous awards, including “Game of the Year”.

Adrian has led multiple original IP products to market with one product selling more than 1 million units on a single platform. He is a certified Scrummaster with a proven ability to lead large teams of up to 100 developers.

In January 2008, Adrian founded Adrian Crook & Associates, a game design and strategy consultancy that has contributed to the success of over 70 valued international clients. Adrian’s experienced team is focused on social & mobile game design, gamification, business development and startup growth strategy. Adrian Crook & Associates has extensive experience designing social and online games that include multiple monetization methods, such as virtual goods, ad support, tiered subscriptions, branded content and more.

Adrian is an advisor to several game industry firms and currently a creative mentor at Execution Labs, a game incubator and accelerator. He has given interviews on G4TV and other TV, print and online news outlets and has spoken as a social games expert at conferences such as GDC, SXSW, ICE, Casual Connect, INplay and GameON: Finance.”

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