A panel discussion from the Flash Gaming Summit 2012, this talk assembled 4 top flash game developers to talk shop. Joining the panel are Andrew Sega (Lead Engineer - Sojo Studios), Dan Stradwick (Owner - Monstrum Games), Ethan Levy (Design Manager - BioWare San Francisco) and Sean McGee (Owner - Diseased Productions). Find out more at www.famousaspect.com

1. Flash Development Life 2012
Moderated by: Ethan Levy
Panelists: Sean McGee, Andrew Sega, & Dan
Stradwick

2. Andrew Sega, Lead Engineer, Sojo Studios
Andrew Sega spend two years as an indie
developer making flash games as Diffusion
Games, releasing games with over 11 million
plays, garnering sponsorships from Armor
Games, Kongregate, Addicting Games and
others. In 2011, he contracted with EA2D on
Dragon Age Legends for Facebook, and
released the 48 hour game Monomaze to
Flash and Android platforms before hanging
up his indie hat and joining the startup
scene. Andrew currently works at Sojo
Games as Lead Engineer on the recently
launched WeTopia.
www.diffusiongames.com

3. Daniel Stradwick, Monstrum Games
Dan Stradwick develops flash games as
Monstrum Games, where he has created the
hit Monsters' Den series. After working with
EA2D on Dragon Age Journeys, Dan
returned to Monsters' Den, a series which
has seen over 25 million plays. The highly
anticipated third entry in the series, Monsters'
Den Chronicles, will be released in early
2012.
www.monstrumgames.com

4. Ethan Levy, Design Manager
BioWare San Francisco
Ethan Levy is a 9 year veteran as a game
developer. He has worked at companies big
and small, including Pandemic Studios,
PlayFirst, iWin and EA’s Office of the Chief
Creative Officer. Currently, he works at
BioWare San Francisco as Design Manager.
At BWSF, he led the development of
browser-based Dragon Age Journeys and
Dragon Age Legends Remix and social
network Dragon Age Legends as Game
Producer. The three Dragon Age games
have totaled over 45 million plays.
www.famousaspect.com

5. Sean McGee, Diseased Productions
Sean McGee develops games as Diseased
Productions. He has released a large
number of hit flash games, including Thing
Thing Arena and Endless Zombie Rampage,
that have been played over 75 million
times. In 2011, Sean entered a partnership
with Adam Phillips to collaborate on one
Brackenwood game (Dashkin) and one
Endless Zombie Rampage game. After
funding for the collaboration with a major
publisher fell through, the pair ran a
successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over
$22,000 to help finish Dashkin
www.diseasedproduction.net

6. sojo studios | monstrum games | diseased productions
CURRENT PROJECTS

7. sponsorship | rev share | contract work | kickstarter | 9-5 | mtx
FUNDING

8. flash in 2012 | mobile | tablet | social
PLATFORMS

9. flash 11 | unity | html 5
TECH

10. multiplayer | metrics | persistence | polish | distribution
INNOVATION