Erik Simon

Background

About Erik Simon

Game development guy with 36 years of experience in the field. A passionately visual person with an engineering mind set and the ability to lead people and projects. Currently indulging in the luxury of connecting back with my roots by doing art projects. Former roles include Senior Producer and Project Lead at 4A Games, Founder of cView Studios Ltd.(a boutique video game graphics studio in Malta), Head of Development positions at Bigpoint, gamigo, Sunflowers, JoWooD, Blue Byte, and Thalion. Hands-on game development roles include art and art direction, level design, game design and project leading. Broad knowledge of project management, game development technology, game design and in-depth expertise in the development cycles of large scale entertainment software. Focused on making the development process calculable, so that the results are state of the art creative achievements in a given budget. Worked on roughly a dozen published games as a developer and on much more titles as Head Of Development, including games such as The Settlers 3 & 4, Gothic 2, Anno 1701 (1701 A.D.) and Jagged Alliance Online. Complete MobyGames list of (published offline) games credited: Specialties: High quality real time Graphics Production, Managing Game Production cycles, Project Management, Game Design, Graphic Design, Scheduling, Managing People.