Helmut Hutterer

Background

About Helmut Hutterer

My career started in 2001 when I joined neo software as QA Manager. Before that I did some freelance game testing. At neo software, which became Rockstar Vienna in 2003, I was responsible for building and leading the QA team. In the summer of 2006 I co- founded Team Vienna and shipped a commercial game as designer and producer. After that I joined a small group of ex-colleagues as QA Manager at the newly founded company Games That Matter, which turned into Deep Silver Vienna. In 2008, after almost eight years in QA, I worked on Dead Island as a producer. In early 2010 I co-founded Socialspiel and worked there as Managing Director, COO and Creative Director until the studio closed in May 2017. My most recently shipped titles include Legacy Quest and Legacy Quest: Rise of Heroes. During my career I worked on 17 different titles, on nine different platforms. Specialties: Managing, growing and running a video games development company, video game production as producer, exec. producer and creative director, creation of original IPs, running games as a service, free to play economy design and monetization, mobile games expert