Roberto Dillon Author & Editor

Originally from Italy but currently based in Singapore, Dr. Roberto Dillon is active both as a developer and as a game design professor.

As a developer, he founded the indie studio Adsumsoft and his games have been showcased at events like Sense of Wonder Night in Tokyo, FILE Games in Rio de Janeiro and at the Indie Prize Showcase Asia. He also worked as lead game designer on Kentaura's Horse Master games (250k+ unique players on Facebook and #1 Sports or Racing Game in more than 20 countries including Australia on Apple's AppStore).

As an academic and educator, Roberto was the Game Design Department Chair at DigiPen Singapore, with several of his students gaining top honors at the IGF both in San Francisco and Shanghai, and now lectures Game Design at JCU Singapore, where he is also the Curator of the 'JCU Museum of Video and Computer Games', the first museum completely dedicated to the preservation of video games in South East Asia.

Roberto is a regular speaker at game related conferences (Game Connection, Casual Connect, Develop, Korea Games Conference, Serious Games Summit, Game Education Summit, Game Convention Asia etc. ) and wrote different books for AKPeters and CRC Press: 'On the Way to Fun', where he introduced the 6-11 Framework, a game design methodology now referenced in several university curricula as well as used by game designers in both indie and large multinational studios, 'The Golden Age of Videogames', a history of the gaming industry

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