John Cooney
Creating at Wonderful Elephant. Former CEO of Armor Games, Sr Biz Dev at Kongregate
- Role
- Chief Executive Officer at Wonderful Elephant
- Location
- Davis, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Cooney
Helping indie developers, platforms, and publishers make incredible, sustainable games together.I\'ve helped raise and lead several businesses, developed my own titles, and share in public speaking. With 18 years experience in this industry I\'ve been involved in many wonderful things including- Leadership and management of various indie publishing orgs, including Armor Games, Kongregate, and my own development company Wonderful Elephant- Developing sustainable strategies for indie publishing and teams, including a successful four-day workweek trial and implementation- Publishing for consoles, PC, browser, VR, and mobile game development, producer on team projects ranging from solo to 30+ developers, Business development focusing on incredible partnerships, and CEO and other positions between- Award-winning content and accolades, including Game Developer of the Year in 2010 from Écrans. Winner of several game and animation festival awards- Prolific Flash-era developer, producing over a 100 games with plays well into the billions, presenter for the Flash Games Postmortem at GDC
Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Jul 2023 — Present · Davis, CA, US
Running an experimental publishing model called,\"A Time For Good Things.\" Respecting the innovation and quality of the Flash game days, cultivating an audience REALLY excited about wonderful games and things that break the modern design of monetization and game culture
Education
University of California, Davis
BA, Technocultural Studies
2004 — 2007
Skills
- Bridal Showers
- Level Design
- Css
- Social Game Development
- Video Game Production
- Whimsical
- Xhtml
- Mobile Applications
- Web Development
- Rapid Prototyping
- Computer Games
- Web Games
- Mobile Games
- Android
- Dreamweaver
- Tomfoolery
- Flash
- User Experience
- Flash Animation
- Ajax
- Puns
- Animation
- User Experience Design
- Game Programming
- Online Gaming
- Social Games
- Photoshop
- Cat Sitting
- Game Development
- Art Direction
- User Interface Design
- Drinking Water
- Mysql
- Programming
- Actionscript
- Game Design
- Gameplay
- Unity3d
- Javascript
- Html 5
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