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Daniel James is listed as Building Puzzle Wizards (2023), designer of Puzzle Pirates (2003) at GGFolks, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at threerings.net, phone signal with area code 415, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Daniel James.
Daniel James previously worked as Co-founder & CEO at Ggfolks and Co-Owner at Grey Havens, Llc. Daniel James holds Ba, Computing And Philosophy from University Of Leeds.
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Since discovering MUD in the mid-1980s Daniel has single-mindedly pursued the creation of social spaces for collaboration and creative play. He pioneered free to play, non-hack-n-slash MMOs, complex player economies and the puzzle + world + RPG genre that would grow to generate billions in annual revenue.Daniel's commercial experience building and operating profitable games with long-term player communities dates from the early 1990s co-founding Avalon, a multi-player roleplaying world. In the late 1990s his quest was to build an MMO based on the Lord of the Rings, first as a startup then with Sierra On-line. In 2001 he co-founded Three Rings in San Francisco to create Puzzle Pirates which grew to build and operate a fleet of online games. Three Rings was acquired by SEGA in 2011, going on ship to a number of mobile and online titles. Daniel stepped down from the studio in 2014.In 2015 Daniel was recruited as Head of Social VR during Facebook's early forays into social virtual worlds. In 2019 he co-founded GGFolks with former colleagues to develop Puzzle Wizards, a mobile and PC cross-platform community oriented game world, currently in early-access.Daniel lives in San Francisco with his wife, who is a childrens book illustrator, their two children, a large dog and a spooky French black cat.
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GGFolks' new game Puzzle Wizards, a cozy co-op MMO, is in early-access on Steam, iOS and Android. As CEO Daniel is responsible for business, marketing, product management and design. In 2023 GGFolks was selected for a16z Speedrun accelerator's first cohort and Puzzle Wizards won the Tencent GWB 'Mobile Joy' award.
Grey Havens acquired former Three Rings online games Puzzle Pirates and Spiral Knights from SEGA to support their loyal player communities. As co-owner Daniel advises the team and helps steer the ship. Puzzle Pirates recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary since launch!
Recruited and managed directly by CTO. Built and led a small (four engineers, two artist/designers) team building experimental technology for social virtual worlds. We experimented with the nascent webVR api and quickly built a cross-platform VR & mobile/desktop screen-friendly typescript framework for building virtual spaces. Example apps included a talk show, pet game, 'Metaversity' campus and bar space with avatar recording and playback. It would have been a great contribution to the open-source webXR ecosystem. Had lots of meetings that did not result in the project shipping. Interviewed lots of folk.
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Assisted in merger of SEGA's US digital group with the Three Rings studio and helped to shepherd new mobile title development.
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Three Rings was founded in 2001 to develop Puzzle Pirates, a casual MMO combining fun puzzles with a complex, player-driven world of collaboration, economics and politics. Funded by founders, friends and family, built by six doughty pirates, the game launched in 2003 and still has a vibrant community today.Three Rings grew to build Bang! Howdy, a multi-player strategy game, Whirled, a user-created web virtual world, Corpse Craft, a puzzle one-lane MOBA, and Spiral Knights, a co-operative action combat MMO, along with many smaller titles. We deployed games to Windows, Mac, Linux, Flash, HTML5, iOS and Android from one codebase. Puzzle Pirates pioneered sales of virtual currency and goods from early 2005. Three Rings raised money in 2006 and 2007 from angels and venture investors including True Ventures, Accel and Amicus Capital. As a believer in transparency Daniel spoke extensively at conferences, disclosing detailed metrics and insights in the hope of raising all boats. Example slides below.In November 2011 the company was acquired by SEGA, generating healthy returns for investors, team and founders. Daniel remained on-board as head of the Three Rings studio leading new product development.
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Co-founded web development and marketing company in the early days of the Internet, advised team as board member over 15 years. Sense's clients over the years included Helly Hansen, Travelodge, Yorkshire Electricity and Rizla.
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Co-founder, developer, designer, support manager, web developer, etc. of one of the first commercial online games. Ran via modems in the back room of Daniel's mum's house from 1990, in offices with 'Hostplay' from 1992, then on the Internet since 1994. One of the first Internet games to charge money.
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Daniel James works for GGFolks.
Daniel James is listed as Building Puzzle Wizards (2023), designer of Puzzle Pirates (2003) at GGFolks.
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Daniel James is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with GGFolks.
Daniel James has worked for Ggfolks, Grey Havens, Llc, Facebook, Sega Networks Inc. And Three Rings Design Studio, and Three Rings.
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Daniel James holds Ba, Computing And Philosophy from University Of Leeds.
Daniel James is listed with skills including Social Games, Video Games, Online Gaming, Mmo, Mobile Games, Game Development, Game Design, and Monetization.
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