Eli Hodapp Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

I've joined Halfbrick to employ my winning strategy when playing the board game Risk: Turtle in Australia for a while, then take over the world while everyone else still in the game is distracted by what's going happening on other continents. So, yeah. That, but mobile games. 🤫

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

I was invited to the GameMill team as Director of Mobile Publishing to build an internal mobile business unit and expand the GameMill strategy of pairing world-class licensed IP with great developers to the App Store and Google Play.During my time at GameMill I launched a mobile version of Nickelodeon Kart Racers, ensured the ongoing success of PGA Tour Golf Shootout, and was wholly responsible for the entire development cycle of Rapala Fishing World Tour.

New York, New York, United States

GameClub is the home of mobile gaming’s greatest hits — all in one subscription. Available across iOS and Android. Acquired by Take-Two Interactive in March of 2022.Like you do at any startup- I wore many hats at GameClub, owning all sorts of responsibilities including PR and marketing (resulting in hundreds of stories across every major language), developer relations, and curating the GameClub subscription library. However, my primary objective was singlehandedly managing the entire lifecycle of targeting, negotiating, and licensing the well over 100 games currently available as part of GameClub.After GameClub was acquired I stayed on as General Manager and was responsible for many functions of the service as it continues to exist on the App Store and Google Play.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

I managed the day to day operations at TouchArcade, the #1 iOS games site. TouchArcade is a deceptively tiny organization behind the scenes, so my responsibilities spread the gamut of everything you'd expect a gaming site to have and do. I produced written, audio, and visual content, as well as hiring and managing a team of incredible freelancers who similarly pumped out a constant stream of iOS gaming news, reviews, guides, live streams, podcasts, and more.Additionally, I put a lot of effort into exploring business opportunities for the site as well as managing our various communities which were spread across our own site and forums, Discord, YouTube, Twitch, and Patreon, along with every social media channel imaginable.A big part of what has made TouchArcade successful is forecasting what is going to be the next iOS mega-hit, as Google rewards the first site to break news or otherwise discover awesome things. This involved me playing practically every iOS game that hits the App Store, while keeping my finger on the pulse of the larger iOS gaming scene 24/7.

Beverly Hills, California, United States

As a life-long fan of Electronic Gaming Monthly, it was a massive honor when Steve Harris reached out to me at TouchArcade to have a monthly feature in the magazine covering iOS games. It was called "The Download" and was on one of the last pages of the magazine. I basically cherry picked the best games of the month from what we had covered on TouchArcade, then re-purposed all that to fit the more mainstream audience of EGM.It was an amazingly cool gig, both contributing to a magazine I read as a kid and getting the word out about undiscovered iOS games to a wider gamer audience.

Wheaton, Illinois, United States

Barely relevant to anything I'm doing today in the world of mobile gaming, my first "real" career path was as a web developer and server administrator for a medical software startup. I built and maintained a practice management suite in a mixture of ColdFusion and PHP that ran inside of a web browser. As a solo project I engineered a complete medical billing and electronic claims processing suite that was capable of seamlessly interacting with all sorts of modern and unbelievably old legacy systems. (Ancient file types and data storage methods are really fun.) While it doesn't sound very exciting these days, the whole thing was incredibly innovative at the time, as most medical offices were powered by ancient software packages which not only were very expensive but also required a substantial hardware investment. Also, in 2002, the concept of a "web app" was entirely foreign.Being a small company, I owned loads of responsibilities, including overseeing the entirety of our Windows-based server infrastructure. Additionally, as the project grew in scope, I transitioned to primarily managing offshore developers and build-outs of new clinics.