Josh Rose Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Robot Sea Monster Games is a small group of independent developers drawn together by our passion to build great experiences. We believe in merging elegant design and a fundamental understanding of our audience to produce exceptional quality games. We operate with a few core principles: only ship when ready, push yourself to grow, and approach everything with heart. We know not every game needs to be a life changing experience, but every game does need a team that believes in it. We believe in our games and refuse to put out games when we don’t. We don’t make pretty words; don’t judge us by our words. Judge us by our games.

Design, production and start up consulting for software and games companies.

Worked on projects that reported directly to CEOs solving problems such as transitioning teams to agile development, developing a product road maps and monetizing existing audiences. LudusLabs was established to offer expert skills and services to developers, publishers, and investors. It provided consulting advice and services to clients on game design, virality, retention, game economy, business strategy, analytics, and project management.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Co-founded, built, and ran Flying Wisdom Studios. It is a leading developer of mobile and social games for the iOS and Android platforms. It has produced a wide genre of games from casual social/mobile puzzle games to 3D role playing shooters. Flying Wisdom Studios created 18 iPhone games in less than 2 years that included multiple Top 10 and Top 25 apps in the App Store, and was featured by Apple 8 times.

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Directly responsible for building and managing a sales team which signed 1.8 mil. dollars worth of art out-sourcing. Josh founded Lamplkighter Studios and built it up to 80 employies before a sucessful exit to Broadcaster.com

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Built from the ground up as an international art out-sourcing studio specializing in high end video game work. At its height the project employed 75 people. We worked with clients such as Sony Home, Bio-shock, Arena.net, and Upper Deck Entertainment.

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Level Designer for Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone (2004) that was published by Atari, Inc.

Research and Development surrounding solutions beyond normal mapping for highly realistic real time lighting. The project was closed when normal maps became the industry standard.

Non-gaming software development.Led teams to design and publish six products, including the Network Software Development Groups Internet Swiss Army Knife, the Ultra Search, the Pop-Up Blocker, and the Mr. Scrooge Shopping Assistant. I also managed teams which did consulting for clients such as EA.com, and Organic Online.

Online casual games companyPublished "Greed", which was a casual free to play in-browser game, a fairly revolutionary concept at the time of publication. Weaselsoft Games was sold to Network Software Development Group after publication of "Greed."

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Lead Designer, Akuji: The Heartless (1999), Published by Eidos Interactive, Inc. Level Designer, Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko (1997), Published by Eidos, Inc. Senior Designer, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996), Published by Crystal Dynamics, Inc. Level Designer, Solar Eclipse (1995), Published by Crystal Dynamics, Inc.

Education record

Bs, Bio-Chemistry