Ian CummingsFounder

United States - Orlando, Florida

Entrepreneur and game developer. Creator of Photo Finish™ LIVE, the most authentic and complete virtual horse racing game in the world with NBC, Churchill Downs, and the Kentucky Derby as official partners.

Previously
- Studio GM at Glu Mobile: Built out studio in Orlando, developed new IP, departed upon acquisition by EA
- Director of Design at FanDuel: Prototyped, pitched, designed, and developed flagship game IP.
- Vice President / Creative Director at PopUp Play: Helped build and launch Apple Featured app "Build Lab"
- Director of Design at Zynga: Worked on NFL Showdown, Tiger Woods Golf, Ninja Kingdom, and new IP.
- Studio Creative Director at game startup Row Sham Bow, Inc: We were focused on creating highly polished and fun experiences that offered unique twists on games in the mobile & social space. Our first game, Woodland Heroes, won Social Game of the Year and was nominated for numerous awards.
- Over the course of a decade at EA Sports, I worked my way up from QA Tester to Creative Director of the Madden NFL Franchise, leaving there as the person responsible for setting the vision of the product on multiple platforms and delivering on tight deadlines year after year with a team of over 150 people.

I have worn many hats in game development and still enjoy doing hands-on engineering work as much as working with a big team of people and aligning and empowering everyone on a unified vision.

Quick overview:
- 20+ years in game development on nearly every platform
- Formerly Creative Director on Madden NFL 10, 11, 12
- Highly experienced Unity & C# developer
- Experienced in game development for major consoles, mobile, & web
- 5+ years of media training for Marketing and PR events. Live and taped interviews with IGN, Spike TV, G4, CBS Evening News, and many more.
- 25+ years of guitar playing experience, lifelong passionate music lover

Specialties:
- Prototyping, building game mechanics, F2P monetization
- Data driven design
- Unity, C#, C, C++, PHP, HTML, AS3, Javascript, others