Cassetter

Dan Croucher

Dev Director, Exec Producer, Producer

I'm a creative and versatile video game producer and studio leader with 20+ years of hands-on game industry experience. I've worked with big budgets and large teams, on a shoestring with tiny ones, and everything in-between.

I've shipped many commercially and critically acclaimed games across a large range of platforms, on time and on budget. I pride myself on my drive, passion, attention to detail, straightforward approach and pursuit of quality.

Games I've made (and where)

• OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome at Roll7
• That's You! and Knowledge is Power at Wish Studios
• Scram Kitty and his Buddy on Rails at Dakko Dakko
• Five Buzz! quiz games and Kinect Nat Geo TV at Relentless Software

Things I can do

• Experience-driven advice and practical assistance on all aspects of game development.
• Evaluation and troubleshooting of existing development pipelines, teams and projects.
• Real-world project planning, scheduling, and resourcing.
• Finding developmental methods to ship on time, on budget, and at high quality.
• Hands-on, day-to-day production of game development at any stage, for any duration and level of involvement.
• Providing processes and leadership for any and all phases of game development - concept generation, prototyping, pre-production, production, endphases and post-launch.
• Strategic planning for studio growth and high-quality development at a range of team sizes.
• Advise on hiring, team building, and maintaining studio culture, especially in fully remote teams.
• Assisting with management of publisher-client relationships from pitch to post-launch.
• Creating pitch presentations, including key creative, production and business aspects.
• Costing projects and creating resource plans for project pitches.
• Sourcing, costing and running key service providers, especially QA, localisation and user-testing.
• Structuring and building cross-disciplinary teams.
• Leading producers, QA, and creative staff.
• Solving problems in creative and technical teams with collaborative leadership.
• Managing certification planning for Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft platforms.
• Supporting multi-platform releases across PC, console, and mobile.