Dan Thomas
Bizdev & Marketing at Apparance Studios Ltd
Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Thomas is a games industry bizdev and marketing leader with two decades helping studios and publishers—from Guerrilla to Hello Games—grow sustainable businesses. He founded and ran Etch Play/Moov2 for 20 years before exiting into Etch Group in 2018, and now combines fractional COO, advisory and startup roles to help studios scale through better product, people and customer insight. He champions servant leadership and always-on shortform content strategies (now at Killer Filler) to bridge marketing beats and amplify creative work. An active contributor to game tech, he’s maintained Phaser 3 examples on GitHub, migrating code to modern APIs and improving in-browser tooling, reflecting hands-on front-end chops alongside commercial leadership. Based in Machynlleth, Wales, he’s equally focused on building healthier workplaces as he is on driving partnerships and product-market fit for indie and mid-size teams.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Business Information Systems Management, BSc, Business Information Systems Management at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (3)
phaser10
javascript10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phaserjs/examples
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Phaser 3 Examples
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 5 issues in 22 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Phaser 3 examples within the repository. Their contributions involved migrating code to use the latest Phaser API, including updating event emitters, camera controls, and animation properties. They also integrated and modified the `dat.GUI` library to provide in-browser configuration options for these examples and added a new `frame.html` to enable the user to edit frame in the application.
phaser
DannyT/danny-t.co.uk
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:42 commits in 1 year 2 months
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