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Tony Walsh is the founder and Chief Navigator of Phantom Compass a Toronto-based company which designs, produces, and develops games for the entertainment, education, and communications industries. A multi-disciplined creative, Walsh has helped plan, design, write and illustrate compelling, narrative-driven entertainment and educational projects since 1994.
With a 25-year passion for playing and building games, Walsh has made play an integral component of his career. He has contributed to numerous CD-ROM and web-based game projects, such as the award-winning This Is Daniel Cook web site (for Marblemedia, 2004-2005), and in the past few years has provided game design and writing services for the award-winning cross-media games Regenesis Extended Reality (for Xenophile Media 2004-2005) and Fallen Alternate Reality Game (for Xenophile Media, 2006).
Walsh shares his years of experience with a number of organizations and institutions. As an educator, he has created and delivered course material in the game design programs of George Brown College and Centennial College in Toronto (2006-2008) as well as conducted a game design “boot camp” for residents of the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab (2007). As a mentor, he has offered consultation to participants of the “Digital Development Lab” (for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2008), the "Laboratory for Advanced Media Production” (for the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, 2007), and the “Producers Institute” (for the Bay Area Video Coalition, 2007-2008).
Walsh is a member of several advisory groups, including the Program Advisory Committee for the Game Design Program at George Brown College, the “Pool of Masterminds” (for the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague), and the Screenburn games festival (for South by Southwest).
A provocateur and cultural commentator, he appeared in the game documentary Second Skin this year, has been an expert guest on a number of Canadian television programs, and has been cited in such publications as Wired, Discover, Utne, and the Harvard Business Review. Walsh is a regular panelist and moderator at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas on such topics as “The Secret Sex Life of Video Games” and “What Can Video Games Learn from Alternate Reality Games?”
Selected Professional Credits
2008
Tony Walsh is the founder and Chief Navigator of Phantom Compass a Toronto-based company which designs, produces, and develops games for the entertainment, education, and communications industries. A multi-disciplined creative, Walsh has helped plan, design, write and illustrate compelling, narrative-driven entertainment and educational projects since 1994.
With a 25-year passion for playing and building games, Walsh has made play an integral component of his career. He has contributed to numerous CD-ROM and web-based game projects, such as the award-winning This Is Daniel Cook web site (for Marblemedia, 2004-2005), and in the past few years has provided game design and writing services for the award-winning cross-media games Regenesis Extended Reality (for Xenophile Media 2004-2005) and Fallen Alternate Reality Game (for Xenophile Media, 2006).
Walsh shares his years of experience with a number of organizations and institutions. As an educator, he has created and delivered course material in the game design programs of George Brown College and Centennial College in Toronto (2006-2008) as well as conducted a game design “boot camp” for residents of the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab (2007). As a mentor, he has offered consultation to participants of the “Digital Development Lab” (for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2008), the "Laboratory for Advanced Media Production” (for the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, 2007), and the “Producers Institute” (for the Bay Area Video Coalition, 2007-2008).
Walsh is a member of several advisory groups, including the Program Advisory Committee for the Game Design Program at George Brown College, the “Pool of Masterminds” (for the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague), and the Screenburn games festival (for South by Southwest).
A provocateur and cultural commentator, he appeared in the game documentary Second Skin this year, has been an expert guest on a number of Canadian television programs, and has been cited in such publications as Wired, Discover, Utne, and the Harvard Business Review. Walsh is a regular panelist and moderator at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas on such topics as “The Secret Sex Life of Video Games” and “What Can Video Games Learn from Alternate Reality Games?”
Selected Professional Credits
2008
- Mentor at the "Digital Development Lab" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Advisory Board Member for the Screenburn Festival / SXSW
- Part-time instructor in the postgraduate Game Design Program at George Brown College. Taught "Game Design and Culture."
- Founded Phantom Compass.
- Game Design Consultant on M.I. High for Xenophile Media / BBC
- Game Designer on The Border: Interactive for Stitch Media / CBC
- Part-time instructor in the postgraduate Game Design Program at George Brown College. Taught "Game Design and Culture."
- Part-time instructor in the undergraduate Game Design Program at Centennial College. Taught "Game Design and Story"
- Mentor at Producers Institute for New Media Technologies for the Bay Area Video Coalition
- Mentor at Laboratory for Advanced Media Production for the Australian Radio, Television, and Film School
- Advisory Board Member for the Screenburn Festival / SXSW
- Story Writer, Game Design Consultant on a children's virtual world for a mystery client
- Game Designer, Writer, on Fallen Alternate Reality Game for Xenophile Media / Disney / ABC Family
This project won an Interactive TV Emmy Award; a SXSW Web Award in the Experimental category. - Part-time instructor in the postgraduate Game Design Program at George Brown College. Taught "Game Design and Culture."
- Advisory Board Member for the Screenburn Festival / SXSW
- Game Designer, Writer on ReGenesis Extended Reality Game (Season 2) for Xenophile Media / The Movie Network
This project won a Canadian New Media Award for Excellence in Cross Platform; an International Emmy for Best Interactive Program in 2007; a Gemini Award for Best Cross-Platform Project; a Banff World Television Award - Senior Designer on ThisIsDanielCook.com (Season 2) for Marblemedia / TreehouseTV
This project won an iParenting Media Award; an award for Best Website at the Alliance for Children and Television's Awards of Excellence; This project was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Cross-Platform Project; a finalist for the NHK Japan Web Prize
- Senior Designer on ThisIsDanielCook.com (Season 1) for Marblemedia / TreehouseTV
- Game Designer on ReGenesis Extended Reality Game (Season 1) for Xenophile Media / The Movie Network
This project was nominated for a FITC Convergence Award
- Creative Lead on Babar.com for Kaboose / Corus Entertainment
- Game-Play Consultant, Illustrator, Animator on MuchMusic web games for CHUM Interactive
- Creative Lead on Jacob Two Two (Official Movie Web Site) for ExtendMedia / Shaftesbury Films
- Creative Lead on Dreamcatchers (CD-ROM) for ExtendMedia / Science Alberta Foundation
- Interactive Designer on Fred Penner: Company Coming (CD-ROM) for Digital Fusion Multimedia
- Interactive Designer, Animator, Writer on Mazlo's Animated Spelling Adventure, Vol. 2 (CD-ROM) for Digital Fusion Multimedia
- Interactive Designer, Animator, Writer on Mazlo's Animated Spelling Adventure, Vol. 1 (CD-ROM) for Digital Fusion Multimedia
- Interactive Designer for "Rat Boy" segment of Treble Charger Enhanced CD (CD-ROM) for Digital Renaissance / BMG Music
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