Phantom Compass founder Tony Walsh is a game producer/director with 15+ years experience in interactive production.  During his career, Walsh has been a key creative contributor to a number of award-winning and award-nominated interactive projects including “This is Daniel Cook,” the “Regenesis” extended reality games, the “Fallen” alternate reality game, and “Rollbots Online.”
 
Since 2007, he has been a mentor in cross-media labs held in Canada (for CBC and for Achilles Media), Australia (for AFTRS), and the USA (for the Bay Area Video Coalition). Through these programs, he has coached international participants in developing interactive entertainment, cross-platform documentaries, and even factual games on such topics as the U.S. criminal court system and Iraqi refugee integration in America.

 

In mid-2010, Walsh became the Canadian co-founder of StoryLabs, a transmedia training and matchmaking organization operating out of Toronto, Sydney, New York, and London. In late 2010, Walsh co-facilitated Film Training Manitoba’s “Transmedia Production Lab,” where participating teams developed a series of rapid prototypes demonstrating transmedia storytelling techniques.

 

Noted as a thought leader at the intersection of games and culture, Walsh appeared in the 2008 game culture documentary "Second Skin," is an occasional media commentator, and has been cited in such publications as Wired, Discover, Utne, and the Harvard Business Review. He presents several times yearly to audiences internationally on such topics as sex and gaming, the role of marketing in virtual worlds, and documentary games.  He is on the advisory committee for the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival’s Screenburn game conference, Interactive Ontario’s 2010 iLunch series, and is a program advisor to George Brown College and triOS College.

 

Noted as a thought leader at the intersection of games and culture, Walsh appeared in the 2008 game culture documentary "Second Skin," is an occasional media commentator, and has been cited in such publications as Wired, Discover, Utne, and the Harvard Business Review. He presents several times yearly to audiences internationally on such topics as sex and gaming, the role of marketing in virtual worlds, and documentary games.  He is on the advisory committee for the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival’s Screenburn game conference, Interactive Ontario’s 2010 iLunch series, and is a program advisor to George Brown College and triOS College.