Simon Carless

{{Short description|British video game designer}}

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Simon Carless is a video game industry businessperson and former game designer and editor. Simon is the founder of GameDiscoverCo,{{cite web|url=http://www.gamediscover.co|title=GameDiscoverCo|website=www.gamediscover.co}} a video game discoverability consultancy firm, and previously worked overseeing the worldwide Game Developers Conference event and Black Hat information security events.

Carless is Chairman Emeritus of the Independent Games Festival, and he co-founded the Independent Games Summit as part of Game Developers Conference in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SimonCarless/185740/|title=Gamasutra - The Art & Business of Making Games|website=www.gamasutra.com}}

Carless formerly edited the games section on Slashdot, and he worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari.{{cite web|url=http://www.simoncarless.com/you-might-know-me-from/#gamedesign|title=You Might Know Me From… - Simon Carless|website=www.simoncarless.com}} He wrote Gaming Hacks, a book published by O'Reilly Media.{{cite web|url=http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gaminghks/|title=Gaming Hacks|first=Simon|last=Carless|publisher=}}

Carless was also active in the demoscene of the early 1990s, releasing modules under the moniker Hollywood.{{cite web|url=http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=3364&detail=interview|title=Amiga Music Preservation -|first=Crown, CurtCool, Monty|last=Asle|website=amp.dascene.net}} He operated the netlabel Monotonik from 1996 to 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/label/Monotonik|title=Monotonik|website=Discogs}}