Leigh and Vlambeer's Rami Ismail on creativity beyond gaming

Rob Beschizza 8:15 am Thu Apr 30, 2015

Our Leigh talks with game designer Rami Ismail of Vlambeer, the game studio behind indie hits Ridiculous Fishing and Luftrausers—"we're slowly understanding what games are and where they can go"—about his projects outside of gaming.

Rami Ismail is the Business & Development Guy at Vlambeer, a Dutch independent game studio known best for Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Super Crate Box, LUFTRAUSERS, GUN GODZ, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter & Radical Fishing.

Through his work at Vlambeer, Rami has come to realize that the marketing & business facets of many independent game developers could use some help. As such, he created the free presskit-creation tool presskit() and is working on releasing its first add-on, release().

Believing sharing knowledge openly is the cornerstone of independent development, Rami has spoken on a variety of subjects at dozens of game events around the world, ranging from the Game Developers Conference to Fantastic Arcade & from University seminars to incubator mentorship.

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