Chief Creative Director
Playware Studios Asia
As Chief Creative Director of Playware Studios Asia, Siddharth Jain deals with game design, production, technical art & music direction. He heads a technology, platform and genre independent team that has successfully developed casual, card and multiplayer arena games released worldwide and also a range of serious games for the institutions such as Singapore’s Ministry of Education and Singapore Management University. He is a media veteran who has worked on triple digit hours of television programming, double digit game titles, multimedia applications, game engines and tools. He is a visiting faculty to Singapore Institute of Management and Nanyang Technology University and is on several agency advisory panels
Blogs
Experience
- Chief Creative Director at Playware Studios Asia Pte Ltd
September 2004 – Present (3 years)
4 recommendations available upon request
- Director at Playware Studios Pvt Ltd
2000 – 2004 (4 years)
- Media Consultant at Haryana Auto Castings Ltd
October 1997 – November 1999 (2 years 2 months)
- Producer at Srishti Videocorp Ltd
March 1994 – September 1997 (3 years 7 months)
Assosiations
- Assosiate Lecturer/Tutor, Nanyang Technology University Singapore,
- Assosiate Lecturer/Tutor, SIM University Singapore,
- Member, International Game Developers Assosiation,
- Member, Casual Games Assosiation,
- Member, Garage Games Developer Network,
Whitepapers, Presentations & Reports
- Learning from Games, Making it Happen – 2007 (MOE Excel Fest, Singapore)
- Art & Design -2007 (MOE D&T Conference, Singapore)
- Devices & Distribution -2006
- Managing Creativity & Commercial Production -2005
- Developing Scalable Online Games -2004
- Isometric Engine Development Challenges -2001
- Setting up a Game Development Studio in India -1999
- Tele-Classrooms (Education to Home) -1998 (for ETH, India)
- Digital Compression, Multiplexing & MPEG2
- Transmission-1997 (for Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited,VSNL India)
- Internet Via Satellite-1996 (In association with Philips Broadcasting Division)
- Opportunities in Production & Broadcast Education in India-1995 (International Academy of Broadcast, Sweden)
- DTH in India -1995 (Deutsche Telecom, Germany)
Specialties
Design, Production, Development and Programming Best of Breed titles in:
- Online Games
- Multiplayer Games
- Concealed Learning Games
- Casual Games
- Budget Games
Education
Delhi Vishwavidyalaya
BCOM, Business & Commerce, 1995 – 1998
Honors and Awards
- Speaker, Ministry of Education, Excel Fest 2007 (Singapore)
- Speaker, ix conference 2007 (Singapore)
- Keynote Speaker, D&T Conference 2007 (Singapore)
- Speaker, AGDS 2006 (Singapore)
- Mentor, X-Media Lab 2006 Learning from Games (Singapore)
- Mentor, X-Media Lab 2006 Media & Mobility (Melbourne, Australia)
- Speaker, SGGA Game Fest 2006 (Singapore)
- Mentor, X-Media Lab 2005 Gaming (Singapore)
- Mentor, X-Media Lab 2005 Digital Media (Singapore)
- All India Winner, Microsoft War of a Million 2004 (India)
- Second Place Winner, WCG 2003 (Age of Mythology) (India)
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Past Releases & Successes:
- 18 Released Budget Games
- 2 Released Casual Games
- 1 Isometric Game Engine Developed
- 2 Released Concealed Learning Games
- 25 Episodes of Interactive Educational Television Developed
- 200+ Hrs of Digital Television Programming Produced
Games titles:
2007 ( Titles currently working on )
- Lucent Grounds Mercenaries All
- Headhunter
- Zen Fashion
- StateCraft
- Simplicity
Released Titles (2007)
- Pixie hunt
- Special Forces
- Escort ONE
- Chef Frenzy
2006
- Magic Lanterns
- Archipelago Trader
- Ten Pin Bowling
2005
- NUCLEAR WAR on Special duties
- MEGA BIKE RacingTOURNAMENT – March 2005
- SPACE WAR – March 2005
- ROE – March 2005
2004
- AIR SUPPORT Anti tank Helicopter
- SUBMARINE Mine Menace
- SPACE CRUISER Battle Arena
- RF6980 Atlantic Peril
- ExtremeRC Remote Controlled Racing
- Ten Pin Bowling
- SPACECRUISER Battel Arena Part-II
- REAL CRICKET
What our partners say:
"Siddarth’s both an amazingly generous soul, and a very talented Businessman. He’s successfully built Playware Studios Asia up from the ground, to become the second largest independent studio in Singapore, in only two years. Having worked with Siddarth in his role as Art/Creative Director at PWS, I know I can always trust him to manage his staff to deliver above expectations."
- Allan Simonsen, Co-Founder, Boomzap Pte Ltd, was with another company when working with Siddharth at Playware Studios Asia Pte Ltd
"Sid and Playware have been an amazing help to us in establishing our studio in Singapore. Sid is a game design visionary and a management visionary as well. He’s already well known in Singapore and makes friends wherever he goes. His ebullient enthusiasm for games, the game industry, the people he works with and the craft of making games inspires everyone who meets him. Don’t be surprised if the Next Big Thing comes from Sid’s team at Playware."
- Patrick Meehan, CC&TO, Tenacious Games, Inc., was with another company when working with Siddharth at Playware Studios Asia Pte Ltd
"Sid is in the process of building one of the key development studios in Singapore, and we are proud to be working with them."
- Christopher Natsuume, Co-Founder, Boomzap Entertainment, was with another company when working with Siddharth at Playware Studios Asia Pte Ltd
"Siddharth Jain is one of the bright lights in the Singapore Games Developers scene, and his company – Playware Studios – is one of the most highly respected local games developers, noted in particular for their creative artwork and their inventive and original approach to games development.
Siddharth has also been an important figure at both the X|Media|Lab’s run in Singapore."
- Brendan Harkin, Director, X|Media|Lab, was with another company when working with Siddharth at Playware Studios Asia Pte Ltd
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