Flying Wisdom Studios Names Japheth Dillman New Product Manager of Social Games

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Dillman Provides Progressive Vision, Analytical Experience, and Community Insight to Flying Wisdom Studios

San Francisco, California, 9/14/10 [PressReleasePoint]: Flying Wisdom Studios (FWS) today announced that Japheth Dillman has been named the Studio’s new Product Manager for Social Games. Japheth was first brought into the FWS fold as an Advisor and Evangelist, sharing his impressive knowledge of “social” and “viral” mechanics that have emerged in games over the last few years and his wide casting net of connections within the industry.

“Japheth is like plutonium. Very powerful to harness and somewhat explosive”, says CEO Josh Rose with a smile. “We are all excited to have him work even more closely with our creative teams and contributing his deeply analytical knowledge of metric supported social gaming data to the design and creation of our products.”

A product visionary, Japheth drives feature roadmaps and game design in fast paced startups. His background as a Producer and Product Manager in games and web for the past eight years give Mr. Dillman a unique vision of the coming Gamepocalypse (as described in game designer and author Jesse Schell’s Dice presentation). He runs two San Francisco-based game industry events, has worked as an advisor to multiple bay-area game startups, and as a consultant, he has focused on virality, monetization, and game design mechanics.

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Flying Wisdom Studios makes games as a function of unparalleled innovation. Founded in 2008 by three successful industry veterans, development is driven by their exclusive collective insights into virality, social mechanics, and trans-media storytelling. FWS prides itself equally in the creation of independently developed intellectual property, and in the quality of the games they produce for well-known clients like National Geographic, Lady Gaga, George Romero, SGN, and ngmoco:). For more information on Flying Wisdom Studios, please visit them online at www.flyingwisdomstudios.com.