TIGA – Awards and New CEO

So I missed the TIGA awards last night due to illness* and along with the ‘best game’ categories two awards were given out for contributions usually recognition for efforts outside of the ‘day job’ of making games:

Best Developer – Greatest contribution to independent games development during 2007 by TIGA member
Presented to: Denki

Best Player – Greatest individual contribution to independent games development during 2007
Presented to: Fred Hasson

 So congratulations to Denki and to Fred (and all the other winners, obviously).

The individual award may reflect more than just 2007 as Fred also used the awards as a platform to announce the next chief exec of Tiga as Richard Wilson - arriving from the Institute of Directors.

Like his predecessor he arrives with little direct experience of the Games Industry, but most commentators have already talked that up as a potential advantage, given his successful track record of dealing with govt departments in previous roles.

I’ll look forward to finding out more over the next couple of months as we’ll be inviting Richard to take up Fred’s seat on our Games Forum.

* sympathy please…