Matteo Romagnoli CRe-AM Interview

Name : Matteo Romagnoli

Job Title : Senior Software Developer

Organisation : Testaluna srl

Sector : Video Games development

Web Link : www.testaluna.it

Interview Date : 21/10/2015

Location : ICT 2015 Lisbon

Short Biography

Programmer and Project Manager in Videogame, Casualgame, Seriousgame development.
Technical Lead - R&D Projects

Ongoing European projects:
- CR-Play (http://www.cr-play.eu)

CURRENT INTERESTS:

1. What current technologies and tools fulfill your needs in your practice?

PC and Mac development platform, Unity, Adobe and Autodesk creative software, Microsoft Office

2. What technologies do you see emerging in the next 5-10 years?

Cloud services, server side technologies, smarter client tools

3. Could you identify any strengths and weaknesses with these technologies?

A weakness is likely to be the centralisation of logic and intelligence

FUTURE INTERESTS:

4. Do you think there are additional technologies or tools needed, or that you would wish for?

More intelligent tools to create personalized games, productivity tools to enhance the potential of developers

 

5. If these were available what would you be creating?

Same games but with less effort required

6. Can you see any strengths and weakness involved?

A weakness will be that the tools that make developers productive reduces their understanding of the way the computer works

7. What do you recommend to fill the gap between creators and technology providers?

Better communication and collaboration – develop events and activities that bring creative and technologists together.