Jason Della Rocca Explained

Jason Della Rocca
Birth Date:23 January 1974
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:co-founder at Execution Labs, former executive director

Jason Della Rocca (born 1974) is the former executive director of the Montreal chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA):[1] Della Rocca supervised the daily operations, outreach initiatives, and membership programs of the organization from September 2000 to March 2009.[2] After leaving the IGDA following his 9-year involvement with the company, Della Rocca founded Perimeter Partners, a consultancy that provides strategic level guidance and expertise to companies and organizations in, and around, the game industry globally.[3] More recently, Della Rocca cofounded a hybrid incubator/accelerator for independent mobile game startups called Execution Labs.[4] In the summer of 2013 he was appointed to the advisory board for the ICT practice of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Canada's foreign and trade ministry.[5]

Della Rocca is a well-known figure within the game development community[3] and was honored for his industry building efforts with the inaugural Ambassador Award at the 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.[6] Della Rocca was also named to Game Developer Magazine's 2009 "The Game Developer 50", a list which profiles 50 of the most important contributors to the current state of the game industry.[7]

Della Rocca used the phrase "massacre chaser" in response to an inquiry from MSNBC reporter Winda Benedetti discussing Jack Thompson's quick blaming of video games as the root of the Virginia Tech massacre.[8]

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  1. http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/010407/nm5.html Montreal Mirror - NOISEMAKERS 2007 : News : Jason Della Rocca
  2. Web site: Della Rocca Quits IGDA . https://archive.today/20120905030103/http://www.next-gen.biz/news/della-rocca-quits-igda . dead . 5 September 2012 . 2 February 2009 . 28 February 2009 . Edge .
  3. Web site: Interview: Della Rocca On Breaking Tax Breaks' Hold . 8 July 2010. 1 January 2011. Gamasutra.
  4. Web site: Execution Labs raises $1.4M to incubate indie mobile game studios in Canada . 8 November 2012. 8 May 2013. GamesBeat.
  5. Web site: Jason is officially not a spy… we think… | Execution Labs . 2013-10-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130802145748/http://executionlabs.com/2013/07/jason-is-officially-not-a-spy-we-think/ . 2013-08-02 .
  6. Web site: 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards To Honor Baer, Della Rocca . 20 December 2007. 30 December 2010. Gamasutra.
  7. Web site: The Game Developer 50 . 13 April 2010. 30 December 2010. Gamasutra.
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20130925051801/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18220228/ Were video games to blame for massacre? - Games - nbcnews.com
  9. Web site: IGDA Screens Film About Controversial Columbine Game Tonight . 27 November 2007 . 1 January 2011 . GamePolitics . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120310071928/http://gamepolitics.com/2007/11/27/igda-screens-film-about-controversial-columbine-game-tonight . 10 March 2012 .
  10. Web site: Moral Kombat now on Hulu . 11 August 2010 . 1 January 2011 . GamePolitics . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101216062554/http://gamepolitics.com/2010/08/11/moral-kombat-now-hulu . 16 December 2010 .
  11. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTemplate?tf=/ctv/mar/video/new_player.html&cf=ctv/mar/ctv.cfg&hub=CanadaAM&video_link_high=mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2006/09/15/ctvvideologger2_500kbps_2006_09_15_1158319817.wmv&video_link_low=mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2006/09/15/ctvvideologger2_218kbps_2006_09_15_1158318378.wmv&clip_start=00:09:34.24&clip_end=00:06:07.36&clip_caption=Canada%20AM:%20Discussion%20of%20video%20game%20regulation&clip_id=ctvnews.20060915.00162000-00162257-clip2&subhub=video&no_ads=&sortdate=20060914&slug=violent_games_060914&archive=CTVNews Canada AM: Discussion of video game regulation
  12. http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=conference&p=panels&s=panel5 Panels: SIGGRAPH 2006
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927015846/https://www.cmpevents.com/GD06/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=1912 Game Developers Conference 2006
  14. http://www.whro.org/home/publicradio/whrv/localprogramming/hearsay/2006/January/010206-010506.htm January 2-5

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