Allen Partridge, PhD, has a 15-year background in game and multimedia development. He is head of Insight Interactive Games, which has produced casual games that have been distributed via Oberon, Reflexive, Pogo, Comcast, Incredigames, Metacafe and dozens of other portals. He is director of the Applied Media and Simulation Games Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Technology Evangelist for Adobe Director.

Partridge is author of the popular new book Casual Games for Profit and Fun (Charles River Media), as well as Real-Time Interactive 3-D Games (Sams Publishing). He also is co-author of Massive Fundamentals, the electronic guide to Massive Software’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award-winning large group simulation software, best recognized for its use in blockbuster films such as Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. He has researched and reported on authentic educational solutions using Immersive Learning Solutions at ASTD and for the eLearning Guild during last spring’s conference.