Rami Ismail

Rami Ismail is the Business & Development Guy at Vlambeer, a Dutch independent game studio known best for Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Super Crate Box, Luftrausers, Gun Godz, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter & Radical Fishing. Through his work at Vlambeer, Rami has come to realize that the marketing & business facets of many independent game developers could use some help. As such, he created the free presskit-creation tool presskit and is working on releasing its first add-on, distribute. Believing sharing knowledge openly is the cornerstone of independent development, Rami has spoken on a variety of subjects at dozens of game events around the world, ranging from the Game Developers Conference to Fantastic Arcade & from University seminars to incubator mentorship. He also initiated the gamedev.world initiative, which seeks to translate knowledge about game development into all major languages of the world. He is a avid opponent of game cloning after Vlambeers Radical Fishing got cloned. He is also a proponent of searching for new, beautiful things in places no-one is looking for them and thus organized F*ck This Jam, a gamejam focused around making a game in a genre you hate. Rami also worked closely in setting up the Indie MEGABOOTH team to enable indie studios to showcase at the larger game conventions. Rami exclusively drinks cane sugar Coca Cola.