Chief Chimps – Our Core Team Members
Shailesh Prabhu
a.k.a. “/”
Position: Director/Founder
Details: Shailesh Prabhu brings over 4 years of experience in the video game industry and a terrific understanding of game design. Shailesh worked as a lead game designer and producer for various high profile titles such as; I-Play’s Maria Sharapova Tennis, Laurel and Hardy in Pie Wars 3D, Kickshot Pool 3D, Archie in Tomato Pulp Fiction 3D, Bowling Babes 3D and many more. He also set-up and lead the game development team at Nazara technologies which was responsible for researching cutting edge 3D mobile game technology and delivering games on the same for the global market. Shailesh recently won the International Young Interactive Entrepreneur 2008 India award (IYIE 2008). Shailesh was also a finalist of a year-long entrepreneurship program organized by the British Council and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), called Creative Future 2007 program. It was a program to identify the top entrepreneurs from the creative sectors in India. All finalists attended a very unique 3 week long course at the IIM-B (one of the top B-schools in the world) catered for management in the creative industries. Having taken all these rich experiences, he has now jointly set-up Yellow Monkey Studios with Avin.
Avin Sharma
a.k.a. “NPC”
Position: Director/Founder
Details: With over 4 years of video game development experience, Avin Sharma has played a dual role of game producer as well as lead game designer. Having lead a 2D mobile game development team, Avin has numerous titles to his credit such as Rounders Poker, Sachin’s Smash’Em, Sachin Duck the Bouncer, as well as produced many outsourced titles for overseas clients. He worked closely in association with the Walt Disney Internet Group as the designer and producer for their AAA title “Rounders Poker”, which was nominated for the Best IP-based game at the IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards 2007). He also collaborated with Shailesh for their entry into the Creative Future Program which was selected among the finalists. He now takes his passion for video game development to the next level by jointly setting up Yellow Monkey Studios with Shailesh.
Manu Thomas
a.k.a. “Green Beret”
Position: Tech. Lead.
Details: Manu Thomas brings over 6 years of experience as a game programmer extraordinaire. He has worked on several technologies including iPhone, BREW, DirectX, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Mascot Micro 3D and also on Nintendo DS Homebrew libraries. His skills is clearly visible in the games he created viz.. Maria Sharapova Tennis (brew), Ten Pin Terror(PC), Velocity (PC), Laurel Hardy - Pie Wars 3D (brew), Little Master Sachin (brew) and lot more.. He has worked as most important team member at Jump Games, Aurona Technologies, Dhruva Interactive, Nazara Games. Now as a Tech Lead @ Yellow Monkey Studios, he has started training and building his tech team to create some awesome games.