Meet The Judges
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Erin Bell of Gamezebo
Erin Bell is the editor of Gamezebo.com, the world's first and leading editorial website devoted entirely to casual games and featuring reviews, previews, interviews, articles and strategy guides. Gamezebo is viewed by millions of users through its Web site and syndication deals with RealArcade and Lifetime TV Games. In addition to her work with Gamezebo, Erin has written extensively about video games and consumer technology for publications including the Globe & Mail, CBC.ca, PC World Canada and Common Sense Media.
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Tony Paldra, past contest winner
Tony, whose game "Blockarelli" was a winner in a recent MochiAds contest, has worked at animation studios, newspapers and magazines. He made his first game back in 2000, and has been making his living over the last couple of years off of his Flash games.
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Dan Adijans, past contest winner
A web developer by day, Dan's a self-proclaimed Flash addict by night who can't get enough of building Flash apps. With an honors degree in multimedia under his belt, his first game, "Captain Skyro" — co-created with designer Brian Neong San — won MochiAds' last contest.
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Jesús Cuauhtémoc, past contest winner
Jesus of VillaVanilla, a game-development studio, is the creator of past contest-winning game Amberial. Having spent most of his childhood imagining himself in video games, his passion is to explore art in ways only video games can, destroying conventions, formulas, and established ideas about this medium.
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Maya Baratz of Mochi Media
Maya is the head of developer relations at Mochi Media who launched MochiAds' Flash Game Friday. Prior to working at Mochi, Maya was a product manager at Yahoo!'s Flickr.