About Gonzalo Frasca
My name is Gonzalo Frasca. I am a game developer, researcher and entrepreneur.
I currently live in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I create games at Powerful Robot Games, a studio that I co-founded in 2002. We create both commercial and experimental games.
Our latest game for Cartoon Network has reached over 13 million player accounts. They described it as "our biggest gaming success in our history".
One of our most popular indie projects so far has been Newsgaming.com, a project mixing journalism with videogames.
In late 2003 we pioneered in the campaign use of videogames by producing and co-designing (with Persuasive Games) the first official videogame ever commissioned for a U.S. Presidential Campaign. We later insisted with a game for the Uruguayan Presidential Elections (this time our candidate won by a landslide!)
I hold a PhD in Videogame Studies from the IT University of Copenhagen. My research interests deal with videogames, games and toys, particularly within the fields of communication (read: serious games, newsgaming, educational games, docugaming). I often lecture and teach about these topics. Here you'll find a list of my articles.
I also have a Master of Science in Information Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology and my degree in communication and film studies at the Catholic University of Montevideo.
Before working full-time in the game industry, I worked in advertising, TV scriptwriting and for companies such as Cartoon Network and CNN, where I was Editor of Science and Technology for their Spanish website.
