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Thomas Bidaux's career started at France Telecom, within the GOA team where in 1999, he was recruited to manage their online games. He grew the activity from a one-man team in charge of the first French MMORPG LA 4ème Prophétie, to the European organisation in charge of the most successful MMORPG at the time in this market, Dark Age of Camelot.
In 2004, he left France Telecom and Paris, to set up the European subsiduary of the Online Game giant NCsoft. Acting as the Director development for the company, he managed the team who brought many online games to the European market, including Guild Wars and City of Heroes. Participating to the NCsoft Global Portfolio Steering Committee, he led the company's efforts to expand its game portfolio with European-based development, through various 3rd party deals and the creation of a Brighton-based studio as well heading the European team evaluating the group global projects.
In late 2008, he created the consulting agency Ico Partners with other NCsoft veterans, focusing his efforts in taking independent developpers further and help them reach their full potential across the globe. He is also acting as VP of Strategy for the Austrian based studio Avaloop and work on the development of their critically acclaimed virtual world Papermint.
He has also been an active participant in many industry-related events, sharing his expertise as often as possible and working on democratizing the development of online games in Europe.
Mes compétences :
Game development
Jeu en ligne
Jeu vidéo
Localisation
MMO
Mmorpg
Video
