East Side Games
Derrick Furlotte has a varied work experience in the gaming industry. Derrick started their career at Volt/EA in 2011 as a Quality Assurance employee, where they worked until 2013. Derrick then joined Hothead Games and held multiple roles including Quality Assurance/Player Support, Senior Player Support, Player Support Lead, and finally, Community Lead and Player Support Manager. Derrick worked at Hothead Games from 2013 to 2021. In 2022, they joined East Side Games as a Senior Community Support Representative.
From 2002 to 2007, Derrick Furlotte attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where they completed their Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree in General Studies.
East Side Games
East Side Games is a developer and publisher of free to play mobile games. It is focused on making narrative idle games in the business, and creating the technology for developers to tell stories.The company is an independent and profitable game studio with a collaborative, creative, and fun culture. Their games fund all their new projects andits purpose-built technology infrastructure powers its rapid, iterative prototyping, based directly on audience feedback. This allows them to take design ideas to playable releases in days rather than months.ESG currently publishes and operates successful franchise titles including Archer: Danger Phone, Dragon Up: Idle Adventure, The Goldbergs: Back to the 80s, It's Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile, and Trailer Park Boys Grea$y Money.East Side Games was recently recognized on the "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2020" list compiled by Pocket Gamer Biz, on the "Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers" list compiled by Canada's Top 100, as well as on the "Canada's Top Growing Companies 2019" list compiled by Globe & Mail Report on Business and 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winners.In 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia