Director of Development

International Game Developers Association

Often the same as Executive Producer, however, they are “above” the Executive Producer (in rank) and often have more technical and business acumen than the Exec’s. When a Publishing company has Dir. & Exec(s) the Dir is often considered the “studio’s development head” and is therefore responsible for all developmental aspects of the studio, from signing NDA’s to being final authority on hiring new employees, contractual negotiations, first party relations and the like.