I’m Robin Clarke, a producer of computer games based in London, England.
Since around the turn of the century I’ve had many colourful adventures in the games industry, working at various times for JoWooD, CDV, Morpheme, Mastertronic and Zattikka. Currently I am a senior producer at Supersonic Software.
I also occasionally write articles, participate in game jams and give talks. Sometimes I get asked Wot I Think by various magazines and websites.
The website www.citystate.co.uk was established on January 1st 2006 to provide a central repository for various musings about games, some of which were previously published elsewhere. I can be contacted by email (‘contact’ AT this domain) or Bluesky. I never respond to unsolicited messages sent as LinkedIn invites (and still they come).
Quick facts
Name: Robin Clarke
Bluesky: rclarke.bsky.social
ZX Spectrum or C64? Spectrum
Mega Drive or SNES? Mega Drive
PC or Mac? PC
Favourite game: Toejam & Earl (or maybe Cyberpunk 2077 now?)
Favourite film: This said Brazil for a long time, but honestly, I’m not sure I have one. Let’s say Withnail & I.
Name works in the Mickey Mouse Club song: YES
Some selected games-related things I did between ~2000-2017 (most recent first)
- Joined the GameCamp committee
- British Academy Games Awards 2016 judge
- Low Battery (freeware game) released
- Helped bring Transport Tycoon to mobile
- Helped bring Isoball to mobile
- Gave a talk on Flash game sponsorship
- Sponsored lots of Flash games
- Arranged for this to happen
- The Shareware Age feature article for Eurogamer
- Scrumper (freeware game) released
- Channel 4 Mobile Games Pitch finalist
- Helped bring Croc to mobile
- Mailed out review code for lots of European PC games
- Helped bring Infocom’s games to mobile (unreleased)
