Jason Della Rocca is the former executive director

Executive director

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 of the International Game Developers Association

International Game Developers Association

International Game Developers Association is the professional society for over 10,000 video and computer game developers worldwide.It is incorporated in the United States as a non-profit organization....

 (IGDA): Della Rocca supervised the daily operations, outreach initiatives, and membership programs of the organization from September 2000 to March 2009. After leaving the IGDA, Della Rocca founded Perimeter Partners, a consultancy that provides strategic level guidance and expertise to companies and organizations in, and around, the game industry globally.

Della Rocca is a well known figure within the game development community and was honored for his industry building efforts with the inaugural Ambassador Award at the 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Della Rocca was also named to Game Developer Magazine's 2009 "The Game Developer 50", a list which profiles 50 of the most important contributors to the current state of the game industry.

Della Rocca used the phrase "massacre chaser" in response to an inquiry from MSNBC

MSNBC

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 reporter Winda Benedetti discussing Jack Thompson's quick blaming of video games as the root of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Appearances

• Documentary Movie Interview: Playing Columbine
  Playing Columbine
  Playing Columbine is a 2008 American documentary film produced and edited by Danny Ledonne, an American independent filmmaker. The film follows the video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! in which players experience the Columbine High School massacre through the eyes of the killers, Eric Harris...
  
   2008
• Documentary Movie Interview: Moral Kombat 2007
• CTV
  CTV television network
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   Interview: Dawson College shooting
  Dawson College shooting
  The Dawson College shooting occurred on September 13, 2006 at Dawson College, a CEGEP in Westmount near downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The perpetrator, Kimveer Gill, began shooting outside the de Maisonneuve Boulevard entrance to the school, and moved towards the atrium by the cafeteria on the...
  
   (15 September 2006)
• Panel Discussion: Video Games: Content and Responsibility (2 August 2006)
• Panel Discussion: Murder, Sex and Censorship: Debating the Morals of Creative Freedom (23 March 2006)
• Panel Discussion: Got (Too Much) Game? (18 August 2005)

External links

• International Game Developers Association (official website)
• Reality Panic (Jason Della Rocca's blog)