Tony Walsh has been playing, modifying, and developing games for over 30 years. He has helped plan and execute story-driven interactive projects since the early 1990s, including five award-winning extended-television games. A multi-disciplined creative, Walsh has become noted internationally for his work at the intersection of games and culture.

Walsh is the founder and director of Phantom Compass, a Toronto-based game production company. He leads the company in providing products and services to broadcasters and media producers in Canada, the US and UK.

Since 2008, Walsh has co-written the interactive component of BBC Three series “Spooks: Code 9,” created an Alternate Reality Game in support of Hollywood B-movie “Bangkok Dangerous” and co-produced a suite of games for CBC TV series Breakout! He is currently at work on several original Phantom Compass projects, including “Dionysian Dream,” a learning game about classical Greek drama, and “Civic Values,” a learning game about grassroots civic engagement.