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Ed Boon
Ed Boon, American game designer, co-created Mortal Kombat (1992) with John Tobias at Williams/Midway after starting as a pinball programmer in 1986; now Chief Creative Officer at NetherRealm Studios and voice of Scorpion.
Edmund McMillen
Edmund Charles McMillen (born 1980, Santa Cruz) is an American indie game designer and artist behind Gish, Super Meat Boy, and The Binding of Isaac; Team Meat co-founder, no-publisher model, Isaac around 11 million copies sold.
Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二)
Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二), Nintendo game designer and producer from Nagano prefecture; directed Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Wind Waker, then succeeded Shigeru Miyamoto as Zelda series producer from about 2003.
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain is an American opera singer and voice actress from Nashville, Tennessee, best known as the voice of GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence antagonist of Valve's Portal games.
Emily O'Brien
Emily O'Brien (Emily Roya-O'Brien) is an English actress, five-time Daytime Emmy nominee for Jana Hawkes, Gwen Rizczech, and Theresa Donovan, and a video game voice and motion-capture actor as Amelie in Death Stranding and Wonder Woman.
Erika Ishii
Erika Ishii is an American voice actor and comedian, lead of Ghost of Yōtei (Atsu), Rook in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Valkyrie in Apex Legends, and a Dropout regular and Worlds Beyond Number co-creator.
Eugene Jarvis
Eugene Jarvis, also known as Eugene Peyton Jarvis, is an American arcade game designer known for Defender, Robotron: 2084, and the Cruis'n series, and co-founder of Raw Thrills.
Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell, also known as Gaben, co-founded Valve Corporation on August 24, 1996 with Mike Harrington after 13 years at Microsoft; he leads Valve and Steam, is worth nearly $10 billion, and runs Starfish Neuroscience and Inkfish.
Game development as a profession
Game development as a profession covers work at AAA studios, small indie teams, and contract roles, with education ranging from a high school diploma to a bachelor's degree.
Geoff Keighley
Geoff Keighley, born 1978 in suburban Toronto, is a Canadian video game journalist and producer who self-financed The Game Awards in 2014, reaching 154 million livestreams in 2024.
Geoff Ramsey
Geoff Ramsey (Geoffrey Lazer Ramsey, born 1975) is an American voice actor and internet personality, co-founder of Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter, voice of Grif in Red vs. Blue, and Regulation Podcast host; distinct from the eMarketer CEO of the same name.
Glen Schofield
Glen Schofield, American game director and artist, creator of Dead Space (2008), co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and director of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and WWII, later founded Striking Distance Studios and directed The Callisto Protocol (2022).
Goichi Suda (須田 剛一)
Goichi Suda (須田 剛一), aka Suda51, Japanese game designer, founder and CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture (1998), creator of The Silver Case, Killer7, and No More Heroes; studio independent again from NetEase in 2026.
Griffin McElroy
Griffin McElroy, podcaster and former Polygon co-founder; host of My Brother, My Brother and Me (2010) and Dungeon Master of The Adventure Zone (2014), a 180-million-download actual-play podcast adapted into #1 NYT bestselling graphic novels.
Gunpei Yokoi (横井軍平)
Gunpei Yokoi (横井軍平, 1941–1997), Nintendo engineer and R&D1 head, creator of the Ultra Hand, Game & Watch, D-pad, and Game Boy, producer of Metroid, and designer of the failed Virtual Boy.
Henk Rogers
Henk Rogers, Dutch-born American entrepreneur (born Amsterdam, 1953), founder of The Tetris Company with Alexey Pajitnov; secured Tetris Game Boy rights from Soviet ELORG in 1989; later founded Blue Planet Foundation for 100% renewable energy.
Hideki Kamiya (神谷英樹)
Hideki Kamiya (神谷英樹), Japanese game director of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, and The Wonderful 101; PlatinumGames co-founder who left in October 2023 and now leads CLOVERS, directing an Okami sequel with Capcom.
Hideo Kojima (小島秀夫)
Hideo Kojima (小島秀夫), Japanese game designer and founder of Kojima Productions; created Metal Gear (1987) and Death Stranding (2019); left Konami in 2015; current projects OD and PHYSINT, now published by Xbox.
Hidetaka Miyazaki (宮崎英高)
Hidetaka Miyazaki (宮崎英高), Japanese game director and FromSoftware president since 2014; directed Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and the 25-million-selling Elden Ring; known for high difficulty and indirect storytelling.
Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口博信)
Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口博信), born 1962, Japanese game designer, creator of Final Fantasy (1987) at Square, later founder of Mistwalker (Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Fantasian, FANTASIAN Neo Dimension).
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥, 1927–2013), third president of Nintendo 1949–2002, great-grandson of founder Fusajiro Yamauchi; turned a hanafuda card firm into a video game giant via the Famicom/NES, bought the Seattle Mariners in 1992, and chose Satoru Iwata as successor.
Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone (born 1949) is an English entrepreneur and author, co-founder of Games Workshop, co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, and former Eidos executive behind Tomb Raider.
Jade Raymond
Jade Raymond, Canadian video game producer and studio founder; producer of Assassin's Creed, co-creator of Watch Dogs; founded Ubisoft Toronto, EA Motive, and Sony's Haven Studios, which she left in May 2025.
Jake Solomon
Jake Solomon, American game designer, lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, and Marvel's Midnight Suns at Firaxis; left in 2023, founded Midsummer Studios, whose life sim Burbank was canceled when the studio closed in 2026.
Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan is an American game designer, former World of Warcraft lead designer and Overwatch game director and VP at Blizzard, who left in April 2021 and now runs Kintsugiyama, making The Legend of California.
Jeff Minter
Jeff Minter (born 1962), nicknamed Yak, is the British founder of Llamasoft (1982), creator of Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Tempest 2000, TxK, and Xbox 360's Neon light synthesizer.
Jens Bergensten
Jens 'Jeb' Bergensten, Swedish game designer, joined Mojang December 2010, took over Minecraft from Notch in December 2011, Mojang Chief Creative Officer since 2018, co-founder of Oxeye Game Studio.
Jerry Lawson (engineer)
Jerry Lawson (1940-2011), American engineer, led development of the Fairchild Channel F (1976), the first cartridge-based home video game console, and founded Video Soft, an early Black-owned game company.
Jessica Chobot
Jessica Chobot (Jessica Lynn Horn, born 1977) is an American host and writer known for IGN's Daily Fix, Nerdist News, Discovery's Expedition X, and voicing Diana Allers in Mass Effect 3.
John Romero
John Romero (born 1967) is an American game designer and programmer, id Software co-founder behind Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake; later Ion Storm, Daikatana, SIGIL, and Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.