1. Erik Broes (1980)

Game Designer

Game developer at Minecraft, he has over 160,000 Twitter followers, which makes him one of the known faces of Mojang AB, the comapny that makes Minecraft.

2. Clark Stacey (1980)

Game Designer

Co-founder and CEO of the game development studio WildWorks (formerly Smart Bomb Interactive). They became best known for the development of the MMO virtual world game called Animal Jam. 

3. Tommaso Checchi (1989)

Game Designer

Game developer and designer, he is known as one of Majong AB's Minecraft developers. He began developing Minecraft's pocket edition with fellow developer Johan Bernhardsson.

4. Cindering (1996)

Game Designer

ROBLOX game designer who is widely known for ROBLOX High School. Since its posting in 2014, it has exceeded 90 million total visits.

5. Ralph H. Baer (1922)

Game Designer

Ralph H. Baer is a famous Game Designer, who was born on March 8, 1922 in Germany. Known as the Father of Video Games, he invented the home console that...

6. Darren Sugg (1977)

Game Designer

Creative director at Epic Games best known for designing the popular video game Fortnite. He was previously a member of the design team for The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of...

7. Hideki Kamiya (1970)

Game Designer

Former employee of Capcom and Clover Studio who would later work at PlatinumGames. He contributed to the original Resident Evil and directed Devil May Cry.

8. Sam Houser (1971)

Game Designer

Video game developer and producer who's worked on the Grand Theft Auto franchise. He is also the co-founder of Rockstar Games.

9. Jim Bonacci (1979)

Game Designer

Most well known as the creator of the game Happy Wheels hosted by his website Total Jerkface, he has also created the Flash games Divine Intervention and GameTest12.

10. John Carmack (1970)

Game Designer

Notable for founding the Id Software company, Carmack created a number of popular video games, including Rage, Doom, Commander Keen, and Wolfenstein 3D.

11. Harvey Smith (1966)

Game Designer

Harvey Smith is a famous Game Designer, who was born on December 30, 1966 in United States. Video game developer known for his work with Arkane Studios, which includes the...

12. Andy Gavin (1970)

Game Designer

Programmer and game designer known for being one of the founders of the gaming company Naughty Dog. He was personally involved in more than a dozen games with Naughty Dog,...

13. Qazitv (1988)

Game Designer

Video game designer who is predominantly recognized for his game Shotgun Farmers. The game was distributed on the service Steam.

14. Matt Burch (1978)

Game Designer

Software programmer who is best known for designing the Escape Velocity computer game.

15. Notch (1979)

Game Designer

Born Markus Persson, but better known as Notch, he is a Swedish video game designer who created the hit game Minecraft. In 2014, he became a billionaire when Microsoft purchased Minecraft for...

16. Dued1 (1991)

Game Designer

Game designer known as Dued1 who created a pizza-parlour simulator called Work at a Pizza Place. His popular Twitter account has earned over 120,000 followers, and he uses the platform to...

17. Dan Salvato (1991)

Game Designer

Video game designer who is best recognized for having developed the 2017 visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! He is also known for his modding of the popular Nintendo game Super Smash...

18. Luke Weber (1993)

Game Designer

Gained fame as a burgeoning game designer through the lego-like game construction site Roblox. His games have been played 10 million times over and have earned him more than 300,000...

19. Robert Topala (1987)

Game Designer

Game developer known for his company RobTopGames. He's most famous for creating Geometry Dash and Geometry Dash Meltdown.

20. Zoe Quinn (1987)

Game Designer

Game developer and programmer who was the subject of the 2014 blogpost, written by her ex-boyfriend, that sparked the Gamergate controversy.

21. Joakim Sandberg (1986)

Game Designer

Game designer who hosts completed and upcoming downloadable games on his website konjack.com. His games are known for having a huge event versus the Boss at the end.

22. Mark Ogilvie (1978)

Game Designer

Game designer also known as Mod Mark who is most famous for being the head content designer for the MMORPG RuneScape. He is responsible for the dialogue of characters like...

23. Garry Newman (1982)

Game Designer

Creator behind Garry's Mod, originally a modification for Half-Life 2 but was later evolved into a standalone game.

24. Nicky Case (1994)

Game Designer

Game designer who has risen to fame for his socially-conscious PC games, including his popular decision-making game 2014 Coming Out Simulator. He earned profiles in Complex and Forbes magazines as...

25. Nelson Sexton (1997)

Game Designer

Canadian video game designer known as the creator of Steam's free-to-play zombie survival game Unturned at the age of 16. He also designed the game Deadzone a year earlier.

26. Steven Lumpkin (1985)

Game Designer

Lead level game designer for the immensely popular video game Warhammer 40,000 Eternal Crusade, who built a solid online following through his Twitch and YouTube accounts. In 2015, he became...

27. Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962)

Game Designer

Japanese video game designer and filmmaker who founded the Mistwalker video game development corporation in 2004.

28. Kitty Powers (1981)

Game Designer

Famous as a self-proclaimed video game drag queen, she is the creator and star of the video game Kitty Powers' Matchmaker. She also founded the independent video game company Magic...

29. Hideki Konno (1965)

Game Designer

Known for his work on the popular Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart series of video games, this designer headed Nintendo's EAD Software Development Group.

30. Alex Binello (1995)

Game Designer

Computer game and software designer who is widely recognized for having created the popular MeepCity Roblox modification. Throughout the Roblox community, he was known by the username Alexnewtron.

31. David Vonderhaar (1972)

Game Designer

Known as the studio design director for the American video game company Treyarch. He also played a key role in designing the popular Call of Duty games. 

32. Howard Scott Warshaw (1957)

Game Designer

Howard Scott Warshaw is a famous Game Designer, who was born on July 30, 1957 in United States. Video game designer best known for his work on Atari games like...

33. Andrew Sum (1990)

Game Designer

App game designer and developer perhaps most notable for creating the hit game Crossy Road. Other notable games of his are Ant Surf Hero, Stray Whisker, and Dungeon Dashers.

34. Simbuilder (1998)

Game Designer

Video game designer who is best known for his work within the user-generated massively multiplayer game Roblox. He created the popular Vehicle Simulator game add-on/modification.

35. Davey Wreden (1988)

Game Designer

Known as the founder of the Galactic Cafe and it's The Stanley Parable Half-Life 2 mod. He has gained popularity amongst the gaming community by his Cakebread gamertag.

36. Michael Condrey (1972)

Game Designer

Famous as the co-founder (with Glen Schofield) of the Sledgehammer Games video game company, Condrey is also notable as a creator of the Dead Space survival video game series and...

37. Andrew Spinks (1983)

Game Designer

CEO of the game studio Re-Logic and the primary developer of the action-adventure game Terraria.

38. Scott Cawthon (1971)

Game Designer

Game designer and developer of Five Nights at Freddy's and the game's subsequent sequels. He is part of a group called Hope Animation as well. 

39. Ben Weatherall (1989)

Game Designer

Specializing in vector illustration, 3D modelling and voxel art, he is best known as the artist behind the mobile game Crossy Road, a game that has earned more than 100...

40. Seth Robinson (1974)

Game Designer

Game designer and programmer behind Robinson Technologies. A prolific indie developer, Robinson Technologies is responsible for games like Legend of the Red Dragon, Dink Smallwood, and Growtopia.

41. Toby Fox (1991)

Game Designer

Toby Fox is a famous Game Designer, who was born on October 11, 1991 in United States. Also known as FwugRadiation, he is the game developer, writer and composer of...

42. Naoto Ohshima (1964)

Game Designer

Known best for designing the popular Dr. Eggman and Sonic the Hedgehog video game characters, this one-time Sega Corporation employee later founded two other video game development companies: Artoon and...

43. Andrea Phillips (1974)

Game Designer

Video game designer and writer who became famous for creating alternate reality video games (ARGs), including Perplex City, and the BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 project Routes.

44. Ben Brode (1982)

Game Designer

Lead game designer behind the popular Blizzard video game Hearthstone. Throughout his long career with Blizzard, he also worked on numerous World of Warcraft games.

45. Mike Hommel (1974)

Game Designer

One man-game developer best known as the mind behind Hamumu Software. The company has been responsible for a number of unique indie games like the Robot Wants series and Loonyland....

46. Mark Cerny (1964)

Game Designer

Game Designer who founded Cerny Games in 1998. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Game Developers Association in 2004, and was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts...

47. Ken Silverman (1975)

Game Designer

Ken Silverman is an American game programmer best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D Shadow Warrior Blood and more than a dozen other games in...

48. Terry K. Amthor (1958)

Game Designer

Terry K. Amthor is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games but also has experience in the printing and publishing industry & graphic design and Apple computers.

49. Greg Costikyan (1959)

Game Designer

Greg Costikyan sometimes known under the pseudonym Designer X is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming including hex-based wargames...

50. Kazuma Kaneko (1964)

Game Designer

Kazuma Kaneko is a Japanese game designer co-founder artist and employee of Atlus. While working for the same company he has also done freelance work for Capcom and Konami...