While earning a master’s degree in the Interactive Media Program of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Kellee Santiago produced the puzzle game Cloud with Jenova Chen and a student team. But her real claim to fame is leading the team for Halo, the blockbuster science fiction first-person shooter franchise, and expanding its reach to books and video series. She’s worked on many titles, including NBA: Inside Drive, Zoo Tycoon, Dungeon Siege, Counter Strike, Gears of War, Psychonauts, and Mass Effect. Follow her on Twitter: Siobhan Reddyīonnie Ross is a Microsoft lifer, starting in 1994 there as a producer working on PC sports games. And when Google needed to build out its new gaming venture, it hired her as vice president and head of Stadia Games and Entertainment. But she didn’t stop there - she also started the Ubisoft Toronto office, made games for Electronic Arts, and briefly reported on gaming culture for the G4 TV show The Electric Playground. The games Jade Raymond has helped create as a programmer is impressive, especially Assassin’s Creed, the critically acclaimed stealth action-adventure franchise she co-developed at Ubisoft Montreal. VP of Stadia Games and Entertainment, Google Plus she’s completed two Ironman competitions, which is two more than you have, probably. Nour also works at Liminal Esports as its chief strategy officer and is pursuing her PhD at the University California of Irvine. She’ll be speaking at GamesBeat Summit 2020, too. At the ESA, she emphasized the industry’s diversity and inclusion efforts, work she’s continued at IGDA. Eric Cantor’s office, specializing in explaining technology to government types, Nika Nour switched to digital advocacy work for the industry, first at the Internet Association, then at the Entertainment Software Association, and now at the IGDA Foundation. Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaĪfter working in Rep. Fox has her own vision and executes it with polish and flair. Megan Fox leads the studio, which specializes in cute and quirky games like Skatebird (yes, as in “tiny hawk”) and a pair of adventures starring Emma Jones, P.I. We love indie developers here, and a super fun crew called Glass Bottom Games caught our attention. Edwards also runs Global Game Jam, a game development hackathon. She founded the content culturalization consultancy Geogrify to advise game makers on how to go beyond localization to accommodate cultural and geopolitical concerns. After over a decade at Microsoft, where she founded the Geopolitical Strategy team, she struck out on her own in 2005. Probably the only geographer on our list, Kate Edwards came to our attention as the director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) from 2012 to 2017.
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