Our Game Dev Heroes for 2022 have been crowned! This year’s awards saw 280 devs and industry professionals come together to celebrate the unsung heroes of the games industry.
Thank you to everyone who helped make Game Dev Heroes happen this year, all of you who entered a nomination, our judges, everyone who came along on the night to whoop and cheer and of course the support of our event partners, Airship, Cloud Imperium, CMD:Studio, Creative UK, Etch.Play, Aardvark Swift, nDreams, Square Enix London Mobile, Games Jobs Direct, EPOS, Creative Assembly, King, Aardvark Swift and Analog.
We received over 850 nominations this year across 12 categories, resulting in shortlists full of highly talented and worthy individuals, making thing the job of our judges all that more difficult!
Shining the spotlight on the brilliant devs and games industry professionals year on year shows just how talented the industry is. And without further ado, the winners of Game Dev Heroes 2022 are…
Art + Animation Hero
Scarlett Fu
Senior UI Artist, Ubisoft Dusseldorf
Community Hero
Jesse Raen-Saunders
Community Engagement Manager, Uplift Games
Design Hero
Autumn Jackson
Advanced Game Designer, Supermassive Games
Leadership Hero
Alejandro Arque Gallardo
Game Director at Supermassive Games
Marketing Hero
Claire Sharkey
Senior PR Specialist, Raw Fury
Production Hero
Sara Simmons
Producer, Plucky Bytes
Programming Hero
Nikky Armstrong
Lead Programmer, Silver Rain Games
Progression Advocate
Suneet Sharma
Legal Executive, SEGA
QA Hero
Oliver Balaam
Senior Quality Software Engineer, Improbable
Sound Hero
Alyx Jones
Post-Production Lead, Liquid Violet
Unsung Hero
Stuart Muckley
CEO, Code Wizards
Writing + Narrative Hero
Jen Simpkins
Editorial Manager, Media Molecule
Thank you and congratulations to everyone, from all of us at Game Dev Heroes.