The Game Awards Future Class
A list of everyone who has been part of The Game Awards Future Class, a program to honor individuals around the world who represent the bright, bold, and inclusive future for video games.
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@joannahaslam.bsky.social
@martizz1e.bsky.social
Clinical Gaming Professional | @CPCharity Patient Tech Grante | @gameAwards Future Class 23 | Dubby Affiliate code: Martizz1e | ❤️💛💙 Views=my own
@steveogre.bsky.social
Video game developer | @ogrepixel CEO and founder | The Game Awards future class (2021) | Forbes 100 most creative Mexicans in World (2019)
@eldineabdou.com
Host and Video Producer || Gaming Managing Producer at Mail Online (@dailymailgaming.bsky.social) || The Game Awards Future Class 2020 || MCV 30 Under 30 || He/Him Contact: mourad.abdou@mailonline.co.uk
@khevna.bsky.social
@alhvi.bsky.social
Game Developer at Selva Interactive. Co-founder GameDevGT. TGA Future Class 2021.
@chengeling.bsky.social
Anti grift factory worker. All opinions are my own and do not represent anyone I work for.
@ashtaf130.bsky.social
Duck lover and game developer. I make games, write stories, and run communities. He/him
@96lions.bsky.social
wow, it's sophie! malaysian gamedev + games lecturer + 1/2 @mwf-studio.bsky.social + 1/2 devfriends + TGA Future Class 2022 + OutCrowd MY Council share/reply =/= endorsement | opinions are my own 📧: sophie@makewithfriends.com 🌐: http://96lions.mmm.page/
@black-pandamonium.bsky.social
🎮 Senior Game Designer @ PlayStation 🔮 The Game Awards Future Class 2023 🌟 🐼 Black Pandamonium 🇰🇷 저는 한국어를 합니다 Martial Artist 🥋🎨 1x Black Belt Hapkido (합기도) 1x Black Belt Tae Kwon Do (태관도) https://linktr.ee/Kaylapharris
@rinoaskyes.bsky.social
BDM @ Critical Reflex | Global Comms @ Neon Noroshi | 📝 Japan Times | 🎙️: 20m Podcast | The Game Awards Future Class 2023 | Muay Thai | 🇲🇾🇦🇺🇯🇵🇸🇪
@thevoidencore.bsky.social
Community Director for Young Horses. voted most likely to become a pokemon master in 8th grade. Prev: CD for Blaseball
@indrani.bsky.social
🕹️ Game designer @durontogames.bsky.social 👻 Jr Influencer Strategist @devolverdigital.com 🎲 Community gal @desisndragons.bsky.social 🌍 Find me @ indrani.me/hello 🏳️🌈 She/they 📍Mumbai, India 😴 Probably tired
@gcbaccaris.itch.io
👁 http://gcbaccaris.com 》Game Developer, Writer, & Narrative Designer 》🪄 Twine Grimoire ✦ 🔮 Harmony (DON'T NOD) ✦ 🪞 Resurrection Gate ✦ TGA Future Class ✦ IF Tech Foundation Volunteer ✦ Looking for work‼️ 🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris 🦷 http://ko-fi.com/grimdev
@sevenofquills.bsky.social
31yo enby, they/them R6S senior writer AuDHD + queer + vegan Pokemon/R6 Siege/D&D
@brightwhitney.bsky.social
Award-winning narrative designer🎮 Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱 Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex https://brightwhitney.com
@grlpants.bsky.social
IP/Partnerships Producer at Epic | #gamedev D&D #DM & #TTRPG Player| Red Mage & Spoony Bard| AfroLatina & #Bronx as fug | 🇩🇴 She/ Her | #Dragonage is Life | #TheGameAwards: #FutureClass | Reformed Theater Nerd| Still Fighting. https://solo.to/grlpants
@larxy.bsky.social
Award Nominated Game Dev & Founder of @personatheorymy • @g4capac • Fires at Midnight, Kabaret, The Lonely Hearts Petshop & more! • #SPG100 • IVLP •
@sallygamedev.bsky.social
✨Games✨Art Director Arrogant Pixel 👾CEO Wyrdren Games 🖤 Games and Creative Tech Lead For UCA Foundation 📚 Woman in Games Ambassador🎮 BAFTA Connect ⭐️ The Game Awards Future Class 2023✨PostGrad Research Kent Uni 📖 Author (soon)
@gabebera.bsky.social
Writer. QA Lead at Moonshot Games working on Wildgate | Prev. Square Enix, Sony Santa Monica, Ubisoft | The Game Awards Future Class '23 | Dominicano 🇩🇴 | Views are my own.
@emmakidwell.bsky.social
Award-nominated writer at Firaxis | Opinions are my own | Narrative for Hindsight | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/
@eddcoates.bsky.social
🎮 Lead UI Designer at Radical Forge 🎨 Creator of http://gameuidatabase.com & http://padcrafter.com 📘 Author of 👀 with Lost in Cult! 🎭 BAFTA Member 🏆 Future Class 23, Game Dev Heroes Design Hero 21, Guinness World Record Holder
@chrisfilip.bsky.social
International Business Development Fund Manager at the BFI UK Global Screen Fund | Co-Founder of Game Anglia | MCV 30u30 | he/him | Views & Tweets my own
@alyxjones.bsky.social
Founder of Silver Script Games | Composer | Writer at The Sound Architect | MCV 30 Under 30 ’22 | BAFTA Breakthrough ’22 | The Game Awards Future Class ‘23
@zwbuckley.com
🖐️ Composer, music producer, educator 🎵 My music: Keyword 2, Barbie VR, opera, and more 📝 Posts on music production, Ableton Live, and my music career ✅ Follows via lists. ➡️ www.zwbuckley.com
@teaandmonsters.bsky.social
QA Lead @DoubleElevenLtd | She/Her | @GIBiz's 100 | #TheGameAwards Future Class ‘22 | @GameDevHeroes QA ‘21 | #SPG100 ‘22 | #BAFTACrew | 🏳️🌈
@hereliesstacey.bsky.social
🎮♿ Accessibility Design Specialist @ Ubisoft Paris Studio • #TGA Future Class '22 • Retired Twitch Partner • Disabled • Queer • Spooky Goblin • they/them
@megamasao.bsky.social
Japanese games producer based in Montreal. Working in games since 2006. (Any pronouns) Join our producer discord! https://forms.gle/i1pJ4eSthKVDpcPb6
@marykgames.com
“The shiny Pokémon of games writers” according to Aidan Moher. Senior Writer at CD PROJEKT RED, prev. a director and lead writer at Insomniac + Telltale. Author - Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Games Industry. She/her🏳️🌈
@leonxiaoy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
@jayjustice.net
Game dev, writer, editor, consultant. Mass Effect Legendary Edition Community Council. The Game Awards Future Class. Accessibility Pro. Queer disabled Black superhero. she/her jay@jayjustice.net 🇯🇲♿🏳️🌈 in 🇹🇭 jayjustice.net/links
@jdwasabi.bsky.social
Composer / Orchestrator / Arranger / Game Audio Producer • @AsianPirateMus • @POCInPlay • @BAFTAGames • Future Class 2022 • Game Dev Heroes Sound Winner 2020 • She/Her • 🇹🇭🇲🇾 • 🚫 GenAI Art/Music ❌
@harris.zone
Communications Lead @ @bigfangames.com | Award-losing Community Manager & Marketer | The Game Awards Future Class 2022 | Name frequently misspelled for comedic effect. (he/him)
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@fawzi.zone
Creative Director on BGE2 @Ubisoft Award winning game designer, author, public speaker, serial expat, 1 of @thehabibis.show opinions are my own. he/him. 日本語OK🙆♂️
@chriskindred.com
illustrator, narrative designer, author, thing doer, stuff liker they/them chris@chriskindred.com
@thoughtrise.bsky.social
:: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social ::: anthropologist englishslit🌱 🕹️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer 👂 podcast: Directional.show ✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
@burasto.bsky.social
🌟 SHOP OPEN: burasto.com 🌟 Game Dev/Artist. Released Long Gone Days, Nanopesos & More. #1ReasonToBe speaker, TWA Future Class '22. https://linktr.ee/burasto
@ashleypoprik.bsky.social
Writer and Sweets Enthusiast! Destiny 2, Black Ops 6, Modern Warfare III, Spider-Man 2. TGA Future Class, BAFTA Connect 🌈🦻🏻 ashleypoprik.com
@annacwebs.bsky.social
Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️💜🤍🖤💚| she/her | annacwebster.com
@victoriatran.bsky.social
✨ Communications Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us ✨ Wholesome Games organizer ✨ Community Dev newsletter: https://www.victoriatran.com/newsletter
@thomasknowlton.bsky.social
School Librarian at The High School of Fashion Industries in NYC / TGA Future Class 2021 / Past: MyLibraryNYC, The New York Public Library, The University of Georgia Libraries
@srbilyon.stormynights.games
A Goofy Game Developer that cooks sometimes! - Lead Dev of Breeze in the Clouds (@BreezeGame) - TGA Future Class 2021 - Photography Main - Stuck in Texas - Doesn't Proofreading? - Feel free to marry my ocs srbilyon@gmail.com www.breezethegame.com
@shandiin.bsky.social
Shandiin Yazzie Woodward (she/her) game dev, artist 💜 indigenous ✨ Button City, Subliminal Gaming shandiin.me linktr.ee/shandiin
@gaiazelle.bsky.social
[she/they] Associate Principal User Researcher, Warcraft Franchise #a11y; PhD; Druid; Social Justice Waluigi shitposts are my own. PFP: @flamingomymango.bsky.social
@mirandadue.bsky.social
🪶Pawnee/Cherokee game dev. producer. Currently at Owlchemy Labs (contract). Formerly @ IllumiNative, Unity, Treyarch. 🇮🇪☘️🎻🎮 running for ok gov eventually lol
@n7memo.bsky.social
Quality Engineer at Mojang Studios • BAFTA Connect • TGA Future Class • 🏳️🌈 she/her • #SpaceGirls art by @maxbeech.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/n7memo
@laiabee.bsky.social
@pincergames co-founder/ former president and volunteer at @Cavi_uy / #1reasontobe organizer at @officialgdc.bsky.social / LatamVGF Coord/ #thegameawards Future Class/ She/Her
@xenjade.bsky.social
games higher ed/early career equity activist | EGD Collective | things @ NYU Game Center | Chair, IGDA Student | TGA Future Class 2021 | the care of the future of games is ours | aro/ace in space | enby | ad(h)d | Leslie Knope of gaming
@popelady.bsky.social
Growth Manager at @splashdamage LG's Admin! PR @DissidentRPG @specialeffect Ambassador #BAFTACrew @thegameawards Future Class ‘21 @forbes 30u30 ‘22
@thefoleyartist.bsky.social
🎮Senior Foley Artist II at Sony Interactive Entertainment 🏆Primetime Emmy Award Winning Taiwanese American Trans Woman🏳️⚧️ she/her (views are my own)
@felicekuan.bsky.social
Narrative Director & Writer || Life is Strange: Double Exposure, True Colors, Before the Storm || WoTC: Journeys through the Radiant Citadel || she/her
@farah.coculuzzi.social
💙 producer @capygames.bsky.social 🥝 kiwi in canada 💞 @tony.coculuzzi.social
@efparkery.bsky.social
Future Class 2021 #TheGameAwards, Gameplay Animator at That's No Moon, Prev: Santa Monica Studio #GodOfWarRagnarok, she/her
@derek-lieu.com
🎬 Game trailer editor who made trailers for: Half-Life Alyx, Among Us, Psychonauts 2, Riven, Spelunky 2, Firewatch, Dead Cells, Viewfinder, Stray Gods, and more! He/him https://dereklieu.carrd.com
@deejayknight.bsky.social
Live Talent, Voice Actor, USAF Vet | TGA Future Class 2021 | Twitch & ExtraLife Ambassador | He/Him | Biz: dj@deejayknight.tv 🌍: https://www.beacons.ai/deejayknight ⏰: https://www.tiktok.com/@deejayknight 🎮: https://www.twitch.tv/deejayknight
@chellaramanan.bsky.social
I make games. Sr Narrative Designer at Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora Co-director @ 3-Fold Games on Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member. Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books and films.
@blondehistorian.bsky.social
Blind activist, Mama, accessibility professional and Londoner. Guided by the Diva Retriever. Sharing my blurry world view
@writnelson.bsky.social
Running @StrangeScaffold. Writing for Stranger Things VR, Hypnospace Outlaw, and more. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him.
@stevesaylor.net
BLIND GAMER | Creator/Host | Available for Accessibility Consulting | @Twitch Ambassador | #AMDRedTeam | Biz: steve@stevesaylor.net stevesaylor.social
@heartimecia.bsky.social
bi and ready to cry over games | writer and ex award-winning journalist | PR @ Future Friends Games | game design consultant | the game awards future class ‘20 | she/her
@momoxmia.bsky.social
Deaf dev who loves coffee 🤗♥️ Game Accessibility Lead @ EA she/they • my views ♿️✨
@thelukaseggen.bsky.social
I am an award-winning gaming podcaster and journalist and the founder of Game On! Magazine. Email me at eggen.lukas@gmail.com. Links: linktr.ee/LukasEggen
@inkydojikko.bsky.social
former senior copy editor, Polygon | former reviews editor, GameSpot ✧⁎ she/her ☆ my posts do not follow AP style
@kaittremblay.bsky.social
Writer & narrative designer in video games, horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Writing + Games here: www.thatmonstergames.com Recently: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games (CRC Press): https://bit.ly/CWVGGD
@hannahnicklin.bsky.social
Writing, game & narrative design. Used to be a performance maker. Race bikes on occasion. Currently contract: story person at Night School. Previously Creative Director at gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti capitalist practice.
@wakingoni.com
🚀👹 Space Demon #vtuber transmuting cosmic dust into personal preferences | Created by Derrick Fields | Exploring game development and creative entrepreneurship | Founder, Creative Director @ Waking Oni Studio | 少し日本語OK https://linktr.ee/daerhyk
@blessingjr.bsky.social
Host/Producer @KindaFunnyVids | @Forbes 30 Under 30, @TheGameAwards Future Class | Current Obsessions: Action Games, Fighters, Card Games, Hip-Hop & WWE | Biz: Blessing(at)kindafunny(dot)com
@geekybaking.bsky.social
Pronouns: She/They Co-CEO @code_coven Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Consultant (Freelance) 🏆TGA Future Class 21; GiGaming 20; @MCV_Develop WiG & IRL Diversity Champion https://linktr.ee/cinzia_musio
@kathrynyu.com
@immersiveexperience.org co-founder. Game Designer at Twisted Pixel Games (Oculus Studios). @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. USC Games MFA. The Game Awards Future Class. LA-based. She/her. https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
@drmikachu.bsky.social
Studio Lead of @prettysmart.bsky.social, Dr. of Dance Games, writer, podcast host. Currently making THE SPIRIT LIFT, a deckbuilding hotel-crawler https://prettysmartgames.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/drmikachu https://www.hotbaddies.club
@sonderingemily.bsky.social
LA 📍Game development, indie games, and memes Wishlist lily's world XD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195580/lilys_world_XD/ 💌: sonderingemily@smoothmedia.co
@melrambles.bsky.social
Name's Mel 🖤 Senior Game Designer on The Sims✨prev. FaeFarm, Stonefly🪲Star Wars Squadrons, SW Battlefront II and Mass Effect Andromeda 💫 TGA Future Class ‘21 🏆 Métis, genderfluid, gremlin 🐸🇨🇦 keeper of many creatures 🐱🐰 PFP by @nicholaskole.bsky.social
@malekawt.bsky.social
Love to socialize, especially with cats. Senior Manager, Project Management Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility @Ubisoft! Game Awards Future Class '22. عربي لبناني فلسطيني، مشارك آراء. Lebanese Palestinian queer Arab. 🇱🇧🇵🇸🏳️🌈 He/Him/هو
@spritewrench.com
🏝 Founder/ Project Director Spritewrench Studios 🔮Member The GameAwards Future Class '21 Cohort 🔊Loudest of Jamaica Game Developer Society (JGDS) 🎓IGDA - Foundation Velocity Cohort Coordinator ✌ (he/him) 🔗 https://linktr.ee/spritewrench
@drjclau.bsky.social
A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, SPG100, BAFTA Connect, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. She/they. I hope you like ferrets.
@heylistengames.bsky.social
Founder of Hey Listen Games | Author "Teaching With Video Games" | The Game Awards Future Class 2020 | Teacher | KFBF | zack.hartzman@heylistengames.org | www.heylistengames.org
@mrahmedgaming.bsky.social
STEM (Science Teacher Embracing Minecraft) | The Game Awards Future Class 2022 | Games For Change Leadership Award Winner | He/Him https://linktr.ee/MinecraftClub
@atiyanova.bsky.social
UR by day at AAA company ✧ hobby dev by night ✧ FC6, Mario+Rabbids, AC: Mirage & more ✧ You’re Not Family out on Steam ✧ Personal projects: https://dorblenova.itch.io ✧ The Game Awards Future Class ‘23 ✧ She/her
@hfrayling.com
Senior Accessibility Specialist - Many Cats Studios | Accessibility Lead - Limit Break | 🌈👂🧠 #WeAreImpact2024 I forget to reply to DMs 🤷
@theonogueira.bsky.social
Music 🎶 & Sound 🔊 maker for Games and Film... Audio Director & Composer at Snowcastle Games & Chair @ GAiN - Game Audio in Norway - TGA Future Class 2023
@joannahaslam.bsky.social
Design Director at @snapfingerclick.com • Ops Lead at Limit Break • BAFTA Breakthrough '21 • The Game Awards Future Class '21 • Formerly Mediatonic & Relentless • Lover of trash TV & baking