Meet our Judges

Alan Chou Experienced Video Games Executive with twelve years at Blizzard, Microsoft and Meta. He has helped publish over a dozen AAA game titles.
Barbara Kciuk Narrative Designer of Blair Witch and The Medium.
Neil Holmes EMEA Developer Partner Manager for ID@Xbox at Microsoft.
Mark Nash Director of Publishing Marketing at Humble Bundle.
Henrik Jonsson Executive Producer at Amplifier Game Invest.
Justin Woodward Founder of the MIX (Media Indie Exchange).
Kelsey Haley Visual Development Artist known for her work for Disney, Dreamworks, NBC Universal, and South Park Studio.
Eric Kozlowsky Art Director & Environment Artist, known for his work on Uncharted 3 & Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze.
Quentin De Beukelaer Designer of Assassin's Creed: Unity, Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Austin Wintory Grammy-nominated Composer of Journey, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and The Pathless.
Eímear Noone Award-winning Composer and Conductor, known for her work on World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo III
Adam Schmidt Score Mixer and Recording Engineer, known for his work on Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, The Pirates of the Caribbean
Bjørn Jacobsen Sound Designer of Cyberpunk 2077, DARQ, The Ascent, HITMAN, and EVE Online
Trisha Hershberger TV & Media Host (Disney XD, MTV, IGN, Nerdist), Twitch Streamer, creator of the weekly Twitch Gong Show indie games showcase.
Yong Yea YouTube personality, daily video game industry news.
Joe Skrebels IGN Executive Editor of News
Natasha Hashim IGN SEA Content Producer.
Mat Paget GameSpot editor.
Jake Dekker GameSpot video producer.
Zane Pickett Game Industry Forbes Contributor.