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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Creative Director operating in the Video Games space. If you think a Creative Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Will Stewart
Creative Director of Bidstack
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About Bidstack: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
Craig Howard
Founder and Creative Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Barbara Lippe
Founder, Creative Director of entreZ VR
Barbara Lippe PhD is a unique combination of video-game-art-director-turned actor. Having designed characters for games companies in Tokyo including Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Namco Bandai and creating art for social games years before the rise of the genre and researching what works for a female target audience she has reached a turning point: it’s not enough to DRAW characters, one must BECOME characters. To that end, she has recently graduated from a renowned London acting school. With that new toolkit onboard she’s moving on from designing virtual worlds to creating drama-enriched content for the virtual reality. Bridging the two worlds, she marries the lessons learned on stage & screen with her knowledge of video games and innovates the principles of character development, status and staging for VR.
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About entreZ VR, Snafflz, Spree Interactive: entreZ VR is an experienced team of industry players passionate about storytelling on real and virtual stages.
John Ribbins
Creative Director of Roll7
John Ribbins is the Co-Founder at Roll7.
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About Roll7: Roll7 make games that are Simple to Play.
Caroline Marchal
Founder and Creative Director of Interior Night
Caroline is a narrative game designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She was lead Game Designer on Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls and has founded a narrative game studio called Interior Night, working on an unannounced new IP.
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About Interior Night: Interior Night is an independent game studio of Quantic Dream and Sony veterans based in London.
Ian Masters
Co-Founder & Creative Director of QuizTix Limited
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About QuizTix Limited: QuizTix is a knowledge entertainment company. In May 2014 it launched QuizTix, a fun and original series of social quiz games.
Dan Pinchbeck
Creative Director of The Chinese Room
Dan Pinchbeck is the Creative Director of the UK based studio The Chinese Room. He is the writer and designer of their games, which include the multi-award winning Dear Esther, widely regarded as the key title in the emergence of the first-person storytelling/exploration genre; the cult horror Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and the recently released Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. He is a regular columnist for gamesTM, authored the book Doom: Scarydarkfast, has a PhD in first-person shooters, sits on numerous award panels, and speaks internationally about game design and storytelling.
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About The Chinese Room: The Chinese Room is an award-winning game development studio.
