Corporate Members of the Academy

Founded in 2010, Blind Squirrel Games® is a multidisciplinary development studio housing staff members with years of game industry experience. We are dedicated in creating polished and innovative AAA gaming experiences that reflect the interests of our passionate development team. Capitalizing on our experiences as a premiere developer, we are creating unique IPs that will push the medium into bold new directions. 

We are a premier developer of video games for the Console, Mobile, and PC markets. Located in Orange County, California, and actively seek projects from publishers in addition to developing our own internal IPs.

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.

Game Pill creates interactive gaming projects with creativity and a personal touch, utilizing innovative technologies that enable an edge over the competition.

We are an experienced and driven group of digital creators, working alongside industry leading partners. 

Our talented team of artists, programmers, and designers strive to create the innovative gaming worlds of tomorrow. 

Based in Toronto, Canada, our teams are experienced, proudly international, and diverse.

The Gearbox Entertainment Company, LLC is an award-winning, creator and distributor of transmedia entertainment. Gearbox Entertainment has become widely known for successful game franchises, as well as acquired properties Duke Nukem and Homeworld, which it distributes across the world. Gearbox Entertainment is composed of four subsidiaries: Gearbox Software, Gearbox Publishing, Gearbox Studio, and Gearbox Properties.

GoodbyeWorld Games is a gamemaker collective based in Los Angeles. Their first commercial release was the award-winning Before Your Eyes. Among various accolades, it was a nominee at the 2021 Game Awards, the winner of IndieCade's Jury Prix and Unfold Games' Best Game Award, and was featured on numerous GOTY lists. 

Grumpy Pixel was founded in 2019 by three industry veterans each with more than 20 years of experience in games and game technologies. Previous and current clients include PlayEveryWare, Super77, and Primal Space Systems. 

Based in New York, iNK Stories is an innovation studio that creates cinematic, immersive and interactive narratives across screens. Creators of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, BLINDFOLD, Hero, & more.

Established in 1994, Insomniac Games is an independent video games studio best-known for creating a variety of original, critically acclaimed games spanning consoles, virtual reality, PC and mobile games. Located in Burbank, Calif. and Durham, NC., Insomniac is also highly regarded for its workplace culture, earning “great place to work” honors at the local, state and national level nearly 20 times since 2005. The studio is developing Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 (2018) and creating ongoing content for The Unspoken, the first VR eSports title of its kind.

Netmarble’s family of nearly 20 top game studios is hard at work making games that a global audience can enjoy. Netmarble has grown from publishing PC games to offering some of the top mobile games on the planet. The company is currently the #1 Korean Online Game Publisher, and on track to become the #1 Global Online Game Publisher.

Ninja Theory is an award-winning game development studio based in Cambridge, England, known for pushing the boundaries of technology, art and storytelling in videogames. Founded in 2004, Ninja Theory is best known for creating Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, DmC: Devil May Cry, Disney Infinity 3.0 and the self-published Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice for consoles and PC. Clients include Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft Games Studios, Capcom, Bandai Namco and Disney Interactive Studios. 

Obsidian Entertainment is a premier developer of role-playing games, best known for its rich storytelling, memorable characters, and emphasis on player choice and consequence. Since 2003, Obsidian has developed many critically-acclaimed, award-winning games, such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Pillars of Eternity. Obsidian is currently developing the team-based MMO tank game, Armored Warfare, and the free-to-play Pathfinder Adventures based on Paizo’s award-winning popular card game. For more information about Obsidian, visit us at www.obsidian.net.

PROBABLYMONSTERS is a family of games studios focused on Predictable Excellence. We create, nurture, and empower passionate teams to make extraordinary entertainment.

Proletariat is the Boston-based, award-winning, independent game developer of Spellbreak. The company’s mission is to create games that change the way communities play together.

Spellbreak is a multiplayer action-spellcasting game where players unleash their inner battlemage and wield two powerful magic gauntlets that blend devastating spell combinations to control the battlefield with fiery tornadoes, electrified gas clouds, and more! Set in the Hollow Lands, players can explore the map to find tactical advantages and discover hidden chests that contain magical runes that give new abilities, including flight, teleport, and invisibility.

Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports.  

As League enters its second decade, we’re continuing to evolve the game while delivering new experiences to players with Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and multiple work-in-progress titles. We’re also expanding the world of Runeterra through multimedia projects across music, comic books, board games, and the upcoming animated series Arcane. 

The annual League of Legends World Championship features qualified esports teams from 12 international leagues. Worlds is the most widely viewed and followed esport tournament, and it’s among the largest and most popular gaming and sporting events in the world. 

Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and led by CEO Nicolo Laurent, Riot is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 3,000+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide. We're certified as a Great Place to Work and we’ve been featured on numerous lists including Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” “25 Best Companies to Work in Technology,” “100 Best Workplaces for Millennials,” and “50 Best Workplaces for Flexibility.”

Romero Games is a multi-award-winning AAA game studio based in Galway, Ireland. We create AAA games and craft genres. Romero Games recently released Empire of Sin. Our team brings decades of experience to the table with significant leadership roles on games like  Wizardry, Dungeons & Dragons, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake, Watchdogs, and FarCry, Star Wars: The Old Republic and Magic: The Gathering. Our team has shipped over 200 titles individually and won as many awards, including multiple game of the year awards and even a BAFTA Special Award. 

Schell Games is the largest full-service educa­tional and enter­tain­ment game devel­op­ment company in the United States. Founded in 2002 by award-winning game designer and author Jesse Schell, the studio heralds a highly talented array of artists, program­mers, producers, and game designers. Schell Games creates highly engaging experiences for mobile, VR/AR, PC, console, handheld, online, and social; location-based entertainment and theme park attrac­tions; connected toys; and virtual worlds. The company counts some of the world’s most respected brands as clients, including The Walt Disney Company, Google, Facebook, Yale Univer­sity, SeaWorld Parks and Enter­tain­ment, and Fred Rogers Productions. For more infor­ma­tion on Schell Games, visit http://www.schellgames.com.

That’s No Moon is an independent AAA game development studio established in 2021 by veterans of some of the most recognizable and critically acclaimed creative teams in the world, including Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward, Santa Monica Studio, Bungie, PlayStation, and more. Based in Los Angeles and San Diego, That’s No Moon is creating the next generation of narrative-driven, genre-defining experiences built upon a culture of creativity, collaboration, responsible production practices, and individual empowerment. We are assembling a diverse team of passionate developers of a wide range of experience levels and backgrounds to help shape the future of our studio and projects. See all of our open positions and get in touch by visiting ThatsNoMoon.com.