Countless games have become iconic through their music alone, from Super Mario to Halo to Final Fantasy to Castlevania. There are many parts to a video game, but one of the most important is often the music that accompanies it. They are also hiring, giving young Irish developers a chance to work in the They are currently developing a sequel to their flagship title and another game based on a ‘phenomenal’ IP. Having received venture capital earlier this decade, DIGIT went on to create Kings of the Realm, a free-to-play mobile title that made the company profitable and ‘one of Ireland’s fastest growing companies’ in 2016. Meanwhile, with Games Ireland he leads a not-for-profit organization that seeks to develop the games industry in Ireland.Īnother board member of Games Ireland, Barnwell is the founder of DIGIT games, a Dublin-based development company that claims to be Ireland’s biggest developer. (To illustrate just how successful Riot Games are, in 2011 a majority stake in the company was acquired for $231m.) While Riot are a US company, they have European headquarters in Dublin and Breslin leads the team.
For his ‘day job’, Breslin heads up Riot Games Europe, makers of League of Legends, one the most successful and profitable games in the world.
One of the board members of Games Ireland, Breslin is one of Ireland’s highest profile managing directors in the gaming industry. Few developers in the world have had such a wide-ranging effect on the industry. Havok implements ‘physics’ into games (like character’ragdolling’) and in recent years alone it has been licenced in Zelda Breath of the Wild, Dark Souls III, Bloodborne and Civilization VI. Since Collins and Reynolds first founded the company, Havok has been acquired by Intel for E76m and then by Microsoft two years ago. Collins is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Graphics in the Department of Computer Science in Trinity College, but his real influence on the Irish gaming landscape came with the founding of video game physics company Havok. While it has been a while since either Steven Collins or fellow Havok co-founder Hugh Reynolds have made headlines, they still deserve a place on this list.
His games have received numerous independent developer awards. Cavanagh is the equivalent of talented filmmaker who chooses to shoot with a smartphone, yet still manages to turn out brilliant gaming experiences. Creator of minimalistic classics like VVVVV and Super Hexagon,Ĭavanagh is on record as saying the smaller nature of those games allow the personality of the developer to really shine through.
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This year alone she won a Bafta awards in recognition of her ‘creative contribution to the industry’ and Development Legend award at Develop Brighton.Īs far as honest-to-goodness, born in the code developers go, Monaghan man Terry Cavanagh is probably the most talented developer on this list. Brenda works for the University of Limerick, where she is program director of the MsC in Game Design and Development. Romero is an American, but she and her equally famous developer husband John Romero have set up shop in the west of Ireland and are practically honourary Irish developers now. This entry is the journalistic equivalent of the Konami code – it’s cheating a little. Murray and his game will be in the headlines for years to come, making him Ireland’s highest profile developer ever. Now a year since release, No Man’s Sky has received three major updates that have improved the game exponentially. While No Man’s Sky won many fans and sold millions, it also created an extremely vocal backlash among both critics and players. No Man’s Sky promised to be an open-world space exploration game with many features – unfortunately for Murray and the team, some of those promises didn’t make it into the final game. Murray is the creator of No Man’s Sky, one of the most hyped (and subsequently vilified) games of the modern era. If this list is about influential Irish games personalities, then Corkman Sean Murray needs to be on it.
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