Rasheed Abueideh is an award-winning Palestinian creative director and game designer. A father of five children living in Nablus, Palestine, Rasheed developed Liyla and The Shadows of War (2016) to shine a light on the plight of children in the 2014 Gaza War, receiving - along with other global recognition - the Excellence in Storytelling award at the International Mobile Game Awards. He is currently working on a new game focused on the events of the 1948 Nakba.

Cameron Kunzelman is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre at Mercer University where he directs the Communication Theory Research Lab. He has worked in academic game studies and the games press for more than a decade. His first book, The World is Born From Zero, is on the relationship between speculation and video games. His second book, out in 2025, is on the Assassin's Creed franchise. He creates cultural analysis podcasts for the Ranged Touch network.

Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin and she is a Co-PI at the ADAPT Research Centre for Digital Content Technology (2021-2026). Aphra has over twenty five years’ experience researching digital games as a cultural industry, a form of work and a part of everyday culture. She is the author of two monographs on digital games, most recently: Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy, Routledge, 2017. In 2021 she was elected into the Academy of Europe and in 2016 she received a Distinguished Scholar award from the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). Having studied games for so long you would think she would know better than to get involved in developing a game, but currently she is involved in a Creative Europe funded project that is doing just that.

Omar N'Shea's research focuses on the Assyrian Empire in the first millennium BCE, particularly on social and political history. He is a member of the scientific and organising committee of Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East, a collective of international researchers who meet every two years to discuss new methodologies for the study of gender in the ancient world. He is currently working on a monograph on eunuchs and castration as a bureaucratic strategy in the first empire in history. Another ongoing project is the biography of the 'lost' archaeological site of Bur Mgħeż, Malta. He is also preparing to translate Gilgamesh from Akkadian into Maltese. Omar holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Malta, where he is the Director of the International School for Foundation Studies. His essays on translating Gilgamesh into Maltese, on the site of Bur Mgħeż and on queer modernity in Malta, which have been published online and in Antoloġija 1 by Aphroconfuso this year.