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.