Meet The Judges

  • Mat Annal of Nitrome

    Mat Annal is the Managing Director and co-founder of Nitrome Ltd, a games development studio based in London, UK. Nitrome builds free web games in Flash and have licensed them to a variety of clients including Miniclip, MTV and Wrigleys Candystand. Nitrome prides itself on creating games that are fresh and different and with high production values not usually associated with free web games. Nitrome's games get millions of plays each week, and they have had many hit titles including: Skywire, Toxic, Headcase and the Hot Air series. They now have a total of 26 games and counting since the release of their first game in late 2005. In addition to building the games, they also maintain their own website Nitrome.com on which all of the games can be found.

  • Justin Poel of N3wton

    Justin Poel is the creator of N3wton, a winner in the recent MochiAds Flash Game Contest. He is a Mechanical Engineering Major at Western Michigan University. He has been using Flash for about 3 years and is completely self-taught. Flash is a hobby for him, and is something he enjoys doing very much. He plays a lot of videogames in his spare time, and is currently playing Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Super Mario Galaxy, and Bioshock. Outside of games he enjoys golfing, airsoft, and traveling.

  • Derek Liu of Gaia Online

    Derek Liu is the creator and founder of Gaia Online, an online community for teens.

  • Shu Wan Cheng of Witch Hunt

    Xi Hui Ng and Shu Wan Cheng of Nob Studio were recently winners in our MochiAds contest for their game Witch Hunt: Nooboo Mary. Games they have created collectively also include Book of Mages, Against the Dead, and Nobbie River. Shu Wan currently lives in Singapore and graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic, Digital Media Design, and specialized in Game Design. He is currently working in the course he graduated from as Development Technologist, guiding students on their game projects. He has been using Flash for more than 5 years and enjoys coming up with new ideas for games, creating graphics and sometimes, scripting for games. As a game artist, he prefer games with attractive graphics.

  • Xi Hui of Witch Hunt

    Xi Hui Ng and Shu Wan Cheng of Nob Studio were recently winners in our MochiAds contest for their game Witch Hunt: Nooboo Mary. Games they have created collectively also include Book of Mages, Against the Dead, and Nobbie River. Xi Hui aka blu3bird has been using Flash since it was version 4, and enjoys playing and creating games which are unique and fun. He handles the coding for Nob Studio's games, due to his programmer's art standard. Currently he is an undergraduate major in Computer Science (Multimedia & Games Development) and works on building Nob Studio in his spare time. Prior to this, he worked as an interactive flash developer for a CD-ROM publisher and then went into web development.

  • Jón Kristinsson of Rigby

    I am a free-time artist and game developer, who has currently only worked on one finished game, Rigby. Even though I consider working more on game development I still focus mainly on animation and movie-making. I started about a year and half ago working with Flash games under the one-man “team” Part-Time Games.