The Most Famous
GAME DESIGNERS from Israel
This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Game Designers. The pantheon dataset contains 77 Game Designers, 1 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 10th most number of Game Designers behind Russia, and Monaco.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Game Designers of all time. This list of famous Israeli Game Designers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Neil Druckmann (b. 1978)
With an HPI of 39.83, Neil Druckmann is the most famous Israeli Game Designer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Neil Druckmann (Hebrew: ניל דרוקמן; born December 5, 1978) is an Israeli–American writer, creative director, designer, and programmer. He is the studio head and head of creative of the video game developer Naughty Dog, and is best known for his work on the game franchises Uncharted and The Last of Us, having co-created the latter. Druckmann's first video game work came as an intern at Naughty Dog. In 2004, he became a programmer on Jak 3 (2004) and Jak X: Combat Racing (2005), before becoming a designer for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007). He was co-lead game designer for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009), which he co-wrote with Amy Hennig and Josh Scherr; the narrative was praised and received several accolades. He has also written comics, including the motion comic Uncharted: Eye of Indra (2009) and the graphic novels A Second Chance at Sarah (2010) and The Last of Us: American Dreams (2013). Druckmann co-led the development of The Last of Us (2013) as writer and creative director, roles he continued for The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014) and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016), co-writing the latter with Scherr. Druckmann co-created and wrote the television adaptation of The Last of Us with Craig Mazin, and directed several episodes. He was promoted to vice president of Naughty Dog in 2018 during the development of The Last of Us Part II (2020), for which he was creative director and co-writer with Halley Gross. He became co-president in 2020, head of creative in 2023, and studio head in 2024. He is the director and writer of the upcoming game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. He earned praise for his writing and directing work on The Last of Us, Uncharted 4, and The Last of Us Part II, which are often regarded among the best written and greatest video games ever made. Druckmann has received several awards, including three British Academy Games Awards, four D.I.C.E. Awards, two Game Awards, three Game Developers Choice Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Israeli game designers born between 1978 and 1978. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Israeli game designers include Neil Druckmann.
