Brenda Romero is a BAFTA award-winning game director, entrepreneur, artist and Fulbright award recipient and is presently studio director of Romero Games based in Galway, Ireland.

As a game director, she has worked on 50 games and contributed to many seminal titles, including the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series and titles in the Ghost Recon, Dungeons & Dragons and Def Jam franchises.

Away from the machine, her analog series of six games, The Mechanic is the Message, has drawn national and international acclaim.

John Romero is an award-winning programmer, game designer and level designer whose work spans over 130 games, 108 of which have been published commercially.

Romero is considered to be the "father of first person shooters" having led the design and contributed to the programming and audio design of the iconic and genre-defining games Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake, Heretic and Hexen.

Romero is also was also one of the earliest supporters of eSports and a professional-level DOOM and Quake player. To date, Romero has co-founded eight successful game companies. He is a completely self-taught programmer, designer and artist.

His memoir "DOOM Guy" was released in July 2022.