Jury

Dodick is a game designer and educator with over fifteen years of combined industry and academic experience. He co-founded GameChanger Studio in Indonesia in 2013, known for the My Lovely game series. He currently teaches game design at RMIT University Vietnam, bridging hands-on industry practice with the classroom.

SEAGamethetic writes The Southeast Asia Game Compendium, a Substack/blog collecting thoughts, essays, interviews, and reference links about video games from Southeast Asia. The project brings regional context and discovery across Southeast Asian developers, releases, and community stories to the jury.

Phê Game is a Hanoi-based Vietnamese gaming media team founded in 2018, known for game commentary, reviews, criticism, and video essays on YouTube. As one of Vietnam's leading game content channels, Phê Game brings a player-facing media perspective on craft, communication, and audience appeal.

Nguyễn Duy Hải is a comic artist, art instructor, and co-founder of PunkgaMe, a Vietnamese comics artist community working with Comicola Academy to strengthen professional training for local creators. His work brings a visual storytelling and IP-development lens across comics, animation, board games, digital games, and creative merchandise.

Hùng Vũ founded Ludo School, a Vietnamese space dedicated to supporting and celebrating games and interactive media. Ludo School publishes learning content, programs, and theory-led essays that connect game design with art, sound, cinema, literature, comics, and other creative practices for practitioners in Vietnam.

Founded in 2016, GameGeek positions itself as Vietnam's central gaming hub, connecting local studios, publishers, investors, and global partners. Its work spans business matching, investment connection, event organization, reports, and community initiatives, giving the jury a market-facing view of Vietnam's game ecosystem.

Hobby Horizon is Vietnam's first and largest creator-focused pop-culture festival, bringing together art, anime, cosplay, music, gaming, comics, VTubers, and creator communities. Its festival experience and gaming zones give the jury a broad audience-facing perspective on how games sit inside youth culture and fandom.

VietGame.Asia is a Vietnamese game media site covering game news, reviews, guides, hardware, esports, events, and free-game updates. The outlet focuses on licensed games and publisher-supported coverage, bringing the jury an editorial perspective on game quality, communication, and market fit.

GameMeRR, also known as Gêm Mờ, is a Vietnamese gaming creator channel covering gameplay, commentary, and community videos across YouTube and Facebook. The channel brings an independent creator perspective to the jury, focused on how games feel in play and how strongly they connect with local audiences.