Dan Pinchbeck

Dan joined Sumo in 2018, following the acquisition of The Chinese Room. As Studio Head and Creative Director of The Chinese Room, he led the development of the internationally award-winning titles Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and So Let Us Melt.

Dan’s experience spans game design, writing and production and he is widely credited for pioneering the ‘walking simulator’ genre of gaming. He’s passionate about first-person games, and this even extends to him having a PhD in First Person Shooters. His role at Sumo will see him oversee the creative evolution of The Chinese Room into new areas of game development for the studio, building on its reputation as one of the most innovative and exciting studios in the UK