Award Categories
Champion of the Player
How are they advocating for the player?
Who?
This person not only advocates for the player but also brings the development team with them to become active advocates in the player experience. Whether it’s through community engagement in the forums, connecting with the community and support teams, and/or hosting sessions with the team around them – this quality professional has a passion for championing our players.
How are they:
- working with the community to find out the player perspective?
- considering varied perspectives among the community and including that as a measure of quality?
- bringing the team along with them to understand the player?
- showing the player that they care?
What stories do the players or coworkers have to show the nominee’s advocacy?
What was the impact or result of the nominee’s actions?
Elite Quality Squad
How are they advocating for each other, the player, the process, and/or the industry?
Who?
These folks are a first-class team composed of quality professionals seeking to improve the lives of those on the team around them. They have an infectious ability to boost the groups in proximity to them. They seek to strengthen those on the direct team as well as influence and advocate for those around them. They are not just open to new perspectives but actively seek them to improve their own operations.
How are they:
- practicing and innovating their quality practice as a team that makes them world-class?
- bringing each other along – not just in pushing for excellence but also bolstering and supporting each other in quality practice?
- seeking to improve their perspectives, representation, and technical practice of quality for the player?
- showing the player that they care?
What stories do the players or coworkers have to show the team’s advocacy?
What was the impact or result of the nominee’s actions?
Hero Class Leader
How are they growing the next generation of quality professionals through excellent practice of both quality leadership and human leadership?
Who?
This person is both an excellent coach and mentor. They are capable of growing the process and people around them to continuously improve. This person inspires others around them to achieve their goals and push forward to new horizons and humans and quality professionals. This person isn’t just a leader, they are a hero class leader – exercising courage, compassion, resilience, adaptability, and an outstanding perspective of quality.
How are they:
- guiding others into not just succeeding but exceeding in their skills and goals for the future?
- planning for and growing the next generation of quality professionals to be and do better?
- approaching quality leadership and human leadership and inspiring those around them?
- continuing to gain perspectives and tools to inspire themselves on their hero’s journey?
What stories do the players or coworkers have to show the nominee’s advocacy?
What was the impact or result of the nominees’ actions?
Innomaker
How are they making/creating tooling, code, processes, content that expands the boundaries of quality professionals?
Who?
This person doesn’t just seek to think about improvement they strive to make. This person is improving the quality profession in games by creating tooling, code, processes, content or more to benefit their team and the player. This person influences others to become a maker and creator too.
How are they:
- creating something that improves the lives of their team or their players? Examples: code, processes, tooling, content
- improving how the game is made, published, serviced or sustained?
- approaching the quality profession and influencing others around them to make/forge/create?
What stories do the players or coworkers have to show the nominee’s advocacy?
What was the impact or result of the nominees’ actions?
Trailblazer of Quality
How are they advocating for game quality in the Industry?
Who?
This person not only advocates for the quality profession within their team but also looks to electrify quality in the industry through the growth of HOW we understand and approach quality. They are actively seeking diverse perspectives as key parts of how we as a profession grow. They don’t just want to keep the profession the same, they know through trailblazing, we become better.
How are they:
- seeking new perspectives and including those perspectives as the new standard for how we communicate quality?
- not just showing but also broadcasting what quality professionals do using technology, new perspectives, and exploration of how quality can be measured, communicated, and achieved?
- promoting innovation in the quality profession to newcomers and veterans to games?
- turning those folks into allies and advocates?
What stories do the players or coworkers have to show the nominee’s advocacy?
What was the impact or result of the nominees’ actions?
Voice of Games Quality
How are they advocating for other game quality folks?
Who?
This person seeks to improve the quality of the quality profession in games. They use their curiosity, compassion, network, and knowledge to advance quality as a career in games. They are improving the thought and practical processes of how we measure, communicate, and advocate for quality by being a voice for all quality professionals in games.
How are they:
- advocating for other game quality professionals and advancing the career of quality in games?
- seeking to expand the understanding of quality in games through amplifying diverse voices and processes?
- promoting the quality profession as a career to newcomers and veterans to games? How are they turning those folks into allies and advocates?
What stories do the players or coworkers have to show the nominee’s advocacy?
What was the impact or result of the nominees’ actions?
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