Alistair Aitcheson
Games & Playful Technology
Award-winning game developer, creating and self-publishing games as an independent studio since 2010.
He has developed several games from concept to finished product, and brought them to market. These include games published on the Apple App Store, and alternative-controller games installed in museums and rented out for public events.
Between 2013 and 2025 Alistair was the games expert for Sparx Learning, the UK's leading digital Maths learning platform, serving over 2200 schools. There he developed the front-end learning games that form part of the product. He also designed and realised numerous experimental products and prototypes for their Discovery R&D team.
He has a wide range of programming skills in both high-level and low-level languages. Whether expanding classic game emulators with ultra-modern features or developing wireless stage props with ESP-32 microcontrollers, he brings creative approaches to any challenge.
Alistair has received numerous awards and nominations at international festivals including IndieCade in Los Angeles, PLAY Hamburg, A MAZE Berlin and Game Developer's Conference
His body of work includes playable stage shows, where audiences use their phones to connect to his custom-built web software and contribute to the show. As host he draws on several years of theatre clown training and has developed a reputation as a fearlessly creative performer who gets everyone joining in.
Alistair develops alternative-controller games from real-world objects including paper shredders and barcode scanners. Using pysicality as well as technology they get large groups of people co-operating together, or allow individual players to explore difficult subject matter including grief and loss.
A leading designer in this field, he was selected to host the IndieCade Games Festival's Alternative Controller livestream show throughout its three-year run.
To find out more about the work Alistair has created take a look at his portfolio.
To find out more about the range of technical and design skills Alistair could bring to your project, take a look at the the skills page.