EDP Winner 2022

WINNER OF THE 2022
DIANA JONES EMERGING DESIGNER PROGRAM

The Diana Jones Award Committee is pleased to announce our 2022 Emerging Designer Program Winner is momatoes! As our Emerging Designer, she’ll receive an expenses-paid trip to Gen Con.

momatoes

Twitter: @momatoes
Website: momatoes.com
Games: momatoes.itch.io

momatoes — also known in real life as Bianca Canoza — is an auteur tabletop game and visual designer from the explosive Southeast Asian RPG scene. She wrote, designed, illustrated, and laid out ARC: Doom, hailed as one of the best indie tabletop RPGs in 2021, as well as The Magus, a journaling game about desperate, mystical ambition. Her works have been celebrated for inspiring creative play and emotional resonance and have been translated into Italian, Japanese, French, as well as Polish. 

momatoes’ passions are rooted in positive impact and multimedia, interactive and narrative design. She built and maintains the Across RPGSEA website, connecting and promoting indie works by Southeast Asians, and establishing a living archive of works of a creative people amid a rapidly-moving industry. 

EMERGING DESIGNER PROGRAM FINALISTS

The committee would also like to congratulate our excellent finalists:

  • Fertessa Allyse
  • Nick Butler
  • Miguel Angel Espinoza
  • Julio E. Nazario
  • Sara Thompson

For more information about our finalists, see the 2022 Emerging Designer Program Finalists page.

SPONSORS

We’d like to thank the program’s key sponsor for this year, Gen Con LLC.

Other sponsors of the Emerging Designer Program are:

  • 2CGaming
  • Camdon Wright
  • David Chart
  • Geoffrey Engelstein
  • Magpie Games
  • Monte Cook Games
  • Noble Knight Games
  • R. Talsorian Games
  • Renegade Games
  • RPG Creators Relief Fund

ABOUT THE EMERGING DESIGNER PROGRAM

This program of the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming amplifies the voices of up-and-coming hobby game designers, with a focus on creators from marginalized communities, by featuring them during an expenses-paid trip to Gen Con. Its inaugural year was 2021, when Jeeyon Shim was our first Diana Jones Emerging Designer.

For more information about our previous winners and finalists, see the 2021 Emerging Designer page.

CONTACTS

Questions? Please reach out to the program’s coordinators at edp@dianajonesaward.org. To contact the Diana Jones Award Committee, email committee@dianajonesaward.org.