Tomas Rawlings

Vice President of Sumo Digital UK Sumo Digital

Dr. Tomas Rawlings is a Vice President at Sumo Digital. He was co-founder of game studio Auroch Digital which joined Sumo Group in Sept 2021. He is an experienced, award winning game designer who has worked both original titles (such as Mars Horizon) and well-loved IP such as Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and the multiple award winning Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land. He co-founded the online Digital Tabletop Fest event with Steam. He is a noted speaker on games/gaming who has worked with major organisations such as the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, UK Parliament & BBC. He created and ran Auroch Digital’s acclaimed news-gaming initiative GameTheNews.net which produced the global talking-point, Endgame:Syria (included in the V&A museum’s video games exhibition). He has a doctorate from the University of the West of England in Software Studies & co-founded the non-profit Bristol Games Hub.