# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-yu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:25:13.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-yu"
name: "Derek Yu"
slug: "derek-yu"
description: "Derek Yu is an American independent video game designer, video game artist, and blogger. Yu has designed and co-designed several award-winning games, most famously Spelunky, Aquaria, and Eternal Daughter. He is also notable as a blogger and custodian of the influential TIGSource blog/community about independent video games. He has been called an \"indie superstar\" and a \"genuine icon\" of the video game industry."
tagline: "Video game artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_yu_gdc2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             0.3126503126503128
  historical:           6.010517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mossmouth"
    handle:    "mossmouth"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/bossquibble/"
    handle:    "bossquibble"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/mossmouth"
    handle:    "mossmouth"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.derekyu.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/149d51fc-3c01-4d14-8344-3bb925cf16c5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "ديريك يو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Yu"
    title: "Derek Yu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Yu"
    title: "Derek Yu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Yu"
    title: "Derek Yu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Derek_Yu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3023787"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1069648"
    title: "Derek Hui Wang-Yu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump