# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-fish
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:25:11.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-fish"
name: "Phil Fish"
slug: "phil-fish"
description: "Philippe Poisson, better known as Phil Fish, is a Québécois former indie game designer best known for the 2012 platformer Fez. He was born and raised in Quebec, where his experiences with Nintendo games in his youth would later influence his game design. He studied game design at the Montreal National Animation and Design Centre, and worked at Ubisoft and Artificial Mind and Movement before starting Polytron in 2008."
tagline: "Quebecois indie video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Fish_at_GAMMA_3D_2008_(3069071319).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1984-11-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.38
  momentum:             2.153091265947007
  historical:           11.15624533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 156
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PHIL_FISH"
    handle:    "PHIL_FISH"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4623544/"
    handle:    "nm4623544"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2724774"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0933325b-eec8-4c7e-92a8-149800ff2705"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "فيل فيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "فيل فيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Fish"
    title: "Phil Fish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Fish"
    title: "Phil Fish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Fish"
    title: "Phil Fish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A9"
    title: "פיל פיש"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Fish"
    title: "Phil Fish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Fish"
    title: "Phil Fish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%88"
    title: "Фил Фиш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%88"
    title: "Філ Фіш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7181886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1052103"
    title: "Phil Fish"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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