Shay Pierce

Shay Pierce is a former member of the Team 5 Hearthstone design team, involved in prototype and coding work, and listed in the game's credits under "Additional Programming". The exact dates of his involvement are unknown, although his absence from early Team 5 listings suggests he left the project prior to March 2013. Pierce also features in a photograph of Team 5 from early 2009.

A "designer and coder of games", Pierce operates Deep Plaid Games, and is responsible for games such as Angry Henry And The Escape From The Helicopter Lords: Part 17: The Re-Reckoning and the upcoming Overland.