3: The tron - esque game made recently, can't find it straight away, but very visually appealing and nice tank physics
I think you mean MadJack's Tank Universal?
looks very impressive, I'm a Never Winter Nights fan, been playing fable on my xbox and this looks very similar. Nice eye candy.
It looks great, but I thought you wanted the top 10 game creators. It's not even at playable demo stage, let alone finished. Surely the main qualification of a top ten creator would be finishing at least one game? Quality over quantity, sure, but I don't think you can call someone a top ten game developer until they've finished developing at least one game.
Anthony Flack would have to be in there for me, because Platypus has been successful on a variety of platforms.
The guy who created the Magic Knight remake ( was it Knight Tyme or Stormbringer? I always get the titles confused. ) I think it was Rockford who wrote it anyway. Awesome conversion of an amazing game anyway.
And what about The Caffeine Kid? He did some very cool remakes too. I think people underestimate remakes. They may be easier in terms of not needing a design document, but I also think it's much harder to stick religiously to the way a game works when it might not be immediately apparent how it does work.