The most popular Head Gamemakers in Panem include Seneca Crane (74th Hunger Games), Plutarch Heavensbee (75th Hunger Games), and Dr. Volumnia Gaul, who was the Head Gamemaker of the 10th Hunger Games.
Duties of a Gamemaker
Designing the Hunger Games Arena
The Gamemakers in the Hunger Games have several duties to fulfill, including designing and building the arena from scratch every single year. The Gamemakers sit in the control room and decide what the arena will look like, how big it will be, what the weather will be like, and what kind of terrain will cover the area. They also decide what supplies the Cornucopia will provide each year.
Gamemakers are in charge of controlling the environment within the arena. They have the most advanced technology by which they can include diverse environmental elements at the click of a button. They can introduce trees, lakes, animals and even induce environmental disasters such as forest fires or floods. The Gamemakers can also control what time of the day it is and can control the manner in which a tribute behaves by introducing wild cards into the arena.
Surveillance and Muttations
Gamemakers are tasked with the responsibility of surveillance over the entire arena. This is because it is necessary for the Capitol and the audience to know where a tribute is and what they are doing at all times. Thus, Gamemakers install cameras in every nook and cranny of the arena so that there are eyes on the tributes at all times. This also greatly helps with televising the Games to the rest of the nation.
Gamemakers also keep count of the tributes who die in the arena. At the end of each day, they show the faces of the dead tributes along with their district number while sounding a canon to signify their deaths.
Gamemakers often develop muttations to introduce into the arena. These mutts can either be developed before the Games begin, such as the Jabberjays that were a part of the Third Quarter Quell, or they can be developed in the middle of the Games. A good example of this is the wolf mutts that appear at the end of the 74th Hunger Games. These mutts strangely seem to possess the eyes of the tributes who passed away and were most likely developed after their deaths.
Training Scores and Entertainment
The Gamemakers also have several duties to fulfill before the Games begin. For instance, they are in charge of reviewing the tributes’ skills and providing them with a training score.
The ultimate duty of the Gamemakers, however, is to keep the audience at the Capitol entertained. Since viewership would be greatly affected by dull and boring Games, the Head Gamemaker’s life depends upon how entertaining they can make the Games. The bloodier and gorier the Games are, the more fame and reputation that a Gamemaker wins.
Head Gamemakers
Head Gamemakers are in charge of designing and organizing the Hunger Games each year. They have an immense responsibility on their shoulders to ensure that the Games take place smoothly without a glitch. A good year of the Games, with lots of blood, gore, and entertainment, can bring the Head Gamemaker fame and reputation. On the other hand, even a small mistake can cost them their lives.
Known Gamemakers
Seneca Crane
Seneca Crane was the Head Gamemaker in the 74th Hunger Games. He had a much more prominent role in the Hunger Games film than he did in the novel. Due to his mistake of letting Katniss and Peeta remain alive at the end of the Games, it is implied that he was hanged (in the novel). In the film, however, he is locked up in a room with poisonous Nightlock Berries, which he was presumably forced to consume.
Plutarch Heavensbee
Plutarch took over the position of Head Gamemaker after Seneca Crane. He helped design the arena for the Third Quarter Quell. However, Plutarch was a rebel in secret, maneuvering the Games in Katniss’ favor. Once the Second Rebellion began, Plutarch became one of the leaders of the Rebellion and provided the rebels with useful information on President Snow and the Capitol.
Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Dr. Volumnia Gaul was the Head Gamemaker in the 10th Hunger Games when the Games were still in the developmental stages. She wanted to make the Games more interesting and to involve the citizens in them. To do this, she elicited the help of the mentors (i.e., the students of the Academy) by roping them into a school project with her.
Lucia
Lucia is a Gamemaker in the 74th Hunger Games. She appears only in the film and not in the novel. She is shown to be the one who created the wolf mutts that killed Thresh and chased Katniss, Peeta, and Cato.
Coriolanus Snow
Coriolanus Snow, who was part of the mentor program introduced during the 10th Hunger Games, became an apprentice Gamemaker after the 10th Hunger Games. He rose the ranks very quickly by introducing several new innovations, such as rewards for the Victors and the concept of the Victors’ Villages.
FAQs
Who created the Games in ‘The Hunger Games’?
The Games in ‘The Hunger Games’ were created by Casca Highbottom, the Dean of the Academy, and Crassus Snow, Coriolanus Snow’s father. The two of them came up with the brutal and morbid idea for a school project, which was later implemented to punish the districts for the First Rebellion.
Who was the Head Gamemaker in the first Hunger Games?
The Head Gamemaker in the first-ever Hunger Games is unknown. The Head Gamemaker in the 74th Hunger Games was Seneca Crane. He was in charge of coordinating the Games, organizing gameplay, and entertaining viewers by introducing obstacles into the arena. He was killed for his mistake in the end by locking him in a room with a bowl of nightlock poison berries.
Who played the Gamemakers in ‘The Hunger Games’?
Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker for the 74th Hunger Games was played by Wes Bentley, while Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. The cast of ‘The Hunger Games’ included Donald Sutherland, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth.
Who is the Gamemaker in the Hunger Games?
The Gamemaker in the Hunger Games is responsible for the gameplay in the Hunger Games. They are responsible for creating the arena for the yearly Games, as well as deciding the rules of the Games.
Who is the Gamemaker in the Hunger Games?
The Gamemaker in the Hunger Games is responsible for the gameplay in the Hunger Games. They are responsible for creating the arena for the yearly Games, as well as deciding the rules of the Games. The Gamemakers in the 74th Hunger Games ignore Katniss for the most part when she comes in to get her training score because she is the last tribute to come in, and they have already gotten bored and tired of judging the tributes’ skills.
Why did Seneca Crane die?
Instead of killing Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark for their trick with the berries, Seneca Crane not only allowed them to live but also crowned them as Victors of the 74th Hunger Games. It is for this mistake that Seneca Crane was tortured and killed by President Snow.