Celia Pearce (born September 6, 1961) is an American game designer currently teaching at Northeastern University in the College of Arts Media and Design. She is a co-founder and current Festival Chair of IndieCade, an international festival of independent games, co-founder of Ludica women’s game collective, as well as founder of the Playable Theare Project. She is currently a professor at Northeastern University and occasionally talks and shows games at art and game events such as Different Games and Incubate Arcade.

Before working in game design starting in the 1980s, Pearce designed theme park and museum attractions making "location-based entertainment. Pearce previously held a position at the Georgia Institute of Technology as Head of the Experimental Game Lab and Emergent Game Group. In 2018, Pearce worked on a summer residency at Blast Theory. She was an artist in residence at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Game Lab in 2015.

Pearce's work focuses on the creation and moderation of virtual worlds and networks as well as covers topics such as cosplay, role-playing, and gender representation in video games. In her profession, Pearce has also worked with other game designers such as Tracy Fullerton, Will Wright, and Eric Zimmerman.

A set of trading cards to extend the Rockett's World and Secret Paths CD-ROM game from Purple Moon, a girl gaming company founded by Brenda Laurel.