Paladin Maar 🌌 🔜 SLICE & PAX West #AH19 @paladinmaar.bsky.social
| Freelance Concept Artist & Creature Designer 🖌️🎨|
| Thoughtweaver| Void/Stasis Hunter main |
| Teams are better than heroes|
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
Ireland.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb
Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
Dr Ryland Grace ( a book character ) @drrylandgrace.bsky.social ... Hurtling through space on a tiny dot , eager to puzzle out - and conquer -extinction-level threats ... SARS-CoV-2 updates. Will block accounts with few/no posts and anything that seems like a 🤖. #CovidAware #N95. #ClimateChangeIsHappeningNow
Seattle Indies @seattleindies.bsky.social Seattle Indies non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a vibrant community of independent game developers in the Seattle, WA and Puget Sound area. https://linktr.ee/seattleindies
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp uvula.jp
blender bitch | making a karate-kid like beat 'em up 💢 @luluuland.bsky.social Luiza Diniz
Senior game artist and co-founder at @ragdollfrog.bsky.social |
IGDA F Next Gen Leader | prev: senior 3D artist at Timberline Studio
https://linktr.ee/luluu_land
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Scott Hartsman @hartsman.bsky.social Shipping talks, bullshit walks. I've worked on a ton of MMOs and other online games. Mostly helping games startups these days. Also, corgis. Specifically, one large, lazy one in particular.
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Work With Indies @workwithindies.com A kind job board and inclusive community supporting careers in #indiegames.
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Snowbright Studio @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social Creators of Cozy Companion and Grim Omen magazine plus a heartwarming games for people of all ages and backgrounds
https://linktr.ee/SnowbrightStudio
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
@djedery.bsky.social @djedery.bsky.social 
Allen Varney @bundleofholding.com Writer and game designer (PARANOIA XP, Mongoose Publishing 2004). I operate the Bundle of Holding (bundleofholding.com). allenvarney(at)Gmail.
Emily C Taylor @pentapod.bsky.social Game designer in Edmonton, formerly EverQuest2 “Domino”, formerly BioWare, now Spry Fox. Mostly I share cat photos, Edmonton stuff, food, pottery, covid info, & other nerdy randomness including reading, SciFi, mycology. Also found at @pentapod@mstdn.ca.
Spry Fox @spryfox.bsky.social makers of Cozy Grove, Triple Town, Alphabear and now Spirit Crossing, a cozy social MMO.
+ join the public playtest on Steam for free TODAY! 🧡
✨ http://s.team/a/2321960
read our developer blogs!
🦊 spryfox.com
Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com Brightening your day with uplifting, thoughtful, compassionate, and cozy games.
wholesomegames.com
Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social he\him, also a Dad
AD @ Spry Fox on Spirit Crossing
Open playtest: s.team/a/2321960
Black Trans Lives Matter
WSDOT Traffic @traffic.wsdot.wa.gov Official WSDOT Bluesky account for traffic in King & Snohomish counties, including Seattle. Monitored 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon-Fri. Call 911 to report road hazards.
WSDOT @wsdot.wa.gov Official Washington State Department of Transportation Bluesky account. For road hazards and emergencies, please call 911.
bkomei @bkomei.bsky.social ryse. they/them. concept artist and illustrator. artist of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.
https://www.patreon.com/bkomei
I post commissions and personal art on this account!
Liam Philiben @liamphiliben.bsky.social game dev, ex-dilettante | working on something new :)
Borut Pfeifer @borut.bsky.social Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/Neighborhoods/
Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...
Artis Impact @artis-impact.bsky.social 👾 A Story-driven RPG game about Akane's journey
✨ Crafted in RPGMaker MV
Presskit: https://impress.games/press-kit/gentle-mars/artis-impact--1
Steam：https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864000/Artis_Impact/ 
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Yսsk Stᴏ @yusk.bsky.social SWE at Gᴏᴏglе DееpMind. Based in Califᴏrnia. Likes/RPs ≠ endorsements. Opinions are my own. 投稿内容は当然ながら雇用主等とは一切関係ない個人的な意見.
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Armagaren @armagaren.bsky.social Just a dude on the internet trying to look at cool art and share with friends.
www.shinegoldphoto.com
he/him | Software dev | Amateur photographer: landscapes/street/abstract/nature subjects
JINORU @jinoru.bsky.social Computer freak, IT pro, history enthusiast, software developer, writer, dabbler
Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social Burned out. Nectar Vector next. Before: Game Director + Lead Designer on Pacific Drive, Designer on Bioshock Infinite, various Don't Starve things, and Mafia 3. Liked Movie. Boston area. he/him
UW Cherry Blossoms @uwcherryblossom.bsky.social Photosynthesizer, tree hugger, ubiquitous selfie backdrop, pretty in pink, signaler of spring at the University of Washington since the 1960s.
Daveed Benjamin @shiftshapr.blacksky.app Founder of the Meta-Layer Infrastructure SIG, author of "The Metaweb: The Next Level of the Internet" and "Pacha's Pajamas", inventor, patent holder X 2.
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Trans News Network @transnews.network Trans News Network (TNN) is a worker-run nonprofit LGBTQ+ newsroom publishing articles that impact trans communities.
Follow our work and socials: https://transnews.network/bio
Our writers: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/transnews.network/3luvqfz7loz2d
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social Contains multitudes.
Author of Radical Focus and many more.
Lecturer at Stanford.
Often somewhere with a beach and ruins.
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social 
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Veronica 💫 @vronirwin.bsky.social Senior AI Policy Reporter at Transformer. Previous: Unchained, Forbes, Protocol, SF Examiner. Freelance: Fast Company, The Frisc, The Nation, etc. Views my own. rt =/= endorsement
Shakeel @shakeelhashim.com Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London.
https://transformernews.ai
Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01 https://www.transformernews.ai/
Jen Strongin @jensseattle.bsky.social Photographer, Naturalist, Nature Nerd- Based in the Beautiful PNW
www.jenstronginphotography.com
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov Congresswoman, lifelong organizer, mom. Proudly serving WA-7. Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Member of Judiciary Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Budget Committee. She/her.
Washington State Democrats @wadems.org We are the Washington State Democrats!
https://linktr.ee/wademocrats
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org Sciency videos made with love, a lot of time and after effects.
Links to our videos, shop, website & more: linktr.ee/kurzgesagt
Nightshift – kurzgesagt After Dark @nightshift-kgs.bsky.social Weird, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling history stories. 🌚
Made by @kurzgesagt.org
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Bex @bexsaltsman.bsky.social CEO + co-founder of FinjiCo. 
Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT Patreon: patreon.com/expzine
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social maker of video game documentaries @noclip, alternative game coverage @noclip_2, selling out with style @SecretTape and F1 chat @shiftf1podcast. Irishman inside an American.
Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org Made ICONOCLASTS Switch/PC/PS4/Vita/Xbox -- ✉ mr.noitu at gmail ✉ -- (he/him) -- 💍❤ @tupelohoney.bsky.social
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
Jay Ma @jarmustard.bsky.social ・Reposts of game dev and art・
・Cofounder of Subset Games・
・she/her・
・京都・
ＳＵＤＤＥＮ・ＤＥＳＵ @sudden-desu.net レトロゲームを逆アセンブルして調査。メガCD開発キットMEGADEVを作成した。
Retro game disassemblies/research and Megadev, a Mega CD SDK. Occasional posts about life in Japan.
🔗 https://sudden-desu.net
🎉 https://patreon.com/SUDDENDESU
jake rodkin @rodkin.online Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
🐘 idlethumbs.social/@ja2ke
🕸️ rodkin.online
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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at GameDeveloper.com, Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, BJJ Purple Belt 🤼♀️, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork, volunteer EMT. She/her.
🎴 高 | irene koh 🎴 @koh.money 🌽 Professional comic artist & illustrator, from Korra & Overwatch comics to Fortnite loading screens. PGG Xrd TO 【imouto】, vtuber. 日本語も一応🆗
#Rev2Forev2
🎴 http://koh.money
🪽 https://angelarcade.net
🎁 http://patreon.com/koh
📺 http://twitch.tv/kohquette
Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social long-haired fgc sage, lowkey shinobi, @koh.money's trophy husbando. love your life, be good to one another, and play guilty gear. he/him. 🇵🇭
RIP Bearcade.
patrickmiller.ninja
pgg.events
playguiltygear.com
patreon.com/pattheflip
Chris Baker @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social Writer and editor in the Bay Area. Codex & SFWA. https://linktr.ee/popculturalprecursors
@clicknothing.bsky.social @clicknothing.bsky.social Creator, designer, writer of some videogames you may have played. I (still) (occasionally) blog at www.clicknothing.com. I am also the creator of Mythmaster RPG - available now at www.mythmasterRPG.com Follow @mythmasterRPG.bsky.social, or come and play!
Harris Foster @harris.zone Community Strategist - @devolverdigital.com | Award-losing video games Comms Manager | G4TV commercial contest winner, 2004ish | Name frequently misspelled for comedic effect. (he/him) | Austin, TX
a stinky ox 🐂 @stinkyox.bsky.social I am an ox that makes games and lightsynths. Recreational shepherd.
🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social Bonjour !
Animator, illustrator, director (sometimes) making animals as bouncy as possible ❤️
Safe space 💙 Be friendly and respect eachothers 🙏
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Chris Pruett @cpruett.bsky.social Director of Games @meta. Thirty years of game dev, incl. Dead Secret, Wind-up Knight, and sick Hypercard stacks. I am a walking encyclopedia of horror games.
Personasama @persona.bsky.social Jonathan Kim. Worked on Scott Pilgrim EX & Penny’s Big Breakaway. Animator on Skullgirls, Indivisible, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge & 1st Scott Pilgrim game.
Art feed: #✏️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:755iakaobnmfqlbdoyojat5s/feed/aaait2rkf73ko
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space 📛ask me about boku no natsuyasumi
Game making: @bipedal.dog
BUY BLAST RUSH LS! https://bipedal.dog/works/bls
Pod casting: https://nomorewhoppers.com https://drawgamepod.com
Former 1UP/Retronauts
https://rdbaaa.space for more fun
Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social Game Designer, speaker, presenter. Host @onelifeleft.com and @singmaraoke.bsky.social. Once investigated by the ICC for playing Pokémon Go at The Oval. Currently working on Mindset 🟨🔺🔵.
VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social Hi! I talk about video games (History, illustrations, graphic design, cancelled games, sales figures, etc.)
By @domauffret.bsky.social
http://vgdensetsu.net/
https://www.patreon.com/vgdensetsu
Vincent Diamante ♫ @vincentdiamante.bsky.social Music & Sound & Some Programming.
Worked on some games. A bit of anime too.
Decent pianist. Half-decent EWIist.
Game journalist and photographer in another life.
He/Him
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
tim rogers @108.bsky.social youtube.com/actionbutton
twitch.tv/actionbutton
discord.gg/actionbutton
Omar @ocornut.bsky.social programmer of things and stuff. dear imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui / the dragon’s trap / dreams / tearaway / pixeljunk shooter / soul bubbles / meka. Paris, France https://www.miracleworld.net
Mark DeLoura @markdeloura.bsky.social A CTO in Seattle | Former Obama WH | Gamedev | EdTech | Frenchies
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social http://discord.gg/tYfHgXc
Co-creator: Fable 1 & 2, Dungeon Keeper & Druid.
Creator: Incoboto, Spellrazor & Moonring
Music: http://madrayken.bandcamp.com
Writer on Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, West of Dead, The Horns, OG Fable 1 & 2
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com Trailer editor for games including Demonschool, Nuclear Throne, Loathing series, Battle Suit Aces, Ridiculous Fishing EX, Goodbye Volcano High, GNOG. "Nifty" - Roger Ebert.
duncanrobson.com
Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social He/him
Brewing new videogame(s)
Host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Co-founder @furnimatgames.bsky.social
Ex-Director of Publishing @panic.com
Ex-PlayStation, 1UP, etc. etc.
linktr.ee/nsuttner
Kinuko / 絹子 @kinucakes.bsky.social Artist, animator, game developer. Previously Future Club, Necrosoft, Wayforward, Evening Star and more - now onto new things ✨ Art and apparel at http://koibeat.com! My art is sometimes NSFW! 🇺🇸🇯🇵のハーフ https://kinucakes.carrd.co/
FourbitFriday @fourbitfriday.bsky.social Irredeemable Game Dev
: Co-founder @oddobject.zone
: Catacomb Kids - ckgame.net
: Scrubbin' Trubble - scrubbintrubble.com
: UFO 50 - www.50games.fun
: Streams - twitch.tv/fourbitfriday
: Music - frror.bandcamp.com
: he/hɪm : ♠ ace : fourbitfriday.com
Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer and director who works on game-like things and other things.
Author of the novel Process and the visual novel Eliza.
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/process-a-novel
Chris Charla @iocat.bsky.social Videogames at Xbox; zines, books, videogames, and skateboarding very slowly at home. I main Bluesky.