Melissa Phillips (She/Her) @melphillips.bsky.social Views yours, never mine.
www.gamesleadership.com 
Adam Clewes-Boyne @chaosandcode.bsky.social 🕹️Game Developer/Designer
💼 BetaJester and Playing Attention
💬 Limit Break + IGDA Neurodivergent In Games SIG + Falmouth Uni + Play Sheffield + BAFTA Connect
💙 He/Him - ADHD
Talking about game dev and neurodiversity
andreabellucci.bsky.social @andreabellucci.bsky.social Lead Composer and Music Director at Rebound Sound
Jon Murphy @burntkona.bsky.social Greying games industry survivor | Principal Technical Artist | Lighthouse Games | Limit Break Mentor 2022-26 | BAFTA Games member | Oldhammer minis | 80s Geek | He/Him
gril @funambulism.com Stories, games, philosophy. Jew.
Currently: Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius
Previously: PUBG: Black Budget, Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social Webcomic & TTRPG illustrator.
https://severandpierce.com/ https://swordinterval.com/ https://www.patreon.com/derelict
Mechas, monsters, spooky things. Really in my tubes & guts arc.
🚫A I
He/Him 🖤🤍💜
J.J. Unthank @jjunthank.bsky.social Fantasy Author. Games Programmer.
Debut novel, ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE CORPSE? out now!
www.jjunthank.com
Hollie Page @holliepage.bsky.social Programmer at Spilt Milk Studios working on Trash Goblin & a part of the Limit Break committee
they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Adam @adamgryu.bsky.social 🎮 i make video games and stuff
🐦 created http://ashorthike.com
(he / him)
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
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
Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social UK Indie Game Dev - Recently "The Horror At Highrook"
A clockwork-card narrative-board game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/The_Horror_at_Highrook/
Previously "Into The Pit", BigRobot, Phd in the digital sublime
Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 DICE Europe @icotom.icopartners.com 🙋 Co-founder of @icopartners.com | @crowdfunding-agency.com | @mightymerch.store
👾Supporting self-publishing game companies (Strategy | Marketing | PR)
🙆♂️Crowdfunding specialist (Kickstarter Community Advisory Council member)
Glowmade | WISHLIST ROGUE FORTUNE @glowmade.bsky.social independent game studio making bold, original games built around expansive play and memorable shared experiences 💥🎮
🎉 FIND OUT MORE 👉 www.glowmade.com
Juha Sadeharju @jsadeh.bsky.social Game studio handyman at birdsofplay.fi. Based in Helsinki, Finland.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juhasadeharju
David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. Making an isometric shooter called B.U.G.B.I.T.E
http://szymanski.games
Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social Gaming-, Popculture- & Industry news🌿
All filler, no killer 🌿 Vibe Posting 🌿 FCKNZS 🌿
(GER/ENG) 🌿 Everything is going to be okay 🌿 Human RSS Feed 🌿 sometimes I post food 🌿 Twitch.tv/Knoebelbroet 🌿 https://linktr.ee/Knoebel
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
🔠 Word Play: http://s.team/a/3586660/
🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/
UK Games Fund @ukgamesfund.bsky.social Working to support the UK’s early-stage games development community.
Joe Evans @joeevans.bsky.social UI Artist at @Glowmade
Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social 🧢 CEO: Dropout
🎤 Host: Game Changer, Make Some Noise
🌸 he / him
Ahmed kme @akme.bsky.social Producer at large | Formerly Glowmade, Sumo Digital, GDL | 🕋🇸🇩
Rob Dodd @robdodd.com Still faking it as Technical Director of Fireproof Games.
Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com 🎬 Game trailer editor who made trailers for:
Half-Life Alyx, Among Us, Psychonauts 2, Riven, Spelunky 2, Firewatch, Dead Cells, Viewfinder, Stray Gods, and more!
He/him
https://dereklieu.carrd.com
SUGOI 🔜 Awesome Console Showcase @sugoigames.bsky.social Digital showcases for terribly amazing indie games. Unlike anything you’ve seen before. From the creators of TGAGWCAGA.
The Awesome Console Showcase is coming October 28th.
Awesome indie games, for all consoles.
Callum Uwunderwood @callum.uwu.biz Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social founder and studio creative director at The Outsiders. New Yorker. Made some games, wrote some games. Battlefield Bad Company 1/2, BF3, Killzone 2, Mirror’s Edge, Payday 2, Metal Hellsinger, others. Making (redacted) : a new game.
Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social Currently: CCO Yellow Brick Games, working on Eternal Strands (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/Eternal_Strands/ ). Formerly: Lead Writer for Jade Empire; Creative Director for Dragon Age. Always: dog lover.
Fawzi Mesmar (فوزي) @fawzi.zone Creative Director on BGE2 @Ubisoft Award winning game designer, author, public speaker, serial expat, 1 of @thehabibis.show opinions are my own. he/him. 日本語OK🙆♂️
Geneviève Routhier @genrouthier.bsky.social • senior art director • making games since 2003 •
Past: Studio Art Director @ DICE | Battlefield | Beyond Good and Evil 2 | AC Origins | Rainbow 6 Siege
🎓 Cool/Hat
📣 Available for speaking or podcast opportunities
🇨🇦 Looking for work
Teddy Dief @teddydief.com Director/Designer of Videogames
◆ Hyper Light Drifter
◆ We Are OFK
◆ Glitch City LA
◆ prev: Square Enix, XBox, Disney
⟡ IGF & Peabody Winner
⇒ https://linktr.ee/teddydief
Matt Nava @mattnava.bsky.social Creative Director of Sword of the Sea, The Pathless, and ABZÛ. Art Director of Journey and Flower. Natural history/dinosaur enthusiast. mattnava.com
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Highdive · Game Dev since 1997 · I swear a lot ·🧂🧂🧂
She | They · 🖤🤍💜 · 🏳️🌈 · BLM · Stop AAPI Hate · 💙 · Per aspera ad astra · Do not obey in advance · #ATINY
Co-author of The Game Narrative Toolbox: https://tinyurl.com/NarToolbox
Johnny Cash @johnnycash.bsky.social Principal Game Designer II, WoW Forever at Blizzard. Assume good intent in your fellow humans. Tweets ≠ Employer
Lana Bachynski @latienie.bsky.social Associate Art Director in R&D @ Riot Games.
Previously: animating on League of Legends & Heroes of the Storm | RAT stream leader, Tea Time Animation co-founder, and yoyo aficionado. #DLCbookclub #gamedev
Personal Account.
Michael Chu 瞿華明 @westofhouse.bsky.social Used to be the lead writer of Overwatch. Now I rewrite my bio on every new hellsite
🖋️ OW, Grounded, WoW, D3, KotOR2, Gundam, WH40K, 🤐
📷 https://www.instagram.com/westofhouse/
Michel Koch @michelkoch.bsky.social Co-Creator of Life is Strange. Creative Director of Lost Records
Bridget O’Neill @iheartbunnies.bsky.social Senior Director of Creative at PlayStation Studios for Bungie. Previously Riot (Art Director of Legends of Runeterra), Blizzard, and Pokemon.
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social CEO/Creative Director:
BLACK PONY IMMERSIVE
Deus Ex, Dishonored
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
Dropout @dropout.tv a comedy streamer with all of your favorite shows
🧔♂️ Game Changer
📢 Make Some Noise
🎲 Dimension 20
🫂 Very Important People
🐷 Smartypants
dropout.tv
🖤 Taylor Wright 🖤 @redlamp.org UX Design Lead @ Launchpad
Previously: Adobe/Substance, Rockstar Games, Blizzard, ZA/UM, Glowmade, Guerrilla, EA, Raw Power Games, and some VR
Edinburgh, Scotland (🇺🇸➡️🇳🇱➡️🇫🇷➡️🇬🇧)
Dom2D 💜 @dom2d.bsky.social Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Dig Dig Dino, Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
Dan Carr @dancarr.bsky.social Software Engineer @ Ripple Effect
Vancouver, BC
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
Jay Steen @jaysteen.bsky.social Tech Director of @sweejtech.bsky.social making sweet audio tech for lovely people! Previously audio programmer at Jumpship and Criterion Games.
Person who likes playing and making video games, playing guitar, running, snowboarding, and reading sci-fi.
TubaNat @tubanat.bsky.social Nathaniel Daw | Music & Narrative Director @ Fuse, formerly Criterion | Tuba Enthusiast | Hockey Nut | Ganondorf/Daisy Main | Has Other Interests Also
bsg_joel @bsg-joel.bsky.social Programmer, writer & community on DREDGE 🎣 at Black Salt Games 🇳🇿
Nebula, Hugo and 4x BAFTA nominee.
Adé @clumpsoul.bsky.social ▫️25 🇳🇬🇹🇬
▫️QA Tester & 3D Artist
▫️Parent to a few dozen playlists
▫️Katamari Damacy Enjoyer
❗All opinions are my own
He/They
🌟Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/clumpsoul
Oliver Wauters @oliverwauters.bsky.social Lead Game Designer @Glowmade.bsky.social, Ex-@Mediatonic @FallGuysGame, Film Watcher, Book Reader, Pet Patter, Food Eater, Drink Drinker
Podcast host of @3bitdesign.bsky.social 🎙️
Geir Ove Alnes @geirovealnes.bsky.social Senior Game Designer;
Formerly @ Ubisoft Singapore / Mighty Bear / Funcom;
https://geirovealnes.carrd.co/
Game Designers 101-103 (Starter Packs)
https://go.bsky.app/KFBJn7C
https://go.bsky.app/BoEMZY8
https://go.bsky.app/HN7KHXa
Opinions are my own.
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social Game designer at Blizzard. He/him. Fan of: comics, music, archery, my cats. Personal account, all opinions are just mine.
formerly @jeffahamilton on Twitter
https://jhamilton.bearblog.dev/blog/ for blog-shaped thoughts
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
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/
Steven Lumpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer @ Riot R&D - Horizon Forbidden West - The Secret World - Warhammer 40,000 Eternal Crusade - RollerCoaster Tycoon World
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
JD Hassel (He/Him) @jandavidhassel.bsky.social Private account, mostly Warhammer;
Senior Game Designer for EA DICE;
Worked on games you know and on games precious few played.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jandavidhassel
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com a longtime industry vet, I make games and lead design teams, and am looking for my next opportunity. Check out my rarely updated blog at http://www.zenofdesign.com
I'm a white cis straight male (he/him), an ally albeit an occasionally imperfect one.
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.social . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com He/him. Game Designer. Co-Founder at Minor Key Games, Senior Programmer at Gearbox. Married to @spiffysteph.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/piratehearts
✅🧠
🚫✨
Nicholas G Cameron @ngcameron.com ● Senior Level Designer at Respawn Entertainment
● Writing about TTRPGs at https://www.strangeplaces.site/
● Formerly @RamblingCameron on Twitter
● Wife @devonrubinart.bsky.social
● games/fantasy/climate ● he/him
Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com video game dev. weird west, influx redux, much much more
buy influx redux: https://store.steampowered.com/app/867150/InFlux_Redux/
internet blog on the internet: https://www.joewintergreen.com/
friendly dev chat: http://discord.gg/TyexPhe
he/him
Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social Gamedev designer/writer/director - Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Pajama Sam, Sam & Max, Wolf Among Us, etc. Most recently, Return to Monkey Island! Currently fiddling around with a game about paper. Halloween-liker, food-maker, dad.
Ron Gilbert @grumpygamer.com Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.
Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social Dad, Veteran Lead Game Systems Designer, I make Player-Centric Systems about Progression and Investment.
Brawl Stars @ Supercell in 🇫🇮, Formerly Fortnite Systems, VALORANT Competitive, Destiny 2 Systems, Magic R&D
Portfolio at https://robertmakesgam.es/
nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social game? designer??
Forget Starlight releasing soon. currently ???.
Amberspire, The Banished Vault, and others, formerly of Bithell Games. Blog at blog.enceledean.com, analog games at enceledean.itch.io, design podcast at paperlabyrinths.com.
they
Scavenger @paigehix.bsky.social Senior Combat Designer at Santa Monica Studio. Frmr Wonderstorm, Blizzard. All thoughts posted are my own. She/her. Cymraeg, Gaeilge, agus Gàidhlig. Hyena facts. PFP by
@CiderBunArt #GameDev
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
Matthew Gallant @gangles.bsky.social Game Director at Naughty Dog • Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet • Worked on The Last of Us Part I & II, Uncharted 4 • Accessibility tinkerer • ⚜️QC🇨🇦CA http://gangles.ca/
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
Alexander King @literallyaking.com Game Designer, Economy/System Design. Adjunct Professor at NYU Game Center & Parsons DT. Staff Data Analyst for ACT-UAW Local 7902. Spreadsheet aficionado.
(He/Him)
Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social Nebula-nominated writer/games designer in Vancouver, BC - Pacific Drive, Paranoia, Magical Kitties, Zafir, Feng Shui, Maia etc. Did acres of crit/journalism. NDP volunteer.
He/him.🏳️🌈🍉I don't regularly check notifs, email in Linktree!
linktr.ee/paullicino
Andrew Carl @andrewcarl.bsky.social He/They, #GameDev Senior Systems Designer at Respawn. Prev work: Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Destiny 2 THPS 1+2 at Vicarious Visions, Diablo IV at Blizzard. Views are my own
Gouache Airship 🏳️⚧️🌈🦄 @gouacheairship.com Everything is better with more airship! ™
Pick up Amber on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653880/Amber/
Main Site: https://gouacheairship.com
About the Artist: https://clairemedeiros.com
Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social Principal Economy Designer @ Redux Games formerly Echtra, Bioware, Zenimax, Obsidian, and more. Chicago Native, Sam Haight's Bastard, End Boss of the Internet, PADI certified Mermaid, Hater of Digital Seagulls VAMO
Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social He/him. Sr. Game Designer. Prev: Epic, Bungie, Turbine, more.
I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
Erik Robson @erikrobson.net Game/level designer | LFW | Valve (Portal 2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact) | Double Fine (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) | 3DO ()
25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
Husband, father, PNW, living through Interesting Times
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
Kyle McKernan @spacetreasured.bsky.social Award-winning game director, designer
@ko-op.com
Co-director, Goodbye Volcano High
Lead UI/UX designer, Young Suns
Director, ********
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
allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social game systems designer by day, crazy cat lady by night. i have definitely worked on games you've heard of. i probably still do.
american. native seattleite. fan of constitutional rights, due process, and democracy. she/her.
🏳️🌈😷🐈🐈🏃♀️🎮
Chris Koeppel @badgermancer.bsky.social Game designer. Prev: Fortnite, Treyarch (Black Ops 4 & Black Ops Cold War), etc. Opinions are my own and they are terrible.
Will McNeese @willmcneese.bsky.social Game designer. QA. Believer in the power of video games. (He/Him)
willmcneese.carrd.co
Rachel Vought @rachelbydesign.bsky.social Lead Quest Designer for World of Warcraft. I make quests, manage designers, and have random thoughts about many things. All views expressed are my own. She/her.
LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social Day: Game Designer pretending to be a Woodworker
Night: Woodworker pretending to be a Game Designer
Currently - 🤫 | Previously - Lead Game Designer: Predecessor, Elite Dangerous.
Hayden Scott-Baron @docky.games Game Designer.
Previously: Ustwo Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Frontier, Planet Coaster, Jurassic World Evo, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and more. He/they.
Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social Game Director @ Blackbird Interactive
Made Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Trying to be a decent human being.
[ He / Him ]
Craig Morrison @silirrion.bsky.social https://www.feelinstrangelyfine.com/
Design Director @ Toca Boca | Founder http://startmakinggames.com | Once of Azeroth, Rubi-Ka, Hyboria, & other battlefields | Enthusiastic Optimist | Globetrotter | BAFTA Member | Painter of plastic things