🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Shawn🐶 @puppiesandanime.bsky.social Senior Pixel Artist for Threads of Time
He/ Him 🇨🇦🇵🇹
• Previously Deltarune, Duelyst, Flynn: SoC
• Icon by Temmie Chang
フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social There is research that suggests that playing Clover Pit after experiencing a traumatic event can help reduce intrusive memories and thoughts.
https://nlquotes.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/northernlion
https://www.youtube.com/@Northernlion
ANIMAL WELL @animalwell.bsky.social A Game of Secrets - available now on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch
http://www.animalwell.net/
bigsirgames.bsky.social @bigsirgames.bsky.social Escape from Slumberland demo out NOW! Play and Wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3011520/Escape_from_Slumberland/
Saleem @seemo.bsky.social Co-founder, Executive Committee @ko-op.com They/them. Free Palestine. Wear a mask.
Producer on Young Suns! www.youngsuns.com
Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
Original Chungus @tronknotts.bsky.social Writer for Nintendo Force - https://www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/
Maximum Utmost - https://maxutmost.com/
And many other things! Also running the Talking to Women about Videogames podcast network! - https://anchor.fm/jonathan-c-holmes
Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Simon @slepkin.bsky.social Chicago-based #gamedev. I like swarms and robots and unfortunately complex interlocking mechanics!
Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3941030/SOLARFLARE/ before it releases on May 27!
Studio: @swarmforge.bsky.social
Gamejams: knaughts.itch.io/
gate @gate.itch.io i make games and music and other things!
buy my game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/
https://gate.itch.io/
Mobeen Fikree @mobeenfikree.bsky.social Makes videogames and game engines. Founded Vertex Pop (🪨 HYPER METEOR ✨ Super Crush KO 🚀 Graceful Explosion Machine 💥 WE ARE DOOMED)
http://vertexpop.com
http://mobeenfikree.com
Arnold Rauers @arnoldrauers.com Hi, I’m Arnold Rauers.
Since 2012 I’m creating independent video games as Tinytouchtales.
👉 http://www.arnoldrauers.com 👈
Patrick @vectorpark.com He/him. I make digital toys at http://vectorpark.com
Matthew Wegner @mwegner.com 🤖 Computer Person
Now:
🧑💻 Code/infra at Capy
Before:
◼️ Aztez
🦖 Flashbang/Blurst founder
📋 IGF/GDC curation systems
💰 Indie Fund founding member
🎙️ Independent Games Summit founding advisor
🧶 Fun-Motion (still online!)
🕹️ TIGSource sysadmin
thomas w schaller @thomaswschaller.bsky.social artist. architect. author. nyc
aws nws twsa scny cac asai
arthur ross award, raphael award, 2x winner, hugh ferriss memorial prize.
https://www.thomaswschaller.com
https://linktr.ee/twschaller
Rob Lach 💖 @roblach.bsky.social The world is easy to change.
I Love Computing.
RobLach.com
Now: Disruptive Infrastructure.
Before: Games, Art, Non-Profit
🇺🇸
Russell Honor @russellhonor.bsky.social Game designer/programmer prev Neon White : Sky /// Arcane Kids forever /// managing member Glitch City LA
Mark @tolecover.bsky.social it's not fun to be on the computer, they changed everything about it, it used to be so cool | he/him
https://tolecover.bandcamp.com/
https://ko-fi.com/tolecover
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
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/
Ted Martens @tedmartens.bsky.social Artist & Indie Dev. Cadence of Hyrule, Crypt of the NecroDancer & Amplified DLC, Pixel Fireplace, Hexels co-creator.
Pixel Fireplace 🪵🔥
Steam: s.team/a/2678480
Itchio: https://hammertail.itch.io/pixel-fireplace
tj.xyz 🍜 @terrifyingjellyfish.com cereal won’t solve all your problems, but it’ll keep ya crunchin
Unity game dev and artist
https://terrifyingjellyfish.com
Katie Lloyd Williams @yayitskatie.com Games curator at 🍏. Show me your cool indie iOS games (or just send memes, either's cool). San Francisco. she/her. yayitskatie.com
Lerkinn @smeli.bsky.social he/him, Philadelphia, falafel and grill enthusiast, working on Slaughter Void, https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333980/Slaughter_Void/
Alina Christenbury @alinawithaface.bsky.social she/her | Game Maker / Designer / Programmer | currently: Disbelief (NDA) 🤫
prev: Ruckus Games (The Holdouts), The Coalition (Gears of War: E-Day)
I don't suffer bigots.
A better world is possible or else 😘
alinachristenbury.com
Sofia Elena @sofia-elena.bsky.social 3D game artist 🕹️🎨 | Based in Chicago 🏙️🌭🍺 From Austin, TX 🤠 | https://sofiaee.artstation.com/
Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social Oil Painter and French Fry enthusiast
https://www.atinyrocket.com/p/links.html
Fervir @fervirgames.bsky.social Working on RRRATGAME in #godot
Creator of Creature Keeper
Eric v @mortemergosum.bsky.social (Javier) ✏️Freelance Iⅼⅼuꜱtrаtor and 3d artist. Aⅼⅿа ⅿаtеr - Fine аrtꜱ.
1996/06/26 Sеviⅼⅼе · Demi-Bi.
No ꓮꓲ; Make love, not war;
https://x.com/MortemErgoSum
Charley Price @mightyzug.bsky.social Co-Founder / Creative Director @Hidden_Variable
Wishlist @spellomancer today!
Equal parts tea & whiskey. He/him.
Tim Romero @timromero.games I don't own anything. No copyright intended.
https://stickychunks.fun my game
https://timromero.games more me
Stuart Wade @dlgnce.bsky.social Diligence Studio ⚡ https://diligence.studio/
Lead Artist ⚡ https://www.unbound.io/
Joel McDonald @mcdjoel.bsky.social Made Prune and Hindsight
Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social Building a game/engine based on signed distance fields
~ Past: rendering lead @figma.com, indie VR dev, founder @ Workflowy, search backend @ Google, Quake modder
miketuritzin.com
Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com Backward-looking, forward-thinking.
www.metanetsoftware.com
N, N+, N++ and announcing, N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO!
We are @maresheppard.bsky.social and @raiganburns.bsky.social
Games by Sam @cluesbysam.com 
Farbs @farbs.org Game! Dev!
Same Farbs, More Cat Photos:
https://mastodon.social/@Farbs
William Chyr @chyr.bsky.social Artist and game developer. Directed Manifold Garden, Hotel Infinity, and Strata. Creative Director at Studio Chyr. Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College Chicago.
https://studiochyr.com/
Dr. Travis Faas @meanderingleaf.bsky.social Game dev professor @ Ball State University | IGDA Indianapolis chair | opinions my own | and so on.
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
Mark Johns @doomlaser.bsky.social Founder of Doomlaser. Building games, tools, & systems ■▧▲▴◂▵◥◉◈☶♫ https://doomlaser.com /// http://doomlaser.itch.io
Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social 💁♀️ she/her/doctor
🔢 Dot Product Enthusiast
👾 Principal Engineer on Bounty Star
🔭 PhD Astrophysics
🎲 Pathfinder
🏳️🌈 Ace 🏳️⚧️ Mom
👩💻 MacOS
🕐 Formerly: Root, Eternal, Quasars, Blurst, a Bluetooth PowerGlove
https://biphenyl.org
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Henry Birdseye @henrybirdseye.bsky.social
Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social Canadian indie VR dev / founder @cozycubegames.bsky.social.
Wishlist 🐧Penguin Festival🐧: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552090/Penguin_Festival/
Past: Owlchemy Labs. Proud husband and shiba dad.
- 🚫 gen AI
- 🚫 genocide
- ✊ trans rights
John Groot @johngroot.bsky.social champion
DOGUBOMB @dogubomb.bsky.social Dogubomb is an indie game and film studio hidden among the long shadows of Hollywood. After a decade of making stuff for other people, we decided to make something for ourselves: Blue Prince. @blueprincegame.bsky.social
Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social UK freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Wales
Andrea Int. @andreintg.bsky.social Game dev / tools
Co-founder unbound_io
Made a unity plugin called clayxels
Designed an escape-roguelike called nauticrawl
Mostly posting my hobby projects here.
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com Award-winning indie game designer, web developer, and artist from Philadelphia (he/him). RunMan, Deepak Fights Robots, One Million Stars, Hugby, and more https://tomsennettgames.com
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
Karley (´◔‿ゝ◔`) @gleefulbeest.bsky.social 🐝 Making Video Games Gay Again | Artist & hijinks @Young Horses | ex-Philadelphian in Chicago | hiking buddy | community pillar | garden gnome |
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
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
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
MakhamDev @makham.itch.io Make Pixel Composer
Available on itch: http://makham.itch.io/pixel-composer
Steam : http://store.steampowered.com/app/2299510
Teeg @teeketch.art Character artist, illustrator and designer. Drawing candle people for Knight Light, big fan of making little weirdos.
teeketch.art
Axiominus @axiominus.bsky.social French concept artist 🇫🇷
📩: agadoud@orange.fr
working at MOONCOLONY 🚀
https://cara.app/axiominus
Streaming: http://twitch.tv/axiominus
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Axiominus
No Ai/NFT
Mike Boxleiter @boxleiter.bsky.social when i was a small small boy i had big big muscles
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social I make bad games.
grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com .1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc
https://grapefrukt.com
BlueStylus (jamie) @bluestylus.bsky.social Furry artist and game designer, artist on Nihil Visual Novel 🔞
Jess Worby @jworbeast.bsky.social Professor of Illustration
Cartoonist, Art Director, mushy dad
Chad Leistikow @chadleistikow.bsky.social Sports columnist, Dad of 2, Husband of 1, 1x city tennis league champ because the best player got hurt.
Scott Dochterman @scottdochterman.bsky.social National college football writer at The Athletic. Completed the last pass in my high school's only playoff victory. 
Kara @karafagan.bsky.social 
Trinteractive Experience @trinandtonic.bsky.social They/Them. Writer of games and book. Trying very hard all of the time.
Andy Moore @andymoore.bsky.social If your thought can’t fit
In simple haiku format
Is it worth sharing?
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
BEN @bencanfield.itch.io :)
Davey Wreden @hellocakebread.bsky.social The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, Wanderstop
Richard Flanagan @richardeflanagan.bsky.social Design goblin and strategic design consultant for videogames. (Ex) game director from indie to AAA and back. Surely _almost_ irrelevant.
Synaesthete. Synthesist. Dad. He/him
www.richardeflanagan.com
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social Programmer at Don't Nod Montréal, littleBits enthusiast, friend of rodents, dad.
You may remember me from such games as FEZ and Cooldog Teaches Typing.
Old tech ramblings @ http://theinstructionlimit.com
Trinket Ben @ben.trinketstudios.com I principally wear a programmer hat at Trinket Studios. Arguably I wear other hats there too, but they're tinier and sillier. Battle Suit Aces, Battle Chef Brigade, and a handful of other Unity tinkerings. he/him.
Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I make video games and art. Or something.
Made Celeste with friends, working on City of None and Jumper at EXOK.
www.noelberry.ca
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer. Currently at Innersloth, prev Exploding Kittens. Also worked on HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & lots more lil stuff.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
she/her | st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Michael Lee @drinkycode.bsky.social Making games in Pittsburgh and other places.
Kevin Knight @fiveoutofkevin.bsky.social he/him.
I make video games, i love to draw skulls, and our cat is called "The President"
See some of my stuff: https://neweraknight.github.io/
Seth Parker @seth1389.bsky.social Sound designer + Composer for Young horses (Bugsnax and Octodad)
My Music here: https://linktr.ee/younghorses
sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
av by @garrett.bsky.social
banner by john hwang
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; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Kathryn Healy @khealy.bsky.social horror author, narrative designer, weird doll collector, goth club haunter (she/her) kathrynhealy.com
Wurm Fud (in dev: SLAUGHTER VOID) @wurmfud.itch.io Chicago artist/gamedev. Horror games, art games, and RPGs in no particular order. Overly fond of skeletons holding swords. Chicago Indie organizer.
Currently developing Slaughter Void: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730700/Slaughter_Void_Demo/
mike @schneider.coffee dinner
avatar by whamber
Eric Huang @trinketeric.bsky.social Trinket Studios art guy
Megan Varde 🐴 @mvardeparty.bsky.social 3D environment artist @YoungHorses.com on Bugsnax and something else 👁️👁️
I have approximate knowledge of many things
⭐️ she/her
📍Chicago
💍 @hatsproductions.bsky.social
pfp by @tgi.bsky.social
Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics
He/Him
˗ˏˋ Neelam ˎˊ˗ @neee.bsky.social She/Her | ✨Chicago-based✨
Senior 3D Artist @owlchemylabs.com
3D Contract Artist @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social
Art Director @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Prev: HakJak Studios, Funomena
neelamjani.com
✨ Opinions are my own ✨
🚫 Say No to AI 🚫
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Indie City Games @indiecitygames.org Chicago nonprofit community supporting the local game development scene with exhibitions, playtests, meetups, game jams and more!
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/indiecitygames
Itch: https://indiecitygames.itch.io/
https://www.indiecitygames.org
🚫🤖🚫
Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com Co-founder + President @younghorses.com, creators of Bugsnax and Octodad. (he/him) https://younghorses.com/
The Midwest, USA