Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social www.awkwardsilence.co.uk/
demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social they / them
supposedly in possession of pretty handwriting
award-winning toy maker ✦ digital humanist
luddite
Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com Creative Lead at Panic, working on Playdate, dev software, and helping publish games • Maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand • One of the good ones • Portland, OR • he/him
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
sevgimurphy.bsky.social @sevgi-murphy.bsky.social Writer | Producer | Actor
🇹🇷🏳️🌈
she / her
📍on Gadigal land
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Jerry Verhoeven @jerryverhoeven.itch.io Indie Game Developer - Programmer & Tech Artist on #TotemTeller - Made #Kavel & #CrankyBird - http://jerryverhoeven.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1414530/Kavel/
https://jerryverhoeven.itch.io/
Logan, doing many things @breathingstories.bsky.social 🏆 Multi award-winning game designer and podcaster.
🎲 TTRPG consultant, mentor, freelancer.
💚 Friend to Dusky Moorhens.
🏳️⚧️ Trans, queer, he/him.
🎨 Pfp by AlexReederArt (IG)
breathingstories.itch.io
https://logantimmins.carrd.co/
Pidj @pidj.bsky.social yeah some woman making roleplaying games, video games, poetry, zines, short stories & >= 1 audio drama. wannabe jack of all trades, master of none. did you back a ttrpg zine of mine?
south west aus
email: pidjtea @ gmail.com
games: pidj.itch.io
David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social Independent Senator for the ACT.
Insta: davidpocock
Authorised by David Pocock for David Pocock, Canberra
Zander Hulme ~♪ @zander.supertonic.au Award-winning noisemaker for games • dad • director of @Supertonic.au • bi 💖💜💙🏳️🌈 • (he/him) • Meanjin/Brisbane
Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social She/Her. WOC. Creative Director/Founder of @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social
Narrative Lead of Incarnal, an intimacy simulator with monstrous lovers set in a dark fantasy universe.
Academic. Lecturer. Mum. Goth.
In over her head at all times.
Eleska🏳️⚧️ @metosian.bsky.social Indie game dev, launched Innchanted, board game enthusiast. She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Samara-Jade — Her Bloody Creature Out Now! @jadedsynic.itch.io Narrative Design/QA for games, Gothic/Urban/ParaRom (🌶️🥵) fiction. She/Her. 🖤💛❤️ 🩵🤍🩷 Creds: Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, Hard Wired Island, Victoria 3, Thousand Hells, et al. https://linktr.ee/jadedsynic.contact
Dan Vogt✨ @danvogt.bsky.social Creator of DATA WING and Skyward Journey. Formerly co-founded Halfbrick. 😊✨ he/him
📍 Brisbane, Australia
🌐 danvogt.info
Ellen Jurik @ellenjurik.bsky.social Author and mother of two small children; previously Studio Narrative Director at Blowfish Studios, Senior Producer for live games at Blowfish/Gameloft, and Game Director of Storm Boy. Feat. POTS; she/her
Cherie 🏖️ @cheriedavidson.bsky.social Nerd ♡ Lover ♡ Game Midwife
Co-founder, studio director & programmer @intarsia.studio
Prev: VicScreen, Media Molecule, Mountains, Goose Game & more.
🏝️✉️🫧🌱🌌☕️🪿🏠🕺⛴️🍔🤖🐈⬛️🫳🐾🪲
Chris Wright @surprisingchris.bsky.social Founder and MD at narrative indie games label, @fellowtraveller.games, and games marketing agencies, Double Jump Communications and Two Frogs In a Trenchcoat. Board Member, ACMI museum of screen culture.
Nicholas McDonnell @nicholasmc1.bsky.social Game Designer/Generalist - Searching Interactive
Get Crabmeat on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/Crabmeat
Prev - Design / Co Founder @samuraipunk
https://nicholasmc1.itch.io/
Stef Peacock ✨ @stefpeacock.com Senior UX/UI Designer / UI Artist @ Runaway Play in Aotearoa. Used to help run NZGF. Loves coffee, food, D&D, sport, too many other things.
Overuser of heart emojis. Bi he/him 💖
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Jon, from Videogames @desplesda.net words in trees, cats in phones, doctorate in jerks online; 🧶 @YarnSpinner.dev, 😿 Night in the Woods, 🚀 I Feel Fine, 🎨 Leonardo, 💼 @SecretLab.games.
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Oskar Stålberg @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Game dev. Made Bad North and Townscaper. 
Balancing Monkey Games 🌠 wishlist Beyond These Stars! 🐋 @balancingmonkeygames.com 🚀 Indie game studio from Aotearoa
🐋 Making that cool space whale city builder game
💬 https://discord.gg/balancingmonkeygames
✨ BEYOND THESE STARS ✨
Wishlist + demo on Steam! http://bit.ly/spacewhales
Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social I create terribly dangerous things for the right reasons to help the people I care about.
👑 Co-founder 🤖 Head of AI/Analytics at GYLD
Frosty Games 🍦 @frostygamesfest.com Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ 🍦🎮 Join the Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! 👉 https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social
Team17 @team17.com Developer & games label behind Hell Let Loose, Worms, The Escapists, Overcooked, DREDGE, & more!
Learn more about Worms: Galactic Tactics 👇 https://bit.ly/WormsGT
Silver Lining Interactive ⛅ @silverliningint.bsky.social A full package publishing partner! Currently cooking: Outbound, The Witch's Bakery, Quite A Ride, Slain 2, The Road of Dust and Sorrow & HOUNDED!
https://linktr.ee/silverlininginteractive
Curve Games @curvegames.com Hi! We're Curve Games! We make and publish incredible indie games like For The King, Human Fall Flat, Sovereign Tower and more!
🔗 linktr.ee/Curve_Games
Fireshine Games ️🔥🎮 @fireshinegames.bsky.social We publish really awesome digital & physical indie games such as Core Keeper, Shadows of Doubt, REKA, and more!
Akupara Games @akuparagames.bsky.social 🐢Tortoise-powered game publisher
🐢Behind The Frame, GRIME, Absolute Tactics, Rain World, Astrea + MORE!
Luis Van Slageren @luisvsm.bsky.social All of the Indie Multiplayer hats / Technically Games / Spies & Soldiers / Naarm & Bulleke-bek based 🏳️🌈
Lise L. @lisekarel.bsky.social Writer/Games/Games Writer 🏳️🌈 | '22 IGDA Next Gen Leader | Currently games at VicScreen (prev. Bin Chicken/Wheeler Centre/MMORPG Tycoon 2 & more.) and working away on a novel. | 🇧🇪 in 🇦🇺. | they/them.
Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) @igea.bsky.social Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA) is the industry association representing developers, publishers & distributors of video games in Aust & NZ.
Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social Runaway is an independent game developer based in Ōtepoti, New Zealand. We make beautiful games inspired by the natural world. 🦋
☀️ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/3arvau5S4g
www.runawayplay.com
/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social We Make Crowdfunded Video Game Documentaries. Watch our docs at http://YouTube.com/noclipvideo. We also do underground games coverage at https://www.youtube.com/@Noclip2.
Mario Wynands @mariowynands.bsky.social Game developer, business owner, food wrangler (PikPok)
Daniel Draper @draperdanman.bsky.social Solo Indie Dev @ Mirror Door Interactive. Prev EA, Sledgehammer Games, Samurai Punk. Making jank jam games is very appealing to me. He/Him
NZ CODE @nz-code.nz Fostering a creative digital industry underpinned by video game development and training pathways in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Fnife Games @fnifegames.bsky.social 🌈 Ōtautahi indies making queer narrative games: Small Town Emo (Gay GameBoy Walking Simulator) & ShelfLife: Art School Detective (Mystery Adventure Dating Sim)
sniff us at fnifegames.com
Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) @gcapconf.bsky.social Game Connect Asia Pacific is Australia's premiere game development conference, held as part of Melbourne International Games Week.
Matt Schenkel @matt.sub-zerosound.com 🔊 Technical Sound Designer, Co-Founder, Director @sub-zerosound.com
🎮 Indie Game Showcases @ Indie BYOG
🎙️ Game Jams @ PBS 106.7FM
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/game-jams
he/him
🌏 Naarm (Melbourne, Australia)
🌐 https://www.sub-zerosound.com
✨Chantelle Cole✨ @chanticole.bsky.social Game Development Sector Rebate Programme Director for NZ on Air | Former CEO at Dinosaur Polo Club | Former Board Member, Treasurer, and Sponsorship Director at NZ Games Festival | she/her
NZ Game Developers Association @nzgda.bsky.social Supporting & developing the Aotearoa video games industry since 2001.
https://www.nzgdc.com/tickets-timeline
Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social Gamedev Priestess. Making stuff at Neon Giant. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
Massive Monster @massivemonster.bsky.social Game making MONSTER!!!
We made Cult of the Lamb!
twitter sucks hehe
Toast Interactive | Max Mustard Out Now! @toastinteractive.bsky.social Award-winning Australian Virtual Reality Studio, creators of Max Mustard and Richie's Plank Experience | Join our Discord 👉 https://discord.gg/DQqK59B4Nv
amelia laughlan 🌸 @maarlzipan.bsky.social Game Producer at @hipsterwhaledev.bsky.social (✿˙ᗜ˙)੭ avid reader 📚 sometimes writer 📝 日本語少し話せる★彡 (she/they) based in Melbourne https://marlzipan.carrd.co/
Joshua Boggs @jboggsie.bsky.social Game Director & Designer making the hardboiled https://stealth.game @sleightofhand.game
× Made Kojima's GOTY『 FRAMED 』
× Proud Dad / multi-award winning cliché
× He/Him
Ella Lowgren @ellalowgren.bsky.social ADHD creative director living in Naarm. Currently working on Deficit: The ADHD RPG. 🐺🪨
Deep Field @deepfieldgames.bsky.social Making co-op games in the cosmic dark; creators of Abiotic Factor, Unfortunate Spacemen and new things beyond.
www.deepfield.games
Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social A handful of humans creating games with relatable simplicity.
We make Mini Metro, Mini Motorways, and 🕵️ secret other stuff
Proudly based in Aotearoa/New Zealand!
Jevon Wright 💙💛 @soundasleep.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Making #Adaptory at @stormcloak! Brand new mum ❤️. Plays musicals 🎸🥁. she/her
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@soundasleep, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Tas Game Makers, Inc. @tasgamemakers.com TasGM is a community for Tasmanian game developers, artists, journos, and anyone interested in getting into the field. Join us! http://tasgamemakers.com/discord
Navi @naviverse.bsky.social Let's be honest. This is mostly going to be pictures of Mochi.
Jane Fiona @janefiona.bsky.social game director of the girlypop shooter one
girlypop.net
Bones: Wandering Soul @bonesthegame.bsky.social 2.D Narrative driven adventure-puzzle game, in early development for PC 💀. Wishlist on Steam! https://shorturl.at/iPmMx 🎮
Supported by Screen Australia and VicScreen 🇦🇺
Join our Discord 📢 and find out more via www.bonesthegame.com
Caitlin - Intr Studio @caitlinlomax.bsky.social 
Queensland Games Festival @qldgamesfestival.bsky.social 
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Aspen @aspenforster.bsky.social Tech Artist / Software Engineer in Naarm/Melbourne
💖🛼🏳️🌈🧶🏸✨
she/they 
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Tin Man Games - 🔥wishlist Atlanta TD on Steam now!🔥 @thetinminions.bsky.social Tin Man Games is a games developer based in Melbourne. We're passionate about adventure games, digital board games & choice-based fiction!
alex, unfortunately @itsalex.bsky.social He/him. Game Designer, UI/UX and Narrative. Kiwi in Naarm (Melbourne). Dimir apologist, Temur fanatic.
Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
Gianni Di Giovanni @gdig.bsky.social Games journalist and Radio Broadcaster.
Views are my own and not representative of my employer
Char @charliethegoldfish.bsky.social I write code and make games. When I'm not holding my cat that is.
UI engineer at Sledgehammer Games.
Queer, trans masc, non-binary, AuDHD and more.
Lover of Obsidian, cats, pathfinding and wfc.
They/Them
Opinions are my own
#GameDev
Ceri @classicceri.bsky.social 
Amy McNickle @amymcnickle.bsky.social Creative Director at Sigmond Studios• Director of High Score Game Audio Conference at Melbourne International Games Week
Composer | Sound Designer | Artist • hello@amy-mcnickle.com • She/her
T-Dog by T-Dog @tdogbytdog.com This is a company by T-Dog, for T-Dog. Remember that we are ultimately capable of being T-Dog.
tdogbytdog.com
CanDev @canberra.games CanDev is the local game developer community on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra, Australia - we run game dev community events in-person and online
🌐 canberra.games
💬 canberra.games/discord
🎮 candev.itch.io
Playstack Games @playstack.com Premium Indie Game Publisher
🧠 Our recent projects: https://linktr.ee/playstackgames
👑 Follow us on Steam: http://tinyurl.com/PlaystackX
Raw Fury @rawfury.bsky.social Indie Game (un)Publisher | Kingdom👑 Esoteric Ebb 🎲 Moonstone Island💎 Blue Prince 💙 Blake Manor 🏠 Monsters are Coming 👾 Last Man Sitting 🪑
Kepler Interactive @kepler-interactive.bsky.social Kepler Interactive is a video game company and creative studio headquartered in London.
http://kepler-interactive.com
Gamma Space @gammaspace.bsky.social We are a cooperative studio of game developers, artists, and creative technologists dedicated to exploring community-led flows of individual and collective support.
www.gammaspace.ca
ANNAPURNA @annapurna.com an independent studio focused on creating high-quality stories and experiences across Live Action and Animated Film and Television, Live Theater, and Interactive Gaming.
Outersloth @outersloth.com We fund game.
By Innersloth.
https://outersloth.com/
NZ Games Festival @nzgamesfest.bsky.social New Zealand's very own celebration of gaming, for all ages ✨ 2026 NZ Games Festival starts from May 1 - 13! 🎉
Tickets on sale now! | tinyurl.com/NZGF-Tickets2026
Our website! | www.nzgamesfest.com
State of Play NSW @stateofplaynsw.bsky.social Advocacy, diversity and representation for game development in NSW
IGDA Sydney @igdasydney.bsky.social A Sydney game development community. We run #BeerAndPixels every second Tuesday of the month!
Click here for all our channels: https://linktr.ee/igda_sydney
Jarrod Farquhar-Nicol 🔜 MIGW @jarrodfn.bsky.social 👋 I'm Jarrod. I run events, help Aussie game devs and make games on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra
🎮 President @canberra.games
💻 Games Admin screencanberra.com.au
💭 Creative Director anecdotegames.com
🎲 Designer paperkeygames.itch.io
linktr.ee/jarrodfn
Rhiannon @rhiarhi.bsky.social Trans gamedev based in lutruwita, gameplay programmer for Little Pink Clouds, Check out Letters to Arralla! s.team/a/2189310
Portfolio: azurespace.dev
Also a rhythm game nut
Sam @tworune.bsky.social ✏️ thing making things
🌍 brisbane / meanjin
jae @ equip canberra games, alt: games, beyond the script @jemztones.bsky.social games, film, queer culture. gamedev from lutruwita.
@serenade.games co-founder
prev games include the freeplay zone and my lil fanfic
CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
www.continuemagazine.com
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
London Games Festival @londongamesfest.bsky.social 
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
🇮🇷#NoWar
🇻🇪#HandsOffVenezuela
🇨🇺#EndTheBlockade
🇵🇸#FreePalestine
Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made
Big Bear Energy @bigbearenergypr.bsky.social Helping your games growl a little louder.
Full-service press support for indie studios, solo devs, emerging video game brands & anyone who hates PR stress. Based in 🇦🇺
bigbearenergy.com.au
Lucernal @lucernal.bsky.social Working on Little Ruin, a narrative-driven, isometric adventure for PC.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1571860/?snr=1_5_9__205
https://www.lucernal.com/littleruin
Ben🐌Kerslake @ben.patientlighthouse.com game developer working on TOTEM TELLER
@muse.totemteller.com
totemteller.com
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
TOTEM TELLER @muse.totemteller.com not made by hands
totemteller.com
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
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social Product Manager at a place to be disclosed later | Founder and board member of Tas Game Makers | Former Freeplay board member | Recovering games journalist | peoplemaking.games/@jasonimms | He/Him
Max Lander @snaxwell.bsky.social Game Designer + Professor. Angry queer.
Himbos of Myth & Mettle, OddFolk and Frame 352. https://maxwellander.itch.io/
Co-host of RTFM. Rtfmcast.com