Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social 🎇 Lead VFX Artist @ Beffio
☁️ Recently shipped LOST SKIES ☁️
☄️ Indie developing, on and off. Mostly off right now.
@izzywaffle.bsky.social @izzywaffle.bsky.social game artist
potfolio: https://www.artstation.com/izzywaffle
æon @aeon.bsky.social gamedev: The Black Tower, Slayers X, Gatefold, Folia; Vanitera ref
https://icosahedron.website/@aeonofdiscord
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Will Thomas 🔜 Develop Brighton @willthomas.dev 🏴🎮🎲💻
Software engineer, indie game dev
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social Senior Environment Artist
“OPEN TO WORK”
https://www.artstation.com/pikminman
previously: Sumo-Digital Leamington, Night School, State of Play, Hutch, Frontier Developments.
Dm on LinkedIn
Posts ref - anti A i & nf-t
#3dart | #gamedev | #reference |
meowza @meowza.bsky.social makin games at meowza games sometimes
Kaleb Eberhart @kalebeberhart.bsky.social Technical game designer. I love making games go brr. Lurker on socials as I attempt to stay in touch yet purge my mind of all the nonsense that comes from social media machines.
Maggie Mojsiejuk @hellomaggie.bsky.social Game designer occasional DM
www.maggiemakes.games
SaKo @sako.works I draw and make stuff | 絵を描いて物を作る
sako.works
@sritejcanchi.bsky.social @sritejcanchi.bsky.social 
Stephen Whittle @mov-eax-rgb.bsky.social Game designer, programmer, artist and hardware dev. Unreal Engine contributor. He/him.
Holly @holly-iv.bsky.social Tools Programmer @ Media Molecule
Jason Lavoie @jasonlavoie.robotsgoboom.dev 🇨🇦 Making things go boom @ Robots Go Boom!
🐦⬛Working on "Chirp Chirp" a cozy precision platformer (coming 2027)
Previously Lead / Principal Env Artist on some fun games with great teams!
🎨 www.artstation.com/jasonlavoie
🎮 robotsgoboom.itch.io
He/Him
Jordan 4D @jordancarroll.com Jordan Carroll (he/him) jordancarroll.com
🖥️ Senior Frontend Engineer / GameDev / Ex-HoloLens
🧠 Now with 100% more ADD medication
🔊 Mad Noise Scientist https://bsky.app/profile/ourladyofstatic.com
🏝️ #2 Bionicle Fan
Irene Centelles @irenecentelles.bsky.social Freelance VFX Artist
DM for any inquiry
Portfolio:
https://www.artstation.com/irenecentellesart
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/irenecentelles/
Jon Kelliher @jonkelliher.bsky.social 🌳 Freelance Sound Designer & Generalist Indie Dev 🌳
Prev: Luma Island | Human Fall Flat 2 | Warp Drive | Trailblazers
www.jonkelliher.com | he/him
jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay multimedia artist https://queenjazz.bandcamp.com/ ⚧ https://domino.gallery 💛 https://queenjazz.itch.io/ 💛 https://www.patreon.com/jazzmickle 💛 https://www.queenjazz.gay/
Puzzmo @puzzmo.com puzzles that love you back
a zach gage and orta therox joint
www.puzzmo.com
Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social Creating games, procrastinating on too many ideas
Studying at Breda University of Applied Sciences- S Richard "Superpig" Fine @superpig.bsky.social Building things @ Unity; cooking other things at home.
Sophie 🎲🏳️⚧️ @sophieh.itch.io Makes games, dice, and other nerdy stuff ❤️
(Trans/NB/AroAce, they/them, plural, autistic)
Fedi: https://dice.camp/@Sophie
Web: https://sophiehoulden.com/
@yanomono.bsky.social @yanomono.bsky.social Technical Game Designer | 26
See my game prototypes at: http://yanomono.itch.io
Portfolio: yanomono.com
Arnaud De Bock @arnauddebock.bsky.social I make games / Reigns / Card shark / Pikuniku / Crush House/ Pikuniku 2
Brie @briechindeyerle.bsky.social Game dev, Chrono Trigger enthusiast, theatre kid. 🌈
On sabbatical and/or hashtag indie dev?
GDC Advisory Board member.
Previously Gameplay Engineering Manager @ Riot Games R&D; Halo Infinite Multiplayer Bots Lead @ 343 Industries.
www.briechindeyerle.com
Ben Maxwell @iamthemanta.bsky.social Freelance writer and consultant. Formerly Network N Media, Edge magazine. Erstwhile Mt., ctrlaltdelete, and Motivesounds bod. Unwilling social media participant.
David Durham @daviddurham.bsky.social I make video games. Full time programmer by day and working on all aspects of my own projects the rest of the time. My latest release is the revamped version of my puzzley platformer The Top Hat Club 🎩
https://thetophatclub.daviddurhamgames.com
Cooklang (Alexey) @cooklang.bsky.social Markup Language for Recipes and Tools http://cooklang.org/
Joris Dormans @jorisdormans.bsky.social Game designer. Lead dev for Bane, Unexplored 2, and Unexplored. Also dabbles with board game design.
Teaches game studies, generative narratology, and game design at Leiden University.
David @monodrone.bsky.social Just some guy, y'know.
I live in Aberdeen. I like to play drums: https://www.instagram.com/gallowgate.metal
Game Conference+Convention Industry Event Calendar @eventsforgamers.bsky.social Event calendar and news of #GameDev conferences, summits, conventions, festivals, and other global game industry events. Editor-in-Chief: @MathewAnderson
Alex Moore @oldestpingu.bsky.social Founder and Design Director of https://mooregames.co.uk
Lead Designer: Rogue Trooper • AvP2010 • The Persistence and more
http://alexmoore.me.uk
Hugo (parody) @hugomakesstuff.bsky.social "clearance rack dev"
experienced programmer ✨ somewhere ✨
scary queer punk your parents warned you about
views are my own
Mike Prinke @mike-prinke.bsky.social Ex Programmer Writer at Epic Games
Hilarious Cow Jokes @hilariouscow.bsky.social 24/7, 7days a week, utterly w_udder_ful cow jokes.
No longer have an account in the udder place. If you see me on there it's fake.
Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com Co-founder + President @younghorses.com, creators of Bugsnax and Octodad. (he/him) https://younghorses.com/
The Midwest, USA
datagoblin @datagoblin.bsky.social https://datagoblin.itch.io :: https://datagoblin.carrd.co
Emilia Copeland 🔜 Develop ✨ @insaninox.bsky.social Award-Winning Actor and Writer-Director • Published Model • Affiliate Twitch Streamer • Mental Health Specialist • 🏳️🌈
www.emiliacopeland.com
Chris Filip @chrisfilip.bsky.social International Business Development Fund Manager at the BFI UK Global Screen Fund | Co-Founder of Game Anglia | MCV 30u30 | he/him | Views & Tweets my own
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social 📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
@augustbelhaha.bsky.social @augustbelhaha.bsky.social Play Spirit Crossing on Steam, Free Beta is Open Now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/Spirit_Crossing/
Lead Character Tech Artist at Spry Fox working on Spirit Crossing! 🦊✨
🏳️🌈 augustbelhumeur.com 🏳️⚧️
🚫 All of my art is made without AI 🚫
Josh | PhantomBadger @phantombadger.bsky.social Senior Tools Engineer @ Playground Games
Matt Lees @mattlees.bsky.social SU&SD / Video Tech Goblin
David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com MAEK GAEM
Expert game engineer, currently looking for work
Co-founder at @minorkeygames.com, making Eldritch 2
Guitar, vinyl, film, pro wrestling
All cats are beautiful
Anti-fascist
✝️🏳️🌈
👤 he/him 🌎 Texas 🔗 https://dphrygian.com/
Charlie Tran @charlietran.com programmer in st louis. currently making a game. previously worked at: Parsec, Unity, VHX, Vimeo. @recursecenter.bsky.social
alum.
ghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com composer / sound designer / ghoulnoise.com
IMMORTALITY//Skin Deep//Spooky Express//Patrick's Parabox//Project C//
Games by Sam @cluesbysam.com 
Jonah Ostroff @ostroffj.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor at UW Seattle. Math, puzzles, & public transit.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
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.
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
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
Séamus Ó Buadhacháin @sdob.bsky.social Senior Programmer at Failbetter Games. He/him.
Ari Arnbjörnsson @flassari.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer, Developer Relations at Epic Games.
Former Lead Programmer on #Returnal for #PS5 @Housemarque.
https://ari.games for my presentations!
Em ✨ @emiplayz.bsky.social 3D Vehicle Artist - @VOIDInteractive
Worked on TSW4/5 DLC
Worked on Red Dead Redemption
Women in Games Ambassador
Founder of Games Industry Events Discord
MCV/Develop UK 30 Under 30 ‘24
She/her/they
Marie Bisbo @mariebisbo.bsky.social Video game developer | Programmer | Coffee drinker
Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social Software dev, video game maker, writer, general dogsbody.
Shraddha Gupta @shraddhagupta.bsky.social My meandering thoughts about being a mom, working in tech and games industry and managing all the drama life throws at you!
Also being a cancer survivor, my humour is dark, you have been warned.
Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social creative things all the time. freelance exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london.
https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social 50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. He/him.
🎃 B.R.Guthrie 🎃 @guthrieartwork.bsky.social Senior Concept Artist
DnD lover, horror media sicko, gamer, bio-sci enthusiast.
(Opinions my own)
🎲💀🎮🪲
Formerly Obsidian
Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity 1&2,The Outer Worlds 1&2
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/brguthrie
#Art #OC #DnDHomecoming
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
Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action!
website: www.newarteest.com
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)
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social Game director, designer, writer.
Deus Ex, Dishonored, others.
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
Salman Shurie (recovering HP mode 😵💫) @salmanshh.bsky.social Somali • (he/him) • Game Designer / Programmer • Prev @ Hibernian Workshop & Madbox & ??? • Currently @ GUN NOSE & Gesinimo Games (solo-dev) • sometimes award-winning.
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/
Mairi Spaceship Nolan 🚀✨ (she/her) @mairispaceship.com 🕹️ Puzzle Game Designer #boardgames #videogames
✍️ Escape Industry News & The Escape Roomer
🧩 TERPECA & ER Champ UK Ambassador
🏢 Studio Manager @ Draknek, Director @ HEFT & others
mairispaceship.com
Le Slo @leslo.bsky.social Freelance Puzzle designer. lucas.le.slo.games@gmail.com
Indie game developer. https://le-slo.itch.io/
Looking for something (?) Language enthusiast.
Phoenix @phoenixstroh.bsky.social Technical Artist, Programmer, Educator. Currently working for Draknek & Friends on two game titles and teaching for the Endless Foundation
Gila RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social Game designer | RUNE, LUMEN, NOVA, WYRM, Slayers | IGDN award winner | cognitive psychologist | He/Him
gilarpgs.com
Jason Campbell @campbelljw.bsky.social AI Programmer (not that kind) at Affray Interactive
Enjoyer of ttrpgs, pasta and root beer.
Olly Smith (➡️ GAMESCOM) @ollywrites.bsky.social Your neighbor totoro. Words: LADbible Gaming (GAMINGbible). Also: GameSpot, GamesRadar+, Eurogamer, New Game Plus.
Tomb Raider and Hitman series fan, plays way too many immersive sims.
Prime8 @prime8.games Prime8 Entertainment is a small indie game company with big plans.
Our first game, Ghost Hunter Simulator, is currently in development!
https://ghosthuntersimulatorgame.com/
Support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/Prime8Entertainment/home
by @emberdione
JAMESON QUINN @realjamesonquinn.bsky.social SAG-AFTRA Award Winning Actor | Voice Artist Pittsburgh PA
4 bookings email BOOKTHEJQWAY@gmail.com or PODSTARZ.net
https://www.IMDb.me/TheJQWay
jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social backend developer at bluesky
Jenny Nicholson @jennynicholson.bsky.social 
Ragnar Tørnquist @ragso.bsky.social Writer and director of video games you probably haven’t heard of, including Dustborn, Draugen and Dreamfall. (Also, in a previous life, The Longest Journey and The Secret World, etc.) Creative person at @redthreadgames.bsky.social Making hellosunshine.app
Spry Fox @spryfox.bsky.social makers of Cozy Grove, Triple Town, Alphabear and now Spirit Crossing, a cozy life-sim MMO.
+ join the public playtest on Steam for free TODAY! 🧡
✨ http://s.team/a/2321960
read our developer blogs!
🦊 spryfox.com
Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social youtube.com/bigjoel
SuperMax @supermax.bsky.social Game developer, software engineer. Not a native English speaker. Fuck ai and tech grifters. He/him.
Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay Senior Technical Producer
Previously: Asgard’s Wrath 2, Gears of War, Unity, God of War, God of War: Ragnarok | Forbes 30u30 2020 | 🏳️🌈✡️ https://ko-fi.com/qorquiq
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and more. Narrative Director on Battlefield. Previous Horizon Forbidden West/CalloftheMountain- Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own.
He/him. www.andrewwalsh.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
@nicmakin.bsky.social @nicmakin.bsky.social 
Feral_Pug @feralpug.bsky.social Herpetologist, tortoise owner, hobby game and vulkan developer. FUCK ICE, FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
https://feralpug.github.io/
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Feral_Pug
Mike Judge @mikejudge.bsky.social Software Developer. He/him.
Karl Schmidt @karlschmidt.net Tech Consultant/Advisor, wrote about debugging @ DebugBetter, former cofounder of Gasket Games, former Relic Entertainment, DeNA, Mobify engineering leader
debugbetter.com
karlschmidt.net
Lars Thießen @larstofus.bsky.social Senior Gameplay Programmer and former gamedev professor.
he/him
Blog: https://larstofus.com/
DMs are open.
max turnbull @max.please.rest game developer working on young suns @ko-op.com
i like capybaras and sports and public transit
portfolio @ cara.app/oats
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/
Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
Mike Flood @mikeflood.bsky.social He/Him - Programmer at Finji working on @usualjune.bsky.social
Porplefish @porple.fish 日本語OK
3D Technical Artist / Programming Teacher / Indie Developer
Working on Last Passenger
porplefishtv@gmail.com
https://porple.fish/
Grimdoot @grimdoot.bsky.social “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart."
— Unknown
Semi-retired Software Developer in Seattle(ish). Greybeard. Atheist. Neurodivergent. Still masking.
He/Him/They
There won't be any games on a dead planet.
Douglas @dmgregory.ca Game design professor, math and science geek.
Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com
Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)