Anna Winterstein @awstein.bsky.social Game Designer & Writer - Burnt-out raccoon
☕ Coffee Talk 2 & Tokyo 🎮 Ex-Lively Studio
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🥖 Baguette in Porridgeland
Trans rights are human rights, I can't believe that needs to be said.
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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social Associate professor @ University of Alberta and Canada CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
M Charity @mastermilkx.bsky.social Just a they/them programmer | Assistant Professor at University of Richmond
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Itch: http://mastermilkx.itch.io
Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social Director of IMGD at WPI. Game design, generative AI, computational craft, generative design, feminist tech, mom stories. she/they
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@eflatun212.bsky.social @eflatun212.bsky.social 
Bitpart AI @bitpartai.bsky.social The Bitpart AI Director & multi-agent planner power Archetypes, bringing game worlds to life.
Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Maastricht University.
Research interests: AI, RL, games. Tic-Tac-Toe aficionado. Opinions my own, but should be everyone's.
Anon feedback: admonymous.co/dennis-soemers
Alan Zucconi @alanzucconi.com Director of Studies at Goldsmiths, UoL • Senior Lecturer • Game AI • Game Developer • Shader Master • Content Creator
Jodie Azhar @jodieazhar.bsky.social Technical Art Director -> Solo Indie Game Developer @ Teazelcat Games making a wholesome, magical, narrative game
GameDev; Freelance Technical Artist
BAFTA Breakthrough
Gardener; bibliophile; flautist
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Will Overgard 🔥#1 Wanted: Dead Fan @willovergard.bsky.social Broadcasting as Viking Blonde by day and the games industry's moss covered shaman by night 🔥 [He/Him] BAFTA Games member and indie game fanatic 🔥 DM's Open for business, bisdev and tepigs
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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social Making games for longer than seems advisable.
Recently, AI lead at Take-Two; earlier at SomaSim, Zynga, EA etc.
Doctor of AI, under the hippocratic oath bound to help all game AIs.
Author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/
Hello from Chicago!
Bram Ridder @bramridder.bsky.social Technical Director @KytheraAI
-- ex Senior AI Programmer @Rebellion
-- AI Planning PostDoc alumnus @KingsCollegeLon
-- Indie Game Developer -- 3D Game Engine Creator.
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
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Oskar Stålberg @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Game dev. Made Bad North and Townscaper. 
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social “No, not that one”- Politico | Creator of Video Games Industry Memo | MD, Half-Space Consulting | Author of Power Play (June 2026) | Pun Appreciator
Order my book 👉 https://linktr.ee/Power_play_book
Jason Campbell @campbelljw.bsky.social AI Programmer (not that kind) at Affray Interactive
Enjoyer of ttrpgs, pasta and root beer.
Jeremy Gow @jeremygow.bsky.social Academic. AI & Games. London. QMUL Game AI Group. https://www.iggi-phd.org/
Richard Kogelnig @richardkogelnig.bsky.social fascinated by (too?) many things. Engineering, Psychology, Music, Game design ...
Working on the Havok Navigation SDK
@RichardKogelnig@mastodon.social
Oliver Withington @owithington.bsky.social Game AI Research, Game Dev & Videos about games. he/they
🌐 owithington.co.uk
📹 youtube.com/@Bard_Hard
Matt Brandwein @brandwein.social co-founder of @hiddendoor.co • formerly head of product for data science/machine learning at Cloudera • he/him
Ahmed Khalifa @amidos2006.bsky.social Egyptian Game Designer | AI Researcher @ UM | He/They
🎮: amidos2006.itch.io
📚: scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ
Susanne Binder @susannebinder.bsky.social Aficionada of architecture, art, books, cake, coffee, dance, games, linguistics, music, saxophones, science, shoes, typewriters, zeitgeist.
Manager of iGGi - Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence @ Queen Mary Uni of London
Sahar Mirhadi @saharmirhadi.bsky.social Heard before being seen
Magic: The Gathering Eternal Format specialist
PhD Researcher on Video Games, Coping and Wellbeing @iggi-phd.bsky.social
linktr.ee/saharmirhadi
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social RL researcher at DeepMind
https://schaul.site44.com/ 🇱🇺
Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists.
Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
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.
Jeff Orkin @jefforkin.bsky.social Cofounder @ Bitpart.ai. Ex: Drift, Giant Otter, Monolith, Sierra. AI Lead for FEAR and NOLF2. MIT Media Lab alum
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