uel @greaterrealityarea.net uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. minneapolis based.
greaterrealityarea.net, formerly compoundeye.substack.com, northofreality.com
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Katherine 🏳️⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social Software Engineer specializing in game engines. Former Cryptic, Crystal Dynamics, Blizzard, et al.
If I'm posting/sharing code, it's probably cursed.
she/her
flattened beneath the layer cake of history @fractrans.bsky.social call me books
wear a mask
thinks way too much about Caves of Qud
sff/math/cs
[th]e(y)/[th]em
Orb Strategy mode
use your Orbs in tough situations
Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social picture mover
http://felix.film/
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
JDAG @jdag.bsky.social Game dev with a penchant for funny little guys. Was @johndaguerra on twitter
You might know me from:
Cobalt Core 🛸🚀
Investi-Gator 🐊🔎
Sunshine Heavy Industries 🚀🌟
Aaron Cherof @cherof.com Music-making electroacoustic entity. Composer on Rocket Rat Games (Cobalt Core, Sunshine Heavy Industries), Minecraft, Fulcrum Defender, Margin of the Strange www.cherof.com #gameaudio
ben driscoll @daisyowl.com I'm Ben Driscoll, artist and writer and programmer. I make games and stuff
🚀 Cobalt Core https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179850/Cobalt_Core/
🛠️ Sunshine Heavy Industries https://store.steampowered.com/app/1542810/Sunshine_Heavy_Industries/
Bex @bexsaltsman.bsky.social CEO + co-founder of FinjiCo. 
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
im rob @bobacupcake.bsky.social tech artist/gamedev!! he/they. i made games and #art and music!! currently at ko_op!!
website: bobacupcake.com
email: rob@bobacupcake.com
D. Squinkifer @squinky.me That gum you like is going to come back in style.
https://squinky.me/
@noorromans.bsky.social @noorromans.bsky.social 
Tyler Pham @tylerphamsound.bsky.social I needed recommendations to replace my clothes dryer. Also, I am a video game composer/sound designer (I also just started my own indie game studio.)
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Crayon @crayondev.ie professional juggler
funi raccoon game -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3599690?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bio
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/955129445/funi-raccoon-game
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Lena Guerrero @lenagrrarrow.com I write code to help people (and computers) connect! 🎮 | they/any | chicagoooo
backend engineer at Gardens 🌳 previously Singularity 6, Jackbox Games | IGDA-F Next Gen Leader
John O’Kane @johnokane.bsky.social Games Programmer.
Ireland.
He/Him
trying gal @naceallabug.bsky.social leath phríobháideach. semi private.
dreamfeel @dreamfeel.bsky.social llaura, @liadhy & lots more folks.
cool things like curtain, if found, contact, bog bodies
follow for news and gifs, but probably in the opposite order
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
Outersloth @outersloth.com We fund game.
By Innersloth.
https://outersloth.com/
Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social Game dev who loves making randomly generated critters and does so as often as possible. Developing Cookie Gardening and Biolune. Owner of Meep Engine: https://www.meepengine.com/
Biolune: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3070190/Biolune/
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
jenny @qdork.bsky.social posting (at least) 1 video a day until my video game, CONSUME ME, sells one million copies.
buy now! 👇👇👇👇👇
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/consume-me/id6769877287
steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social IGF and Hugo Award-Winning narrative designer for Freehold Games. Founding member of Nightmare Blunt Rotation. fka @inurashii. She/her. BTQ+.
Check my work out at https://ectafoole.itch.io
Snapjaw VTuber at https://twitch.tv/grastreams
Full Indie @fullindie.bsky.social Connecting independent game developers in & around Vancouver 🤝
Join our Discord community 👉 https://discord.gg/yCbnfjn
Visit our website 👉 https://fullindie.com
Full Indie Summit | September 20th, 2026 | Westin Bayshore
✨MEMODEMO!!! @ home 🏠 ✨ @memodemo.zip ✨I make video game inspired video game music! ✨
🎶 Find me in...🎶
- UNBEATABLE 🎸
- Homestuck 🏡
- Arcaea 🧬
- Which Way Up 🪐
- METRO JAMMERS 1+2 🌟
more soon...
🎨 Profile art: @strovi.bsky.social
📀 Website/Contact: Memodemo.zip
neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social get me out of this shape
Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
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
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Mike Boxleiter @boxleiter.bsky.social when i was a small small boy i had big big muscles
Karlee Esmailli @karlee-esmailli.bsky.social Producer of Lazy River, Writer of many dating sims!!
Spadelaser @spadelaser.bsky.social Senior Level Designer, all opinions are my own
THE THAUMATURGE AVAILABLE NOW
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684350/The_Thaumaturge/
Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
Adinda | Acreates @acreates.bsky.social All about Game Design || Public speaker || Game journalist || Educator ||Youtuber ~ With games is nothing impossible.
GP @mousefountain.bsky.social 
nell @nellraban.com a woman with no common sense
Ben Schneider @droctothorpe.bsky.social Professor of Practice in Narrative Design for Games at WPI (@WPI_IMGD). Worked on LOTRO, DDO, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Titan Quest, Empire Earth. (he/him)
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social 
Emily E. Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social contract audio artist at EA. music maker at home. previously at Retro Studios and Arkane Austin. N2日本語でOK. she/her.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial. | Indépendant. Neutre. Impartial.
doctorswithoutborders.ca | medecinssansfrontieres.ca
Evan - Making some art! 🎨 @evanflow7.bsky.social Aspiring artist (sometimes NSFW 🔞) and former DJ. Always bouncing between new interests. Thanks ADHD!
he/him 🩷💜💙
Midwest
check out my #art! (⬅️ hold down to search)
PFP @highlandkall.bsky.social
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com — 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 — she/her
Owen Deery @owendeery.com Building games / gifs / graphics.
Small Radios Big Televisions http://smallradiosbigtelevisions.com
Radio Viscera http://steam.pm/app/1303480
He/him
mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social software developer, llm hater
used to make games, will again one day
he/him
Joe Mirabello @blankslatejoe.bsky.social Founder, @terribleposture.bsky.social. Creative Director: Battle Train, Tower of Guns, Mothergunship, 3 out of 10, Mothergunship: Forge, Burgle Supply Company, more. social(at)terribleposture.com
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
Henry Smith @hengineer.bsky.social Creator of Spaceteam and soon Blabyrinth! Game Programmer/Designer. Worked at Epic Games, BioWare, Irrational Games. Puzzled Pint GC. New-ish dad. He/him.
Patreon: http://spaceteamadmiralsclub.com
Mastodon: @hengineer@mastodon.social
Itay Keren @untame.com Dad, husband, designer/developer. Head of Upstate NY game studio Untame, creator of Apple Design Award 2017 winner Mushroom 11. More at untame.com
Nathan Fouts, ChainStaff is Out Now @mommysbestgames.bsky.social #GameDev since 1994. I do action mechanics with a twist!
Made "ChainStaff" https://tinyurl.com/chainstaff
Made Shoot 1UP, Serious Sam DD, Pig Eat Ball, Bumpy Grumpy. Worked on POSTAL, Resistance Fall of Man, Ratchet n Clank.
http://www.mommysbestgames.com
Robin / koffeinvampir @robygon.bsky.social Making a Game about Making Games, that you will make games in it's The Games You Make: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2852750
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
Chaim Gingold @chaimg.bsky.social Text box, pixels, colors, some words, countless abstractions.
Social media averse designer, papa, and author of Building SimCity.
https://chaim.io
Brian Cronin @briangcronin.bsky.social Game dev working on Slumber Realm 🎲💤 @chuggagames.bsky.social
Formerly Monster Train, Natural Selection 2, Inkbound
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
Borut Pfeifer @borut.bsky.social Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/Neighborhoods/
Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...
Ty 💀 @tys.work I delete my posts often.
Follow me on mastodon - ty@slime.land - https://slime.land/@ty
Cofounder of Comradery.co
Working on a game called High Iron Manifesto
Teaching evil game design ideas to America's youth
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.
Birdonic @birdonicwaves.bsky.social My life be like ooooooooo waaaaaaaaa
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
Ryan Juckett @ryanjuckett.com It's me. I run @hypersect.com
Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW @tom.trinketstudios.com Battle Suit Aces coming Oct 7!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/Battle_Suit_Aces/
President/Programmer of Trinket Studios. Battle Chef Brigade,
Battle Suit Aces; Previously Wideload/Disney; Tall; He/him; tom@trinketstudios.com
eddybox (hemisphere games) @eddybox.bsky.social Osmos and Karmaka creator (www.hemispheregames.com)
Most recently collaborated on Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (http://apple.co/-Gibbon) w @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social
Living in the alpine meadow...
Broken Rules @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social Game studio established in 2009.
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, VITRIOL, ELOH, Old Man‘s Journey, CHESTO, Secrets of Raetikon, Chasing Aurora, And Yet It Moves
Ty Taylor @imakeindiegames.bsky.social I worked on The Bridge, Tumblestone, Freshly Frosted, Cozy Grove, Marble It Up! Ultra, Sail Forth, Roundguard, and more. Forbes 30 Under 30. He/Him.
Joost van Dongen @joostvandongen.bsky.social Game creator. Founder & Creative Director of Galaxy Grove (Station to Station). Former co-founder of Ronimo (Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers, De Blob, Blightbound). Solo creator: Robo Maestro, Cello Fortress, Proun. Composer and cellist of The Ageless Gate
Andrea Roberts @andrearoberts.bsky.social Game Designer of Wonderbelly Games, Mother of Imps, Champion of Forgotten Side Quests. Cooking up Arcane Eats, a fantasy cooking deckbuilder. Made Roundguard, a bouncy pegglelike roguelike. We all need joy
https://www.wonderbellygames.com/
aka TanookiFruit
Ryan is making Button City Soccer Days @subliminalman.bsky.social made a game about a fox and an arcade and now he's playing soccer.
Button City (https://www.buttoncitygame.com) Subliminal Gaming (https://www.subliminalgaming.com) Ⓥ still masking
Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social Cool dad. Game director and designer. Classic Thief series, indie studio Tiger Style (Waking Mars, Spider: Bryce Manor, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon), freelance game developer. Multiple GotY award winner. Austin and Vermont.
Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social Worked on games like The Suffering, The Church in the Darkness, and Homeworld: Vast Reaches. Wrote Game Design: Theory & Practice. Now Studio Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new things.
Tanya Kan 🌸🏳️🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social Vivid Foundry's Founder. She/They; BiDemi. Dev since 2012. 2D+3D art, game design, game writing, production, teaching. We made the award-winning Solace State: Embolden activists, take back power from big corp!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/928000
Aubrey Serr @serr.bsky.social Veteran indie game developer and GDC speaker on Level Design. Artist, animator, and programmer with 10+ years of experience. Trained economist bringing analytical skills to game design. 1990 Nintendo World Championships semi-finalist
Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social Game Designer and Programmer — Projects: Astro Duel 2, Dig Dog, Train Bandit, Astro Party, Retro Game Crunch
https://rustymoyher.com
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io • Founder, Dejobaan Games • Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve • 30 Year Veteran Game Dev • Boston!
Geert Nellen @geertnellen.bsky.social Game Designer and artist. In the past: Director of Metrico, Lead Designer on Mini Motorways, worked as a designer on games like Manifold Garden and Viewfinder.
Glen Henry - DUPPY DETECTIVE TASHIA OUT NOW🔍👻 @spritewrench.com 🏝 Founder/ Project Director Spritewrench Studios
🔊Loudest of Jamaica Game Developer Society (JGDS)
🎓IGDA - Foundation Velocity Cohort Coordinator
✌ (he/him)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/spritewrench
Richard Atlas @richmakesgames.bsky.social 🎮 CEO / Creative Director at Clever Endeavour Games (he/him)
🍵 Lover of tea, chocolate, heavy metal, cycling, fantasy, health science, and games with good feel 😎
📝 Blog here: http://richardatlas.com
Matt Hammill @matthammill.bsky.social 2.5D human gamedev. Rogue Legacy 2, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Gesundheit!, Guilded Youth. He/him
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer. Currently at Innersloth, prev Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & lots more lil stuff.
NYU MFA ‘19.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ brown belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Antti Tiihonen @anttitiihonen.bsky.social Wishlist or playtest Reconfigure: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/Reconfigure/
Co-founder Almost Human (Legend of Grimrock) & I run Hapatus Ltd for my own games + freelancing (Noita, Control, Druidstone). Game design, gfx, synths
Chris Chung @chrischung.com Indie dev behind Catlateral Damage! Cat dad, husband, food lover, collector, Pokémon Trainer. He/him
Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social Indie game dev behind Duskers & A Virus Named TOM (formerly Bad Robot, Dreamworks Animation, Rainbow Studios)
info@ http://misfitsattic.com
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
Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics!
tylerglaiel.com
Monica Fan => GDC 2026 @designermonicat.bsky.social Game Designer by day, k-pop and cat lover by night
Current: @Pipeworks
Cofounder: IGDA Neurodivergent in Game Dev SIG, @HimboHunter
Bubble Tea is my religion. My opinions are my own.
Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social Owner of Flippfly (Race The Sun), and CEO of Player Galaxy, a new web games platform for UGC games.
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
Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT Patreon: patreon.com/expzine
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social UX Director, Mighty Yell Studios. Accessibility Advocate. she/her
#tabbymakesart #tabbyjournals