Wayne Emanuel @wayneemanuel.bsky.social Director & Founder of CTRL+IMPACT Charity & Games Consultancy / Trustee for JingleJam / Ex-Gaming Lead @ TikTok & War Child UK / Host of Coin-Op Conversations & Co-host of Games of Note
ShootTheCore @shootthecore.tech Video games! My retro video game repair logs, video tutorials and written materials are collected at https://shootthecore.tech
Cat DeSpira @catdespira.bsky.social Writer/historical researcher living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in a house full of classic arcade games. Outdoor adventurer. Strong Resister ✊️ Gen X antifascist, hater of bigots. *Loves punk, metal, and video games*
🚫 MAGA 🤡s 🚫 🐮 💩 🚫 Crypto
AKraten @akraten.bsky.social Video game enthusiast - game center operator - Artist - Noise Maker - ゲームセンター
@ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social Discovering the arcade's past!
A journey through the history of coin-op. Games, jukeboxes, vending, and more from the 1st century to the 20th!
Also @playhistory.bsky.social
Kaelan Ramos @kaelanramos.bsky.social Enjoyer of vintage anime, film, and joshi puroresu | Retro Arcade Enthusiast | Media Preservationist【 Sailor Moon S EVO Champion 🔥 】
gatchamix @gatchamix.com cats・plushies・arcades・otoge・pop’n・5key・miku
Game Sack @gamesack.net Joe from Game Sack, a show on Youtube about retro video games. Exciting? Hmmm.
Denver | youtube.com/gamesack
Goodnews @goodnews.computer Co-Director @midnighters.games
Marathon (2026) Speedrunner
#ScanlineSunday enjoyer
www.midnighters.games
he/him // Los Angeles
PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social Sega Saturn docu-series on all NTSC-U Sega Saturn games in release order
https://t.co/k2mJ88XAvY
http://patreon.com/pandamoniumnick
http://ko-fi.com/pandamoniumnick
he/him
Chronic WaveRunner appreciator
Saturn shitposts & musings here
Virginia, from MN/ND
NFG @nfgworld.com Photographer. Writer. SysOp. Old. I run gamesx.com.
Conrad @ericconrad.com SANS Fellow, CTO of Backshore Communications, GIAC GSE #13, SABR member, golden age arcade restorer. Peaks Island, Maine
PastBlaster @pastblaster.bsky.social I talk about arcade games on a podshow:
www.podouken.com
World's Okayest Arcade Stream:
Twitch.tv/pastblaster
Keep up to date with me and my projects: https://discord.gg/6HQE2xbjmu
Candy Cab Club @candycabclub.com The Official Australian & NZ distributor of Darksoft, aje_fr, HAS, Toyoshim, Everten & alberto1225. Est. 2021. Curated by @djsheep.com.
Visit us: www.CandyCabClub.com
Ranny Snice @rannysnice.bsky.social Artist, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Videographer and video editor with a passion for art and videogames.
Mark Kleeb @kleeb.bsky.social Head janitor at @wonderville.nyc
Adjunct faculty at NYU
I build arcade cabinets
PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️⚧️ BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay Everyones favorite yeag girl 😈 Gay af game dev 🔗 Level 99 Nomura belt goth ☠ 33
Buy my merch! yeag.gay
🐇 The Witch Upstairs: youtube.com/watch?v=dtD2IdJ1nVo
🏎 NMKart: b0tster.itch.io/NMKart
🩸 BBPSX: 🙈
🏹 Arcus: b0tster.itch.io/arcus
she/her
minors dni
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/
moaw! @moaw.art Garlic Guy(they)🇰🇷🇺🇸 dip dots & shame dev| moawling@pm.me |http://ko-fi.com/moawling |
Marlowe Dobbe @marlowedobbe.com She/Her | Art Director at Mega Crit | PIGSquad Organizer | Prev Dicey Dungeons + Floppy Knights | Black Lives Matter! Trans rights are human rights!
⋆༺𓆩☠︎︎𓆪༻⋆
https://marlowedobbe.itch.io/
https://marlowedobbe.com/
https://marlowedobbe.com/newsletter
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social Video Game Composer・Sound Engineer・Gameboy Musician・Producer・Performer・
Best known for Super Hexagon, Spectra, Dicey Dungeons, JSAB, Cadence of Hyrule DLC
🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸
🌐 https://linktr.ee/chipzel
legalized gamboling @ohtazer.goblinmo.de it's tazer army!
avowed dipshit, inveterate sweetie
autodidactic everything enthusiast
rooting for all things pro-social
ops for @arcadecommons.org
former admin for 🍀🐎 & hit podcast @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
Catt Small @catt.design Designer with too many hobbies in Brooklyn. I run @gdocexpo.com in my spare time. People go "ooh" when I say I make video games.
Nicole He @nicole.pizza game developer 🍭 director of The Crush House 🍫 BAFTA Breakthrough '24 🍿 she/her
https://nicole.pizza
Grace Bruxner @gracebruxner.bsky.social ive decided to post……. gracebruxner.com for work stuff 
eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social artist rolling down a big hill getting very dizzy
https://www.evakhoury.com/
member @boshis.place
all-purpose eva @recurse.com
puppeting @ Bread + Puppet
Previously: NYU Game Center, Babycastles, Wonderville, Pratt Institute
NYC
they/them
🕊️🇵🇸
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Messhof @messhof.bsky.social Nidhogg, Flywrench, Wheel World. Check out Blood Dungeon at https://blooddungeon.com
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
mathew olson @mathewolson.com blogging at virtualvector.xyz • writer and creative technologist at large • makin’ arcade stuff • totally sincere hater • he/him •
Robin Baumgarten 👨🏭✨ @robinwobbles.bsky.social Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
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
Jonathan Blair @kokode.io Video wizard - NYC
🪩 LCD - Digital Experiences for Leading Brands
⚡️ Flux - Rapidly build interactive sites
🔩 MUN - Fabrication and hardware incubator
steph @hotcakesdeluxe.online failed luchadora ▲ beloved stepwife ▲ phl doll stuck in atx ▲ game dev i guess
walt @runningjump.games shaped like a friend. making indie arcade games as "running jump". engineer at blizzard but this is a personal account. https://runningjump.games
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social Creators of Trombone Champ 🎺 and other stupid and/or funny games.
linktr.ee/holywowstudios
Arcade Commons @arcadecommons.org DIY arcade cabinets for local multiplayer indie games based in Brooklyn, New York.
https://arcadecommons.org
https://linktr.ee/dbaarcade
https://discord.gg/M32eyPRmGF
Blake? @beetleeggblues.bsky.social biz dev
person of color
working on a wook rpg
dustmop is over here now @dustmop.bsky.social dumb hacks, pun lover, ideals. Past/Future: chiptune fan, Indie Arcades, nesdev, retro homebrew, low-level, NY/NJ xHCx
@arcadecommons.org
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Game Arts @ Pratt Institute
Founder of Essay Games (he/him)
https://essay-games.com/
Bundle of Joy (Narrative Wario Ware Dad-Simulator):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3138370/Bundle_of_Joy/
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
Jackie Vecchitto @jackiev.bsky.social Holy Wow Studios dev - creators of BAFTA-Nominated Trombone Champ and other stupid games 🎺
Brooklyn, NYC - She/Her
linktr.ee/JackieVecchitto
🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social computer graphics and computer graphics accessories
http://ivansafrin.com
currently working on:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2886700/Star_Scum/
.. and another secret thing.
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
jonny hopkins @jwhop.bsky.social formerly parsons mfadt, member @boshis.place
currently thinking about walking around in spaces, weird controllers, and plunderludics
Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social Working on "Memoir Games", & my memoir "The Games That Saved Me" 👥 Humanistic Game Design 🤫 Unparty at GDC 🪴Friendship Garden 🎲 NYU📕 Scholastic
https://linktr.ee/muditaheart
It's Ryan! @construct.goblinmo.de Production/Curation/Design @
@arcadecommons.org
Words @
criticalconstruct.com, Unwinnable, Stop Caring
We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social videogame-adjacent production // curation // hardware studio 💜 wethrowswitches.com
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
syed salahuddin @sssyed.bsky.social art, software, games. working on a 3d design tool, formerly Babycastles co-founder
Wonderville 🕹 @wonderville.nyc An indie arcade and event space in Brooklyn NY
hello@wonderville.nyc for inquiries
IGDA NYC @igdanyc.bsky.social We aim to grow & connect our game dev community & industry!
Have ideas, questions, or wanna help out? Email: nyc@igda.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/BhDkJsdBc #NYMakesGames
charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social Associate Art Professor at the NYU Game Center
socks magocs @socksmagocs.bsky.social | arcade games, woodwork, cosplay, and other bullshit | dept head for
@MAGIndieArcade
| he/him | farts |
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
IndieCade @indiecade.bsky.social Celebrating and supporting international independent game development. Submissions are open! https://indiecade.com/submissions/
big__flan @bigflan.bsky.social visit the angel garden: https://flan.itch.io/angel-garden
experience enjoyer
made titanic II and museum of the saved image
my games: flan.itch.io
Danny Hawk @dannyhawk.com making car guy, adjuncting in nyc, part of boshi’s place. dannyhawk.com
boshi's place @boshis.place boshi’s place is a space in brooklyn, ny that celebrates game making as a craft and *something related to play/experience*
website --> https://boshis.place <--
Philly Game Mechanics @phillygamemechs.bsky.social A meetup of game developers, hobbyists and players in the city of Philadelphia. Game Jams! Tournaments! Show & Tell! All are welcome! #PhillyMakesGames
https://linktr.ee/phillygamemechanics
JP @artfail.bsky.social Artist, Educator, Coder
I made games once.
SWORDCAR | SpaceMicroscope @spacemicroscope.bsky.social Been making SWORDCAR for too damn long
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2517770/SWORDCAR/
Log @tigerthelion.bsky.social Tetris enthusiast, NYU Game Center tech ops fella, enjoyer of heavy and slow music
Maximo @maxiborga.bsky.social 1/2 of @Videogamo, makers of #NAVEArcade, the traveling arcade cabinet, and #DOBOTONE, our Party Game Console.
https://chaos.social/@maxiborga
R25th 🏳️⚧️ is trying its best @r25th.bsky.social - alt game developer (ctrl & otherwise)
- radio DJ on WRFL (sundays 10pm to midnight)
- burlesque performer
- big challenges advocate
- perpetual mess
- girl that was put together wrong
- inhuman snuffdoll
- it/she
- warning: bad words -
Dave Shire @hireddivas.bsky.social What's up fellow Pepsi drinkers!
(he/him - actually a scientist - queens)
Jonah Warren @playfulsystems.bsky.social Game design prof. ♥︎s weird games and interactions.
https://playfulsystems.com
Full Body Games, Pangolin, Word After Word, Sloppy Forgeries, and Choppy Copies.
Wishlist Sloppy Forgeries ⇢
https://bit.ly/sloppy-bs
kamohh @kamohh.bsky.social * SWFA author / gamedev / web weirdo /
* making a game about throwing your phone off a cliff
throwyourphoneoffacliff.com
drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games i like to make things, oftentimes on the computer
https://organzola.games
working on MUTAGEN🧬
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3507690/MUTAGEN/
contact: drew at organzola dot games
kory @kbones.fun he/him | https://linktr.ee/kory_ | kbones.fun
bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com they/she
games writer
editorial intern @pcmag
beewertheimer.com
August Luhrs @augustluhrs.bsky.social 
owen @owenribbit.bsky.social https://owen.cool
S. Rowan (Craggle Shattercap) 🏳️🌈 @echoinglaughter.bsky.social tabletop gamesmith, running wild. soon releasing TIGER at the PAX U Night Market
formerly of M:CP, SW:SP, Heroscape
🏳️🌈
Jason Corace @jcorace.bsky.social Game designer, mistake maker &
Director UAlbany Game Center, formerly Pratt Game Arts, MICA Game Lab
www.goldengrave.com
Seth S. Scott @perfecthatgames.com 🏀🌵🎹🎨🏃🏻♂️🍑🎲🧩🏈
i’m seth, i make games and art, thanks for being here
www.sethsscott.com
MAGFest Indie Arcade @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social Skeeting about DIY cabinets, alt-control games, and all the other weird stuff we got at the MAGFest Indie Arcade
Nathan Mattingly @nathanmattingly.bsky.social 
Matty!? @mtylpg.bsky.social A11Y design stuff, alt ctrl game stuff, other stuff
alan worm @omnikrll.bsky.social equipment hoarder at nyu game center. guitar in theophobia. rudolf schenker in a nerv t-shirt.
Allen @allenriley.com https://www.allen-riley.com
A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027 - 16th edition - May 5-8
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - Summer break - Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
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
Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social Video game critic, Editor-at-Large @ Polygon. Formerly Digital Trends, Inverse, Hard Drive
i am never doing “discourse” i do not know what random post you are talking about
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/
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
John Fio @audiosprite.bsky.social Musician and composer. Skate Story coming 2025.
https://johnf.io
Jesse/SmashRiot @smashriot.bsky.social smashriot.com - Focusing on Interactive Media and Unique Experiences
mut / moochi @mut.media 
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
emily koonce @koonce.itch.io ✨international game designer party girl✨
my games: https://koonce.itch.io/
DJ Softserve⁉️ @chatgptcruiser.bsky.social DJ, visual artist, venue operator, game enthusiast, hi-power homie and pro-goofer. 🤙😩🤙
E30 driver and fixer 🏎️
He/him
Thanks for visiting my internet website- Rody