Hookshot Media @hookshot.media We love video games. Hookshot publishes leading video gaming websites @nintendolife.com, @pushsquare.com, @purexbox.com and @timeextension.com
hookshot.media
Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Lead staff writer at SteamHype.com - PC gaming demystified - Veteran games crit, news & curation. Hyped for games of all shapes & sizes. Formerly RPS, PC Gamer & PCGamesN. He/Him
Find my other work, Steam Curator page & emails at dominictarason.com
Matt Henderson @matthen.com Maths animations, dialogue systems research
Research @ PolyAI, previously Google, Apple, Reka. PhD Cambridge
Edinburgh, UK
Frame Fatales @framefatales.com GDQ's All Women & Femmes Speedrunning Community
🔥 Flame Fatales 2026: September 13-19
Over $1M raised for charity since FF's inception in 2019 💜💛
framefatales.com
D-Pad Studio @dpad.studio ✨ Coming soon: Vikings On Trampolines https://store.steampowered.com/app/748810/Vikings_On_Trampolines/
🎮 Developers of Owlboy and Savant - Ascent. #indiegame devs hailing from Norway 🇳🇴
🌐 https://dpad.studio
Chaos Theory Games @chaostheorygames.bsky.social Three best friends started an indie game studio and made some more friends along the way 💙
The team behind Crab God, Rusthaven, Oaks vs Orcs, and more.
Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social Technical system designer, proc gen ranger/druid, Roguelike Celebration MC, kaiju groupie (she/her)
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖
linktr.ee/koopmode
nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social game? designer??
Forget Starlight releasing soon. currently ???.
Amberspire, The Banished Vault, and others, formerly of Bithell Games. Blog at blog.enceledean.com, analog games at enceledean.itch.io, design podcast at paperlabyrinths.com.
they
brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev I am a blast-processed skeleton.
lead mission design on STAR WARS: Zero Company.
ttrpgs: sulcata.itch.io
blog: brendanmcleod.dev
game design pod: http://paperlabyrinths.com
avatar by @feralroyal.bsky.social
leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social video games & music writing in 48 hills, the singles jukebox, stop caring, superjump
music making at humblepopstar.bandcamp.com
i'm just chilling in the panopticon
barinky @barinky.net low poly mechanic
Substructure (Dubious Design) @dubiousdesign.bsky.social London-based indie developer, designing games with dubious intent. Currently making Substructure.
Whiskerwood (Minakata Dynamics) @minakatadynamics.bsky.social Indie dev working on Whiskerwood, a game in which you can build grand cities and complex production chains as industrious mice under cat overlords, balancing survival and rebellion.
Play Whiskerwood: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2489330/Whi
Desecrators @desecrators.bsky.social Desecrators is a retro FPS inspired by '90s six-degrees-of-freedom shooters.
Available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1311570/Desecrators
Walaber @walaber.com JellyCar creator, lead designer of "Where's My Water?" | Making games solo and 1/2 of Toyful Games | ゲームを作っています！日本語だいたいワカル | He/him https://linktr.ee/walaber
Nozomu @nozomugames.com Making games at nozomugames.com, head of publishing at https://inner-pocket.com
Currently creating Burn With Me: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2954010
Spriteweaver | The Wrench is still next door @spriteweaver.bsky.social (Definitely much louder than Glen)
Pfp by: @mxsumo.bsky.social
Software Guy
Likes making games
Really loves looking at pixel art
Mike Chi @retrotink.com For general tech help/support: http://discord.gg/jE6deAhjCM. For order inquiries, respond to your order confirmation e-mail. This is account is fun and games 🤡
Squid x Squid @squidxsquid.bsky.social The soccer-basketball-squid game you never knew you needed. Challenge your friends and blast, dash, dive, and taunt your way to squid stardom!
Be squid. Play sports. Fight friends.
https://linktr.ee/squidxsquid
Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social Animation curator since 2000.
News site, Video platform, TV show, and more.
All run by a single person.
https://www.catsuka.com/links
You can support me on Patreon 🙏 https://patreon.com/catsuka
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Puppy Truck! @puppytruck.dog 🐕Wishlist on Steam!🛻
Puppy Truck is a puzzle-packed 3D platforming adventure about a tiny truck with the heart of a puppy!
Steam: http://puppytruck.dog
Discord: discord.gg/PwMaFTevff
Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social Author of VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR
Principal Apps and Games Writer at PCMag
Union guy, Black guy, fake Street Sharks guy
https://www.jordanwminor.com/
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
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
Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social A small, efficient game studio. Creators of I Am Your Beast / El Paso, Elsewhere / and more.
🐶 Come hang with us in the Discord!
https://discord.com/invite/dog-airport-game
Parta Games 👉 Choppa: Rescue Rivals is OUT NOW! @partagames.bsky.social Finnish fully remote indie game studio by @anttikole.bsky.social | Developing CHOPPA: RESCUE RIVALS and co-developed TURBO DISMOUNT 2 | Made Choppa & some games www.partagames.com
Blue Ridge Games | Wishlist MAFATE today!✉️ @blueridgegames.bsky.social An #indiegame publisher from IndieGameBusiness®
Wishlist 📷 MAFATE
🌐Info: http://blueridgegames.com
🎮 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133220/MAFATE/
Creator of #PrismaticIndieShowcase
Eline Muijres 🐇 @elinemuijres.com 🐇 Freelance Game Producer & Founder at https://cohop.games
👾 Lead Producer @blueridgegames.bsky.social
🕹️ Mafate, Billie Bust Up, On Your Tail, Threads of Time, Bounden
🌈 Board Member @games4diversity.com
🇳🇱 Dutch in Vienna
Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social Independent Game Programmer by moonlight, solo-developing an anime/mecha arcade-shooter: NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY
WISHLIST: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/Nightshift_Galaxy
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/EAncTCUnHY
Dayjob @ Fictions Inc. He/him.
remy siu | 1000xRESIST @remysiu.com founded indie game studio sunset visitor 斜陽過客 • made 1000xRESIST
Peabody Award Winner, Hugo and Nebula Nominee
www.remysiu.com
Matt | DEMO COMING SEPT 30th ON STEAM! @pmrd.net Creating my debut game: 'Incoherence: Dark Rooms' - A Survival Horror Puzzle Game Inspired by Blue Prince and Resident Evil
DEMO COMING SEPTEMBER 30th!
STEAM: darkroomsgame.com
KICKSTARTER: tinyurl.com/yc5t3577
DISCORD: discord.gg/E3Q9PMqKdK
Lantto (making Sandustry - falling sand meets automation) @lantto.bsky.social Solo dev making Sandustry, a mining and automation sandbox with pixel-based physics. Published by @hoodedhorse.bsky.social
#indiedev #gamedev
Wishlist and play the demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2764460/Sandustry/
Cat @feles-machina.bsky.social Indie Game Dev
Creating the stealth action title named "DEEP SIX"
Maintaining "Rigodotify" Blender rigging plugin
Wishlist it on steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3556510/DEEP_SIX/
Yotsuba Interactive @yotsubainteractive.bsky.social 🍀 Indie game publisher finding small stories for players with big hearts
💜 @nnoroshi.bsky.social's shy little sister
https://linktr.ee/yotsubainteractive
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
CaperCube @capercube.com Dev on Layers Deep | layersdeep.bsky.social
🎮 Web & Game developer
🏠 https://capercube.com/
they/them
#gamedev #godot #web
dori dori 🌻Wishlist Milki Delivery! 🐮🚲 @blibloop.bsky.social I create stuff that make me happy 🌻
Pins, games, doodles 🍃
🎮 Released my first game Minami Lane 🦝
Working on Milki Delivery! 🐮🚲
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4259360/Milki_Delivery
RAGDOLL FROG @ making a Karate Kid-like Beat em Up @ragdollfrog.bsky.social game studio based in Brazil working on our first title 💢
https://linktr.ee/ragdollfrogstudio
GODSCALE - Wishlist on Steam @pixelcrown.bsky.social Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3956990/GODSCALE/
📺 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PixelCrownGames
🗨️ Discord: https://discord.gg/e8NNyWYVvy
🌐 Website: https://www.pixelcrown.net/
🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/pixelcrowngames
Hillel @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Code RAPID by Hitbreak Games 🕹 @hitbreakgames.bsky.social A small indie team developing mech action game #CodeRapid. Follow for more updates about the game! No AI.
メカアクションゲーム『Code RAPID』開発中。
▶Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RAPID_GAME
▶Steam Demo: https://bit.ly/3RvBJFO
▶YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@inuxys
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
antirez @antirez.bsky.social Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
LUCID by The Matte Black Studio @matteblackstudio.bsky.social LUCID is a love letter to all my favorite games growing up 👾
WISHLIST LUCID TODAY - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1717730/LUCID/
The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org The Rust Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to stewarding the Rust programming language and its global community. rustfoundation.org
Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social Math & Art Videos.
* https://youtube.com/Inigo_Quilez
* https://iquilezles.org
Created Shadertoy, Pixar's Wondermoss, Quill, and more.
Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of @secondwindgroup.com Creating the video series Unpacked, and working on secret projects. Former Editor in Chief of The Escapist.
Email: nick.calandra@secondwindgroup.com
Harvey Newman @harveynewman.com Animation Director, Founder at Proxima.studio. Previous Game Dev exp: DICE, Build A Rocket Boy, Creative Assembly, Crytek, Axis Animation. 
Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social Indie Game Clinic on YouTube 〰️ Podcasts: One More Run! + The Game Developers’ Library 〰️ currently writing “Game Design for Indie Devs” while developing “Golem Gourmet” 〰️ (he/him/they/them) 🍽️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4209800/Golem_Gourmet/
Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences @official-aias.bsky.social Celebrating games & gaming achievement
#DICE2026
#DICEAwards
#GameMakersNotebook
#GameMakersSketchbook
https://linktr.ee/AIAS
https://www.threads.com/@official_aias
https://www.interactive.org/
Indiana-Jonas @indiana-jonas.com Cartoonist and game designer. Made Space Deer, Long Puppy and Surmount. (he/him)
Currently working on Bibidi Bibidi!
https://www.indiana-jonas.com
Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social // Managing Editor, @ThisWeekInVideogames.com
// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
// DM's open, edmond@thisweekinvideogames.com
William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social Indie game dev. Working on an ocean exploration swimsuit looter rpg. You'll find that and art and indie games from others here often.
Indie games:
#indiegala2025 #indiegala2026
Artist gallery: #aotdArt
NO AI 🚫
AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social Indie game champion & critic
Host of the Little Victories podcast: @littlevictoriesap.bsky.social
Twitch, email & more: andresplays.carrd.co
fishbowl (OUT NOW on steam & ps5) 💜 @imissmyfriends.bsky.social Wishlist Fishbowl on PS5 & Steam 💌 Spend a month at home with Alo in this heartfelt coming of age story 💬📦 💻 Two people from India making Fishbowl 💜 WISHLIST: https://imissmyfriends.studio/links
Daisy Fernandez @daisyfern.bsky.social designer and co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making BAD MAGPIE
Guadalindie @guadalindie.bsky.social 💧🎮 Guadalindie 🎮💧 | Southern Spain Indie Games Fair | Organized by @malagajam.bsky.social & @fycma | 3rd-4th July 2026 | Logo by @darumastudio.bsky.social
https://guadalindie.com/en/
Email: guadalindie@malagajam.com
Noname Studios ☄️ Worldless @noname-studios.es Worldless is available on Steam, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch & GOG.
Developed by Noname Studios
Published by Coatsink/ThunderfulGames
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Babadokia @babadokia.bsky.social Working on RadCity, a post-apocalyptic top-down adventure game in #unrealengine5 and other indie projects.
C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social Capitol Hill. The White House. National Politics. Powered by Cable.
Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com)
Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@gamedeveloper.com)
📝: www.bryantfrancis.me
🎥: https://boxd.it/hp9UB
Harlequin Diver @harlequindiver.bsky.social The Dreams in the Peacock House is out now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4693460/The_Dreams_in_the_Peacock_House/
Email me your duck pics (or anything else you want to talk about): harlequindiver@gmail.com
Website coming soon
Velan Studios @velanstudios.com Independent by choice. Inventive by nature. Making games worth caring about since 2016.
Vivarium by Studio Meadowflower @vivarium-game.bsky.social Studio Meadowflower is making Vivarium — a cel-anime game set inside a mysterious terrarium!
Wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4735760/Vivarium/
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org Journalism for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. A nonprofit newsroom part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io writer, gamedev, video game consultant, homosexual. don't call me a solo dev. an example of the live mas mentality. Interstate 35, out now. making: UNANNOUNCED (TBD) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/Interstate_35/
Polyarc Games @polyarcgames.com Crafting games that stay with players long after the adventure ends. 🐭📖
https://linktr.ee/polyarcgames
Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer The cloud you own. https://oxide.computer/bio
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com Indie games since 2014 (Sektori / Day Repeat Day / Barbearian / Drift'n'Drive / etc.), and 13 years at Housemarque before that (Resogun / Outland / Dead Nation / etc.)
https://www.gimblll.com/
Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social nyc writer & deputy research director on climate and governance @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
big fan of the biosphere. writing a novel about love and grief on a changing planet.
Thunderful Games @thunderfulgames.bsky.social We’re Thunderful! We publish awesome indie games 🎮❤️ Like these:
🌆 REPLACED
🎲 Lost in Random
📷 Viewfinder
🌍 Planet of Lana
🐺 ASKA
🤖 SteamWorld Games
⚔️ Reignbreaker
💥 GODBREAKERS
& more... 🔗 linktr.ee/thndr
Critical Reflex @cr-games.bsky.social kick-ass game publisher, CR Channel's cool sibling
Pitches: tinyurl.com/ymyubrkt
Say hi: hello@criticalreflex.com
Protopop @protopop.bsky.social Montreal Indie dev creating Meadowfell, Nimian Legends & Wilderless, a procedurally generated fantasy openworld. Thank you everyone who has shown their support and love ❤️🏳️🌈
NimianLegends.com
Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy at Michigan State. Contributor to The Downballot. I teach, write, and post about state constitutional law, institutional development, and criminal law. I write (infrequently) at guaranteedrepublics.substack.com.
✨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
Binbun @binbun3d.bsky.social Hi! I do tech art. No AI used in my works
Love Godot, Blender and Linux (NixOS).
Effects: https://binbun3d.itch.io/
Tutorials: https://bun3d.com/
andy @gleeson.dev a melbourne gamedev
> gleeson.itch.io
Sim Kaart @simkaart.co Graphic designer working on games. Now making Castle Away! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4362480/castle_away
Psych Rift @ablazeinteractive.com Solo developer creating Psych Rift, a supernatural action-adventure game where you must survive reality-bending nightmare worlds and their monsters to escape a research lab consumed by a dark entity from another dimension.
Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social Canadian indie VR dev / founder @cozycubegames.bsky.social.
Wishlist 🐧Penguin Festival🐧: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552090/Penguin_Festival/
Past: Owlchemy Labs. Proud husband and shiba dad.
- 🚫 gen AI
- 🚫 genocide
- ✊ trans rights
Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social ⏪ PAST: Naughty Dog; co-writer/narrative designer Uncharted 4, Uncharted:The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Pt II
▶️ NOW: Cautionary Tales game narrative consulting
🗣️ video games, baking, bad puns, shitposting
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/joshscherr
❤️ fix your hearts or die
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📚🎮✍🏻
PORTFOLIO: http://jisaacgadient.com
LINKS: https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
Dead as Disco @deadasdiscogame.bsky.social 🪩 Martial arts meets Music video 🪩
PLAY NOW!
https://linktr.ee/DeadasDiscoGame
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
Claire - open for work 🦈 @thesharkbit.bsky.social ☘️Catholic & native Irish speaker
🐻Gay bearberian
🧙♀️ Head of Marketing, PR and Brand + freelance/consultant
✨ Award winner, 2x BAFTA nominee & member. Ukie board director
🏡Looking for work - WFH only
Check out my portfolio
https://www.clairesharkbit.com/