Shane Bettenhausen @shanewatch.bsky.social ★
NO WAR
Ex-EGM/1up, blazing new trails in gaming with PlayStation. (Expressed opinions are my own, and not that of my employer.) RESIST / Stay Woke 大丈夫だ、問題ない (He/Him)
Sam Kennedy @capnsmak.bsky.social Co-founder Tigertron. Head of Originals Skymap. Former Destiny, COD, 1UP, EGM, IGN, Gamespot. 
Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev Ex: Roll7, Spry Fox. Now: helping teams ship faster with test automation, also Brum Indies.
https://automatedaf.dev https://atig.dev
Char @alphachar.bsky.social making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social Strategic Director @pcgamer.com • FPS, card games, journalism • My name anagrams to Leviathan for some reason
evan@pcgamer.com
https://linktr.ee/evanlahti
Jon Bolding @jonbolds.bsky.social
Chalcolithic Liche, Forbes 10 over 10,000. Games writer, on and about. Appears pcgamer, IGN, etc. Panel Three Moves Ahead. freelancer, hire me.
Len @len.bsky.social Solo indie developer. Strategy/RPG/Horror games freelancer at IGN, PC Gamer, and others. Producer: Three Moves Ahead. Lover of languages, folk metal, and history. she/they
sic semper tyrannis
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social Principal Level Designer at Demiurge working on #Maneater2 !
17+ yrs in games: ex-Respawn, ex-Irrational
🌿 she/her ☘️
🎮 #IronMan #StarWarsHunters #BioshockInfinite #DOOM #LastExpedition #Mafia3 #PerfectDark #TransformersReactivate 🎮
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
🏳️🌈 You Matter 🏳️⚧️
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
Tom Fulp @tomfulp.newgrounds.com I run Newgrounds, co-founded The Behemoth, made a game about The Room and I'm currently making Nightmare Cops!
Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social 🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
🪡 neoluddite
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social Owner of Positech Games. https://www.positech.co.uk Coder of Democracy, Gratuitous Space Battles etc blog: http://cliffski.com. Built a solar farm. Ex heavy metal guitarist & teacher. Cat owner. Making Ridiculous Space Battles!
Jakub Dvorský @jakubamanita.bsky.social Game Designer and Director at @amanita-design.net Machinarium, Samorost, Botanicula, Chuchel, Creaks, Pilgrims, Happy Game.
Phonopolis in development - Wishlist on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/Phonopolis/
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
Kitty Calis @kittycalis.bsky.social DISC ROOM, Minit, Horizon Zero Dawn, Minit Fun Racer and a few things I can't say yet 👀 
Tumeke Studio @tumekestudio.bsky.social Tumeke Studio is a Māori owned, independent R&D-driven game and systems studio building the tools and stories of tomorrow.
https://www.tumekestudio.com
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
Christer Ericson @christerericson.bsky.social Personal opinions on gamedev, tech, and (sigh) politics. Skepticism. Science. Snark. Author (RTCD). Ex-Activision, ex-Sony, ex-Neversoft, ex-uni lecturer.
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
Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy I'm the administrator of this server. https://tinysubversions.com is where most of my stuff lives. I make Hometown along with a bunch of other fediverse software (see […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://friend.camp/@darius, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social Principal Writer / Narrative Designer of Chaos Gate: Deathwatch. Worked at MIT, Harmonix, Eko, and others. Lifelong cinephile. Horror influencer.
(previously @sajon77 on Twitter)
@michaelcoupland.bsky.social @michaelcoupland.bsky.social Engine/Tools/Game Generalist @ Valve
He/him
Jane @miyukijane.bsky.social dog pics and opinions. trivial facts. 
Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social "I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: Your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards."
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
Noel Llopis @noel-llopis.bsky.social Making games since 1985: World of Goo 2, Subterfuge, Casey's Contraptions, Flower Garden and AAA games before that. Runner. Cyclist. Swimmer. Board game addict. Avid reader.
My retro computer channel @noelsretrolab.com
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
Greg Wohlwend @aeiowu.com Hard to pronounce videogames.
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
Aaron A. Reed @aaronareed.bsky.social Maker of books, games, games about books, and books about games. Social media content syndicated to multiple platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronareed
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social Software dev, video game maker, writer, general dogsbody.
grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com .1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc
https://grapefrukt.com
Mikko Mononen @mikkomononen.bsky.social Coder and woodworker. Author of Recast&Detour and NanoVG. Previously at Epic Games, Unity, Tinkercad, Crytek, demoscene.
https://github.com/memononen
Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social Sr. Environment Artist at Twin Suns Corp. Past: Core, Duskers, JETT, Overgrowth, Cogs, Natural Selection 2, etc. I like LEGOs.
https://bmauro.artstation.com/
Zach Aikman @thezaikman.bsky.social Technical Director @ChuhaiLabs + @ViteiBackroom // Former Lead Engineer @17_BIT // Ambling Aesthete Architect and Assembler // Order of Merlin - Zeroth Class
Tony Barnes | RetroNinja @retroninja.bsky.social Jerry Lawson Lifetime Achievement Award winner | 40 yr game veteran | designer | artist | musician | video editor | owner/founder RetroNinja game dev studio
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/
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
Forrest Dowling @stuckbug.bsky.social Game Dev since 2006. Kaos, Irrational, The Molasses Flood.
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
That Tom Hall @thattomhall.bsky.social Pro Game Designer for 37 Yrs! Co-founded id, ION Storm. Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Anachronox, DASH, VR. Current:-REDACTED-. Photography/Pico-8/Meditation/Movies/Hifi.
Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics
He/Him
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/
Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social she/her - writing, newsletter, RSS: https://dialedindie.net - gamedev interview podcast: https://dialedindie.captivate.fm/ - cohost of video game podcast @vgbees.com and music podcast K-YOS - Steam Curator: is it on itch? - icon by liizardemojii
Cody Vaughn @codyvaughnn.bsky.social Sustainable Urbanist 🌇 | Specialty Coffee ☕️ | Hockey 🏒🦈 | SF 🌁 | He/Him 🏳️🌈
Samson @sammyboy.bsky.social Australian Game Programmer Person | He/Him
Hello :)
Mikey 🚎🥑♣️🏳️🌈 @hiimmikey.bsky.social Urbanist transit nerd + transit / housing / safe streets advocate in San Francisco.
Member of:
🚋 SF Transit Riders https://sftransitriders.org/
🏠 SF YIMBY https://www.sfyimby.org/
🚶 WalkSF https://walksf.org/
Support me! https://linktr.ee/hiimmikey
Graham Reid 🌴 @grahamoflegend.com 🇯🇲 Your friendly neighborhood Jamaican game dev
🗽 Currently based in NY
🔥 Making a new roguelike brick breaker
🎮 Previously made Ourlands and Super Space Club
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🔴 https://youtube.com/grahamoflegend
🎮 https://cutt.ly/ourlands-steam
Bernie Yee @tripmaster.bsky.social Co-founder of game studio @windupminds, ex-Oculus/PopCap/Bungie/Harmonix. Make games, race bikes, eat foods.
Making a game that loves you back, a modern Nintendogs+a li'l Animal Crossing. www.windupminds.com/wishlist
Owen Goss @owengoss.com Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, and others. Amateur potter. (he/him)
Links: owengoss.com
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
🇨🇦
Chris Priestman @cpriestman.bsky.social Writer @ ZA/UM.
Lynds Gallant @apocalynds.bsky.social ✨Freelance Art Director✨Prev: @PlayStation✨Chaotic Good✨She/Her✨
Aaron Linde @aaronlinde.bsky.social narrative lead on Guild Wars 3, prev Halo Infinite, Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2, Battleborn, Gears of War 3. checks this thing like twice a year
Hollie Emery 🏳️⚧️🌿 @slinkyfishy.bsky.social CEO Kwalee Labs (formerly Bonsai Collective), creators of @lunaabyssgame.bsky.social!
Prev Producer credits; Horizon: Call of the Mountain VR, Yoku's Island Express, Overcooked
🏳️⚧️ | manchester UK 🐝
Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social I've been here long enough where a lot of you don't even know where I come from and I kinda find that delightful.
But I'm glad you're here! How are you?
Jill Scharr | Abolish ICE @jillscharr.bsky.social Narrative Chef, Magic Soup Games. Prev: Lead Writer, The Lamplighters League; Writer, Destiny (Forsaken, D2, RoI, TTK). Tax the fucking billionaires. She/her.
John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social |General Manager, 20th Century Games |
|VP, Business Dev for Disney/Pixar, Lucas & 20C Games |
|Ex-PlayStation, Ex-Harmonix // Ex-The Main Drag Drummer|
Luckily in the right place/right time for a few big games.
Loves games, music, TV, my wife & kid.
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
e. drake kajioka @3sxp.bsky.social Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. Views mine &c. 🎲 they preferred, she accepted. was @3spce/gryphoness on twitter, @edk@mastodon.social.
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social I write about things for a living. Currently for a game dev and my personal newsletter, Stuff Worth Knowing (https://stuffworthknowing.substack.com/).
E-Line Media @elinemedia.bsky.social Makers of games that inspire players to understand and shape the world. http://elinemedia.com
Ludipe @ludipe.bsky.social Project Lead on Thinky Dailies, game designer, and other things. Sushi For Robots, Bleep Bloop, etc.
www.ludipe.com
Christer Kaitila [GameDev] @mcfunkypants.bsky.social Optimist #gamedev since 93. Keynoted two Ludum Dares and a Global Game Jam. Wrote 2 paper books, 80 songs, and 150 game jam games.
http://christerkaitila.com
http://soundcloud.com/mcfunkypants/
mcfunkypants.com
christerkaitila.com
onegameamonth.com
Darius Kazemi @tinysubversions.bsky.social It's a-me, Darius
I don't spend much time here, you can find me at https://friend.camp/@darius
Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
⚡️Marina Díez 🔜 Gamescom @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
Bitpart AI @bitpartai.bsky.social The Bitpart AI Director & multi-agent planner power Archetypes, bringing game worlds to life.
Milo Duclayan @antennasunite.bsky.social Narrative designer, TTRPG maker, life experiencer.
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Soren Johnson @sorenjohnson.bsky.social Founder of MohawkGames. Designer of Civ 3, Civ 4, Dragon Age Legends, Offworld Trading Company, and Old World. Still a Mouth Breather.
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor.
Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/
Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
collin @goonwithfriends.com degenerate game maker 🏳️⚧️
✧˖°. http://collin.fyi ⋆˙⟡
Remote Game Jobs @remotegamejobs.com We love Games. We also love remote work.
So we made a place for you to find Remote Game Jobs!
https://remotegamejobs.com
#gamedev #gamejobs
Andrew Weldon @andrew-weldon.design Game Designer: http://andrew-weldon.design/
Prev: Fortnite Festival, Marathon, Destiny 2, Destiny, Starhawk, Quake 4, Natural Selection.
📍 West Seattle, WA
🎮 Game Dev
📚 Books
🌽 Huskers
⚽️ Sounders/Reign FC
Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ SleepyTime Holiday @angeloslh.bsky.social Freelance Concept/2D/UI artist & UI Designer - Total War Battles:Shogun/The Bradwell Conspiracy/Voodoo Detective/Onlycans:Thirst Date/Pacific Drive/Date Everything!/ Nightmare Operator
Enquiries: saford@outlook.com
She/Her
www.saford.art
#Art
Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social long-haired fgc sage, lowkey shinobi, @koh.money's trophy husbando. love your life, be good to one another, and play guilty gear. he/him. 🇵🇭
RIP Bearcade.
patrickmiller.ninja
pgg.events
playguiltygear.com
patreon.com/pattheflip
LA Dork @ladork.bsky.social Dorking out on forgotten LA. Alter-ego of Paul Haddad, author of "Inventing Paradise," "Freewaytopia," "10,000 Steps a Day in LA" and other LA tomes.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Karen @risu23.bsky.social Video game production human, head of studio ops & production at Interleave. Lover of video games, film (letterboxd = risu23), tv, animation, dark & spooky stuff. I was a goth at 924 Gilman. SFO -> YVR. She/her. "Fix your heart or die!"
Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social ☆ CS PhD student @ ualberta
☆ indie game dev + technical games researcher
☆ rhythm game fan, writer & composer
☆ infernal cape haver
☆ (she/her)
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
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
Tomo Moriwaki @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social Our shared fiction is our reality, so... let's take better care of it. Long time game designer. Most noteworthy impact: creative director of Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Ian Schreiber @ianschreiber.bsky.social Game designer, educator, parent.
JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, BAFTA, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. Originator of #WhatAGameDevLooksLike. She/they. I hope you like ferrets. 💜
america’s local band cheekface @cheekface.bsky.social on tour now 🍜 tickets http://linktr.ee/cheekface 🍜 merch http://houseshoes.online 🍜 http://stubbsclubb.online
Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
Buttery Awesome @butteryawesome.bsky.social Extra-Independent game developer spawned from a lifetime of AAA game development. Creating odd, quirky and wonderfully joyous interactive toys for weirdos.
www.ButteryAwesome.com