Drew Karpyshyn @drewkarpyshyn.bsky.social NY Times bestselling author of the Darth Bane novels. Lead writer Mass Effect and KOTOR. Currently at Archetype Entertainment.
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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social Degenerate freelancer. Narrative test pilot. Senior Narrative Designer on Clockwork Revolution at inXile. Provided interactive words for Wallace & Gromit, Sherlock, Need for Speed, Until Dawn 2, a bit of Star Wars and a lot of other games. 🔀davidvarela.com
timoxton @timoxton.com developer of games and photographs
Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer | Monolith, OtherSide, Seismic Squirrel | ex-mortician, neurodivergent sage, feral altruist, mythology goblin | stay curious, be kind, make magic | my views = my own | they/she
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My posts and reposts represent my own thoughts and opinions and no one else's.
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Yoshi Yoshitani @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator, Tarot & Oracle of the Divine Creator
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John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social ハチノヨンとスパデラのジョンです。Tokyo-based game lover/gatherer and 8-4 & SDX co-founder. EGM alum. 集まり屋。(He/Him) くわしいことは本をみて下さい。
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GameDev, Narrative Designer, & Artist specialized in vector & pixel art. Currently looking for work in Game & Narrative Design.
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Roomy @roomy.space make space · cultivate knowledge
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com Freelance Tool Design Director, Workflow Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/
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I get really excited about workflows!
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Meredith Borders @mereborders.bsky.social 🌀Senior Editor, FANGORIA and STARLOG
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remy siu | 1000xRESIST @remysiu.com founded indie game studio sunset visitor 斜陽過客 • made 1000xRESIST
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Chris Hart @dstrawberrygirl.bsky.social Software Developer / Engineer, Game Developer
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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Prev: WoW
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Links: https://linktr.ee/conjette.art
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All views are my own and not representative of my employer.
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🧿 she/they, ENG/RUS
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social GameDevDolin.com
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
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Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social ✏ Writing Warren Spector’s next game
✏️ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
🏆 BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
⭐ Marketing: SCMedia
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jenny @qdork.bsky.social posting (at least) 1 video a day until my video game, CONSUME ME, sells one million copies.
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iOS:
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steam:
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Liam Deane @liamdeane.bsky.social Games market analyst at Omdia. Once Cork, now Amsterdam.
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Greg Kasavin @kasavin.bsky.social Creative Director at Supergiant Games | Writer of Hades II, Hades, Pyre, Transistor, & Bastion
@machinefun.bsky.social @machinefun.bsky.social A new micro indie studio based in Manchester UK.
Wishlist Trash City Turbo here https://store.steampowered.com/app/4484260/Trash_City_Turbo/
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social Creators of Hades, Pyre, Transistor, and Bastion.
· Merchandise: https://supergiant.games/merch
· Discord: http://discord.gg/supergiant
Mark DeLoura @markdeloura.bsky.social A CTO in Seattle | Former Obama WH | Gamedev | EdTech | Frenchies
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Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
sam | リノ 🥊 Tokyo Game Show @rinoaskyes.bsky.social Narrative ✏️ Publishing Director @ Neon Noroshi | Co-Founder SEA Games Showcase | 🎙️: 20m Podcast | GDoC Scholar 2026 | Future Class 2023 | Muay Thai | 🇲🇾🇦🇺🇯🇵🇸🇪
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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com Entertainment writer, author, sometimes artist. Runs Cinelinx.com, founded the ReelOutreach charity. Lover of movies and Star Wars. Bylines at: io9, Paste, Nerdist, Star Wars Insider, Videomaker, Polygon…
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leslee @leslee.bsky.social games producer, mom of two, ex-Netflix/Riot/Meta/Blizz, middling tiktoker
Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
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BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
Sweet Baby Inc @sweetbabyinc.com Hey there! We’re a small narrative development studio, working on projects of all sizes and genres across the games industry! ✨
Find out more about what we do at sweetbabyinc.com!
Alice Camp @acampwriting.com Senior Narrative Designer @ Microfun
Writer @ Pistol Shrimp
Translator @ J-Novel Club
Prev. Deck Nine Games, White Owls, ProbablyMonsters, Netmarble.
https://acampwriting.com/
EN/日本語/中文 ⭕
(I mass block, it's not personal)
Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. Kaboom! Bucket Brigade member since 1982.
David Lightbown @davidlightbown.bsky.social User Experience Director - Ubisoft Montreal
Author of "Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools"
GDC Advisory Board Member
Autodesk Master Award Winner
Lean Production Certification (McGill University)
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Zoe @zoethorogood.bsky.social Creator of comics and chaos. Responsible for IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. 6x Eisner avoider.
Carli Velocci 👽 @carlivelocci.com Nonprofit comms professional by day, freelance writer & editor for video games, tech by night | just some aliens in a suit | They/she
Links: https://linktr.ee/velocciraptor
Ironwood Studios | Whispers in the Woods is Out Now 👁 @ironwood.bsky.social 🌲 Official Account of Ironwood Studios 🌲
Whispers in the Woods is available now.
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Alt Shift - Indie Game Studio @altshiftgames.bsky.social Indie Game Studio located in Montpellier, in the Sunny South of France. Creators of Crying Suns, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes and the Not Not puzzle game series.
Join our discord server: https://discord.gg/altshift
Mark Darrah @markdarrah.bsky.social BioWare 1997-2021
Triage Games 2022- https://triagegames.com/
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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
matt demon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Bafta-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com Creative Director @electricsaint.bsky.social
BAFTA Breakthrough // artsy weirdo // illustrator, gamedev, stubborn idiot 🧹🏍️
she/they
annahollinrake.com
👇 Wishlist Crescent County 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2202650/Crescent_County/
Mike McCain @mikemccainart.bsky.social EP @ Harebrained (https://graft-game.com)
Director: Shadowrun: Dragonfall, BATTLETECH
Visdev: Across the Spider-Verse, Blue Eye Samurai
AD: Academy Award-winner The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
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Adam Rosenberg's Net-Force @geminibros.bsky.social [WIP] and hired gun in the video games industry. Background in editorial, marcomm, production, and creative.
Lover of dogs, music, video games, geeky shit, cannabis, my biofamily, my chosen family, mental health, and kindness.
wherewasigoing.pika.page
Amy-Leigh Shaw 🔜 Gamescom @diveamydive.bsky.social Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Award-Winning Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️🌈
“Very sweet and always improved with butter.”
LeeLee @leeleels.bsky.social 3D artist for games in Vancouver
Motorcycle enthusiast
Cat and dog mom
Get in good trouble.
I will instant block supporters of AI art theft 🖕🏻✨
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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social Game designer and writer. Currently Broadsword and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Distressingly typical geek interests. He/him.
Frankie 🇨🇱 🔜 PAX WEST 👀 @frankiegg.bsky.social Goof. Broadcast @ Riot
(All opinions my own and all that)
Writer • Creative • Indie Dev
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
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// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
// DM's open, edmond@thisweekinvideogames.com
Claire Carré @clairecarre.bsky.social narrative director at naughty dog - not here very often
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
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Visuwyg @visuwyg.bsky.social Game developer by day, game developer by night. Making DERELIKT https://store.steampowered.com/app/3810510/DERELIKT/
Christi Kerr @christikerr.bsky.social she/her ⚡️ writer & narrative designer ⚡️ austin, tx ⚡️ https://www.christi-kerr.com/
🔫 🔥 Gunfire Games @gunfiregames.bsky.social
🎵 🎻 [TBA]
✉️ 🔍 Letter Lost @flatninegames.bsky.social
🐉 📋 The Bureau of Fantastical and Arcane Affairs @hipflask.games
Heather Woodward @heatherwoodward.bsky.social Sr.Writer on Apex Legends
(Sparrow, Revenant Reborn - Altered Horizons - other stuff)
Former writer on Modern Warfare 4
#GDC2025
Comedian, Actress, Singer and Planet of the Apes Enthusiast
All opinions here are my own
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Katy O’Brian @thekatyo.bsky.social Actor. Love Lies Bleeding, Mandalorian, Mission Impossible, lots of Zombie stuff 🎬/💍 to @thekyliechi she/her
Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social Narrative expert for video games and writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of THE VIDEO GAME WRITER’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. Former Ubisoft/Crytek/Romero narrative director. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches, baseball, and cats.
David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social Game developer, made The First Tree and is currently working on a farming horror game called We Harvest Shadows.
Matthew Navas @moribund13.bsky.social Veteran Producer & Development Lead | Driving Innovation in Gaming & Tech | Empowering Teams to Excel
Zach Clemente @clementeworks.com Publisher & Boss, Bulgilhan Press // President, Boston Comic Arts Foundation // IT Professional // he/him
www.clementeworks.com
Neverway - COMING IN 2027! @coldbloodinc.studio Neverway is a blend of horror, life sim, and action RPG.
Follow here for the latest announcements! 🩸
☆ Play the prologue on http://steam.neverway.co
☆ Discord: https://tinyurl.com/neverway
Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social mayor of drawing lesbians
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no AI 🚫
Amity G. @amityblamity.bsky.social "Evil trans woman (lovingly)" - @doctorvenkman.com
Video game writer and narrative designer. Funny girl. Written for GG Tribune, Anime Herald, Palette Swap, and Hard Drive.
https://amitywritesgames.neocities.org/
https://cartridgepress.wordpress.com/
Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social We support local games and the folks who make em!
Calendar: meetup.com/bostongamedev
Boston Gamedev Week: https://gamedev.boston/
Game dev collective of
@bostonindies.bsky.social
@bospostmortem.bsky.social
and more!
Caelus @caemck.bsky.social a creature | games marketing/media relations @ZebraPartners 🦓 | writer ✏️ | https://caemck.carrd.co/ | opinions are my own!
i yap about games on ➡️ https://medium.com/@caemck
SJ💤 @azurecoffin.bsky.social They/Them ✨ Desi ✨ Talent Manager & Partnerships at G FUEL✨ Volunteer at ENTRY-LVL & AAPIG Prev: AIAS, AGM
📧: sj0singh00@gmail.com
PFP by @swiffyink
Prev: GDC CA, AIAS
my opinions are my own
David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social Tech/gaming journalist at CNET, WGAE union member, burrito fiend.