Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social Science illustrator and designer. I like things with feathers. She/her
Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios
Merch: https://nearbirdstudios.threadless.com
franz @franzanth.bsky.social i draw bugs and stuff. please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️🌈🇮🇩
contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com
Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening
Zeno Rogue @zenorogue.bsky.social roguelikes, mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry
HyperRogue (non-Euclidean roguelike), RogueViz, ZenoRogue (non-Euclidean visualization) on YouTube, Hydra Slayer (math roguelike).
Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design) @letibus.bsky.social letibus.com
blazgracar.com/blaz
Herd out now!
Game designer of LOK, LOK Digital, Abdec, Workworkwork, Herd, All Is Bomb // Making music for theatre, keyboardist, electronic producer as Blaž // Some other stuff as well // he/him
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/
Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com Caves of Qud is a science fantasy RPG & roguelike epic, built on deep simulation, set in an intricately etched, far-future world.
🚀 2025 Hugo Award for Best Game
🖥️ PC Gamer Top 100 games of 2019, 2020, and 2024.
🍄 by Freehold Games & Kitfox Games 🍄
Justin Smith @manbearcar.bsky.social Wishlist Horsey Game ya sodbuster! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602570
sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social gamewitch @ sylvie.website 🐈
sylvieish half of love ❤ game @ https://love-game.net
Mare Sheppard @maresheppard.bsky.social Designer, Artist, 1/2 of Metanet Software Inc www.maresheppard.com / www.metanetsoftware.com
She/her
Sho Iwamoto/geekdrums @geekdrums.bsky.social Sound Programmer for games includes FINAL FANTASY XV, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
love interactive music/generative music
he/him
インタラクティブミュージックを研究しているサウンドプログラマー / 携わった:ポケットモンスター スカーレット・バイオレット、FINAL FANTASY XV等 / 開発中:VOXQUARTER
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
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
Le Slo @leslo.bsky.social Freelance Puzzle designer. lucas.le.slo.games@gmail.com
Indie game developer. https://le-slo.itch.io/
Looking for something (?) Language enthusiast.
Car @garn47.bsky.social I'm Car!
Creating Garn47!
Garn47 Game: https://floombo.itch.io/garn47
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Floombo
Patreon: https://patreon.com/garn47
Giant Squid 🦑 @giantsquidstudios.com 🦑 The Official Home of Giant Squid on Bluesky
🎮 Sword of the Sea, The Pathless, ABZÛ
🌊 Sword of the Sea: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2453160/Sword_of_the_Sea/
NamaTakahashi @namataka.bsky.social Japanese Indie Dev / #Öoo / #ElecHead
『Öoo』 is Out Now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo/
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
Panic @panic.com panic.com • Maker of apps (Nova, Prompt, Transmit) • Publisher of Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour: Play With Your Food, Thank Goodness You're Here, Arco, Despelote, Time Flies • Oh, and also @play.date
Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io Makes games and animated films with his finger
https://michaelfrei.io
Made a video game called Time Flies https://timeflies.buzz
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
AstralShift @astralshiftpro.com Developers of Little Goody Two Shoes and Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum.
Now developing @hellmaidengame ❤️🔥
✨linktr.ee/AstralShiftPro
💌contact@astralshiftpro.com
🌍Portugal based indie game studio
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
Jonathan Eng @assambop.bsky.social I make music once in a blue moon. Simogo adjacent.
Jaromír Plachý 💛💙 @jaromirplachy.bsky.social Games, cartoons and pictures | 🍄 @amanitadesign.bsky.social 🍄
🖤 Happy Game | 🧡 Chuchel | 💚 Botanicula |
👁️ www.jaromirplachy.net 👁️ | 🍺🍻🍺🍺🍻🍻🍺
https://linktr.ee/jaromirplachy
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/
Design Spells @designspells.com Micro-interactions, easter eggs, and other seemingly extra design details that feel like magic 🪄
Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com Videogame developer currently working on Mars First Logistics: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/Mars_First_Logistics/
Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com Backward-looking, forward-thinking.
www.metanetsoftware.com
N, N+, N++ and announcing, N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO!
We are @maresheppard.bsky.social and @raiganburns.bsky.social
Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social 🍊 Founder of http://blendogames.com
🍊 Most recent release: SKIN DEEP http://blendogames.com/skindeep
🍊 Co-founder https://glitch.city
Luna Ay @lunaayarts.bsky.social Comicbook artist • Pop surrealism and horror illustrator • Indie gamedev°˖✧🌙 ✧˖°
(She/her) 🚫 NO NFT or AI 🚫
https://www.youtube.com/@LunaAyArts
https://www.patreon.com/LunaAy
desktopGeneration™️ @desktopgeneration.com Art & design firm from a future beyond your understanding. Members followed.
Commissions/contracts/questions? Email contact@desktopgeneration.com
🌐 - https://www.desktopgeneration.com
🛒 - https://www.shop.desktopgeneration.com
🗣️ - https://www.deskgen.net
Reincarnated Dismal Saint Moises Hallowell XII🧠💤 @villecallio.csoftproducts.life CEO of Consumer Softproducts
https://csoftproducts.life
idiot tyrant (temporarily financially embarrassed)
IORAMA @iorama.bsky.social Playful computer things by Finn and Eran
iorama.studio
jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social fringe gamedev. code/art/direction at @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social. paratopic: overdub and roman sands re:build coming <soon> with @serenityforge.bsky.social
views my own
Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net https://jaytholen.net lead designer, writer, artist, & composer for Dropsy, 1999 web sim Hypnospace Outlaw, & Slayers X. Clickteam software oldhead. follower of Jesus. husband of Katie. dad. 70s prog/fusion/zeuhl guy. Braunschweig, DE / Florida
James Gleick @around.com Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel.
Other work can be found at https://around.com.
My new history of the telephone will appear in November.
On the open social web I'm gleick@mas.to.
Coincidence @coincidence.games Coincidence is a cooperative game studio created by ex-Zachtronics developers. Zach Barth is no longer teaching high school and is making games again.
Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social SFF author, speaker, lawyer, programmer; rep by Russ Galen; The Dandelion Dynasty & “The Paper Menagerie"; latest: The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
Eva Markova @evamarkova.bsky.social artist and co-author 📣 #Phonopolis 📣 game https://amanita-design.net/ Phonopolis - totalitarian city, authoritarian leader, avant-garde influences
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/Phonopolis/
!Boring @notbor.ing Maker of !Weather, !Habits, !Vibes, !Calculator, !Timer apps
notboring.software
インディー通信 Indie Tsushin @indietsushin.net Highlighting indie games and developers from Japan! If you are in Japan and make games, we wanna know!
日本の面白いインディーゲームと開発者を英語で紹介するサイト!もし日本で活動している開発者の方はあなたのゲームを教えてください!ぜひ紹介させていただきます!
https://indietsushin.net
Run by @renkotsuban.com and @nicegear.games
Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social making games and doing things at PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞 (@punkcake.club)
Shotgun King, Moonpong, Hot Wax, If Letters Had Pants, SUGAR ☆ mother of cats ☆ she/her🏳️⚧️ ☆ aka "trasevol_dog"
streamers tell me about yourself here: https://forms.gle/7VEJ3oSEYdVD9Cdw7
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Joanne Cheung 张涓 @joannecheung.com 土猫
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
Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Patrick @vectorpark.com Windosill, Metamorphabet, Feed the Head, etc. http://vectorpark.com
Andy Allen @andy.works CEO & Chairman of Not Boring Software Ltd.
notboring.software
deadlyyucca @deadlyyucca.bsky.social pixel artist / game dev
https://deadlyyucca.com
Eran Hilleli @eranhill.bsky.social animation, code, tin whistles
half of @iorama.bsky.social
eranhilleli.com
Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co creating videogames | made bernband, grunn, and more | part of @sokpop.co
rubna @rubna.bsky.social game designer, ex- @sokpop.co i always follow back
contact rubna.studio
Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social SF writer / computer programmer
Latest novel: MORPHOTROPHIC
Latest collection: SLEEP AND THE SOUL
Web site: http://gregegan.net
Also: @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz
PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞 @punkcake.club 🔥 Game developers gone mad
💾 Shotgun King, Build The Sun, Hot Wax & many more
📬 Attempting to release a new game every month in 2025
🌐 https://punkcake.club
Sokpop Collective @sokpop.co videogame boyband from the future | games: http://sokpop.itch.io | subscription: http://patreon.com/sokpop | @aran.sokpop.co @tijmen.sokpop.co @tom.sokpop.co @rubna.sokpop.co
CAPY 💬 Wishlist Battle Vision on Steam NOW! @capybaragames.com FIND YOUR WORDS ⭐️ BATTLE VISION NETWORK ⭐️ GRINDSTONE ⭐️ BELOW ⭐️ SUPER TIME FORCE ⭐️ SWORCERY ⭐️ OK KO! ⭐️ DS: SHIPWRECKED ⭐️ CLASH OF HEROES ⭐️ CRITTER CRUNCH ⭐️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216850/Battle_Vision/
Onion Games @oniongames.bsky.social We are an indie dev from Tokyo! We've made games like moon, Chulip, Little King's Story, Rule of Rose, Million Onion Hotel, Black Bird, Dandy Dungeon, Mon Amour, and have just released Stray Children, our brand new RPG!
https://oniongames.jp
Thinky Games @thinkygames.com Discover games you'll love to solve. 🧩 🔎 🗺️
We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.
https://thinkygames.com/
https://thinkygames.com/dailies/
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social
Stuffed Wombat @stuffedwomb.at MARBLE SOULS coming soon. Mosa Lina. PRODUCER 2021. qomp. 10mg. Gutwhale. ord. Handulum. A lot of other games. he/him. Check out my website: https://stuffedwomb.at/
Warp Door @warpdoor.com 🚪 An observatory in the middle of nowhere 🚪
📧 warpdoor@gmail.com
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Chris Hecker @checker.bsky.social chrishecker.com
Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social Pidgin algebraist, baseball influencer https://slim.computer
Adam D’Angelo @dangelo.bsky.social CEO of Quora, working on @poe.com
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
Åsa @asawallander.bsky.social
superbrothers @superbrothershq.bsky.social we love love you 💗
🗡️ Sword & Sworcery EP (2011)
🎶 Sound Shapes (2012)
🚀 JETT (2021/2023)
🎢 new 2D mystery action (202X)
superbrothersHQ.com
cosmic friends forever starter pack
https://go.bsky.app/H1GMo3Z
founder/creator/bozo: c64.bsky.social
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Dynamicland @dynamicland.org Nonprofit research organization incubating a humane dynamic medium.
dynamicland.org
mtbdesignworks @mtbdesignworks.com Studio lead by Marc ten Bosch
http://miegakure.com
http://4dtoys.com
http://marctenbosch.com
http://mtbdesignworks.com
Alexander Bruce @demruth.bsky.social I made Antichamber. Now I'm making something else.
Pirijan @pketh.org Making https://kinopio.club to help with your thorniest thoughts. Formerly co-creator of Glitch
Electron Dance @electrondance.com Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence.
A place - www.electrondance.com
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social Games: https://www.hempuli.com
he/him
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
Michal Berlinger @berlinger.cz Game dev @amanita-design.net Working on great unannounced game. Creator of Pilgrims, Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia, Under Leaves. Teaching game design. Tinkering, cycling, hiking.
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net Indie game studio based in Prague, Czechia. Phonopolis (out now!), Happy Game, Creaks, Pilgrims, Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula, CHUCHEL http://bit.ly/PhonopolisSteam
byvsen 🦎 @byvsen.se 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑘, 𝑘𝑛𝑎̈𝑝𝑝 𝑜𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑛𝑦𝑔𝑔. 🇸🇪
3D animator/artist making stuff for fun. 💚
Loves cartoon dinos 🦕
Currently working at Slugger Film 🎞️
https://byvsen.se/
RopesOnRoses @ropesonroses.bsky.social Film account on Japanese Films, BDSM photos & Rated R films. “Non turbetur cor vestrum creditis in Deum et in me credite” Account run by TimesSqKungFu.
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Simogo @simogo.com Lorelei and the Laser Eyes • Sayonara Wild Hearts • SPL-T • The Sailor’s Dream • DEVICE 6 • Year Walk • Beat Sneak Bandit • Bumpy Road • Kosmo Spin
simogo.com
Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Veteran freelance games crit & PR. Hyped for indie games & mods. Bylines on RPS, PC Gamer, PCGamesN. Find my work, Steam curation & contact info below - He/Him
Find me elsewhere online at dominictarason.com
Contact email: jdtarason@gmail.com
Bret Victor @worrydream.com worrydream.com
dynamicland.org
Jon W. @rarefilmm.bsky.social Man on a mission to find and preserve the rarest and most obscure films ever made. Posts mostly film & TV related content.