Meg @megpusey.bsky.social HCI research, UX, Game Design & Research, STEM Edu.
Jasper 🦇 @noirchivist.bsky.social Naarm | lvl25 | PhD candidate and sessional tutor at Swinburne University ✨
Ludolio - The platform helping libraries lend games @ludolio.com 🚀 Games belong in libraries.
🎮 We support digital game lending for university and school libraries.
📚 Supporting teaching, research & student engagement through play
✨ Building the future of game access
👋 account run by @marcuscarter.com
Kidney @dmkidney.bsky.social Design Director @intarsia.studio
Working on 🐞❤️🪲
Formerly:
Minigames Lead - LEGO Party! @ SMG
Dreams @ Media Molecule
he/him
Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection.
You can see our past events here: https://asymptotes.au/
Taoyue Wang @taoyue.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne | 🎮Game Studies | 🍦Cultural Studies | 🍎Architecture | 🍍Science and Technology Studies
Tana ⭐ NZGDC & MIGW! @tanamakes.games makes games, does swing dancing & photography, and likes to talk
Director @deadteapot.games making Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐🟡🟧
ex-Technical Designer
@dinopoloclub.bsky.social on Mini Motorways & Mini Metro
he/him
Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social |~ indie studio director @oddlark.com 🐦⬛ ~|
|~ technical art is my love language ~|
|~ prev. The Gardens Between, Jumplight Odyssey & an unreasonable amount of cancelled projects ~|
Giselle Rosman @jazzrozz.bsky.social She/her
Naarm, Tantalus/Keywords Australia. Game dev mum , mum worried about the death of the planet. I like birds, trees, and kindness. Former GGJ and IGDA Melbourne Lead
Spaxe Austral ⚡ @spaxe.space researcher & singer from australia!
telegram t.me/spaxe_space
banner @blueroo.bsky.social
fursuit @kigurumikagetsu.bsky.social
stickers @spikhyenna.bsky.social
chair @furrystudies.org
Lewis Parker @lpcantlose.bsky.social Freelance • Bad at fighting games • Read my words at Kotaku, Eurogamer, PC Gamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and IGN • lewis.parker.cant.lose@gmail.com
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Checkpoint Gaming @checkpointau.bsky.social Join us every Saturday 2PM on JOY94.9 for all the latest news, reviews & more in the gaming world! Broadcasting nationwide on the Community Radio Network.
Find out more from us here: https://checkpointgaming.net/ or
linktr.ee/checkpointau
CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
www.continuemagazine.com
GenerOZity Charity @generozity.charity Australian Charity in two parts! Fundraising and Direct Action!
♥️ Public Ancillary Fund (Fundraising Charity)
♥️ Public Benevolent Institution (Public Good Charity)
https://GenerOZity.Charity
Barney (Powerhoof) @barney.powerhoof.com Powerhoof games by Dave & Barney | http://CrawlGame.com | http://TheDrifterGame.com | http://AcidKnife.com | http://RegularHumanBasketball.com
Dave 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com The Drifter - OUT NOW! Game dever and the other half of Powerhoof- The Drifter, PowerQuest, Telwynium, Crawl, Regular Human BBall, Riders of Rhea, Peridium, etc..
https://powerhoof.itch.io
Angharad "Rad" Yeo @angharadyeo.bsky.social here to scream into the void 👍
Jeremy Bratetich @jeremy.minimap.com.au Managing Editor of @minimap.com.au He/They
Jeremy@minimap(dot)com(dot)au
Obiwanjezz most other places
tiredlyrebird @tiredlyrebird.itch.io (she/her)
give me wings so i may fly away (and look sick as hell doing it)
professional programmer, unprofessional human
i try to make games, any that make it out alive go to my itch.io
(original banner image by Mark Basarab on Unsplash)
Ysbryd Games | LOVE ETERNAL OUT NOW! @ysbryd.net We’re a boutique video game publisher working with game devs the world over to publish games that have spirit, like VA-11 HALL-A, WORLD OF HORROR and Demonschool!
campsite.bio/ysbrydgames
Gord McGladdery @asitp-gord.bsky.social Founder, Composer, Game Director @ https://ashellinthepit.com 🇨🇦
Composer: Among Us Stories: On Guard | NEATH | FNAF: Security Breach/RUIN | Rogue Legacy | Smarter Every Day | lots more
Creator of https://Fish.Game
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I make video games and art. Or something.
Made Celeste with friends, working on City of None and Jumper at EXOK.
www.noelberry.ca
Callum Uwunderwood @callum.uwu.biz Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Brendan Foley @brennydoon.bsky.social Melbourne - likes to hadouken and draw - currently playing with Ren'py - UX/UI designer at Museums Victoria
dinopoke @dinopoke.bsky.social hello i am an idiot
Dakoda @drjiro.bsky.social I do words and games. Bush murri in the big city.
Shaun Bright @shaunbgames.bsky.social Award winning* Designer at @lemonadegames.bsky.social
(peoples choice award SXSW)
Lucy✨ @untitledlucegame.bsky.social Short, fast and loud✨🏳️🌈
Illustrator and Game Dev based in Naarm/Melbourne.
🍦Art Wizard at Frosty Games Fest
🔫Drew the memes for 420BLAZEIT:2
🎨Currently making art for other wonderful folks
NO AI/NO NFTs🗑️
Art queries go to heylucymutimer@gmail.com
Scott from Fuzzy Ghost @scott.fuzzyg.host I put the "Ghost" in Fuzzy Ghost. Also the visual stuff. Also the story stuff.
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
Thorsten S. Wiedemann @thorstenstorno.bsky.social Founder and artistic director of A MAZE. . Curious about arthouse games and playful media.
Matthew Jackson @thisismatthewj.bsky.social (He/Him) My Arms Are Longer Now & Dogpile developer - Also the host on Trope RPG!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2646170/My_Arms_Are_Longer_Now/
Sbug Games @sbug.games Small indie game studio located in Queensland, Australia. Made Webbed: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1390350
and Isopod:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/Isopod_A_Webbed_Spinoff/
Email: hey@sbug.games
SMG Studio | LEGO® Party! is out now! @smgstudio.bsky.social LEGO® Party! (Out Now on all platforms)
SPiNG & No Way Home https://store.steampowered.com/developer/SMG
Our games: Moving Out📦 | SP!NG on #applearcade | Death Squared | RISK: Global Domination | Thumb Drift | One More Line
smgstudio.com
Witch Beam Games @witchbeam.com.au Brisbane based indie studio
makers of Assault Android Cactus, Unpacking and Tempopo
BitSummit / ビッツサミット @bitsummit.bsky.social Kyoto. The gaming convention. Since 2012.
Next up: May 21-23, 2027.
League of Geeks (LoG!) @leagueofgeeks.com Crafting inspiring videogames and enthralling worlds, with exceptional people. 💖
Made Armello 🦁 + Solium Infernum 🔥+ Jumplight Odyssey 🚀
Currently hibernating. 🐻💤
🇵🇸 cowboy bebo @hinenauhea.bsky.social ☁️🫧 māori emo gamer girl 🫧☁️
🙂↕️🤝 buy toroa: skycall plz 🤝🙂↕️
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2003490/Toroa_Skycall/
Joel Werner @joelwerner.bsky.social NOW: Executive Producer, ABC Audio Studios
THEN: Science Vs (Gimlet/Spotify Studios) // ABC Science
ALWAYS: Bass guitar / backing vocals for WIFEY
A Shell in the Pit @ashellinthepit.com ashellinthepit.com
#gameaudio
#gametrailers
made fish.game
70+ titles
Big Walk, FNAF, Pacific Drive, Little Kitty Big City, Untitled Goose Game, Chicory, Sneaky Sasquatch, Rogue Legacy, @smartereveryday
Mickie @hey-mickie.bsky.social Product Dev @ New Blood
Getting oil in hair @ Underside of my mazda
Essie @essieteric.bsky.social She/Her/They/Them 🏳️🌈
Secondaryquest.com
Unhindered eventuality of uraniid moths.
Writing always (Unwinnable once, Player2.net.au many more times),
Gaming perpetually.
Succeeding purely by accident.
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
📰 Read: http://theconversation.com/au
🤳 Subscribe for free: https://shorturl.at/Xp6g8
💸 Donate: http://bit.ly/3JKj16a
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Rich Lambert @slashlurk.bsky.social | Studio Game Director - Zenimax Online Studios | Proudly Canadian | Golfer | Woodworker | My views = my own |
☁️ Little Pink Clouds ☁️ @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social Melb-based indie game studio 💌 Play Letters to Arralla on Steam and Nintendo Switch 🏝️🍑 https://linktr.ee/studiopinkclouds
Lukas Parker @lukasparker.com Professor Lukas Parker is the Director of 3C (Communication and Change Co-Lab) and a social change researcher at RMIT University, Melbourne (Naarm). Opinions are my own.
Pronouns: he/him 🏳️🌈
On Wurundjeri Country
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com ✍️ Contact and complaints: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/may/26/contact-guardian-australia?CMP=aus_bsky
📨 Newsletters: http://theguardian.com/emails?CMP=aus_bsky
📰 Contribute: http://bit.ly/gdnausupport
batyr Australia @batyraus.bsky.social Australian youth mental health charity
🐘 For-purpose preventative mental health charity
💬 Pronounced 'buh-tier'
🌟 By young people for young people
💙 Peer-to-peer programs, training + workshops
linktr.ee/batyraus
Frosty Games 🍦 @frostygamesfest.com Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ 🍦🎮 Join the Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! 👉 https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social
David Micallef @saysdavid.bsky.social Senior lecturer at RMIT and program manager for undergraduate public relations. Researches influencers, gaming and other fun ways to engage young people in positive behaviours.
Chris Comerford @chriscomerford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Comms & Media, University of Wollongong 📖 | Doctor of screens, fans & Batman 🦇 | Useless Trivia expert 🧠 | Ace Stardew Valley fisherman 🎣 | Views my own | He/Him
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Prof. Sarah Mills @sarah-mills.bsky.social Human Geographer at Loughborough University, UK | profsarahmills.com | researching childhood, youth, citizenship, volunteering, gambling, gaming, prediction markets
George Farmer @cybergamepsych1.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster
Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects.
LinkedIn - https://tinyurl.com/3bkcuud7
Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
Jaroslav Švelch @electroslav.bsky.social game scholar and historian at Charles University
vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
svelch.com
Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com Mostly stats, visualization, open science, and psychotherapy.
https://rpsychologist.com
Elena Petrovskaya @elepetrovs.bsky.social Research Associate @ Uni of Cambridge. Ethical tech.
Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net A cozy social video gaming community 🩷🎮
We help you track your video game collection and encourage you to tackle your gaming backlog with challenges, lists, meta-games, and more—all for free!
We'd love to see your collection! https://infinitebacklog.net
Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social Interested in Linguistic Landscape, Ethnography, Foriegn Language Teacher Identity, Academic Publishing, Walking as a Methodology, and lots more!
Primavera @primaveraone.bsky.social Maddog
(She/Her)
https://primaveraone.itch.io/
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Tom Byers @tom-byers.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Assistant @UniMelb
SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social SSRN’s mission is to rapidly share early-stage research and empower global scholarship to help shape a better future. You can submit your research to SSRN online at www.ssrn.com.
Derek Reese is making games @derekree.se The games guy in the red jacket.
Design Director at indie game studio @chroniclersoftware.com , worked on Minecraft, Halo, O3DE, Valve Proton, WoW Auth, PAX & more. he/him
Nic Healey @doctornic.bsky.social Reformed tech journalist now making statewide radio in regional Victoria. Bourbon fan. Proud cat dad. Aldi Tim Minchin. He/him.
Bonicle - WISHLIST DUSTPOCALYPSE @bonicle.bsky.social Naarm/Melbourne based unity generalist/vfx artist | He/Him | 22
WISHLIST DUSTPOCALYPSE ON STEAM -> https://bit.ly/4xhFrTq
jae @ equip canberra games, alt: games, beyond the script @jemztones.bsky.social games, film, queer culture. gamedev from lutruwita.
@serenade.games co-founder
prev games include the freeplay zone and my lil fanfic
@unseconds.bsky.social @unseconds.bsky.social I want you to pretend that you know me, and because you know me everything I do makes sense.
Lead developer on PUTRID/SHARP and the background artist on Parasensor :]
cain @cmddx.itch.io makes weird horror games
check out PROXIMATE
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/PROXIMATE/
https://cmddx.itch.io/proximate
contact@cainmaddox.com
melbourne. he/him 🏳️⚧️
zac @duck.pizza bread eater/code boy | webmaster of poly.pizza + bino.gg | 🏳️🌈
charlie @creatureframe.bsky.social 3D animator and tech artist, i like making cute shit
StormCat - Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social Just your average 23 year old conspiring game developer.
https://stormcatgames.com/
Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3332770/WIZARD_PUNKS/
Go to Asymptotes:
https://asymptotes.au/
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Yaron Meron @yaronmeron.com Senior Lecturer in Design & researcher @ University of Sydney | ‘Resting’ design professional | Photographer, bad guitarist & some other things.
Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.
Ziran Zhao (Brandon) @zhaoziran258.bsky.social PhD student at @Monash_Arts👨🏻💻focusing on digital culture & game platform
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
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
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
brandonhare the cool and neat @brandonhare.com hello
website - https://brandonhare.com/
games - https://brandonhare.itch.io/
twitter - https://twitter.com/double_bucket_
google - https://google.com/
he/him/hello
zali !! @zephyreds.bsky.social they/any 🐉 naarm writer and game dev. i like chasms and strange beasts. || implementer on @fine-fiends.bsky.social's drăculești!
🦠 https://zephyreds.itch.io
@ericaroyle.bsky.social @ericaroyle.bsky.social makes games sometimes
GHOULISH - Wishlist PARASENSOR now! @ghoulish.com.au Making videogames in Naarm/Melbourne!
Creepin' it real
🪰Wishlist PARASENSOR now: store.steampowered.com/app/3722090/Parasensor🪳
ghoulish.com.au
kv @trepegroupie1.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at covergeek.com
Team Frosty Games Fest (as seen at Summer Game Fest!)
he/they
📧: kieron@covergeek.com
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design @citystgeorges.bsky.social, University of London conducts leading user-centred research. Home of the MSc HCID. https://hcid.city/ #HCID2026: https://hcidconference.co.uk/
Shahin Kanafchian @shahinpdx.bsky.social Partnerships at EA, 1/2 of electronic music duo Elevven
Ghostcrawler @ghostcrawler.bsky.social Greg Street, CEO of Fantastic Pixel Castle. We are fully funded and remote and making an MMO. Previously: League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Age of Empires. I only work on games with "of" in the middle.
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
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
Chris Murphy @oghamsmith.bsky.social Hooked on weird & wonderful creativity
Currently: Cooking up a suprise
Prev: BULKHEAD, Square Enix Collective + more
He/Him
Polygon @polygon.com Covering video games, entertainment, and the culture around them. We find, share, and investigate the things you love and the people who make and enjoy them.
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.
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/