Ryan Spangler @prismofeverything.bsky.social game design / compositional biology / modular synthesis / temple of the universe
owner of Elephant Laboratories
creator of Sol: Last Days of a Star
Eniko Fox @enikofox.com I make gay video games @kitsunegames.bsky.social with @nj0rd.bsky.social. Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss dev. Mask wearer. Programming language development enthusiast
Fuck AI
Follow me on Mastodon @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
She/her
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social 80s/90s/00s japanese gamedev interviews | patreon: http://patreon.com/shmuplations
Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social 🔸Irish 𝒥𝒶𝓂ℯ𝓈 dev / Glasgow Indie Games Fest / PizzaJam 🔸
Making indie 𝒥𝒶𝓂ℯ𝓈 : ComputerJames.itch.io
(Stealth Crossword, Dogman95)
Cullen @garbagefilth.bsky.social doinksoft game designer
opinions are not my own and objects in the reflection are closer than they may appear
they/them
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Always Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 PaxU @connor.alwaysawake.games Board game designer, illustrator and indie publisher
Store: https://www.alwaysawake.games/
Linker @linker.itch.io Game Developer and Pixel Artist. Games at http://linker.itch.io. They/Them 🏳️⚧️ 28. Business/Inquiries: linkerbm@gmail.com.
Made Elephantasy/Flipside, Polymute.
Currently working on: MYM'S SWORD 🗡️
Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social Games: https://www.hempuli.com
he/him
Jakub Wasilewski @krajzeg.bsky.social Creator of Slipways:
🚀 https://s.team/a/1264280/ 🚀
Just released Solitomb, a dungeon-crawly solitaire-pokery roguelike!
⚔️ https://krajzeg.itch.io/solitomb ⚔️
Posting about all of it. Possibly overthinking the whole thing.
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
System Erasure @system-erasure.bsky.social Devs behind Zeroranger & Void Stranger
https://se-made.com/
Mattias Ljungström @spacesofplay.com minc.dev, spacesofplay.com, based in berlin.
Algernon3000 @algernon3000.bsky.social French dude trying to make beautiful stuff from pixels
He/him
🐢
Find my work :
▶️ https://algernon3000.itch.io/
Astra 🔜 NebrasKon @astrawitch.com Indie Dev | Pixel Artist | She/They | Chaotic Good Paladin making games/art
Queer 💛🤍💜🖤 NO N/F/T or A/I
🛒 http://astrawitchart.com
👕 https://www.teepublic.com/user/astrawitch
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
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
lotovik is making ornament tower 🏰 @lotovik.com game creator previously @ fields of mistria & dandara: trials of fear
WISHLIST ORNAMENT TOWER:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4780280
Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, Animator, Pixel Artist, Low Poly, Game Designer
www.danieldiggle.com
Co-founder of @Broxcorp.bsky.social
Skies of Chaos & Sports Sports available on Netflix Games.
Tucker Hazell @tuckerhazell.bsky.social Host of Dev Dive and Back Log Banter. Independent video game researcher and game dev interviewer. | He/him | tucker@dev-dive.com for interview inquiries
Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room/Riot.
mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF
Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social Designer/Programmer of Bridge Builder, Pontifex, Gish, Golf?, A New Zero, Sub Rosa, Skate or Don't!, Stunt Derby
Arnold Rauers @arnoldrauers.com Hi, I’m Arnold Rauers.
Since 2012 I’m creating independent video games as Tinytouchtales.
👉 http://www.arnoldrauers.com 👈
torcado @torcado.com hi i make games and websites
torcado.com
torcado.itch.io
D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social • Fantasy Illustrator • Tea Alchemist • Fey King •
He/Him | ENG/PT-Br
• Contact: torres.ddb@gmail.com
• Portfolio: ddbtorres.carrd.co/
• Patreon: patreon.com/cw/DDBTorres
• Prints: inprnt.com/gallery/ddb.torres/
No AI
No Bigotry
sunil @sunil.page I like making and playing tiny games.
https://sunil.page
Ben Porter @eigenbom.bsky.social Game developer for life. I made MoonQuest and many other things. AAA gamedev by day. On the web at https://bp.io. Also https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eigenbom.
Change my profile pic: https://bp.io/app/avatar
Historically: https://twitter.com/eigenbom
doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social the statues are bleeding green
iggi phd student @ uni of york
researching game design & player creativity
sound toys & playful tools
[website] fuzul.bearblog.dev
[games & zines] fuzul.itch.io
Werxzy @werxzy.itch.io New polyomino puzzle game : https://werxzy.itch.io/infinimoes
I also stream my game development sometimes: https://twitch.tv/werxzy
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
Detective Fantasia: EXCALIMURDER @detfantasia.bsky.social ⦿ Murder mystery game in which Excalibur is the murder weapon!
⦿ Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2622180
⦿ More links: https://excalimurder.carrd.co/
⦿ Dev: @teochhim.bsky.social
DL @lafontaine-dl.bsky.social Game artist {Pixel art / 3D / Animation / Rigging}
/| Let's Do It ! |\
carrd : https://lafontainedl.carrd.co/
Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social Game developer and adaptive music specialist
nifflas.itch.io
Batfeula @batfeula.bsky.social A man made of black and yellow
- professional pixelartist
- comic artist
My portfolio 👇
https://batfeula.neocities.org/
@logiker.bsky.social @logiker.bsky.social Coding, Computer Art, Commodore, CPC, Challanges, ...
hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com she/her
Pixel artist with 15 years of industry experience
📧 hunter@hrpixelart.com
💻 www.hrpixelart.com
🎨 www.hrpixelart.com/commissions
Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social I’m an old school English hacker. Rewild the Internet!
https://weblog.ferrier.me.uk
Emacs help and advice if you ask.
Adel Faure ⏚🍉 @adelfaure.bsky.social ASCII artist and live coding performer trying to make video games
He/him
https://www.adelfaure.net/
Cookie Collective, Mistigris, Textmode Friends
Support me on https://ko-fi.com/adelfaure
Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social Angeline Era out NOW!! Stream Vhoebe - Amothers Lov EP! Blog with Zonelets! Anodyne, Even the Ocean, Sephonie dev w/ @hantani
Mare Sheppard @maresheppard.bsky.social Designer, Artist, 1/2 of Metanet Software Inc www.maresheppard.com / www.metanetsoftware.com
She/her
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/
andy @gleeson.dev a melbourne gamedev
> gleeson.itch.io
Pita @pita-m.com Pixel artist
Making Od's Tower: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pita-m/ods-tower
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
JuhrJuhr @juhrjuhr.itch.io Indie dev making small games.
TERMINAL REIGN: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4677740
Also DEEP SPACE EXPLOITATION and DIRECTORY DUNGEON:
linktr.ee/juhrjuhr
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Harry Dean Hudson @hdh.me Student of media and art. Systems and game designer, former music technology professional. https://liminal.games https://playful.work
Benjamin Soulé @benjaminsoule.bsky.social Apprentice Baker at punkcake delicieux
Kikottan 🐢 MORROCOY Studios 🐢 @kikottan.bsky.social 🇮🇹 🇻🇪 🇯🇵🇵🇸
Art Director - Pixel Artist, Solo Dev, Writer, and Dinosaur Enthusiast. 🦕🦖
Founder of MORROCOY Studios.
Crafting worlds and fighting for my dreams one pixel at a time!
AVAILABLE for art & storytelling work.
https://sagariarossi.myportfolio.com/
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
Oskar Stålberg @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Game dev. Made Bad North and Townscaper.
Identifile: Desktop Dungeon @gearbytegames.bsky.social 🇸🇬 | Navigate your operating system and battle viruses in this bullethell roguelike where folders act as treacherous dungeon rooms!
Wishlist here: https://bit.ly/identifile
#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social We support turn-based games! Showcase threads with tons of support, The Turn-Based Games Discord (https://discord.gg/zfmrtb2FkQ), TurnBasedFest.com festival & Steam sale, and more.
Learn more at https://bit.ly/AboutTBT
grim.ninja @grim.ninja Serial project starter and abandoner.
Hobbyist game dev, musician, father based in Tokyo.
Creator of Sonic16x16 in pico8. https://troypicol.itch.io/sonic16x16
davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com indie gamedev in japan • mixolumia • executive golf dx • core fault
YACHT @teamyacht.com teamyacht.com | Painting in the air since 2002 • Makers of music, objects, experiences, & ephemera • Blippo+ • Nominated for Grammy, Apple Design, & IGF awards • Winners of other ones! See also: @theuniverse.bsky.social & @blippo.plus
Keith Burgun @keithburgun.bsky.social Game designer living in Brooklyn NY.
@pancelor.bsky.social @pancelor.bsky.social 🔟 pancelor.itch.io/make-ten-deluxe - out now!
making short games, learning how to make longer ones too
- games: pancelor.itch.io/
- website/blog/etc: pancelor.com/
jasper byrne @jasperbyrne.bsky.social making new game+ (for 14 years)
superflat games / lone survivor / hotline miami / romeo is a dead man music etc
music: spacerecordings.bandcamp.com
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Björkus "No time_t to Die" Dorkus @thephd.dev 💀 The C Standard Cannot Be Replaced And Will Never Be Destroyed. 💀
✍ Writing: http://thephd.dev
📷 Avatar KIINGKISMET (https://kiingkiismet.com/)
🖼 Banner WusdisWusdat (https://wusdiswusdat.crd.co/)
Kyle Kukshtel @kkukshtel.bsky.social making games + tools
zinc.graphics
mood.site
gamedatapodcast.com
also made the certified HIDDEN GEM psychedelic weirdo tactical strategy game CANTATA
currently: senior core runtime eng @ unity
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
ben ✶ @bf.wtf senior dream engineer, miracle farmer, game dev — https://bf.wtf • https://common.tools • https://twopm.studio
⛳ PAR52 s.team/a/4862720
🧙 WizardChess https://s.team/a/1274210
🪔 The Thin Silence https://s.team/a/314630
🔮 Subconscious
🇦🇺 Meanjin (Brisbane)
adam pype @adampype.bsky.social i make 3d performative apparatus-environments (games)
made NO PLAYERS ONLINE
buy: http://noplayersonline.net
prev SPOOKWARE, shovel knight dig, COLDLINE, mapfriend, hps1 CHAIN + CHAINGED, VHS 1986, DREAMDISC, ...
games-> papercookies.itch.io
Helm @helmll.bsky.social makes videogames, makes comics, makes records - perennial pixel artist - dedicated to Heavy Metal Lightning Steel
ivy sly @ivysly.com jerk of some trades
ivysly.com
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
🎀 i'm katey! @bagenzos.house i live inside your computer and make video games
🏳️⚧️ (she/her)
🏠 site: https://bagenzos.house/
💼 portfolio: https://katebagenzo.dev/
🕹️ games : https://bagenzo.itch.io/
Fabian Fischer @ludokultur.bsky.social Making stuff you haven't played before.
🤖 Topdeck Automat: http://s.team/a/4321920
🎱 Rack and Slay: http://s.team/a/2311990
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/ludokultur
🌐 Website: https://www.fischergamedesign.com
Locomalito @locomalito.com Hobbyist developer of traditional video games: #MalditaCastilla #Hydorah #TheCurseOfIssyos #Gaurodan #AbbayeDesMorts #Darkula #Verminest #8bitKiller and more… locomalito.com
Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at You may know me from the Austrian parliament or national library, "hacktivist", computers this and that.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at
https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/
@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place
https://mariozechner.at
Biogenesis @biogenesis.bsky.social Making games as part of a 2 person team - Freshly Baked Games LLC
~Art, Design, Music, Writing~
Cat, Videogame, Manga Enthusiast.
Current main project - Queen's Domain
https://linktr.ee/biogenesisFBG
Steven ter Heide @steventerheide.bsky.social Creative Director at Wild Sheep Studio.
Previously: Game Director at Guerrilla
Killzone | Rigs | Horizon Zero Dawn | Maestro | Adorable Adventures
Polyducks @polyducks.co.uk Freelance Indie Gamedev • Pixel Artist • Textmode • TTRPG • pixelart • Lowpoly • GBStudio • JS/HTML • Dungeon Master #ドット絵
To contact me, visit my website: polyducks.co.uk
Mrmo Tarius @mrmotarius.bsky.social I make things!
Procedural, sandbox and simulation stuff fascinates me to no end.
If you like what I do, please consider supporting me at http://ko-fi.com/mrmotarius ☕
Check out the various stuff I made over on Itch!
http://mrmotarius.itch.io
Aaron Steed @st33d.bsky.social Makes games and pictures.
itch: https://st33d.itch.io/
mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@st33d
pets club 2 @jakeonaut.itch.io wishlist "granny's toybox" on steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4512850/grannys_toybox/
Babushka's 👵🧹Glitch Dungeon 💽 is a cute & weird adventure puzzle game. Out now on steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1876850/Glitch_Dungeon_Crystal/
Jay Ma @jarmustard.bsky.social ・Reposts of game dev and art・
・Cofounder of Subset Games・
・she/her・
・京都・
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
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/
Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), original Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
Andre Weissflog @flohofwoe.bsky.social Sokol, Chips, Oryol, Nebula Device, Drakensang (1+2+Online), Project Nomads, Urban Assault, and more (https://www.mobygames.com/person/117426/andre-wei%C3%9Fflog/credits/)
https://github.com/floooh/
@floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place
Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev Game developer, world builder. I made Ikenfell and NOISE1. Look at my dog.
chevyray.dev
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
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
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
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
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/
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics!
tylerglaiel.com
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
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games