Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
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
Jackbox Games @jackboxgames.com Developer and publisher of YOU DON’T KNOW JACK®, Fibbage™, Quiplash, The Jackbox Naughty Pack, and The Jackbox Survey Scramble.
Connect with us: http://linktr.ee/jackboxgames
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
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.
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/
Cam @camrogerslegal.bsky.social Lawducer or Prodawyer. I can never remember which..
Trans Rights are human rights.
Pro-Feminist ✊
I help people make cool things.💯
Pro Jank Footy @projankfooty.bsky.social Pro Jank Footy is an over-the-top arcade comedy-sports game where every goal unleashes chaos. OUT NOW on all platforms!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3621330/Pro_Jank_Footy/
Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social that kangaroo what makes the game rec threads and such
Media Molecule @mediamolecule.com Official account of Mm, creators & developers of award winning games #LittleBigPlanet, #LittleBigPlanet2, #Tearaway & #Dreams. Part of PlayStation Studios.
Website: www.mediamolecule.com
Godot Engine @godotengine.org Your free, open-source game engine 🎮🛠️
Develop your 2D & 3D games, cross-platform projects, or even XR ideas!
🔗 https://links.godotengine.org/
Midnighters @midnighters.games Midnighters are an expert production collective, providing bespoke video game production and publishing support for developers and publishers who need an extra set of hands.
midnighters.games
Serenity Forge @serenityforge.com Creating meaningful & emotionally impactful experiences that challenge the way you think.
#DDLC Plus, LISA, To the Moon, NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD, Fractured Blooms, Gone Home, Tiny Bunny (Зайчик)
Discord: http://bit.ly/3a9Oy2O
https://serenityforge.com/
Bird Magician 🇺🇦 @birdmagician.com 🎨Creative 🦜Birds lover
👾Indie Game Dev @chunkyquail.com
Wishlist Slumbering Woods: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3243350
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/brZTCU4d6U
Other links: https://linktr.ee/birdmagician
#indiegames #artist
Crewtapes @crewtapes.bsky.social hi i'm ollie / https://linktr.ee/crewtapes / he/him pakeha living in so-called australia
Chunky Quail | Wishlist Slumbering Woods @chunkyquail.com Chunky Quail is a two-person game development studio from Brisbane, Australia.
Working on a mushroom growing exploration adventure Slumbering Woods.
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3243350?utm_source=bsk
Linktr: https://linktr.ee/ChunkyQuail
liminalzero @liminalzero.bsky.social Developing Cow Chess
( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3444110/Cow_Chess/ )
and a Game Development teacher
Sydney, Australia🦘
Amphibibean @amphibibean.bsky.social Head of Frog & Dove Games
I Eat Paintings When Guards Aren't Looking is out now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3806420/I_Eat_Paintings_When_Guards_Arent_Looking/
Women-Led Games @womenledgames.com Summer Game Fest Edition: June 4th 4PM PT https://youtube.com/@Women-LedGames | Highlighting women in the games industry, sharing their projects, and their experiences.
SAM 👁️👄👁️ @limeslimetime.bsky.social The Dragon of Dragonbaby 🐲
Irredeemable vampire simp planning to usurp the localization world with a golden heart and silver tongue.
Specialist in all things bone-grinding and neon-tinged...or frankly anything needing a flair of poeticism.
he/him ✨💖🏳️⚧️🌈
Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social freelance writer & consultant | seen @ Game Informer, IGN, Polygon, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edge, Tech Radar, NME + more | she/they | 🇦🇺 in ? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
サラ スウェイツ
💌 thwaitesannsarah [at] gmail [dot] com
Louis 🔜 MIGW @louis-van-dyke.bsky.social Production | Development | Mentorship
Go wishlist @dungeonpizza.bsky.social
Meanjin/Brisbane
I talk about games and gardening ☺️🌱
(he/him||they/them)
Silver Stitch @silstipro.bsky.social WISHLIST 'M.I.S.': store.steampowered.com/app/3516430/Management_In_Space/
~chaotic game dev~
I design universes.
⟦they - them⟧
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
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
🎤 Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
✉ shao.karrie@gmail.com
🧐 karries.carrd.co
every day is Halloween! @jennatar.bsky.social jennfrank.net ✑ jennfrank.bearblog.dev
Patric Fallon @patricfallon.bsky.social Director, designer, and all-around #gamedev at pprojects, etc.
Currently in production for an as-yet-unannounced game about [👻] from the [😵💫] in order to [👽].
Ryan Penning ✨ @ryanpenning.com ✨Award Winning Producer and Games Industry Expert. Thinking and looking for what’s next?
Previously @ Chaos Theory Games, @ Mighty Kingdom, @ Ultimate Studio, Games Investment Manager @ Screen NSW
Won some AGDA's • Rising Star & more!
Stubbornly made
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
BarmE @barmearme.bsky.social Wiradjuri Wizard
Award Winning Advocate
Creative Director, Senior Producer and Narrative for @buruthegame.bsky.social
Ouss Ouss 👊🏼👊🏼
Jimbles @jimjimbles.bsky.social Hello I'm jimbles
they/them
Alissa Vovers @avovers.bsky.social they/them
junior programmer at https://www.summerfallstudios.com/
charlotte @pastadog.itch.io i’m making games: https://pastadog.itch.io/
i made some art: https://charlottemackie.cargo.site/
play our game It's Dinner Time here: https://featheredyogurt.itch.io/its-dinner-time
working, creating and living on unceded Wurundjeri land
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social thisisstar.com // A tornado disguised as a girl. // Art & Creative Direction. UI/UX. Illustration. Animation. 3D. Game trailers. // Aconite & Goodbyeworld & Inkle. // HoloVista, Slime in the Ice Machine, The Forever Labyrinth, and more!
Nicole Aptekar @nicoles.bsky.social 
William Chyr @chyr.bsky.social Artist and game developer. Directed Manifold Garden, Hotel Infinity, and Strata. Creative Director at Studio Chyr. Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College Chicago.
https://studiochyr.com/
Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social Formerly of PC Powerplay and various other places. Freelance game reviewer. Connecting with game devs, but not having a lot of time for social media ... Tell me about your game. (PS. I am not Peter Morgan. 😂)
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Alex Smiles @phonicpod.bsky.social Senior UI/UX Designer + Occasional Game Designer - Solium Infernum, The Forgotten City, Need for Speed, DeBlob and more - www.userinterfaceinterface.com
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 🏳️⚧️
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
Don’t Stop, Girlypop! - ✩𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026✩ @girlypop.net Spread the Love!
Just. Don't. Stop. Moving. ♥
girlypop.net
✦⁺₊✩☽⋆𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026 ⋆☾✩⁺₊✦
https://linktr.ee/girlypopgame
Christie @auralynxian.bsky.social Award-nominated freelance games journalist 🎮
✨ As seen on GamesHub & WellPlayed ✨
Fan of The Witcher, Kingdom Hearts, Bratz 💕
💌 christie.auralynxian@gmail.com
Portfolio + socials: https://linktr.ee/auralynxian
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social Oh No! Oh Dear! Oh My!
Games...person?
Would love you to play Key Fairy: keyfairy.com.au
Other games/art/blog-posts?
yes: neighbourhoodsnake.com
she/they
Reloader @reloader-au.bsky.social Australia’s newest outlet covering video games, tech, and entertainment
reloader.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
Scott from Fuzzy Ghost @scott.fuzzyg.host I put the "Ghost" in Fuzzy Ghost. Also the visual stuff. Also the story stuff.
Pete from Fuzzy Ghost 🔜 MIGW @fuzzyg.host IGF Nominated, Freeplay & AGDA winning, queer game making duo based on Turrbal and Jagera Land - Brisbane. 🏳️🌈
Freeplay board member
linktr.ee/_fuzzyghost_
Paul James @pauljamesgames.bsky.social Player2.net.au Editorial team, Podcast Host: #DevDiary, and #Patched
https://linktr.ee/pauljamesgames
thea @tyaisco.bsky.social artist & game dev making REAPRIEVE at @10pmclub.bsky.social
JayMFernandes @jaymfernandes.bsky.social Dev in Wurundjeri country trying to make things better | Head of Bad Haircut Games | Director of Plastic Fern Studios | Audio artist | Release expert for Games | (he/him) | Music: http://jayfernandes.bandcamp.com
Ben Droste @bendroste.bsky.social Game Designer, 3D Artist, and Jugger. Creative Director at my indie studio 100 Stones Interactive. Working on Memory's Reach.
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar 😺 OUT NOW @abandonedsheep.com Portal with cats. ⚛️ Quantum madness in TWO places at the SAME time! 🐱🐱Play solo or coop, 🤔solve puzzles and 🚓evade security!
Play on Steam 👉 https://s.team/a/2111550/
Contact - hello at abandonedsheep dot com
Alex Driml @busalonium.bsky.social Brisbane game dev
Currently making L8R SK8R https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046610/L8R_SK8R/
Also made Gerrymander https://busalonium.itch.io/gerrymander-dx
Also, currently open for contract work
Facu @facundoo.bsky.social just a lil guy trying to live | Games producer - player of things. Currently producer at @Supertonic.au
Always queer | He/They | Gadigal Country/Sydney
Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Kotaku, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
🛰️ Newsletter: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com
Buru and The Old People | Wishlist on Steam @buruthegame.bsky.social An upcoming, short narrative adventure game 🌳 Explore the hand-drawn world 💬 chat with quirky locals 🎲 encounter D&D inspired mini-games.
💌 https://buruthegame.beehiiv.com/subscribe
🔗 https://linktr.ee/buruthegame
📫 buruthegame@gmail.com
Hamish Lockwood @superluigibros.bsky.social Previously Lead Level Designer for The Plucky Squire. Before that Yooka-Laylee, Stealth Inc., Volume, and more.
Supertonic @supertonic.au Award-winning game audio studio
https://linktr.ee/supertonicaudio
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
REAPRIEVE GAME 🦋 @10pmclub.bsky.social Reaprieve is an existential puzzle game about a desperate office worker at a memory collection company between life and death.
Currently in pre-production. Follow for updates! https://linktr.ee/10pmclub
☁️ 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
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
Player2.net.au @player2au.bsky.social All the shenanigans from the Player 2 team... now on Bluesky!
Rae Johnston @raejohnston.bsky.social Wiradyuri & Greek
STEM Journalist & Broadcaster
🎙️ Weird Tech, ABC Radio National Download This Show, ABC Radio NSW Sunday Mornings
📺Going Places (NITV) Back Roads (ABC) & The Secret DNA Of Us (SBS)
UNICEF Australia Ambassador
Adrian Adrian Adrian @adriangenerator.bsky.social Programmer and Game Designer @ massivemonster.bsky.social, working on @cultofthelamb.bsky.social and secret stuff 🐑🤘 Reposting game dev stuff for inspiration 🌟 Massive swing dance nerd 👟👟
(he/him)
Ingechu @ingechu.bsky.social Art Director and Co-Founder of Lemonade Games making Mystiques: Haunted Antiques
Lead Artist at Intarsia making Beetols They Do It
✨️💖
Creator of Cat Cafe: Map Code 7343-4681-3555
ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social 🪷just here for attention🪷 making games.
Clinton Shepherd @foolhardygames.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at Mighty Games (Keywords). Coffee, game dev and painting minis, in no particular order... (he/him)
Cyrian Guillaume @cyriang.bsky.social Freelance Tech Artist ✨
@kiockstantin.bsky.social @kiockstantin.bsky.social 
Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social 40 year veteran games developer. Working with Screen Agencies, Publishers, and Developers.
Production on (REDACTED) for Fireshine
Production on DREDGE, Moving Out 2, Before We Leave, Age of Darkness, CONSCRIPT for Team17.
www.gameconsulting.com.au
zac @duck.pizza bread eater/code boy | webmaster of poly.pizza + bino.gg | 🏳️🌈
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
ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi technical designer @sleightofhand.game ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa
fuck AI
https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa
Amy PJ 🌺 @hellomisspotter.com video games + marketing + probably photos of my dog 👩🏼💻 the @FrostyGamesFest.com girl 🍦 ✧* kiwi in sydney *✧ she/her
Damon @damonreece.com they/them - Writing for games since 2012. I'm trying to post as boringly as possible, so please meet me in the middle and try to enjoy it.
🥚🐛♾️
⚫️🟡🔴
https://damonreece.com
https://blog.damonreece.com
Joel from video games @walistudios.au 🐉 Wishlist Wyrmspace 🌌 Tactics today!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122350/Wyrmspace_Tactics/
[-o-] Always was, always will be
💾 Co-founder and Game Design lead @ Wali Studios
❤️🔥 Freeplay board member
🃏Certified card game freak
David Smith @rhunwords.com Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
Sasha Mutch @sashamutch.bsky.social [-o-] Always was, Always will be.
Co-Founder of Wali Studios.
https://linktr.ee/wali_studios
Junebug ⚧️ @junebugrocks.bsky.social It/She
The one behind the camera
Co-developer of Webbed
Part of the team for Isopod: a webbed spin-off
Artist in many ways
Intarsia Interactive @intarsia.studio Handcrafting weird little games with weird little guys
https://intarsia.studio/
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
Neil Dejyothin @neildejyothin.com Building a game studio. 🕹️
Executive Producer @ Formation Games
BAFTA winner 🏆 • Twice BAFTA Juror 🎭
Football ⚽️ Games 🎮 Leadership 👥
First-time dad. 👨🏻🤓
www.neildejyothin.com
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Maxine Beneba Clarke @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social Author of 15 books, including Foreign Soil, How Decent Folk Behave, It’s The Sound of The Thing, The Patchwork Bike, The Hate Race, Beautiful Changelings, and The Saturday Portraits.
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, genre cinema enjoyer, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
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
Jay Wilson @jaysonthemoon.bsky.social Solo Dev @ Moon Metro Digital | Game & Level Design + UI Dev @ SMG Studio | Absolute Unit | Gaming Enthusiast | Worked on LEGO Party!, MO2, RISK, and more!
https://jayiwilson.carrd.co/
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
Simon Boxer @sboxle.bsky.social Making indie games @twicedifferent.bsky.social
Ring of Pain, Winnie’s Hole, The Dungeon Experience
70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social Get my art book 'Worlds Beyond Time!' https://linktr.ee/70sscifiart
Publishers Weekly says my "obvious love for the form animates the volume." And I'll animate again! I'll never stop animating volumes
Scott Jon Siegel @numberless.bsky.social Designer of playful social experiences. Lead Game Designer @ Board.
I love making things that bring people together.
https://numberless.net
https://board.fun
RMIT Games @rmitgames.bsky.social News from RMIT's Bachelor of Design Games program from students, instructors, and researchers.
🧚♂️🧩🎲🎨
📍 Melbourne, AU
leura 🐭 @smitleu.bsky.social hi it’s leura 🦭 im making an architecture game called…. canvas street!!!! please wait in eager anticipation!!
I don’t wanna verify my age so you can email me if you want :)
leura@apartment809.com