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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Marc Scattergood @thescattergoods.com Dad, partner, living life. SoCal based. 25+ years in the game industry, over 30 years in tech. Epic Games Docs and Learning.
Gaurav Mathur @gauravcm.bsky.social Builder. Producer. Artist. Advisor.
Creator of gamedevmap.
Formerly at LucasArts, Double Fine, Factor 5, Toys for Bob, Penumbra, and E-Line Media.
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
Tiffany Smith @tifflsmith.bsky.social
Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social Owner of Positech Games. https://www.positech.co.uk Coder of Democracy, Gratuitous Space Battles etc blog: http://cliffski.com. Built a solar farm. Ex heavy metal guitarist & teacher. Cat owner. Making Ridiculous Space Battles!
Isaac Barry @isaacbarry.com confusing on the eyes
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
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Senior Gameplay Developer at Studio Ellipsis working on Nightholme ⸰ worked on Star Wars Outlaws, Avatar, Agario and more
Kent Culotta @kentculotta.bsky.social Artist●Illustrator●Animator
Giant Cardboard Robot @karmaadjuster.bsky.social Game designer of both digital and the physical realm, and in my spare time I've been known to walk around as a Giant Cardboard Robot. On occasion I have even sold kits for the arms around the world, technically making me an world international arms dealer.
Nancy Beiman @beiman-nancy.bsky.social
Retired Disney Supervising animator, storyboard artist, animator, independent short filmmaker, animation educator, and now creator of the FurBabies comic strip on GoComics. #cartoonists #comics #animators
@csiegel.bsky.social @csiegel.bsky.social
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
@jmcdesign.bsky.social @jmcdesign.bsky.social
Paul Fox @therealpaulfox.eurosky.social 🔊 Aural Acrobat. Unassuming part-time party clown. Patron of: bachelors, diseased cattle, dogs, falsely accused people, invalids, Istanbul, surgeons, tile-makers, grave-diggers, second-hand dealers, pilgrims, apothecaries
Zachary Quarles, MPSE @zqsfx.bsky.social Sound designer at Sweet Justice and general weirdo. #gameaudio #gamedev #sounddesign #3dprinting #food #dogs #dungeonsanddragons
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Keith O'Conor @keithoconor.bsky.social CTO & Technical Director at Romero Games
Previously 3D Tech Lead at Ubisoft MTL (Far Cry, Watch_Dogs) & graphics coder at Radical (Prototype)
#irishgamedev
He/him
Wolfgang Engel @wolfgangfengel.bsky.social Graphics Programmer, CEO at The Forge Interactive
https://theforge.dev/
https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge
Dave "ddt" Taylor @tslug.bsky.social Coder on original Doom, Quake games. These days, I dig serving on advisory boards, helping with biz/tech strategy, raising money, recruiting, whatever comes up.
Wooji Juice @wooji-juice.com Wooji Juice create apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad, including the popular podcast editor Ferrite Recording Studio.
If you need support for one of our apps, look in the Tools menu of the app for a Contact Support link and email us from there. Thanks!
Emil Pagliarulo @dezinuh.bsky.social Bethesda Game Studios Veteran. Sentient gingerbread man. Dad. Southie Boy. Video Game Junkie. Rebel Alliance Operative.
#Starfield #Fallout #ElderScrolls
Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social Software dev, video game maker, writer, general dogsbody.
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
Sean L @seanlama.bsky.social Superhero Dad. Games publishing at Ubisoft. Small business owner / investor. Yay Area native still gettin hyphy out there.
@spmeister.bsky.social @spmeister.bsky.social
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io • Founder, Dejobaan Games • Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve • 30 Year Veteran Game Dev • Boston!
Kalle Kaivola @kallekaivola.bsky.social Games person. CEO at Lightheart Entertainment.
Joe Graf @epiccog.bsky.social Retired Engineering Fellow from Epic Games (20 years of service)
Chris Rhinehart @chrisrhinehart.bsky.social
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Tony Barnes | RetroNinja @retroninja.bsky.social Jerry Lawson Lifetime Achievement Award winner | 40 yr game veteran | designer | artist | musician | video editor | owner/founder RetroNinja game dev studio
Christopher Mair @thanoseid.bsky.social Game Designer, musician, dad and a bunch of other things :)
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director @footballmanager
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Mike Arkin @revoemag.bsky.social Multi award winning game producer/studio head. Over 200 shipped games including WWF, Die Hard Trilogy, AVP, TXR, Oddworld Soulstorm, Bloodrayne. Currently working on 7 days to die and Croc.
Martin Donlon @wickerwaka.com Professional game developer. Unprofessional FPGA developer, hardware hacker and reverse engineer.
Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social Metroid Prime 1 and 2 Technical Lead Engineer, MP3 Principal Technology Engineer, formerly Founder and Technical Director Armature Studio, Principal Engineer at Bluepoint Games.
Kzi / Maxime Gaffé @maximeg.bsky.social Senior Engine Programmer at Ubisoft, full time grump, bike lover who can’t shut up about his cat 🥔🚲🐙
Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social ⏪ PAST: Naughty Dog; co-writer/narrative designer Uncharted 4, Uncharted:The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Pt II
▶️ NOW: Cautionary Tales game narrative consulting
🗣️ video games, baking, bad puns, shitposting
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❤️ fix your hearts or die
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy our games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/
Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert.bsky.social Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Alexander Bruce @demruth.bsky.social I made Antichamber. Now I'm making something else.
Noel Llopis @noel-llopis.bsky.social Making games since 1985: World of Goo 2, Subterfuge, Casey's Contraptions, Flower Garden and AAA games before that. Runner. Cyclist. Swimmer. Board game addict. Avid reader.
My retro computer channel @noelsretrolab.com
Aubrey Serr @serr.bsky.social Veteran indie game developer and GDC speaker on Level Design. Artist, animator, and programmer with 10+ years of experience. Trained economist bringing analytical skills to game design. 1990 Nintendo World Championships semi-finalist
Ralph Barbagallo @flarb.com Founder FLARB. DEMON’S TILT, XENOTILT, VR, AR, XR! #gamedevelopment #pinball #virtualreality #augmentedreality #mixedreality
Brad Welch @bdubzford.bsky.social Design Monkey. Aussie. Angelino. Old cyborg. Archetype. Team Kaiju. Visceral Star War RIP. 343 Haloz. Mercs Deux. Destroy All Humanses! Dark Reign. Amiga jams. Now we have them right where they want us. Fnord!
Letterbox : https://letterboxd.com/bdubzford
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Petri Järvilehto @pjarvilehto.bsky.social Likes making games.
Led, directed and created variety of acclaimed and best selling hit titles and IP such as Max Payne, variety of Angry Birds titles and Best Fiends. Board member @ Sustainable Games Alliance.
Nate Purkeypile: Solo Indie Dev🤘 @npurkeypile.bsky.social Made The Axis Unseen, a heavy metal horror game: http://bit.ly/3ryQ6Zg and Deedlee! Doo! Carkour! 🏎️💥http://bit.ly/43ne3H0 Worked on Skyrim, Fallout, etc.
Soundcreature @soundcreature.net The legendary game and film sound monsters.
Step out of a triangle, into striped light!
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Matthew Hanlon @thebag1981.bsky.social 🏴 •Lead coder at Playsport Games •Co-founder of Bit By Bit Games •ex-Lionhead gameplay & AI coder (B&W2, Fable 2 3 & H) #BAFTAGames he/him
Rudolf Kremers @rudolfkremers.bsky.social Co-creator Eufloria, Bioframe Outpost, and MOAR!
Author, BAFTA Nominated Game Dev/consultant, Writer, Photographer. Making games since 1984, Director Omni Systems Ltd & Publishing
https://www.omni-labs.com/
http://www.rudolfkremers.com/
Jeff Gardiner [gamedev] @jg93.bsky.social Founder & CEO of Something Wicked Games | Former Project Lead at Bethesda Game Studios #Fallout #ElderScrolls
J.J. Hoesing @hoesing.bsky.social
John Passfield @johnpassfield.bsky.social Made Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Co-created TY the Tasmanian Tiger. I’m making Super Robot Survivors and Halloween Harry.
https://linktr.ee/retrojohnno
George Broussard @georgebsocial.bsky.social Co-founded the original 3D Realms/Apogee. Published, funded, produced & created many games. Known for Duke Nukem 3D.
Game designer, artist, programmer.
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Borbala Branch @borbalabranch.bsky.social Enthusiastic editor of books and negative attitudes (borbalabranch.wixsite.com/borbalabranch) • Writer • Pianist • Forest Fairy • Chocolate lover • she/her