Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Jason Byers @jasamy.bsky.social Software engineer in West Sussex, UK
Buster Benson @busterbenson.com Founder of https://750words.com. Author of “Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement”. Temporarily human. http://busterbenson.com
Danae Shell @danaeshell.bsky.social CEO of Valla - we make fairness real.
Polly Purvis @pollypur.bsky.social Past career in tech. Founder of CodeClan, chair of Digital Xtra and Converge Challenge. 🏴 🇨🇦
Jon Davey @jondavey.bsky.social Photographer who lives by the sea. Supports United (P2BAA), Leeds and The Spartans. Writes about football sometimes, shares a picture a day on Blipfoto.
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org Product manager on Google Maps driving + walking, and that little bit at the end that says you've arrived. I dream of a beautiful place in the mountains to call home. 日本語でもたまには書きます
📍Zurich by way of Tokyo and Boulder
Logos & Types @logosandtypes.bsky.social Letter Logo Love!
Welcome to a space where the artistry of letters meets impactful logos. Explore how Real Companies perfect this creative fusion.
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social I help SaaS founders troubleshoot growth & marketing. Occasional posts about art, poetry, and other hobbies. Learning how to work with my ADHD at the same time. I run demandmaven.io
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Laura Roeder @lauraroeder.bsky.social Honk If You ♥️ SaaS
🥾 I'm the bootstrapped founder of Paperbell (>1m ARR)
🚪 Exited MeetEdgar
✍️ Blogging at https://lauraroeder.com/
🇬🇧 Based in Brighton, UK
Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io co-founder 🧡
@joshuawood.net worksonified🕴️
Blog: https://joshuawood.net ✍️
Podcast: @founder.quest 🎙️
Developer-first monitoring and observability. 📈
Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 20 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Kirsty Fraser @kirstysays.bsky.social 🤓 Lead Programmer at Third Kind Games
💬 Co-organiser of @brumindies.bsky.social
⚔️ @igdafoundation.org Next Gen Leader cohort '20 '25
🏆 MCV/Develop Women in Games Tech Innovation Winner 2023
❤️💍 @meesh-codes.bsky.social
(She/her)
Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social Game programmer, creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. Comments are my own and those of the voices in my head.
Support my work:
http://www.patreon.com/mikedailly
http://www.lemmings.info
https://mdf200.itch.io/
http://www.youtube.com/mikedailly
rachel @nershly.bsky.social graceful failure. game programmer, designer, doodler, etc. likes tea. is a she. paints and plays with minis. personal site: https://rachelnertia.github.io/ also: https://linktr.ee/rockstargamesworkers
Colin Riley @domipheus.bsky.social CTO at JECO; prev FSR 4/3/2 Lead at AMD, GPU Drivers at AMD, Codeplay doing debuggers, compilers and optimizations for various folks. FPGA/Electronics/DIY hobbyist. Own opinion. https://domipheus.com/
Linda McGarrigle @lindamcg.bsky.social Scottish redhead, lover of cosplay, games and D&D 
Miles Jacobson @milessi.bsky.social Gaffer @sigames
director @footballmanager
Industry Ambassador @warchilduk
@lofootball committee
VP @specialeffect
Governor @elamhq
Cooking Blog http://miles.cooking
Personal account
Michael Hayes @mdhayes.bsky.social Making software stuff.
The BGI (National Videogame Museum) @thebgi.bsky.social Games charity with mission to transform lives with games, governs The National Videogame Museum (@nvmuk.bsky.social), GamesEd Summit, award-winning learning and vocational courses.
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
David G @dagri68.bsky.social Documentary, Visual Anthropology, Art, Liberation, Wombling, Maker, Anti-Capitalist, 💚 Anarchist Thought, Don’t like Climate Change Deniers - Think different, always left! Also on the spectrum…
Ewan McIntosh @ewanmcintosh.bsky.social I help people find focus and design clear strategy for their school. Founder @NoTosh.
Game Dev Edinburgh @gamedeved.bsky.social Social meet-up for Edinburgh game devs of any age, stage and discipline! Every other Tuesday from 6PM 'til late at OX184!
Discord: https://discord.gg/HnPSCDJ
meetup: https://www.meetup.com/edinburgh-game-development-meetup-group/
Jon Davies 🦖 🔜 Pixel Art Park (Tokyo) @sovanjedi.bsky.social Pixel Artist (derogatory) worked on Super House of Dead Ninjas, Binding of Isaac, Inmost, Cursed to Golf, X-Men ‘97, Marvel: Cosmic Invasion. #pixelart
🚫NFTs/AI/Crypto
👍Dinosaurs.
Portfolio: jontendo.format.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sovanjedi
Toni Scullion @sculliontoni.bsky.social Aspiring to make a dent in the Computing Science uptake in Scotland, particularly the gender gap; aiming to inspire, support and engage pupils.
LouiseForeman @lforeman.bsky.social Education Scotland, Lead Specialist, Professional Learning and Leadership Team, Leading Professional Learning National Programme. Views are my own.
Cat Burton @gothbosscat.bsky.social 🎮 Games Industry Consultant & Podcast Host
👩🏻💼 Work with me: https://www.gothboss.co.uk
@helenmullen.bsky.social @helenmullen.bsky.social 
Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 DICE Europe @icotom.icopartners.com 🙋 Co-founder of @icopartners.com | @crowdfunding-agency.com | @mightymerch.store
👾Supporting self-publishing game companies (Strategy | Marketing | PR)
🙆♂️Crowdfunding specialist (Kickstarter Community Advisory Council member)
Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev Ex: Roll7, Spry Fox. Now: helping teams ship faster with test automation, also Brum Indies.
https://automatedaf.dev https://atig.dev
Alex Darby // darbotron 🛹 @darbotron.bsky.social Programmer & Designer. Human, husband, parent, skateboarder. Gamedev since '96. Company founder. BAFTA member & winner. GameDevHeroes Programming Hero 2019. Co-creator DJ Hero. #UKGI Cthulhu fhtagn ;,;
www.darbotron.com
www.linkedin.com/in/darbotron
Katie Goode @mrsgame.dev Creative Director @triangularpixels.com
#VR #AR #BAFTA #breakthroughbrits. Made UnseenDiplomacy, SmashHitPlunder. Help run @cornwall.games
#gamedev #indiedev
Opinions my own
http://mrsgame.dev
Heather McDaid @heathermmcd.bsky.social Professional dork. Ex-publisher, current books and puzzle person. Always tired.
https://heathermcdaid.com
Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social I've been here long enough where a lot of you don't even know where I come from and I kinda find that delightful.
But I'm glad you're here! How are you?
Phaser / Richard Davey @phaser.io CTO and Founder of Phaser (https://phaser.io). A collection of mostly web game dev, geek stuff, retro gaming, pixel art, startup culture, anime and science nerdery.
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan.bsky.social Writing, advising, Investing | LennysNewsletter.com
Sho Kuwamoto @skuwamoto.bsky.social VP of Product at Figma. Pretty good at eating gyoza.
Dhara Vyas @dharavyas.bsky.social CEO Energy UK - and also on the Board of Green Alliance & EVA England. Came here for the energy chat....
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social Contains multitudes.
Author of Radical Focus and many more.
Lecturer at Stanford.
Often somewhere with a beach and ruins.
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Andrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social Gamedev and 1-person studio @ThunkdGames Past credits: The Magnificent Trufflepigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Amnesia: AMfP. Also run gamedev networking events.
https://linktr.ee/andrewcrawshaw
Scottish Tech Army @scottishtecharmy.bsky.social Uniting passionate volunteers with nonprofits to use technology to drive social change across the UK.
UK Games Fund @ukgamesfund.bsky.social Working to support the UK’s early-stage games development community.
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Korina ✨🐛 @shikaboom.bsky.social Comms cryptid at Wolfeye Studios & freelance games marketer. Prev: Founder of Neonhive. Marketing at Bethesda, SQEX, Ubisoft
Chaotic gardener, insect queen, lifts heavy things.
💌 korina@panicdepartment.com
🐺 korina@wolfeye-studios.com
Luci Holland @luciholland.bsky.social Games/Film/Concert/Sound Art | #TheConsole | BAFTA Connect 23 | Plants/chinchillas tenderer 🌱🐭 | https://luciholland.com
Mike Enoch @mickenoch.bsky.social I make games. Code lead on Crackdown, Crackdown 2. Made Ghost Dentist VR on Train Jam with friends. He/Him. @mikeenoch in the other place, it was taken here!
GlesGames @glesgames.bsky.social Glasgow's local multiplayer video game event. 🎮🕹😁
Email enquiries: glesgames@outlook.com 
We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social videogame-adjacent production // curation // hardware studio 💜 wethrowswitches.com
Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social Sometimes Game Audio Person. (Ex nDreams, Glowmade, Junkfish, Blazing Griffin)
@iwgbunion.bsky.social Treasurer
Scottish. No DMs!
Work: https://speedyjx.com/
Noise:
@manmadeorigin.bsky.social
https://thecabinetnoir.bandcamp.com/
@simonmeek.bsky.social @simonmeek.bsky.social 
Chera 🦊 @cherafox.bsky.social Save me, Arcane brainrot save me
Pete Shea @peteshea.bsky.social Veteran Game Designer Glasgow, Scotland
Gavin Divers @gavind.bsky.social 🎮 Gamerhub Founder | 🔍 Talent Sourcer DiveinJobs | Matching top gaming talent with dream careers! 🚀 Levelling up the games industry. #Gaming #GameJobs
Scott Brodie @brodiegames.bsky.social Design Director at ProbablyMonsters. Prev: Sony PlayStation, Microsoft, Founder at Heart Shaped Games. Thoughts are my own.
Full Works: https://sites.google.com/view/scottbrodie/home- N Nicholas Fortugno @nickfortugno.bsky.social Director of Digital Game Development Program at City College of NY, playmatician, interactive narrative critic at large
Doctoe @doctoe.bsky.social CEO of the BPI. Former CEO of Ukie. Scottish. 
Martyn McLaughlin @martynmcl.bsky.social Investigations correspondent & columnist The Scotsman & Scotland on Sunday. Personal account. Views my own.
www.martynmclaughlin.com- M Matthew Barr @mbarr.net
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Colin Macdonald @scottishcolin.bsky.social 
Thomas Welsh - game narrative writer @calmdowntom.bsky.social Thomas Welsh. Author of the Metiks Fade trilogy. Lead writer and narrative Director on Nivalis Nights, Best Served Cold, more. I wrote Cloudpunk.
Nonbinary. Likes finery. He/Him/She/Her
Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social indie games // electronic music // words
Mode 7 // nervous_testpilot + _ensnare_ // Mode Collapse
mode7.games - indie games
nervoustestpilot.com - electronic music
modecollapse.com - words
Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social Indie dev making games & chatting about the games industry. ex Rockstar & Activision, now MD of https://bsky.app/profile/ant-workshop.com
Our latest game: https://bsky.app/profile/tonygowland.bsky.social/post/3lp7gpkckgc24
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
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.
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/
Jon Brady @jonbrady.bsky.social senior news reporter and occasional night editor, tired
https://linktr.ee/jonbrady
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands • made a really big video game once but is doing something else now • tha Gàidhlig agam • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they • e/iad 🏳️⚧️
Alice Taylor @alicejanetaylor.bsky.social Emerging media, emerging tech, games obsessed, down the rabbit hole. 🖤
Rab Florence @robertflorence.bsky.social 
Brian Baglow @brianbaglow.bsky.social Games generalist. Scottish specialist. Writing the First National strategy for games.
Gary Penn @garypenn.bsky.social Creative director, designer, dreamer, maker, father, drawer, felter, gamer, writer, editor, flâneur, BAFTA winner, legit Games Media Legend, spoony
@davywavy.bsky.social @davywavy.bsky.social Music lover. Super Amateur photographer. BvB 09 supporter. 
Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social The only community dedicated to Scotland’s games ecosystem.
Brian McDonald @bigbearscot.bsky.social Head of Games at Falmouth University. Teach Game Prototyping and Production. Boardgame and cake aficionado. Scot living in Cornwall.
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
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
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Daniel Livingstone @d-livingstone.bsky.social games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social author of Toothpaste For Dinner, Married To The Sea, @dasharez0ne.bsky.social etc.
podcast with @nataliedee.bsky.social: https://patreon.com/garbagebrainuniversity
join https://patreon.com/drewtoothpaste and i'll email you my comics every day
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
@dgerouvillefarrell.bsky.social @dgerouvillefarrell.bsky.social 
Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca Internet stuntman 🤸♂️ justinjackson.ca
⚡ Bootstrapping, SaaS, podcasting, calm companies
🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Keavy @safadasensata.bsky.social Jurídico Sabrina Carpenter.
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org