Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social Canadian Video Game Developers
Murder, Mayhem and Maple Syrup
Cinematic R.P.G. makers.
xBioWare, xMicrosoft, xActivision
https://www.patreon.com/cw/NorthMistStudios
Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmagazine.com Little Fruits Magazine harvests bold, honest writing. Juicy, bruised, or beautifully bitter | editors: ghost and @maggiekantor.bsky.social
https://lnk.bio/littlefruitsmag
https://littlefruitsmagazine.com/submissions
Glossy Planet Lit Mag @glossyplanetmag.bsky.social Open for free submissions through August 23! If it feels like “I had to write this now,” we want to read it
Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
We publish a new story at least once a week at flashfictiononline.com. Ebooks for our monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.
Published & edited by @beckyhalsey.bsky.social
Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com An online monthly magazine for speculative poetry and flash fiction! Edited by @cislyn.bsky.social and @granades.com.
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Salmence @salmence.bsky.social e-farmer
https://youtube.com/@salmence100?si=SHP4zfp9b0RWby4I
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Account of the Defunctland YouTube Series. Posts by Kevin Perjurer.
Runo ✦ @artvaris.bsky.social Freelance fantasy artist inspired by nature ✦🌿They/He🌿✦ | ENG & FIN | No genA/I | varis.illustration@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/ArtVaris
Very Ok Vinyl @veryokvinyl.com Niche Music Label (VGM + vtubers + other)
Canadian eh 🍁🍁
what are we calling bluesky posts
Ashley Oh @ashleyoh.bsky.social looking for social/mktg/writing work! previously seen at null games, inverse, gamespot, polygon. champion for animals who love trash, 6 ft skeleton enjoyer.
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Mirri @himirri.bsky.social A shy and frightened angel of a cat learning to trust again. She lives in Massachusetts with her Food Lady, who posts about Mirri's journey
Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social ✊🏾 formerly & forever Vox Union | 📝 past life: @polygon.com, next thing: TBD | ⁉️ proud @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social loser | reading, writing, playing, watching, sleeping | he/him
Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social writer of all things but especially cartoons and crushes || ex polygon || queen of naptime || #amquerying a YA sci-fi about aliens and messy family dynamics || Tin House YA '25
http://www.petrana.me/
Susana Polo 🔜 NYCC @susanapolo.bsky.social She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
Russ Frushtick @russfrushtick.bsky.social now: partnerships @ kinda funny & the besties podcast - previously: co-founder of polygon
Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social Computer Fool
streaming tuesday and thursday mornings @ https://twitch.tv/pizza_suplex | producer on @whatsallthispod.bsky.social and @storesthepodcast.bsky.social
kabona @dilfosaur.bsky.social i dunno man i'm just a little kitty cat
SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social voice actor | represented by CAA | prozdkp@gmail.com
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social Rook, Rika, The Ghost of Yōtei | Worlds Beyond Number | D20, Dropout, Crit Role | BAFTA loser. Um, Actually CHAMPION | Gender🌊: all pronouns
turntap @turntap.bsky.social writing JOHN RICH & THE BIG PICTURE🖍️
developing SOLAR TRIALS💫
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Kiku @kikuhughes.bsky.social I'm Kiku Hughes (she/her), a mixed-race Yonsei (4th generation Japanese American) cartoonist from Seattle. I'm the creator of APALA honor title and Eisner award nominated comic "Displacement."
meg 💫🐚🪸 @sacredmonster.bsky.social meg | they/she | designer + illustrator + smn main
lots of xiv, arcane, and dragon age | 🔞
ocs: #mikawxiv #tobiasdatv | talk to me about jayvik
store: sacredmonster.etsy.com
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Michelle @nexusgoblin.bsky.social She/They
Equal parts structure and chaos ⋆ Books, games, & ADHD hobby roulette ⋆ Dragon Age, Mass Effect, BG3, Zelda, LOTR
#nexusgoblinart
https://nexusgoblin.carrd.co/
PFP - @hiyoristudios.bsky.social
She/They ⋆ 30's ⋆ Pan(ic) ⋆ Biracial
Raph @eckartg.bsky.social Iel/They/Them 🏳️🌈 Artist ✨️ Art & Technology & Videogame Design 🎮 Creative Director - @murdermeetcute.com - experimental games at https://eckartg.itch.io 🏠 based in Moncton, New Brunswick
KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖
linktr.ee/koopmode
Murder Meet Cute @murdermeetcute.com PLAY THE DEMO, DIPSTICKS
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253020/Murder_Meet_Cute/
Lucid Tales @lucidtales.coop A worker cooperative working on a wholesome life-simulation game about community and belonging.
✨ Wishlist Sally on Steam!✨
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165040/Sally/
The Glory Society @theglorysociety.bsky.social A worker co-op that makes video games. We're building something pretty great.
http://theglorysociety.com
Cozy Comet Games @cozycometgames.bsky.social Cozy Comet Games is the first (of hopefully many) incorporated games worker cooperatives based in Alberta. #YEG / #Treaty6 based team.
otter.game
Amelore (ADHD gremlin mode) @amelore.coop Worker coop making digital games & stories. ✔️ Wishlist Motivation Monsters https://lnk.bio/s/amelore/motivation ✔️
https://lnk.bio/amelore
Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games based in VT🐄 we are a cooperatively structured studio making games that compost our favorite genres into lush, tasty experiences. yum.
https://www.mooncandy.games/
Deep Sky Games @deepskygamescoop.bsky.social www.deepskygames.com
hello@deepskygames.com
https://linktr.ee/deepskygames
Deep Sky Games are a worker owned game studio based in Berlin and working on our first game -
"An Undystopian Couch Co-op Game about Sailing a Solarpunk Landscape" 
Lise L. @lisekarel.bsky.social Writer/Games/Games Writer 🏳️🌈 | '22 IGDA Next Gen Leader | Currently games at VicScreen (prev. Bin Chicken/Wheeler Centre/MMORPG Tycoon 2 & more.) and working away on a novel. | 🇧🇪 in 🇦🇺. | they/them.
Museum of Screens @museumofscreens.bsky.social The past and future of web games. DMs are open for suggestions
Run by touloutoumou.bsky.social
https://museumofscreens.com/
https://museumofscreens.wordpress.com
Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social 🎮 business coach helping videogame founders build better studios
15+ years in games | executive MBA
Read The Long Game newsletter: https://www.martijnvanzwieten.com/newsletter
Richie de Wit @richiedewit.com 🔥 Senior BD & Partner Manager at Raw Fury.
🤫 Consultant, more coming soon.
☕️ Forever under caffeinated & over-stimulated.
🎮 Games supported: Gemporium, Blue Prince, Cassette Beasts, Among Us, and more.
Opinions are my own.
richiedewit.com
TomBoys BV @tomjongens.bsky.social Founder of JoTo.Games, Former CEO of Exiin, Previously Dutch Game Garden.
Bizdev, Marketing & Design.
Working on a SotC inspired kaiju slaying game and a 1st person co-op dungeon explorer.
Niels Monshouwer @nielsmonshouwer.bsky.social Producer Speculative Agency working on #AllWillRise. Please wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3165340/All_Will_Rise/
Formerly
@Guerrilla #HorizonForbiddenWest
@WeirdBeardGames #TrickyTowers #99Bricks
Eline Muijres 🐇 @elinemuijres.com 🐇 Freelance Game Producer & Founder at https://cohop.games
👾 Lead Producer @blueridgegames.bsky.social
🕹️ Billie Bust Up, On Your Tail, Threads of Time, Bounden
🌈 Board Member @games4diversity.com
🇳🇱 Dutch in Vienna
Tim Hengeveld @hedgefield.bsky.social Dutch indie gamedev and illustrator. Making small narrative games about life’s joys and mysteries. Currently working on The Ruin Wanderer.- D Dylan Nagel @dylannagel.bsky.social
Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
...
she/zij 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Arjan Terpstra @ranja72.bsky.social Video game writer. Wrote for Guerrilla and PUBG games. Author of PAC-MAN: Birth of an Icon and Sonic Art and Design books. See ranja72.com for details, projects, contact.
Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social 🚀 Dutch SF author writing about NL / East Asia | Star Body, The Gentlemen XVII | Harland Award & Galaxy Award winner | he/him | Newtype | rep'd by SBK Literary Agency
Website: www.roderickleeuwenhart.nl
Michiel Proce @michielproce.nl Freelance game programmer
Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com Game developer working on my first independent game ODINSPRING
I also post art projects, VFX and free tools/utilities/tutorials.
https://roytheunissen.com
https://github.com/RoyTheunissen
https://youtube.com/@roy_theunissen
https://discord.gg/YqUEauQUpA
Joram Wessels @joramwessels.bsky.social Tech lead @ Yvora Game Studio | Founder of @rooibosgames.bsky.social 🧡 | Unreal Programmer 🖥 | Star Wars nerd 🔫 | Theravada practitioner 🧘♂️| 
Joost Eggermont @joosteggermont.bsky.social art director at Geometric Interactive
Rotterdam based • occasionally lost in Copenhagen
https://linktr.ee/joosteggermont
Daphne Fontijn @daphnefontijn.bsky.social Environment concept artist from the Netherlands.
Anything arty or gamey or indie gamey is good.
www.daphnefontijn.com
Moniek Schilder - Concept Artist @monschi-art.bsky.social Concept artists and illustrator from The Netherlands with 7+ years of experience!
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/monschi
E-mail: moniek.e.schilder@gmail.com
Hendrik Visser @hendrikvisser.bsky.social Artist
Bart Wiltenburg @pestibug.bsky.social Freelance 3D artist -generalist -props -vehicles -creatures -lowpoly -highpoly -handpainted
Always interested in work opportunities.
https://bart_wiltenburg.artstation.com/
Rik Nieuwdorp @nieuwdorp.bsky.social sound designer | musician | uni teacher | hiker | idiot
https://claynote.nl/
Niels van der Leest @nielsvdleestmusic.bsky.social Award winning and BAFTA nominated Composer for Games: Frictional Games #Ontos, Guerrilla Games #HorizonForbiddenWest, Glowfish Interactive #Trifox, Gamious #LaketheGame (he/him)
Wouter Meijer @woutermeijeraudio.bsky.social Creative & Technical Sound Designer for Games
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com Verified, travels back and forth a lot, military historian, author, script writer, media adviser, researcher, egodocument-wallah. Cracked the mystery of the Waterloo dead.
robschaefer-historian.com
https://independent.academia.edu/Sch%C3%A4ferRobin
⚡️Marina Díez 🔜 Gamescom @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
Kitty Calis @kittycalis.bsky.social DISC ROOM, Minit, Horizon Zero Dawn, Minit Fun Racer and a few things I can't say yet 👀 
Casey Al-Kaisy @bringmorebread.bsky.social Founder of Mighty Diamonds and Games Industry Executive Summary Newsletter, former Arrowhead & DICE.
GiesWeekly.substack.com
Helldivers 2, Battlefield 1, 4, 5, Hardline, Heroes, Need for Speed World, Command & Conquer.
Geert Nellen @geertnellen.bsky.social Game Designer and artist. In the past: Director of Metrico, Lead Designer on Mini Motorways, worked as a designer on games like Manifold Garden and Viewfinder.
Charlotte Madelon @charlottemadelon.bsky.social Making art games | Biophobia | Inferno 13 | Rosa’s Garden | also UI/UX designer e.g. Mindset Go
Wislist Inferno 13: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4592320/Inferno_13/
https://www.charlottemadelon.com
Marie Mejerwall (Games Consultant) @mejerwall.com Games Consultant | Stage Host | Solopreneur | Digital Nomad | Esports veteran
I help studios w/ their game vision.
https://mejerwall.com/about/
Ex Ubi, Capcom, Eidos, WB Games.
Worked on:
Batman Arkham
Deus Ex
Dead Rising
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Runescape
Anna E. @queergermangirl.bsky.social + music producer by night
+ actor by day
+ writer in between
+ working on Moonshell Island and Pixel Art Academy
loves: pixel art, vaporwave, indie games, experimental electronic and rock music
annaeichenauermusic.com
https://linktr.ee/annaeichenauer
Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl Game Producer specialised in remote production. Prev @blackmillgames.bsky.social & Grendel Games. Co-founder of @gamebakery.nl. Waterfowl enthusiast. He/him. www.thomasjager.nl
Matthias Schmidt @flownepp.bsky.social Contract Material Artist | 18+ years in the games industry | Ex-Level Designer and 3D Artist | Award winning modder | Leipzig, Germany
www.artstation.com/steppenwolf
www.fab.com/sellers/STW_Shop
Marco Torres @handle.invalid Indie dev, Unreal Engine enthusiast, and all-around generalist. Streaming live while developing Channel Breachers and playing retro games on a CRT. Come hang out, see the process, and maybe learn a trick or two.
Kitty Crawford 🔜 Gamescom @kittycrawford.com Freelance Creative Producer of remote indie teams http://kittycrawford.com
Co-Director @murdermeetcute.com: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253020/Murder_Meet_Cute
VAF mentor. Bafta member. She/her.
Ask me about my freelance producer discord.
Ahmed kme @akme.bsky.social Producer at large | Formerly Glowmade, Sumo Digital, GDL | 🕋🇸🇩
Des Gayle @kiddesimo.bsky.social Writer-Director on an animated short on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alteredgene/taltfe?ref=c715xy
Deputy chair BAFTA Games committee and I also work at Unity.
Leanne B 🌸 @amblingpanda.bsky.social 🌸 courage & kindness 🌸 Freelance Community & Communications Director, Producer 🌸 Previously The Sims & others 🌸 she/her
Glen Henry - DUPPY DETECTIVE TASHIA OUT NOW🔍👻 @spritewrench.com 🏝 Founder/ Project Director Spritewrench Studios
🔊Loudest of Jamaica Game Developer Society (JGDS)
🎓IGDA - Foundation Velocity Cohort Coordinator
✌ (he/him)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/spritewrench
Hollie Emery 🏳️⚧️🌿 @slinkyfishy.bsky.social CEO Kwalee Labs (formerly Bonsai Collective), creators of @lunaabyssgame.bsky.social!
Prev Producer credits; Horizon: Call of the Mountain VR, Yoku's Island Express, Overcooked
🏳️⚧️ | manchester UK 🐝
Manda Farough | Project Red @ PAX Rising! @amandafarough.ca Dir. of Production, Causeway. Executive Producer & Writer (Truck-kun, TMNT: Tactical Takedown), Strange Scaffold. Principal narrative (Terrible Lizards, GNAW). Award-nominated Multiclasser. @virtualeconcast.com cohost. Queer mama. amandafarough.ca 🇨🇦
Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social Pale. Curious. Game-maker. Writer. (de-)Archivist.
Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her.
Current things:
- Darkened Hill & Dale 🎲💀🏞️
- TERMINUS 🎲💀🚇
- Trick or Retreat 🎃🎲☕☺️
links.patchworkfez.co.uk
Goodnews @goodnews.computer Co-Director @midnighters.games
Marathon (2026) Speedrunner
#ScanlineSunday enjoyer
www.midnighters.games
he/him // Los Angeles
Akané DC @rubiaakane.bsky.social ドランジュビル茜 (Elle/she/her)
・Video Games Associate Producer (WB Games MTL) 🇨🇦
・Trilingual FR-EN-JP, master of none
・Biracial / hafu 🇯🇵x🇫🇷=🇨🇦
・Kendo 5D / Fencing (épée)
・Mother (of a human and a cat)
・Former anthropologist & translator/interpreter
Elisabeth Rose Astwood, MFA @threwen.bsky.social (they/she) Nurturing an equitable world through story | ND 💛 cats tea magic
Senior Producer + Narrative @superbrothershq.bsky.social
@studiolazulite.bsky.social
@queensguard.bsky.social
Organizer @pixelsandpoutine.bsky.social
Board @BabyGhosts.fund
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Sarah Burns @kitsunerorlater.bsky.social Head of ProdOps @MarvelousEurope. Mentor. Recovering Genshin Impact Addict. She/Her.
Tiffany Otto @tottomatic.bsky.social Shamelessly bad at BSky | @IndieCade Director of Partnership. Video Game Specialist. Ex @FireHoseGames @RockstarGames | She/Her @TOttomatic on Twitter
Emilia @lazerwalker.com Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
Ianipoos @ianipoos.com Prev: CAPY, Drag Her!, Shadows of Mordor, Overwatch.
Triple-A burnout interested in indie games and all the joy therein. 🏳️🌈
https://www.ianipoos.com
Shahin Aliyev @mechaniqe.bsky.social Game Producer and CEO at @dynamicbox.net. I love getting my hands dirty with code too, whenever I find time. Currently working on “Madness Afloat”.
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095020
Discord: https://discord.gg/afGHQ23NpX
Trevor Klein @trevorklein.bsky.social Inventive storytelling for TV, immersive and games. Sometimes puns.
trevorklein.co.uk
Yorkshire / London / Northern Ireland
Peter Mehlmann @petermehlmann.bsky.social The person at Virtual Void Studio, making my indie game. #GameDev
If you need production help, feel free to reach out! #Freelance #Producer
Wishlist Dash Dash Dead https://store.steampowered.com/app/3379780/Dash_Dash_Dead/
Raxef @raxef.bsky.social he/him • PNW Game Dev • Producer • Hobbyist Composer • Lead Producer @ Hip Flask Games • Prev: Killer Chat!
Open to New Work! DM me. Let's make something cool.
rafealtschuler.com
c0l20 @c0l20.bsky.social I make stuff and post it at https://metawewinstudios.com/
I do game dev, web dev, animation, environmental/level design 🎮
First Nations, Treaty 6 Territory, Canada
Est. 1991 He/Him
Amateur Human
Crohn's Disease
Here for a good time, not a long time!
Ethan Grant @ethan-ponchi.bsky.social Production/BizDev for indie games
Working on something new at @dayoffinteractive.bsky.social
Mod @Game Production Community Discord
Likes cats (also dogs)
Feel free to connect on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-grant-
devin 😈 @devindecibel.bsky.social Composer, weirdo tabletop designer, actual play person, ex-chemist, and autistic alien. Guitarist in gloomy june. Slug on Genre Space. Cast on Oathsworn.
they/them
https://linktr.ee/devindecibel
For freelance inquiries: devinnelsonmusic@gmail.com
Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social Freelance Senior Rigging TD in Melbourne Australia. Open to work/commissions. (He/him). Has a Simpson's quote for everything
robbiereidrigs.com
Maxi Molina @maximjdev.bsky.social He/they🏳️⚧️| Solo dev #TheHayseedKnight VN | Small town Spanish guy posting mainly in English, sometimes ES/CAT/FR/日本語/中文
Writing, casting and voice direction: info(at)maximj.dev
Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com Product & Tool UX Designer, Freelance Workflow Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/
Previously Hytale, Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC.
I get really excited about workflows!