Chad Jessup @adhdev.io Ex-Engineering and stuff at Bungie/ArenaNet/FASA/Microsoft/Nintendo/Monolith/Sony/NOA.
My thoughts, my opinions, and my typohs.
#ADHDev
he/him
Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social CEO, the biggest brain on LinkedIn
Contestant on ITV's #GeniusGame
https://linktr.ee/kencheng
Vic DeLeon @vicdeleon.bsky.social he/him. artist. activist. dinosaur lover. elder-goth. fan of sharks. Doing arty things for games & shows. Former Halo guy at Bungie & 343. HTC VIVE, ILM Disney, ARK. Embrace the strange and unusual, and be kind to each other dammit.
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
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at WashU • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • eeps.washu.edu/people/paul-byrne • he/him
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/
THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
Score Studios LLC @scorestudios.bsky.social I am James Kay / Score Studios, a Tokyo-based independent videogame developer, creator of the Piczle series.
Club Piczle: : www.piczle.club
Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social Digital Play Journalist for Forbes, BBC, Guardian. Brings games to unusual spaces, festivals and cathedrals. Makes cool stuff:
📕https://mybook.to/whatwashidden
📘https://mybook.to/taminggaming
🎯http://www.ludocene.com
🔎http://www.familygamingdatabase.com
Jack Kirby Crosby🌹👨🎨 @jkcrosbyfun.bsky.social 👨🎨🌹Art stuff. Game dev.
🚫 gen-images or Cr*pto
Free Palestine
✍️Concept art / illustrator
✍️Summerhill.
🎨Art Director: Moving Out 2,
🎤DnD Podcast: @dicepaperrole
Insta: http://instagram.com/jkcrosbyfun/
AS: www.artstation.com/jkcrosbyfun
he/him -Naarm
Maya 🌻 @mayakt.bsky.social Tree-hugger from Sussex, England. Love art, books, music, satire, birds, dogs and my 4 foxes.
Ricardo @rgv.bsky.social He/Him.
Gamedev Software Craftsperson.
🖤🩶🤍💜
Steve de Niese @stevedeniese.bsky.social Lead/Game dev at Metal Pandas Studio. Founder and Creative Director at Assemblo. Sometime solo game dev. Programmer, artist, musician. Melbourne, Australia. 🇦🇺
https://linktr.ee/letterafterz
Diogo Nogueira - Lead Game Designer - White Wolf @diogooldskull.bsky.social 🎲Award winning #GameDesigner and #Artist from Brazil. I make rules light #TTRPG #Games with robust tools to help you play more with less!
🎙️Host of the @wgwp.bsky.social #Podcast
🔗Check out my stuff: https://linktr.ee/diogo_oldskull
🌻Proudly Autistic.
Patrick Leder @patrickleder.bsky.social Owner and President of Leder Games. Spouse and father of 2 adorable humans. He/Him
@georgesymonds.bsky.social @georgesymonds.bsky.social 
🍁Kevin 🆖 @gamehole.itch.io indie game dev crimes • founder at wonderful lasers • (super) impossible road • youtube.com/@indiedevlab • steampoacher.com • gamehole.itch.io
#gamedev
Darix @bugdoomx.bsky.social Just a dude
Game Designer | Producer | Director
Will Kerslake @wkerslake.bsky.social Game Director
https://www.mobygames.com/person/104354/will-kerslake/
https://about.me/willkerslake
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
@qbieshay.bsky.social @qbieshay.bsky.social Chaos gremlin - NO NFT - Opinions are my own.
Technical VFX artist @PrehensileTales, @GodotEngine particles maintainer
She/Her
Lage | Chesto: A chess-like adventure @bergberggames.bsky.social 🕹️🇸🇪 Gamedev in Gothenburg, Sweden
♟️Chesto: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4294340/Chesto_A_chesslike_adventure/
🧩 Stig: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834830/Stig/
🎬 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BergbergGames/
Chris Conradie @chrisconradie.bsky.social Product design lead and UX strategist. Also making games and learning Unreal Engine. Pro human rights, pro equality, pro respect. Metalhead. Footballer. Stay curious. Don't be a poes, be lekker (South African proverb).
Walaber @walaber.com JellyCar creator, lead designer of "Where's My Water?" | Making games solo and 1/2 of Toyful Games | ゲームを作っています！日本語だいたいワカル | He/him https://linktr.ee/walaber
Alexi @msalexi.bsky.social 🎮 👩🏻🏫 🇹🇭 🇨🇦 🧀 🐶 ✈️ 🌎 🍰 🍣 🍝🏃🏻♀️🥔
live service production @ netflix games
production for games and vfx instructor
development & leadership consultant
part-time dog sitter, full-time snacker
views are mine only
Derek Reese is making games @derekree.se The games guy in the red jacket.
Design Director at indie game studio @chroniclersoftware.com , worked on Minecraft, Halo, O3DE, Valve Proton, WoW Auth, PAX & more. he/him
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
Nick Lives @slicknicklives.bsky.social Spooky Game Dev. Creative Director of @nightsignalentertainment.com. (Home Safety Hotline, Forbidden Solitaire, Night Signal + More)
He/him/Bi
sublexical @sublexical.net Indie game dev
🇨🇦
It Consumes: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/It_Consumes/
SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social Senior Game Engineer
He/Him/They 🏳️🌈
All views are my own and do not reflect my employer
Smitner @smitner.studio Kia ora! I'm building Hazard Pay, a dark puzzle game about destroying evidence.
Learn more:
https://smitner.studio
🇳🇿🇩🇪
Zheka Tolstikov @thesame.bsky.social Sr. Network/Multiplayer Programmer at @RawPowerGames (he/him).
Father, nerd and other great things. Love coding, music, games, books and climbing.
Yves Le Yaouanq @ubikh.bsky.social @Focus Entertainment Chief Content Officer. Publishing & Acquisitions (Former @Ubisoft) /@DevCom_global & @GameCampFrance Advisory Board/Words my own
Andrew Witts @revivedantihero.bsky.social Gameplay Director on Marathon @ Bungie.
Former: Fortnite Gameplay Lead, Halo MP Lead, R6 Siege Core Gameplay Designer
Wrestling Nerd. Doge Dad. Forever a Bostonian
Burhan @burhanplays.bsky.social he/him
associate producer at Larian Studios
working on Divinity
Malaysian
David @dali7694.bsky.social 
Vasco Pereira @itspeartree.bsky.social Senior AI programmer @IOInteractive
Viktor Nyblom @nyblom.io Executive Coach @ Galant Ledarskap
Based in 🇸🇪
Danny Becker @dbeckerdesign.bsky.social Video Game Designer, among other things.
Starfield
Fallout
Dishonored
etc.
Doug Sharp @dougsharp.bsky.social Antifascist comic artist, sci-fi author, and game dev.
Check out my comic "Bill of Fights: Constitutional Crisis" at https://dougsharpcomics.com
My game ChipWits: chipwits.com
TMI: https://dougsharp.info
Resist!
Juhana Pettersson @juhanaonparas.bsky.social Writer, roleplaying game and larp designer. Former Lead Developer for World of Darkness releases at Renegade Game Studio, now off to new, as of yet unannounced projects.
www.juhanapettersson.com
Matthew @theorangehatter.itch.io Game Developer,
Lawyer,
Bird Room-mate.
Working on the narrative dungeon crawler Remember Your Oath. (and like, 6 other things)
https://theorangehatter.itch.io/
LF | For The Fame @lf-dev.bsky.social 👑 Building FOR THE FAME, a PVP autobattler
🎮 Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/4825290/For_The_Fame/
🎲 Try the prototype https://luc-francey.itch.io/for-the-fame
Joris Navarro @pragmaticlemur.bsky.social Senior Gameplay Designer with 11+ years experience, currently working at Hangar 13 on the next Mafia game, prev Wargaming, Chinese Room, Ubisoft.
Views are my own #gamedev #gamedesign
@hardcodednumber.bsky.social @hardcodednumber.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer @ Mojang. Dog person. Traveler.
Every problem has a .sln
Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social Game and Filmmaker | Creative Director/Founder @RapidEyeMovers.bsky.social
https://www.rapideyemovers.com
scott_hf @scottdunbar.bsky.social #unrealengine developer since 2019. #debugging code since 1999.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2360880/ProtoZED/
https://github.com/scott-hf/SingletonUtil
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46683/The_Whole_Package/
Tom Smith @thegamedesigndad.bsky.social Game designer at Roblox (ex-Disney, ex-Zynga, etc.)
Author of Anatomy of Game Design (https://a.co/d/5NQZAuK)
Opinions are my own, not any corporation's.
Archangel Softworks - Highway Noir out now! @archangelsoftworks.co.uk I am a UK based independent Godot game dev. I make (without AI) games that I want to play but don't exist yet!
He/him, self confessed geek, under the thumb of a very cute cat
Highway Noir out now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3317730/Highway_Noir/
Kitty Crawford @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.
Justin Đoàn @soundaholism.bsky.social Technical Experience Designer @ Apex Legends. Principal Diaper Tech Operator @ Home. Dancer and DJ sometimes. Will like all of your cat photos. He/him. Dad of 2. 🇻🇳🇸🇬🇺🇸
https://justindxln.github.io/
https://www.mixcloud.com/jztn/
Forrest @forrestpruitt.bsky.social Senior Engineer @ Amazon Game Studios. Theme Park Nerd. Seattle “Big Dark” Hater. (He/Him)
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📚🎮✍🏻
PORTFOLIO: http://jisaacgadient.com
LINKS: https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
h8l8v8 @h8l8v8.bsky.social Super-intelligent shade of the color blue
Another Michael from Detroit
Throw a frisbee and be nice 🥏
Louise Blain @louiseblain.bsky.social Creative Director @BlumhouseGames
🏴 in LA
Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
Bendik Stang @bendikstang.bsky.social Creative Director @SnowcastleGames, Research Fellow on Narrativity in Games @NorwegianFilmSchool, TechGeek. Husband & father of 4 evolving neural networks
John Ryan @johnryanwrites.bsky.social Senior Writer/Narrative Designer/Consultant for Games | Horizon Forbidden West | Destiny 1/2 | IRON MAN VR | Atomic Heart | Guild Wars 2 | Forza 7 | Fable 2 | Lily's Garden. Husband, Marathoner, Cat Wrangler, BAFTA/SWFA member. johnryanwrites.com
Sylvain Savard @sylzayz.bsky.social Co-founder of Outerminds inc. and 2D/3D Artist. I also create Pixel Art. Currenly working on Homecall, an indie Horror game.
Alice I Cecile @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social Full-time engine dev for Bevy: an open source Rust game engine.
I design games, make all manner of things, and was once a plant ecologist. Dreaming of a transhumanist, solarpunk future.
I blog at https://shaping.systems/
Manda Farough 🔜 GCAP | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca Dir. of Production, Causeway. Exec. Prod. & Writer (Truck-kun, TMNT: Tactical Takedown), Strange Scaffold. Principal narrative (Terrible Lizards, GNAW). Award-nominated Multiclasser. @virtualeconcast.com cohost. Queer mama. amandafarough.ca 🇨🇦
Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social Burned out. Nectar Vector next. Before: Game Director + Lead Designer on Pacific Drive, Designer on Bioshock Infinite, various Don't Starve things, and Mafia 3. Liked Movie. Boston area. he/him
Ian Thomas @wildwinter.bsky.social Games, books, larp, films, rats, and shoggoths. Narrative Director. Brit in Stockholm. He/him.
Narrative Tools and Articles: https://storytools.se
Kolo 🌙 @nightkolo.com I do the game dev and the art — Night Kolo, call me Kolo
he/him • 20
I'm more active on other social media
Website and links 🌐 https://nightkolo.com
taisuke kanasaki @kanasaki.bsky.social ゲーム開発 ディレクター
アートディレクター
キャラクターデザイナー
代表作
ウィッシュルーム シリーズ Hotel Dusk Room215
アナザーコード シリーズ another code recollection
Henrik Jonsson @ionswitz.bsky.social 🎮 Video Game Consultant
👷♂️ Game Industry Advocate
📈 ex-Embracer, ex-EA, ex-Ion Storm
🥳 Trying to do nice things for people
PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social Art Director and CEO of Spooky Doorway Games. @spookydoorway.com, developers of The Darkside Detective and The Séance of Blake Manor
#GameDev #indieDev #IrishGameDev
Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
spookydoorway.com
Richard Browne @rpwbrowne.bsky.social Over 35 years in the games business ; former Domark, Psygnosis, Philips, Microprose, Universal, THQ, Digital Extremes. Now consulting, advising and developing IP.
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
Julien Wera @werejul.bsky.social 🎮 COO @ Shiro Games
🔨 Working on Wartales, SpaceCraft, Farever, Frostrail, and more
🌐 Previously: Moon Rover, Battlefield, Mirror's Edge, Crusader Kings, Plants vs. Zombies, and a whole lot more.
🇫🇷🇸🇪 Frenchman lost in Sweden.
Alexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social "The adult in the room."™️
Current: Vampirium: 1997 // Director: Siegecaster 🏰☄️ Executive Producer: Disney's TRON: Catalyst / Identity, Amberspire, The Banished Vault, Fights in Tight Spaces, Solitaire Conspiracy, John Wick Hex, Subsurface Circular
Clément V. @ewkaly.bsky.social Gameplay Programming Architect.
Rainbow Six Tactics, out in 2027 !
Wishlist here : https://tinyurl.com/4wka2jrt
www.artificialstupidities.com
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
Sir Terry Pratchett
Jorrit Rouwe @jrouwe.bsky.social Lead Game Tech Programmer at Guerrilla Games, creator of the Jolt Physics library.
Joshua Boggs @jboggsie.bsky.social Game Director & Designer making the hardboiled https://stealth.game @sleightofhand.game
× Made Kojima's GOTY『 FRAMED 』
× Proud Dad / multi-award winning cliché
× He/Him
Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social Game Dev | Senior Programmer
• Working on www.Scaravan66.com
• Marvel’s Deadpool VR
• Dwarrows
• Psychonauts 2
• Horizon (4X)
• Cel Damage HD (Switch)
Co-founder & Technical Lead
Lithic Entertainment Inc.
https://www.lithicentertainment.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
Mike Johanson @mikebjohanson.johanson.ca Rogue game theorist and reinforcement learning scientist in 🇨🇦. Formerly: co-founder Artificial.Agency, RS DeepMind, PhD UAlberta, Poker AI. Gaming 🎮🎲, curling 🥌, knitting 🧶, geocaching 🗺️. (he/him).
How Was Your Day? @madcarnivalgames.bsky.social Woman & POC-led studio creating beautiful, family friendly games. Working on How Was Your Day? A supernatural coming-of-age mystery thriller set in 80s NZ about light vs dark, facing fears and finding your true self.✨Wishlist: https://shorturl.at/W2gFi
benji @benji.gg making games :)
Nina Kim @rainysector.bsky.social Senior Designer at Rare
Dan @atomic-arc.com Game Developer?
https://dansanfranman.itch.io/
Worcester, UK
Edgar Lunarcito @edgarlunarcito.bsky.social He / Him | 🇲🇽 Dev 🎮
Sr.Producer @Amber_Studio
Co-Founded @LienzoMx
Game Design Teacher
TROGEN HEARSE || END OF DAY || PERFECT GRIND || SCP: EXODUS @trogenhearse.bsky.social Its Roxie!
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Lara J. Martin @laramartin.net Applying and improving #NLP/#AI but in a safe way. Teaching computers to tell stories, play D&D, and help people talk (accessibility).
Assistant Prof in CSEE @ UMBC.
🏳️🌈♿
https://laramartin.net
Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com Gamedev from Ireland. Made Guild of Dungeoneering, Cardpocalypse, and Eyes of Hellfire
Micaela Dawn @micaeladawn.bsky.social Queer Video Game Art Director who loves reimagining old Myths and Legends.
hello@micaeladawn.com | She/Her | BLM
www.micaeladawn.com
Kashdan Music (Josh) @kashdanmusic.bsky.social Video Game Composer and Voice Actor
Worked on:
- "Earth Must Die" (Sci-Fi)
- "Best Served Cold" (Noir Detective)
- "Voxie Tactics" (Fantasy/Turn-Based)
- "Decarnation" (Horror)
DM for Commissions
https://www.kashdanmusic.com/
David Cottam @davidcottam.bsky.social I make a da video gamez | 👾 Indie Game Developer | Artist | Gamer | Goofball | All Thots and Onions are mine and you can’t have them!
Fatih Gungor @fgungor.bsky.social Founder @ http://upperbound.se
electric bass and computer networks // free 🇵🇸
Olivier Lussier @olussier.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative director at Lowbirth Games 🏳️🌈 He/Him 🏳️🌈 #ThisBedWeMade is out on PC, Playstation and Xbox NOW!
Steve(n) Rynders is looking for work @angrymobofsteve.bsky.social Tech Animator/Tech Artist, looking for work. Prev: Harebrained Schemes: Lamplighters League, Battletech, Shadowrun Returns/Dragonfall. He/him
Pure Heart, Pure Cybernature
http://stevenrynders.artstation.com
https://onsensoft.itch.io/
Maria Montenegro @mariamontenegro.bsky.social Building evaluation capacity |Podcast Host | Career Coaching and Development | Program evaluator
proc_gen @procgen.bsky.social Procedural generation researcher. Currently making games.
https://procedural-generation.tumblr.com
#procgen #gamedev
Lowbo | 就是萝卜 @lowbo.io https://www.lowbo.io/
Senior Game Designer. Formerly Sprocket Games, Riot Games R&D, LoL game modes, etc. 我会说一点中文(普通话)。PNW. 🏳️🌈