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.
Rach Macpherson @rachmacp.bsky.social Marketing officer at GCHC ✨ videogames person 💛 MCV/Develop 30 under 30 2024 💛 Co-founder of Glyph Lit Mag
Sally Beaumont |BAFTA Breakthrough|Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social BAFTA Breakthrough
British VA (remote studio) & Game Writer
Voice: Old Skies| Hob’s Barrow| Harold Halibut| Dread Delusion| Loco Motive| Heartspell| Rogue Trader| Earth Must Die| Blake Manor| El Paso 2
She/Her 😷
info/sallybeaumont.com
SallyBeaumont.com
BradStar | Game Dev @bradstar879.bsky.social Indie Game Dev | Software Engineer | Rubik’s Cube Artist
Co-founder of @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Working on That Time I Got Trapped in an Office Dungeon -> store.steampowered.com/app/3424620
Also made Murder At Midnight-> store.steampowered.com/app/1578890
Denman Rooke @denmanrooke.com Artist & owner at RÚCAĊ an indie studio making art & developing games https://www.rucach.com/
Art for Magic and D&D @magic.wizards.com
https://linktr.ee/denmanrooke
Union member of Game Workers Unite Ireland
Eco-socialist with People Before Profit
Niamh @notnotniamh.bsky.social Irish game designer at Larian Studios
Rob "Dagda" Price @dagdacasts.bsky.social Freelance Caster for #LEC former #LPL. Bevvies with the Boys. Says 'R' weird.
Business:
dagdacasts@gmail.com
Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social Previously worked on many, many games; gamedev for nearly 20 years. I am old. I post random 3d printing stuff and sometimes bunnies. He/Him. Australia. Also birds apparently.
Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social [He/Him]
Game Dev Programmer, Teacher, Mentor, Prolific prototyper.
Monopoly is a great game. (@ me)
IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com Reader-funded journalism covering active travel, public transport, the politics of road space, the path to decarbonising transport, road safety. This account includes news + views. Subscribe: https://irishcycle.com/subscribe/
McNastyPrime @mcnastyprime.bsky.social Irish lost in Malaysia.
Rex from #Simulacra2, no really.
Co-host of the McYapAndFries movie podcast, Malaysia’s longest running podcast. 
Utkarsh Raj Singh @utkarshrajsingh.com Art Director at @bloxneo.com | Game Design and Development | 3D Animation | Environment Art | UI-UX | Visual Effects | 👨🏻💻📷🎮 |
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Kate ✨🐱 @magickitten.bsky.social ⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
🐈⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator
🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death
✨💛🤍💜🖤✨🩷💜💙✨
Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
Dee Stevens @deestevens.bsky.social Making TV @ Tiger Aspect Kids (Mr Bean / Charlie & Lola / Super Happy Magic Forest)
Making books @ Knights Of (Children’s Publisher of the Year 2022)
Selling books @ Round Table Books (Children’s Bookshop of the Year 2023)
Irish | they/them
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Quizzer.
Rarely here...
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social 'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him 🇮🇪 linktr.ee/bobjohnstonbooks
Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social Writer
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
Lectures: University of Galway
Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
Cormac Kinsella @cormackinsella.bsky.social Publicity. Posts mainly about books, sometimes food. Eats mainly food ... https://www.instagram.com/cormac.kinsella/
David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social Publisher at Daunt Books; she/her 
Elaina Ryan @elainaryan.bsky.social CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
PeterOConnell Media @peterocmedia.bsky.social Publicity for books, Judes Menshed, left back
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Kishani Widyaratna @kishani.bsky.social Book bore
Publishing Dir, 4th Estate
Views all my own, retweets ≠ endorsement 
Edel Coffey @edelcoffey.bsky.social Author and journalist
https://linktr.ee/edelcoffey
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com
Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
Anna James @acaseforbooks.bsky.social Author of Pages & Co. Sometimes theatre journalist. Host of Lush Book Club. 
Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is out now. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
Will Rycroft @willrycroft.bsky.social Book bloke
Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
♡ @rachy395.bsky.social 
Nona @nonagoff.bsky.social 🦇 Goff gamer 🦇 Deeply unserious 🦇 Art 🦇 Horror 🦇 Nerd things 🦇 Sometimes gobshite 🦇 BM Hunter main 🦇 they/she 🦇
🌈 Starshipeu partnered streamer 🌈
🖤💍 Dorkmann🖤
🟪twitch.tv/Nonathings🟪
carly @ylrac.bsky.social i’m cosy
Mairéad "Maisie" Ó Dorchaidhe @modorchaidhe.bsky.social Game developer.
Previous credits incl SSE @ Diablo 4, Destiny 2, EA Sports, Frostbite. Now micro-indie (@odorchaidhe.games)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBéal Feirste.
🟢 Gaeilge, English, 日本語
🟡 Magyarul, Español, Français
🔴 everything else
Hannah Shorten @hannahshorten.bsky.social Books 📚 Video Games 👾 Arts 🎭 Film 🎬
🩷💛💙 | 🇮🇪 | 🧠 🔥
Rony @ronytherhombus.bsky.social Data and dev work stuff. Gunpla, games and art hobby stuff
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
Sam Redfern @psychicsoftware.com Indie gamedev & assoc. prof. PhD. Making games since 1980s - Darkwind - Goblins & Grottos - The Necromancer's Tale. https://linktr.ee/Psychic.Software
Spooky Doorway @spookydoorway.com Multi award winning indie game developers. Makers of darksidedetective.bsky.social and @BlakeManorGame.bsky.social, tellers of spooky tales 👻 Discord - http://discord.gg/spookydoorwaygames
Jay @ ENIGMA|STUDIO (tolt.horse) @enigmastud.io Irish Game Director @ ENIGMA STUDIO, a horror game studio based in Galway, Ireland | He/Him
THE ENIGMA MACHINE | MOTHERED | ECHOSTASIS
https://linktr.ee/ENIGMA_STUDIO
Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com Gamedev from Ireland. Made Guild of Dungeoneering, Cardpocalypse, and Eyes of Hellfire
Alan Duggan @lordugg.bsky.social (He/Him) CEO of Ardán
Founder of Tribal City Interactive, Toggle, Nephin Games.
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Brendan Dillon @bren-dillon.bsky.social COO of Romero Games
Opinions and typos my own
Roberto @r0mbag.bsky.social ✨Senior VFX artist✨ @ Maxis
I draw sometimes! ✏️
Saorspell @saorspell.com Small team based in Galway, Ireland working on an impactful narrative-driven adventure RPG. 💚✨ https://saorspell.com/
John O’Kane @johnokane.bsky.social Games Programmer.
Ireland.
He/Him
IODINE 👁️ @iodinex64.bsky.social WEIRD CREATURE
I made Burden Street Station: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3126340/
Water Malone @watermalone.bsky.social Senior QA Specialist @ PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions
Previously Senior QA Analyst (Tools, Tech Art/Anim & Content Pipeline) @ Hypixel Studios on @hytale.bsky.social. Also did CoD stuff @ Activision
TU Dublin Graduate 🇮🇪 Dub based in Derry
they/them
Ambertail Games 🔶 Amber Isle OUT NOW! @ambertailgames.bsky.social N. Irish indie games studio 🦖 Creators of Amber Isle, a cute shop/village sim set in a world of friendly dinosaurs! 🛒🧡🦕 50% OFF NOW on Steam + Switch!
Colm Ahern @colmahern.bsky.social A social media guy for work. A talker on the @stealthboomboom.bsky.social video games podcast for fun. Ex-VideoGamer & Rock Paper Shotgun person. Other: pro wrestling & custard creams. He/Him.
🎙️ https://linktr.ee/stealthboomboom 
Helen Lynch, MPSE @helenlynchmusic.bsky.social Defunct. Follow me on IG.
Video Game Music Designer/ Music Editor, Film Composer, Orchestrator. #GranTurismomovie music dept.
Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com Fractional CTO. I help tech startups scale. Making games since 1981, 200+ published titles. Solo indie dev.
LinkedIn: https://markripley.net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grumpyoaf
Indie: https://wearedinosaurs.uk | https://bonk.ooo
CROWDED. FOLLOWED. 💼 OUT NOW @nightdial.bsky.social N.Ireland game studio specialising in horror experiences.
📞 CROWDED. FOLLOWED.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2948790/CROWDED_FOLLOWED/
Rise Of Piracy @riseofpiracy.bsky.social #Wishlist #RiseOfPiracy on #Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1400660/Rise_of_Piracy/ 
IrishJohnGames - Rise of Piracy available NOW!!! @irishjohngames.bsky.social Hi, I'm John - Twitch Partner and WebDev turned Professional Game Developer. I am the creator of @RiseOfPiracy. After 4 years of solo development & streaming I am now published by MicroProse and I have my own Game Studio.
#IndieDev #GameDev #RiseOfPiracy
AueSip @auesip.bsky.social Irish Indie Game Developer, The Developer of DwarVein on Google Play
Owen Canavan @oscan.net Lead programmer at Gambrinous. Writing all the bugs for Guild of Dungeoneering, Cardpocalypse and Eyes of Hellfire
Cian Maher @cianmaher0.bsky.social Franchise & Lore Designer at CD PROJEKT RED. Once won a pub quiz with a team called Geralt of Trivia
✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social Video Game Composer・Sound Engineer・Gameboy Musician・Producer・Performer・
Best known for Super Hexagon, Spectra, Dicey Dungeons, JSAB, Cadence of Hyrule DLC
🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸
🌐 https://linktr.ee/chipzel
Jade 💖 @jadewrenfolan.bsky.social Just an artist/game designer doing my lil art things | 22 | Irish
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. Resident Bisexual. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Emmet @doctoremmet.bsky.social Game Director on Satisfactory | Musician | Social Vampire
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-
Marco Cremona @sanana94.bsky.social | LvL 30 | 🇮🇹 living in 🇮🇪 |
| Community Manager for some of your fav games |
| Chronically Online | D&D Nerd 🎲 |
| Obsessed with Sea of Thieves and Halo |
| Indie games are good for the soul |
| Xbox Community Champion |
👉Opinions are mine👈
Seán Lyons @sean79.bsky.social 
whykay 🇮🇪🏳️🌈🦄👩🏻💻 (she/her) @whykay.bsky.social Coder, diversity in tech advocate in Ireland.
Currently: Coding Grace, PyLadies Dublin & Gamecraft.
Fellow: Python Software Foundation & EuroPython Society
Past: Women Who Code Dublin, Python Ireland, PyCon Ireland, TechFoundHer
Bren | Round Robin Interactive - Making some stuff! @brentendo.bsky.social Game maker and artist based in Ireland. Hi!
Nameless Voice @namelessvoice.bsky.social Hobbyist indie #gamedev. Thief modder. Programmer.
Unreal Engine tool creator.
🚫noAI
Working on a stealth game with immersive sim elements.
The Immersive Sim Wiki: https://immersivesim.wikidot.com/
Fab: https://www.fab.com/sellers/Nameless%20Voice
Megan :) @megan.saorspell.com Making games @saorspell.com
Irish student studying creative writing.
She/They
Eighthwell | Wishlist on Steam @eighthwell.bsky.social A story-rich action-adventure game packed with humour and charm. Wishlist on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3258250/Eighthwell/
Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social Co-Director & Founder of @saltstonestudios.bsky.social. Creative Director of 'The Pale Beyond'. Freelance Narrative Designer & Unity Programmer.
By Pale on Steam!!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1266030/The_Pale_Beyond/
Niall 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 @zettazeptogram.bsky.social 24 - Games UI Programmer
Into comics, #fabtcg, and video games (obviously)
Paris 🏳️⚧️ @octr.dev (She/They)
Content & Technical Design @Hytale
All views & opinions are my own.
I love Chloe 🥰
https://octr.dev
Christina @silksutures.bsky.social J-fashion, artist and gamedev 🦇⚰️
linktr.ee/silksutures
James Brown @gamejammer.bsky.social Northern Irish Gamedev / Unity Developer, formerly:
🌠Hyper Luminal
🔶️Ambertail
🏜Rocketflair
🎹Out of Tune
He/Him
Caoimhe @keevahh.bsky.social 🎮 Senior Publishing Producer at Chucklefish.
Shane Doherty @shanedoh8t.bsky.social Design Lead @ustwo • Play Thinking • Knee deep in new tech & gamedev • UX, Visuals & Motion • Came up the Foyle in a bubble • Derry • 🇮🇪 • 🎮 • 💚 •
shanedoherty.com
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.
County Carlo @carlo-no-s.bsky.social The official account for the 33rd county of Ireland. Game Designer at Black Shamrock, Board Member of Imirt, the Irish Game Makers Association
https://carlogamedesign.com
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him
𝕮𝖎𝖆𝖓 (key-in) @cianrice.dev Irish lad in Chicago.
Soon to be unemployed DevRel @ Magic Leap
Founder @kohococoa.dev
Prev: BostonFIG, nWay, EA, Harmonix + more
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HYPER GROOVE AX this October
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