@NickPoole1 @nickpoole1.bsky.social Chief Exec of Ukie, championing the UK video game and interactive entertainment industry. Pronouns: he/him
Anthony N.Putson @anthonyputson.bsky.social Retired veteran of the videogame industry. Composer/FX/Voice for 229+ games spanning 32 years, inc monster IP's Resident Evil, Sonic & Minecraft.
Film score aficionado with a 2400+ collection of film score CDs.
A/V enthusiast with Atmos cinema setup.
Ryan Burls-Lay @fryry.bsky.social 🎮 Games Dev, Software Engineer, UI/UX Guy
Co-Founder of BetaJester Ltd
He/Him 🩷💜💙
I make game-ish things and TRY to grow plants 🪴
Adam Clewes-Boyne @chaosandcode.bsky.social 🕹️Game Developer/Designer
💼 BetaJester and Playing Attention
💬 Limit Break + IGDA Neurodivergent In Games SIG + Falmouth Uni + Play Sheffield + BAFTA Connect
💙 He/Him - ADHD
Talking about game dev and neurodiversity
Rob Hewson @robhewson.bsky.social CEO & Creative Director at @hueygames.bsky.social Co-Dev & Smart Porting powered by HueyCore. #BAFTA member. He/Him.
Footy Director @footydirector.bsky.social Roger Womack, long term developer/designer of football management games etc, previously senior dev on Soccer Manager, now developing Football Director in C# and porting to Swift. Past experience includes Premier League Manager and Championship Manager.
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
Nina @ninacliff.bsky.social Games Industry Business Development - Special Effect Ambassador @SpecialEffect❤️ - Smoggie - Apex Capybara - Mighty Duck energy - she/her🙋🏻♀️
Game Bridge @game-bridge.bsky.social Games industry networking event hosted in Middlesbrough, North East, UK
Kish Hirani @kishhh.bsky.social Board Advisor | Technical & Creative Leader | Mentor | Speaker | Award-Winning Diversity & Inclusion Advocate | BAFTA Patron | Hobby Photography
Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social The only community dedicated to Scotland’s games ecosystem.
Brian Baglow @brianbaglow.bsky.social Games generalist. Scottish specialist. Writing the First National strategy for games.
Colin Macdonald @scottishcolin.bsky.social
Jamie Sefton @seffers007.bsky.social Ex-PC Zone editor, MD Northern England games networks @GameRepublic & @gamayo. Electronic music via Wilton (now on @CastlesInSpace) - and Ramraid. Music writer. Nintendo nut. LUFC.
HeyStephenHey @heystephenhey.bsky.social Head of Publishing @RadicalForge
Board member of Manchester Game Network @Gameopolis
Side gig - https://www.unseen-galaxy.com
@SpecialEffect Ambassador
Member of @BAFTAgames
Proud Mancunian
❤️ 🎮 Sci-Fi & LEGO all views are my own
Game Republic @gamerepublic.bsky.social Game Republic is the largest games network supporting growth & success for #gamedevs, affiliates & unis/colleges, running GaMaYo and #GRNewHorizons- visit gamerepublic.net or join The Great Northern Games Discord here -> https://discord.gg/y52sj4yMGn
GaMaYo - next GaMaYo 26th November 2026 @gamayo.bsky.social FREE network for 1300+ game makers across The North and beyond Apply to join on https://discord.com/invite/y52sj4yMGn or on Facebook - managed by @gamerepublic.bsky.social
Luke Hebblethwaite @lukethehebble.bsky.social Video games / music / creative industries kinda guy.
Former Head of Games at BAFTA, prev. Insight Manger at Ukie
Runs UK Games Composers: https://gamescomposers.co.uk/
Here to fight the good fight for games.
Rip 'n tear until it is done.
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social Byron Atkinson-Jones. Graphics engineer in developer relations at PlayStation. All views are my own and do not represent my employer, in any way imaginable.
Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social Game and Filmmaker | Creative Director/Founder @RapidEyeMovers.bsky.social
https://www.rapideyemovers.com
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 🏳️⚧️
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
Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social Editorial director, @lostincult. Former Edge deputy editor. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). chris@lostincult.co.uk / letterboxd.com/downaboutit
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
Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social Full time video game developer. Some time comic artist.
Not won an award since Primary School.
Thunkd @thunkdgames.bsky.social Busy making narrative games that are “evening-sized” and “human-shaped”. The Magnificent Trufflepigs is available on Steam, Epic Games, and Nintendo Switch
https://linktr.ee/thunkd
Romana Ramzan @romana.bsky.social Producer on Silent Hill: Townfall | BFI Board of Governors | EIFF Board | CoSTAR Foresight
Harún Ali @retroali93.bsky.social Part Time Game Design Lecturer at Calderdale College, prev worked at: No Brakes Games, Cloud Imperium, Bradford College, TT Games (all views my own)
Neil (Nilesh) Parmar @neilparmar.bsky.social
neal! @selectinvert.xyz Look upon my Posts, ye Mighty, and Despair
A statistical outlier that should not have been counted
Technical Artist at [videogames]
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Will Lowther @willlowther.bsky.social VP of Business Development @splashdamage » He/Him
Asobitech @asobitech.com Indie Video Game Studio (est. 2007) ☯
D*Fuzed 💣🤖 and Super JetPak DX 👨🚀🚀 for GameBoy and GameBoy Color compatible devices
Retrogaming love ❤️
Run by @quangdx.com
PuttyCAD - Ric @puttycad.bsky.social Game artist and illustrator. Also make retro games with friends at puttycad.itch.io Writer of comics at odbolz.co.uk #puttycad #puttycadpresents #odbolz #cartoonsbyRic #retrojotter #zxspectrum #retro
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
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
Robin Baumgarten 👨🏭✨ @robinwobbles.bsky.social Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Alex Boucher MBE @thatwouldbealex.bsky.social Games, music, events.
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
Gina Jackson @ginaobe.bsky.social Founder at Pitchify & SKILLfull, using games to change people's lives. NED at NextGen, Pompey fan.
Will Freeman @spadgy.bsky.social Head fulla noise, toys, & hobbies.
🕹️🪀🛹
Freelance game journalist, copywriter, event host, mock reviewer, etc. Edge, The Guardian, BAFTA, PC Gamer, GI, etc.
Yo-yo thrower. Arcade and retro player.
I write about shmups a lot to fund my shmup habit.
James Batchelor @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social Comms Manager at @digitalbandidos.bsky.social. Runs Non-Violent Game of the Day (@nvgotd.bsky.social). Former journalist
Author (The Best Non-Violent Video Games, Wandless, Blow The House Down) www.jamesbatchelor.me
Father. Gamer. Soundtrack Nerd
Callum Uwunderwood @callum.uwu.biz Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Neil Goodman 🌈 @seffles.bsky.social ◽ Lead Programmer (Game Developer)
◽ Nerial / Devolver Digital
◽ Glasgow, Scotland
◽ He / Him
◽ 🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺
◽ Opinions my own
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.
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 🐝
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