Bonfire Gaming @bonfiregaming.bsky.social A group that uses gaming to bring a better world. We focus on sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, and community. This page includes all events that we host. Check our website: https://bonfiregamingchi.org
Ross A. Hersemann @loadinglaw.com Founder of Loading Law
Adjunct Professor at DePaul University
Chair at IGDA Chicago
Binary Clone (HyperTyper 2000) @binaryclone.bsky.social Developer of HyperTyper 2000 with @vaaasm.com. Musician.
Occasional pixel artist. Jack of all trades. They/them
Wishlist HyperTyper 2000 on Steam! s.team/a/3125430
Karley (´◔‿ゝ◔`) @gleefulbeest.bsky.social 🐝 Making Video Games Gay Again | Artist & hijinks @Young Horses | ex-Philadelphian in Chicago | hiking buddy | community pillar | garden gnome |
@dootdootdoots.bsky.social @dootdootdoots.bsky.social 
RBI (Strike King) @rbistudios.bsky.social Making Strike King, a Bowling Roguelike
https://playstrikeking.com
Charles Voita @chawlsv.bsky.social Chicago game dev. Working on cool stuff. Sr Programmer @ E-Line Media. Previously Seafrog, One Hand Clapping, Grim Tranquility. (he/him)
https://chawls.itch.io/
Sonk @sonki-boy.bsky.social Harrison || 24 || He/him || Chicago Game Developer || your local blonde boy
Pfp: @yeeobun.bsky.social
https://sonki-boy.itch.io
CURRENT GAME: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4775480/TO_THE_CENTER_OF_THE_EARTH/
Paper @paperrbirds.bsky.social Just a queer solo dev working on my first narrative indie game, A Week Before Autumn! For fans of corn (the Midwest) 🌽
miek @mdkulikowski.bsky.social 
Abigail Velez @abbytapple.bsky.social Chicago based Illustrator!
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝔽𝕝𝕒𝕘𝕤 ❤️💛💙💚💜 @allflags.bsky.social Zazzler, refugee/imigrant from Twitter.......
Be curious ---> https://www.zazzle.com/store/allflags?rf=238555236939573440
---> https://www.facebook.com/WorldAllFlags
---> https://ro.pinterest.com/Zazzle4AllFlags/
bigsirgames.bsky.social @bigsirgames.bsky.social Escape from Slumberland demo out NOW! Play and Wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3011520/Escape_from_Slumberland/- T @tyler99b.bsky.social @tyler99b.bsky.social
Potion Rouge @potionrouge.bsky.social 🩸 RPG, City Builder & Dungeon Crawler, Narrative
🔥 10 people, 3 years, 1 game
🌱 Early Access on Steam by 2027
🎮 Jazz Dev, French indie studio
https://potionrouge.com/index.html
Creotag @creotag.bsky.social Find YouTubers who already cover games like yours.
https://creotag.com
@francowilliams298.bsky.social @francowilliams298.bsky.social 
Formed By Zach @formed-by-zach.bsky.social Freelance game developer in Chicago, IL
In a state of perpetual rumination
Currently reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Currently playing: Scrolling through my Steam library until I get bored
Sebastian Gosztyla | Seabaa @seabaa.bsky.social I make small games as Seabaa.
Created finity. and DUAL!
2024 Apple Design Award Finalist
https://seabaa.com
Nat Quayle Nelson @nqn.itch.io Makin' zines, games, and theater in Chicago!
FLIES FLIES FLIES: http://store.steampowered.com/app/2330490
Habit Puzzles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4263990
Open Blades of Exile: https://nqn.itch.io/blades-of-exile
@barbar-ware.bsky.social @barbar-ware.bsky.social 
baiomu @prismapunch.net Prismapunch Games
Developing Raysing!
Godot/DM/C#/Javascript
Columbia College Chicago Graduate
Yogstation/Meranthe
9 + 10 = 21
dubai chocolate labubu
Autumn Rose Taylor @lusterly.bsky.social ✨Brand Manager, Marketing & Publishing ✨
🏙️ Chicago-based
prev:
🔳 Bethesda Softworks
🧪 Owlchemy Labs
🚀 Phaser Lock Interactive
🥽 VR Austin
🎮 Fantastic Arcade
🌈she/they
Mr. Staleman @mrstaleman.bsky.social Limbus Company Friend Code: Q360065421
TTRPG Designer. Writer. My games Inscribed: Heartstealer and WAR/PATH can be found here: https://mrstaleman.itch.io/
My Substack with reviews and game design talks can be found here: https://mrstaleman.substack.com/
Tom Servo @angelus04.bsky.social #RetroGames #RetroGaming #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #PointandClick #SierraOnline #Lucasarts #HorrorGame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming #MegaMan #Shantae #FinalFantasy #ResidentEvil #SilentHill #Metroidvania #Doom #Castlevania #MutantFam #HorrorMovie
Will Carlson is Making Stuff for Games @theredfriend.bsky.social Hi, I’m Will! I write music and make art. I like video games (a lot)
Feel sleepy every day @yingxiwuyuki.bsky.social I do sound. And will post sound journal here (if I didn't forget
Gabe @gnull.bsky.social https://onlinerocker.github.io/
chicago
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Alina Christenbury @alinawithaface.bsky.social she/her | Game Maker / Designer / Programmer | currently: Disbelief (NDA) 🤫
prev: Ruckus Games (The Holdouts), The Coalition (Gears of War: E-Day)
I don't suffer bigots.
A better world is possible or else 😘
alinachristenbury.com
Simon @slepkin.bsky.social Chicago-based #gamedev. I like swarms and robots and unfortunately complex interlocking mechanics!
Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3941030/SOLARFLARE/ before it releases on May 27!
Studio: @swarmforge.bsky.social
Gamejams: knaughts.itch.io/
Sofia Elena @sofia-elena.bsky.social 3D game artist 🕹️🎨 | Based in Chicago 🏙️🌭🍺 From Austin, TX 🤠 | https://sofiaee.artstation.com/
Mastafran (4/4 Commissions Slots Full) @mastafran.com 🦝 34 year old art guy in Chicagoland who likes to draw animals with swords! | Pixel Artist and Animator for the future indie game, Blackmask⚔️
Website: mastafran.com
Blackmask: https://blackmaskgame.com/
Lumen Game Dev @lumengamedev.bsky.social Solo self-taught indie game developer working on a parody/anti-cozy game! Imagine Stardew Valley if it were self aware and poking fun at itself.
https://youtube.com/@lumen-game-dev?si=vK4OR6M6jwDpINyi
zach @belimoth.com psych ward prom king
inventor of the game shoe
github.com/belimoth
belimoth.itch.io
chicago
1991
Joey Bleau @jbleau.dev 🏢 Senior Software Engineer II, World of Warcraft
💪 Proud WoWGG Union Member
📍Ann Arbor ➡️ SoCal ➡️ Chicago (current)
🇺🇸 🇩🇪
All views are my own. I periodically delete old posts. I sometimes delete brand new ones.
Matt Ryszkowski @mattryszkowski.bsky.social 3D Artist | BA Game Art Columbia College Chicago
Previously at SomaSim, Trixel Creative
Games, VFX, Animation, Entertainment
crisPlease @crisplease.bsky.social Game designer & developer, and recently - ceramic artist 👻
Inspired by games, anime, and sad music.
my inst: instagram.com/crispleaseart/
starbi - making Tinkernest 🪹 @starbi.dev i really like pixel graphics and building worlds.
game dev, tech artist
wishlist Tinkernest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4060980
afterwalk.studio
Rymdlingen @rymdlingen.bsky.social I'm making Froguelike!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2315020/Froguelike/
Trinket Ben @ben.trinketstudios.com I principally wear a programmer hat at Trinket Studios. Arguably I wear other hats there too, but they're tinier and sillier. Battle Suit Aces, Battle Chef Brigade, and a handful of other Unity tinkerings. he/him.
Brian Diamond - Audio Design for Games @briandiamondvo.bsky.social Audio Design & Music, and VO - Reach out at www.briandiamondaudio.com
CraftCraft - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/
Korter 1996
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3086500/Korter_1996/
Dani Felix @danifelixdev.bsky.social I make video games. 👏 I'm currently 50% of Go Go Galago Games, working in the trenches on CORR. Big fan of monsters. Some o' the cool internet humans may know me as 'Bot'.
- Views expressed are my own.
Lucia/Lukas Ekberg @luciathedragon.kobolds.zip typical gun loveing transgender fur🏳️⚧️. intress in tech and poltics. ❤️ dragonfur and protogens pan & nb. member of left party of 🇸🇪.
foxhole: Colonials [420st] (war 117 & 118)
They/Her 🏳️⚧️
David Laskey @d-lask.bsky.social 🎮 programmer @ Evening Star
talk to me about volleyball, language learning, one piece tcg, or cycling. if you don't then i'll probably start talking to you about one of them lol
📍chicago
Sam Castree, III: Ace Attorney @indiegamelawyer.bsky.social Video Game Lawyer, Lord High Executioner at Sam Castree Law. All opinions are *your* own. How do you like that? (You like it very much.)
Slaps @s1aps.bsky.social Indie Game Dev / Artist - working on, Mecha multiplayer game, Drift Shell
Black 27 He/Him
🔞 Minors Begone!
My itch io: http://s1aps.itch.io
Zuhn @kevinzuhn.bsky.social Creative Director at Young Horses 🐎 (Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Bugsnax) I play all of the games.
They/Them
Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW @tom.trinketstudios.com Battle Suit Aces coming Oct 7!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/Battle_Suit_Aces/
President/Programmer of Trinket Studios. Battle Chef Brigade,
Battle Suit Aces; Previously Wideload/Disney; Tall; He/him; tom@trinketstudios.com
Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net Creator of turn-based tactics games and SRPGs; most recently, Together in Battle! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1267210/Together_in_Battle/
📧: sinisterdesign@gmail.com
Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social Making games for longer than seems advisable.
Recently, AI lead at Take-Two; earlier at SomaSim, Zynga, EA etc.
Doctor of AI, under the hippocratic oath bound to help all game AIs.
Author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/
Hello from Chicago!
Eric Huang @trinketeric.bsky.social Trinket Studios art guy
Jamie Sanchez @spacedragon.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ she/her
Curiouser.design makin’ websites
JamieSanchez.com blog
AnimeChicago.com founder
BebopBeat.com pod co-host
BitBashChicago.com co-founder
Megan Varde 🐴 @mvardeparty.bsky.social 3D environment artist @YoungHorses.com on Bugsnax and something else 👁️👁️
I have approximate knowledge of many things
⭐️ she/her
📍Chicago
💍 @hatsproductions.bsky.social
pfp by @tgi.bsky.social
The Men Who Wear Many Hats @hatsproductions.bsky.social HatsProductions.com
🎩 Max Gentlemen Sexy Business! MaxGentlemen.biz
💀 Organ Trail https://hatsproductions.com/organtraildc/
Working on: Max Gentlemen: Escape From Moriarty Mansion https://store.steampowered.com/app/3047590/
Greg Wohlwend @aeiowu.com Hard to pronounce videogames.
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
nattie ✨ vaaasm @vaaasm.com Artist, Writer, Gamedev! ✨
Art Director on HyperTyper 2000 💻⚡
Wishlist HT2K now! -> s.team/a/3125430
Solo dev of Hallow Grove, Trash Dungeon, & more
Portfolio, Games: https://linktr.ee/vaaasm
they/them, 🇵🇷
💛🤍💜🖤
Mike Flood @mikeflood.bsky.social He/Him - Programmer at Finji working on @usualjune.bsky.social
Les! @lezl.bsky.social 28 🇲🇽| Fashion Designer & Illustrator
also game dev and makes silly doodles ✨
Project Manager / Artist @lostgatorco.bsky.social
My website/socials: https://heylezl.carrd.co
˗ˏˋ Neelam ˎˊ˗ @neee.bsky.social She/Her | ✨Chicago-based✨
Senior 3D Artist @owlchemylabs.com
3D Contract Artist @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social
Art Director @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Prev: HakJak Studios, Funomena
neelamjani.com
✨ Opinions are my own ✨
🚫 Say No to AI 🚫
Brady Soglin @bradysoglin.bsky.social indie game dev. browse my fine softwares!
made Tall Trails, Fossil Corner, & Plant Daddy
overfull.games
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
——
PMEPDX Out Now: https://bit.ly/pmepdxbsky
HYPER GROOVE AX this October
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Thoughts are my own | 少し日本語OK
Wurm Fud (DOUR TOWER) @wurmfud.itch.io Chicago artist/gamedev. Horror games, art games, and RPGs in no particular order. Overly fond of skeletons holding swords. Chicago Indie organizer.
Wishlist Dour Tower! https://s.team/a/5090590/
Check out Slaughter Void! https://s.team/a/3333980/
Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com Game Director @ Luckshot Games: Big Hops & Sausage Sports Club. Previously: Owlchemy Labs, Battle Chef Brigade, Manifold Garden. Liker of rock climbing, running, sudoku, tiktok. Austin / Chicago guy.
https://linktr.ee/chriswade__
Nick McKay @nicholasmckay.bsky.social Chicago indie game dev by day
... and the same by night