Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. 
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com Executive Director @TakeThis.org | Maker of strange things | Swears too much. Cat pics++. she/they
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
Bonfire Sit: https://player.gg/publications/bonfire-sit
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
Instagram: instagram.com/tamoorh
Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
Renee Gittins | Indie Game Dev @rikukat.bsky.social Plays video games. Makes video games. Helps others make video games.
Developer of "Potions: A Curious Tale"
PotionsACuriousTale.com
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
Luke Davis @luketalksgames.bsky.social Internship Program Manager in the gaming industry.
Talks about getting into gaming, industry news, with a focus on early career and intern tips.
Star Wars nerd and waiting for the Donkey Kong 64 remaster...someday!
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
Brian Gomez @briangomez.bsky.social Video game exec, game designer, producer, and writer based in Scotland. Creative Director at 4J Studios. BAFTA Scotland committee member. Former EP of Jurassic World games at NBCUniversal. Former Disney Imagineer. Horror genre expert. Recovering goth.
Ellie Tsang 🔜 NEXUS Games Summit @fairemortal.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer | Monolith, OtherSide, Seismic Squirrel | ex-mortician, neurodivergent sage, feral altruist, mythology goblin | stay curious, be kind, make magic | my views = my own | they/she
@twitch.tv/FaireMortal
Mako @angelosmako.bsky.social Community, Marketing, and Creative.
Currently working on Dungeon Rampage!
Lee Seymour @leemourseymour.bsky.social Tony-winning writer, producer, gardener. Recovering journalist. Incorrigible theater kid.
0451
Literarily repped by @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Dana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️ @danaenight.northsky.social Director of level design at Arkane Lyon.
Author of queer speculative fiction.
Transfemme neurodivergent immigrant.
Gay as hell.
she/her fae/faer 🏳️⚧️
Unionized anti-authoritarian leftist 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 BLM
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Lead staff writer at SteamHype.com - PC gaming demystified - Veteran games crit, news & curation. Hyped for games of all shapes & sizes. Formerly RPS, PC Gamer & PCGamesN. He/Him
Find my other work, Steam Curator page & emails at dominictarason.com
Tyler Ryan Kline @tyler-ryan-kline.itch.io 📐Game Developer • Engineer • Designer • Producer 📐
🦴 Team Boneless • 👻 Haunted PS1
💾 Unity / C# / C++ / Technical Everything
🔌AAA • AA • Indie • Defense
👁️ I make machines dream.
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Jacob Garcia @randomjpg.bsky.social ATX | Tech/gaming project-program-product manager, Oh Sees stan
Lissanna @lissanna.bsky.social Elisabeth Whyte, PhD. Senior User Researcher. Opinions are mine and don't reflect my employer.
Rebecca Gates @rebeccagates.bsky.social MusicianArtistCultureTender
https://parcematone.bigcartel.com/about
🇧🇪 Nynn 🇺🇦 ☮️🏳️⚧️ @etherealfields.eurosky.social Same person as etherealfields@bsky.social - account recreated here.
Player Support / Experience - GameDev - Kindness above all
Scott Rogers @scottrogers.bsky.social Game Designer, Author, Educator, Imagineer, Father.
Out now: Your Turn!: The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design https://a.co/d/4TAur76
Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design 3rd edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394298765
Jon-Paul @tripleshot31.bsky.social Game Director.
Graham Reid 🌴 @grahamoflegend.com 🇯🇲 Your friendly neighborhood Jamaican game dev
🗽 Currently based in NY
🔥 Making a new roguelike brick breaker
🎮 Previously made Ourlands and Super Space Club
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🔴 https://youtube.com/grahamoflegend
🎮 https://cutt.ly/ourlands-steam
Lucy James @lucyjames.games Video game enjoyer @lookingfor.game podcast: @friendspersecond.bsky.social email: hello@lucyjames.games
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social Now shamelessly employed but more a Child Safety guy than a lawyer these days.No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
Mike Thal @mikeathal.bsky.social Technical Sound Designer 🔊🕹
Proponent of Procedural Audio 👾🎧
https://mikethal.com | https://youtube.com/c/mikethal
✨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
Chris Rosenthal @chrisro.bsky.social Game developer. Currently working on The Secret of Crystal Mountain
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.
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social President and Creative Director of Wolfeye Studios. Founder of Arkane Studios (Dishonored, Prey). Also band member of Weird Wolves
Abe Massry @abemassry.bsky.social Web Developer, Game Developer, Entrepreneur, Podcaster, creator of https://wsend.net and https://ireadthisweek.com, live streaming https://twitch.tv/abemassry
Junaid Chundrigar @imajunation.bsky.social Animator/director/illustrator
Ultimate Recaps | Dooie Boel/Dead Spot | Clownz 4 Life | Hideous Henk | Gerard en Stipje | Creator of Stan Lee's Bad Days seasons 1-3 | some HISHE shows | things for Valve & Steam
www.imaJunation.com
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social Draglikepull: Remastered, a 4K re-imagining of the original Draglikepull, with improved controls and all-new voice acting, will be releasing in 20XX.
https://pykretemusic.bandcamp.com/
Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Award-Winning Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️🌈
“Very sweet and always improved with butter.”
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social Trickster disciple. 🦊 Game developer. 🎲️✂ Emeritus data generalist. 📊 Delightfully imperfect. ☁️ Not that kind of doctor. 🎓 [E] Itsatrap 🎮 He/Him
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Producer, Strange Scaffold. Founder, F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@causewaystudios.com / mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com Antifascist middle-aged mall goth, making the most of her plantwitch era. Book rep: Stacia Decker at DCL; film rep: Tara Timinsky, Grandview LA. Contact - Cherie.priest@gmail.com
Rawnie Amber M @lockaitae.bsky.social they/them. game producer! former world systems and pvp producer destiny 2. general nerd. loves posting about their tabletops.
Bex @bexsaltsman.bsky.social CEO + co-founder of FinjiCo. 
Red Thread Games @redthreadgames.bsky.social Norwegian indie studio. We made Dreamfall Chapters, Draugen, and DUSTBORN. Wishlist Hello Sunshine: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245140/ Join our Discord: https://www.redthreadgames.com/discord
Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social Writer. Game designer. In need of a nap. Dumb jokes, but never hurtful ones. He/him.
More of and about me here: https://linktr.ee/sjink
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app In progress. Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
That Kenn Guy @thatkennguy.bsky.social Head of Production Daybreak Games, Lead Producer DCUO, Founder of Game Industry Coffee Chat, husband to an amazing wife, father to amazing children, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next.
#producer #gameindustry #GICC
Mike The Ferret @miketheferret.bsky.social I do PR for Games! :D | Contributor @smashpad.bsky.social | Content Creator | JRPG enjoyer | PAX Swag Map Maker | Chronic Overthinker | OPINIONS ARE MY OWN
Consume my content: https://linktr.ee/MikeTheFerret
Business email: michael.a.fertitta@gmail.com
@athenazpeters.bsky.social @athenazpeters.bsky.social Game dev/ mom / sapphic/ polyam/ entrepreneur/ theatre nerd
Soren Johnson @sorenjohnson.bsky.social Founder of MohawkGames. Designer of Civ 3, Civ 4, Dragon Age Legends, Offworld Trading Company, and Old World. Still a Mouth Breather.
Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on Verminsteel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Ragnar Tørnquist @ragso.bsky.social Writer and director of video games you probably haven’t heard of, including Dustborn, Draugen and Dreamfall. (Also, in a previous life, The Longest Journey and The Secret World, etc.) Creative person at @redthreadgames.bsky.social Making hellosunshine.app
Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon.bsky.social Game designer, forever DM, RPGphile, lover of musicals, painter of minis. Senior Creative Director on Marvel’s Iron Man at EA Motive. Opinions my own.
Casey Hudson @caseydhudson.bsky.social 
Will Teixeira - Celebrity Game Developer 🏳️🌈 @generalwillest.bsky.social #gamedev since 2010. CEO of @funnergamesllc.com, Lead Engineer at @contemplationgames.bsky.social, Senior Engineer at Skymap, prev Lead Engineer at Zelgor, prev Lead Engineer at OtherSide, prev Engineer at WB Turbine.
https://linktr.ee/general_willest
Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social Poet, translator from German, flax fiber enthusiast.
Catherine Curan @ccuran.bsky.social writer, gardener, student of Modern Greek.
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Owen @olandgren.bsky.social I help make a video game (Senior Game Designer II, WoW). Views expressed are not those of my employer. Cats, books, games, anime, MN sports, sumo, and other assorted nonsense.
Avatar courtesy @guinhoe.bsky.social
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room/Riot.
mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF
Mattia Sicuro @mpts33.bsky.social 🏀Hooper, Character Rigger/Tech Artist for games. Board member with @igdanyc.bsky.social
Previously Player Support for mobile games.
Demo Reel: https://vimeo.com/890967060
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Christy Wagner @com1ty.bsky.social Grandma in Northern CA...social & environmental justice for all--anti-racist! anti-fascist! No crypto, no porn! No DMs!
JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social Writer & director of new horror film, Dead Media. Coming soon to a theater, streamer & physical media near you. A frozen pizza + a martini = a gourmet meal (he/him)
Game Industry Coffee Chat (GICC) @gameindustrycc.bsky.social Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮
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
Kim Swift @k2theswift.bsky.social Game Creative and Business Strategist. Ex- Xbox/Google/EA/Amazon/Valve.
andrea @asaraviapt.bsky.social ♨︎ building stories & communities @ atrium interactive (indie, AA, AAA and +)
⤷ narrative & comms @ deviant games
⤷ lore & adcopy @ flameborn games
⤷ narrative consulting @ [redacted]
opinions are my own~
https://asaraviapt.wixsite.about/
PatT Games @pattgames.bsky.social Dad, technical game designer and indie game dev.
Trying to find the fun.
Indie developer of Scorefall on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3829550/Scorefall/
John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social |General Manager, 20th Century Games |
|VP, Business Dev for Disney/Pixar, Lucas & 20C Games |
|Ex-PlayStation, Ex-Harmonix // Ex-The Main Drag Drummer|
Luckily in the right place/right time for a few big games.
Loves games, music, TV, my wife & kid.
allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social game systems designer by day, crazy cat lady by night. i have definitely worked on games you've heard of. i probably still do.
american. native seattleite. fan of constitutional rights, due process, and democracy. she/her.
🏳️🌈😷🐈🐈🏃♀️🎮
Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com Freelance Tool Design Director, 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!
leslee @leslee.bsky.social games producer, mom of two, ex-Netflix/Riot/Meta/Blizz, middling tiktoker
Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social National political analyst/forecaster/strategist. Read election analysis from a real expert at The Cycle on Substack 🦆🏈
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.” -Winston Churchill
Graeme Lennon @gfsl.bsky.social 
rayla heide @jellbug.bsky.social Franchise Narrative Director @ Scopely. Previously Netflix, Riot Games, Unannounced Blizzard Survival Game, Mageseeker. She/her.
e. drake kajioka @3sxp.bsky.social Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. Views mine &c. 🎲 they preferred, she accepted. was @3spce/gryphoness on twitter, @edk@mastodon.social.
Chris Proctor @dorukai.bsky.social Core gameplay designer and design director
Design Director @ Guerrilla Games
Ex-Bungie, 343 Industries, 2K Marin, Funcom, Bigworld
Andreia Gonçalves @andreiag.bsky.social Sr Social Systems Designer at @EA Full Circle, working on @skate. Previously on @PlantsvsZombies. 🇵🇹🇨🇦 she/her. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/andreiagg
Roxanne Blouin-Payer @rbpayer.bsky.social Game Designer, Crochet-lover, RPG fanatic
Pam, Godkillingway v.2026, Patch "Even Eepier" @thedovetailor.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇨🇦
Core Game Design Team, #CosmereRPG
Ennie-winning/Nebula Finalist
#ffxiv: Balmung queer, fanfic writer
business: pam.punzalan@gmail.com
https://thedovetailor.carrd.co/
Radiant Citadel • Spire/Heart • Hunter • TSL • Cosmere • BitD: The Dagger Isles
Darth Mel @melrambles.bsky.social Name's Mel 🖤 Systems Designer II on Valorant. Prev. The Sims✨FaeFarm, Stonefly🪲Star Wars Squadrons, SW Battlefront II and Mass Effect Andromeda 💫 TGA Future Class ‘21 🏆
Opinions are my own.
PFP by @nicholaskole.bsky.social
Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social https://mkremins.github.io
Marcus Montgomery @marcusingames.bsky.social Creative Director / Game Design Director @cstoneintstudio
www.sleepy-genius.com
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Abhi | Venba @brownmoney.bsky.social Creative Director at Visai Games
Making games that tell intimate stories with interesting mechanics, like Venba!
Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social Toronto based game designer/developer.
SSMP. Marc. Gone Vroom. A pile of digital trash that's disappeared.
Working on new stuff. Still missing Miitomo.
Theresa Duringer @tduringer.bsky.social CEO & Owner @Temple_Gates. We make boardgame apps like Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.
Tomo Moriwaki @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social Our shared fiction is our reality, so... let's take better care of it. Long time game designer. Most noteworthy impact: creative director of Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Jeff Pobst @jeffpobst.bsky.social CEO of Hidden Path Entertainment - a Video Game Developer. RPG focused these days. Builders of CS:GO & Age of Empires II HD. Creators of Defense Grid
Ziz Simoens @zizmakesgames.bsky.social Game Designer for Digital, Immersive, and IRL play - currently senior designer at Warcradle Studios for tabletop games
Current obsessions: sewing, knitting, jewellery making, mtg commander, 40k necrons, crochet, hiking, lrping, making ceramic little dudes
Elaine @muselle.bsky.social Studio Director @ HeartLoop Games | Faculty and Coordinator @ IVGD - Dawson College | Coordinator @ Pixelles | She/Her | Game Dev Mom
Zack Hiwiller @zackhiwiller.com 20+ years as a professional game designer. Author. Football official. Board gamer. Dog lover. I was the main character of video games internet for two days in 2010. Opinions are always my own. No one else would take credit for them.