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
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Michael Barry-Mancuso @mikebarrym.bsky.social Advanced Gameplay Programmer at WB Games. Proud cat dad.
Montreal, QC 🇨🇦
he/him
@echo-matt.bsky.social @echo-matt.bsky.social
Vahab Ahmadvand @ahmadvand.bsky.social Technical Game Designer at EmbarkStudios
, Unreal Authorized Instructor
Tina Wisdom @theunwisetina.bsky.social Unreal Engine Community Manager @ Epic Games
Slayer of pancakes and paladin of nodes
John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for
Digital Foundry and creator of DF Retro! Open to contract work!
日本語OK
Daniel Bross @brossferatu.bsky.social Technical Lead on Out of Words | Game engine tinkerer by night
Alex Beachum @alexbeachum.bsky.social Creative director of Outer Wilds. Co-creative lead at Mobius Games. Easily excited by coffee, cocktails, and the cosmos. He/Him.
Alex Battaglia @dachsjaeger.bsky.social Ray Tracing Radical, Turok Technophile, Crysis Cultist, Motion Blur Menace and PC Police Officer for @Digitalfoundry. Wird auch Hermann genannt.
Ben Zeigler @doublebuffered.bsky.social JZig | DoubleBuffered. He/him/whatever. Gamedev programmer on Unreal Engine 5 with a bonus degree in Psychology. Neurodiverse and trying to make the internet better
Justin Boswell @jboswell.bsky.social Tech Director at Secret Dimension. Ex-AWS, Autodesk, Firaxis.
Dakota Herold @dakotaherold.bsky.social Software Engineer @ Secret Dimension. Board of directors @ Roc Game Dev. Enjoys fixing code and writing bugs. Opinions my own.
https://www.dakotaherold.com/
BattleToad @piedaddy.bsky.social Developer @ JetBrains, Rider for Unreal Engine.
Holding Guinness record for the most number of broken UE projects by a thirdparty plugin (probably).
Mike C @f0da.bsky.social Principle engineer at Double Dagger Studio, @LittleKittyGame
Prev: Visual Studio @Microsoft
Chride Lassheikki ✨ @classheikki.bsky.social Sr. Narrative & Game Designer @NitroGames. ✨ Probably a bard 🎹 Game jam, karaoke & waffle enthusiast 🧇 Aalto uni alumni ✨🌈🎮 they/she ✨ Opinions my own
Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social (♡°◡°) Kindness is free spread that s♡*t like confetti!
Producer • Studio Founder • Bizdev • Accessibility • Award-winning Games Industry Consultant • BAFTA Member • Disabled, Autistic
tarjaporkkakontturi[at]gmail.com
linktr.ee/tarja_pk
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Eevi Korhonen @silliet.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer @Housemarque. CONTROL, Returnal, SAROS.
I like weird things. Bigots need not follow.
She/her
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Gregory Pellechi @onegamedad.bsky.social TBD
Vasia Tolou @vasiat.bsky.social 39 | She/her | A 🇬🇷 in 🇫🇮 | Video Games, Kdrama | LFW Community & Social Media Manager | Views strictly mine
📍 Tampere, Finland
📎 https://linktr.ee/vasiatolou
Petri Järvilehto @pjarvilehto.bsky.social Likes making games.
Led, directed and created variety of acclaimed and best selling hit titles and IP such as Max Payne, variety of Angry Birds titles and Best Fiends. Board member @ Sustainable Games Alliance.
Janos Honkonen @vornaskotti.bsky.social Writer, Narrative Designer. Wrote a novel, some games, award-winning short stories, comics, etc. Nazi punks fuck off. They/them🏳️🌈♿
Riikka Aurava @riikkaaurava.bsky.social Game culture researcher, teacher, mother, neurodivergent, she/her. Academic interests: game jams, learning and games, co-creativity, ttrpgs, actual play, streaming, game communities, board game design. Other: coffee, chocolate, fantasy, silence, politics.
Emmy @emm1h.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/00Emmy_ | She/Her | Community Manager | Streamer
Annakaisa Kultima @aakoo.bsky.social Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
taina myöhänen @tainam.bsky.social Researching diversity in the game industry for work and learning traditional renovation techniques for fun. Chopping wood when thinking is too much.
Work:
https://projects.tuni.fi/pegasus-fi/
https://coe-gamecult.org/
Samuel @sapazu.itch.io 🕹️🎮🖥️🖱️🪄♠️♥️♣️♦️🧙♂️
Art, magic & game design
He/Him 🇫🇮 Fin/Eng
Sekaani joka kokkaa vegaania #vegaanitaivas
#sapazunsutasut
#gamedev
https://sapazu.itch.io/
No AI/NFT
🕹️🎮🖥️🖱️🪄♠️♥️♣️♦️🧙♂️
David Branco @davidbranco.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇫🇮
Fingersoft Community Manager for Hill Climb Racing 🚗
Championing Indie Games All Day 🎮
Poutine Fiend 🥔
Indie Dev 👨💻
Antti Tiihonen @anttitiihonen.bsky.social Wishlist or playtest Reconfigure: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/Reconfigure/
Co-founder Almost Human (Legend of Grimrock) & I run Hapatus Ltd for my own games + freelancing (Noita, Control, Druidstone). Game design, gfx, synths
Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
Ville Kankainen @vkankainen.bsky.social PhD. Game scholar and designer out for new opportunities.
Game studies, game design, games and learning, board games, TTG, 4x, pc, ps4, crpg, ttrpg, history, politics, geeking, music, djing, goth, post-punk
Rachel Perkins @jadenrachel.bsky.social Portable cat warmer. Somehow working in games. I also run The Sudden Stop (www.alanwake.info). Will ramble about Nancy Drew and Star Trek at length. (She/Her) Avatar: aleoow
Suvi Kiviniemi @controlledstumble.bsky.social they/them
pondering about game industry stuff and life.
human, and doing my best to be a good one.
Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer. Solo-developing a card-based RPG-lite inspired by Finnish mythology. Previously The Tribe Must Survive, Surviving the Aftermath, etc.
www.nikonikkilanarratives.weebly.com
Sami Marsch @samimarsu.bsky.social Finnish game art director, otaku, lover of big robots and a D&D addict.
tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social all things art games
@partofnoise.bsky.social
tatsoni.itch.io/
tatuheinamaki.com
𖡡 hämeenlinna
Andreas J. @anduh.bsky.social #vr #xr, #ttrpg #dnd #roll20 enthusiast.
🇬🇧 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 he/him
iva @ivdza.bsky.social games, game art, climbing and plants 🌱
https://iva-art.artstation.com/albums/10253668
Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social Games: https://www.hempuli.com
he/him
borb 🐌 play EMUUROM already @borbware.itch.io made EMUUROM, a cryptic exploration metroidbrainia with TIC-80, a fantasy console best suited for far smaller games than this.
🦋 wishlist https://www.emuurom.com/steam
🐸 join disborb https://www.emuurom.com/discord
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Juhana Myllys @juhanamyllys.bsky.social Creating games 🖖 Art/Design for Sci-Fi Adventure BIONIC BAY ➡️ Steam & PS5 🎮
Steam: http://bit.ly/3MiFAxh 📡
Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com Designer and developer from Finland. Made websites for 20 years, now making video games. Posting about every part of gamedev.
Working on a tactics RPG. Not using AI.
Site: https://jonikorpi.com
Mastodon: https://jonikorpi.com/@jonikorpi
josianne @josianne.bsky.social Head of @studiograil.com | Developing a psychological horror & mystery visual novel | Currently chasing my childhood dream | 🇫🇮 🇨🇦
Studio Grail × Grave Regrets @studiograil.com Dark atmospheric games fueled by a passion for storytelling. Currently developing a psychological horror & detective mystery visual novel. Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3161540/
Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com Creating extraordinary worlds and inviting you down the rabbit hole. Making games since 1995. #CONTROLResonant coming September 24th 2026. Pre-order now! Header by @valentinapaz.com
Now working on Control RESONANT and Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake.
Nitro Games @nitrogames.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of game studio Nitro Games. Known for such games as Autogun Heroes, NERF: Superblast, Heroes of Warland, Medals of War & Raids of Glory!
Website: https://www.nitrogames.com/
Joni Lappalainen @jonidlg.bsky.social CEO at Dreamloop Games, Chairperson of Finnish #gamedev association, Biz mentor and 🏇 streamer. 📧 joni@dreamloop.net- K Kimmo Keskinen @kimmoke.bsky.social I play and make video games and try to figure out work-life balance. Currently working at Red Stage Entertainment, but this account is purely personal and in no way representative of the company.
Joonatan Itkonen ➡️ TIFF @regionfree.net 🆔 AuDHD | Queer | He/him
📋 Available for work writing film, comics, & games
✍️ regionfree.net
🎞️ Editor: Region Free | KonsoliFIN
Member: Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, FIPRESCI, GALECA, EFA, OFTA, IFSC
📩 joonatan@regionfree.net
Rem // Kowloon's Curse @kowloonscurse.bsky.social Developer of next-generation interactive entertainment experiences.
Currently working on Kowloon's Curse.
Kalle Kaivola @kallekaivola.bsky.social Games person. CEO at Lightheart Entertainment.
Emil Laine @flogram.bsky.social Solo game developer & music producer.
Also on twitter.com/flogram_dev
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi The Finnish society for game research. Posts FIN/ENG.
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura on monitieteinen pelitutkimusta edistävä yhdistys. Tältä tililtä jaamme ajankohtaista tietoa pelitutkimukseen ja pelikulttuureihin liittyen.
www.pelitutkimus.fi
Iiro Peltonen @iiropeltonen.bsky.social #GameDev Masters Student | Film & Video Professional | Angry Left-Wing liberal | Beer enthusiast.
Game Developer with a over decade of film & television work-experience. Open to collab & freelance!
Matti Välimäki in Space @mlkshae.bsky.social Game Developer @ Kuuasema
Aspiring TTRPG Designer
Interests include video games, mobile games, TTRPGs, board games, systems, worlds and more
[FIN/ENG]
Niklas Wahrman @nixarn.bsky.social Consciousness, dad, entrepreneur, game developer.
All posts are my own. None are written by AI.
Kai Forsman @jarseal.bsky.social Basketball, politics, UX, UI, nerdy things, JavaScript, game design, human rights, and from Finland. Still learning. #webdev #gamedev #indiedev
🌈🏳️🌈🇫🇮🇪🇺🏀🐾💻⌨️🎮🔥
Antti Rönkkä / KAUNA PC GAME @anttironkka.bsky.social Engineer and self-taught solo-gamedev. Currently making PC game called KAUNA.
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3582660/KAUNA/
Itch: https://anttironkkagames.itch.io/kauna
Home Page: https://kaunagame.com
Tony Kihlberg @tonzuko.bsky.social Creator of @longtailgame.bsky.social
Captain of the ship @HologramMonster.bsky.social
I enjoy:
Cute character design - 3D platformers - JRPGs - B-movies - Film Noir
Licia @liciap.bsky.social 🇫🇮🇪🇪🏳️🌈
Game industry person, radio host, eurodance artist, middle-aged & full of rage
Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com Indie games since 2014 (Sektori / Day Repeat Day / Barbearian / Drift'n'Drive / etc.), and 13 years at Housemarque before that (Resogun / Outland / Dead Nation / etc.)
https://www.gimblll.com/
Tania Shamova @taniasham.bsky.social 2D Game Artist | 29 | Helsinki | ex IDEA student
💫 Co-founder @housefolk.games
🩵 Books, nature and travelling
Housefolk | Making 🐾MonsterCare💖 @housefolk.games ✨ Tiny family-run game studio, making cozy games
👀 Wishlist our first game MonsterCare! http://bit.ly/WishlistMonsterCare
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Run by @mediochrea.bsky.social and @taniasham.bsky.social
Jooseppi @josephknowles.bsky.social
Mikael Kasurinen @mikaelkasurinen.bsky.social Creative Director @ Remedy Entertainment - CONTROL 1 & 2, Quantum Break, Alan Wake- T Taisto S @tsarom.bsky.social 🇫🇮 Finland based 3D environment & level artist.
I enjoy nature, photography, games and of course all things game dev!
https://www.artstation.com/tsarom
https://tsarom.itch.io
Kristian Kivijärvi @routasoft.bsky.social Game lover & dev student in Karelia University of Applied Sciences.
- I've dreamed of making games for 29 years since I got an SNES as a 5-years-old
🔥 My game; The Void: https://steampowered.com/app/3368200/
My photography acc: @routainen.bsky.social
Bounty Trail is OUT NOW! @henrikhermans.bsky.social Gamedev. Made Stilt Fella. Independent as a hog on ice.
Bounty Trail: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4126530/Bounty_Trail/
Website: www.septembergames.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@henke
Em @eastlin.bsky.social Swedish guy in Berlin.
Into #entrepreneurship & #gamedev
ex sandbox interactive / albion online dev
https://emil.ostlin.dev/
Solip Park @solippark.bsky.social Game researcher (Doctor of Arts) at Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä. Researching migrants in the game industry and gamer & game dev culture in Korea and Finland :)
LGIN (Living Game Intelligence Network) @lgin.bsky.social A community of game studios and industry mentors in Finland.
🔗 https://www.lgin.fi/
The human behind the account is @controlledstumble.bsky.social.
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Nixxes Software @nixxessoftware.bsky.social Previously TT Games and WeirdBeard Games. A member of Port Jackson Greens and the Sustainable Transport branch of Climate Change Balmain/Rozelle.
Giuseppe Navarria @techdesign.rocks Tired of the AAA industry. Started a new london-based indie studio @weareunderdog.bsky.social
| prev. Splash Damage / Gears Tactics, Gears of War franchise. Passionate retrogamer. He\Him.
Dan Reynolds @dannthr.bsky.social Tech Composer/Sound Designer/Programmer. Hobbyist Animator, Painter, Writer, Game Developer.
(He/Him)
Secretary for @gameaudiodiversity.bsky.social
Jan Kaluza @jankaluza.bsky.social Lead Technical Artist @ Epic Games.
Formerly @ Yager & Fishlabs.
Modular Synthesizer guy.
Making music as “Janky Jams” - https://jankyjams.com
Wearer of many hats. Metaphorical ones only, I unfortunately don't have a hat face.
Based in Berlin.
Hristo Enchev @mrtapa.bsky.social Tech Designer @splashdamage
Working on Project Astrid
Does #UE5 magic
he/him
Portfolio: http://bit.ly/2VABXww LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2GShz0l
Dylan Browne @dylanbrowne.bsky.social Lead Artist Special Projects at Wētā FX, Ex #VFX at Modelfarm, RSP, Mr.X & Mill Film. Melting GPUs is my passion
http://imdb.com/name/nm2278940/ He / Him
linktr.ee/dylanbrowne
#NoAI #PhysicalMedia
Opinions are soley my own and do not represent my employer
Ghislain Girardot @ghislaingir.bsky.social UE content creator, specialized in tech art. I don't share my opinion much.
Matt Stafford @wraiyth.bsky.social Head of Engineering at mod.io, helping developers implement UGC support and distribution in their games.
Technical Director at Pub Games, maintaining Primal Carnage: Extinction.
Primarily working in C++, #UnrealEngine, #dotnet, #csharp
Cody Albert @codyjero.me Support main, tank offspec IRL. Senior DevRel Engineer at Epic Games. Opinions are my own.
Dustin DeVoe @ddevoe.bsky.social Technical Animator @EpicGames. Previously Product and Tech Art Director @PhoenixLabs. Dad, All Around Game Developer, Always Learning. Go Seattle Sounders!- C Camille @camillek.bsky.social
Jean-Sebastien Guay @slinkyinvasion.bsky.social Technical Art Director at Epic Games. Worked on Fortnite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Origins, Unity, AC3, Splinter Cell Conviction, Double Agent & Chaos Theory.
Abey Miranda @abeysaurus.bsky.social Art Director and Co-Founder Zapper Games
Former Technical Artist & Animator on Tchia at Awaceb
Bass doodlelooper
Elhoussine Mehnik @houssinemehnik.bsky.social Sr. Game Engineer @Netflix | Prev. Gameplay Programmer @Tencent @Ubisoft | Worked on #Stray #GhostRecon #BGE2 | #UnrealEngine OS/Edu Content Maker | 🇲🇦
📍 Montreal 🇨🇦
🌐 UnrealEngineResources.com 🪁
Tim Hobson @timhobson.bsky.social Senior Tech Writer @EpicGames working on @UnrealEngine Documentation. Also, a Die-hard Trekkie with some appreciation for the other 'Star' franchises.
I mainly post about Trek, tv/film props, and my hobby making replicas of various props.
Alex Coulombe @ibrews.bsky.social architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool
Dan Elliott @danielelliott3d.bsky.social Senior Technical Artists, Epic Games
Unreal Camille @shedoesartstuff.bsky.social Technical Artist on the Developer Relations team for Unreal Engine at Epic Games. She/Her. Previously: little dev studio cofounder, theatre tech. Opinions are my own. Linktree for resources collated by topic: https://linktr.ee/SheDoesArtStuff
Adrien @amathlog.bsky.social Senior Tools programmer on the PCG plugin at Epic Games.
PCG tutorials: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa5CA4dwjxucvoAmS7FO8hvUrSL21a-5G&si=H_oQKno7NMJ5s8uv
My GitHub: https://github.com/amathlog
Oskar Świerad @techartaid.com Tutorials, articles, UE5 ➡️ http://techartaid.com
Aki Raula @marvelli.bsky.social A game developer who is into graphic design, UI/UX, and photography. Football referee, coach and board member. Sci-fi and pixel art lover. 19th & 20th century classical music.
Sam Lake @samlakewrites.bsky.social Writer. Director. BAFTA nominated actor.
Max Payne. Alan Wake. Quantum Break. Control.
Juha Vainio @yuuhaw.bsky.social Executive Producer of CONTROL Resonant, Head of the CONTROL Franchise at Remedy Entertainment
BAFTA member
Games, Taekwon-Do, Bass, Movies, TV, Music
www.yuuhaw.com
Toikka @tomitoikka.com Running @catland.games. Former CEO, Founder & Creative Director @ Makea Games - developer of Supermoves https://s.team/a/1959580/.
Now cooking the next big thing - don't worry about it.
Vesa Raudasoja @vemara.bsky.social