Mike O'Connor @proguerammer.bsky.social Head of Engineering at Iron Galaxy Studios. Obliterator of Perforce depots, and scourge of IT departments everywhere. Resident suburban dad.
Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social Gamedev Priestess. Making stuff at Neon Giant. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
@amayastrife.bsky.social @amayastrife.bsky.social
KarrahE @karrahe.bsky.social 🔸 Freelance nerdy Irish artist
🔸 she/her
🔸 commissions: http://karrahe.carrd.co
🔸 business enquiries: artbronagh@gmail.com
🔸 https://linktr.ee/karrahe [No AI/NFT]
Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social Currently: CCO Yellow Brick Games, working on Eternal Strands (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/Eternal_Strands/ ). Formerly: Lead Writer for Jade Empire; Creative Director for Dragon Age. Always: dog lover.
Anna Funk @annafunk.bsky.social Sr. UX Designer @Playstation, Photographer, and Dance Game enjoyer. Loves space, both outer and personal. She/Her 🩷💜💙. Posts are all my own.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/annafunkdesign/
Tycho (or Omin, or Jamison, or Stavrenn, or...) @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com My friends and I came up with Penny Arcade, Child's Play, and PAX.
🩷💜💙Marie-Michelle Pepin🩷💜💙 @mariempepin.bsky.social Senior 3d Character artist in the game industry,
Gouache painting enthusiast
Currently working on Blackfrost: The Long Dark II
Lauryn Ash @espressocat.bsky.social Writing, Systems, & All Things Narrative • Currently rebranding and playing with my cats Mugicha and Kupoccino ☕️ ✍🏼• Formerly State of Decay, Marvel’s Avengers, and NDAAAAs • ✨ • 🎙️ 1/2 of Furidashi Podcast • she/her
Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social Artist of color, light, & atmosphere /🇹🇼 🇺🇸/ Visdev on Spiderman: Beyond the Spiderverse 🕷 / bio.site/kat.tsai
Babs Tarr @babsdraws.bsky.social LA based, Eisner nominated, and NY Times best selling comic artist + illustrator 🗨️
>>>> linktr.ee/babsdraws
Chris @xopherjohnson.bsky.social Fiddy-two. Queer-ish at the very least, despite my upbringing's best efforts, apparently
Animator monkey in a dying industry
ND/AuDHD. PPD/EA/DA. SW+. LBGTQ-friendly. He/They
Kindness > niceness (and some people deserve neither)
CHI. Formerly ATX, SEA
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com Tech, cats, cat-tech & being catty about tech. Basically I'm a tech writer who also runs a cat rescue. Well, I do have a lot of mice.
Darya @daryam.com I make videogames and talk about them. Currently with Epic Games. Giant Elder Scrolls nerd. Opinions don't represent employers.
Kim Hu @kim-hu.com Freelance Concept Artist & Illustrator || Once in games, now everywhere ||🥤💀
portfolio: https://kim-hu.com
📩 hello@kim-hu.com
patreon blog: https://patreon.com/kimhu
art/work-only account: @elbowrocket.bsky.social
Louise Simonsen @louistonehill.bsky.social Freelance visual development artist
💜🤍🖤
She/her/(they/them)
Contact: louisestonehill@proton.me
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/louise-simonsen
Looking for work
Natalie @nataliethenerd.com Self taught maker just trying to make and learn more.
LEDs and Game Boys.
and a bit of gaming ofc
she/her
https://links.nataliethenerd.com/
Norm @nchan.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
Shen Ye @shen.ye Global Head of Product @ HTC
Basically spending my day annoying our designers and engineers.
Links shen.best
せきはん @sekihang.bsky.social やあ!絵を描く僕で〜す!
ちいさいクルマ・ちいさいバイク・自転車が好き
Skeb (Commission open)→ https://skeb.jp/@sekihang_MYBK
X→ https://x.com/sekihang_MYBK
pixiv→ https://www.pixiv.net/users/28080
FANBOX→ https://sekihang.fanbox.cc/
Ryan Da Fun @animationmerc.bsky.social 25 years of GameDev and Animation.
Station Wagon influencer on walkabout.
Former Anim Director on SoD 3 and Perfect Dark. Animated on Battlefield 3/4/1/V, Alan Wake, Killzone 2, Treyarch's Spider-Man games and more.
Lis @thewritegame.bsky.social Creative Lead: Disney, 20th Century Games.
Working on cool stuff like Alien, Predator, Simpsons, etc. Fmr Senior Game Writer, Narrative Designer
Opinions are mine. she/her
https://www.thewritegame.com
Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com Illustrator, character designer, concept artist, draws a lot of ladies and monsters. Won a Hugo.
Netflix, WB, Disney Books, WotC, Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette
Torino 🇮🇹
Rep: Alison Mann
⟣ She/Her ⟢
⟣ Prints, patreon, merch: abigaillarson.com ⟢
⟣ No GenAI ⟢
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
Tholia @tholiabentz.bsky.social Illustrator & Cover artist ✦ Upper Deck/CD Projekt Red • 🥖🌙💛🌈🕹️🎮 • Check my website for Business inquiries, Shop & Original Art Auctions: tholiabentz.com
theKiko @thekiko.bsky.social Creative Director at Penny Arcade, Inc. Vizelle’s husband. Father to three cats. Lover of all things Super Dimension Fortress. @thekiko.bsky.social
Mirri @himirri.bsky.social A shy and frightened angel of a cat learning to trust again. She lives in Massachusetts with her Food Lady, who posts about Mirri's journey
Hey It’s Alan @heylookitsalan.bsky.social 3rd Party Content Producer at Oculus Publishing. Chaotic Good. Dumb Eagles Fan, Iron Chef Beef. He/Him. Prev: funktroniclabs/KillerQueenGame/amplify/ibm
Jim Rowden @jimrow.bsky.social Artist lurking in the PNW. Secret lair may or may not be in… (checks notes) a shark infested volcano.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Jo Lammert @jolammert.com Howdy! Production Director @ Blumhouse Games | Formerly @ Private Division | bagel baking friend | one day I’ll be an old desert witch | she/her
@anandduncan.bsky.social @anandduncan.bsky.social Animation Artist, Designer on Teen Titans Go, VR fashion, Dress up games
Michael Firman @michaelfirman.bsky.social I make pictures. Eventually one of them might be good.
michaelfirman.com 🇨🇦
Jennifer Mills 🎨🎮 @jenmillsart.bsky.social Artist + Art Director in the games industry. Sometimes does photography. Previously Art Director @ ArenaNet / Wizards of the Coast, etc. // Personal account, views are my own.
Gen 🍉 @bl00dberri.bsky.social art director in video games • drawing is my hobby, not my job
✏️ a simple sketchbook
🤌 committed to drawing unserious stuff
For words check out
@genrouthier.bsky.social
Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social Canadian indie VR dev / founder @cozycubegames.bsky.social.
Wishlist 🐧Penguin Festival🐧: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552090/Penguin_Festival/
Past: Owlchemy Labs. Proud husband and shiba dad.
- 🚫 gen AI
- 🚫 genocide
- ✊ trans rights
@katiecoop.bsky.social @katiecoop.bsky.social
BryanChrisBrown @bryanchrisbrown.bsky.social Developer Ecosystem Lead at https://look.glass 🔮
Architecture Grad from Morgan state University 🐻
Open source AR headsets with Project Northstar 🌟
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
@paulchadeisson.bsky.social @paulchadeisson.bsky.social New episode Solstice - 5: Forgotten Archives is now available on youtube!!
https://youtu.be/Gl2hTmgG18k
Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social Writer of video games, books, short stories etc.
A SPELL FOR MIDWINTER'S HEART out now
Rep: Aurora Fernandez @ Trident Media
Games: GW2, Tell Me Why, Halo, Rift, and more
http://www.lockhartwrites.com
Dario Laverde @virtualdario.bsky.social Sr Creative Technologist, stay warm studio
(former Dir of Developer Relations / Vive Studios, HTC)
linkedin: dariony, formerly @virtual_dario on Twitter
Jane @miyukijane.bsky.social dog pics and opinions. trivial facts.
Melissa (Memo) Moorehead @n7memo.bsky.social Quality Technical Program Manager at Mojang Studios • BAFTA Connect • TGA Future Class • #SpaceGirls art by @maxbeech.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/n7memo
valentine @valentinemsmith.bsky.social she/they.
writer, artist.
email: vms@valentinemsmith.com
website: valentinemsmith.com
co-writer / artist: BLADE MAIDENS @ blademaidens.com
SHOP : valentinemsmith.com/store
Katie Better @somethingbetter.bsky.social Here we go again...
www.katiebetter.com
Liv E. @misslivirose.bsky.social Creative technologist, computer scientist, tech policy advocate. Mozilla Innovation's Ecosystem Development Lead. I used to focus on XR and now it's just all computing.
Weirder over on Mastodon: @liv@ori.social
Chr0b @chr0b.bsky.social Sound Designer @ People Can Fly, Bassist, Sometimes Magic the Gathering. Chicago.
Opinions my own or stolen from more intelligent people.
Pascal blanché @pascalblanche.bsky.social Digital Artist since 1993.
Freelancer, world builder, scifi/fantasy lover.
Studio Art Director at Arcanaut Studios.
Posting mostly about #art #scifi #fantasyart and stuff.
posters: https://www.artstation.com/pascalblanche/prints?print_type=art_poster
Listifications @listifications.app Follow me to receive notifications via DM whenever you're added to a starter pack, block list, feed or when someone blocks your account.
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✨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
Bryn Summers @brynalin.bsky.social Women in Games Discord Admin
3D Artist | Women in Games Ambassador |CSM
Minta-Maria @minta-maria.bsky.social 25 years of mobile art, UI and UX • Studio lead of all things art & experience design for F2P mobile • Game Business MBA student • Views are my own 🇫🇮
technouveau @technouveau.bsky.social Design the future!: technouveau.net
Whitaker Trebella @whitakr.com 🎲 Indie gamedev: Piloteer, Pivvot, Polymer & Remedy Rush
🩻 Making medical games & tools: snke.com
🎹 Musician: wtrebella.bandcamp.com
🌆 LA. Formerly Chicago.
😷 Covid aware
🧍He/Him
sparth @sparth.bsky.social @Meta. Formerly: Tencent, Microsoft, IDSoftware, Ubisoft, Halo Infinite Art Director, Halo 5, Halo 4, Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed, RAGE, Author of the STRUCTURA Art Books.
Phil Noto @philnoto.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Illustrator, Comic Book Artist, Painter, and Destroyer of Worlds
Kayla @kaylasara.bsky.social Head of Creator - Minecraft
minecraft.net/creator
Lee Perry @mistalee.bsky.social Design Fellow at Epic games (UT2k3/4, Gears 1-3, Fortnite, & more), long time indie and VR game dev, board game nut, mini modder and painter, huge fan of casual multiplayer games (the dumber the better!)
Oh, and huge fan of a good Pina Colada, obviously!
elicia @elicia.bsky.social coookieeeeeeeesss
autistic artist 🌙 they/she
no AI
Bill Krause @admiralbuck.bsky.social Starship artist/designer: Star Trek Picard. Custom miniatures for Film, TV and commission projects. Chief Test Pilot - Tycho Starship Yards.
Currently closed for commissions.
instagram.com/admiralbuck
https://www.youtube.com/@TychoYard
izzy kestrel @iznaut.com 🎮 Tech Designer on @blanksword.bsky.social (prev Astra Logical, No Goblin, Funomena)
🏳️⚧️ trans poly bisexual she/her
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC
🦎 Gex’s #1 fan
iznaut.com
Ryan Steiner @resteiner.com Founder and CEO of Prime8 Entertainment. Currently working on Ghost Hunter Simulator
https://linktr.ee/ryansteiner
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
@sticklez.bsky.social @sticklez.bsky.social game dev , VR, AR
I’m just lurking atm
Steven Blomkamp @sblomkamp.bsky.social 3D Artist/Animator and now Very Clueless Studio Founder/Art Director somehow. Some Lego games, indie horror, VR. Extremely anti-AI. Obsessive cat dad. Proud "Golden Retriever BF" 🏳️🌈 He/Him
Emerson Tung @emersontung.bsky.social Art Director at id Software | DOOM The Dark Ages
Creator of @tankhead-mecha.bsky.social
Artbook available now!
https://tinyurl.com/yc55ws34
Prev: DOOM: The Dark Ages, DOOM Eternal, DOOM (2016), Transformers, WH40K
Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social Sr Program Manager | Ex- Epic, Bungie, Wizards of the Coast, Microsoft, Blizzard | Women in Games ambassador | Aut viam inveniam aut faciam | All my opinions are belong to me | She/her
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com drones, photogrammetry, stereography, 3DGS, AR/VR nerd
azadux.com
Shaun Mooney @mooneysart.bsky.social Concept guy, co founder of machinefun games - @machinefun.bsky.social
https://cara.app/mooney
Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social 3D Artist @ Sunset Visitor
Previously 3D Environment Artist @: Giant Squid (Sword of the Sea) & Iridium Studios (People of Note)
Indie Game dev 🎮 | hEDS 🦓| Farming sim enjoyer 👩🌾🐮
Portfolio: https://nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com/
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Bex @bexsaltsman.bsky.social CEO + co-founder of FinjiCo.
@clicknothing.bsky.social @clicknothing.bsky.social Creator, designer, writer of some videogames you may have played. I (still) (occasionally) blog at www.clicknothing.com. I am also the creator of Mythmaster RPG - available now at www.mythmasterRPG.com Follow @mythmasterRPG.bsky.social, or come and play!
Prime8 @prime8.games Prime8 Entertainment is a small indie game company with big plans.
Our first game, Ghost Hunter Simulator, is currently in development!
https://ghosthuntersimulatorgame.com/
Support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/Prime8Entertainment/home
by @emberdione
Julie Heyde @julieheyde.bsky.social Ponies & Video Games (@flatponies.bsky.social).
Working on https://store.steampowered.com/app/858200/Scratch_The_Cat/
vic 💖 @meowtapes.bsky.social 🌈they/she ⟡ nb lesbian ⟡ senior game designer at that’s no moon ⟡ prev. bioware, bethesda ⟡ holder of infinite interests, lover of all animals, collector of many hobbies ⋆。⊹°☆
Michael Kamper @michaelkamper.bsky.social father & husband, film geek, nerd
audio @ Epic Games, he/him
Northern California Chicagoan
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Jack Scheer @jackscheer.com Storyteller. But really, aren't we all?
Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social Principal Economy Designer @ Redux Games formerly Echtra, Bioware, Zenimax, Obsidian, and more. Chicago Native, Sam Haight's Bastard, End Boss of the Internet, PADI certified Mermaid, Hater of Digital Seagulls VAMO
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
Anna Megill @annamegill.com Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
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.
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
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Elio @eliopictures.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. 📚 Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams. 🍏 Associate Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago. 🏡👧 Dad. 💼 www.eliopictures.com
Hestiah @hestiah.wtf She/They. Animal parent. Social worker who doesn't wanna. Craft supply hoarder. So mfing ADHD. Fountain pen & ink dragon. Collector of shiny things.
Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social Bayou Billy fan account.
Runs @instructionderby.bsky.social
Instruction Derby: A video game manual stream!
Wednesdays at noon Pacific
twitch.tv/nicmcconnell
He/him
Works in games doing Age Ratings
The posts? The opinions? My own
Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social Schipperke owner @PNW
Game Systems Designer, one half of Secret Dinosaur and also the other half (previously Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc)
Hire me! https://linktr.ee/djdesign.dev
#GameDev
he/him
basbleu(té) @basbleu.bsky.social French/Lebanese enthusiast of women's art/music/film/writing/history/sport/comedy and old-fashioned 1800s values like feminism, socialism, and veganism. #BuyFromEU
Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social Senior Character Artist ✨
Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social games journalist only by the most technical of definitions of both those words.
Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ SleepyTime Holiday @angeloslh.bsky.social Freelance Concept/2D/UI artist & UI Designer - Total War Battles:Shogun/The Bradwell Conspiracy/Voodoo Detective/Onlycans:Thirst Date/Pacific Drive/Date Everything!/ Nightmare Operator
Enquiries: saford@outlook.com
She/Her
www.saford.art
#Art
Megan Carnes @magmacranes.bsky.social Composer for 🎬 & 🎮 & more: Shouting Down Midnight, This Is Desmondo Ray!, Noclip, _starweaver_, and a lot more
Music Implementer: The Lamplighters League
🎶 game dev making Divinuet
Chicagoan, she/her
megancarnesmusic.com
taplink.cc/freshfromthecoven
Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com Illustration, RT 3D, designer and game developer.
Ancient History, Sci-Fi and Kubrick's 2001.
I have a yellow mechanical pencil.
All rights reserved.
🔻Spain
https://linktr.ee/Ailantd
Mike Mika @mikejmika.bsky.social Game, TV & Film dev. Studio Head (Digital Eclipse/Atari), Ex-Journalist(NextGen), Hacker(DK Pauline), Atari:GameOver, Creator(#IDARB): Man(child)-of-Action.
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social Writer, editor, and journalist.
https://charliehallwriter.com/