@lufepollyx7.bsky.social @lufepollyx7.bsky.social 
Kate M. @kmacmul.bsky.social ✨Narrative Director at Yellow Brick Games✨Previous work includes Eternal Strands, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Immortals Fenyx Rising✨she/her✨Opinions are often feverish and always mine✨
Michael Trommer @michaeltrommer.bsky.social Michael Trommer is a Toronto-based sound and video artist.
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
hanine @fishinggames.bsky.social here we go again!
anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł
communication PhD student at Concordia
game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social
arabic localisation at WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
buttonmasherco.bsky.social @buttonmasherco.bsky.social 🎮 Button Masher Co. | Gaming Designs & Gifts
Funny gamer shirts, gaming-inspired apparel, mugs, posters & gifts for video game lovers. Discover unique designs made for gamers, casual players, and gaming fans. 🕹️
Marie Šilhová @marie-22.bsky.social Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
Johnnybewitu @johnnybewitu.bsky.social A Democrat who want’s everyone to get a chance in life.
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
🦉naked alien🪐 @pinealgasm.bsky.social #feral #jaded #cynical #nonconformist #imaginalcell #stardust #artist. professional #spamscamscum #bully annihilator. #outgrowcapitalism.
https://undetectablelight.substack.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/theozzcause
Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social if D&D has no haters then i'm 💀 • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Comms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Andrew Bailey @andrewrbailey.bsky.social SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him.
📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
Jade @sharkish-fish.bsky.social 24 | She/They | Trans | Game Designer | Shark Girl
Profile picture by @captyns.bsky.social
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
litotic (elise) @litotic.bsky.social She/They. Vietnamese descent. Game dev, lecturer, narrative designer & writer (Ubisoft, ZA/UM) etc.
Humanities PhD, games research-creation
I ❤️ intersectionality, crafting things humanely (no GenAI)
pic/banner done by me
litotic.com
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Game Studies. Director, GAME Program. Brock University, Department of Digital Humanities.
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
melian dialogue tree @vogontheater.bsky.social Wordsman, gameswright. || Narrative Designer [Intern] @ Behaviour || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || stephenfriedrich.com || He/er/il || Views are yours
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net Humanités numériques, game studies, études japonaises | Professeur @Université de l'Ontario français | Co-editor (English) @Journal of Replaying Japan | 日本語でOK!
Dr Kyle McPhail @drkylemcphail.bsky.social they/them
Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University
Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art
I'm bad at social media
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
@nandi05.bsky.social @nandi05.bsky.social 
Grant Goodman 🏳️⚧️ @kingofspill.dev She/They - 29 - Senior Programmer @ Behaviour on Exterminauts (Opinions are my own) -
My Games: http://kingofspill.itch.io
Emily Kolm 📽️🎮 @em-k-ultra.bsky.social AAA Trailer artist turned Indie trailer specialist and educator.
🚫Absolutely none of my work is AI generated
St Francis Xavier University '30
Anthropology, Art History
Nova Scotia, Canada
Emilykolmcreative.com
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
Marie Jasmin @mariejasmin.bsky.social Lead UI-UX Designer at Bethesda in Montréal. Gamedev since Assassin's Creed 2, the one with the fun UI. Bisexual with ADHD and a love of ceramics and bird photography. Thoughts my own. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🌱
charlie volchok 🌸 @morrch.bsky.social 🌸 drawing manga and being silly
🌈 he/they ⭐️ 31 lvl
🌱 toronto based
linktr.ee/morrch
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Jules Glegg 🏳️⚧️ @julesfern.gay She/Her. Tech director / lead programmer type person @softrains.bsky.social - Helped make VALORANT and League. Cofounder of Trans Game Dev. AMBROSIA SKY available on Steam and EGS now!
RealAmanda 🍁 @realamandalive.com (she/her)
Professional Voice Actor 🎙️🎮
Marketing, Fundraising, Engagement🕊️
Hobbit Vibes 🌻
Cat Soda Studios @catsodastudios.bsky.social Women & queer owned indie team making sweet games 🐈🥤
Dirty Rectangles @dirty-rectangles.com Hosting monthly game dev meetups in Ottawa, Toronto, and Kitchener/Waterloo.
Streaming games on twitch.tv/dirtyrectangles
VODs on youtube.com/@dirtyrectangles
https://dirty-rectangles.com/
https://dirty-rectangles.com/discord
A small group of nobodies.
Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social Indie Game Design, News, Nature, Fantasy, Horror, scientific/artistic obscurities curiosities inspirations.
Writer/Game Designer. mostly
Science Events @scievents.bsky.social Science Events helps you organise a scientific conference or workshop. Use our platform to organise your next event! Visit our platform at https://www.sci.events
Land of Manifestations🎮 Wishlist on Steam! @silencesquare.bsky.social A fantasy RPG blending romance, roguelite shooting, and city building. Please consider wishlisting our game on Steam if you’re interested! ❤️
Wishlist ➡️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4038290/Land_of_Manifestations_Sanctuary/
Henry Smith @hengineer.bsky.social Creator of Spaceteam and soon Blabyrinth! Game Programmer/Designer. Worked at Epic Games, BioWare, Irrational Games. Puzzled Pint GC. New-ish dad. He/him.
Patreon: http://spaceteamadmiralsclub.com
Mastodon: @hengineer@mastodon.social
KingOTheCask 👑🍺 @kingothecask.bsky.social Husbando to candyxbomb. Editor & Contributing Writer for Gamer Social Club. Twitch Affiliate. Bloomix Studio member. Cat enthusiast. Well of esoteric knowledge.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social Nonprofit empowering more women & other underrepresented genders in game development. Volunteer-run and based out of Montréal (Canada), we organize free career development opportunities — in-person and online.
ℹ️ http://pixelles.ca
✉️ info@pixelles.ca
Interactive Arts Alberta @iaalberta.bsky.social Interactive Arts Alberta is a non-profit dedicated to supporting game development and games culture in Alberta. Join us at the Game Discovery Exhibition Conference in October of 2026!
Get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/iaalberta
Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social Indigenous and queer led independent video game studio working on our first game, Kitch Witch!
🖤 anti-capitalist and co-operative
❤️ #landback
💛 treaty 6 territory / homeland of the Métis
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/Kitch_Witch/
gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com gamedevmap is the world's first living map and catalog of game development organizations. We are a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
https://www.gamedevmap.com/donation_form.php
Miss Mystie | Daughters of Ruin @missmystie.bsky.social wlw ✂️ | Creator of witchy sapphic tactical RPG Daughters of Ruin
@daughtersofruin.bsky.social
Play the demo at: https://missmystie.itch.io/daughters-of-ruin
@evebm.bsky.social @evebm.bsky.social 
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
Banner by Lina Wu
Avi by realrollsweat
Eleanor ✨ @eleanrrr.rocks Writer of fiction, examiner of media, maven of marketing + PR princess, and shitposter extraordinare. Fighting and writing for a better games industry ❌
I'm in my 30s.
Buy: @reclaim-game.bsky.social
Read: www.eleanrrr.rocks
pfp @alzandah.bsky.social
jess @gaypunkposer.dev gamedev, she/her, meanace to creatures and electronics alike, desert rat living in the PNW
rachel @rachelwot.bsky.social any pronouns 💐
lover of games + film 🕊️
⋆⭒˚.⋆Elliot ⋆˚𖦹.✧ @elliotskiesstuff.bsky.social ★ They/He/She
★Queer interdisciplinary artist and thinker working in MTL/Tiohtià:ke
★Fucking Loser Nerd about everything I care for also
★braindumps and who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
zorkie studios @zorkie.itch.io queer two-person indie game studio 👻🎮✨
check out 🛠️ I'M MAKING A MONSTER 🥀
s.team/a/4047160
🐇 s.team/a/3164710
💌 zorkie.eo.page/join
Throwable Games | Indie Dev Duo @throwablegames.bsky.social Indie Game Dev family (and team) of 2,
namely: @postsmallone.bsky.social and @ezrart.bsky.social
based in Montreal, Canada
Kev makes games @kevthunderofthesky.bsky.social I'm a Montreal 🇨🇦 developer making Indie games.
https://linktr.ee/kevthunder
In my current project, history is flipped ! The Maya descendants will be the first to cross the Atlantic
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4520640/TechnoMayan
HUE Studio games @studiohuegames.bsky.social We make games to paint portraits. We play with fonts to write stories.
Alex J Walker @alexjwalker.bsky.social Solo Artist | Screen Composer | Average Producer • A Cacophony of Noise •
https://linktr.ee/alexjwalkermusic
Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social Apihtawikosisân (Fed: Métis Nation of Ontario), 2S indiginerd doing weird-ish things. Slowly healing from burnout/ME/CFS.
Lead Designer at Achimostawinan Games (go play "Hill Agency: PURITYdecay")
https://linktr.ee/meaganbyrne
Wolf Kaine @wolfkaine.bsky.social 
Kai McGilligan Oliver @kraydius.bsky.social Senior game designer, interactive theatre designer, making freelancer life work somehow! He/him and queer 🏳️🌈 !
Playing TTRPGs and banjo, and interested in triaxial weaving. Kraydius on the last platform too.
linktr.ee/kaioliverdesign
DraftingChristy @draftingchristy.bsky.social Writer, reader, barely an artist, getting into interactive fiction & game jams, loves human rights.
https://draftingchristy.com/
IGDA Foundation @igdafoundation.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Foundation is a global charitable organization serving underrepresented and marginalized developers, and individuals interested in a career within the gaming industry.
Helen @helln.bsky.social Easily excited reader, listener, gamer, rollerskater and overall consumer. Project Manager at Gamecity Hamburg.
She/Her 💜
Jay Sid @jaysidgamedev.neocities.org • They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
• Up North, England, UK
• Games QA, UX, Accessibility (CAPXP) 🛠️
• Artist @distortarte.bsky.social
• COVID-concious & sober ✖️ 😷
• Data preservation enthusiast 💽✅
• Tech, gender, art, and goofs
Christoph Voigt | 🦅💖 @spucktier.bsky.social he/him 🦅💖
🐘 Mastodon 👉🏻 @spucktier@mstdn.io
🐦 Twitter 👉🏻 @spucktier (inactive)
IT Systems Architect, specialized in Intune, Configuration Manager and interface automation.
⚡️Marina Díez is finishing a new game! @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
miriamne | Developing QUO 👁 @miriamne.bsky.social 🕹 GameDev and Artist at @islaolivagames.bsky.social
🎮 bit.ly/399aLcu LapsoNIMBO
🔪 bit.ly/3jMwZog HorrorGlobes
👁 bit.ly/39PQDAP QUO
store.steampowered.com/developer/islaOliva
✉️ info@islaolivagames.com
Tenerife [Canary Islands]
Erika (they/she) @meowriko.bsky.social games production & publishing advisor | hapa | 4 cats | ex- Riot, Google, Humble, Xbox | Seattle
Masao Kobayashi @megamasao.bsky.social Japanese games producer based in Montreal. Working in games since 2006. (Any pronouns)
Join our producer discord! https://forms.gle/i1pJ4eSthKVDpcPb6
Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social Games User Researcher | PhD in games | movies are my favourite language
Alina @galaxylina.bsky.social game programmer ★ writer ★ she/her ★ 🇵🇰
ENTRY-LVL @entrylvldev.bsky.social A friendly community supporting junior game devs. Helping you navigate the industry with resources, events, networking, and everything in between! 🐲💖
🌐 https://entrylvl.ca
꒰ #gamedev I #indiedev I #gamedevresources I #indiegames ꒱
@carladee4235.bsky.social @carladee4235.bsky.social 
🍎 Taylor Twins 🍏 @thirstytwins.satan.social 🦋Taylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS🦋
🌀gemelos Taylor Gemelos siendo gemelas🌀
⓸ 泰勒双胞胎 双胞胎就是双胞胎 ⓸
#instagram #threads #X #tumblr #bluesky https://0-info.my.canva.site/barcode-century-docx
Ash Gwinnell @ashleygwinnell.bsky.social 🧰 Indie game marketing tools guy – making impress.games toolkit!
😸 Press Kitty — free press kits
🤖 Coverage Bot — pr/influencer/streamer alerts
🚀 Launchpad — creator discovery & key distribution
🎓 Academy — marketing guides
He/him
Taconite @taconite.bsky.social Game Dev and Math Nerd.
Making a couple projects:
- Dark-Fantasy Ancient-Greek Retro-FPS
- Meditative game about canoeing the Great Lakes
- Goofy Off-Road Rum-Running game
https://taconitegames.itch.io/