Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy our games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social Invented spatiotemporal blue noise, created Gigi rapid graphics prototyping & dev platform.
https://github.com/electronicarts/gigi
25+ year game dev, and graphics researcher.
Tech blog:
https://blog.demofox.org/
Destroy what destroys you.
Pedro Medeiros @saint11.art Co-founder of @coldbloodinc.studio
Artist of Celeste, TowerFall and +70 free pixel art tutorials
WISHLIST NEVERWAY → http://steam.neverway.co/
"Kapura" - Max Golden - "Do Not Eat" @kapura.bsky.social lead gameplay programmer: br systems for apex legends. formerly: fortnite, spiderman. Car looker-at. expressed opinions non-representative of employers'.
Nic Barker @handle.invalid Open source developer & programming educator.
github.com/nicbarker for my projects.
https://www.youtube.com/@nicbarkeragain for programming videos.
ex engineering @canva & game dev @cerebralfix
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Frosty @frostbytestudio.bsky.social Some Ordinary Caffeine Addict
Jakob Wahlberg @jakobwahlberg.bsky.social I like making games.
Gameplay, Animation, Tech Art & low effort graphics.
Made Go Mecha Ball.
Prevously: Image & Form, Moon Studios
Canvas of Kings @mightofmerchants.bsky.social Solo dev! Working on: MAPMAKER: Canvas of Kings | GAME: Might of Merchants
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2498570/Canvas_of_Kings/
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
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__
Jeremy Ulrich @jeremyulrich.bsky.social Game developer, wishlist SlimeCraft on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3817050/SlimeCraft/?beta=0
Steve Karolewics @skarolewics.bsky.social Principal Rendering Engineer on Star Wars Jedi at Respawn Entertainment. Formerly @ Monolith, Amazon Games, Microsoft. Contributor to RenderDoc. Opinions are my own.
http://stevekarolewics.com
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
rémi @okremiok.bsky.social 
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.
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
🇨🇦
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social Screw it, let's do it.
Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14
Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
Davey Wreden @hellocakebread.bsky.social The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, Wanderstop
Kyle Hayward @graphicsrunner.bsky.social Senior Rendering Engineer on Frostbite and (very)amateur photographer
WargamerChris @wargamerchris.bsky.social Game Designer for Combat Mission at Slitherine Software.
Pilot of a biomech. Will always ❤️ cat pictures.
Personal account, (probably stupid) opinions are my own.
He/Him
Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social Burned out. Nectar Vector next. Before: Game Director + Lead Designer on Pacific Drive, Designer on Bioshock Infinite, various Don't Starve things, and Mafia 3. Liked Movie. Boston area. he/him
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Steve Lee @stevelee.bsky.social Lead Level Designer on a psychological horror thing at @halfmermaid.co, also working on my own first-person dystopian sci-fi thing
Previously on Dishonored 2, Tactical Breach Wizards, etc: doublefunction.co.uk
Daniel Mullins @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Indie game developer who made Pony Island, The Hex, and Inscryption. Currently working on Pony Island 2: Panda Circus!
Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social Tech Art Director at Zynga. I love nostalgia! All thoughts my own... and not great? (he/him)
My YT! https://www.youtube.com/@HowieDay82
Lewiston, ID
Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social ProPublica reporter | Email me at joshua.kaplan@propublica.org | Contact info & stories here: propublica.org/people/joshua-kaplan
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
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Caelo @oovowl.bsky.social 22 | He/Him | ENG/ESP | Animation student | Really into #gamedev
Terry the Teleboy - Indie Game in Development @terrytheteleboy.bsky.social I'm making a platformer about a transforming television child. Imagine if Megaman and Sonic had a lovechild while Mario watched sheepishly in the corner...anyway, it's still a whiles away so this is basically a progress log for now.- P Matt Kane @parsedev.bsky.social Game Designer at Respawn Entertainment
SUGOI 🔜 Awesome Console Showcase @sugoigames.bsky.social Digital showcases for terribly amazing indie games. Unlike anything you’ve seen before. From the creators of TGAGWCAGA.
The Awesome Console Showcase is coming October 28th.
Awesome indie games, for all consoles.
Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social Game designer, writer, and inventor. Game dev and embedded systems consultant. Previously: Co-founder of GameSpy, Narrative and Quest Lead for Blizzard entertainment. Inventor of games and devices. Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thefargo
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Rachel Vought @rachelbydesign.bsky.social Lead Quest Designer for World of Warcraft. I make quests, manage designers, and have random thoughts about many things. All views expressed are my own. She/her.
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com New England's leading source for breaking news and analysis.
bostonglobe.com
Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social Genderfluid, Pronouns: any. WLW/NBLW, ENM. Very neurodivergent. 40+.
Sentient hyper-optimized data access network.
Infected Activist.
I took what you gave willingly.
By day: Principal Game Designer.
Personal opinions/comments.
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and strategy | Vice President of Strategy, Emergent Risk International | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social CEO/Creative Director:
BLACK PONY IMMERSIVE
Deus Ex, Dishonored
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
MechaMaiden @mechamaiden.bsky.social Blisk has put a high price on your head Pilot.
Dead or Alive
That makes you worth something to me
/＼ ^._.^ ／\
@bizbear.bsky.social @bizbear.bsky.social 
Swordcery⚔️OUT NOW IN EARLY ACCESS! @templedoorgames.bsky.social ⚔️ 2 former God of War animators forging a roguelike #Swordcery ⚔️
🔥GET IT NOW on STEAM: http://bit.ly/3sjg3h8
⚡Discord: http://discord.gg/YNMYDr7
Gitrogatog @gitrogatog.bsky.social play my games here: https://gitrogatog.itch.io/
i am a psychic warrior, beware my Fire2
they/she
P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.- T @turambar.bsky.social @turambar.bsky.social
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Tadej Gregorcic @tadej.bsky.social Product designer, coder, gamedev. Love photography and writing.
co-founder/CPO at Stratis.
Made Elroy and the Aliens: @ElroyTheGame.com with Motiviti.
Co-founder @coherence.io multiplayer tech used by Vampire Survivors, Lost Skies, Heave Ho 2, LEGO ...
David Shaver @davidshaver.bsky.social Lead Level Designer at Epic Games. Previously Blizzard, Naughty Dog, Respawn, & Schell Games. www.davidshaver.net
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
laura @lauraducran.swifties.social QA Tester @ Bungie | swiftie | moira main | cero dhelru @ gilgamesh | opinions my own | she/her
Preston Glenn @prestonglenn.bsky.social Designer | Independent < Respawn < Infinity Ward < 2015
Apex Legends (Launch - Season 17) • Titanfall 1/2 • Call of Duty 1/2/4:MW/MW2 • Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
thedereksmart🕹️ @dereksmart.com OG indie dev | indie before it was a thing | gamer | geek | science & sci-fi aficionado | writer | 🎮 | linktr.ee/thedereksmart
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Melissa Janowicz @deedlite.bsky.social Senior Gameplay Designer at Epic Games 🎮 Previously Respawn Entertainment, Microsoft, BioWare, Disney, lots of indie studios. She/Her.
Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer at Prime8 Entertainment.
Principal Designer by day at LBI
Prev: LBI, Zynga, Blizzard, ATVI, Sega. My views are my own, and entirely absurd.
Profile pic by @meggoart <3
She/Her
I stream at https://www.twitch.tv/emberdione
Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social Indie dev making games & chatting about the games industry. ex Rockstar & Activision, now MD of https://bsky.app/profile/ant-workshop.com
Our latest game: https://bsky.app/profile/tonygowland.bsky.social/post/3lp7gpkckgc24
Jason de Heras 🎮 @jasondeheras.bsky.social Co-Game Director on the Star Wars Jedi team at Respawn/EA. Design Director Jedi: Survivor/Lead Combat Designer Jedi: Fallen Order. Combat Design God of War 3/Ascension. 2x Evo Finals Street Fighter.
https://www.jasondeheras.com
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others.
MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games.
Next project: TBD!
Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
https://linktr.ee/crecente
BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com MAEK GAEM
Expert game engineer
Co-founder at @minorkeygames.com, making Eldritch 2
Guitar, vinyl, film, pro wrestling
All cats are beautiful
Anti-fascist
✝️🏳️🌈
👤 he/him 🌎 Texas 🔗 https://dphrygian.com/
Dan Brewer @originalbigdan.bsky.social Founder and creative lead of Original Big Games.
From the country.
Previously Bossa, DPS, CA and SMG.
https://thedanbrewer.com/
Anything I post on here is my own opinion and not that of my employer.
Manny “Luvs Farting” Hagopian @mannyhagopian.bsky.social Narrative Director & Writer: Titanfall 1 + 2, Star Wars JFO, Apex Legends. Co-Writer Off-Broadway Musicals: “Assistants” “The Christmas Carols”
Tal Tallon @taltallon.com I break stuff, then fix it - IT Manager @gravitywell.games
Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social he/him
Game designer, prev. Riot, Magnopus, Respawn. Loves dogs, pretzels, absurd humor, and magnesium. Shader truther. Reads too many TTRPGs, starts too many creative projects, never finishes anyt
Samy Duc @ricklesauceur.bsky.social Renaissance man. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Assassin's Creed (3, Black Flag, Unity), The Crew, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Just Dance 5, Gears of War (Ultimate, 4, 5), Apex Legends
https://cloud.umami.is/q/RGcXSS1DD
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Owen Campbell @owencampbell.ca Software Engineer and creative coder
www.owencampbell.ca
Russ Petersen @nitemoogle.bsky.social He/Him. Blizzard again. This is a personal account. Former: Bungie, Cliffhanger, Possibility Space, World of Warcraft
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.
🏳️🌈😷🐈🐈🏃♀️🎮
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Nicholas G Cameron @ngcameron.com ● Senior Level Designer at Respawn Entertainment
● Writing about TTRPGs at https://www.strangeplaces.site/
● Formerly @RamblingCameron on Twitter
● Wife @devonrubinart.bsky.social
● games/fantasy/climate ● he/him
David Nazario @oirazan.bsky.social Game audio professional (since 2009), educator, and hoarder of audio gear. Previous companies: Survios, Respawn Entertainment, Disney Interactive, Insomniac Games. #gameaudio #MPSE
https://www.oirazan.com
James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social DC Studios co-CEO, #Superman, #GuardiansoftheGalaxy, #Peacemaker, dog owner, husband, servant to my cat.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, genre cinema enjoyer, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
Robert West @robob0b.bsky.social Principal Systems Designer at Respawn - Previously Highguard, Apex Legends, JFO, RDR2, Gnomoria, Toy Soldiers
Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social Game Director @ Blackbird Interactive
Made Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Trying to be a decent human being.
[ He / Him ]
Axel حسن Taiari @shevek.bsky.social Writer.
ZERO PARADES. Neurocracy. weird fiction. narrative design. game studies. (He/they)
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
Ben Bayliss @benbayliss.bsky.social Senior Production Coordinator: Accessibility @ R* | Former EiC | Opinions mine | Deaf 🦻🏻 (he/him)
The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com "One of the great film nerd Twitter accounts" - Vanity Fair
99% space fiction (licenses) and its creation.
Here are all my accounts: http://linktr.ee/thespaceshipper
Andrew Rennie 🏳️🌈 @nerdy4tw.bsky.social Senior UI/UX Designer at Respawn - Star Wars Jedi Team • Accessibility Advocate • Co-Founder @wecanfixitinui.com • Scottish • My Opinions • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/nerdy4tw
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Tina Sanchez O’Hara @teanah.bsky.social Mom | Video Game Producer | Producers Guild of America Video Game Lead | Co-Host #DevHeads | Previous: God of War Ragnarok | Apex Legends | Call of Duty | IGN | 1UP