Mike Kasprzakโ๐ฆ๐ @distraction.engineer Former professional GameDev (1999+); IGF Finalist (2009); Retro, DIY, Repair, C64 nerd; AKA PoV, PoVRAZOR, VA3POV ๐ป; They/them; ๐
Caretake and co-creator of the @ludumdare.com online game jam
Empathy is punk! Trans rights! ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐๐ค
Bitpart AI @bitpartai.bsky.social The Bitpart AI Director & multi-agent planner power Archetypes, bringing game worlds to life.
Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ brown belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
๐ฎ carolmertz.itch.io
๐ bit.ly/carolsBGG
๐ฑ PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Kevin Regamey @regameyk.bsky.social Creative Director @PowerUpAudio. otdq, He/him. (Celeste, TUNIC, NecroDancer, Descenders, Darkest Dungeon...)
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Painterly Vertex @painterlyvertex.bsky.social Seattle area visual artist and game developer
personal art site -- keeganorourke.com
artstation portfolio -- painterlyvertex.artstation.com/
Lead Artist on Vex Mage -- www.vexmage.com
backpacking video -- youtube.com/@keegan.o
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
Philip Hammer @phammer.bsky.social principal engine programmer @ id software |
graphics & engine code for idTech | DOOM: The Dark Ages
opinions are my own
AMYโจIS TIRED @aemu.bsky.social sleepy artist @Innersloth.com that worked on @amongus.innersloth.com
now working on:
Among Us Story: On Guard (art + ui/ux)
@amongusstory.bsky.social
Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social Independent game developer, board member on the Zig Software Foundation. Shipped Way of Rhea, working on something new. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
The good stuff goes to my mailing list, follow me there instead:
gamesbymason.com/newsletter/
Ben Throop @benthroop.com Making The Free Shepherd at @frameinteractive.com in Burlington, Vermont.
https://thefreeshepherd.com
Forrest Dowling @stuckbug.bsky.social Game Dev since 2006. Kaos, Irrational, The Molasses Flood.
SodaDrinkerPro @sodadrinkerpro.com Hi My name is Will, I like to make fun things
SodaDrinkerPro.Com
WeLoveIt.io @weloveit-io.bsky.social Bringing back the joy of game discovery, one discovery at a time! Find your next favorite game, and explore hidden gems with us:
Discover more at https://www.WeLoveIt.io
Gwen Frey @diregoldfish.bsky.social Ex-AAA dev (BioShock Infinite & more) Founded Chump Squad, developed KINE & now LAB RAT.
โ Wishlist LAB RAT! http://bit.ly/3nQcGbY
โ Discord: http://discord.gg/ddceuCkWSq
ipsquiggle @ipsquiggle.bsky.social My cozy village builder, Brick & Bramble! ๐ฑ https://ipsquiggle.itch.io/brick-and-bramble
Father, tinkerer, game developer.
I post about about making, programming, dreams, homeschooling, electronics, life logging, meditation, procgen, and urbanism.
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
Richard Atlas @richmakesgames.bsky.social ๐ฎ CEO / Creative Director at Clever Endeavour Games (he/him)
๐ต Lover of tea, chocolate, heavy metal, cycling, fantasy, health science, and games with good feel ๐
๐ Blog here: http://richardatlas.com
Things @things.app We make Things, the award-winning to-do app for Mac, iPad, iPhone, Watch & Vision.
things.app
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io โข Founder, Dejobaan Games โข Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve โข 30 Year Veteran Game Dev โข Boston!
Kate O @dragondirigible.bsky.social Game dev, music man, lover of hobbies. Any pronouns fine!
Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social We support local games and the folks who make em!
Calendar: meetup.com/bostongamedev
Boston Gamedev Week: https://gamedev.boston/
Game dev collective of
@bostonindies.bsky.social
@bospostmortem.bsky.social
and more!
Blue Jay ๐ฆ โก๏ธ Resting @kyaneosart.bsky.social ๐ He/Him | 28 years old ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐ Illustrator | Game Artist | Animator
๐ Gay Dude | Bird Nerd | Tired Introvert
๐ Founder @ Studio Blue Jay (studiobluejay.bsky.social)
๐ Marketing @ BostonFIG (bostonfig.bsky.social)
๐ต๐ธ Free Palestine โค๏ธ
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
Neovim @neovim.io Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Ways to support the project:
- https://github.com/sponsors/neovim
- https://store.neovim.io
- Have fun using it and spread the word
Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social Art Director, Game Designer, making stuff with enthusiasm!
Directing The Basics. Formerly Freshly Frosted.
ally.red/links
avashly @ashleyalicea.com games program manager @unity.com โช indie dev โช surfskater โช prev: global game jam, indiecade โช she/her โช boricua ๐ต๐ท
๐ด Los Angeles, CA
๐ ashleyalicea.com
Boston Indies @bostonindies.bsky.social ๐๐ช Boston's home for independent games since 2009! ๐ฎ Tag us so we can repost you!
Apart of @BostonGameDev.bsky.social โ๏ธ๐ฑ
https://linktr.ee/bosindies
han-han ๐ GDC @hellochar.bsky.social systems design, roguelikes, inner worlds. ex-Spry Fox. currently indie.
Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com)
Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@gamedeveloper.com)
๐: www.bryantfrancis.me
๐ฅ: https://boxd.it/hp9UB
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
lukehollis @lukehollis.bsky.social Researcher, autonomy and simulation, MIT / Data science and computational robotics, Harvard
https://lukehollis.com
https://github.com/lukehollis
heysparky (Karen) @heysparky.bsky.social Play D&D with me: https://startplaying.games/gm/heysparkydms
Nathan Ayres @nathan3dart.bsky.social He/Him
3D Environment Artist @TurboButtonInc.bsky.social
Guy who ate butter for Day of the Devs 2026
I do Pottery, Film Photography, and so much DnD๐บ๐ท๐งโโ๏ธ
San Francisco
nayres.artstation.com
jdeegz @jdeegz.bsky.social Looking for Game Dev work!
PLAY MY GAME! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3094970/Spires_of_Morosith_Gossamer_Sundered/
SOME OF MY WORK! https://www.artstation.com/jdeegz
Michael Travaglione @mtravag.bsky.social Senior AI Engineer @CDPROJEKTRED.com
Previously @ People Can Fly, Rocksteady.
michael carriere @michael.carriere.org chief beard at @zapdot.com
geek. dad. designer. developer. perfunctory pun factory.
on the infinite road to better!
Jeff Bail @jeffbail.bsky.social #VR #AR #MR #XR #electricvehicles #cleantech #medtech
Michael Schenck @mike.pixelatedramblings.com XR Developer | Unity and C# | Meta Quest
Making Zotbox a VR sandbox inspired by Minecraft
I like Fantasy, SciFi, Nature, Space, Art, Maps, Books, and RPGs
https://pixelatedramblings.com
Matthew Jack @matthewtjack.bsky.social Founder and CEO-on-sabbatical at Kythera AI in Edinburgh.
Game AI specialist from way before AI was cool.
All about bringing virtual worlds to life.
(He/him)
Noa Beazley @noabeazley.bsky.social Composer: Re:Awaken, Phosfi, Protodroid DeLTA, A Token War | Professor of Game Scoring at Berklee College of Music | Boston Game Dev board of directors
noabeazley.com/portfolio
Jeff Orkin @jefforkin.bsky.social Cofounder @ Bitpart.ai. Ex: Drift, Giant Otter, Monolith, Sierra. AI Lead for FEAR and NOLF2. MIT Media Lab alum
Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social Making games for longer than seems advisable.
Recently, AI lead at Take-Two; earlier at SomaSim, Zynga, EA etc.
Doctor of AI, under the hippocratic oath bound to help all game AIs.
Author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/
Hello from Chicago!
Ben Schneider @droctothorpe.bsky.social Professor of Practice in Narrative Design for Games at WPI (@WPI_IMGD). Worked on LOTRO, DDO, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Titan Quest, Empire Earth. (he/him)
Kevin Kohler @bobgar.bsky.social Professional game dev working at Demiurge on an unannounced AAA game in Unreal.
Indie dev on the side. Check out my latest project, Superspace (https://bobgar.itch.io/superspace) a multiplayer websocket game built in Godot 4.1 and Golang
Chris McGinnis @chrismcginnis.bsky.social A game developer. Worked on Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit. Currently working on Cast n' Chill. He/him.
Mike Feldman @yoshimcf.mike-feldman.com Lead programmer at Disbelief. Saxophonist with the Saxyderms. Opinions are my own. He/him.
Tony @tony.coculuzzi.social โข Programmer @innersloth.com
โข Prev: Cuphead lead dev + Florence lead prog + other things
โข Making cool things as @wilder.games
โข Married to @farah.coculuzzi.social
๐จ๐ฆ Ontario, Canada
https://tonycoculuzzi.com
Chris Chung @chrischung.com Indie dev behind Catlateral Damage! Cat dad, husband, food lover, collector, Pokรฉmon Trainer. He/him
Andrรฉ Rodrigues @dedsrodrigues.bsky.social Game Artist, ๐ง๐ท in ๐ซ๐ท.
Current: @Voodoo
Previously: Co-founder @BigGreenPillow
๐ฎ Slash Quest!, Spry Fox, Armor, iam8bit, Draknek & Friends
โ hi@andrerodrigues.org
Boston Unity Group @bostonunitygroup.bsky.social Boston Unity Group [B.U.G.] A monthly Meet-Up for Unity developers, artists and enthusiasts.
https://www.meetup.com/b-u-g-boston-unity-group/
Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social Wishlist Skull Scavenger!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2557470/Skull_Scavenger/
I'm one half of an Indie studio called Evil Villain Games.
https://evilvillaingames.com/
I do C#, VFX, Animation, and Game Design in Unity.
Trevor Stricker @trellos.bsky.social 
Jono Forbes @jonomf.bsky.social New project soon: Music + AR!
VR/AR / dev / design // music / maps.
Prev: XR workflows lead on Unity XR Team / PolySpatial / Unity Labs. 
Mary Yovina @adothenlunch.bsky.social Senior UI/UX Lead | UI/UX Manager at Insomniac โข Previously Obsidian, Harmonix โข (they/them) โข http://maryyovina.com
|| Absolutely no A``I or N``F``T ||
Patrick Kemp @patkemp.bsky.social Father. Game designer at Spry Fox (Netflix Games). Weekend side project noodler. He/him. https://patkemp.itch.io/ ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฏ
Bre Melvin (Animator Looking for Work) @89ravenwolf.bsky.social Looking for work. Formerly Lead 3D Animator @spryfox on Spirit Crossing, Cinematics on The Pathless, Lead Animator on Yami; Freetime Artist; NoAI; she/they ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐ bremelvin.com
Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social he\him, also a Dad
AD @ Spry Fox on Spirit Crossing
Open playtest: s.team/a/2321960
Black Trans Lives Matter
Teddy Dief @teddydief.com Director/Designer of Videogames
โ Hyper Light Drifter
โ We Are OFK
โ Glitch City LA
โ prev: Square Enix, XBox, Disney
โก IGF & Peabody Winner
โ https://linktr.ee/teddydief
GlaireDaggers๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ @glairedaggers.bsky.social she/they
๐ท wearer
in lesbians w/ ๐ @cyndervox.bsky.social ๐
Previous: Spry Fox / Netflix, Galvanic Games, Super Bit Machine
gamedev links: https://linktr.ee/glairedaggers
Tags: #foxbladefable | #art | #pixelart
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
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.
Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev Ex: Roll7, Spry Fox. Now: helping teams ship faster with test automation, also Brum Indies.
https://automatedaf.dev https://atig.dev
Molly Jameson @ultrarat.bsky.social Game Programmer, Cat haver, Women's soccer fan, mostly lurker. www.MollyJameson.com She/Her
Jรธrgen @jorgen.tjer.no Programmer (at Netflix Games) (they/them)
https://github.com/jorgenpt
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jorgenpt
Loren Ipsum @onetruelorn.bsky.social Actually 3 game developers in a trench coat.
Designer, Programmer, and Writer making little games with the @TinyMassGames.bsky.social art collective.
#Godot & #Unity
He/him
Francois van Niekerk @francoisvn.bsky.social Studio Director at @clockworkacorn.com โข he/him โข https://leafcloud.com/ โข Cape Town, South Africa
sol @spider.florist web dev, game dev, obligate parasite
making games about bugs but very slowly
he/him
โ ๏ธ THIS IS A MOIETY RESPECT ZONE - PRO-GEHN DโNI โ ๏ธ
Rami Ismail (ุฑุงู
ู) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
SemiMyth Entertainment @semimyth.bsky.social Developing A Lion's Age, A narrative strategy game based in South Asian Medieval History.
history nerds welcome: http://linktr.ee/semimyth
Dan Williams ๐ฎ @videospacegames.bsky.social Video games, 3d printing, and politics. Big boss of Active Up Games. Boston inhabitant. Lowkey hypebeast. Made the award winning critically acclaimed blockbuster engineering puzzle game Pictassembler. He/him.
โจCarrie Wittโจ๐๐๐ @notsoserious.bsky.social Art Fellow / former Art Director @owlchemylabs - Job Sim, Vacay Sim, Cosmo High, Dimensional Double Shift & more!
๐ค Forbes 30U30 | former Community Board @GamesYall
โจArtist, Cat Lady, Glittery Gremlin, & Horror Fiend
๐She/Her
http://carriewitt.com
Adam deGrandis @adamdegrandis.bsky.social * Indie games art director (www.chickadeegames.com)
* Working on small games with my pal Ash. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769410/Ash__Adams_GOBSMACKED/)
* Educator at Maine College of Art & Design
* Dad
* Hugs and high fives
Andrew Eiche @buddingmonkey.bsky.social CEO (Chief Executive Owl)
@owlchemylabs.com
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/
Chris Maire @dinosaursssssss.bsky.social im a ham sandwich
Kenney @kenney.nl โจ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Alan Zucconi @alanzucconi.com Director of Studies at Goldsmiths, UoL โข Senior Lecturer โข Game AI โข Game Developer โข Shader Master โข Content Creator
Victoria Tran โจ @victoriatran.bsky.social โจ Comms Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us
โจ Wholesome Games organizer
โจ Forbes 30u30, Adweek's Creative 100
โจ Get my book Mastering Community Management: https://www.victoriatran.com/book
โจ My newsletter: https://www.victoriatran.com/newsletter
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
Adriel Wallick @msminotaur.bsky.social I make games
she/her
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
Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social Recovering game developer. Made Threes + Beast Breaker. he/him
meowza @meowza.bsky.social makin games at meowza games sometimes
ai is shit
Elliot B @taniith.bsky.social Occasional glass artist. Wannabe pastry chef. Intermittent technical lead with Dejobaan Games (on hiatus from gamedev at the moment). Disabled/chronically ill. he/him
Itay Keren @untame.com Dad, husband, designer/developer. Head of Upstate NY game studio Untame, creator of Apple Design Award 2017 winner Mushroom 11. More at untame.com
Scott "Bones" Doxey @scottdoxey.com Oddly enough Bones is not my Halloween name.
Web/Game Developer
Released https://flipjacksgame.com/ and am now working on my next thing!
scottdoxey.com
https://linktr.ee/scottdoxey
He/Him
Jon Bellini @jonbellini.bsky.social Game Developer/Composer
www.spacecapsulegames.com
๐Links: http://linktr.ee/jonbellini
๐ฒBoard Member: bostongamedev.org
๐นmade Million Monster Militia
๐making Alpha One
๐Rhythm Spirit Soundtrack https://rb.gy/lsja0c
#BerkleeAlumni
Andy Moore @andymoore.bsky.social If your thought canโt fit
In simple haiku format
Is it worth sharing?
Andy Hall @testtubegames.com Game Developer behind TestTubeGames.
Enjoy building, finding, and sharing cool science through games / toys / simulations. No AI.
My games: https://testtubegames.com
Other games I love: https://thescienceplayground.com/
he/him
Chris Hart @dstrawberrygirl.bsky.social Software Developer / Engineer, Game Developer
British / European / American. Based in Massachusetts.
Freya Holmรฉr @freya.bsky.social ๐ฎ tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
๐ acegikmo.com
๐ฅ youtube.com/@acegikmo
๐๏ธ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
๐ก ex-founder of Neat Corp
๐ชก neoluddite
my kids:
๐ฅช @toast.acegikmo.com
๐ฅ @salad.acegikmo.com
๐โโฌ @thor.acegikmo.com
Elliott Mitchell ๐ฅ ๐ง @mrt3d.bsky.social Founder Vermont Digital Arts & the original Boston Unity Group, 3D - XR Artist, Indie Game Developer, Volumetric Filmmaker & Nutter - #XR #VR #Immersive #GameDev