Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
Nat Quayle Nelson @nqn.itch.io Makin' zines, games, and theater in Chicago!
FLIES FLIES FLIES: http://store.steampowered.com/app/2330490
Habit Puzzles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4263990
Open Blades of Exile: https://nqn.itch.io/blades-of-exile
ANIMAL WELL @animalwell.bsky.social A Game of Secrets - available now on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch
http://www.animalwell.net/
brice puls! @bricepuls.com Game Dev (Battle Suit Aces, Killer Queen, Bugsnax, Tony Hawk Pro Skater)
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Exhibit/Interactive Designer (MSI, Field, CAC)
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Faculty @ Columbia College Chicago
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Exhibitions Director @ Bit Bash
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Executive Director @ VGA
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they.
https://linktr.ee/bricepuls
Back Alley Games @backalleygames.bsky.social A Midwestern Independent Games Magazine
Art || Reviews || Dev Logs || and MORE
Submit your work by emailing us at: backalley@indiecitygames.org
Grab a copy: https://linktr.ee/backalley.games
Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art Pixel artist | illustrator | Creator of Owlboy and Vikings on Trampolines | CO-CEO of: http://dpadstudio.com
MY NEXT GAME: https://www.vikingsontrampolines.com/
My links: https://linktr.ee/snakepixel
My artwork: https://www.snakepixel.art/
Yetee Glen 🕊️✌🏻☮️ @gleno.theyetee.com co-owner / co-founder @theyetee.com - theyetee.com • dad of 3 • he/they • glenoneill on the deadbird app • 🇨🇦 Vancouver • ADHD • #Canucks + #Goldeneyes fan • 𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙝! • NO 🚫 A.I. 🙅
Dr. Travis Faas @meanderingleaf.bsky.social Game dev professor @ Ball State University | IGDA Indianapolis chair | opinions my own | and so on.
Locally Sourced @locallysourced.bsky.social A game developer collective covering all things Michigan indie game dev related, boosting local games, and hosting virtual meetups
https://locallysourced.carrd.co/
Joshua Tsui 🍥 @joshuatsui.bsky.social Producer/Director of games and documentaries
Willy Elektrix @willyelektrix.bsky.social Game designer, writer, and artist. I love building crazy worlds full of aliens and mutants!
My portfolio:
https://andihagen.wordpress.com/
ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine
https://choicebeat.wordpress.com/
Cranky Chibi Cthulhu🐙Steam Demo Available NOW!! @littletlalocinteractive.com Kvlt creative team making an 8-bit style, retro shmup/STG. I (lead designer) attempt to keep our online presence relevant.
WISHLIST Cranky Chibi Cthulhu! rb.gy/8g1gcl
All opinions and typos are my own! #gamedev
rj @rj.dcellgames.com (as in rj lake)
direction + writing + trailers + voice direction + "running comms" for UNBEATABLE at @dcellgames.com
also OST + SFX + VO direction for I AM YOUR BEAST, EL PASO ELSEWHERE, TMNT, SPACE WARLORD ORGAN TRADING SIM ++
(rj @ dcellgames . com)
Bit Bash Chicago @bitbashchicago.com Chicago's Alternative Game Festival.
Keep up to date by signing up for our mailing list at https://www.bitbashchicago.com/
CatTrigger [Wishlist "Date Time❤️" on STEAM! @cattrigger.bsky.social Chicago Artist & GameDev
Made Melissa❤️, No Robots Allowed, Carnivore! & MORE!
CatTrigger Horror Collection:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3572050/
Date Time:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313010/
Links: https://cattrigger.com/links/
Zvrra @handle.invalid 🪐Haitian Techno Queen
🪐BOOKINGS: zvrra@proton.me
🪐She/They
Joey Bleau (is at BlizzCon) @jbleau.dev 🏢 Senior Software Engineer II, World of Warcraft
💪 Proud WoWGG Union Member
📍Ann Arbor ➡️ SoCal ➡️ Chicago (current)
🇺🇸 🇩🇪
All views are my own. I periodically delete old posts. I sometimes delete brand new ones.
Megan Varde 🐴 @mvardeparty.bsky.social 3D environment artist @YoungHorses.com on Bugsnax and something else 👁️👁️
I have approximate knowledge of many things
⭐️ she/her
📍Chicago
💍 @hatsproductions.bsky.social
pfp by @tgi.bsky.social
Kathryn Healy @khealy.bsky.social horror author, narrative designer, weird doll collector, goth club haunter (she/her) kathrynhealy.com
Kylie Coyote @kyliecoyote.bsky.social game dev | narrative designer | writing lead for The Elder Scrolls Renewal: Skywind @skywind.bsky.social
here for the girls, gays, & theys.
📍Chicago
my stuff: kyliecoyote.com
Dave Finseth @davidfinseth.bsky.social Senior Product Manager on MTG Arena at Wizards of the Coast | Cooking, Games, Travel | He/him
Zuhn @kevinzuhn.bsky.social Creative Director at Young Horses 🐎 (Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Bugsnax) I play all of the games.
They/Them
dovetail (Fretless is out now on Steam!) @iamdovetail.bsky.social indie dev | sound and music for Fretless the GuitaRPG. Get it here ~ https://bit.ly/Fretless-Game ~
from Chicago
my music/contact: http://linktr.ee/dovetailmusic
Lena Guerrero @lenagrrarrow.com I write code to help people (and computers) connect! 🎮 | they/any | chicagoooo
backend engineer at Gardens 🌳 previously Singularity 6, Jackbox Games | IGDA-F Next Gen Leader
Brady Soglin @bradysoglin.bsky.social indie game dev. browse my fine softwares!
made Tall Trails, Fossil Corner, & Plant Daddy
overfull.games
sam @samloeschen.bsky.social "Leading" "engineering" at Messhof. Made Wheel World. Making a new thing!
Max Duggan @maxdugganmusic.bsky.social Songwriter & Video Game Composer
Mini Metro, Usagi Shima, Project Timi 🎵🎶
and many more :)
Chicago 🌃
https://linktr.ee/Maxdugganmusic
Karley (´◔‿ゝ◔`) @gleefulbeest.bsky.social 🐝 Making Video Games Gay Again | Artist & hijinks @Young Horses | ex-Philadelphian in Chicago | hiking buddy | community pillar | garden gnome |
Capt Ripley @captainripley.bsky.social She/They | 3D artist and GamDev in Chicago.
Play my games @ http://captainripley.itch.io
🏳️🌈🇳🇮
Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action!
website: www.newarteest.com
Slaps @s1aps.bsky.social Indie Game Dev / Artist - working on, Mecha multiplayer game, Drift Shell
Black 27 He/Him
🔞 Minors Begone!
My itch io: http://s1aps.itch.io
figburn @figburn.com artist for undertale yellow, and making contract rush 🤝
(dm or figburn@gmail.com for business)
https://teamficus.com/
Triangle Interactive @triiarts.bsky.social A collective of creative humans in NC, making and appreciating games & playful art
Steam @steampowered.com Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform.
For support: http://help.steampowered.com/en/
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com The worlds largest online #GameJam, established in 2002. Join us every April & October. #LDJam
emily koonce @koonce.itch.io ✨international game designer party girl✨
my games: https://koonce.itch.io/
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__
Jonah White @jonahwhite.bsky.social Writer, Editor, and Game Designer. Lover of all things narrative and gaming.
Check out my Newsletter!: gameplaygather.substack.com
All my socials: jonahwhite.carrd.co
Lost Gator Collective @lostgatorco.bsky.social We're Lost Gator Collective! We're a tiny indie game studio based out of Chicago, currently working on: That Time I Got Trapped In An Office Dungeon
Follow our devs!
@bradstar879.bsky.social
@skizznugget.bsky.social
@neee.bsky.social
@lezl.bsky.social
Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PAX West 1417 @pizzapranks.bsky.social Top (& only) Guy at Indiepocalypse | Home for the Unmarketable | indie games' most widely known person of zero importance
http://indiepocalypse.com
Starter Guide http://indiepocalypse.com/starter
http://indiepocalypse.com/patreon
indiepocalypse@gmail.com
Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social (He/Him) Chicago game fellow. One part of @cantgetenoughgames.bsky.social
Try my silly switchboard game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2627660/Cold_Calling/
Blog: https://thomcote.neocities.org/
Can't Get Enough Games - COLD CALLING on Sale Now! @cantgetenoughgames.bsky.social Switchboard satire COLD CALLING is out now!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2627660/Cold_Calling/
Itch: https://cant-get-enough-games.itch.io/cold-calling
Email: cantgetenoughgames@gmail.com
Young Horses @younghorses.com Creators of Bugsnax & Octodad! Out NOW PS5, PS4, EGS, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10, Steam, and Nintendo Switch eShop! Join our Discord at http://discord.gg/younghorses . Links to our games and places to buy them -> bugsnax.com | octodad.com
CΛΠDICΞ @candis.bsky.social Video Game Profesh. PR & Marketing // RPR
Mentally at the ᶜᵃᵗᵃˡⁱⁿᵃ ʷⁱⁿᵉ ᵐⁱˣᵉʳ 🍷
🌸 Content Creator Specialist: Ask me about my current games! 🌸
𝒦𝒾𝓂𝒾 ♡ @kimikimi-more.bsky.social 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 chicago game, film, & stage composer
✨ wishlist the afterlife cafe on steam ✨
📱 @aapiingaming.bsky.social
👾 fortune 500 gaming company marketer
🎵 https://linktr.ee/kimikimi_more
Simon @slepkin.bsky.social Chicago-based #gamedev. I like swarms and robots and unfortunately complex interlocking mechanics!
Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3941030/SOLARFLARE/ before it releases on May 27!
Studio: @swarmforge.bsky.social
Gamejams: knaughts.itch.io/
Seren Briar @faefatalegames.bsky.social they/them | 32 | TTRPG designer
https://faefatale.itch.io
Current Project: SWALLOW RPG, a 1-2 player splatterpunk game about consent and cannibalism
I have 4 cats
City Wizard Games @citywizardgames.bsky.social Chicago Indie game studio (of one, hi i'm Keith).
Wishlist Dock King - https://s.team/a/2014160?utm_source=bluesky
More - https://citywizardgames.com
Sonk @sonki-boy.bsky.social Harrison || 24 || He/him || Chicago Game Developer || your local blonde boy
Pfp: @yeeobun.bsky.social
https://sonki-boy.itch.io
CURRENT GAME: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4775480/TO_THE_CENTER_OF_THE_EARTH/
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Cam Collins @copperodyssey.bsky.social COPPER ODYSSEY & OTHER ARTWORKS
Formed By Zach @formed-by-zach.bsky.social Freelance game developer in Chicago, IL
In a state of perpetual rumination
Currently reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Currently playing: Scrolling through my Steam library until I get bored
Binary Clone (HyperTyper 2000) @binaryclone.bsky.social Developer of HyperTyper 2000 with @vaaasm.com. Musician.
Occasional pixel artist. Jack of all trades. They/them
Wishlist HyperTyper 2000 on Steam! s.team/a/3125430
Juice_Baby @juicebaby.bsky.social Creator of joy games, appreciator of art, living creature under the sun
My games: https://juice-baby.itch.io/
Join my server to get updates whenever I post a new game!
https://discord.com/invite/TZBCZz9GE9
Trinket Ben @ben.trinketstudios.com I principally wear a programmer hat at Trinket Studios. Arguably I wear other hats there too, but they're tinier and sillier. Battle Suit Aces, Battle Chef Brigade, and a handful of other Unity tinkerings. he/him.
Eric Huang @trinketeric.bsky.social Trinket Studios art guy
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
Kailey @kvpm2.bsky.social Project manager by day, director of @indiecitygames.org also by day | Chicago
The Men Who Wear Many Hats @hatsproductions.bsky.social HatsProductions.com
🎩 Max Gentlemen Sexy Business! MaxGentlemen.biz
💀 Organ Trail https://hatsproductions.com/organtraildc/
Working on: Max Gentlemen: Escape From Moriarty Mansion https://store.steampowered.com/app/3047590/
Kevin Geisler @luthyr.bsky.social Programmer/Producer at Young Horses, creators of Bugsnax & Octodad.
Hobbyist Photographer. Perpetually on FFXIV.
Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com Co-founder + President @younghorses.com, creators of Bugsnax and Octodad. (he/him) https://younghorses.com/
The Midwest, USA
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
Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net Creator of turn-based tactics games and SRPGs; most recently, Together in Battle! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1267210/Together_in_Battle/
📧: sinisterdesign@gmail.com
David Laskey @d-lask.bsky.social 🎮 programmer @ Evening Star
talk to me about volleyball, language learning, one piece tcg, or cycling. if you don't then i'll probably start talking to you about one of them lol
📍chicago
Sam Castree, III: Ace Attorney @indiegamelawyer.bsky.social Video Game Lawyer, Lord High Executioner at Sam Castree Law. All opinions are *your* own. How do you like that? (You like it very much.)
matt viglione @mattviglione.bsky.social I make games at SomaSim. I help run the Chicago Game Lab. I live in Chicago. Go Sox.
Matt Ryszkowski @mattryszkowski.bsky.social 3D Artist | BA Game Art Columbia College Chicago
Previously at SomaSim, Trixel Creative
Games, VFX, Animation, Entertainment
Greg Wohlwend @aeiowu.com Hard to pronounce videogames.
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!
BradStar | Game Dev @bradstar879.bsky.social Indie Game Dev | Software Engineer | Rubik’s Cube Artist
Co-founder of @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Working on That Time I Got Trapped in an Office Dungeon -> store.steampowered.com/app/3424620
Also made Murder At Midnight-> store.steampowered.com/app/1578890
Skizznugget @skizznugget.bsky.social Gamedev
I cant stop making music and art and stuff it makes me so happy
Les! @lezl.bsky.social 28 🇲🇽| Fashion Designer & Illustrator
also game dev and makes silly doodles ✨
Project Manager / Artist @lostgatorco.bsky.social
My website/socials: https://heylezl.carrd.co
Nick McKay @nicholasmckay.bsky.social Chicago indie game dev by day
... and the same by night
Charles Voita @chawlsv.bsky.social Chicago game dev. Working on cool stuff. Sr Programmer @ E-Line Media. Previously Seafrog, One Hand Clapping, Grim Tranquility. (he/him)
https://chawls.itch.io/
𝕮𝖎𝖆𝖓 (key-in) @cianrice.dev Irish lad in Chicago.
Soon to be unemployed DevRel @ Magic Leap
Founder @kohococoa.dev
Prev: BostonFIG, nWay, EA, Harmonix + more
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PMEPDX Out Now: https://bit.ly/pmepdxbsky
HYPER GROOVE AX this October
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Thoughts are my own | 少し日本語OK
nattie ✨ vaaasm @vaaasm.com Artist, Writer, Gamedev! ✨
Art Director on HyperTyper 2000 💻⚡
Wishlist HT2K now! -> s.team/a/3125430
Solo dev of Hallow Grove, Trash Dungeon, & more
Play Hallow Grove on Steam!🎃: s.team/a/3096140
they/them, 🇵🇷
💛🤍💜🖤
BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com An anime-inspired, card-battling, narrative-focused RPG from the makers of Battle Chef Brigade. Play now!
Steam: https://t.co/KEwMsjZDhS
PS5: https://tinyurl.com/3afpp5mh
Switch: https://tinyurl.com/7amc5fef
Discord: http://discord.gg/trinketstudios
The moose @trueandhonestmoose.bsky.social Any pronouns | Game dev that dreamt they were a software engineer | big fan of critters and cratures both real and imagined | love spooks and spirits | jackalope
Bumblebean Games @bumblebeangames.bsky.social Solo dev in Chicago!!
Grove: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3307710/Grove/
Ewe Shall Not Pass: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2480210/Ewe_Shall_Not_Pass/
Also a director of Indie City Games
Jonah (he/him)
˗ˏˋ Neelam ˎˊ˗ @neee.bsky.social She/Her | ✨Chicago-based✨
Senior 3D Artist @owlchemylabs.com
3D Contract Artist @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social
Art Director @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Prev: HakJak Studios, Funomena
neelamjani.com
✨ Opinions are my own ✨
🚫 Say No to AI 🚫
spacedani2 ✨💖🪐 @spacedani2.bsky.social I paint with pixels!
Also, occasional music, and game dev!
Chicago based.
Stream my debut release, Lunar Psychosis!! out everywhere ✨ https://daniorizaba.hearnow.com
Wurm Fud (in dev: DOUR TOWER) @wurmfud.itch.io Chicago artist/gamedev. Horror games, art games, and RPGs in no particular order. Overly fond of skeletons holding swords. Chicago Indie organizer.
Wishlist Dour Tower! https://s.team/a/5090590/
Check out Slaughter Void! https://s.team/a/3333980/