Josh Bycer @gwbycer.bsky.social Game Design Critic, player of all indie games
https://www.game-wisdom.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/game-wisdom
https://discord.gg/jGWxsj2eZH
https://www.routledge.com/Game-Design-Deep-Dive/book-series/CRCGDDD
https://www.patreon.com/c/GWBycer 
Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social Small team in Northern Ireland making narrative games with heart 🖤
Wishlist THE HEARTH AND HARBOUR:
🥘 https://bit.ly/HearthHarbourSteam
Play The Pale Beyond:
❄️ https://bit.ly/3CY2jA9
dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social not affiliated with https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com, but I do use their data
if I repost your quote post and you didn’t want it broadcast to a larger audience lmk
maintained by @jojjjajjr.bsky.social
https://github.com/johnmatter/dfbugs
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social He/him. Makes tabletop games http://ehronlime.itch.io. Shouts about tabletop playtesting (Playtest Zero!) every other week. World's 2nd foremost expert in being Aaron Lim.
Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social I write games & jokes. Sometimes both.
⌛ past: journalist & presenter @ ONM, OXM, Nintendo Life, The Guardian, GameSpot, Xbox, Minecraft, etc
🔮 present: games writer @ Moonstone Island, Owlchemy, & Hello Kitty Island Adventure
@ Nova Scotia, Canada
Andrei Pechalin @apechalin.bsky.social Videogame words mainly in Edge and Eurogamer.
andreipechalin@gmail.com
www.pechalin.com
FlatNine Games @flatninegames.bsky.social Small indie team, creators of Letter Lost. Available now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3624790/Letter_Lost/
Join the Letter Lost Discord at https://discord.gg/NxtvTK4nGz
Francesca Baerald @francescabaerald.com Traditional Artist/Cartographer happily working in the game & publishing industry 👾🎲🎨
WotC•D&D•MtG | SquareEnix | Blizzard•Diablo•Warcraft | DarkHorse | Conan | Free League | Gloomhaven | & more!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiridon/unbound
Alex Moore @oldestpingu.bsky.social Lead Designer on Rogue Trooper • AvP2010 • The Persistence & many moore
Founder and Design Director of @mooregames.co.uk
Ian Stewart 🏳️🌈 @eestew.bsky.social Gay menace making games
@discountygame.bsky.social
he/him. opinions my own
🇵🇸🏳️🌈
📍 Germany
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Gary Chalk @garychalk.bsky.social I'm a wrinkly old fantasy illustrator, best known for Lone Wolf, Redwall and loads of Games Workshop stuff. I live in Charente Maritime France in a house full of books, toy soldiers and dust.
@lochandquaygames.bsky.social @lochandquaygames.bsky.social 
Sapient PC-98 Tapedeck (Cosette) @cosettetape.bsky.social A monolith of autism
🪬💿🪬
it/she
plural
writer
artist
Cajun
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PFP: @aizheajsee on Xitter
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🔞 occasional erotic & violent rps!
Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | NOW: Kinali Works & Stupendium Softworks | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️ 💜🤍🖤💚 | she/her | annacwebster.com
The Indie Stone @theindiestone.bsky.social The most indie of stones you could ever imagine! Developer of Project Zomboid.
2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social l'art pour l'Tharg.
Featuring images from 2000AD and related comics, classic and new.
Unofficial.
Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social He/him. Designing indie ttrpgs
Newest Project:
SPINE - A dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book
https://backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine
https://www.backwardstabletop.com/
Sally @sirin.bsky.social Co-founder @tarinoi.bsky.social - an upcoming narrative design platform for the full game lifecycle
software + ui/ux + game dev • lifts things • svenska med fel och allt
🔹prev: tools engineer @ za/um
🔸now: building cool things at https://tarinoi.com
Ularis Badler @ubadler.bsky.social Game developer, pixel artist, sound designer, composer, and #TurnBasedThursday enthusiast. Developing #Archrebel (based on 1986's Rebelstar).
Steam:
https://t.co/XYOofKG4MC
Demo:
https://ularis-badler.itch.io/archrebel
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social Prehistoric archaeologist and hunter-gatherer of interestingness 🏹🌾 | Sharing my love of all things ancient 🏺🏛️ | PhD student at Cambridge studying the Neanderthals of Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
https://linktr.ee/oz_of_the_ancients
Trash Goblin @spiltmilkstudios.bsky.social The cozy, wholesome, chill, no pressure shopkeeping game, with a great name 😇 Out now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2407830/Trash_Goblin/
Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social Developer of Ostranauts and NEO Scavenger. Founder of Blue Bottle Games studio.
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
Mr. Lucha, father of 🦆 🐈 🐕 , indie dev 🎮 @luchalutra.bsky.social Indie Dev, looking to share my craft, and connect with other devs and folks who love the medium of video games!
The guy your lemon drink warned you about.
Profile art commission done by @teoft.bsky.social
Banner art commission done by @zeroand09.com
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of unique, engaging TTRPGs.
www.possibleworldsgames.com
Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social Scotland-based #ttrpg developer and publisher of #BEOWULF Age of Heroes, #astaterpg second edition, #Maskwitches, Silver Road, Jon Hodgson Backdrop books, #ColdCity, Hot War, #FiveEvil and more
https://handiwork.games
jay Dragon is sleepy @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Nick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social Just a guy
Ways Unseen @ways-unseen.bsky.social Draws maps | Designs games | Plays solo games (Lone Adventurer on YT)
Check out linktr.ee/ways.unseen for commission enquiries or to find out where to get my maps and solo games!
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. Kaboom! Bucket Brigade member since 1982.
Kevin VanOrd 🏳️🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Game designer and writer: Divinity, Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2 | Your gay dad: partnered to Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social | Doing my best
Steam / PlayStation / Xbox Live: fiddlecub
Signal: fiddlecub.85
Gleb Tsereteli @glebtsereteli.bsky.social Full-time #GameMaker programmer. Working on several games and making open source tools, including the award-winning GMRoomLoader.
Check out my work on https://github.com/glebtsereteli and https://glebtsereteli.itch.io/.
Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social Game designer at Blizzard. He/him. Fan of: comics, music, archery, my cats. Personal account, all opinions are just mine.
formerly @jeffahamilton on Twitter
https://jhamilton.bearblog.dev/blog/ for blog-shaped thoughts
Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social Narrative lead @ Obsidian Entertainment, writer, occasional photographer
katedollarhyde.com
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com 🏴 Creative director at GRIMOIRE
🌙 Making Pale Tides, the witch TTRPG
⚔️ Art for Silent Hill: Townfall, MTG, D&D, Black Library, Axis Animation (Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2), Disney etccc
🔗 https://linktr.ee/PaulScottCanavan
Sean Dick @seandick.net Rogue gameplay programmer Puppy Truck, Tonight We Riot, ReBop Blasters
https://dean-sick.itch.io
deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social 
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
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
The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time. https://www.yorkeantiquetextiles.com/
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social it’s me
https://youtube.com/@any_austin
M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social I write about things for a living. Currently for a game dev and my personal newsletter, Stuff Worth Knowing (https://stuffworthknowing.substack.com/).
Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social creative director/writer of Crow Country, The Mermaid Mask, Tangle Tower, Snipperclips, Haunt the House. SFB Games w/@sfbtom.bsky.social
Adam@SFBGames.com
Jeremy Jayne @jeremybjayne.bsky.social maker of weird computer games + Noclip documentary guy
Sheng Lam @8bitwizard.bsky.social freelance concept artist | Firewalk Studios, Funcom, Netflix, Sloclap, Valve, DON'T NOD, Fun Dog, CIG
print shop: blueduckleaf.com
artstation.com/shenglam
https://www.instagram.com/8bitwizard/
Jade King ✍️ OPEN FOR WORK @konayma6.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Video game, animation, and queer culture critic. Fruity. Email: jadekingfreelance@gmail.com. She/They.
I’m doing everything in my power to destroy video games.
MuckRack: https://muckrack.com/jordan-king-1
Jake Gaule @submergedtapes.bsky.social 🎵 My body is a machine that turns pizza into music 🎵
NEO TITAN, Bladesong, Scriptorium, Little Corners, Spirit Tails, Automatoys, Archvale, Total Zugzwang etc
Prole, he/him.
https://linktr.ee/submergedtapes
lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social News writer at PC Gamer. Older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, pre-unholy resurrection Waypoint, etc. Artist formerly known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Views are my own and bad
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social 🎮 Game UI/UX Designer (Freelance)
🎨 Creator of http://gameuidatabase.com
📘 Author of The Game UI Bible with Lost in Cult!
🎭 BAFTA Member
🏆 Future Class 23, GDH Design Hero 21, Guinness World Record Holder
🎵 Composer on Piece By Piece by Gamkat
Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ Time Zone Era @angeloslh.bsky.social Freelance Concept/2D/UI artist - Total War Battles:Shogun/Rome II/Fable Fortune/The Bradwell Conspiracy/Voodoo Detective/Onlycans:Thirst Date
UI Designer on Pacific Drive/Date Everything!
Enquiries: saford@outlook.com
She/Her
www.saford.art
#Art
Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social Ope. Peabody and BAFTA awarding winning writer. Currently a Senior Writer @ Compulsion Games | Subnautica | Naughty Dog |Yet another social media platform.
Michel Ziegler @dasmirts.bsky.social aka Hidden Fields. Made that game Mundaun. Working on game 2, a Philip K. Dickensian Immersive Sim. 0451
Join my Discord to see how the game takes shape: discord.gg/TP8zxSWv
Adrien Dittrick @adriendittrick.bsky.social French hobbyist queer poly gamedev composer. Play my games here: https://adriendittrick.itch.io/
Join my discord server if you feel like chatting!
https://discord.gg/ggqZ2c4
Graeme Little @graemelittle.com Indie game developer creating Hexiv, an epic deckbuilder! (https://HexivGame.com/) Recently worked on Mewgenics.com.
Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social Writer, game designer
Former Staff Writer @TheOnion & @ClickHole.
Words for Netflix, Jackbox Games, High On Life, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, Saints Row, Darkhorse, other places
alexanderblechman.com
shana 😋 (andreia gaita) @shana.spoiledcat.com Making games, hacking tools, porting stuff. ex-GitHub, ex-Unity, ex-Xamarin, indie dev, unity ninja, open source hacker. she/her.
https://spoiledcat.com
https://blog.worldofcoding.com
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shana
https://github.com/shana
Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social Hello, I'm Richard. I write games. Please like them and also me. http://www.thecuriosityengine.com
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📗📕📘
README: http://jisaacgadient.com
🌐 🔗 https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
N a i t e l v e n i @naitelveni.bsky.social Previously 3D Realms level design for Graven, Wrath, Phantom fury
Open for work as an level designer and 3D environmental art.
Quake level design
she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈☮️🇪🇺
Heartbeast @heartbeast.bsky.social Father, indie game developer, pixel artist, writer, and tutorial creator.
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/heartbeast
DarkCocooning➡️Working on Goblin Dice & Cleave + Crimson Furnace @darkcocooninggames.bsky.social Indie studio:
Crimson Furnace: a narrative cooking sim/ weird medieval world.
Goblin Dice & Cleave: a tabletop RPG-turn/based strategy.
⬇️Wishlist now on Steam⬇️
http://bit.ly/3T16Xlm
bit.ly/3J1gPKG
https://linktr.ee/DarkCocooningGames
arr @arr.bsky.social 
Call of Saregnar @callofsaregnar.bsky.social Old-school fantasy RPG inspired by Betrayal at Krondor. Handcrafted medieval world with live-action cast.
store.steampowered.com/app/1174510/
patreon.com/CallOfSaregnar
morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social 
ChristinaC.🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social Ex-AAA Rendering+Optimisation Programmer
TechArtist, Designer. Stylized Art.
#indiedev #gamedev 🏳️⚧️
Shader Illusionist
AssassinsCreed2 / FarCry2 / BF3 / MidnightClub 2+3
#NoAI
She/Her
SoCal girl living in 🇸🇪
mastodon.gamedev.place/@ChristinaCoffin
Séamus Ó Buadhacháin @sdob.bsky.social Senior Programmer at Failbetter Games. He/him.
Robert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social Senior Quest Designer @ CDPR // Cyberpunk 2 | previously: sr narrative designer @ bungie, game designer @ pathfinder rpg | all (garbage) opinions my own
Nate Shearer @faultrunner.bsky.social Award-Winning Writer (was gifted a “World’s Best Dad” mug)
Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz Dean Walshe:
3D Art lead on Wild Bastards and Void Bastards
Past games I have worked on include Stellar Warsy things and the Borderlands Interquel doodad.
https://deanw.xyz/
(He/Him)
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
[eve] @ninehydras.dev 🎮 Senior World Artist @bungie.net - Marathon, Destiny 2
🧪 Indie Horror Game Dev - making Hollow Doll
♾️ Witchcraft and Androids
🏳️⚧️ haunted sapphic girl 🐇 33 [she/her]
🌐 ninehydras.carrd.co
[opinions are my own]
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games @chrisdeleon.bsky.social I help people make games DevPods.gg GameDev since 97. Angry about AI. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor, IndieCade, Extra Credits, IGDA LA. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 185k podcast DL. Vegan for 24 yrs. he/him
Tim Newsome-Ward @anamazingpunk.bsky.social Quest designer @ Double Eleven| Working on Fallout 76 | Lover of story, level and game design | Horror, Scifi, comics & loose leaf tea enthusiast.
Megan M @memopotato.bsky.social Technical Designer @ Wooly Games. Prev. @ Blink, ustwo games. I like Avocadoes🥑. They/She. Passionate about making and designing more accessible games. @LBmentorship Mentor. Code Coven alumni. APX practitioner.
Okomotive @okomotive.ch We are a Swiss game studio crafting atmospheric journeys with meaningful mechanics. Working on PinKeep. Creators of the FAR games and Herdling.
okomotive.ch
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
Léon 🧩 Looking for Fael is OUT! @leonardbertos.bsky.social 🦉Sr. Writer, Narrative designer. Lead & teacher.
🍂 Games; Infamous Keepers, Stardream, Sandwalkers, Looking for Fael, The Merlies...
🪹 Fantasy novels; La Quête de Midas, Le Journal de Fersac...
🐗 #Modding #Fantasy #Gamedev #Queer #Indie
🐌 En & Fr. He/They
PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social Art Director and CEO of Spooky Doorway Games. @spookydoorway.com, developers of The Darkside Detective and The Séance of Blake Manor
#GameDev #indieDev #IrishGameDev
Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
spookydoorway.com
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor.
Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/
Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Helen Carmichael - Game Dev @bchezza.bsky.social #GameDev with @greyalien.bsky.social at Grey Alien Games. Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. Writer: Going Medieval & more…https://greyaliengames.com/blog/writing-editing/
Bryce Tetraeder @brycetetraeder.bsky.social Global Tetrahedron CEO, chairman, media proprietor, entrepreneur, human trafficker, thought leader, and venture capitalist.
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/
Erik Robson @erikrobson.net Game/level designer | LFW | Valve (Portal 2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact) | Double Fine (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) | 3DO ()
25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
Husband, father, PNW, living through Interesting Times
Mike W @gekido.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian Metis, Emmy award-winning Tech Producer / Tech Director. ex-Unity, Namco, Roadhouse, Gamedev for 25+ years... Tech Director on Adam & Baymax shorts, etc
Current: Cloudhead, Megacrush, Instructor @ VFS
In Vancouver
Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com Creative Director @electricsaint.bsky.social
BAFTA Breakthrough // artsy weirdo // illustrator, gamedev, stubborn idiot 🧹🏍️
she/they
annahollinrake.com
👇 Wishlist Crescent County 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2202650/Crescent_County/