CULT Games @cultgames.bsky.social video games r cool
Out Now: Loop//Error / HOTEL BARCELONA / Catto's Post Office / Go-Go Town / Don't Get Got / Tempopo / Autoforge
🔜: Catto's Post Office (Switch) / Awaysis / Blood Reaver
Links: http://linktr.ee/cultgames
Cozy Caravan @cozycaravangame.bsky.social Discover, craft, and connect!
Available now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Apple Arcade🐝
Steam — https://bit.ly/487dYX2
https://linktr.ee/cozycaravangame
Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social He/Him | Australian living on noongar boodja.
Lead developer of 🍺Innkeep @ Boot Disk Games | Husbando/Dad | Once a Jpn-Eng translator.
Steam👉 https://mythwright.gg/Innkeep
Discord👉 https://discord.gg/q5nyWXRmqU
Mailing List👉 http://eepurl.com/gzRndT
House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Big Walk is out now: bigwalk.game
househouse.com
Skill Up @skillup.bsky.social YouTube sellout https://linktr.ee/skillupyt Business only: skillup@night.co
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Gavin Clayton @gavinclayton.bsky.social Hello! I'm the creator and lead developer behind Daggerfall Unity.
Now working part-time on another game.
Devlog: https://dev.interkarma.net
Location: Australia
Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)
Jacob Janerka @jacobjanerka.bsky.social Making comedy adventure game 'The Dungeon Experience' with Bone Assembly
Made the game 'Paradigm'
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
froggi @froggi.dev I do all sorts of stuff | 26 | 🇦🇺🏳️🌈
www.froggi.dev
Safe place for everyone <3
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
Ryan Penning ✨ @ryanpenning.com ✨Award Winning Producer and Games Industry Expert. Thinking and looking for what’s next?
Previously @ Chaos Theory Games, @ Mighty Kingdom, @ Ultimate Studio, Games Investment Manager @ Screen NSW
Won some AGDA's • Rising Star & more!
Stubbornly made
Serenade @serenade.games We put on alternative games events!
Next: ???
Prev: FORM, Tangents @ Sabby ALT: EX @ Powerhouse ALT: GAMES, #gameaweeksyd2025, Serenade Showcase @ #SXSW Sydney 2023, Games Spaces for Static Vision, Ink Jam Sabby https://serenade.games
Waypoint @waypoint-events.com Waypoint is a premium networking event for the video game industry, providing a professional environment for developers, publishers, and media to socialise.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/waypointevents
Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
✨ Production-for-hire (Massive Monster, onepixel. dog & more)
💜 Co-Founder Girl Geek Academy
🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
https://linktr.ee/lisyk
Massive Monster @massivemonster.bsky.social Game making MONSTER!!!
We made Cult of the Lamb!
twitter sucks hehe
Paul Kopetko @paulkopetko.bsky.social Game developer, sound designer and composer.
Creator of @boomerangfu.bsky.social on Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and Steam.
Portfolio 👉 https://paulkopetko.com/
BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social Previously worked on many, many games; gamedev for nearly 20 years. I am old. I post random 3d printing stuff and sometimes bunnies. He/Him. Australia. Also birds apparently.
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Nixxes Software @nixxessoftware.bsky.social Previously TT Games and WeirdBeard Games. A member of Port Jackson Greens and the Sustainable Transport branch of Climate Change Balmain/Rozelle.
Reloader @reloader-au.bsky.social Australia’s newest outlet covering video games, tech, and entertainment
Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social Awards-nominated freelance writer (ScreenHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, CheckPoint, SUPERJUMP, Qualbert, NG+, LT3, JPG). Highly opinionated on games, miniatures, & wrasslin'.
They/Them.
https://muckrack.com/jam-walker
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
Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social Krome Studios co-founder
Award-winning Australian video game designer & drawing guy.
Blade Kitten, TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The Crinoline Crime Club, and Gunwale.
I love making pizza.
https://linktr.ee/spacecaptsteve
Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social Senior videogame tech artist /art director.
Unreal Tournament 04, Dragonage, D&D Online, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Stellaris, Civ IV + more. VFX Where The Wild Things Are.
https://www.delaneyking.com
Renee O'flynn @scree.bsky.social Freelance video game journalist. Reviewer for Qualbert.com. Making content for Switchaboo and the IndiEXP.
Apologies will happen.
Contact me! Scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Portfolio: (in progress) http://scree66.wordpress.com
Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io Queer Monster - TransEnby (They\Them)
Occasionally NSFW | Queer & Disabled Game Dev
Adventure Game, Giant Monster & Film Noir nerd
http://ko-fi.com/enbykaiju | http://enbykaiju.com (Digital Diversity Project)
Chris Yearn @chrisyearn.bsky.social Senior Animator @sledgehammergames.com • Prev: Lecturer, worked on some old games • Dad x 3 • ✝️ 🥁 🏹 • Opinions are my own
📍 Brisbane, Australia
🔗 https://linktr.ee/chrisyearn
Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social // Managing Editor, @ThisWeekInVideogames.com
// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
// DM's open, edmond@thisweekinvideogames.com
Ben Kosmina @kosmologyb.bsky.social Associate Product Manager for Fellow Traveller | he/him | ace | opinions are not that of my employers
I like good movies and terrible movies, and I have two cats. Narrative games are rad too
Callum Williams @misterwolfen.bsky.social • 3D Character Artist • Open to full-time, freelance or commission •
I draw sometimes 😌 and make 3D things 🤙
Andrew Mendlik @andrewmendlik.bsky.social Freelance video game Tech Artist. Portfolio website at andrewmendlik.com
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit on Steam @finalprofit.bsky.social Melbourne based queer indie dev. Anti-capitalist. Mask wearer.
Made Final Profit, and making Oil Town 🏳️🌈🎮
Freeplay award winner | AGDA nominee | IGF finalist.
Final Profit: https://tinyurl.com/finalprofit
Oil Town: tinyurl.com/oiltwn
Heather [Han] @hanhula.com English game dev @ PlaySide & writer living in Melbourne. WiG Ambassador. I fell into TTRPGs and FFXIV & can't get out! ♥ She/her
FFXIV: Hannelore Lyrium @ Lamia, Azsire Tulyatar @ Sophia
Socials: @hanhula
FE dev @ PC & XR
Check out Istralar @ WorldAnvil
Jack Kirby Crosby🌹👨🎨 @jkcrosbyfun.bsky.social 👨🎨🌹Art stuff. Game dev.
🚫 gen-images or Cr*pto
Free Palestine
✍️Concept art / illustrator
✍️Summerhill.
🎨Art Director: Moving Out 2,
🎤DnD Podcast: @dicepaperrole
Insta: http://instagram.com/jkcrosbyfun/
AS: www.artstation.com/jkcrosbyfun
he/him -Naarm
South Australian Games Association @sagames.org SAGA is a games industry non-profit created to promote, champion, network and inspire the SA game development community.
https://sagames.org
Tony Albrecht @tonyalbrecht.bsky.social Aussie Game Dev of 25+ years.
Principal Engineer at Riot Games.
Brews beer, plays games, lives life.
he/him
Kelsey Gamble @kindofsquishy.bsky.social Studio Momager for @newblood.games. Executive Producer for Oddlark. Publishing Producer for hire. For legal reasons I am a joke and so is everything I say
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Samurai Unicorn @samuni.bsky.social Harness the power of Samurai Unicorn and fight to save Sydney3 from the Dream Eaters.
Wishlist > https://store.steampowered.com/app/2494020/Samurai_Unicorn/
Support us > https://www.patreon.com/SamuraiUnicorn
Elliot @skelliot.bsky.social Lead, Product Designer, Games Developer. B.Sc. (Game Programming SAE Sydney). Ex Founder of Young Australian Skeptics. JumpJumpDie.
Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social Gamedev Priestess. Making stuff at Neon Giant. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
Caps Collective @capscollective.com We're an Australian indie game dev collective committed to making games, building and maintaining open-source projects, and sharing the arcane knowledge we happen upon along the way.
Contact: devs@capscollective.com
AstroKerrie @astrokerrie.bsky.social Content at PAX Aus.
🌻 Previous: ESLAustralia/DreamHack, Crunchyroll/AnimeLab ANZ ✨ She/Her 🍋
Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social Award winning yapper talking about video games online and on TV | Presenter, performer, (p)writer for hire | ABC | Views are my own | she/her
Email: gemmabdriscoll@gmail.com
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com I made Cult of the Lamb 🕹Accessibility Advocate 🤔Opinions are mine (and probably bad)
Senior Developer at SMG Studio
willmesilane.com
SIFTER @sifterhq.bsky.social 🎮🏆Australia Podcast Award winning video games podcast network with interviews, reviews and news | 📧hello {at} sifter.com.au 
🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder OUT NOW! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social Asian-Australian Art Heaux™️, Art Director for @summerfallstudios.com, Magic: the Gathering Illustrator, Dungeon Master, plays games on easy. (He/Him) 🦇❤️💜💙
NO AI / NO NFT | Opinions are my own
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social Reviews Editor & Features: @ThisWeekInVideoGames.com
Personal Blog: https://jameswould.pika.page/
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/omgmorejames
He/him 🏳️🌈
Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social freelance writer & consultant | seen @ Game Informer, IGN, Polygon, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edge, Tech Radar, NME + more | she/they | 🇦🇺 in ? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
サラ スウェイツ
💌 thwaitesannsarah [at] gmail [dot] com
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
ruby! @rubyinnes.bsky.social agent of chaos at massive monster & back pocket | former slopstress at kotaku au | illustrator
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them 
Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me Human intelligence for a synthetic age. Analyst exploring the friction between humans and AI. PhD candidate at UNSW / ADM+S researching generative authenticity. Regular on ABC radio. Living on Gundungurra land.
David Smith @rhunwords.com Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
Chris “Mutton” Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social Editor of GadgetGuy, award-nominated video games + consumer tech journo, lover of sports and cats. A very silly boy. He/him
Christie @auralynxian.bsky.social Award-nominated freelance games journalist 🎮
✨ As seen on GamesHub & WellPlayed ✨
Fan of The Witcher, Kingdom Hearts, Bratz 💕
💌 christie.auralynxian@gmail.com
Portfolio + socials: https://linktr.ee/auralynxian
Jess Zammit @jesszam.bsky.social Games writer, reviewer, journalist, researcher, designer, producer and diversity advocate. Writer on Puzzle Quest 3/Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart. Deputy Editor @ Player2.net.au . Prev: Represent Me, Mighty Kingdom, Infinity Plus Two. She/her 🏳️🌈
Mig Considine @migsommar.bsky.social 🌿 a druid and an author by night | sm/pr girlie by day | games, pop culture & horror | she/her
📕 These Tainted Things out now
https://linktr.ee/migsommar
Luke Mitchell 🎮🐻 @checkpointboss.bsky.social 🏳️🌈He/Him. PR at Zero Latency VR | Editor-in-Chief, Checkpoint Gaming - @CheckpointAU | Award winning journalist & radio producer who sometimes brags.
Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social Journalist/presenter for hire, video game and TTRPG freak, big sandwich day advocate, and general menace.
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
Alex Hutchinson @bangbangclick.bsky.social Creative Director @ Raccoon Logic. Also Journey to the Savage Planet, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 3, Army of TWO: 40th Day, Spore, Sims 2 etc. 🇦🇺in Canada.
Alex Walker @alexwalker.bsky.social Comms guy who spent 20 years writing about gaming/tech/esports (fmr. Kotaku Australia editor, ABC Tech + Games columnist, games.on.net, Gizmodo AU, Lifehacker AU, elsewhere).
Press Start Australia @pressstartau.bsky.social Bringing the best of gaming to Australia! 🎮 https://press-start.com.au/
Jeremy Bratetich @jeremy.minimap.com.au Managing Editor of @minimap.com.au He/They
Jeremy@minimap(dot)com(dot)au
Obiwanjezz most other places
Michal Napora @michalnapora.bsky.social Video games marketer and publisher. Founder of 32-33 and @unikat-label.com || Dying Light, The Medium, Sherlock Holmes, Squirrel w/a Gun, The Sinking City, Dystopika, Dinkum, POOLS, and dozens more
rasterrouser || making 'Rat Trap'! @rasterrouser.bsky.social 'Squash & Stretch' Games || Beau from Aus || developing Rat Trap! || can't read DM's sorry || Download FREE microvania (labelled 'demo'), wishlist or make contact here >> https://rattrap.carrd.co/
DDmeow 🐶 Cyber Paradise @ddmeow.bsky.social A wife-wife gamedev team 🏳️🌈working on Cyber Paradise!
ACTIONS! DOGS! CAFE!
🎮 Wishlist👉 s.team/a/2431790
🦵Kickstarter👉 ddmeow.net/ks
🌐 cyberparadise.net
ALL: ddmeow.net/sub
📍Au / Tw / Hk
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)
Game Workers Australia @gameworkersau.bsky.social Australia's first ever trade union for game workers! Powered by Professionals Australia
Contact us gwuaustralia@gmail.com if you need help at work.
gameworkers.com.au/join
Alexander Muscat @alexandermuscat.bsky.social Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast ● Making & researching ● Working on multi-perceptual puzzler SITE UNSEEN 🔴 siteunseengame.com ● Mech head ● he/him
Tana ⭐ pls wishlist Shape Sender Deluxe @tanamakes.games makes games, does swing dancing & photography, and likes to talk
Director @deadteapot.games making Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐🟡🟧
ex-Technical Designer
@dinopoloclub.bsky.social on Mini Motorways & Mini Metro
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.
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games Game designer at @sbug.games
Buy Wirm! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/Wirm/
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)
Zander Hulme ~♪ @zander.supertonic.au Award-winning noisemaker for games • dad • director of @Supertonic.au • bi 💖💜💙🏳️🌈 • (he/him) • Meanjin/Brisbane
Dean Ferguson @deanferguson.bsky.social Character artist, and co-founder of 5LivesStudios, creators of Cozy Caravan, Windbound, and Satellite Reign.
He/Him.
Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social 40 year veteran games developer. Working with Screen Agencies, Publishers, and Developers.
Production on (REDACTED) for Fireshine
Production on DREDGE, Moving Out 2, Before We Leave, Age of Darkness, CONSCRIPT for Team17.
www.gameconsulting.com.au
Piers 💫🏳️🌈 @piers.zip Solo dev cat person
📍 Brisbane 🇦🇺
💫 Working on Freeline! - a frenetic, kinetic, parkour speedrunning platformer.
✨ https://parkourcat.com/ - Wishlist Now!
🌐 https://piers.zip/
20 | They/Any
Kiera Lord @cratesmith.bsky.social fedi: @cratesmith@blahaj.zone
cohost: @cratesmith
Supertonic @supertonic.au Award-winning game audio studio
https://linktr.ee/supertonicaudio
Alex Driml @busalonium.bsky.social Brisbane game dev
Currently making L8R SK8R https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046610/L8R_SK8R/
Also made Gerrymander https://busalonium.itch.io/gerrymander-dx
Also, currently open for contract work
Steve Williams @konaju.bsky.social Aussie game dev veteran at Mighty Games on the Build and Test Team. Also plays with livestreaming, DJ, lighting, audio and running live music events. He/him.
Stephen Berg 🎮 @stephenrberg.com @spungegames.com Technical Director. I love superheroes, comics and wrestling. I collect retro gaming stuff. He/Him #gamedev
https://www.stephenrberg.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@stephenrberg
Anthony Massingham @amassingham.bsky.social Game Dev and Freetime Illustrator from Brisbane, Australia
Lead Programmer at Prideful Sloth, working on @gogotowngame.bsky.social
Previously at Defiant
Pete Mullins @petemullinsart.bsky.social Graphic artist and animator who works in TV, digital, film, and games. Making art for Halloween Harry and Super Robot Survivors with @johnpassfield.bsky.social
Cameron Darragh @camerondarragh.bsky.social Game developer from Brisbane. Still setting up my account
Travis @urmultimedia.bsky.social 🌐 https://www.urmultimedia.net
📍 BNE (AU)
Angus Coolan @angus.coolan.games Freelance Pixel Artist and Animator on Unpacking, Tempopo and Delverium. Game Developer currently making The Ropeway. He/Him
(Ni)cole Stark @mildlyadventurous.bsky.social Game dev matriarch, uniboober, mild adventurer, tired since 1993