jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Adelaide Fringe @adlfrin.ge The official BlueSky account of Adelaide Fringe. Biggest arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere🌏 20Feb-22Mar 2026💖 http://linktr.ee/AdelaideFringe
Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
https://linktr.ee/melcityoflit
Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social The latest writing on arts, culture and society from across Australia, along with resources and awards for writers. 
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Patch Kolan @patchkolan.bsky.social @PlaysideStudios Narrative Lead | Author of many games and books and such | Ex-@IGN | Ex-RebootPR | Come say hello!
cooperativepower.org.au @copower.bsky.social We are a non-profit cooperative energy provider working to bring energy back into the commons. https://www.cooperativepower.org.au
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
linktr.ee/ovrlnd
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
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
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
anwyn hocking @anwynhocking.bsky.social urban geography PhD thinking about abolition ecologies, rivers, militarism and climate imaginaires on unceded wurundjeri land
🍉
Adelaide 💎🌮 @adelaidejewel.bsky.social Looking for work 👀 | Prev: Blizzard x2 (Narrative Producer/QA), EA x2, Industrial Toys (Development Manager/Sr. QA/QA), Pipeworks (Sr. QA) | She/Her | Kinda gay | Still masking/still COVIDing | Opinions are my own | 🏳️🌈🇵🇸✊🏻
📍Louisiana ➡️ Oregon ➡️ SoCal
Action Kazimer @actionkazimer.bsky.social Senior GP Animator: BF6, Iron Man, Dead Space, Far Cry 6, For Honor, Brawlhalla || Anim Director: FF9 Memoria Project || Opinions are my own. He/Him. BLM. Trans rights = human rights. Yinzer in Toronto.
World's self proclaimed Biggest Vagrant Story Fan.
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
Andrew Carl @andrewcarl.bsky.social He/They, #GameDev Senior Systems Designer at Respawn. Prev work: Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Destiny 2 THPS 1+2 at Vicarious Visions, Diablo IV at Blizzard. Views are my own
Chris Koeppel @badgermancer.bsky.social Game designer. Prev: Fortnite, Treyarch (Black Ops 4 & Black Ops Cold War), etc. Opinions are my own and they are terrible.
Cameron “Inevitability Enjoyer” Suey @cameronsuey.com Creator of @observableradio.com
Freelance Writer and Narrative Designer
fmr: Avengers, Tomb Raiders, Star Warses
pod: observableradio.com
biz: cameronsuey.com
fic: thejosefkstories.com
(he/him)
Catt Small @catt.design Designer with too many hobbies in Brooklyn. I run @gdocexpo.com in my spare time. People go "ooh" when I say I make video games.
Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
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
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Enterprising Fabulist
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
joemag @joemag.games Lead game designer at Redux Games, 3D printer, mad scientist. opinions mine. Ex-Blizz, Niantic and Riot.
prev known as joemag_games or joemag3D
he/him
John Spjuth @johnspjuth.bsky.social Producer/designer in the video game industry. Figuring out how we make games is almost as interesting as actually making them in the first place. Currently at Amplifier Studios, prev. Thunderful, Ghost EA. Tabletop RPG nerd. He/Him
Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social Principal Economy Designer @ Redux Games formerly Echtra, Bioware, Zenimax, Obsidian, and more. Chicago Native, Sam Haight's Bastard, End Boss of the Internet, PADI certified Mermaid, Hater of Digital Seagulls VAMO
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.
Mike Towndrow @itsmike.town Creative Director at Games Done Quick
Words via @crowbar.diy | Prev. Six One Indie
Does good games work, has bad hair genetics.
Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social Writer of video games, books, short stories etc.
A SPELL FOR MIDWINTER'S HEART out now
Rep: Aurora Fernandez @ Trident Media
Games: GW2, Tell Me Why, Halo, Rift, and more
http://www.lockhartwrites.com
Morello @morello.bsky.social Game design leader and product strategist. Prev. Firaxis, Valorant, League, Guild Wars.
Enthusiast [derogatory] about turn-based strategy, good coffee and west coast fast food.
Bring back Arby's potato cakes
Nik @nikfromearth.bsky.social Game writer, formerly Epic Games, Her Interactive
Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.social . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
Quill Verhoeven @quill.bsky.social game producer, adaptive audio nerd, club mate addict ✨
prev. metro awakening @ vertigo games 🚇
Randy Lubin @randylubin.com Games and Startups
https://randylubin.com/
https://leveragedplay.com/
https://diegeticgames.com/
Rickles @ricklesley.bsky.social Level & Encounters Lead @riotgames (R&D) | Disintegration, Hob, Shadow of Mordor & Blacklight: Retribution | Photog & Bouldering | He/Him #gamedev
Rourke Bywater @rourke.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Hidden Door. lesbian. 💜 procedural systems, women, folk music + art with a touch of melancholy and bitterness. Organizer @ Roguelike Celebration
Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social He/him. Lead Writer/Assoc. Narra Director @Ubisoft Bordeaux - Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ghost Recon Wildlands. Prev: Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes, Atlas Fallen, Under the Waves.
Vehemently anti-GenAI
ruby0x1 @ruby0x1.ca narrative designer / tech witch / game designer / writer / art / audio •👩💻Mossfield Origins/Archives • co-founder https://anypercent.studio • creator https://createwith.luxe • http://wren.io • mov ax,13h • she/her 💾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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
Anne Stickney @shadesogrey.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. All chatter and opinions are my own! Internet Dragon Expert.
Alicia Haddick/アリシア @aliciahaddick.com (aka @socialanigirl)💛they/them🏳️🌈💛Scriptwriter/Journalist/Photographer in 🇯🇵💛Culture Writer @scrmbl.com💛Freelance @ Japan Times💛gamesindustry.biz💛Verge💛Techradar💛UploadVR💛etc💛宝塚(美空真瑠)🌹ももクロ💛Ado💙花譜💗ENG/日本語
Portfolio: http://www.aliciahaddick.com
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!
Bobby Stein @bobbystein.bsky.social Studio Narrative Director at ArenaNet. Dad, husband, musician, mentor, foodie, retro gaming enjoyer, and a few other things. I post about the games I'm playing, the food I'm eating, and occasionally the games we're making. Follows =/= endorsements.
cat 🩵 @catherinevalman.bsky.social goblin and senior narrative designer @ pixelberry studios 💙 chicana 🩵 bi 🤍 she/her preferred
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Doug Hill @dhstom.bsky.social 20 Year Video Game Designer & Senior Game Designer @ Metamoki.
Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social Game designer and writer. Currently Broadsword and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Distressingly typical geek interests. He/him.
Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and more. Narrative Director on Battlefield. Previous Horizon Forbidden West/CalloftheMountain- Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own.
He/him. www.andrewwalsh.com
Matt Forbeck @forbeck.com NYT bestselling, award-winning author/game designer. He/him. Current projects: Marvel Multiverse RPG, Minecraft: Roll for Adventure, and Shotguns & Sorcery 5E.
Hayley Stone @hayleystone.bsky.social Lead narrative designer at Obsidian Entertainment (The Outer Worlds 2 🪐) | SFF author of Make Me No Grave and the Last Resistance series | Opinions are mine. She/her.
Website: www.hayleystone.com
Maebe Pale Moonlight 🌙 @kindasortamaebe.bsky.social Game Dev - 12+ years
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra
- Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet
- Borderlands 2, 3, 4, The Pre-Sequel
- The Last of Us Part I, 2r
- Battleborn
Sportbike bi girl
Pole Dancer
Support a girls GAC - https://gofund.me/db0f4813
Lucas Loredo @lucasloredo.bsky.social 🎮Game Writer, Narrative Designer
📝Best American Short Stories & Travel Writing
🗣️Narrative Design talks
✨Welcome!✨
lucasloredo.com
Matt Gambell @mattgambell.co.uk Independent Video Game Designer and Programmer. Currently working on Cabs Of Chaos and making Unity videos at: youtube.com/GameDevGuide
Anthony Campos @memesis.bsky.social Senior Level Designer @Treyarch working on multiplayer things • Black Ops 6 • Black Ops Cold War • Black Ops 4 • Plastic instrument aficionado • Expert in not finishing games • Husband • Dad • ADHD haver • My opinions are my own.
Nicholas G Cameron @ngcameron.com ● Senior Level Designer at Respawn Entertainment
● TTRPG side projects
● Formerly @RamblingCameron on Twitter
● Wife @devonrubinart.bsky.social
● games/fantasy/climate ● he/him
Rowan Belden-Clifford @rowanbc.bsky.social Lead Level Designer on AAA video games with 14+ years of experience. Proud dad and husband, avid guitar player and singer, bandmate.
Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social Narrative Director, Borderlands 4 at Gearbox Software | Prev: Lead Writer, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands | BL3 | BL3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles | Non-canonical lore item | He/him.
Zoey Starwind 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @zoeystarwind.bsky.social Just a trans girl working on Rocket Car games. Psyonix // Epic Games
She/Her
Trans/Ace/Lesbian. ADHD, Neurodivergent.
My tweets and thoughts are my own.
Melissa Janowicz @deedlite.bsky.social Senior Gameplay Designer at Epic Games 🎮 Previously Respawn Entertainment, Microsoft, BioWare, Disney, lots of indie studios. She/Her.
Chris Tihor @ironiciconic.bsky.social Writer & narrative designer. Wrote for Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys & BAFTA-winning Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. Founder of @storyworksinc.ca. Partner at Talespinners. Cat sorcerer. Canadian. (He/They)
https://storyworksinc.ca
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
Jimmie Myers @jimmiemyers.bsky.social Narrative Director - Santa Monica Studio
Past: Uncharted 4, Infinite Warfare, Modern Warfare ‘19, Destiny 2, Marathon
Games, film, food, music, bikes! Director. Writer. Editor. Opinions mine. he/him
Jarory de Jesus @jrawry.bsky.social Founder of Coquito Games, Board President at Global Game Jam, Narrative Designer on Guild Wars 3, Verso apologist, Programmer, Musician, Writer, Anthropologist, Activist, Polymath, Adventurer, Dreamer. Opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/JarorydeJesus
James Horgan @krett.bsky.social Lead Game Designer. Formerly: Paladins, Realm Royale, Smite, Martial Arts Tycoon: Brazil. My views don't represent anything at all.
Viv @ Home @doe-or-die.bsky.social ✨ Manic pixel dream girl
⭐ Sr combat designer. Currently: unannounced. Formerly: bungie.
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights babeyyy!!
🔷 She/Her
🔥 Plural / DID haver
🔞 Warning: Horny on main; 18+ content
💀 As of thus far unkillable
Jen Klasing, aka Questifer @questifer.bsky.social Senior Quest Designer at Amazon Games (New World), previously Crop Circle (RIP) and World of Warcraft. Dog mom, volcano nerd, roleplayer.
✨Donny T✨ @spvcevvitch.bsky.social NB Game Dev || Twitch Affiliate || Amateur Voice Actor || Former: SonySantaMonica, Psyonix || Opinions are my own || They/Them.
Twitch.tv/spvcevvitch
Alejandro Bielsa @vontadeh.bsky.social Character Technical Artist on Fable at Playground Games
He/Him
🇪🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Cat dad. Opinions are my own.
david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social founder and studio creative director at The Outsiders. New Yorker. Made some games, wrote some games. Battlefield Bad Company 1/2, BF3, Killzone 2, Mirror’s Edge, Payday 2, Metal Hellsinger, others. Making (redacted) : a new game.
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.
Karen @risu23.bsky.social Video game production human, head of studio ops & production at Interleave. Lover of video games, film (letterboxd = risu23), tv, animation, dark & spooky stuff. I was a goth at 924 Gilman. SFO -> YVR. She/her. "Fix your heart or die!"
Walter @walterbadgett.bsky.social Systems Designer at ZOS, formerly at Arkane Austin, Edge of Reality.
ESO, Redfall, Loadout, Sims, Dragon Age, several canceled games 😥
Doing my part to help maximize shareholder value.
Opinions are my own, not reflective of the megacorp overlords.
Dora B @heyitsdora.com Release management and production @strangescaffold.bsky.social
Director of Production and Operations @insertdisc5.com
Producer for Truth Scrapper, In Stars and Time, etc.
No AI. Opinions are my own.
She/her. SO normal.
https://heyitsdora.com/
Nana Moon { game dev } - WISHLIST BATHORY @moonana.bsky.social Anti Capitalistic Rethroric through games narrative.
Director, Narrative Designer, Artist.
⭐Virgo Versus The Zodiac
🎸Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk
🩸 @bathorygame.bsky.social
💜 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/c/moonana
📧 nana@moonanagames.com
Dan / CCP Convict @dancrone.bsky.social Lead Community Developer for EVE Online at Fenris Creations.
Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social Sr. Software Programmer, content tools for EVE Online at Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games.) Ex-Disney, PDI, Dreamworks, Rhythm & Hues. My opinions only.
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Robin Clarke @rclarke.bsky.social Games producer, often found at Maraoke (@singmaraoke.bsky.social). He/him
Words: http://www.citystate.co.uk
I may put my frequently used hashtags here (tap and hold to filter): #NMS
Andrew Hair @andrewhair.bsky.social Game developer at rainbowstudios
Past: MarvelHeroes/Gazillion/@Foundation9
Streaming on Twitch for charity.
You're probably here for pictures of my dog.
Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social Co-Founder @cstoneintstudio
Past: Art Director #Psychonauts2
Advisor: @gameheadsoakland
Nominations/Awards: @BAFTAGames & @TheGameAwards
https://linktr.ee/LisetteTitre?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMT
Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social Best of the Web. Minnesotan New Yorker in Oakland, CA. Game Designer. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Sam Bernstein @huhwelp.bsky.social Senior producer at Bethesda Game Studios. Video Game guy. Runner. Random traveler. Occasional curmudgeon. Opinions are my own.
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
Will Emigh @wgemigh.bsky.social Director of the game design BS at Indiana University Bloomington. Co-founder of Studio Cypher. Last release: Mineko’s Night Market
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. 🙅
GL, Chosen of Jupiter @grdnlvn.bsky.social Narrative design, bonsai, public service. Making We Are Free Mice, a narrative video game of tarot and antiquity: www.wearefreemice.com
Hannah Filipski 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 @leftie.bsky.social vine historian | Narrative Lead
on Destiny 2 | prev: God of War Ragnarök & Afterparty | snake mom | personal account
John Ebenger @johnebenger.bsky.social Cinematic Director. Formerly - Destiny 2, Jedi: Fallen Order, AC: Odyssey, 3 Mass Effects and 3 Dragon Ages, etc.
The Island of Dr. Oetker @jdsorvari.bsky.social Writer / Narrative designer just yelling his own opinions and dank memes into the digital void. Massively in Malmö.
Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
Tim Hengeveld @hedgefield.bsky.social Dutch indie gamedev and illustrator. Making small narrative games about life’s joys and mysteries. Currently working on The Ruin Wanderer.
Gabe Graziani @gabegraziani.bsky.social I'm Gabe Graziani, former community management manager guy at some videogame companies. Opinions = mine, he/him
Natty @ngmferguson.bsky.social Technical Designer @ Naughty Dog
Not a coward
Tamrielo @tamrielo.bsky.social 10 years of game design, 7 years of business from marketing to product. I make MMOs, I paint miniatures, I DM for TTRPGs, and probably a few other things. 🇵🇷
allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social game designer by day, crazy cat lady by night. current: senior systems designer 2, world of warcraft. previous: magic: the gathering (+online)
american. native seattleite. fan of constitutional rights, due process, and democracy. she/her.
🏳️🌈😷🐈🐈🏃♀️🎮
Col Walder @colwalder.bsky.social Engineering Director @ CD Projekt Red, Composer, Audio Programmer, Drummer
Worked on GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077
Composer for Banshee: Demon Girl
Owen Goss @owengoss.com Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, Photobomb. Amateur potter. (he/him)
Links: owengoss.com
Jason Spencer @wolfen420.bsky.social Lead level designer at Virtuos Games.
Yes, I like Kylo Rens costume. Yes that’s me in cosplay in the profile pic.