New York Games Week @nygamesweek.bsky.social New York's week for games. Developers, studios, students, and industry pros; all in one city, all week long.
October 4–11, 2026 🍎
drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games i like to make things, oftentimes on the computer
https://organzola.games
working on MUTAGEN🧬
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3507690/MUTAGEN/
contact: drew at organzola dot games
Ivan Efimov @diroffus.bsky.social UI/UX designer at Weappy. Currently working on #HollywoodAnimal. My stuff: https://www.artstation.com/diroff
Indie Arena Booth @indiearenabooth.de The world's largest Indie exhibition aiming to generate visibility and opportunities for Indie devs from around the globe! ✨
allsee @allsees.online ✌️💀🕹️🎥 ✨
writer & game dev & filmmaker & horror guy
cmy2k.net & squibfilms.com
streaming on sailorspooky.tv
♡ allsees.online ♡
PLAY QUALIA store.steampowered.com/app/3351080/qualia/
sharing a cool game every day until I can talk about [PROJECT POPPYCOCK]
autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com 🧑💻 freelance culture writer, copy editor
💼 https://autumn-wright.com
📰 https://autumn-wright.com/subscribe/
✉️ autumnwright at protonmail.com
🖼️ pfp by Kaylee Rowena
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
𝐔𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐀 @umisida.bsky.social ᴵˡˡᵘˢᵗʳᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ*ᴬⁿⁱᵐᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ*ᴳᵃᵐᵉ⁼ ᴴᵘᵐᵃⁿ * ᴺᵒᵗ ᴬᴵ
ᴬᴵ ᵗʳᵃⁱⁿⁱⁿᵍ ˢᵗʳⁱᶜᵗˡʸ ᵖʳᵒʰⁱᵇⁱᵗᵉᵈ
✴ https://ofthetopias.neocities.org/Link
✴ Comms → https://skeb.jp/@umisida
Shaun Mooney @mooneysart.bsky.social Concept guy, co founder of machinefun games - @machinefun.bsky.social
https://cara.app/mooney
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social Associate Art Professor at the NYU Game Center
Palette Swap @paletteswap.site The true colors of gaming & entertainment news. // Gaming and entertainment news of a different color.
Read our stuff: paletteswap.site
Support us: patreon.com/PaletteSwapMag
bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com they/she
games writer
editorial intern @pcmag
beewertheimer.com
brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online i host a low key video game show called into the aether, write and make videos at wavelengths, manage overworld, and take photos! wow!
https://wavelengths.online
https://overworld.vg
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Cool Zone Media is a podcast network that doesn’t mince words: we are living through the collapse of the known, and the birth of a new unknown.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
𝖗𝖎𝖔 @xflorora.bsky.social xflorora.itch.io 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️
he/they ~♡
spacelionz.bsky.social @spacelionz.bsky.social I'm Nichole 🎃💞💅🏻
Interdisciplinary Artist🥸🤥😏🥲
Making Games♟️🧩🃏🎲♠️
Co-founder-member of Txtbooks📖
http://linktr.ee/Spacelionz
Hapshapen Games @hapshapen.bsky.social A handcrafted studio making video games you can reach out and touch.
Working on Abigail: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3569410/Abigail/
Ben Hecker @benhecker.bsky.social 🦦
Harris Foster @harris.zone Community Strategist - @devolverdigital.com | Award-losing video games Comms Manager | G4TV commercial contest winner, 2004ish | Name frequently misspelled for comedic effect. (he/him) | Austin, TX
Landon Noss @landon.wtf Innovation and Engineering leadership @ SIEA/PlayStation (HERE UNOFFICIALLY, NOT MY EMPLOYERS POSTS), former Obama.org Eng director, 24 years in the industry and counting. Rooting for you. Make magic, make art. AMA.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018
Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights”
Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/
Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social 
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
@cabbibo.bsky.social @cabbibo.bsky.social 
AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io I make small projects in a small apartment
Friend of Arcade Commons
Maker of Particle Mace
I make pen plotter art and tweetcarts sometimes
Buy my drawings: shop.andymakes.com
Play my games: andymakes.itch.io
https://andymakes.com/
laura “scary dragon from hell” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social not taking questions. bug like an angel. wrote IS IT THAT DEEP, BRO? and GUARDIAN FRAME: DE-BRIEF! sfw but kinda gross. she/it, pfp by @littletunny.bsky.social 🪞
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
IRL Loading Screens @irlloadingscreens.bsky.social IRL Loading Screens- providing tips, advice, strategies, or lore about the outside world. Gaming Memes.
Ryan Zhao @insrtcoins.bsky.social Author: The Fundamentals of Video Game Literacy (coming April). Podcast host for Play;Write, Cane and Rinse, and Sound of Play. Marketing for Xbox Game Pass, prev. Nintendo.
https://letterboxd.com/InsrtCoins/
My gaming blog: https://www.upbyupleft.com/
Nathan Leigh || labRats @nathanleigh.bsky.social writer, composer, animator, technologist, co-artistic director of cirqueSaw
creator of remote immersive and interactive experiences labRats, You Have Already Won, & POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness.
www.nathanleigh.net
www.cirquesaw.com
ZIPIT! Games @zipit-games.bsky.social 🪸a tiny game studio in nyc🪸
📧zipit.games@gmail.com
our videogame on the back of a giant flying catfish
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/The_Wide_Open_Sky_is_Running_out_of_Catfish/
Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social Director @nuchallenger.com
Fan of Hip Hop & sneakers
Writing, design, production, art, trailers + more
Beatdown City Survivors, Treachery in Beatdown City + more
Ex-Rockstar Games/MLB
25+ years in games
#blackgamedev ✊🏽 they/them 💛🤍💜🖤
beatdowncity.com
Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social ✏ Writing Warren Spector’s next game
✏️ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
🏆 BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
⭐ Marketing: SCMedia
🎤 Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
✉ shao.karrie@gmail.com
🧐 karries.carrd.co
Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games Indie narrative games publisher. Host of #LudoNarraCon. On a journey to discover innovative story-driven games.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/fellowtravellergames
Outersloth @outersloth.com We fund game.
By Innersloth.
https://outersloth.com/
Neko The Wolf @nekonyaa28.bsky.social Lone-Wolf Leader of the Full Moon Guildhouse!
🎮 Game Designer
🐾 design
@chiisagi_art, art @roxoah_, rig @nekorichii
🐾 pfp by
@skexchs
🔞18+
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvel’s Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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Editors:
@lainenooney.bsky.social
@daveparisi.bsky.social
@liebenwalde.bsky.social
Soraya Murray
Py is making 🤫 @pyawakit.bsky.social game artist ☆ mom of 3 ☆ flat faced cat enthusiasts
Art Director @pahdolabs -- Making Starlight Re:Volver.
Wishlist on Steam!
https://steam.starlightrevolver.com
ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social Uncool adult. From the other site.
📍Toronto
Justin Smith @manbearcar.bsky.social Wishlist Horsey Game ya sodbuster! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602570
Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social Digital artist, game maker, husband, parent, dilapidated temple of abandoned flesh. A simple creature, made with only the Skin and Subdivision Surface modifiers. Environments guy at @ko-op.com. Posts in Eng/Rus. He/him. 37.
🔗 linktr.ee/khorrorshow
Warp Door @warpdoor.com 🚪 An observatory in the middle of nowhere 🚪
📧 warpdoor@gmail.com
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls. 
Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi - Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social
- Author of The Athletic's college football newsletter
- Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
Cynthia Frelund @cfrelund.bsky.social Mostly NFL Data Science at the NFL Network. Breaking down sports data on Numbers Game Show (YouTube). Come hang out!
Ted Nguyen @tednguyen.bsky.social Purveyor of truth of the all-22 |King of Typos |NFL Staff Writer:
@TheAthleticNFL |Just Win Podcast
Robert Mays @robertmays.bsky.social Host of The Athletic Football Show. Formerly of Grantland and The Ringer. 
Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social I host a podcast called Football 301 that’s been described as “…entertaining with a slightly degenerate charm…”
It's always a good day for an elbow drop.
Is Butterbean OK?
nateticefootball at gmail
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social Game Designer | Narrative Design Professor at NAD-UQAC
Research-creation, inclusive games, and cultural citizenship. 🎮🧁
🔗 laulgame.itch.io
🔗 https://cltrs.start.page
☕ support me: https://ko-fi.com/laurelinemhc
Elana Bogdan @elanamakesgames.bsky.social Technical designer making queer indie games. Passionate about accessibility and telling stories that matter. Find my work at https://elana.games! 🎮🏳️🌈✨
Diego "Cool" Garcia @radstronomical.bsky.social I make some games and some pizzas.
Casual Birder, Damaged In Transit, Sunburn, Heads Up! Hot Dogs, Ultimate Flirt-Off, and other games too. You never know. I also animated Ball Breaker for The Bear on FX/Hulu and I teach game stuff. Get at me!!!!
Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 @hoppingfun.bsky.social One of those creative types: Word-y, geek-y, game-y (oh wait).
I've been making games, stories, media, books, jazzy content for oodles of clients for decades. Come see: hoppingfun.com
Danny Hawk @dannyhawk.com making car guy, adjuncting in nyc, part of boshi’s place. dannyhawk.com
Dan @doodledemmy.bsky.social ✏️Artist. Gamedev. Bug & train enjoyer.
🐟 Trout Priest OUT NOW ✨
🔧 Previous work : Flock, I Am Dead, Shutterbug, and more...
DanEmmerson.net
Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com A news outlet owned & run by journalists covering NYC: https://hellgatenyc.com
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Veteran freelance games crit & PR. Hyped for indie games & mods. Bylines on RPS, PC Gamer, PCGamesN. Find my work, Steam curation & contact info below - He/Him
Find me elsewhere online at dominictarason.com
Contact email: jdtarason@gmail.com
Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social An artist on a bike in Minneapolis. Games at @noblerobot.bsky.social Co-host Nice Games Club.
📺 Blippo+ [IGF 2026 Grand Prize/Nuovo nominee]
🗣️ Glom
🟨 Noble Engine
🧦 Widget Satchel
🏬 [THINGS UPCOMING]
https://noblerobot.com
https://nicegames.club
Turbo @makegamesfast.bsky.social Next-gen 2D game engine built for making games fast 🎮🚀 - Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/makegamesfast
IGDA NYC @igdanyc.bsky.social We aim to grow & connect our game dev community & industry!
Have ideas, questions, or wanna help out? Email: nyc@igda.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/BhDkJsdBc #NYMakesGames
Silicon Valley DSA @siliconvalleydsa.bsky.social The Silicon Valley chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Join DSA today🌹 https://linktr.ee/silicon_valley_dsa
Starfriends: Bsky Edition @starfriendsgame.bsky.social A new chance to have an opinion, every three hours!
Adapted from the party game Starfriends, now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brainfruitstudio/starfriends-card-game?ref=b70gva
Or play online free! https://starfriends.online/game/
Jack Emerson🌻 @studiojacke.bsky.social Garden Guardians is an immersive-sim survival sandbox!!!🌻🌲☘️!!
Play as a gnome, Grow a garden community, Guard against The Litter Bugs!!! 🐛🐜🐞
Linktree.com/studiojacke
Patrick Traynor @cwpat.me Puzzle game developer and programmer
Patrick's Parabox, Linelith, I Wanna Maker, and others!
Puzzle design on Thekla's game Order of the Sinking Star
https://cwpat.me/about
Kitty Kart 64 🎈 @scrunklesoft.bsky.social The racing game of your dreams!
🏁 Wishlist on Steam http://bit.ly/4libbSp
🎈 Follow our socials https://linktr.ee/scrunklesoft
🩸 Try out the DEMO !! https://bit.ly/4liPvpr
Luke Vincent | Automaton Heart @lukewasthefish.bsky.social Automaton Heart
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3070020?utm_source=bluesky
Also see....
Harold's Walk
Automaton Lung
Come say hi :
https://discord.gg/pVAZXPzd2Y
CITY Panels @city-panels.bsky.social Bot that posts panels from CITY, a manga by Keiichi Arawi
- 1,574 total panels in the bot
- Icon by @shimejimee.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CITY_Panels
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
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.
Dragon Wasabi Potato ドラゴンワサビポテト @dragonwasabipotato.bsky.social writer, streamer | creating TELE @telegame.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/dragonwasabipotato
contributor @warpdoor.com
ambassador @safeinourworld.org
operator at Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β
https://dawn2021.orylab.com
ViViViViViViViViViViViV @bitegavemepowers.bsky.social I fell into an industrial vat and now my story is a hit television program
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngāi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
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
UNIKAT Label | Next: High Above ☁️ @unikat-label.com Independent publisher of independent games that push the art of gaming forward. Publishing label behind POOLS and Dystopika.
Visit our linktree: https://linktr.ee/unikatlabel
San Francisco 49ers @sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social https://www.49ers.com/
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
#FTTB
Santa Clara, CA
Buffalo Bills @buffalo-bills.bsky.social NOT the official Bluesky of the Buffalo Bills. Stop Hate. End Racism. Choose Love.
every day is Halloween! @jennatar.bsky.social jennfrank.net ✑ jennfrank.bearblog.dev
Fabraz - Demon Tides & Bubsy 4D @fabraz.bsky.social Made Demon Turf + Slime-san | Working on DEMON TIDES & BUBSY 4D | Forbes 30u30 | IGF Judge | Expressive Platformer Guy | NYU Incubator EP | Indie | Find us and our games on our website: www.fabraz.com
flo veltman 🔜 AdventureX maybe?? @vltmn.itch.io they/them • @florianvltmn on the bird site, #gamedev, made How to Say Goodbye! prev: Lieve Oma, designer on Monument Valley 2, Assemble with Care • links: https://linktr.ee/vltmn
wzackw @wzackw.bsky.social wzackw on all the social media
wzackw.com
rémi @okremiok.bsky.social 
🌕🌏🌕🌎🌕 @townmap.bsky.social 🅓🅔🅐🅓 🅢🅔🅐 🅢🅛🅤🅖
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https://cicadamarionette.com/
https://lilithzone.itch.io/
www.patreon.com/rusalka
pc2000s @pc2000s.bsky.social He/him. Captures of games from 1995 - 2006ish. Posts about whatever.
All clips posted captured by me unless credited otherwise.
youtube https://youtube.com/@pc2000s
aesthetics discord http://discord.gg/Ycs9XA5NeH
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/pc2000s
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.
World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social THIS WEEK ON "WORLD'S MOST AGGRAVATING EDGE CASES" by @qntm.org
jaida @ Flame Fatales 2026 @anarchyasf.com creative athlete | does stuff @ GDQ | @lazlotus.bsky.social's biggest fan 🧡 | friday afternoon enjoyer
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
Shahana Hanif @shahanafrombk.bsky.social Brooklyn elected official getting things done. Working Families Party endorsed.
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social Tabletop RPG writer, editor, graphic designer (for hire!). Corpselike academic. Brooklyn, NY. he/him
samsorensen.blot.im
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Rascal News @rascal.news Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @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