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Eric Barone @ericbarone.bsky.social creator of Stardew Valley -- working on "Haunted Chocolatier"
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Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Caryl Shaw 🚫👑 @handle.invalid Game Dev (ret.)
Bourbon, pets, family (not in that order)
Oakland, CA
Tadhg Kelly @tiedtiger.bsky.social Game designer. Irish. Writer. Seahawks.
Richard Browne @rpwbrowne.bsky.social Over 35 years in the games business ; former Domark, Psygnosis, Philips, Microprose, Universal, THQ, Digital Extremes. Now consulting, advising and developing IP.
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Mike Minotti @tolkoto.com Co-owner of Giant Bomb. I podcast! Game Mess Decides, Last of the Nintendogs, 90s Disney. I like Arby's and Mega Man. giantbomb.com/join profile pic by @mleelunsford.com
N’Gai Croal @ncroal.bsky.social Communicator. Observer. Griot.
Theresa Duringer @tduringer.bsky.social CEO & Owner @Temple_Gates. We make boardgame apps like Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.- K @kevinbachus.bsky.social @kevinbachus.bsky.social
Cassia Curran @cassiacurran.bsky.social Curran Games Agency founder - biz dev for XR game studios, consultant for games funds. she/they. hello@curran.games
Tom Sanocki @tomsanocki.bsky.social Building robots as VP Engineering at 1X Technologies. Previously Epic Games, Roblox, TripActions/Naven, Meta AR/VR, founder & CEO Limitless Ltd (acquired by Lytro), Bungie, Pixar.
Jussi Laakkonen @jussilaakkonen.bsky.social Is this a new BBS?
Justin Bailey @jabgames.bsky.social Game investor and rights holder for Classic Wizardry
EGG @elbowgreasegames.bsky.social elbowgreasegames.com
Studio funding should be more like startup funding!
Auproma @auproma.bsky.social Trained theater actor, self-trained filmmaker, self-published author, experienced traveler, and coffee enthusiast.
https://www.normanluce-writer.com
Dan Galpin @dgalpin.bsky.social Android developer, singer, cook, gardener, and dad.
Zedbot 4096 @zedbot4096.bsky.social An extra-terrestrial AI robot reviewing human movies and shows for the rest of the galaxy www.youtube.com/@Zedbot4096
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
Jordan Mechner @jmechner.bsky.social I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo, Liberty) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel.bsky.social - T Tim Sweeney @timsweeneyepic.bsky.social
Ron Gilbert @grumpygamer.com Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.
John Carmack @johncarmack.bsky.social swe 🧑💻
Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social Author, "Making a Metaverse That Matters" (Wiley). Covering & creating metaverse culture since 2003. Bylines: WSJ, Atlantic, FastCo. Join my Patreon blog for early/exclusive virtual amazingness! https://patreon.com/user?u=4843285
Los Angeles/Kailua
Margaret Wallace @margaretwallace.bsky.social Media, games, AI, culture. Professor, entrepreneur, recovering futurist. Writing Let’s Get Spatial!
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https://letsgetspatial.substack.com
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Mitch Lasky @mitchlasky.bsky.social Former game industry exec, Benchmark Capital GP (early Riot Games, Snapchat, Discord, et al.); co-host of the GameCraft podcast; co-owner and board member of LAFC.
Eric Jordan @ericremyjordan.bsky.social CEO, Codename Entertainment (makers of Idle Champions) Lover of video games, DMing, making D&D props, paper ephemera, and epistolary storytelling. He/him
Anne Toole @amely.bsky.social Creator, ALLES LIEBE, ANNETTE; writer, Netflix's CANNON BUSTERS, WGA winner HORIZON ZERO DAWN, & Emmy-winner LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES. Former IGDA Board.
Jeff Pobst @jeffpobst.bsky.social CEO of Hidden Path Entertainment - a Video Game Developer. RPG focused these days. Builders of CS:GO & Age of Empires II HD. Creators of Defense Grid
Demetri Detsaridis @detsaridis.bsky.social Game developer by day, chocolate-covered frozen banana by night 
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Matt Schembari @mattschembari.bsky.social CEO of Lightforge Games, former lead engineer on StarCraft 2 and Heroes of the Storm, former Director of UI on Fortnite. Open Salaries advocate. #gamedev
Chris Busse @chrisbusse.bsky.social Life-long gamer, video game dev, cat lover. There's a good chance I'm not the Chris Busse you're looking for. ;)
Christina Norman @kitaekatt.bsky.social Game designer and entrepreneur - league of legends, wild rift, mass effect
Richard Garriott @richardgarriott.bsky.social Creator: Ultima, “avatar”, MMO genre
Explorer: Pole to Pole, Orbital Space to Deepest point of Oceans
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
Matt Firor @thefiror.bsky.social Graybeard Game Developer, Historian of the real and the fictional. Elder Scrolls Online and Dark Age of Camelot project lead. Lover of the written word and interactive entertainment. Three chord guitar player. Perpetual lurker.
Jim Greer @jimg.bsky.social Engineering leader for creator tools at Roblox. Also co-founded
Kongregate. I have two kids and a wife (@daphnek.bsky.social)
Livealot @sirlivealot.bsky.social 2026 Game : https://linktr.ee/PaintByBumblebee
2025 Game : https://linktr.ee/texastwistpoker
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Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 DICE Europe @icotom.icopartners.com 🙋 Co-founder of @icopartners.com | @crowdfunding-agency.com | @mightymerch.store
👾Supporting self-publishing game companies (Strategy | Marketing | PR)
🙆♂️Crowdfunding specialist (Kickstarter Community Advisory Council member)
Alice Taylor @wonderlandblog.bsky.social Down the rabbit hole.
The Digital Bits @thedigitalbits.bsky.social Film, DVD, Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD news, reviews, opinion, perspective & experience. Since 1997, through TWO format wars. We’ve been there. @BillHuntBits.bsky.social
Steve Shives @steveshives.bsky.social YouTuber. Co-host, Ensign's Log and Late Seating podcasts. Social justice advocate. Tries to do good. He/Him
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social Author. Scribbler. LFL old-timer. San Francisco. 🇨🇦 🇨🇱
Arrow Video @arrowvideo.bsky.social Distributor of classic, world, cult, horror cinema on Blu-ray & UHD.
💿: bit.ly/3oFfoXK
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Don Daglow @ddaglow.bsky.social Veteran game designer and producer, best-selling author.
Cynthia Freese @cynthiafreese.bsky.social 
Kim Nordstrom @kimnordstrom.bsky.social Swedish guy living in Spain. Author of the game industry book "UP DOWN UP", advisor for gaming CEOs and used to be a decent 8bit pixel artist.
Ayla Derrick @bigealien.bsky.social Founder of Cave Bear Games
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Adam Sessler 🇺🇦 @adamsessler.bsky.social Refugee from cable television, video games and AI. Currently a dispossessed Jew who should be working on his memoir.
@deantak.bsky.social @deantak.bsky.social 
Ben Kvalo @benkvalo.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @MidwestGames | President of Wisconsin Games Alliance | formerly @netflix (Films/Games) @blizzard @2K
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
@nfalstein.bsky.social @nfalstein.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather
Professional game developer since 1980
Sinistar, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis, Neuroracer and many more
Former Chief Game Designer at Google
Now focused on Games for Healthcare
Jen MacLean @jenmacl.bsky.social Game Dev | CEO, Dragon Snacks Games | Former Xbox, AWS | Mom | Lover of sparkly shoes
Kimberly Unger @ing3nu.bsky.social Award-winning sci-fi author, geek-parent and game developer. I make Mixed Reality go brrrrrrrrrrr at Oculus Publishing.
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Chris "CMel" Melissinos @cmelissinos.bsky.social Principal Evangelist - Video Game Industry Specialist at AWS - Technologist, futurist, game historian. Opinions / posts are mine, not employer's.
Elizabeth (not the Scarlet Witch) Olson @ebetho.bsky.social Strategic Mrkt/PR/BizDev consultant passionate re: games industry (esp indies!), tech & all things wine. Opinions voiced are my own. Also @EbethO@sfba.social & X, @ ebeth_o🧵
RJ Mical @rjmical.bsky.social Much too loud
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert.bsky.social Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Serafina @serafinapechan.bsky.social 
Michael McHale @michaelmchale.bsky.social Every social media site feeds me a lot of animal videos and I can't stop clicking on them. Producer, creative, product, sometimes musician and board gamer. ClassDojo, ex-Roblox, Glu, SEGA, Konami, Eidos. 
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Cade Peterson @caderageous.bsky.social 🎥🤩 Exec. Prod. of The "Legends of Adventure" doc coming soon
Formerly at Apple, PlayStation, Sephora, MidBoss
Any pronouns are ok.
https://midboss.com/
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Gordon Walton @pswtyrant.bsky.social Game developer/Team leader
Zack K @omgded.bsky.social COO Avalon; formerly Capcom, Double Fine, Namco, and Sony Online Entertainment, 2x co-Founder; SCUBA instructor, resident of Oakland. Love dogs, hate vinegar, need leg room. Personal account. Opinions are my own.
hendrik lesser @hendriklesser.bsky.social game maker, entrepreneur, teacher, lobbyist, nerd, nafo
chair of @egdf, run rcp & chimera entertainment,
game director death from above,
executive producer songs of silence
Adam Boyes @boyes.bsky.social Founder & CEO, of Vivrato, a company focused on healing the video game industry. Ex-Co-CEO Iron Galaxy Studios, Ex-PlayStation sharing video guy, Canadian, Dad and Dad Joke author, best uncle you probably don’t have.
Aaron Pulkka @apulkka.bsky.social VR/AR/XR, Emerging Tech & Games
aaron.pulkka.com
AWS is my employer; Opinions are my own.
Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth.bsky.social Big nerd. Building things
Trump voters: History won’t be kind to you. Neither will I
Progress isn’t about making you comfortable
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
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Michael Pachter @michaelpachter.bsky.social Proud to be woke because I care about social justice. Paying taxes is a high class problem. Vote because you care about others and recognize that other people can do well and make society better
Kyle Orland @kyleor.land Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
Signal: kyleorl.31
Greg Rice @gregrice.bsky.social @PlayStation, @dayofthedevs, prev @DoubleFine
Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse.
Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer.
Games, books, bio, etc: http://www.chriskohler.biz
Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf President and owner of Giant Bomb
giantbomb.com/join
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Chris Charla @iocat.bsky.social Videogames at Xbox; zines, books, videogames, and skateboarding very slowly at home. I main Bluesky.
Jon W. @rarefilmm.bsky.social Man on a mission to find and preserve the rarest and most obscure films ever made. Posts mostly film & TV related content.
santy @santodrive2.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/santodrive
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
Giz Gewirtz @gizgewirtz.bsky.social 
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social Writer. Rogue One, The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rebels, Batman, The Walking Dead, Gundog etc #COYS
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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