molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Tumeke Studio @tumekestudio.bsky.social Tumeke Studio is a Māori owned, independent R&D-driven game and systems studio building the tools and stories of tomorrow.
https://www.tumekestudio.com
Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social Game programmer, creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. Comments are my own and those of the voices in my head.
Support my work:
http://www.patreon.com/mikedailly
http://www.lemmings.info
https://mdf200.itch.io/
http://www.youtube.com/mikedailly
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social Filmmaker, Video Essayist, Film Buff, Was Named in Sight & Sound Magazine | She/Her | Patreon: http://patreon.com/AdequateEmily | YouTube: http://youtube.com/@AdequateEmily
Alex @alx5962.bsky.social Webdesigner, bricoleur de console parfois.
But first, The Legend of Zelda fan 🗡️
🇫🇷 🇬🇧
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Kaze @kazeemanuar.bsky.social I make the Marios
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
NikkiJay is making Shards Of A God @nikkijay.games Hi I'm Nikki, I made a game once, and one day I will do it again, unless they stop me in time.
Check out my multi-award losing game Quantum Witch
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/
P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social Formerly Animation, Now Game Dev
Drew Cartoon Dogs
Assistant Director and Writer at Mischief
It's not revenge. It's Punishment.
Daniel Greenberg @winterion.com 👨🏫George Mason University Game Professor
👔Winterion Game Studios CEO
💍GalexQuest's Husband, Babycrab's Dad
🍺Root Beer Aficionado
📧info@winterion.com
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
André Almo @andrealmo.bsky.social Scientist interested in communication, art, games and education. 👻👾 | He/Him. | Art account: @almoghost.bsky.social
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Thais Weiller @thaisweiller.bsky.social I make games and complain in three different languages ⚫ the person who started the war with the Dominion ⚫50% of
@joymasher, 💯% tired
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social D. Vincent Baker, longtime indie ttrpg creator. Co-creator of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, and many more. Disarm, defund, abolish. He/him. https://lumpley.games
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com Founder + EIC: non-trivial.games
YouTube: TheCrossoverAppeal.
thecrossoverappeal.com for recs + essays
Games writing, music writing. Formerly games studies.
Bylines: Pixelbyte Gaming, JetsonPlaysGames, Exploits, Uppercut, Barely Textual.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social playtestmaterial.org
playtest_material on instagram
Greg Costikyan @costik.bsky.social 
Pam @pamd.bsky.social Talks about video games, makes videos, streams. http://linktr.ee/cannotbetamed
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Dia Lacina @dialacina.com The angry brown t-girl she told you don't worry about
Read my stuff:
www.avclub.com/author/dia-lacina
https://remapradio.com/author/dialacina/
Watch my stuff:
www.youtube.com/@dialacina
Give me $, if you want more of my stuff:
www.patreon.com/dialacina
Christopher Pariano @chrispariano.bsky.social Paint and pixels
aka: Ryumaru
aka: Paintingstallion
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Ian @hylian.bsky.social Educator. Husband. Art Historian. Video Game Scholar/Academic.
Always searching for the weird
Look over there!
PNW - Olympia, WA area.
🏳️🌈👨❤️👨
insert credit @insertcredit.com The only show about video games. W/ @frankcifaldi.bsky.social
@adashtra.bsky.social
@brandon.insertcredit.com
host @alexjaffe.bsky.social
editor @esper.bsky.social
https://patreon.com/insertcredit
https://forums.insertcredit.com
https://insertcredit.com
Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk I'm a tech that's interested in 8 and 16 bit retro and neo-retro computers 🖥️ and retro-gaming 🎮. I dabble in electronics. I program in Java , C/C++ and Z80 and 6502 assembly.
I love dogs 🐕
I'm interested in world news and US politics.
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Robbie Dieterich @nobunagaota.bsky.social Gamer, game dev, and parent. Founder of Skyboy Games.
I teach game design at George Mason University. Opinions expressed are my own.
🏳️⚧️ (She, They)
Skyboy Games @skyboygames.com Making New Games for Old Game Systems:
https://skyboygames.com/static/Skyboy_Landing.html
Owned and operated by Robbie (she/they), Assoc. Prof. of Game Design at GMU: @nobunagaota.bsky.social
#gamedev #nesdev
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/
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social #TTRPG game designer. Have written for WotC, Paizo, and many more.
Founder of Thoughtcrime Games. https://thoughtcrimegames.net
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
G @jasky.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 💃🏻 retro pinups 🥀 🏳️🌈
bluesky’s #1 Clea simp
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste 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
Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Playable and Participatory Media in Creative Technologies and Performance, Play & Design:Games @ UCSC. Award winning Game Designer/Artist. Afrofuturist. Opinions are my own.
jonayakemper.com
Cosmo Command @cosmocommand.bsky.social Creating a shmup for the Game Boy inspired by a certain animals in space franchise.
https://cosmocommand.carrd.co
Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social Magical Girl. RPG designer & author. Milhist nerd. Buckling spring keyboard shill. Made Flying Circus that one time. Now working on Torchship.
https://opensketch.itch.io/
strange_hero @strangehero.itch.io Gawker of obscure video games, lover of all things art.
Hoping to write for a living.
Demi/pan, they/them
I stream: https://www.twitch.tv/strange_hero
I also YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@the_strange_hero
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Nikki 'Gazelle' Crenshaw @gaiazelle.bsky.social [she/they]
Associate Principal User Researcher, Warcraft Franchise
#a11y; PhD; Druid; Social Justice Waluigi
shitposts are my own.
PFP: @flamingomymango.bsky.social
ItsMirror @itsmirror.bsky.social Solo gamedev making a 3D platformer
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ItsMirror
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/itsmirror
Discord: https://discord.gg/VWQ6FGCDGg
Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5044430/Paint_Gal_Adventures/
Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social First video game champion (1980). Created Bard's Tale III: The Thief Of Fate & Dragon Wars. Former board member of GLAAD. All views and opinions are my own.
Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social (♡°◡°) Kindness is free spread that s♡*t like confetti!
Producer • Studio Founder • Bizdev • Accessibility • Award-winning Games Industry Consultant • BAFTA Member • Disabled, Autistic
tarjaporkkakontturi[at]gmail.com
linktr.ee/tarja_pk
Younès ★ @pyrofoux.itch.io ∴ 🇬🇧: they/them 🇫🇷: iel, accord inclusifs
∴ Game design, Research, TTRPGs and Improv Theater
∴ amab arab acab
Find some of my work here:
🎮 pyrofoux.itch.io
🔬 knivesandpaintbrushes.org/younes
🧠 neurocracy.site
Gapucho @gapucho.itch.io i eat markers and make games (in that order)
making retro games with love (and my computer)
Scratch my Itchio: https://gapucho.itch.io/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/gapucho
Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social Streaming at twitch.tv/caseyexplosion
Youtube: youtube.com/@CaseyExplosion
Steam Curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28340174-Casey-Explosion/
Ian Larson, PhD @socialvideogame.bsky.social PhD in Informatics @ UC Irvine. Lecturer in Game Studies and Sociology. Researching video games, social dynamics, video game history, and other nonsense. I post mostly retrogaming junk.
Matt Hughson (NES & GB Dev) @mhughson.bsky.social Game developer making new games for old systems, such as the NES and Game Boy! #nesdev #gbdev
• From Below (NES | 2020)
• Witch n' Wiz (NES | 2021)
• From Below Pocket (GB | 2023)
• Super Sunny World (NES | TBD)
MORE: https://linktr.ee/matthughson
Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Musicology via game studies. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com
Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social Assistant professor, UB Media Study. Researching and making queer/trans games, narratives, and communities. Director, Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. Catch me 2025 at SCMS, CGSA, and more!
Gertrude Perkins ☄ @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social Media, cultural studies, education. Used to research videogames and Let's Plays, still in recovery. A student called me a communist once. Queer guy, he/him. Dip me in chocolate.
Podcasting at @flashitpancast.bsky.social !!!!!
Iowa State University Research @iastateresearch.bsky.social Official account of the Iowa State University research enterprise. Together, we're changing the world.
research.iastate.edu
hoots @hoots.bsky.social youtuber, podcaster, actor, soprano
RQ: RetroNomicon Quarterly @readrq.bsky.social Retro and Homebrew Video Game Magazine
| print & digital |
DIGAREC - Digital Games Research Center @digarec.bsky.social Digital Games Research Center / Zentrum für Computerspielforschung
@unipotsdam.bsky.social // Streams on Twitch http://twitch.tv/digarec // Website: https://digarec.philfak.uni-potsdam.de
Dan Olson 🔜 PAX West @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social 🎨 Senior game artist and art director with 20 years of experience | 🎮 Pixel artist & gamedev | Playdate dev | ⚧️⚢
🍉 🇵🇸
Clients: Mojang (Minecraft), WB Games, Hasbro, SEGA, Panic, Unity, IDW
📬 christina.neofotistou@gmail.com
🎨 castpixel.artstation.com
(Back to Black) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app She/they. Social Media Operations @ Corsair. Black in a Flash + Events Coordinator @ GamesDoneQuick. Everywhere tbh. Professional shitposter. C-PTSD. Sonic fangirl. Indies enjoyer. Sleepy. Your friendly neighborhood commentator and bouncer.
The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference #QGCon established in 2013. QGCon is a registered nonprofit based in Montreal, Canada.
Stay tuned for news on presenting at or attending the next QGCon!
https://www.qgcon.org/
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
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
Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
Meu romance: https://tinyurl.com/349wdeud
Blog: https://finisgeekis.com.br/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3F9RVGD
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social 🇷🇺History PhD / Game Studies / Wargames / Left-Handed
🗺️Portland, OR
📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
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
Eniko Fox @enikofox.com I make gay video games @kitsunegames.bsky.social with @nj0rd.bsky.social. Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss dev. Mask wearer. Programming language development enthusiast
Fuck AI
Follow me on Mastodon @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
She/her
Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication.
https://stuckness.ghost.io/
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social Game scholar, professor, & director of Interactive Games and Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Momo (they/them) @m0m0sch.bsky.social Chronically tired anarchist goblin
Games, Rats & a lot of confusion
Working on @denkmalgame.bsky.social
Trying out stuff on https://another-gl.itch.io
(EN & GER)
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids
https://www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vids
https://www.patreon.com/shaunfromyoutube
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
f4mi ‼️ @f4mi.bsky.social i am a creative mess who lives in the EU and [insert the rest of a cool funny description here] www.f4mi.com
Patto Manriquez @puduparadox.bsky.social he/him || spa/eng || 💗💙💜 || 💻🎮👾+🎲🃏⚔️🐉
🔸Independent games at puduparadox.itch.io
🔸Product Owner & Game Designer @ Myths and Legends Online
🔸MFA in Game Design, NYU (2026)
Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social Artist, writer, director, & show runner.
I draw body horror. Not online much.
🪐Knights of Guinevere
🔮The Owl House
🕯️Skin & Bones
zaebucca @zaebucca.bsky.social EN/IT | He/Him | Pixel Artist
Streaming on hiatus https://www.twitch.tv/zaebucca |
Links: https://zaebucca.carrd.co/
Asset Packs: https://zaebucca.itch.io
No AI / No NFTs
Commissions: OPEN - 4 slots available
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
Game Preservation Society @gamepresint.bsky.social A non-profit organization actively preserving Japanese retro games from the 70’s and 80’s as cultural assets.
isaac io @eyesack.bsky.social they/them | composer | accordionist | electronicsist | professor | parent | autist
Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time
Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter
BrewOtaku Homebrew Retro Gaming Magazine @brewotaku.bsky.social Where new games keep old systems alive
Visit us at https://www.brewotaku.com
A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social pixels + posting + politics
he/him
art + social links: https://linktr.ee/aminusko
🚫No NFT/AI🚫
rosi ☀️ @mysunnyrose.bsky.social Pixel artist 🇲🇽
Comms: https://ko-fi.com/mysunnyrose/commissions
Henrique @kelzor.bsky.social Writing and doing marketing for games ('Yuppie Psycho", "Catechesis").
I have a Youtube channel for retro game deep analysis: https://www.youtube.com/c/KelzorGaming
ENG/ESP/GAL