Chris Wright @surprisingchris.bsky.social Founder and MD at narrative indie games label, @fellowtraveller.games, and games marketing agencies, Double Jump Communications and Two Frogs In a Trenchcoat. Board Member, ACMI museum of screen culture.
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio sunsetvisitor.studio makes diverse narrative games through the lens of speculative fiction.
1000xRESIST | s.team/a/1675830/
Prove You're Human | s.team/a/4533950
DISCORD: discord.gg/sunsetvisitor
Shae 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @shaevitae.ca She/They. Intersectional AuDHD Sober Trans. Quiet loudmouth. Union rep. Telecom survivor. White-presenting Metis. Casual safe-space retro-indie-variety streamer. Pessimistic Optimist. FGC oldie
http://shaevitae.ca
biz: shae@shaevitae.ca
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
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Glen Henry - DUPPY DETECTIVE TASHIA OUT NOW🔍👻 @spritewrench.com 🏝 Founder/ Project Director Spritewrench Studios
🔊Loudest of Jamaica Game Developer Society (JGDS)
🎓IGDA - Foundation Velocity Cohort Coordinator
✌ (he/him)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/spritewrench
Mako The Merfurry - Now on Vgen! @makothemerfurry.bsky.social Comms available at Vgen.co/mako_the_merfurry
Head of Azure Hydrangea Games
Internet fish, Programmer, Pixel/Digital/Traditional artist, Solo Game developer, and an occasional streamer. Also, the lead and (Currently) solo developer for Tails of Empyria!
Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social Senior Environment Artist
“OPEN TO WORK”
https://www.artstation.com/pikminman
previously: Sumo-Digital Leamington, Night School, State of Play, Hutch, Frontier Developments.
Dm on LinkedIn
Posts ref - anti A i & nf-t
#3dart | #gamedev | #reference |
JM93 @jm93.bsky.social Game Dev who makes games with the Godot engine. He/Him
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jm93dev
Gene Park @gene.meme Washington Post culture critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
Malindy @yourkyotowife.bsky.social News Ed Germany @ Crunchyroll
Wrote on: Wax Heads, Oddsparks, Mythwrecked & more
Wrote for: IGN, Eurogamer, PLAY, The Guardian & more
I love Japan, Ace Attorney professional roadcycling & F1!!
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
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
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
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
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social 🍹 an aperol spritz in human form 🍹
📝 senior reporter @ digiday 📝
📚 The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 📚
(views expressed are mine alone)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social long-haired fgc sage, lowkey shinobi, @koh.money's trophy husbando. love your life, be good to one another, and play guilty gear. he/him. 🇵🇭
RIP Bearcade.
patrickmiller.ninja
pgg.events
playguiltygear.com
patreon.com/pattheflip
Gabriel | mystal @mystal.cafe [they/them] Queer 🇵🇷 nb game dev, programmer & designer. Rock climber. Rustacean. Mask wearer 😷
Former Combat Designer/Gameplay Programmer @ Brass Lion Entertainment
Makes games for money in Unreal and for soul in Bevy, Godot, and other cozy engines
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
James McGowan @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social Senior literary agent, professional snacker.
@bookendsliterary.bsky.social
www.jmcgowanbooks.com
he/him
Header art by David Hohn
Kevin Wilson @kevinwilson42.bsky.social Boardgame designer best known for Arkham Horror, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, A Gentle Rain, and the Kinfire series of games. Was Director of Game Design at Incredible Dream Studios, now returned to being a freelance game designer. He/him.
TinySloth Games!!!! @tinysloth-games.bsky.social Queer solo-dev in the PNW making offbeat cozy, co-op and genre mashup games. Morgan. she/her. 🧡🤍🩷
https://tinysloth.games
Morgan @geekstress.bsky.social Nah, this is my personal social media account now. Follow for memes, bad takes, pictures of my dogs, and rants. she/her. super queer. PDX. lets go. Ex-Riot, Ex-Nexon.
Making games at @tinysloth-games.bsky.social
Making music at @rabbleandsage.bsky.social
Bryan Bonilla Diaz 🇵🇷 @lunzyde.bsky.social Game & Sound Designer
https://linktr.ee/lunzyde
Puerto Rico Game Developers Association (PRGDA) @prgda.net Boricua Developers and Scholars elevating our Puerto Rican Game Development Community. Discord: http://discord.gg/PdsGH5y
Jessie Devine @thejessiedevine.bsky.social Writer, artist, likes trees and pets. V cute, would like to be friends, will also fight you. she/they ☉ ♎︎ | ☾ ♊︎ | ↑ ♈︎
Pansy (Trying on a name) @sagegnosis.bsky.social 38 age counters Retired MtG Content Creator, Retired Esports Journeywoman, Black & Trans. Poet. DEI Professional & Sensitivity Reader She/Fae https://linktr.ee/SageGnosis
jess @jjerion.bsky.social writer, narrative designer, game developer, professor, etc.
currently @ UAlbany & Red Thread Games, formerly @ Hampshire College, Studio Chyr, NYU Game Center, Harvard University Press
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social Video Game Attorney & Founder @ Deviant Legal (http://www.deviantlegal.com) | Women in Games’ Ambassador | Secretary at Breda Game City | Business & Legal Mentor at Dutch Games Association
K Arsenault Rivera @arsenaultrivera.bsky.social Author. Associate Narrative Designer.
Queer Biracial latina. She/her. Opinions my own.
#wotcstaff
Owlizard @owlizard.bsky.social Here to thicc
https://linktr.ee/owlizard
Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Award-Winning Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️🌈
“Very sweet and always improved with butter.”
Bridget O’Neill @iheartbunnies.bsky.social Senior Director of Creative at PlayStation Studios for Bungie. Previously Riot (Art Director of Legends of Runeterra), Blizzard, and Pokemon.
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing
Colin Cummings ✨🎷 @astroscout.ca game & graphic designer, community & marketing manager
community manager | ☔️ soft rains,🧵 silverstring media
marketing manager | 🦎 wdr studios, ⛄ snowman
board member | 👁️🗨️ hand eye society
✨ astroscout.ca | 🎷 boyproblems.ca
toronto | he/they
Thomas Beekers @thomasbeekers.com Videogame dev in Taipei, Seahawks fan
Narrative Director at Super Evil Megacorp
Before that: Wasteland 2 & 3, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Clockwork Revolution, Interkosmos, Metamorphosis
He/him
Cinzia Musio 🏳️🌈 💖 🇵🇸 @geekybaking.bsky.social Pronouns: They/She
Programme Manager @ Ukie
Director @code_coven
🏆TGA Future Class 21; GiGaming 20;
@MCV_Develop
WiG & IRL Diversity Champion
https://linktr.ee/cinzia_musio
Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social Owner of Flippfly (Race The Sun), and CEO of Player Galaxy, a new web games platform for UGC games.
Dames 4 Games @dames4games.org Dames 4 Games is a Nonprofit 501c3 creating opportunities and building platforms to celebrate femmes of all ages who love playing and creating games! 🎮
🌐 dames4games.org
Aidan Wong @aidanwxng.bsky.social he/him | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳🇺🇸 |
indie narrative designer and writer | 📚👾🌱
no ai/NFT/crypto I 🚫🙅
portfolio link: https://aidanwongnarrative.carrd.co
Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social Writer/Twin w/ maxfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer at Insomniac Games • Past: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, We Lost Our Human, Massive Chalice • Also co-host @scriptlock.bsky.social
Max Folkman @maxfolkman.bsky.social Writer, Director w/ @nickfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer @ Riot Games • Prev: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank, Miles Morales, MASSIVE CHALICE • voice on @scriptlock.bsky.social • Rep: Dallaslyn Lamb
Mist. Astra Ebonwing, is feral for Tolkien-accurate Were-wolves @astra-ebonwing.bsky.social (she/her)🏳️⚧️ #SizeSky #DomMom #gamedev | WARNING: Contains Gothic Mary Poppins Energy | Talks about psych, kink, games, and the supernatural | Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/theunrequitedlibrary | husbando: @sasspotato.bsky.social | NO under 18+