Hamish Smithers @hamishsmithers.itch.io Senior QA @ Tantalus (Stellaris: Console Edition, Age of Mythology: Retold, Lego 2K Drive) | Designer, Composer, ex Professional Juggler & Circus University Teacher (real) |
He/They
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Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social freelance writer & consultant | seen @ Game Informer, IGN, Polygon, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edge, Tech Radar, NME + more | she/they | 🇦🇺 in ? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
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Chris Arneil @chrisarneil.bsky.social professional(?) video game archivist @ the national film and sound archive of australia
Charlotte Reber @charlottereber.com Author of DRAGON AGE II from Boss Fight Books
bossfightbooks.com/products/dragon-age-ii-by-charlotte-reber
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charlottereber.com
charlottereber.tumblr.com
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Desiree Cifre @desireecifre.bsky.social Writer and Narrative Designer
Lost Records: Bloom& Rage @Dontnod Montreal
Wylde Flowers & Wylde Society @StudioDrydock
Mike Sholars (Parody Adult) @mikesholars.bsky.social He/Him. Author of PARAPPA THE RAPPER from Boss Fight Books.
Writer. Fiction. Non-fiction. All the things.
Doing his best, considering the circumstances.
Sean Wenham @seanwenham.bsky.social Videogame Developer.
Lead Artist at Ustwo Games during the day.
The New Game at night.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3069870/Apartment_Story/?beta=0
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Making Wax Heads: cosy punk record store sim!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Discord: https://discord.gg/7UVZ7SBExE
Father of Twins
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CONTINUE? Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
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Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat @twofrogs.biz We're Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat! A small indie game PR and marketing team helping your game make a bigger splash in a crowded pond 🌊
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Korina ✨🐛 @shikaboom.bsky.social Comms cryptid at Wolfeye Studios & freelance games marketer. Prev: Founder of Neonhive. Marketing at Bethesda, SQEX, Ubisoft
Chaotic gardener, insect queen, lifts heavy things.
💌 korina@panicdepartment.com <-- Mermaid Mask
🐺 korina@wolfeye-studios.com
Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story @scummdoc.bsky.social NEW DOCUMENTARY COMING YOUR WAY IN 2026!
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Spencer Hayes @spnkr.bsky.social Indie game Scout.
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Technically an award winning journalist and print photographer. Technically.
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Oliver Brandt @chocobalt.bsky.social Deputy editor @ Vooks
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Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net https://jaytholen.net lead designer, writer, artist, & composer for Dropsy, 1999 web sim Hypnospace Outlaw, & Slayers X. Clickteam software oldhead. follower of Jesus. husband of Katie. dad. 70s prog/fusion/zeuhl guy. Braunschweig, DE / Florida
actezéro @actezero.bsky.social a narrative agency based in France — recent games: HARMONY, UNDER THE WAVES, ASTRAL ASCENT, DORDOGNE, FLAT EYE, and more… way, way more.
Website: https://www.acte-zero.com
Anthony « iamleyeti » Jauneaud @iamleyeti.bsky.social Narrative Director @ actezéro, a narrative services agency (consulting, auditing, writing, and more)
Came up with words for FLAT EYE, NIGHT CALL, DORDOGNE, HARMONY: FALL OF REVERIE, ASTRAL ASCENT…
he/him | 🏳️🌈
Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltd Game Dev from Scotland - THE CORRIDOR and It Takes a War - @ghost.camp on the side - He/Him - https://thecool.zone - @freezeposts on Twitter - I sometimes go by freeze
Delphinium 💙 @cinnadev.bsky.social ✨ Call me Sev! - 23 - She/her - Australia ✨
Making Delphinium 💙
Fluent Pixel @fluentpixel.bsky.social Indie game developer based in Melbourne, Australia.
Currently working on Trivia Deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2820760/Trivia_Deal/
Adrian Vergara @adrian.leveluptimes.com Videogames is one word.
I write and stream about them at https://www.leveluptimes.com
Ed Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social I am the features editor at Edge magazine and one of the co-founders and co-editors of Bullet Points Monthly.
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
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BarmE @barmearme.bsky.social Wiradjuri Wizard
Award Winning Advocate
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◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
steph harmon @stephharmon.bsky.social culture editor of Guardian Australia
Christopher Larkin @christopherlarkin.bsky.social composerlarkin.com
Alessandro Cossidente @acossidente.bsky.social 🧔🏽 Freelance Games Marketing, PR and Comms Consultant.
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
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Chris Pereira @thesmokingmanx.bsky.social GameSpot managing editor. Seductive god of thunder. chris.pereira@gamespot.com | he/him
Adrian Vaughan @yeoldshrimpeyes.bsky.social Voice Actor - The Drifter, Loco Motive, Mouse, Prim, Harold Halibut, Budget Cuts, Peridium, Crawl, Armello
Artist - Need for Speed, Age of Empires, Civilisation
www.adievaughan.com
Brad Goodwin @bradgoodwin.bsky.social Founder of NextPlay 🎮
ApeOnHangglider @demilardner.bsky.social I’m rolling down a hill really fast and I can’t stop, my long vagina is wrapping around me in the motion and the end of it is hitting me in the face
Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social FRVR Blog EiC - Former VideoGamer EiC before ClickOut ruined it - Ex-Gfinity/StealthOptional Editor in Chief | Retro Gamer, Eurogamer, Wireframe, PCGamesN | Former MSPoweruser Gaming Editor. Opinions are my own.
Vroenis @vroenis.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Pan/bi, genderqueer - all pronouns welcome.
Films, music, board games, not necessarily in that order.
Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social ✨ i’m like if tifa lockhart loved carbs
☕️ features editor @gamespot.com
🌙 into grand stories, art, mtg, anime, coffee & esoterica
🔮 as seen at giant bomb, kinda funny, game informer, paste magazine, collider, uproxx, uppercut & more!
Tom Regan @grapedosmil.bsky.social Freelance journalist & consultant. BAFTA member. Editor of the NES-ential Celebration book. Words in The Guardian, GQ, The Verge, Metal Hammer, Fandom, Shortlist, NME, Gamesradar, Kotaku, IGN, Gamespot, VGC, EDGE, etc http://www.tomreganwrites.com
common-or-garden Mads 🦆 @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social Mads Mackenzie 💀 narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer 💀 they/them, icon by Penta 💀 director @fine-fiends.bsky.social
Farbs @farbs.org Game! Dev!
Same Farbs, More Cat Photos:
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Patrick Dane @patrickdane.bsky.social News Editor @thisweekinvideogames.com. 12-year games journalist. Bylines Dexerto, Metro, TechRadar, IGN, Eurogamer, PC Gamer, GamesRadar. BAFTA Connect member.
Brad Gallaway @bradgallaway.bsky.social Gamecritics.com Editor. So Videogames Podcast host. Pro-BLM & LGBTQIA. Anti-Fascist. MOTU stan. My wife is the best. He/Him.
Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com
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
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social Filmmaker & music/games/photography nerd.
Based on Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, South Australia ✌︎
https://www.hamishgibbsludbrook.com
Michael Murakami @tukenstein.bsky.social 
Dave 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com The Drifter - OUT NOW! Game dever and the other half of Powerhoof- The Drifter, PowerQuest, Telwynium, Crawl, Regular Human BBall, Riders of Rhea, Peridium, etc..
https://powerhoof.itch.io
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
andrew webster @andrewrweb.bsky.social entertainment editor at the verge // we apologize for the inconvenience // mia san mia
jasmine james 🔜 gamescom @jasmo.bsky.social Indie game marketing. Account Director @ Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat.
🐸: jasmine@twofrogs.biz
I bring a kind of clown reaction photos and bad dad jokes vibe to the party that everybody loves actually (she/her)
Nick Crocker @mostlyalright.com Games Editor @debugmag.com
Jasmine Steer @jasminesteerart.bsky.social Freelance Concept/2D Artist for video games
Obsessed with art books, please help
🚫NO AI🚫
Portfolio: https://www.jasminesteer.com/
Chopemon @chopemon.bsky.social Game director @kaizengameworks.com
Promise Mascot Agency, Paradise Killer, Until Dawn, 50 Cent BOTS, Rogue Warrior + more.
Was once called a "hentai gentleman" by Ikumi Nakamura.
Video Game Liker.
Wyld @papawyld.bsky.social BBS Sysop in the 80s. Internet Pioneer in the 90s. Systems/Servers in the 00s. Minecrafter since InfDev, Twitch Partner since 2013. New Path in 2023.
#AuDHD #PTSD #CPTSD #Tinnitus #ProfessionalAustralian #ShareJoy #100%OrganicLewd #PanPoly
Christopher Patrick @blankshore.bsky.social 📌Southampton, UK
Probably at the movies! Follow me on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/PF9V
Previously Head of Comms @ Mooncat Games
Previously 📽️ @ Southampton FC
Josh Caratelli @joshcaratelli.bsky.social Engineering Director @ gravitywell.games • Aussie Goofball and indie dev• Prev Call of Duty dev (MW, WZ, WW2 etc) • Writes engines and physics for fun
Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social Extremely good at bicycling a medium distance at a medium speed. Narrative/Production at Blendo Games.
I mostly don't post here. You can see my blog, where I post every day, at blog.lauramichet.com
Sally Beaumont 🔜Develop |BAFTA Breakthrough|Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social BAFTA Breakthrough
British VA (remote studio) & Game Writer
Voice: Old Skies| Hob’s Barrow| Harold Halibut| Dread Delusion| Loco Motive| Heartspell| Rogue Trader| Earth Must Die| Blake Manor| El Paso 2
She/Her 😷
info/sallybeaumont.com
SallyBeaumont.com
Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social writer, comedian, musician based in Walyalup, WA.
The Yeah Nah Review on substack
co-host of The Battler
debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!
Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)
Stew Shearer @stewshearer.bsky.social Father, husband, writer, poet, game designer, professional dungeon master and Star Wars-apologist. Also the primary contributor to Bitmap Books’ “N64: a visual compendium” and “Leaps+Bounds.”
Check out my work at: https://side-quest.ghost.io/
Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social Senior Editor for Lost In Cult | Safe In Our World | Back Log Banter | He/Him | All Opinions My Own | abram@lostincult.co.uk
Nick Verge @nickverge.bsky.social popagenda Co-Founder
Stacey Borg @drcurlytek.bsky.social DrCurlytek, science knowing person, IFPA pinball competitor, and QA enthusiast. May contain traces of nuts. Views and puns are my own. He/Him
Mooneye Studios @mooneyestudios.com Indie Game Developer & Publisher
#LostEmber | #SmushiComeHome | #FarewellNorth | #HavenPark
#ColorsOfIndie
https://www.mooneyestudios.com/
🏳️🌈
Jurge Cruz-Alvarez @jurge.site PR/Marketing person at @popagenda.co 👨🏽💻 | pronounced like 'George' | milkshake enthusiast | he/him
jurge.site/about | popagenda.co
Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
Tim Biggs @timbiggs.bsky.social Writer. Classic games enthusiast. I cover consumer tech @ The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
Which Way Up: Galaxy Games - on Switch & Steam ⭐ @whichwayupgame.bsky.social Small indie #GameDev.
Compete with your friends in the Galaxy Games! If Super Mario Galaxy was a 2D party game 🪐☄️
Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Kotaku, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
🛰️ Newsletter: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social Library services and educational technology by day; indie game maker at thewonderroom.uk by night (🐝 cosy mystery The Beekeeper’s Picnic out now!).
Amateur bookbinder and 19th‑century weird speculative fiction aficionado.
Debug Magazine @debugmag.com The indie games magazine // Available in print and digital // For support: help@teamdebug.com
Get your copy: teamdebug.com
meg riley @megrileyart.bsky.social // Disability + the Arts //
MegRiley.net
DescribeEverything.com.au
Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social im skeetin here
marbenx.itch.io
👨🏽🛁 https://store.steampowered.com/app/359050/
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz NZ/Canadian creative boy.
Then: Birth.Movies.Death, GHOST SHARK 2, 48Hours.
Now: NZ Writers Guild, Freak Development, Court Theatre.
Soon: SPECTRUM, SO LONELY I COULD DIE.
Later: ABERRATION, DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE.
Inspired by actual events.
Matt Trobbiani @mtrobbiani.bsky.social Game developer from Adelaide Australia. Made Hacknet and Wrestledunk Sports.
Also played Trobbio in Silksong.
Email Matt at hacknet-os.com
Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb 🏫 | Game Studies Scholar 🎮 | Deputy Director of MAGPIE 🐦⬛| DiGRAA Board Member 🌏 | Checkpoint Critic & Writer ✍️ | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/cbarkman
Chris Edser @chrisedser.bsky.social Illustration, animation, woodcarving & jumpshots.
chrisedser.com
Chris Murphy @highlyspammable.bsky.social Principal Technical Artist on the Developer Relations Team for Unreal Engine. Generally handle Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia with Epic Games but sometimes you'll find me elsewhere. Have a tendency to rant.
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social pretty artist designer, and technologist with red hair, I make gay art and write code for @acmilabs.bsky.social,🏳️⚧️ girl, (she/her) https://rubyquail.design (also @rubyquaildesign elsewhere)
@hannahnorthcott.bsky.social @hannahnorthcott.bsky.social 
Em 🦋✨ @emshiel.bsky.social have you ever had a krispy kreme? was it crispy? ....right, right. emshiel.com
eric stirpe @stirpicus.bsky.social Dad.
Writer for Games + Animation.
Currently Sr. Writer at Remedy.
Prev @ Telltale, Fortnite, MultiVersus, Netflix, others.
He/Him.
Mgmt: Gotham Group (TV/Film/Comics)
www.ericstirpe.com
Char @charliethegoldfish.bsky.social I write code and make games. When I'm not holding my cat that is.
UI engineer at Sledgehammer Games.
Queer, trans masc, non-binary, AuDHD and more.
Lover of Obsidian, cats, pathfinding and wfc.
They/Them
Opinions are my own
#GameDev
Forgotten Worlds @forgottenworlds.bsky.social Looking back at video game magazines and culture from the 80s and 90s. Check the website for articles / interviews about obscure magazines and retro games… https://www.forgottenworlds.net
💽🕹
Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social Melbourne-based writer, editor and proofreader for books, publications and web.
Game designer from Star Wars on NES to Need For Speed: Shift on iOS, with dozens of titles in between.
Bass, uke and low whistle player. Unrepentant folkie.
Tony Albrecht @tonyalbrecht.bsky.social Aussie Game Dev of 25+ years.
Principal Engineer at Riot Games.
Brews beer, plays games, lives life.
he/him
AussieKozzy @aussiekozzy.bsky.social Aussie abroad in APAC. I work in strategic comms and public affairs, but this channel is mostly about video games and fun things. Wannabe dinosaur whisperer. Dogs, drones, occasional astrophotography and fun things.
My tweets represent inGen Corp.
Fran @franwrites.bsky.social PHL>LAX>ADL Expat in Australia, curmudgeon, oxford comma 4 lyfe, narrative lead
@ Mighty Kingdom
Currently bossing Starfleet officers in https://www.startreklowerdecksmobilegame.com/ and making Power Rangers adventures in https://www.mightyforcegame.com/
Paul F Verhoeven @paulverhoeven.bsky.social Author of Electric Blue & Loose Units for
Penguin Publishing. Host of Loose Units. Contributor to The Guardian. 5 star moustache. 
robin @rbn.fyi hi 💜
Designer of playful experiences. Looking for work! Prev: lead GD @ Lunacy, Reflector, Ubisoft... https://robin-v.net
him, lui 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Intentionally spending my energy fighting the doom, not posting about it.
Pic by McSkirt https://linktr.ee/mcskirt
Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social Host of Comedy Bang! Bang!
Co-creator / director Between Two Ferns
Former writer of The Astonishing Spider-Man 😢
CBBWorld.com