Malte Burup @theouterzone.bsky.social Artist / Game Director / Composer
The Outer Zone
#DeathHowl 👁️🌙🦌
Steam: re.11bits.com/2dj
#MindScanners 🧠⚡️
Steam: bit.ly/MindScanners
#TalesFromTheOuterZone 🤖🔥🔫
Itch: theouterzone.itch.io
✨The Razzle Dazzle Show✨ @razz-dazz-show-pod.bsky.social ✨A podcast where we make connections through the lens of video games & pop culture!✨
https://linktr.ee/razzledazzleshowpodcast
Fran García @phrancis.bsky.social Lead VFX Artist @Heart Machine
Hyper Light Breaker, Blade Runner, Solar Ash, Godfall, Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption, Gears of War, Castlevania
https://www.artstation.com/phrancisco
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
Jonathan Fenn @jfenn.bsky.social Based in Nottingham 🏹
Writing @Unwinnable: https://tinyurl.com/9ft5bvpr
Eat your breakfast and you'll be fine
Myriame・.🦂 @mllepilgrim.bsky.social Event Producer at @iii-initiative.bsky.social ・ Excecutive Producer gamedev.world ・ Production Consultant・Photographer
Worked on POSSESSOR(S), Beast Breaker, & a lot of other stuffs~
she/her・🏳️🌈 🍉
Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social 13-year game journalist. Senior writer at GamesRadar+. Previously: PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer. Email: austin(dot)wood(at)futurenet(dot)com
Chris Lucca @flipluka.com Composer / Audio Designer for games || @ Heart Machine || 🔥🎺✌️🤘🤟 @suburbanlegends.com , Littlest Man Band || FLiPLUKA || Optimist Crime || He/Him
https://chrislucca.com
Kellie Sheridan @atinydisaster.bsky.social Way too excited about way too many things.
Be kind. Stay curious.
Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com Game Director @ Luckshot Games: Big Hops & Sausage Sports Club. Previously: Owlchemy Labs, Battle Chef Brigade, Manifold Garden. Liker of rock climbing, running, sudoku, tiktok. Austin / Chicago guy.
https://linktr.ee/chriswade__
Luno @lunoland.com 🗡️ making games www.lunoland.com
🎵 music and more at linktr.ee/lunoland
Kevin Regamey @regameyk.bsky.social Creative Director @PowerUpAudio. otdq, He/him. (Celeste, TUNIC, NecroDancer, Descenders, Darkest Dungeon...)
Zach Mack @zachmack.bsky.social Podcasts @ Vox Media, This American Life, NPR, The Ringer
https://www.zachmack.org/
Listen to Alternate Realities on NPR Embedded
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alternate-realities-a-strange-bet/id1091709555?i=1000694434096
Alex Johnson @alexgameaudio.bsky.social ⚡sound designer | open to new opportunities
former audio lead at heart machine
🏁 Los Angeles, CA
DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social #GameAudio #Wwise #PedalBrainz
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
Juliet Schreckinger @julietschreckinger.bsky.social https://www.julietschreckinger.com/links
Michael Zarick @michaelzarick.com Looking for work!
Currently Writing The Questlog and making
Youtube first impressions for Indie Games @MichaelZarick
@michaelzarick on Twitter
Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
Mark Kilborn @markkilborn.bsky.social Game Sound Designer, Audio Director. Prev: Forza, CoD, Singularity, Bros in Arms, etc. Dad, husband, Tonebenders co-host. Skywalker Sound.
Devon @devonsoft.bsky.social he @younghorses.com octodad bugsnax game programmer
Thommaz Kauffmann @thommaz.bsky.social Composer and Sound Designer | Hell Clock, Dandara, Magenta Arcade, Mind Over Magic, Oniken, Grapple Dog, Hoppia Tale, Mr. Square
Currently working on Hell Clock and other projects.
✨He/Him
Ryan O’Donnell @ryanodonnell.bsky.social Filmmaker @ AREA 5
Outerlands, The 1UP Show, CO-OP, Grounded: Making The Last Of Us, Grounded II: Making The Last Of Us Part II, Tetris Forever, I Am Street Fighter, Making Games Is Hard, etc, etc.
he/him
Wolfgang @wolfgang3d.bsky.social Senior Environment Artist at Heart Machine
Not the Puck
https://linktr.ee/wolfgang3d
anya @anyayu.bsky.social games! pillow castle! cats and squirrels.
@albertshih.bsky.social @albertshih.bsky.social games! pillow castle! superliminal! other things.
lauren gallagher @notexactly.bsky.social she/her 📍 chicago
https://somethingelse.works
↳ design and such
clients include Annapurna Interactive, Bungie, Cards Against Humanity, FX's The Bear, Microsoft, Mom+Pop Records, The SpringHill Company, and more
@rebuscube.bsky.social @rebuscube.bsky.social
@len-machine.bsky.social @len-machine.bsky.social
troupe gammage @troupe.bsky.social composer/voice actor/sound designer
music for hyper light breaker, the murder of sonic the hedgehog, solar ash, mutant mudds
formerly of SPEAK and RAC
Bennn Strickland @dasstrickland.bsky.social (He/him) mostly gristle.
Chris Bullock @blakboks.bsky.social He/Him/His
Lead Animator @ Heart-Machine.com
pfp by @jeremyagamata.bsky.social
Akash Thakkar @akashthakkar.com Audio on Hyper Light Drifter/Breaker, OFK, Concrete Genie, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, host of the Sound Business Podcast & creative business educator/speaker. Get in touch:
www.akashthakkar.com
Yiyi @yiyiwzhang.bsky.social Community & PR, Heart Machine | Vice President, Arcade Commons | Director, Gumbo Collective | Founder, Women in Games NYC | Graphic Designer, Qweerty Gamers | Immigration Attorney
Christian Sparks @hippowombat.bsky.social He/Him
Opinions are my own
Senior Tech Artist at Heart Machine
Prev Senior Tech Artist at Bad Robot Games
Unfinished Project Enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/hippowombat
Heart Machine @heartmachine.bsky.social Los Angeles-based game studio, building games w/ engaging stories in beautiful, vibrant worlds. Creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash.
Katie Chrzanowski @minikitty.bsky.social Sonic Social Media Manager | Producer | #1 Chao Fan
Jamie Sanchez @spacedragon.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ she/her
Curiouser.design makin’ websites
JamieSanchez.com blog
AnimeChicago.com founder
BebopBeat.com pod co-host
BitBashChicago.com co-founder
Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW @tom.trinketstudios.com Battle Suit Aces coming Oct 7!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/Battle_Suit_Aces/
President/Programmer of Trinket Studios. Battle Chef Brigade,
Battle Suit Aces; Previously Wideload/Disney; Tall; He/him; tom@trinketstudios.com
PJ Vogt @pjvogt.bsky.social Very rarely here.
You can reach me at pjvogt85@gmail.com
Host, Search Engine podcast.
Some of our best episodes are here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5S9VpzSJa8HVGG9H0EmkmJ?si=eeb6813f57ea4218
Alex Previty @alexprevity.bsky.social sr. sound person at @PlayStation.com :~)
#MARVELTokon
#DeathStranding2
#SpiderMan2PS5
#GodOfWarRagnarok
🌏📍 Tokyo, JP
˖ ݁𖥔 Hakey 𖥔 ݁ ˖ @shysprout.bsky.social (she/her) hi I'm haley ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ ✨29 y/o✨ indie game enthusiast 🌼 dragon obsessed 🐉 small content creator 🍀 youtube.com/@shysprout 🌿 Playing: My Time at Portia ⛵️
Colorfiction @colorfiction.bsky.social Gamedev | Art Director @ Critical Reflex
(0°N 0°W, Becalm, Ode to a Moon, HPS1, Dread X 5, +)
🏠 www.colorfiction.co
🎮 colorfiction.itch.io
Greg Wohlwend @aeiowu.com Hard to pronounce videogames.
David Laskey @d-lask.bsky.social 🎮 programmer @ Evening Star
talk to me about volleyball, language learning, one piece tcg, or cycling. if you don't then i'll probably start talking to you about one of them lol
📍chicago
Sebastian Gosztyla @sgosztyla.bsky.social I make small games as Seabaa.
Created finity. and DUAL!
2024 Apple Design Award Finalist
https://seabaa.com
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
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.
Chris Bell @chrisbell.atthisarts.com I make books.
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social I've been here long enough where a lot of you don't even know where I come from and I kinda find that delightful.
But I'm glad you're here! How are you?
Kyle McKernan @spacetreasured.bsky.social Award-winning game director, designer
@ko-op.com
Co-director, Goodbye Volcano High
Lead UI/UX designer, Young Suns
Director, ********
Eric Huang @trinketeric.bsky.social Trinket Studios art guy
Andy McMillan @andymcmillan.com 💅 Designer, independent event producer, and NA brewery owner
📍 Portland, OR
🍻 @heckbrewing.com
🏫 @xoxofest.com
🌐 https://andymcmillan.com
🔗 https://linktr.ee/ndymcmlln
dtrebella @dtrebella.bsky.social Founder of Spoke & Wheel Strategy. PR/marketing for indie games, tech & startups. Theatre lover, chocolate eater & dog snuggler. Dana@spokeandwheelstrategy.com
William Chyr @chyr.bsky.social Artist and game developer. Directed Manifold Garden, Hotel Infinity, and Strata. Creative Director at Studio Chyr. Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College Chicago.
https://studiochyr.com/
Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com Co-founder + President @younghorses.com, creators of Bugsnax and Octodad. (he/him) https://younghorses.com/
The Midwest, USA
Bit Bash Chicago @bitbashchicago.com Chicago's Alternative Game Festival.
Keep up to date by signing up for our mailing list at https://www.bitbashchicago.com/
Sandy Gordon @bandygrass.bsky.social Artist @YachtClubGames
Lead Pixel Artist on #MinaTheHollower 🐭
➡️ http://MinaTheHollower.com
Prev: Shovel Knight | Rivals of Aether
héctor sanchez @hecsanchez.bsky.social president - @annapurna.com interactive + new media // we help artists create games and tv and films and animation and theater
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
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
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Matt Lange @mattlange.bsky.social Artist/Composer
Johan Vinet @johanvinet.com 👨💻Game Developer & founder @CanariGames / 🎮Creator of CASTAWAY: http://castawaythegame.com and LUNARK: http://lunarkthegame.com
Zuhn @resner.bsky.social
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Justin Cone @justincone.bsky.social justincone.com
Will Wiesenfeld @bathsmusic.bsky.social Baths & Geotic (☻) label Basement’s Basement mgmt/booking/etc: paige@velvetvioletgroup.com
https://linktr.ee/bathsmusic
Los Angeles
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp uvula.jp
Amanda Williams @amandawilliams.bsky.social Gentle dark art from a haunted garden.
Fine artist and game dev (Spider).
http://myhauntedgarden.com
felix link in bio @legobutts.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/897160/Snap__Grab/
he/they
toronto 🇬🇾
production in games
No Goblin - Polytron
Previously: Panic - Finji - Tunic - Sable - Untitled Goose Game - Fellow Traveller - Blaseball
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
Chris Wade @chriswade.bsky.social Festival Promoter | professional amateur historian | podcast producer/host | spare us the cutter
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
Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social Gamedev, mostly in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts
ostensibly still making AEROBAT:
aerobat.thew.nu
artwork/graphics stuff:
twarchive.thew.nu/art
The JRPG Threads:
twarchive.thew.nu
gabrielle genevieve @elloradatura.bsky.social art person, game designer, history lover, zine and book collector - let's be friends!
Matt Booty @mattbooty.bsky.social Head of Xbox Game Studios
egg boy color @eggboycolor.bsky.social Hi, I'm Andy! I make pixels, cute games, and NES/GBC homebrew. Let's be friends! they/them
big giant circles @bgc.bsky.social aka Jimmy Hinson
Video game musics mostly
Heard in People of Note, Stranger Things, Rogue Company, Borderlands, Mass Effect, Call of Duty/Black Ops, Threes!, Beast Breaker, etc.
https://linktr.ee/biggiantcircles
Mare Pan @paarsec.com 🏳️🌈 Artist and activist; lo-fi socialist junk, treehugger, tech-loving luddite, I love experimental art | 🇮🇹 IT | any/any
linktr.ee/paarsec
Vaati @vaatividya.com Professional item description reader over on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/vaatividya
Alex Baldwin @alexbaldwin.bsky.social Designer. Simple Casual.
Max Mraz @maxmraz.bsky.social Game developer, founder of Moth Atlas: Ocean's Heart, Yarntown, and more.
Wishlist Tombwater!:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308200/Tombwater/
mothatlas.co
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
Teddy Dief @teddydief.com Director/Designer of Videogames
◆ Hyper Light Drifter
◆ We Are OFK
◆ Glitch City LA
◆ prev: Square Enix, XBox, Disney
⟡ IGF & Peabody Winner
⇒ https://linktr.ee/teddydief
da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social GET MY T-SHIRTS HOODYS MUGS AT https://dashare.zone -
DAILY EXTRAS BY EMAIL AT https://patreon.com/dasharez0ne
WHERE U WILL ALSO FIND "DA SHARE Z1NE", STICKERS AND MORE SHYT -DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
Kaye Ross @kaye.zone I podcast at Duckfeed.tv. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Watch me stream at twitch.tv/duckfeedtv
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social Mostly I write things. Sometimes I play poker. mariakonnikova.substack.com
kuraine @lena.fyi creator of music & games
"verified" lena raine (that @kuraine)
see what i've done at: http://radicaldream.land
stay tuned for "ANOTHEREAL" coming 202X
Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social Strategic Director @pcgamer.com • FPS, card games, journalism • My name anagrams to Leviathan for some reason
evan@pcgamer.com
https://linktr.ee/evanlahti
Joseph Salazar @namejoseph.bsky.social josephsalazar.com
Straycloud @straycloud.nz 🌊Hi! We're making Straycloud, a pixel art action adventure game built in GameMaker.
💚Follow along and get in touch!
✨https://straycloud.nz for more info
Lesley M @lesleymath.bsky.social Fascinated by puppets, nature, crafting & random oddities. Also made a few games.
Caoimhe @keevahh.bsky.social 🎮 Senior Publishing Producer at Chucklefish.