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Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social 3D Environment Artist @ Sunset Visitor
Previously @: Giant Squid (Sword of the Sea) & Iridium Studios (People of Note)
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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social Bafta nominated game developer and owner of Tikipod. Co-Dev and Publisher of Astro Aqua Kitty, Iron Crypticle, Aqua Kitty, Rock Boshers.
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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social Game Dev. Making: As Time Surrenders
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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for
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Thomas Morgan @cataferal.bsky.social Video person and writer for Digital Foundry. Musings on films and cats represent only mine.
David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social Game developer, made The First Tree and is currently working on a farming horror game called We Harvest Shadows.
James O’Connor @jickle.net Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.
Survansix @survansix.com We are slow-cooking, self-doubting, heart-spilling, never-ceasing, take-a-deep-breath-and-releasing gamemakers.
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Defeating Games @defeatinggames.bsky.social Annual video game marathon raising money for the Video Game History Foundation. Showing off great gameplay for a great cause!
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
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House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Next is Big Walk: bigwalk.game
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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
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Gavin Clayton @gavinclayton.bsky.social Hello! I'm the creator and lead developer behind Daggerfall Unity.
Now working part-time on another game.
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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. :)
Jacob Janerka @jacobjanerka.bsky.social Making comedy adventure game 'The Dungeon Experience' with Bone Assembly
Made the game 'Paradigm'
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
Toast Interactive | Max Mustard Out Now! @toastinteractive.bsky.social Award-winning Australian Virtual Reality Studio, creators of Max Mustard and Richie's Plank Experience | Join our Discord 👉 https://discord.gg/DQqK59B4Nv
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froggi @froggi.dev I do all sorts of stuff | 26 | 🇦🇺🏳️🌈
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Dylan Perrett 🍜 @dylanperrett.bsky.social Associate Lead Animator @Gameloft | PREV: @5LivesStudios/@PlaySideStudios/@DefiantDev
Boulder Lover | Hoarder of Unopened Board Games & Unpainted Minis | Hollow Knight Enjoyer.
📍Brisbane, Australia
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
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Ryan Penning ✨ @ryanpenning.com ✨Award Winning Producer and Games Industry Expert. Thinking and looking for what’s next?
Previously @ Chaos Theory Games, @ Mighty Kingdom, @ Ultimate Studio, Games Investment Manager @ Screen NSW
Won some AGDA's • Rising Star & more!
Stubbornly made
Serenade @serenade.games We put on alternative games events!
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Waypoint @waypoint-events.com Waypoint is a premium networking event for the video game industry, providing a professional environment for developers, publishers, and media to socialise.
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Noble Steed Games @noblesteedau.bsky.social Your game's best friend.
✨Indie game studio & consultancy in Sydney
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Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
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🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
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Paul Kopetko @paulkopetko.bsky.social Game developer, sound designer and composer.
Creator of @boomerangfu.bsky.social on Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and Steam.
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BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social Previously worked on many, many games; gamedev for nearly 20 years. I am old. I post random 3d printing stuff and sometimes bunnies. He/Him. Australia. Also birds apparently.
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Nixxes Software @nixxessoftware.bsky.social Previously TT Games and WeirdBeard Games. A member of Port Jackson Greens and the Sustainable Transport branch of Climate Change Balmain/Rozelle.
WellPlayed @wellplayed.bsky.social A small collective of avid Aussie gamers, who have ventured out on their own and present their spin on the gaming world. You can find our reviews on Metacritic and OpenCritic.
Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social Awards-nominated freelance writer (ScreenHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, CheckPoint, SUPERJUMP, Qualbert, NG+, LT3, JPG). Highly opinionated on games, miniatures, & wrasslin'.
They/Them.
https://muckrack.com/jam-walker
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social Krome Studios co-founder
Award-winning Australian video game designer & drawing guy.
Blade Kitten, TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The Crinoline Crime Club, and Gunwale.
I love making pizza.
https://linktr.ee/spacecaptsteve
Renee O'flynn @scree.bsky.social Freelance video game journalist. Reviewer for Qualbert.com. Making content for Switchaboo and the IndiEXP.
Apologies will happen.
Contact me! Scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io Queer Monster - TransEnby (They\Them)
Occasionally NSFW | Queer & Disabled Game Dev
Adventure Game, Giant Monster & Film Noir nerd
http://ko-fi.com/enbykaiju | http://enbykaiju.com (Digital Diversity Project)
Chris Yearn @chrisyearn.bsky.social Senior Animator @sledgehammergames.com • Prev: Lecturer, worked on some old games • ✝️ • Dad x 3 • Drummer • Opinions are my own.
📍 Brisbane, Australia
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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social // Managing Editor, @ThisWeekInVideogames.com
// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
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Luna Luna 🏳️⚧️Game Dev / Artist @theballadofluna.bsky.social 3D Artist, Illustrator, #solodev
She/Her Pronouns.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Chinese Filipino Australian 🇨🇳🇵🇭🇦🇺
I'm making a game called "You Belong"
https://www.artstation.com/lunaelise
I wanna be friends with lots of devs!! 😊
🗨English/日本語🗨
Ben Kosmina @kosmologyb.bsky.social Associate Product Manager for Fellow Traveller | he/him | ace | opinions are not that of my employers
I like good movies and terrible movies, and I have two cats. Narrative games are rad too
Can’t answer DMs as bsky has blocked them for my country, sorry
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Callum Williams @misterwolfen.bsky.social • 3D Character Artist • Open to full-time, freelance or commission •
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
Anders @andersg.bsky.social 🇳🇴in🇦🇺 Award winning audio designer, synthesiser and whiskey person. Cast n Chill, Cozy Caravan, TFC: The Fertile Crescent, Mystiques: Haunted Antiques, Memory’s Reach, Windbound, Rohingya Boy.
ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit on Steam @finalprofit.bsky.social Melbourne based queer indie dev. Anti-capitalist. Mask wearer.
Made Final Profit, and making Oil Town 🏳️🌈🎮
Freeplay award winner | AGDA nominee | IGF finalist.
Final Profit: https://tinyurl.com/finalprofit
Oil Town: tinyurl.com/oiltwn
Heather [Han] @hanhula.com English game dev @ PlaySide & writer living in Melbourne. WiG Ambassador. I fell into TTRPGs and FFXIV & can't get out! ♥ She/her
FFXIV: Hannelore Lyrium @ Lamia, Azsire Tulyatar @ Sophia
Socials: @hanhula
FE dev @ PC & XR
Check out Istralar @ WorldAnvil
Jack Kirby Crosby🌹👨🎨 @jkcrosbyfun.bsky.social 👨🎨🌹Art stuff. Game dev.
🚫 gen-images or Cr*pto
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
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✍️Summerhill.
🎨Art Director: Moving Out 2,
🎤DnD Podcast: @dicepaperrole
Insta: http://instagram.com/jkcrosbyfun/
AS: www.artstation.com/jkcrosbyfun
he/him -Naarm
Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social 40 year veteran games developer. Working with Screen Agencies, Publishers, and Developers.
Production on (REDACTED) for (REDACTED)
Production on DREDGE, Moving Out 2, Before We Leave, Age of Darkness, CONSCRIPT for Team17.
www.gameconsulting.com.au
South Australian Games Association @sagames.org SAGA is a games industry non-profit created to promote, champion, network and inspire the SA game development community.
https://sagames.org
Piers 💫🏳️🌈 @piers.zip Solo dev cat person
📍 Brisbane 🇦🇺
💫 Working on Freeline! - a frenetic, kinetic, parkour speedrunning platformer.
✨ https://parkourcat.com/ - Wishlist Now!
🌐 https://piers.zip/
19 | They/Any
Tony Albrecht @tonyalbrecht.bsky.social Aussie Game Dev of 25+ years.
Principal Engineer at Riot Games.
Brews beer, plays games, lives life.
he/him
Kelsey Gamble @kindofsquishy.bsky.social Studio Momager for @newblood.games. Executive Producer for Oddlark. Publishing Producer for hire. For legal reasons I am a joke and so is everything I say
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Samurai Unicorn @samuni.bsky.social Harness the power of Samurai Unicorn and fight to save Sydney3 from the Dream Eaters.
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Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social indie game dev
Assault Android Cactus🔋, Unpacking📦, Tempopo🌷
Elliot @skelliot.bsky.social Lead, Product Designer, Games Developer. B.Sc. (Game Programming SAE Sydney). Ex Founder of Young Australian Skeptics. JumpJumpDie.
Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social Gamedev Priestess. Making stuff at Neon Giant. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
Caps Collective @capscollective.com We're an Australian indie game dev collective committed to making games, building and maintaining open-source projects, and sharing the arcane knowledge we happen upon along the way.
Contact: devs@capscollective.com
AstroKerrie @astrokerrie.bsky.social Content at PAX Aus.
🌻 Previous: ESLAustralia/DreamHack, Crunchyroll/AnimeLab ANZ ✨ She/Her 🍋
Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social Award winning yapper talking about video games online and on TV | Presenter, performer, (p)writer | ABC | Views are my own | she/her
Email: gemmabdriscoll@gmail.com
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Will Mesilane @willmesilane.com I made Cult of the Lamb 🕹Accessibility Advocate 🤔Opinions are mine (and probably bad)
Senior Developer at SMG Studio
willmesilane.com
Jasmine ✨ Momento 🧸 Out Now! @themajichan.bsky.social ✨Hi, I'm Jasmine! 🇵🇭 🇦🇺 I'm a 2D game artist
✨co-founder of @nomostudio.bsky.social
🧸 Currently working on @playmomento.com with Jess and Julian! 🧸 OUT NOW on Steam!! (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2474770)
SIFTER @sifterhq.bsky.social 🎮🏆Australia Podcast Award winning video games podcast network with interviews, reviews and news | 📧hello {at} sifter.com.au 
🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder OUT NOW! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social Asian-Australian Art Heaux™️, Art Director for @summerfallstudios.com, Magic: the Gathering Illustrator, Dungeon Master, plays games on easy. (He/Him) 🦇❤️💜💙 🌹: @azusakayo.bsky.social
NO AI / NO NFT | Opinions are my own
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz Dean Walshe:
3D Art lead on Wild Bastards and Void Bastards
Past games I have worked on include Stellar Warsy things and the Borderlands Interquel doodad.
https://deanw.xyz/
(He/Him)
Sarah Ward @soursquirm.bsky.social Sound Designer | Composer for film and games!
🎧Don’t Stop! Girlypop! Windbound, Phantom Abyss, A Grand Mockery
Likes to climb plastic rock
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social Reviews Editor & Features: @ThisWeekInVideoGames.com
Personal Blog: https://jameswould.pika.page/
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/omgmorejames
He/him
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
サラ スウェイツ
💌 thwaitesannsarah [at] gmail [dot] com
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
ruby! @rubyinnes.bsky.social agent of chaos at massive monster & back pocket | former slopstress at kotaku au | illustrator
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them 
Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me Human intelligence for a synthetic age. Analyst exploring the friction between humans and AI. PhD candidate at UNSW / ADM+S researching generative authenticity. Regular on ABC radio. Living on Gundungurra land.
David Smith @rhunwords.com Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
Chris “Mutton” Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social Editor of GadgetGuy, award-nominated video games + consumer tech journo, lover of sports and cats. A very silly boy. He/him
Christie @auralynxian.bsky.social Award-nominated freelance games journalist 🎮
✨ As seen on GamesHub & WellPlayed ✨
Fan of The Witcher, Kingdom Hearts, Bratz 💕
💌 christie.auralynxian@gmail.com
Portfolio + socials: https://linktr.ee/auralynxian
Jess Zammit @jesszam.bsky.social Games writer, reviewer, journalist, researcher, designer, producer and diversity advocate. Writer on Puzzle Quest 3/Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart. Deputy Editor @ Player2.net.au . Prev: Represent Me, Mighty Kingdom, Infinity Plus Two. She/her 🏳️🌈
Mig Considine @migsommar.bsky.social 🌿 a druid and an author by night | sm/pr girlie by day | games, pop culture & horror | she/her
📕 These Tainted Things out now
https://linktr.ee/migsommar
Luke Mitchell 🎮🐻 @checkpointboss.bsky.social 🏳️🌈He/Him. PR at Zero Latency VR | Editor-in-Chief, Checkpoint Gaming - @CheckpointAU | Award winning journalist & radio producer who sometimes brags.
Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social Journalist/presenter for hire, video game and TTRPG freak, big sandwich day advocate, and general menace.
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
Alex Hutchinson @bangbangclick.bsky.social Creative Director @ Raccoon Logic. Also Journey to the Savage Planet, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 3, Army of TWO: 40th Day, Spore, Sims 2 etc. 🇦🇺in Canada.