The Don Hertzfeldt Collection @donhertzfeldtfilms.bsky.social The Don Hertzfeldt Collection, now on @dropout.tv
A wild waferbaby appears! @wafer.baby Ancient neurospicy web developer.
Editor of Uses This (usesthis.com), developer at Ishtar Collective (https://ishtar-collective.net), friend to dogs and APIs.
Robin Ward @eviltrout.com "The Incident at Galley House" is out now on Steam! You might also enjoy our previous game, “The Roottrees are Dead”.
Previously: co-founder of Discourse
https://galley.house
https://roottrees.com
https://eviltrout.com
sooV @afteryou.bsky.social Spatial Media & Immersive Experience | 전독시 이머시브 전시 | Find WiiLii | Missing Pictures | Nine VR | Ce& WannaOne VR | Space X Girl | ex-GiiÖii | now 이륙(engineering 6) | 그 외 잡다한 관심사
Night School Studio @nightschool.bsky.social We make games full of wonder, danger, and humor: OXENFREE I & II, Afterparty, and BLACK MIRROR: Thronglets.
Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social Video game developer and makers of the games South of Midnight, We Happy Few, and Contrast. An Xbox studio based in Montreal.
Anjali Bhimani @sweeetanj.bsky.social Actor/Author/Dogmom, Auntie Ruby |Ms. Marvel, Symmetra | Overwatch, Rampart | ApexLegends, Charlotte | Candela Obscura, Fy’ra Rai | Exandria Unlimited, Bestselling Author of I Am Fun Size and So Are YOU!
Elle Osili-Wood @elleosiliwood.bsky.social TV presenter talking film, arts, & games. Named a BAFTA Breakthrough in TV, called “one of the most influential women in games” by Google. Rep: ITG
Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social ✏ Writing Warren Spector’s next game
✏️ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
🏆 BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
⭐ Marketing: SCMedia
🎤 Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
✉ shao.karrie@gmail.com
🧐 karries.carrd.co
Mayanna Berrin @mayannaberrin.bsky.social Writer for Adhoc Studio
Nick Writing Fellow 2023
Writer for animation and games, voice actor, Professional Dungeon Master, TTRPG Nerd, Creative Producer, Actual Play Performer, undiagnosed workaholic
USC Games @uscgames.bsky.social
Good Virtual Reality @goodvirtualreality.com Subscribe on Substack to support Good Virtual Reality and listen to the Good VR Podcast on any platform. www.Goodvirtualreality.com
Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social Cargo bike doctrinaire
kheehoon chan Needs Work @crapstacular.bsky.social freelance writer //
author of Mouthwashing: Design Works, contributor @rascal.news, @funland.itch.io, Wand Report //
NYVGCC award, TGA Future Class '21 //
https://linktr.ee/kheehoonchan //
#freepalestine #milkteaalliance #六月四号 //
they/them
@opheliaau7170.bsky.social @opheliaau7170.bsky.social
Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social Writer, Game Designer, sometimes authority figure.
I’ve been a journalist, a publisher, a producer, a designer, and more. Attractions, alt controllers, audio games, films, etc. These days I teach at USC Games.
Cohost @everydamnframe
@fictive-official.bsky.social @fictive-official.bsky.social
Heidi Boisvert @hjboisvert.bsky.social New media artist | Experiential designer | Creative technologist
Associate Professor of AI and the Arts at The College of the Arts | University of Florida
Working on futurePerfect Lab
https://linktr.ee/heidijboisvert
Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social We make Indigo and Croissant, apps for better social experiences.
Aaron Vegh & Ben Rice McCarthy
gold extra @goldextra.bsky.social games - theatre - digital art – artistic research
gold extra is a collective of artists working at the intersections of games, digital art, theatre, film, and visual arts. They explore the development of new formats, such as documentary video games and ro
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
waferbaby @handle.invalid Ancient neurospicy web developer, back on this whole thing.
Editor of Uses This (https://usesthis.com), developer at The Ishtar Collective (https://ishtar-collective.net), best friend to dogs and APIs.
He/him.
Alex @x13n.com
Autumn Dickerson @autumn-d.bsky.social Lawyer (not your lawyer), Starcruiser, and Traveler.
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social 👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨
Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com
https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
Asians In Gaming 🎮🌏🫂🟰 @asiansingaming.bsky.social Founded in 2022, AiG is for gamers of all Asian identities to convene, learn shared commonalities, multicultural differences & amplify voices
🌏📣💜🎮✨🫂
Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/KDqFdWWHJ5
Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social 3D Artist @ Sunset Visitor
Previously 3D Environment Artist @: Giant Squid (Sword of the Sea) & Iridium Studios (People of Note)
Indie Game dev 🎮 | hEDS 🦓| Farming sim enjoyer 👩🌾🐮
Portfolio: https://nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com/
SailorTabbyCat ♡s TV★( ˘ ³˘)📺 @sailortabbycat.bsky.social She/her✧32 🏳️🌈🇵🇷
Award-Nominated US/UK PR Manager for @owlcatgames.bsky.social 🦉
📧: t.beidleman@owlcat.games
Opinions mine!
https://linktr.ee/SailorTabbyCat
Cyan Worlds @cyan.com We're a game development studio creating places that become your world: Myst, Obduction, Firmament, and now... Riven. 📖✨
🔗 http://www.cyan.com/games
Harrison G. Pink 🔜 DragonCon @gilespink.bsky.social Award-winning Game Designer. Lead Narrative Designer - @shinyshoegames.bsky.social. Tall Bermudian 🇧🇲. Tiki-drink enjoyer. Prev: Cyan (Myst, Riven), Blizzard (Diablo IV), Telltale (TWD, TFTBL), 2K (Mafia III) - www.harrisonpink.com - NO AI NO NFTs
gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com gamedevmap is the world's first living map and catalog of game development organizations. We are a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
https://www.gamedevmap.com/donation_form.php
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
GamedevPerkUp 🌤️ @gamedevperkup.bsky.social An inclusive, LA-based social/networking event. Uplifting and bringing the gamedev community together via specialty coffee. ☕
🗓️ Next PerkUp: September 2026! RSVP Coming soon.
Who we are & Contact Info: https://linktr.ee/gamedevperkup
Christian Svanes Kolding @svanes.bsky.social adventures + folly in Scandihoovia, NYC, and LA. 🇩🇰🇳🇴🇪🇺. dane-ish. i do a lot of things by hand (or on foot).
https://www.christiansvaneskolding.com/about and https://www.studioextracurricular.com/
John Ryan says No AI Roles @johnryanwrites.bsky.social Senior Writer/Narrative Designer/Consultant for Games | Horizon Forbidden West | Destiny: The Taken King and beyond | IRON MAN VR | Guild Wars 2 | Forza 7 | Fable 2 | Lily's Garden. Husband, Marathoner, Cat Wrangler, BAFTA member. johnryanwrites.com
Dave Proctor @positivelaser.bsky.social Director at Mighty Yell. All Systems Dance, The Big Con, A Knight in the Attic. Singer in a nerdy punk band. Relentless optimist.
Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, and Trans Rights are Human Rights. (He/Him)
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
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
Walaber @walaber.com JellyCar creator, lead designer of "Where's My Water?" | Making games solo and 1/2 of Toyful Games | ゲームを作っています!日本語だいたいワカル | He/him https://linktr.ee/walaber
Sebastián Gioseffi @sebagioseffi.bsky.social Independent Game Developer y demás. Co-creator of Okhlos. Co-organizer of the Experimental Game Workshop at GDC.
Jake Weidner @jakeweidner.bsky.social #Gamedev Jake of All Trades!
Admin & Industry Liaison at NYU Game Center
Advisor for Experimental Game Workshop team at GDC
Formerly a Producer at: Pontoco, Pixelberry, Funomena
Buttery Awesome @butteryawesome.bsky.social Extra-Independent game developer spawned from a lifetime of AAA game development. Creating odd, quirky and wonderfully joyous interactive toys for weirdos.
www.ButteryAwesome.com
Josh Boykin @wallstormer.bsky.social Founder, @intelligame.us. Head of Curation, @gdocexpo.com. Narrative Director, Lancer Tactics. #ThoughtfulPlay
For work/opps: josh@intelligame.us
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer. Currently at Innersloth, prev Exploding Kittens. Also worked on HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & lots more lil stuff.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
she/her | st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
austin @powerllama.com Trying my best. Casual spy. vfx artist. los angeles. https://duck.haus/@powerllama he/him. avatar from https://bsky.app/profile/pantspants.bsky.social
Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com 🕹️ Gameplay & Tools Programmer
🧑🚀 He/Him
🎮 Past Games: Harmonium: The Musical (tOG), Where Cards Fall (The Game Band), Exhibit 01: The Equipment of Apollo 15 (Solo), Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n (Night School Studio)
Rebecca Kopycinski @getthotbot.bsky.social 🧠📼 Is Your ThotBot Glitched? The ThotBot Storyworld unfolds across three performances and a scripted fiction podcast. Step into this mid-90s dystopia.
Resolution Games @resolutiongames.bsky.social Game dev studio creating virtual games with real impact
Our games include: Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, Spatial Ops, Demeo, Retrocade, Grimkeep and more
www.resolutiongames.com
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
YES PLZ Coffee @yesplz.coffee Your favorite fresh roasted coffee weirdos — get beans at https://www.yesplz.coffee
Manda Farough | Project Red @ PAX Rising! @amandafarough.ca Dir. of Production, Causeway. Executive Producer & Writer (Truck-kun, TMNT: Tactical Takedown), Strange Scaffold. Principal narrative (Terrible Lizards, GNAW). Award-nominated Multiclasser. @virtualeconcast.com cohost. Queer mama. amandafarough.ca 🇨🇦
Mike Futter | Project Red @ PAX Rising! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Founder of F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
Owlchemy Labs @owlchemylabs.com Making absurd + highly polished VR games!
Now: Dimensional Double Shift!
Past: Cosmonious High, Vacation Simulator, Job Simulator, and more!
Wanna play? Join our Discord: discord.gg/OwlchemyLabs
VoidBurger (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com Former GiantBomb producer, former podcast producer/actor on Skulltenders. Current Twitch streamer, Youtuber, and less burnt out now
she/her/they, bi, 'tistic, 🇺🇸➟🇫🇮 http://ko-fi.com/voidburger
Voidburger.com for a Linktree of stuff
Mike Jamieson @jaymojamieson.bsky.social Realtime VFX Artist @ Undertone FX , ex ILM Bay area.
Film reel @ https://vimeo.com/299707698
@andythps.bsky.social @andythps.bsky.social
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Meow Wolf @meowwolf.com #1 Immersive Experience in the U.S.
Five unique experiences with a common purpose: to expand worlds and minds through the lens of Meow Wolf’s kaleidoscopic art. Pick a portal and get lost.
devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social local elf enjoyer
Emmy-winning Lead Writer / Producer. The Dragon Prince (Netflix). Elf novelist. Prev Riot. Personal account, unhinged unprofessional and unfiltered. she/her.
Rowan @rowan72.bsky.social I used to play ARGs, I used to own ferrets, and I used to like PAC-12 USC football. I now apparently like LARPs.
Cadu Rodrigues @sotosendocadu.bsky.social Gamedev brasileiro que achou de bom tom abrir um estúdio sozinho
👨🏿💻 Designer de jogos e de tudo um pouco no @sendoestudio.bsky.social
🎹 Produtor musical pra jogos, aberto a encomendas (manda dm)
🎁 E mais (esperem aleatoriedades)
Ggjeed @ggjeed.bsky.social Christian, Game Dev, Esports buff (Pokemon VGC & TCG, RTS, SC, WC3, AoE, LoL, TFT, M:tG, Smash, Storm Gate, Elestrals, LRAW, SWU) @d20love 's Tomato Husbando Signore Fartisimo
Sometimes found at www.twitch.tv/ggjeed
Matt Wieteska @gamecat.bsky.social Freelance Writer, Game Designer, Director.
Co-founder @badscientistaudio
Previously: Writer @ Techland; Head of Production @ Six to Start; Creative Lead on Marvel Move; Voice Director & Radio Abel creator on Zombies, Run!
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
School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.
✎⋆ Apps open for Fall 2026 ↓↓
◌ https://sfpc.study/links
Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), original Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
Jonah Ostroff @ostroffj.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor at UW Seattle. Math, puzzles, & public transit.
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
IGDA NYC @igdanyc.bsky.social We aim to grow & connect our game dev community & industry!
Have ideas, questions, or wanna help out? Email: nyc@igda.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/a5zv72NY #NYMakesGames
zoewi @zoewi.bsky.social Zo-ii | Playful Arts & Playful Culture
✨Playful Arts Curation
🦩Program Curator A MAZE. / Berlin
🦄Curator Sickhouse / The Overkill
🫶Co-founder Playful Arts Festival
https://zo-ii.com
Tassos Stevens @tassosstevens.bsky.social Playmaking to spark change, formerly representing Coney
Aery Shoemaker @aerynea.bsky.social Hi. www.shoemaker-art.work
@aerynea on Xiaohongshu
Nathie @nathievr.bsky.social VR/AR Content Creator | Spatial & Wearables Expert | 800k+ Subs
Dave Arnold @cookingissues.bsky.social Thinks about food and beverage for home and pro. Author: Liquid Intelligence, Founder: Museum of Food and Drink. I have been doing a technical cooking podcast for 12 years. Ouch.
AdHoc Studio @adhocstudio.com An independent game studio focused on interactive storytelling.
@lumenprize.bsky.social @lumenprize.bsky.social
Marcel Jackwerth @mrcljx.dev Software Engineer • Ex-{Memfault|Fitbit|Pebble}
SchoolofMachines,Making&Make-Believe🍉BLM @schoolofma.bsky.social Independent school intersecting art, technology, design, human connection. Empowering humans via education & community since 2014. No more wars.
e.c. myers @ecmyers.com Author, Gamer, Reader, Dad • He/Him • Assembled in the U.S. from Korean & German parts • NYT Bestseller • linktr.ee/ecmyers • #NoGenAI
Just published: GAMERS: LEVELING UP
Also available: KAIJU GAGA (CYOA Jr)
Publishing soon: THE STREAM TEAM: PLAY 2 WIN
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
Kyle Banks @kylewbanks.com Makes games, occasional YouTuber, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025.
Farewell North available on Steam, Switch, Xbox and PS5 👇♥️
https://farewell-north.com/links
Hannah Raymond-Cox @hannahraymondcox.bsky.social Content producer @ the BBC, writer @ Epic Games and more, voice actor w/ home studio @ The Economist and more!
h.raymondcox@gmail.com for work enquiries
Tom Pearson @tompearsonnyc.bsky.social Poet. Artist. Horticulturalist. Choreographer. Cat dad.
The Chinese Room @thechineseroom.co.uk Critically-acclaimed games studio in Brighton UK.
Creators of Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Still Wakes the Deep, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
Working on new unannounced projects. ✨
David Lumb @outonalumb.bsky.social Tech/gaming journalist at CNET, WGAE union member, burrito fiend.
David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social Barroom historian. Author of The Comic Book History of the Cocktail, Imbibe, Punch and a mess of other books. Ardent Wet. Brooklynite and part-time Triestino. Intellegentia mechanice generata delenda est.
The Secret Lantern: Books & Games @thesecretlantern.bsky.social Now Open!!
Indie bookstore + game space in Cedar Park, TX.
We throw game nights, recommend chaotic reads, and love a good plot twist.
🌀 Come hang out.
https://solo.to/thesecretlantern
Collin Kelly @collinkelly.bsky.social Writer of Comics. NYX. Guardians of the Galaxy. Star Trek. Batman Beyond. Parent. Hivemind w/Jackson Lanzing! All opinions my own. He/him
Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social Trickster disciple. 🦊 Game developer. 🎲️✂ Emeritus data generalist. 📊 Delightfully imperfect. ☁️ Not that kind of doctor. 🎓 [E] Itsatrap 🎮 He/Him
Bob Bonniol @bbonniol.bsky.social Emmy Award winning Creative Director/Producer/Designer
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social working on Twilight Wars, a.k.a. Strahdjammer, a 5e mashup adventure. https://www.ouzelumbird.com/strahdjammer-twilight-wars/
DOGUBOMB @dogubomb.bsky.social Dogubomb is an indie game and film studio hidden among the long shadows of Hollywood. After a decade of making stuff for other people, we decided to make something for ourselves: Blue Prince. @blueprincegame.bsky.social
@ilmimmersive.bsky.social @ilmimmersive.bsky.social