Nat Quayle Nelson @nqn.itch.io Makin' zines, games, and theater in Chicago!
FLIES FLIES FLIES: http://store.steampowered.com/app/2330490
Habit Puzzles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4263990
Open Blades of Exile: https://nqn.itch.io/blades-of-exile
AvantBeetle @avantbeetle.bsky.social Atlanta based gallery for experimental/alternative/weird games. Bridging the gap between local arts and videogame scenes
Protest Games Jam: https://itch.io/jam/avantbeetles-protest-games-jam
Discord: https://discord.gg/NuXh64rQS7
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
farfama @farfama.bsky.social Based in Japan
Website - https://farfamahar.github.io/
Games - http://farfama.itch.io
Curation - @exhibitplay.com
Wishlist TO:RI - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3215280/TORI/
Exhibit:Play @exhibitplay.com Dedicated to discovering and sharing hyper specific curated game lists. All human curated.
Created by @farfama.bsky.social
exhibitplay.com
@leapinlemurs.bsky.social @leapinlemurs.bsky.social Liz • Any/All
I like computers and games
Creator of phillymtgcube.com
Summer Rain @weebwitched.bsky.social (they/them) 🏳️🌈 | #cosplay | variety performer and streamer | vocalist & multi-instrumentalist | #drag, #burlesque, #vgm, #kaigaiidol
☆Chicago-based
☆Next event: idk man book me pls lol
Brian S. Chung @brianschung.bsky.social ⭐ Game Designer at The Sheep's Meow 🌟 Director at Game Devs of Color Expo 💫 Previously: Bramble, Fantage, Sony Online Entertainment 🌠
harper shen @harps1.bsky.social Game dev & writer & interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn.
i make collagelike, melancholic video games -> https://harpsi.itch.io/
in progess -> https://linktr.ee/PartyAtTheShore
Lorenzo Pilia @lorenzopilia.bsky.social Berlin-based event producer & curator. I organise #TalkAndPlay @berlingamescene.bsky.social + run @saftladen.bsky.social co-working space for indie devs + drums @splitmilkband.bsky.social. Prev: A MAZE. / Berlin, Maschinen-Mensch. He/Him
Diane Landais @diane1f0cd.bsky.social Exploring video game practices @ Sous les néons. Freelance programmer, previously programmer/co-founder @ Accidental Queens. she/her. Probably not posting here. https://www.diane-landais.fr
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
1CC Games @1ccgames.bsky.social Indie arcade game studio from London, UK.
All Gameplay. All the Time™.
https://www.1ccgames.com/
Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Official account of NYC Comptroller. Working to hold NYC government accountable and secure a more just and sustainable future.
comptroller.nyc.gov
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
deimos @deimosly.itch.io deimosly.itch.io
jwest @follysoft.bsky.social Dad, photographer, gamemaker
follysoft.github.io
jwest.itch.io
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social 
Kurt Roembke @space-owl.bsky.social I like to tinker with making games, websites, and other coding things. 🌈 Bi creator
kurtroembke.com
Sonk @sonki-boy.bsky.social Harrison || 23 || He/him || Chicago Game Developer || your local blonde boy
Pfp: @yeeobun.bsky.social
Banner: @creaseninja
https://sonki-boy.itch.io
CURRENT GAME: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4775480/TO_THE_CENTER_OF_THE_EARTH/
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
⚡️Marina Díez 🔜 Gamescom @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
Jonathan Blair @kokode.io Video wizard - NYC
🪩 LCD - Digital Experiences for Leading Brands
⚡️ Flux - Rapidly build interactive sites
🔩 MUN - Fabrication and hardware incubator
Tender Claws @tenderclaws.bsky.social Art/Tech/XR/Theater creative studio. We made PRY, VVR, TendAR, The Under Presents, VVR2, & Stranger Things VR.
We like the weird stuff.
Willy Elektrix @willyelektrix.bsky.social Game designer, writer, and artist. I love building crazy worlds full of aliens and mutants!
My portfolio:
https://andihagen.wordpress.com/
ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine
https://choicebeat.wordpress.com/
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Robin Baumgarten 👨🏭✨ @robinwobbles.bsky.social Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Rosane Lebreton @rosanelebreton.bsky.social Architecte | Docteure en architecture | LACTH et Liège Game Lab
Intervenante Architecture x Level Design
Membre du comité de rédaction de @revueimmersion.bsky.social
Niels F. Rodenburg @schniels.bsky.social produces and hosts events, parties and quizzes! All the fun!
contact@nfrproductions.nl
🍉
Chris Williams @chrisisok.bsky.social Game developer in NY
Cheryl Heuton @cherylheuton.bsky.social Reader, writer, once and future corgi owner. Democrat. Married to Nick Falacci. No DMs unless I know you. 
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
freya @spdrcstl.bsky.social ⚧ indie gamedev, writer, occasional musician. She/Her. Senior Designer at [horror game company]. Proud member of Domino Club. Made Videotome.
masto: https://timetheft.rip/@spdrcstl
games: communistsister.itch.io
website w/ contact info: spdrcstl.com
Gianluca Pandolfo @giucapan.bsky.social Gamedev Teacher @bauhaus_uni
Indiedev @spacebackyard.bsky.social
Founder of Bauhaus Gamesfabrik
Game Jam Orga @amazefest.bsky.social
Creator of FLIPPER
Indie City Games @indiecitygames.org Chicago nonprofit community supporting the local game development scene with exhibitions, playtests, meetups, game jams and more!
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/indiecitygames
Itch: https://indiecitygames.itch.io/
https://www.indiecitygames.org
🚫🤖🚫
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
Len @len.bsky.social Solo indie developer. Strategy/RPG/Horror games freelancer at IGN, PC Gamer, and others. Producer: Three Moves Ahead. Lover of languages, folk metal, and history. she/they
sic semper tyrannis
Wurm Fud (in dev: SLAUGHTER VOID) @wurmfud.itch.io Chicago artist/gamedev. Horror games, art games, and RPGs in no particular order. Overly fond of skeletons holding swords. Chicago Indie organizer.
Currently developing Slaughter Void: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730700/Slaughter_Void_Demo/
Merrill Markoe @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social Writer of things intended to be humor and animal lover. I post A LOT of pieces on my Substack page:"Still Looking for the Joke" https://substack.com/@merrillmarkoe?utm_source=user-menu
Weird Fucking Games @wf-games.itch.io Just a collection of weird fucking video games. Suggestions welcome. Sign up for the newsletter: wfgames.substack.com | Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/wfgames
Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social Buy Mashina: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/Mashina/
Buy Judero: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1960900/Judero/
Buy Dujanah: https://store.steampowered.com/app/681240/Dujanah/
Other works: https://jackspinoza.itch.io/
Dragon Wasabi Potato ドラゴンワサビポテト @dragonwasabipotato.bsky.social writer, streamer | creating TELE @telegame.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/dragonwasabipotato
contributor @warpdoor.com
ambassador @safeinourworld.org
operator at Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β
https://dawn2021.orylab.com
Sickhouse @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social 🎈 Playful art space for
🪅 interactive art
🕹️ indie&art games
🎬 alternative movies
🪩 experimental music
🇳🇱 Enschede, The Netherlands.
🔮 Home of The Overkill Festival 💜🌈
sickhouse.nl
theoverkill.nl (26 - 29 Nov 2026)
Jacob Janerka @jacobjanerka.bsky.social Making comedy adventure game 'The Dungeon Experience' with Bone Assembly
Made the game 'Paradigm'
Brandon Hesslau @bhesslau.bsky.social 🖤 Indie #gamedev, software developer, composer
🖤 Previous Game: Buddy Simulator 1984 (Concept, Code, Music)
🖤 Now Working On: Desktop Survivors 98
Out now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3339780/
dustmop is over here now @dustmop.bsky.social dumb hacks, pun lover, ideals. Past/Future: chiptune fan, Indie Arcades, nesdev, retro homebrew, low-level, NY/NJ xHCx
@arcadecommons.org
Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social (they/them)
queer game maker, games are bodies
phd candidate in media studies
https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
Dr. Travis Faas @meanderingleaf.bsky.social Game dev professor @ Ball State University | IGDA Indianapolis chair | opinions my own | and so on.
Matthias Löwenotter @sp4c31nv4d3r.bsky.social Playful Interaction-Designer (he/him), Coordinator CodeWeekGermany, Curator @PLAY-festival & Creative Gaming, Award @AMazeFest, Gameculture BerlinGamestorm, Profileimage by Paintbucket ❤️
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Buddy Toledo @jessefuchs.bsky.social the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface- M Edgario @moguera.bsky.social
Claire Kwong @clairekwong.bsky.social I connect art and technology to make people move.
Halima @halomedes.bsky.social she/her
writer etc
𝒦𝒾𝓂𝒾 ♡ @kimikimi-more.bsky.social 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 chicago game, film, & stage composer
✨ wishlist the afterlife cafe on steam ✨
📱 @aapiingaming.bsky.social
👾 fortune 500 gaming company marketer
🎵 https://linktr.ee/kimikimi_more
Advent.js @adventjs.itch.io 29 days of art, games and writing, one new piece revealed per day. Find the creative coding calendar here: https://adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Account run by @vividfax.bsky.social and @mtrc.bsky.social
Julian @jbspi.bsky.social Game Center 22` MFA. Currently deep undercover in corporate America. I do code stuff
Seth S. Scott @perfecthatgames.com 🏀🌵🎹🎨🏃🏻♂️🍑🎲🧩🏈
i’m seth, i make games and art, thanks for being here
www.sethsscott.com
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Allen @allenriley.com https://www.allen-riley.com
Matty!? @mtylpg.bsky.social A11Y design stuff, alt ctrl game stuff, other stuff
Nathan Mattingly @nathanmattingly.bsky.social 
MAGFest Indie Arcade @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social Skeeting about DIY cabinets, alt-control games, and all the other weird stuff we got at the MAGFest Indie Arcade
Mark Kleeb @kleeb.bsky.social Head janitor at @wonderville.nyc
Adjunct faculty at NYU
I build arcade cabinets
mut / moochi @mut.media 
steph @hotcakesdeluxe.online failed luchadora ▲ beloved stepwife ▲ phl doll stuck in atx ▲ game dev i guess
nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social stay tuned for wet mystery at @telodendron.bsky.social
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Kjell 'skitfula spel' Håftén @kjellhaften.bsky.social Hej, det var Kjell här. Visste du att alla gillar skitfula spel?
✅Driver Automat CO+OP
✅Spelpedagog på Håfténs Spelverkstad & Spelkultur för alla
✅Styrelseledamot på Dataspelscentrum
❌Never use GenAI
automat.town
spelverkstad.com
dataspelscentrum.se
Big Scrumbo @bigscrumbo.bsky.social 
b lyin @hexcavator.bsky.social they/them, crazed & scrunched, qr gamedev writer fixbot soundthing, treaty 3 (hamilton), www.whosewoods.org ✊🇵🇸
Arcade Commons @arcadecommons.org DIY arcade cabinets for local multiplayer indie games based in Brooklyn, New York.
https://arcadecommons.org
https://linktr.ee/dbaarcade
https://discord.gg/M32eyPRmGF
Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social Makes tiny games. Currently in grad school to be a librarian. Helps organize local game dev stuff near Detroit. they/them
https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/
https://virtualmoose.org/
Marlowe Dobbe @marlowedobbe.com She/Her | Art Director at Mega Crit | PIGSquad Organizer | Prev Dicey Dungeons + Floppy Knights | Black Lives Matter! Trans rights are human rights!
⋆༺𓆩☠︎︎𓆪༻⋆
https://marlowedobbe.itch.io/
https://marlowedobbe.com/
https://marlowedobbe.com/newsletter
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/
Hand Eye Society @thehandeyesociety.bsky.social A non-profit arts org dedicated to exploring videogames as a means of creative expression.
https://linktr.ee/handeyesociety
bibs @itsbibs.bsky.social motion design + member of @boshis.place + games @glassjury.com
Kate Sweeney @katetown.bsky.social 
Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org Chicagoans working together to make our streets better for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit.
🧑🦼🚶🚲🚌
linktr.ee/betterstreetschicago
Joost Vervoort breaking the 4th wall @joostvervoort.bsky.social Developing 'gloriously unearthly' anticapitalist RPG @allwillrise.bsky.social. Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Games, mystery, transformative politics. Singer @terzijdehorde.bsky.social & @sunlightaltar.bsky.social
Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social Working on "Memoir Games", & my memoir "The Games That Saved Me" 👥 Humanistic Game Design 🤫 Unparty at GDC 🪴Friendship Garden 🎲 NYU📕 Scholastic
https://linktr.ee/muditaheart
Sewon @sewon.bsky.social 
Til Nomi @thenomi.bsky.social an idiot. vids, illos & games events?? 2/3D art (or 6D). founder of @gaemz.bsky.social. been making flamingos for @amazefest.bsky.social. worked on 2 or 3 camera games. co-producer for a video game dog musician. music fan.
https://www.thenomi.com
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social 
A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027 - 16th edition - May 5-8
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - open on Wed-Thu 15:00-18:00, Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization @locquest.bsky.social Multilingual localization studio focusing on high-quality, human-powered translation and ethical practices.
Roots of Pacha, Halls of Torment, Minami Lane, Tavern Talk, Frog Detective, and much more
Inquiries: hello@locquest.com
Sam Leigh @made-by-sam.bsky.social Game Dev & Adjunct at NYU Game Center & Parsons
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3220610/Face_to_Face/
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
Angelo Careri @integralitex.bsky.social Chief editor immersion-revue.fr Teacher ENSAD Paris & ICAN. Researcher ENSBA Lyon. None of them are on Bluesky lol.
Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social 🎏 Narrative Designer & Producer
✨ IndieCade Winner, A MAZE Finalist
🌺 Cofounder of Matajuegos Co-op
🦑 1/3rd of Atuel
💀 English, Spanish, Italian
🐍 Queer, They/He
🛸 pfquarta@gmail.com
sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social gamewitch @ sylvie.website 🐈
sylvieish half of love ❤ game @ https://love-game.net
Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social
🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜
✅ all work completely human made
Shan @shanahan-sweet.bsky.social Making weird games in a dark corner.
| 23 | They / Them | 
jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social fringe gamedev. code/art/direction at @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social. paratopic: overdub and roman sands re:build coming <soon> with @serenityforge.bsky.social
views my own
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvel’s Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
aaaaa @aaaaa.bsky.social 5 as
fiona @marioparty.blog they/them
aspiring vengeful ghost wandering the misty swamps. ex-tech, working on @bug.band, member of @boshis.place
zionism is terrorism