Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
Thomas Rey @thomrey.bsky.social French #mapmaker for hire. Games, #rpg and #novels. (Games Workshop,Mnémos Editions,Ghostfire Gaming,Robert Laffont,Studio Deadcrows...) COMMISSIONS OPENED - NO NFT - NO AI
https://wheretofind.me/@thomrey
✉️ thomrey@hotmail.com
#cartography #jdr #fantasy
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Dictionary.com @dictionary-dot-com.bsky.social The official feed for Dictionary.com, the world's leading digital dictionary. Home to #WordOfTheDay. Good at words, bad at Bluesky.
Best of Nextdoor @bestofnextdoor.bsky.social Quality neighborhood drama. Chief Lurker: @jenn.bsky.social
twitter.com/bestofnextdoor
ashℓey zeℓdin 🌻 #CodifyRoe @snidelyhazel.bsky.social CitizenNet + Condé Nast | programmer 👩🏻💻 + gamedev 🎮 + sportswriter 📝 | 🖖✡️ | 🏒🐧🖤💛 | USC ✌️ + Sydney_Uni 🦘
Gwen Frey @diregoldfish.bsky.social Ex-AAA dev (BioShock Infinite & more) Founded Chump Squad, developed KINE & now LAB RAT.
➕ Wishlist LAB RAT! http://bit.ly/3nQcGbY
➕ Discord: http://discord.gg/ddceuCkWSq
Erich @airrrick.bsky.social Game dev striving to make people smile -- He/Him
Working on Darkest Dungeon II
Opinions are my own
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social Writer of books and games. One half of @cascadecascade.com.
Fran Vergara フラン @franvergara.bsky.social ¡Hola!
◼︎Freelance Lighting and Marketing Artist
◼︎ Sea Of Thieves, Until Dawn 2, Horizon Call Of The Mountain
🔗 https://linktr.ee/franvergara
🔗 https://www.franvergara.com/
Liverpool, UK
Julien Eveillé @pataloon.bsky.social Maker of games.
Made THRESHOLD. ✨ https://s.team/a/2580020
Worked on DISHONORED 2, DOTO, MARVEL'S BLADE, DEATHLOOP, HUNT: SHOWDOWN & CRYSIS 4.
He/Him
Buried Treasure @buriedtreasure.bsky.social UK label
TURBODAWG 🌭💨 @turbodawg.com 🇨🇦 designer & artist & gamedev
running🏃🏻♂️, climbing 🧗🏻♂️
ux gamedev by day | gamedev by night
former product designer in tech (twitch, unity),
now i make games and art
turbodawg.com
plzbuymy.art
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!- N @naturallypurple.bsky.social @naturallypurple.bsky.social
Game Dev List @gamedevlist.bsky.social This account acts as a list of game developers. Just click on the 'following' link to get a list of developers to follow. Follow this account for updates on future additions. And @ this account to be added.
Maintained by @zenofdesign
KRIS GRAFT STARTER PACK @krisgraft.bsky.social marketing @ alienware | ever-recovering game journalist fmrly gamasutra & game developer dot com | video games | motorcycles | smoked meat 🇵🇭 / 🇺🇸
Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on Verminsteel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️⚧️
@highstrung.bsky.social @highstrung.bsky.social
Cat Wendt 🏳️🌈 @catwendt.bsky.social I talk about my dogs a lot. 🐕🐕 Games stuff 🍎. MBA but mad about it, kinda Chinese, rickety millennial. She/They | catwendt.com
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social Playful.
elizabethsampat.com
Jo Cronk @jocronk.bsky.social Gen X autistic aroace trans-masc non-binary software engineer, Technical Design instructor, MSCS grad student, Pilates teacher-in-training, fledgling aerialist, and professional hermit [when I'm not bouncing around the west coast].- A @attyjeffrey.bsky.social @attyjeffrey.bsky.social
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social ✨Things and Stuff✨
anitasarkeesian.com
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com Factotum, Flâneur, Strawhat sympathizer
Big Bad Con Community Coordinator
Mugs and games and games on mugs:
https://www.sassys86.com
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
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
John Passfield @johnpassfield.bsky.social Made Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Co-created TY the Tasmanian Tiger. I’m making Super Robot Survivors and Halloween Harry.
https://linktr.ee/retrojohnno
allison berryman @onwi.bsky.social Game dev (design) on an MMO.
Loves roguelikes, retro games, board games, TTRPGs, beer, M:tG, retro sci-fi/fantasy art, Gene Wolfe, music videos, reading and learning, painting minis. Beginner guitar player. Friend to all little guys.
Likes liking things.
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social CEO/Creative Director:
BLACK PONY IMMERSIVE
Deus Ex, Dishonored
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈- M @majornelson.bsky.social @majornelson.bsky.social
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy our games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/
Al Swearengen @al-swearengen.bsky.social Country punk.
Fire the GOP. Because in a country where liars aren't punished, liars rule. We're finding that out.
Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others.
MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games.
Next project: TBD!
David Marsh @nimbledave.bsky.social Photographer and Printmaker in Escondido, California USA
Caryn Vainio @hellchick.bsky.social Mostly trying to be a painter and printmaker. Also a solo game dev. Check out my work at carynvainioart.com and shadowdoggames.com
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social THE CASTLE! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
@disneyland.bsky.social @disneyland.bsky.social
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Meggan Scavio @megganpez.bsky.social President, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS/DICE Summit, etc). Hates coconut. Likes robots. Needs coffee.
inkle @inkle.co Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink; home of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope podcast..
Games: TR-49, A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery, and Pendragon.
🔗 inkle.co
Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co Co-founder of @inkle.co, narrative game studio.
⛰️ A Highland Song
🤖 TR-49
🚢 Overboard! & Expelled!
🕌 Heaven’s Vault
🌍 80 Days
🖋️ ink
📱 Apps @ https://Selkie.Design 🦭
🏴🇩🇪
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
Scott Jon Siegel @numberless.bsky.social Designer of playful social experiences. Lead Game Designer @ Board.
I love making things that bring people together.
https://numberless.net
https://board.fun
Geoffrey Card @rangutang.bsky.social Game designer at Undead Labs. Husband and father of four. Small-time YouTuber. Not in that order. (He/Him) http://youtube.com/c/deRangutang
Ron Gilbert @grumpygamer.com Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.
Petri Järvilehto @pjarvilehto.bsky.social Likes making games.
Led, directed and created variety of acclaimed and best selling hit titles and IP such as Max Payne, variety of Angry Birds titles and Best Fiends. Board member @ Sustainable Games Alliance.
Brian Fargo @brianfargo.bsky.social Studio Head InXIle Entertainment and fortunate that I'm still making RPG's after all these years.
Anna Kipnis 🇺🇦 @doubleanna.bsky.social (Former) Double Fine Engineer. Worked on: Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, The Cave, Dear Leader, Broken Age, Headlander, Psychonauts 2, others. Plus a few tiny indie games.
Accidentally founded Molyjam.
Avatar by @michaelfirman.bsky.social
Lauren Scott @laurenscott.bsky.social Game designer, writer, piano player, sister, human.
Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com The worlds largest online #GameJam, established in 2002. Join us every April & October. #LDJam
Happy @happyst.bsky.social Chicago sports fan. Formerly of Uproxx.
Nothing you read from me will have been worth your time. Also, for the first week I was here I thought “Bluesky” rhymed with “brewski.”
Laura Hudson @laurahudson.bsky.social I write comics and video games and stuff. Sometimes journo/editor, formerly @ Wired, The Verge, Offworld, ComicsAlliance; @laura_hudson on bird. Chaotic good, optimistic cynic, total champ.
Here to eat trash and be free
Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal
adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social Narrative Designer by day (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Novelist by night (The Palace Job, Feeder). (they/them, views strictly mine, OC do not steal)
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social Communications Director at Failbetter Games. Lover of life's rich pageant.
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
Hey It’s Alan @heylookitsalan.bsky.social 3rd Party Content Producer at Oculus Publishing. Chaotic Good. Dumb Eagles Fan, Iron Chef Beef. He/Him. Prev: funktroniclabs/KillerQueenGame/amplify/ibm
Quantum Sheep @quantumsheep.bsky.social #gamedev in a field of its own. Resistance #tea maker. Fights for the users. *sheepyhugs* Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
Find some of my games here: https://quantumsheep.itch.io
And my #music here: https://quantumsheep.bandcamp.com
Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social Basic Prog Brit Woke Remoaner Centrist Dad.
He/Him, Bi, ADHD, the usual.
Former Splash Damage game dev.
Full-Stack Narrative Designer/Game Writer available for hire:
https://www.sternword.co.uk/
Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author: Legends & Lattes. Hugo, Nebula & Locus finalist. Audie winning Narrator. Ex-gamedev - Fate,Torchlight & Rebel Galaxy.
Brigands & Breadknives out Nov 11 '25 from Tor.
travisbaldree.com
Jamie Madigan @jamiemadigan.bsky.social My book about the psychology of Dungeons & Dragons is out! See www.psychologyofdnd.com. I'm also the author of Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games. I write and podcast at www.psychologyofgames.com
sam, fall vibes @samuelbass.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at Epic games. UEFN, Unreal 5, sample projects, templates, tech talks and more.
Ask me about stuff!
All non-work related views / statements my own.
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social Exploring apocalypses. I founded and lead Hinterland, and created THE LONG DARK. Game Director, Writer, Designer. Proud Canadian. Lover of film. Just doing my best. He/Him.
Adriel Wallick @msminotaur.bsky.social I make games
she/her
eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Tech writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
(She/her)
Matt @mattagnello.com UX & game designer
/Riot Games/League of Legends
PhD in progress bars
30-40 feral years old; sailor; film guy; gets Figma prototypes to do wild things; poly; Philly expat; he/him.
Prof @wertle.bsky.social I've been a Game Designer for 18 years! Also I self-published a fantasy novel, write MHA fanfiction, cosplay, and make bat plushies!
https://wertle.carrd.co/
mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social software developer, llm hater
used to make games, will again one day
he/him
Bill Freakin’ Roper @billfreakinroper.bsky.social He/Him | I make Video Games, Voice Act, and Stream TTRPGs and game content | x-Disney x-Blizzard x-Cryptic x-Flagship | Portfolio and more at https://www.youtube.com/@billfreakinroper
Offworld 🌍🚀 「cyruz」 @offworld.bsky.social '87 Germany • @myanimelist.net Database Administrator
PCMR member • Strange Music & FiXT listener • hololive fan • sci-fi, action, and horror junkie • video gamer • #niewiederCDU
Jenni @pixiejenni.bsky.social Editor and writer. Academically interested in alchemy + magic. Asexual, ADHD and OCD-having nerd.
Nicole Lazzaro 🐰 🕹️ ❌👑 @nicolelazzaro.bsky.social XR Hall of Fame | Designed 1st iPhone Game | 4 Keys 2 Fun. Unlocking human potential through play. Developer of Follow the White Rabbit Tales an XR mystery adventure you play in the real world with your real friends. Now soft launched on 🍎 Vision Pro!
Lydia Choy @choy.bsky.social Exploring sculpture and ceramics. Former director of Substance Modeler, Adobe Medium, games and film vfx.
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. 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- K @kwolfkill.bsky.social @kwolfkill.bsky.social
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
JJ MacNab @jjmacnab.bsky.social Fellow, George Washington University's Program on Extremism. UC Berkeley alumna. Cats are badass.
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, ********
Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity.
store:
https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling.