Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social Online May 22-23, 2026! A new game industry event by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed.
Frosty Games 🍦 @frostygamesfest.com Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ 🍦🎮 Join the Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! 👉 https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social
@unseconds.bsky.social @unseconds.bsky.social I want you to pretend that you know me, and because you know me everything I do makes sense.
Lead developer on PUTRID/SHARP and the background artist on Parasensor :]
Studio Folly — DOGPILE!!! @folly.studio WISHLIST DOGPILE ON STEAM! 🐩🐕🦴 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3839300/Dogpile/
GUBBINS (it's a word game) OUT NOW on iOS & Android ✏️ 🥦 🌈
realbirdfakebird dot com PLAY NOW in ya browser 🐓🔍
GHOULISH - Wishlist PARASENSOR now! @ghoulish.com.au Making videogames in Naarm/Melbourne!
Creepin' it real
🪰Wishlist PARASENSOR now: store.steampowered.com/app/3722090/Parasensor🪳
ghoulish.com.au
Intarsia Interactive @intarsia.studio Handcrafting weird little games with weird little guys
https://intarsia.studio/
Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social |~ indie studio director @oddlark.com 🐦⬛ ~|
|~ technical art is my love language ~|
|~ prev. The Gardens Between, Jumplight Odyssey & an unreasonable amount of cancelled projects ~|
Dan Vogt✨ @danvogt.bsky.social Creator of DATA WING and Skyward Journey. Formerly co-founded Halfbrick. 😊✨ he/him
📍 Brisbane, Australia
🌐 danvogt.info
Samurai Unicorn @samuni.bsky.social Harness the power of Samurai Unicorn and fight to save Sydney3 from the Dream Eaters.
Wishlist > https://store.steampowered.com/app/2494020/Samurai_Unicorn/
Support us > https://www.patreon.com/SamuraiUnicorn
Tana ⭐ pls wishlist Shape Sender Deluxe @tanamakes.games makes games, does swing dancing & photography, and likes to talk
Director @deadteapot.games making Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐🟡🟧
ex-Technical Designer
@dinopoloclub.bsky.social on Mini Motorways & Mini Metro
he/him
Oddlark @oddlark.com creating quality oddities https://oddlark.com
https://store.steampowered.com/dev/oddlark
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!
Next: ???
Prev: FORM, Tangents @ Sabby ALT: EX @ Powerhouse ALT: GAMES, #gameaweeksyd2025, Serenade Showcase @ #SXSW Sydney 2023, Games Spaces for Static Vision, Ink Jam Sabby https://serenade.games
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.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/waypointevents
Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social Journalist/presenter for hire, video game and TTRPG freak, big sandwich day advocate, and general menace.
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Alpha Beta Gamer @alphabetagamer.bsky.social Indie games and all the latest video game Alpha and Beta tests, with new additions every day, AAA & Indie games (though mostly indie games!). Visit us at https://alphabetagamer.com and Discord: https://discord.gg/3Gtqp9BDeY
Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakes.games AMG is a community organisation creating spaces for Auckland game developers to network, socialize, and grow.
↗️ https://aucklandmakes.games/wireframe
↗️ https://aucklandmakes.games/week
↗️ https://aucklandmakes.games/
ORIGAME DIGITAL @origamedigital.bsky.social Creators of Umurangi Generation and Penguin Colony
liminalzero @liminalzero.bsky.social Developing Cow Chess
( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3444110/Cow_Chess/ )
and a Game Development teacher
Sydney, Australia🦘
Peak @peakr.bsky.social Born to be a court jester | forced to live as a disgraced wizard | he/him
🐀 Art Director for Ratmouse Games
SXSW Sydney @sxswsydney.com The premier destination for creative discovery.
[Trademarks of SXSW, LLC used under license]
🗓️ 13-19 October 2025
NZ Games Festival @nzgamesfest.bsky.social New Zealand's very own celebration of gaming, for all ages ✨ 2026 NZ Games Festival starts from May 1 - 13! 🎉
Tickets on sale now! | tinyurl.com/NZGF-Tickets2026
Our website! | www.nzgamesfest.com
Making Soggy Beans 🐋 | Demo out now! @ratmode.games The game where fish visit you.
🐳 Meet friends
📸 Take photos
🌻 Decorate
And then relax and watch your friends swim by in this calming side-idler. 💙
Play our demo! ✨ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2636430/Soggy_Beans/ ✨
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Interactive Tragedy, Limited @interactivetragedy.com A small, sad studio in Wellington, NZ
Biogenesis @biogenesis.bsky.social Making games as part of a 2 person team - Freshly Baked Games LLC
~Art, Design, Music, Writing~
Cat, Videogame, Manga Enthusiast.
Current main project - Queen's Domain
https://linktr.ee/biogenesisFBG
Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social Hello! I have two cats, one dog, a twinkle in my eye, and a wish in my pocket
patreon.com/c/littletunny
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Hans @hansitto.bsky.social Chief Publishing Officer @orointeractive.bsky.social (Easy Delivery Co, Roadside Research, and more)
prev: comms at Bedtime Digital Games, Triple-i Initiative, Save & Sound
Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social A handful of humans creating games with relatable simplicity.
We make Mini Metro, Mini Motorways, and 🕵️ secret other stuff
Proudly based in Aotearoa/New Zealand!
Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social very professional indie game studio
💥CRASHOUT CREW COMING MAY 28
🦀made PEAK, Another Crab's Treasure + Going Under
✨https://bit.ly/CrashoutCrew
PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay Everyones favorite yeag girl 😈 Gay af game dev 🔗 Level 99 Nomura belt goth ☠ 33
Buy my merch! yeag.gay
🐇 The Witch Upstairs: youtube.com/watch?v=dtD2IdJ1nVo
🏎 NMKart: b0tster.itch.io/NMKart
🩸 BBPSX: 🙈
🏹 Arcus: b0tster.itch.io/arcus
she/her
minors dni
Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games based in VT🐄 we are a cooperatively structured studio making games that compost our favorite genres into lush, tasty experiences. yum.
https://www.mooncandy.games/
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
Balancing Monkey Games 🌠 wishlist Beyond These Stars! 🐋 @balancingmonkeygames.com 🚀 Indie game studio from Aotearoa
🐋 Making that cool space whale city builder game
💬 https://discord.gg/balancingmonkeygames
✨ BEYOND THESE STARS ✨
Wishlist + demo on Steam! http://bit.ly/spacewhales
Burger Bois | Mischief Makers Studio @mischiefmakers.studio We're a scrappy indie team from Aotearoa making games that tingle the brain and tickle the weenus - like Burger Bois! 🍔
http://wishlist.burgerboisgame.com/
#cozygame #cookinggame #wholesomegame
Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social Runaway is an independent game developer based in Ōtepoti, New Zealand. We make beautiful games inspired by the natural world. 🦋
☀️ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/3arvau5S4g
www.runawayplay.com
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 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made
Jevon Wright 💙💛 @soundasleep.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Making #Adaptory at @stormcloak! Brand new mum ❤️. Plays musicals 🎸🥁. she/her
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@soundasleep, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Whistling Wizard @whistlingwizard.bsky.social We are a small indie game studio from New Zealand, and the creators behind Rose and Locket.
Rose And Locket Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697850/Rose_and_Locket/
http://whistlingwizard.com
contact@whistlingwizard.com
Denari @astrodiaries.bsky.social Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1589820/Denari/
Discord: http://discord.gg/cP4jfRu
Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant @thousandtonic.com Kiwi indie game development studio: Thousand Tonic
Our current project: Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1157900/Ten_Thousand_Coins_The_Golden_Merchant/
https://thousandtonic.com
Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐️ by Dead Teapot @deadteapot.games Aotearoa, New Zealand-based studio making Shape Sender Deluxe!
🟡 🟧 ⭐️
⭐️ Wishlist here ⭐️ s.team/a/2976470
Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social Co-founder & Concept/2D/UI Artist @ liquidstaticstudio.com | Aotearoa | they/she | 🍉
Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social 40 year veteran games developer. Working with Screen Agencies, Publishers, and Developers.
Production on (REDACTED) for Fireshine
Production on DREDGE, Moving Out 2, Before We Leave, Age of Darkness, CONSCRIPT for Team17.
www.gameconsulting.com.au
Purple Moss Collectors @purplemosscollectors.com Tiny game studio, we made Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - http://playdndg.com
Making Design & Conjure🔮 DEMO OUT NOW! ✨ @tinykiwigames.com 🍄 Clean & Decorate rooms
🐉 Help your coven & Magical creatures
✨ Wishlist and Follow on Steam ✨
🔮 Steam: https://cutt.ly/oeSY8YGf
🌿 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tinykiwigames
Echo Zero | Wishlist on Steam! @wildboystudios.bsky.social Creators of ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree and Nitro Kid.
Now working on Echo Zero, please help us out and Wishlist on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4028060/Echo_Zero?utm_source=bsky
https://www.wildboystudios.com/
EPG - Teeto OUT NOW! @eatpantgames.com We made Teeto! Grab it on Steam, PS5 and Switch 1/2 🩵 http://s.team/a/2783370
NZ CODE @nz-code.nz Fostering a creative digital industry underpinned by video game development and training pathways in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Fnife Games @fnifegames.bsky.social 🌈 Ōtautahi indies making queer narrative games: Small Town Emo (Gay GameBoy Walking Simulator) & ShelfLife: Art School Detective (Mystery Adventure Dating Sim)
sniff us at fnifegames.com
@akauaudio.bsky.social @akauaudio.bsky.social 
Del @del.art // Lead Character Artist @ AbsurdVentures - BAFTA Committee // Previously NaughtyDog / Respawn / Rocksteady / SEGA / PlayStation //
del.art
à la mode games @alamodegames.bsky.social you know, like, with ice cream? Indie game dev team of two. Our game Sorry We're Closed is out now!!!
TOROA: SKYCALL OUT NOW 🌊☁️ @atawhaigames.bsky.social 🌦 tiny game studio in ōtepoti, new zealand
☁️ Toroa: Skycall is OUT NOW on Steam!
💙 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2003490/Toroa_Skycall/
✨ logo by @yrn-te-ao.maori.nz
Oskar Stålberg @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Game dev. Made Bad North and Townscaper. 
Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co creating videogames | made bernband, grunn, and more | part of @sokpop.co
Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social Art director and concept artist, currently designing vampires at Netflix. Previously at Cyan, Valve, Campo Santo, HBO. Draws a lot of rocks and historical fashion. | ClaireHummel.com | linktr.ee/shoomlah
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngāi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
Pedro Klein @pedroklein.bsky.social Technical Artist and Game Designer
Co-founder of @liquidstatic.bsky.social
NIGHT BUS on Steam!
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
Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social Director @eteogames.bsky.social • Creative Director of Sable
eteogames.com • Director at Shedworks
Qarl de Visser @qarl.bsky.social Game Designer of video and board games. Working on Triarchy for Digital Confectioners. Also/prev: Path of Exile, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Endeavor: Deep Sea
Stef Peacock ✨ @stefpeacock.com Senior UX/UI Designer / UI Artist @ Runaway Play in Ōtepoti/Dunedin. Used to help run NZGF. Loves coffee, food, D&D, sport, too many other things.
Overuser of heart emojis. Bi he/him 💖
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
~ Tom Butler ~ @butlerr.bsky.social Senior game designer @DinoPoloClub.
Co-founder and designer @Rainbite.
TTRPG Game master | Circus practitioner
Tom O'Brien @suddenlytom.bsky.social assoc lead tech artist @ playground games - just a lad trying to convince people that math can be fun
Guy 'Yug' Blomberg @yug.bsky.social Aussie in NYC || Founder of @thegameclub.bsky.social & @thegig.bsky.social
Previously Director of DreamHack, E3, PAX, The Mana Bar
https://linktr.ee/yugstar
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
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
Chris Murphy @highlyspammable.bsky.social Principal Technical Artist on the Developer Relations Team for Unreal Engine. Generally handle Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia with Epic Games but sometimes you'll find me elsewhere. Have a tendency to rant.
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
Joshua Boggs @jboggsie.bsky.social Game Director & Designer making the hardboiled https://stealth.game @sleightofhand.game
× Made Kojima's GOTY『 FRAMED 』
× Proud Dad / multi-award winning cliché
× He/Him
Grace Bruxner @gracebruxner.bsky.social ive decided to post……. gracebruxner.com for work stuff 
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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links: mollywhite.net/linktree
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Stef Animal @stef-animal.bsky.social Duck synth artist.
Spookysoft Games.
Cat pics.
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
uncool timothy @dreadconquest.bsky.social māori communist white trash tattooist
Luchie 🍳 @heyluchie.bsky.social Cartoonist of your dreams
Hard Drive @hard-drive.net We are Hard Drive. Bum ba dum bum bum bum bum
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Rudeism @rudeism.com I build cool things. Twitch Ambassador. Not Australian. linktr.ee/Rudeism
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
Alexander Bruce @demruth.bsky.social I made Antichamber. Now I'm making something else.
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social 🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
🪡 neoluddite
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Ryan Pequin @ryanpequin.bsky.social Three word phrase guy. Work in animation. 
Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics!
tylerglaiel.com
Emmy Rākete @cannibality.bsky.social communist, prison abolitionist, criminologist, cool mum 🌱 university lecturer, unless you're one of my students, in which case you didn't see me on here
Francis Kirkpatrick @frakirk.bsky.social Co-founder of @LiquidStatic.bsky.social
I'm a game designer with a lot of tech art experience and a software engineering degree, so uuhhh I'm a technical designer I guess?
Living in Aotearoa.
He/him