Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social Building a game/engine based on signed distance fields
~ Past: rendering lead @figma.com, indie VR dev, founder @ Workflowy, search backend @ Google, Quake modder
miketuritzin.com
Valve @valvesoftware.com We make games, Steam, and hardware.
https://valvesoftware.com
For support, visit https://help.steampowered.com.
Alex from LWS Studio @longwintershadows.com Distant Light Prologue
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4785580/Distant_Light_Prologue/
solo indie game dev, etc, etc.
he/him
小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp ゲームクリエイター:僕の体の70%は映画でできている
Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
Jarrett P. @notcrucial.bsky.social Currently: Narrative Designer at EA on Skate. 🛹
Previously: Technical Narrative Designer at The Coalition on Gears of War E-Day ⚙️
Indie author of science fiction, fantasy, and everything in-between 📚
Vancouver.
MY BOOK: www.jarrettpoole.com/polycorpsenovel
Greg Lobanov 🔜 PAXWest @greg.style silly game maker
making @beastieball.bsky.social
blog: http://wishesgames.com
profile banner is a fanart by wendi/trebuchet/闻笛
Yetee Glen 🕊️✌🏻☮️ @gleno.theyetee.com co-owner / co-founder @theyetee.com - theyetee.com • dad of 3 • he/they • glenoneill on the deadbird app • 🇨🇦 Vancouver • ADHD • #Canucks + #Goldeneyes fan • 𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙝! • NO 🚫 A.I. 🙅
Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone Founded Sonderlust, helped design Firewatch, lead designer on Mark of the Ninja, and the only Canadian game developer born & raised in Wyoming.
https://sonderlust.horse/
Erica Pitt @animatederica.bsky.social Animator for video games in Vancouver. Working on Oxygen Not Included.
eliot @eliothong.bsky.social currently: producer @ offworld (ex-community) 🚀
formerly: hooded horse | blackbird interactive | relic entertainment | bc lions | canucks | t1 agency 📝
loves: lakers, dodgers, magic: the gathering, food, gaming 🎮
Kevin Regamey @regameyk.bsky.social Creative Director @PowerUpAudio. otdq, He/him. (Celeste, TUNIC, NecroDancer, Descenders, Darkest Dungeon...)
Anu C. @anumation.bsky.social Art director - Greenhearth Necromancer / Character designer / Kid lit illustrator and author! 🇨🇦 #kidlitart
Rep’d by Thao Le at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
anumation.ca
Zoe Si @zoesees.bsky.social Pulitzer-nominated cartoonist, kidsbook illustrator, lawyer. linktr.ee/zoesees
Colin Northway @colinnorthway.bsky.social Married to Sarah
Independent game maker
Vancouver B.C.
http://NorthwayGames.com
Dan Floyd @danfloydplus.bsky.social Professional animator, creator of New Frame Plus, PlayFrame and Extra Credits
Carrie Floyd @carriefloyd.bsky.social
Simon Unger @simonunger.bsky.social Lead Animator at Santa Monica Studio. Formerly The Coalition, IO Interactive, EA, VFS, iAnimate, Gnomon, and many more.
Lex Sugden 🌈🦇🪡 @alexisdraws.bsky.social Professional animation director, cartoonist and embroiderer.
Australian Canadian
✨ She/her ✨
💖💜💙
linktr.ee/alexisdraws
Grant Wall @grantwall.com Former Community @RelicGames (@SEGA) for @AgeOfEmpires Founder @aozamegames, dabbles in code. https://mstdn.jp/@grantwall
Aaron White @designerwhite.bsky.social Vancouver based artist, shibari student, lifedrawer.
Michael Brooks admirer. Left is best. Game industry veteran, Iron Maiden Artist, Union advocate. Free Palestine. End Capitalism.
jules ✨️ @hooliganjules.bsky.social little nerd with worlds in their head ✨️
quest designer @ bethesda 🎮
they/them 🏳️⚧️
Alex Dault @alexdault.bsky.social 17th century VR enthusiast
technical narrative designer
game dev instructor @ kpu
Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2026 Living Wage employer.
Nikita Danshin @danshinwastaken.bsky.social 🦝ex: Tails Noir games
🫣Working on my own thing
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC
🏳️⚧️ Noone's gonna know
Bourassa @bourassa.bsky.social Concept Art + Art Director + Narrative on Darkest Dungeon I & II.
Creative Director/Co-Founder of Red Hook Studios.
Horror, movies, 40k, artwork, existential dread.
LeeLee @leeleels.bsky.social 3D artist for games in Vancouver
Motorcycle enthusiast
Cat and dog mom
Get in good trouble.
I will instant block supporters of AI art theft 🖕🏻✨
leels.artstation.com
Cole Verderber @rawpaws.bsky.social 🔊 Game Audio Sound Designer @PowerUpAudio
Working on Subnautica 2, Darkest Dungeon 2, and Generation Exile.
Mostly posting synth and sound design vids
Tim Mann @mintmanfresh.bsky.social making games
🏳️🌈
he/him
previously: Kill It With Fire VR
Kramer @thatkramerguy.bsky.social I was a game developer, now I’m not, but maybe I am? It’s hard to tell.
I have a dog and read a lot.
John T @john-tab.bsky.social Community Lead at Relic Entertainment 🍁
Aura @ PAX West @aurahack.ca artist + gamedev
she/her・💍 @lena.fyi
Vancouver, BC
EN/FR/JP
Art ➡ #myart
Join my Sticker Club!! ➡ https://www.patreon.com/c/aurahack/membership
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remy siu | 1000xRESIST @remysiu.com founded indie game studio sunset visitor 斜陽過客 • made 1000xRESIST
Peabody Award Winner, Hugo and Nebula Nominee
www.remysiu.com
Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social Associate art director on Darkest Dungeon 2! Outdoor enthusiast, coffee drinker, gamer
Vancouver, BC/ Londoner
Clara Sia 🍜 @seriouslyclara.bsky.social 👔: clarasia.com Game Biz & Marketing Consulting
🍁: @vangameexpo.ca Game Community Events
📧: hi@seriouslyclara.tv
👧🏻: instagram.com/seriouslyclara 🎮🐰🍣🥁🎹🗺️👴🏼
Ex-Devolver, ex-agency, living the dream
keilan irvine @keiframes.bsky.social pronounced “key-lin”
producer @ 2k games
prev: respawn, kabam, the coalition, hinterland
sometimes takes pics, but most of the time doesn’t
Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social Nebula-nominated writer/games designer in Vancouver, BC - Pacific Drive, Paranoia, Magical Kitties, Zafir, Feng Shui, Maia etc. Did acres of crit/journalism. NDP volunteer.
He/him.🏳️🌈🍉I don't regularly check notifs, email in Linktree!
linktr.ee/paullicino
Joey Godard @joeygodard.bsky.social Senior Sound Designer at http://www.powerupaudio.com
Scott Inglis @sdcinglis.com Engineering Lead @ Kabam, KeyForger, and Cat Lover
ForgedPixels @forgedpixels.bsky.social Sr. Tech Designer at Relic. previously @ Phoenix Labs (Dauntless, Fae Farm, Project Dragon/Everhaven), BioWare (all the Mass Effects). Trans Rights.
kuraine @lena.fyi creator of music & games
"verified" lena raine (that @kuraine)
see what i've done at: http://radicaldream.land
stay tuned for "ANOTHEREAL" coming 202X
Andrew Ferguson @dontfuck.men Desert Bus For Hope / ITTFAFMTWGTS / VanChipMusic / WTF Game Jam / event producer & game dev / platform & sre director / international beyblade champion / he,they
inthetenthfastandfuriousmovietheywillgoto.space
Jada ▼ @gerudogibbs.bsky.social game dev.
• game design, production @texelraptor.com
• concept, design on Spellcorked! for the @play.date
🏳️🌈🇨🇦 she/her
squid『kazha/カジャ』✨ @squidlette.bsky.social /kaː-ʒä/
game dev • styling • thrifting • weird little treats
they/them
just a little guy ✨
Garret Randell @garretr.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Game developer, artist @texelraptor.com - Made Parkitect with pals, working on Croakwood! Profile art by @kiliart.bsky.social
He/Him - Ace
texelraptor.com
Kill The Butcher @killthebutcher.bsky.social Juan Carlos Nuño. Principal Environment Artist @Playside Studios ⚔️ Respawn Entertainment ⚔️ Riot Games ⚔️ Phoenix Labs
⚔️DD. From Palm Springs CA🌵now in Melbourne Aus 🇦🇺 I like Synths and Kaijus 🇲🇽
🎨 https://www.artstation.com/kill_the_butcher
Tritemare, Game Data Guy @tritemare.bsky.social Group Product Manager at EA. Previously Wizards of the Coast, Respawn, Phoenix Labs.
I was a game data analyst generating insights, now I action on insights as a PM.
Twitch Partner (on hiatus). All views my own.
Contact: tritemare(at)gmail
christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv writer of New Astoria, a sapphic cyberpunk thriller
https://newastoria.tv
ex-lolesports, call of duty, twitch, dauntless, ambrosia sky, et al
dm fee $25 https://ko-fi.com/chhopsky
an em dash that predates AI @emdash.party language mechanic. mullet substrate. creature. (they/she/sir) 🏳️🌈
flyingspacewhale @violetsky93.bsky.social 30 something writer of many things. I may also be a bunch of monkeys in a trenchcoat
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/flyingspacewhale
Marc Junker @marcjunker.ca Composer and multimedia artist
❄️ Director of Art/Music at The Yetee 🎵
http://links.junker.ca
Composer: Wild Blue Skies, The Worlds Divide, Esluna, Street Uni X, Carve + more!
⚠️ aka @r23x.bsky.social 📼 Video-20XX @video20xx.com 🌎 Vancouver, BC
Peter Kao @peterkao.com • Founder at @MetanautLabs.com
• 18+ years of tech entrepreneurship
• 10+ years of running a VR studio
• Current: https://risingtheory.com (fintech)
Darth Mel @melrambles.bsky.social Name's Mel 🖤 Systems Designer II on Valorant. Prev. The Sims✨FaeFarm, Stonefly🪲Star Wars Squadrons, SW Battlefront II and Mass Effect Andromeda 💫 TGA Future Class ‘21 🏆
Opinions are my own.
PFP by @nicholaskole.bsky.social
David Milne @jonkeytoosa.bsky.social Historian. Game Designer. Loves Sandwiches.
Currently a Sr Mission Designer working on the next Skate game @ Full Circle!
Mike W @gekido.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian Metis, Emmy award-winning Tech Producer / Tech Director. ex-Unity, Namco, Roadhouse, Gamedev for 25+ years... Tech Director on Adam & Baymax shorts, etc
Current: Cloudhead, Megacrush, Instructor @ VFS
In Vancouver
Mike Rousseau @mikerousseau.bsky.social Author, SPFBO Semi-Finalist, Senior Game Designer, Game Writer and Narrative Designer. I'm kind of a lot. He/Him
John Lindvay @fightstrife.bsky.social Senior Producer at Red Hook Studios, hosted a gamedev podcast, helped cram people on trains, and now a papa of twins. My views are my own.
Leona Neelam Maple 💛🍁 (she/her) @theleonamaple.bsky.social I am your sensitivity reader & DEI product specialist 💛 Watercolor hobbyist 🖌️ 🎨✨ Newbie wrestling fan & burly dancer | Performer, streamer, Desi af, demi-pan queer, cat gal, ADHD spoonie
theleonamaple.carrd.co
Marielle Fox 🍂🦇 @ironswan.bsky.social 🔥 Darkest Dungeon Senior Environment Artist @ Red Hook Studios🗻
chinese filipino canadian, elder mall goth, ex radio dj, aspiring worm
Vancouver, BC
Stu @stuwallinger.bsky.social 💾 Indie Game Dev, Designer, Programmer.
🕒 Working on Bound in Time.
📃 Wish list here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1959040
✨ Game Designer @ Magic Potion Games
🍁 Vaguely Vancouver BC Canada
Unity, Godot, Unreal
Chris Leddy @slowbrewd.northsky.social Hello! You can call me Chris or Slowbrewd/Brewd!
Community Manager @IronOakGames! Retired streamer now working on For The King II
He/Him 🌈
🇨🇦 Vancouver!
Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social I'm a background artist in Vancouver! Projects include Star Trek: Lower Decks, Rick and Morty, Carmen Sandiego, My Little Pony: The Movie amanda.wt.wong@gmail.com
Website: http://www.amandadraw.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandawtwong/
jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social animator/illustrator/3d generalist in Vancouver
worked on some cartoons
NO🚫AI
🖼️: instagram.com/my2k
🦋art tag: #artpost
🌐: http://jam-etc.ju.mp/
business contact: https://jam-etc-contact.ju.mp
frequently discusses #politics, feel free to mute that tag 😌👍
Adrian Talens @adriantalens.com 🎵 Audio Director @kettle.games + @fableware.com 🎮 made the soundtracks for Poly Bridge 1, 2, and 3 ✨
Wishlist Wordbound 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4073540
🎥 youtube.com/@adriantalens
🌐 adriantalens.com
📍 Vancouver, Canada
#gamedev #gameaudio
Hellawack @hellawack.bsky.social Hellawack / thatguybryantai
Vancouver Game dev, formerly at KABAM & MCOC
Check out my games!
https://itch.io/c/1784715/my-gamejam-projects
https://linktr.ee/thatguybryantai
pfp: orcanadian.bsky.social
Shannon Mason (Pongball) @pongball.bsky.social Composer & Sound Designer for games, including KUNAI, Faeland, the upcoming Hazel Bastille and Octopus City Blues. Hope you like SNES music!
pongball.ca
bgk @bgk.peartree.games Solo hobbyist Unity indie game developer in Vancouver, B.C. he/him. Owner of two cats. Likes mechanical keyboards and the Zig programming language.
https://peartree.games
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Peartree%20Games
A Shell in the Pit @ashellinthepit.com ashellinthepit.com
#gameaudio
#gametrailers
made fish.game
70+ titles
Big Walk, FNAF, Pacific Drive, Little Kitty Big City, Untitled Goose Game, Chicory, Sneaky Sasquatch, Rogue Legacy, @smartereveryday
felix @felixrl.me he/him | making games and writing stuff | vancouver-based, cs at ubc ✨
🪿 developing for @goosemachine.com
🔗 https://felixrl.me
Iver @iver.bsky.social Co-owner, Canada
I just take it one game at a time.
CEO Session Games. Canonical knowledge of Dune, Star Trek, and Star Wars, Metroid, Mario, and Zelda. Equally adept with keyboard and chainsaw. Generally produce more than I consume.
Sats (Dami) Di Stefano @satsds.bsky.social Narrative game dev (excitable), voice actor (exuberant), and all-around friendly neighbourhood eldritch bisexual (exemplary).
She/any pronouns. 24. Canadian. DMs open.
https://vgen.co/thelowlysatsuma
Lucas J.W. Johnson 🏳️🌈 @lucasjwjohnson.bsky.social Queer writer, narrative designer, game designer, producer | He/him
Narrative Director at Riyo Games
Founder/Studio Director of Silverstring Media
Debut novel THE CLOCKWORK EMPIRE from Fireside Fiction
lucasjwjohnson.com
https://linktr.ee/lucasjwjohnson
Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social Indie Gamedev (CHESTNUT GROVE, #GRIDHACK, #COGITO Godot template) at @thresholdanomaly.com
VFX Editor (Spiderman NWH, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, etc.)
https://www.philipdrobar.com/
he/him, Austrian 🇦🇹 in Canada 🇨🇦
Follows =/= endorsements.
A:/ndy @andychip.com 🇬🇧 > 🇨🇦
Product design at 💙 Tiltify
Building cool stuff
He/him
#productdesign #gaming #woodwork #pyrography #seahawks
Seabus Memes @seabusmemes.bsky.social ⛴️🌊
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social Director of marketing & community teams. 14+yrs in game dev. VanCity🇨🇦
Previously: company of heroes, dawn of war, marvel contest of champions, transformers forged to fight, squad, starship troopers
Havlark @havlark.bsky.social Developer of ValoR Tactics and Director of WitchPop. Animation technical director by day, gamedev by night.
𝙈𝙮𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝘼𝙧𝙚𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠 🔜 RC Baltimore @myhandsareblank.bsky.social He/Him・BLM・Trans Rights・Free Palestine ・Previs Artist・D00-DL Supreme・MTG Ambassador DSK & FIN・PFP marcybones64.bsky.social
Art Tags #MHABart and #dailydrawing
#MTGOCreator
Contact - dbrinkanimation(at)gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/myhandsareblank
Tinh Nguyen @tinhn54.bsky.social Avid Gamer, Hockey and Anime nerd | Aspirin Video Producer | Making Videos about the games industry!
Youtube.com/@tinhn54
Twitch.tv/tinhn54
tinhedits.carrd.co
Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social Senior Character Artist ✨
Cole Beernaerts - Ray Flower Games @rayflower.bsky.social (previously: @Poe_Flower)
🕹️ Vancouver indie game developer making juicy games
u w u vibes and comf
Check out my games or hire me! https://rayflowergames.bio.link/
D, Hunter of the Dead 💙🌙✨ @dekubrush.bsky.social Sr Character Artist on Overwatch ✦ He/Him ✦ Tarnished ✦ Personal account, my views are MINE!
Natali 🌻 @natikatz.bsky.social Wishlist CATCH THE CLOWN 🤡
catchtheclown.com
Play Flowerdrops!🌸🌹🍀
s.team/a/3708530/
💕 making video games & painting pretty pictures~
🎮 Flowerdrops, ViViD Relapse
💼 co-founder of @cozyz.one
💍 @skye.computer
✨ 31, she/her 🏳️⚧️
🍁 vancouver
🔞 MDNI
🐸
Art Ikuta @artikuta.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
Nerd
Coffee Addict
North Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦
https://www.instagram.com/artikuta/
http://www.artikuta.com
John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com Indie text game developer, creator of Seedship and Beyond the Chiron Gate. Now working on a pulp sci-fi adventure narrated by the villain!
Website: https://www.spacegoblingames.com/
Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/
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