Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social Indie dev making games & chatting about the games industry. ex Rockstar & Activision, now MD of https://bsky.app/profile/ant-workshop.com
Our latest game: https://bsky.app/profile/tonygowland.bsky.social/post/3lp7gpkckgc24
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Liam Wong @liamwong.com ☔️ Director, Game Developer & Photographer
☔️ TO:KY:OO and After Dark books are available in stores worldwide
☔️ linktr.ee/liamwong
Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com 🏴 Creative director at GRIMOIRE
🌙 Making Pale Tides, the witch TTRPG
⚔️ Art for Silent Hill: Townfall, MTG, D&D, Black Library, Axis Animation (Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2), Disney etccc
🔗 https://linktr.ee/PaulScottCanavan
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
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.
Reese Wright @reeseofcake.bsky.social Senior Producer @ Devolver Digital 🌈 Payer of cat tax 🌈 They/Them 🌈 Based in Glasgow, Scotland
Korina ✨🐛 @shikaboom.bsky.social Comms cryptid at Wolfeye Studios & freelance games marketer. Prev: Founder of Neonhive. Marketing at Bethesda, SQEX, Ubisoft
Chaotic gardener, insect queen, lifts heavy things. Found in Glasgow.
💌 korina@panicdepartment.com
🐺 korina@wolfeye-studios.com
Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social Game programmer, creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. Comments are my own and those of the voices in my head.
Support my work:
http://www.patreon.com/mikedailly
http://www.lemmings.info
https://mdf200.itch.io/
http://www.youtube.com/mikedailly
Matt Stark @mattstark256.bsky.social the game designer behind Viewfinder. he/him 🏳️🌈
Paula Beakes 🔜 SGDA Games Day @paulabeakes.bsky.social ✨ Freelance Schedule Open ✨
📨: contact@paulalucasart.com
🌐paulalucasart.com
makin' games. 2D+3D / Art Lead
all round art gremlin
SGDA Trustee // 30U30 // BAFTA Connect
Ben Newbon @bennewbon.itch.io TTRPG designer, AP host & performer.
Videogames analyst at Rare. Vice Chair of IWGB union Game Workers branch
https://bennewbon.itch.io
https://anchor.fm/cybertopiaap
https://youtube.com/@ben_newbon/videos
Say no to genAI
Rach Macpherson @rachmacp.bsky.social Marketing officer at GCHC ✨ videogames person 💛 MCV/Develop 30 under 30 2024 💛 Co-founder of Glyph Lit Mag
Kirsty Keatch @kirstykeatch.bsky.social Designer • playful design + dynamism
Previously: ustwo games - Alba: a Wildlife Adventure
kirstykeatch.com
San Francisco
Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social Machine-man. Director of @hairyheartstudio.bsky.social . Co-founder of @glasgowindiegamesfest.org
Ant Workshop @ant-workshop.com Indie game dev working on cool games.
Into the Restless Ruins 🃏 coming soon http://s.team/a//2877770
Dungeon Golf ⛳️ OUT NOW! http://s.team/a//2144040
rachel @nershly.bsky.social graceful failure. game programmer, designer, doodler, etc. likes tea. is a she. paints and plays with minis. personal site: https://rachelnertia.github.io/ also: https://linktr.ee/rockstargamesworkers
Vaida @vaida.me Designing things & making things 🌕 a bit of UI/UX @ Strange Scaffold 🌔 Edinburgh 🌓 https://vaida.me
Georg Backer @georgbacker.bsky.social Co-founder Sad Owl Studios & Exec Producer “Viewfinder”. Founder A BRAVE PLAN: Narrative Design "Alba: a Wildlife Adventure", Game Director "The Bradwell Conspiracy". Ex-Lionhead. I also do Development & Cloud Tech Consulting. BAFTA Member.
Chris McLaughlin 🔜 TGS @fishtopherx.bsky.social Tech Director at @moonmode.com
nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com Indie game generalist at Aetheric Games some of the time, and game dev lecturer at Edinburgh College other times. Undercover, queerly neurospicy nerd, attempting to infiltrate the normals with a big coat and a fake moustache. https://aetheric-games.com
Bryoz @bryoz.bsky.social Scottish designer. Ex-Rockstar on #GTAV and #RDR2. Ex-Tokyoite (都民だった). Part time model. Tired. He/Him. 🏴🇯🇵🏳️🌈
Michael Cameron @tiveran.bsky.social Design Manager at Hyper Luminal Games | Mentor at CG Spectrum | Previously Ant Workshop, Blazing Griffin, and Microsoft | He/him
https://linktr.ee/tiveran
Timea Tabori @timeatabori.bsky.social Lead Programmer at Third Kind Games. Based in Edinburgh. She/her.
Previously Tech Director at Netspeak, Engine Code at Rockstar North, and Chair of SGDA.
nat. @natclayton.bsky.social girl who makes levels
natclayton.uk
zero company🔸 highland song 🔸 tron catalyst 🔸 unbeatable 🔸 ???🔸 she/they 🔸 avi by aurahack 🔸 vancouver edition
Sam Davidson @samdavidson.bsky.social 
Kirsti | wee koopy 🫧👽 @koopyrose.bsky.social Influencer Manager in the Gaming Industry 🌈 she/her || maw || mental health advocate || unhealthy obsession to Ghostie || Glasgow, Scotland || 🏴
Eliot @edogz.bsky.social Level Designer at Jagex || Prev Ubisoft || Abertay || He/Him
@EliotHynd
Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social Created #SOLAS128, working on #CRT7. Try the demo: https://bit.ly/CRT7Game | Part-time lecturer, part-time Scottish BAFTA winning game developer! He/him
Craig McNaughton @chromestag.bsky.social Postvis Artist at Halon Entertainment | Lead Concept Artist on Project Borealis | Concept Artist on Dark Souls: Archthrones | prev: LEGO Fortnite, Build A Rocket Boy | 🏴
https://chromestag.artstation.com/
Gordon Speirs @gspeirs.bsky.social Glasgow-based programmer at Nerial / Devolver | Ex-DMA Design, Namco (US), EA LA (briefly), VR and other stuff | Keeper of 2 small humans and 2 cats | Constantly tired | Yes 🏴🇪🇺
Gary Alexander Stott 🏴 @garyastott.bsky.social Producer (prev. Coatsink, Lockwood Publishing). Worked on Men In Black: Most Wanted, Phantom Spark, & more.
Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com That Scottish AI and games guy...
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Founder of @aiandgames.com
Game AI Programmer & Consultant
Public speaker, educator, nuisance
BAFTA Connect
He-Him, PhD
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Weekly Newsletter: aiandgames.com
YouTube: youtube.com/@aiandgames
Thomas Welsh - game narrative writer @calmdowntom.bsky.social Thomas Welsh. Author of the Metiks Fade trilogy. Lead writer and narrative Director on Nivalis Nights, Best Served Cold, more. I wrote Cloudpunk.
Nonbinary. Likes finery. He/Him/She/Her
Joe Watson @jwillustration.bsky.social ✍️ Freelance Artist based in Scotland (He/Him), father to 1 hairy baby and 1 human baby.
Art, photography, all the good stuff 🦆
Open to work!
Inquiries ✉️ - joe@joewatsonillustration.com
My work 🕸️ - https://www.joewatsonillustration.com/
No AI/NFT art 🛑
Neil Goodman 🌈 @seffles.bsky.social ◽ Lead Programmer (Game Developer)
◽ Nerial / Devolver Digital
◽ Glasgow, Scotland
◽ He / Him
◽ 🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺
◽ Opinions my own
TheRealPengy @therealpengy.bsky.social Just another variety streamer on twitch
TheRealPengy.carrd.co
Obsessed with indie games
Ambassador for SafeInOurWorld
Creator for Fireshine Games, Neon Doctrine, Slug Disco and Wired Productions
pengyplaysindie@gmail.com
Connor Cloughley @connorcloughley.bsky.social Scottish | Jack of All Trades Freelancer | Production, Narrative, Marketing & Community and Voice Acting | Safe in Our World Ambassador | Stream/YouTube as AyeforScotland
1/5 of @thesecretsauce.uk
Andrew @mckissock.bsky.social He/Him | Game Writer and Narrative Designer | Writer: @FuseboxGames Previously: @Outfit7 | Solo projects: 'Saudade', 'The Attendant', 'Forgotten Film', and more | 🏴
Craig @craigpearson.bsky.social BFF to cats. From Glasgow, but in Dundee. Would rather be on a bike.
https://linktr.ee/itscraigpearson
Skye Blacke @skyeblacke.bsky.social Streamer, Creator, Award Winning Filmmaker. Worked on Valley Peaks, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom!, and Gold Gold Adventure Gold!
Making online content designed to educate and entertain about art.
Disabled / Goth / They/Them.
Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT Patreon: patreon.com/expzine
Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social performing rituals @ Very Evil Demons ✷ Dundee regional coordinator @ IWGB Game Workers ✷ he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Paige Harvey @paigehharvey.bsky.social Gaming Community Manager for SpecialEffect 💙 Married, disabled, AuDHD, LGBTQIA+ creator/musician ✨💙 She/They
WF Kullervo + FFXIV WHM Main
Lover of horror, cats and raccoons. Trash Icon according to Doug Cockle. Moderator for UpIsNotJump!
Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social 🚀🎮🌿☕
People & Ops in startups, tech, and creative industries.
Operations Director @kythera.ai
https://linktr.ee/laraeliz.brown
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Rocket Ronz @rocketronz.bsky.social Scottish indie dev making iOS games & apps
C# • Godot • Unity • SwiftUI • React Native
🐧 Rockhopper iPhone / iPad - 100% FREE 🐧
http://apps.apple.com/app/6504028206
ABS @abs.ventures https://abs.ventures/
https://bsky.app/profile/abs.ventures
https://www.instagram.com/_a_b_5_
https://mastodon.social/@ABS
Kieran Docherty @kierandocherty.bsky.social Associate Producer at Blazing Griffin Games. Intermittent streamer. A nerd for translated literature, films and games. He/him. https://linktr.ee/Major_Panda
Colin Riley @domipheus.bsky.social CTO at JECO; prev FSR 4/3/2 Lead at AMD, GPU Drivers at AMD, Codeplay doing debuggers, compilers and optimizations for various folks. FPGA/Electronics/DIY hobbyist. Own opinion. https://domipheus.com/
Stuart Adams @nyalloc.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Rockstar North, ex. AMD. Music gear hoarder and cat enthusiast.
Views and opinions are my own etc etc
Harry Petch @harrypet.ch Abertay grad, Mechanics Designer based in 🏴.
BAFTA YGD Mentor, Games awards jury 2022. Outstanding TIGA Graduate.
https://harrypetch.itch.io for my games.
https://harrypet.ch for my portfolio.
Banner ©️ BAFTA/Quetzal M
Stuart Pentelow @stuartpentelow.bsky.social Programmer working in Scotland :)
MCV Develop 30u30 22 / BAFTA Connect. He/Him.
Dyspraxic, Opinions are my own.
www.stuartpentelow.com #gamedev
Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social Founder of Pawsmonaut Games - Scottish Solo Indie creator of AETHUS and Tidy Up the Town.
https://linktr.ee/beacondev
Previously: AAA Tech Designer: Splash Damage | BARB | R* North
Game Dev Edinburgh @gamedeved.bsky.social Social meet-up for Edinburgh game devs of any age, stage and discipline! Every other Tuesday from 6PM 'til late at OX184!
Discord: https://discord.gg/HnPSCDJ
meetup: https://www.meetup.com/edinburgh-game-development-meetup-group/
Daniel Livingstone @d-livingstone.bsky.social games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.
Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org Bringing the best indie games to Glasgow ⋆｡°✩
. ݁₊⊹ July 11-12 2026 ⊹₊ ݁.
📍BAaD
https://glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/
Relentless Games (VR) @relentless.games We are a Virtual Reality game studio based in Scotland! Follow us for updates on our latest games with new and returning VR players in mind! https://sprouter.app/relentlessgames
Celtic Dragon Studio || Wishlist Azzy on Steam @celticdragonstudio.bsky.social Solo dev in Scotland that's driven to create a modernised experience inspired by retro-era action-platformers!
Want to contact us? Try here celticdragonstudio@gmail.com
Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // cult classic, not best seller
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social Write about music & culture & various things for various places, mainly the Guardian. Based in Sheffield. danieldylanwray@gmail.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-dylan-wray
Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario
Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Cal Cashin @calcash.in Mercurial music writer. As seen on @thequietus.com, @sonemic.com, and beyond.
Complete works: calcash.in
Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social 'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground' - a MOJO, Uncut, Prog & Shindig book of the year. www.daysoftheunderground.com.
'Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van der Graaf Generator' out now. www.rockandrole.net
Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow. 
Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others.
Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
Will Salmon @evilrobotbill.bsky.social Super falling star. Words at SFX magazine, The Quietus, Wyrd Science, GamesRadar+, and more.
Modern Aviation (@modernaviation.bsky.social here and @musiqueparavion at the other place) doing tapes & that.
Tabletop stuff: unremembered_empire on IG.
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Zara Hedderman @zarahedderman.bsky.social Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTÉ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
📩: heddermanzara@gmail.com
Newsletter: The Bad Arts
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social Composer, performer, writer. FKA Simon Bookish. 🏳️🌈
www.leochadburn.com
leochadburn.bandcamp.com
John Quin @jdquin.bsky.social FRCP. #MDANT Writing sometimes in The Wire, Quietus, ArtReview, The Tablet, 🇮🇪Times, 🏴 National.
Memoir: Dr Quin, Medicine Man. 4 star review @TheTimes.com
New 📕Video. On 📺 Art
Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com For those of you just returning.
https://matthewgneale.com ✨ he/they
Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot. 
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores
Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
Elizabeth Aubrey @aubreywrites.bsky.social Freelance arts & culture journalist / editor / lecturer.
Words: Guardian, GQ, IndieWire, MOJO, NME, Quietus, Radio Times, Record Collector, The Standard, Total Film & more.
www.elizabethaubrey.com
Derek Robertson @derekrocks.bsky.social Writer & editor. ✍🏻 for @guardian, @Independent, @NME, @VICE, @theQuietus, @timeout, @TheFaceMagazine & more.
https://derekrobertson.journoportfolio.com
Kiran Acharya @whoismrbishop.bsky.social 🎬 Eternity, Survival, Dispossession, Honesty
📧 Email community at www.kiranacharya.xyz
📱Enquiries & collaborations at www.kinoflekke.studio
Alex Burrows @alxbrrws.bsky.social 
Peter Margasak @pmargasak.bsky.social Listening, writing, and sharing—writing for Bandcamp Daily, the Wire, Chamber Music Magazine and petermargasak.substack.com. Sharing with frequencyfestival-chicago.com
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social ✍️ music writer: The Wire, The Quietus, Kulturpunkt...
🥼 researcher
🍎 teacher: Academy of Music, Zagreb
⌨️ programmer
🌐 https://antonio.poscic.net
📰 https://researchmusic.blog
Christian Eede @chriseede.bsky.social Permanently tired / editing news stuff @thequietus / freelance stuff elsewhere
Jared mumbles into the void @ouchmonkey.bsky.social "I told him I was a business monkey, Roy"
Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social Writer & arts journalist in East Sussex. Shindig! The Quietus. Author of A Gathering Of Promises, Scatological Alchemy, Amorphous Albion, Pink Floyd Are Fogbound in Paris, etc. Discordian poet. www.bleedingcheek.wordpress.com https://ko-fi.com/bengraham23
Lior Phillips @liorphillips.bsky.social verklempt, mostly.
🌿Author of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere
❤️🔥Currently writing a book about Cher
🖤🇿🇦🪬🧿mother of twins 〰️ music journalist
chicago via cape town
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Daryl Worthington @darylworthington.bsky.social Spool's Out cassette reviews columnist at The Quietus. Sound maker at Beachers. Co-runner of Bezirk tape label.