M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Erikari @erikari.bsky.social Game artist and 2D animator, very fond of Spine. EGL appreciator.
mazzetta @mazzetta.bsky.social Mondo, media, movimenti.
Twitter @mazzettam2 - @mazzetta_
http://mastodon.social/@mazzetta
mazzetta.wordpress.com
Emapesta @emapesta.bsky.social
AndreaMez @mezzotero.bsky.social Here to talk about games, miniatures and politics (not necessarily in that order).
Clara Capelli @clariscap.bsky.social Jerusalem-based development economist
“She never could resist a winding road”
“Ces racines du ciel si profondément enfoncées dans leur poitrine”
Giulia Blasi @giuliab.bsky.social Writer. Parlo, scrivo, parlo più di quanto scrivo, e scrivo parecchio. She/her, It-Eng, dogless dog person.
linktr.ee/GiuliaB
Fabio G Crippa @kweedado.bsky.social O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad
dreams.
Mauro Vanetti @m.mastodon.maurovanetti.info.ap.brid.gy [bridged from https://mastodon.maurovanetti.info/@m on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Dani Gambit @danigambit.bsky.social #phd in #ArtificialIntelligence - #ABM #AI #LLM #Complexity #Networks
Mario A. Di Bernardo | Game Dev @madiber.bsky.social
Gianni Mancini @vitagiocata.bsky.social 👨👩👧👦 Full time father of two
🍷Innkeeper by night
🕹️Every now and then I write about indie games on Outcast.it and Ludicamag.com
📧 mancinigianni73@gmail.com
Stef @stefhhh.bsky.social I'm a dev! I like to develop websites, web apps, mobile apps, games and share resources with other fellow devs! 🏳️🌈
Federico Picerni @federicopi.bsky.social Assistant prof., Chinese literature at the University of Bologna. Translator, activist, 不挑食型吃货.
Brandon Franklin @sagasstudios.bsky.social Game Designer currently making Canvas, a painting exploration game.
Based in Seattle, Cascadia.
Nicola Carella @nicolacarella.bsky.social lazy millenial, father, cop hater
Berlin/Bari
Gaia Perini @gaiaperini.bsky.social Sinologa, ecofemminista, gatta di Pallas in incognito
Adrianaaaa @adrianaaaaaaaa.bsky.social Vagabonda
Monica Bonvicini (labonvi) @labonvi.bsky.social Designs, books&games, books&games designs 🎨
📫 info@monicabonvicini.it
🎁monicabonvicini.it
✨COMMISSIONS OPEN! ✨
Vermi di Rouge @vermidirouge.bsky.social Scrivo poco.
Leggo tanto.
In passato facevo questo www.vermidirouge.com
Ogni tanto ci ricasco.
Altri posti dove puoi trovarmi: linktr.ee/vermidirouge
Michele Pirovano - making Dotage @dotage.bsky.social Indie gamedev, gameplay engineer, PhD, making a game about a grumpy village elder
Elena Tagliabracci (Raitonexe) @raitonexe.bsky.social videogame artist in vienna
i like to learn all kind of things and I have too many hobbies :)
https://www.artstation.com/elenatagliabracci4
https://raiton.itch.io
Unbound @unbound-io.bsky.social 3D Reimagined.
Try for free at www.unbound.io/
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/Uh3Yc43
#madeWithUnbound
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
@morgoth990.bsky.social @morgoth990.bsky.social
Antonio Caggiano @antoniocaggiano.eu Senior Graphics Engineer @ LunarG, musician, deeply in love with science, arts and literature.
Francesco Berton @fberton.bsky.social He/Him 🎲 Game Designer 🧑🏫 Teacher 🌊Game Director for @safeplacestudio.bsky.social of Venice 2089🌈 Queer 🇮🇹 Italian 🧭Explorer
https://francescoberton.carrd.co/
Julien @julienaubert.bsky.social Indie game dev, working on a puzzle fighter. SW engineer (20yoe, ex Apple), B.Sc in Physics. Nostalgic for vintage computers, love the demoscene. Live in Barcelona, grew up in Sweden.
📬 join my mailing-list: https://www.starshadestudios.com
Mauro Salvador @maurosal.bsky.social Game designer | Professional trainer | Freelancer | Lifelong leftist
Video game | Design thinking | Interactive storytelling | Media & Game studies | Politics | Movies & TV | Virtus Bologna | Sampdoria
Sebastiano Leonida Bianco @sebastionida.bsky.social faccio lavori degradanti, studio Husserl, suono in una cosa chiamata Kandma
--> https://linktr.ee/sebastionida
SillyFroggy @sillyfroggy.bsky.social 23 | 🇮🇹🏳️⚧️ | she/her
Aspiring game dev with a silly 9-5
🗣️‼️🧡🤍🩷- I @ilronny.bsky.social @ilronny.bsky.social
Alberto Ferrari @ferrarialberto.bsky.social Associate lead Technical Artist @ Tripledot Studios / previously NDreams
Leonardo Bianchi @blicero.bsky.social Giornalista e scrittore. Il mio ultimo libro è "Le prime gocce della tempesta". Curo anche "Complotti!", una newsletter sulle teorie del complotto (http://bit.ly/385FMxS).
Altre info qui 👉 https://linktr.ee/captblicero
Dice of Arcana @diceofarcana.bsky.social 🎲 Dice of Arcana is a wicked dice game roguelite. Wishlist now on Steam🃏
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2935130/Dice_of_Arcana/- L Luca Casarotti @lucacasarotti.bsky.social Research fellow all’Università per stranieri di Siena. Ho scritto “L’antifascismo e il suo contrario” (alegre). Nel consiglio di redazione di Jacobin Italia e in Nicoletta Bourbaki.
Linguistics in Pavia @linguisticsinpavia.bsky.social 🗣️✍️ Linguistics news, research updates, and events at the University of Pavia and elsewhere 🔠🌍 Language matters 📚🎓
💻🌐 Website: https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/ricerca/linee-di-ricerca/linguistica-teorica-e-applicata
GalaSenpai @galasenpai.bsky.social Game Developer 🎮 / Programmer 🧑💻 / Aerospace Engineering Student 🚀 in Italy
Comi @cominu.bsky.social A passionate indie game craftsman, fluent in coding and hand gestures 🤌
Deeply in ❤️ with Game tech, Compilers, Weird music.
💬 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇪🇸
📍 Granada, Spain
Fabio Ferrara @malbomx.bsky.social Game Dev at www.chubbypixel.com
@ghiboz.bsky.social @ghiboz.bsky.social
EmanueleK @emanuelek.bsky.social EmanueleK.itch.io
Riccardo Reina @vonbrick.bsky.social A celiac and dairy-free narrative designer.
I helped @santaragione.com with
Saturnalia 👹 Mediterranean Inferno 🧞♀️ Horses 🐴
And FLAT28 with @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social 🪑
Now at @ubisoft.com Milan as QA Analyst
https://boxd.it/3MfXB
Luca Uccellatori @lucau.bsky.social lead game designer @LucidGamesLtd // socialist vampire // he,him // 🇮🇹
Michele Rossi @mikymod.bsky.social I just want to make stuff and drink coffee.
Software Engineer working at overside.it.
Co-founder of JMP Games, working on The Drunken Beard
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3622810/The_Drunken_Beard/
Wishlist Appreciated <3
Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social Father. Game developer from Rome, Italy. Lover of narrative games. Directed/coded/designed Still There and Blockstorm.
Website: www.peevos.art
Samwise Game Dialogue Writing Tool: samwise.dev
Kumber @kumber.bsky.social Game developer 🇮🇹 #godot #haxe #haxeflixel
https://kumber.itch.io
Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io Game and narrative designer, sometimes I draw, sometimes I write. Italian
He
Batfeula @batfeula.bsky.social A man made of black and yellow
- professional pixelartist
- comic artist
My portfolio 👇
https://batfeula.neocities.org/
Ivano (somepx) @somepx.com pixel font designer • game developer
https://somepx.itch.io/
Giacomo Filotto @veehos.bsky.social Art goblin. Former painter converted to 3d art.
Game developer and lowly character artist.
29 | IT, Bi
Go check my portfolio, it's nice and empty
artstation.com/giacomofilotto3
Darkonius Mavakar @darkonius-mavakar.itch.io Indie GameDev |He/Him|Bi| 🇮🇹
NO AI GARBAGE
-Creator of @dormivegliagame.com
-Level designer for Super Mario Flashback
-Dormiveglia Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dormiveglia
-PFP by Maskedgolem
Andrea Di Bartolo @andreadbx.bsky.social 3d Artist (Shoppe Keep series, Improbable Soccer and others)
Game Developer
Sicilian
35 y.o
Game Jam addicted!
https://www.artstation.com/andreadbx
https://andreadbx-games.itch.io/
https://www.twitch.tv/siraeron
OldSchoolPixels @oldschoolpixels.com (He/Him) Senior freelance #GameDev, lead programmer on Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393370) and working on some personal projects.
Portfolio and contacts: https://www.oldschoolpixels.com
Alan Zucconi @alanzucconi.com Director of Studies at Goldsmiths, UoL • Senior Lecturer • Game AI • Game Developer • Shader Master • Content Creator
gianluca pumoni @etherpmni.bsky.social Game Programmer/Designer
seya @domiziana.dev Video game producer @studioevil | Currently working on @retrogadgets.bsky.social and @diceofarcana.bsky.social | WIG Ambassador | Really into books, photography, computer science, food and space.
Misbug @misbug.bsky.social Game artist and game designer. Occasionally a functioning human being.
www.misbug.com
Arcane Canvas @arcanecanvas.bsky.social || 🎧 Author of SILENTIUM ||
|| 🎮 Working on ??? ||
|| 🇮🇹 Italy based ||
|| 💀 Solo dev ||
https://linktr.ee/arcanecanvas
Banya @banyalaplace.bsky.social Retrogaming enthusiast, solo #indiedev and also a digital dinosaur of the 90s 🦕I make free #horrorgames 👁️
Languages 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 | Any Pronoun
https://banya.itch.io/
[Header & Avatar ©akkalime]
#emeraldwasp || #ruleofsalt || #deepinside
ToughNutToCrack @tntcproject.bsky.social Gamedev, shaders, and VFX... in depth.
🌐 Our site: https://www.tntc.it
🎥 Our videos: https://www.youtube.com/@TNTCProject
🙏 Support us: https://www.patreon.com/c/tntcproject
Jollypunch Games @jollypunchgames.bsky.social "Anything one can imagine, others can make real." #indiedev
🤖RoboDunk, out now PC & Switch🏀
👊Fly Punch Boom!, out now PC & Switch💥
➡️ http://jollypunch.com ⬅️
Giuseppe Navarria @techdesign.rocks Tired of the AAA industry. Started a new london-based indie studio @weareunderdog.bsky.social
| prev. Splash Damage / Gears Tactics, Gears of War franchise. Passionate retrogamer. He\Him.
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
Francesco Frassineti @bhik95.bsky.social https://francesco-frassineti-portfolio.web.app
Alessio Landi @alessiolandiworks.bsky.social Working on @brainjack-game.bsky.social
i'm a jack of all trades that juggles between game design, coding, pixel art and modelling.
🔗: https://linktr.ee/alessiolandiworks
Matteo Scopel @scopelmatt.bsky.social material artist.
I like photos of dirty buildings, reading tomes, pixels that move and enlightening ideas.
he/him | in Italy
https://artstation.com/matteoscopel
https://matteoscopel.com
Ennio Pirolo @santennio.bsky.social
LudosGD, Gamedev Bard @ludosgd.bsky.social Hiya pals!
Indie game designer and #Gamedev, main engine is #GodotEngine
#art, drawings, comics!
#MTG enthusiast
Self-proclaimed bard (can’t sing) • he/they • opinions my own — Enjoy!
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
Author of strange literary fictions ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
SkyArcher @skyarcher.dev Full time gamedev aka @commuter.games • Love videogames, boardgames, gadgets, motorsports, arts and crafts • LGBTQ+ all welcome, I like you all.
Alex Camilleri @alexkalopsia.bsky.social Sicilian in 🇸🇪
designing at Poncle, while making a small game where things go *beep boop*
videogames, playful things, animal liberation, data privacy
Design Lead @ Embark Studios, Amnesia: Rebirth, Memoir En Code, 1977 Radio Aut, SOMA, RIGS, Alaloth...
Luca Esposito @ultralooca.bsky.social Game designer | Narrative director | Stormind Games, A Quiet Place - The Road Ahead, Anna Extended Edition, Ossocubo | We are many.
Giorgio Pomettini @pomettini.bsky.social Used to make games for a living, now I make games for fun! 🕹️
Biromantic ace, neurodivergent 🦀 He/him
Propic by @nannasaurus.bsky.social
https://www.giorgiopomettini.eu/
Stefano Sanitate ➡️ GDC @stefanosanitate.bsky.social ❗️ Gameplay Programmer & Designer
✨ Santa Ragione | HORSES, Saturnalia
🔗 Currently Freelancing!
🔜 GDC 2026
Nicolò Tedeschi @niguloto.bsky.social I’m heading there now. Race you? he/him - Santa Ragione - Freelance Graphic designer & Art director
Alberto @onangitup.bsky.social videogame developer @santaragione.com
Andrea Int. @andreintg.bsky.social Game dev / tools
Co-founder unbound_io
Made a unity plugin called clayxels
Designed an escape-roguelike called nauticrawl
Mostly posting my hobby projects here.
Ali Motisi @alimotisi.bsky.social Italian/British Game Developer - Founder of @outofthebit.com and @handrockstudio.bsky.social - Loves the Commodore Amiga and #PixelArt
Produced: Full Void - Nanuka | BAFTA Member
Paolo Tajé @paolo444.bsky.social Lead Game Designer on VTM - Milan Uprising and Palermo Conspiracies at Xplored. Previously: Saturnalia, FOTONICA, MirrorMoon EP, Escape room designer, Double bass. He/him
Been working on games for 15+ years
Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social Paradox's spookiest Content Designer
🚀 Stellaris
💀 Afterworld
http://giadazavarise.com/ | https://cheerfulgoth.itch.io/ | https://cheerfulgoth.bearblog.dev/
Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com Games+comics writer+coder+artist. I wrote Still There, drew Football Drama, illustrated some Risk of Rain LPs and stuff, made DOTween, Goscurry, etc.
No AI nonono.
Any/Any
Website: demigiant.com
Insta: instagram.com/demigiant
Mr. Luca @mrlucagames.bsky.social Mostly making video games.
Working on http://tentacular.com
Proud member of saftladen.bsky.social
Santa Ragione @santaragione.com The Righeira of Video Games. https://www.santaragione.com
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/rsuwh9HbPJ
Gabe Tutone @impressioniste.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇺🇸 | Technical Producer | World’s Edge, Monolith, Bungie and Keywords | He/him
Nicola Bianco @nicolabi.bsky.social Cultural Anthropology, Buddhology, Japan, Linguistics, Media, Folklore, Western Alps, Autism
leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io ▲ http://itch.io ▲ http://moonscript.org ▲ http://leafo.net/lapis ▲ he/him
Daniele Fusetto @spiritogiovane.bsky.social 📣 Narrative Designer & Corporate Storyteller
👨🏫 Brand Advisor / Course Leader @ AIV
🏙️ IGDA Milan Chapter Co-Founder
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
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
Flaminia Grimaldi @sunkenlola.bsky.social 3D artist / illustrator in games, grumpy goth. HORSES, JETT: The Far Shore, Wheels of Aurelia, Project Theia, etc.
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
Ciro Continisio @ciro.continis.io Game designer/coder, lecturer at times, full-time meme.
In the past: coherence, Unity (making Gigaya, Open Projects, Unity Playground). Also been making games (UFHO2, Slybots: Frantic Zone... ?) and Unity tools.
He/him/lui/'iss 🇮🇹
Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Games about revolution @peterpunk.bsky.social Made Roller Drama 🛼, Football Drama ⚽ , Becoming Saint 😇 (vidgms), Eutopia 🍄 The Game 🐄 Vietato Innamorarsi ❤️ (theatre), 30 applied vgs. Making Revolt! Clueless dreamer.
I'm with the Ciompi's in Florence. He/Him 🌈
https://linktr.ee/ppolsinelli
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