Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games @chrisdeleon.bsky.social I help people make games DevPods.gg GameDev since 97. Angry about AI. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor, IndieCade, Extra Credits, IGDA LA. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 185k podcast DL. Vegan for 24 yrs. he/him
The SML Podcast @thesmlpodcast.com A terrible podcast that talks about video game news, reviews, and interviews since 2013! We're old!
Guaranteed at least one laugh per episode!
Posts by a nobody to everybody
Kelbin @kelb.in MIDI editor
🏳️🌈🦌 they
https://linktr.ee/imkelbin
https://kelb.in
mgmt: jozef@maisonblanc.net
send music to: kelbin@tabularasarecords.com
iam8bit @iam8bit.com We create premium tangible things. | More: https://linktr.ee/iam8bit | For customer service inquiries, please visit support.iam8bit.com.
Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org Founded by Double Fine and iam8bit. indie games are good.
Otto Kratky @obbok.bsky.social Video Games PR @Tinsley-PR // email: otto@tinsley-PR.com
Consummate Professional. LGM. Probably better than you at SSBM.
he/him
A Shell in the Pit @ashellinthepit.com ashellinthepit.com
#gameaudio
#gametrailers
made fish.game
70+ titles
FNAF, Pacific Drive, Little Kitty Big City, Goose Game, Chicory, Sneaky Sasquatch, Rogue Legacy, @smartereveryday
Aleš Mlakar @amjazzbre.bsky.social Freelancer+IndieGameDev&&Ex(Lead@Outfit7, Lead@Zootfly, ArxelTribe);
// Coding engines, tools & games since '95!
// Worked on World Of Goo 2.
// Currently working with Metanet on
// N Plus Infinity Times Two!
Adam. Pottery Beard. @thatbeardoadam.bsky.social Ceramicist/Potter.
Former PR, marketing in games. Former game journalist. I do stuff for BitSummit and IGF. Geek and expensive-mead-wanter. My opinions are my own.
IGN @ign.com We're all about movies, TV, and video games!
ign.com
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Noah 🎶 @getdizzy.bsky.social THPS 3+4 lead designer / rumbleverse city planner / iron galaxy / @infinitedeserts / barabariball
https://linktr.ee/getdizzzy
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social
🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜
✅ all work completely human made
Meggan Scavio @megganpez.bsky.social President, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS/DICE Summit, etc). Hates coconut. Likes robots. Needs coffee.
Greg Rice @gregrice.bsky.social @PlayStation, @dayofthedevs, prev @DoubleFine
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Saleem @seemo.bsky.social Co-founder, Executive Committee @ko-op.com They/them. Free Palestine. Wear a mask.
Producer on Young Suns! www.youngsuns.com
Sarah Elmaleh @selmaleh.bsky.social games x performance. acting, directing, consulting, forever advocating for joyful collaboration & sustainability for all. 1/7 of @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse.
Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer.
Games, books, bio, etc: http://www.chriskohler.biz
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Aubrey Serr @serr.bsky.social Veteran indie game developer and GDC speaker on Level Design. Artist, animator, and programmer with 10+ years of experience. Trained economist bringing analytical skills to game design. 1990 Nintendo World Championships semi-finalist
Greg Wohlwend @aeiowu.com Hard to pronounce videogames.
Heather Kelly @heatherkelly.bsky.social Tech editor at The San Francisco Standard. Former Washington Post, CNN. hkelly@sfstandard.com. Signal: @hkelly.11
Matt Rix @rixmatt.bsky.social I made Trainyard, Disco Zoo and FutureGrind. Now I'm making Slots & Sorcery. He/him.
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social
Kitty Calis @kittycalis.bsky.social DISC ROOM, Minit, Horizon Zero Dawn, Minit Fun Racer and a few things I can't say yet 👀
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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
Finji @finjico.bsky.social Collaborative game studio by Rebekah and Adam Saltsman. 👑 We publish a bunch of cool video games. We make some ourselves too! linktree.finji.co
We're working on @usualjune.bsky.social right now!
Henry Smith @hengineer.bsky.social Creator of Spaceteam and soon Blabyrinth! Game Programmer/Designer. Worked at Epic Games, BioWare, Irrational Games. Puzzled Pint GC. New-ish dad. He/him.
Patreon: http://spaceteamadmiralsclub.com
Mastodon: @hengineer@mastodon.social
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social 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
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
Mahdi Bahrami @bahrami.bsky.social made Engare and Tandis
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
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
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
Electron Dance @electrondance.com Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence.
A place - www.electrondance.com
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
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
IndieCade @indiecade.bsky.social Celebrating and supporting international independent game development. Submissions are open! https://indiecade.com/submissions/
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter and proud union member at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
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
Colin Northway @colinnorthway.bsky.social Married to Sarah
Independent game maker
Vancouver B.C.
http://NorthwayGames.com
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Jay Ma @jarmustard.bsky.social ・Reposts of game dev and art・
・Cofounder of Subset Games・
・she/her・
・京都・
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net Indie game studio based in Prague, Czechia. Phonopolis (out now!), Happy Game, Creaks, Pilgrims, Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula, CHUCHEL http://bit.ly/PhonopolisSteam
Ryan O’Donnell @ryanodonnell.bsky.social Filmmaker @ AREA 5
Outerlands, The 1UP Show, CO-OP, Grounded: Making The Last Of Us, Grounded II: Making The Last Of Us Part II, Tetris Forever, I Am Street Fighter, Making Games Is Hard, etc, etc.
he/him
Erik Svedäng @eriksvedang.com Independent game designer, artist & programmer from Sweden.
Some of my released games are Blueberry Garden, Kometen, Clairvoyance & Else Heart.Break(). I also made the programming language Carp.
www.eriksvedang.com
Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social Director @nuchallenger.com
Fan of Hip Hop & sneakers
Writing, design, production, art, trailers + more
Beatdown City Survivors, Treachery in Beatdown City + more
Ex-Rockstar Games/MLB
25+ years in games
#blackgamedev ✊🏽 they/them 💛🤍💜🖤
beatdowncity.com
Alex Camilleri @alexkalopsia.bsky.social Sicilian in 🇸🇪
making a small game where things move and go *beep boop*
videogames, playful things, animal liberation, data privacy
Prev:
Design Lead @ Embark Studios, Amnesia: Rebirth, Memoir En Code, 1977 Radio Aut, SOMA, RIGS, Alaloth...
Marek Plichta @artbymarek.bsky.social Game Designer/Developer, UX and 2D Art/Animation.
Past: Future Unfolding, Spirits, Ordnungswissenschaft.
Passions: 🤸♂️ & 🧘
Also @artbymarek on other social media 🐘 📸
He/Him
www.artbymarek.com
Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social ✨Things and Stuff✨
anitasarkeesian.com
Teddy Dief @teddydief.com IGF & Peabody-winning game designer/director
◆ Hyper Light Drifter Co-Designer
◆ OFK Creative Director & Singer
◆ Glitch City Co-Founder
◆ prev: Square Enix, XBox, Disney
⇒ https://linktr.ee/teddydief
Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social creative things all the time. freelance exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london.
https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
Mattias Ljungström @spacesofplay.com minc.dev, spacesofplay.com, based in berlin.
Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social Level 34, INFP
🎲 Creative Director ⫸ @rollfest.bracciano
🕹️ Journalism ⫸ @playeritalia, @gamedivisionit
📫 Newsletter ⫸ @colpi.critici
www.alessandrocolantonio.com
Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social Digital Play Journalist for Forbes, BBC, Guardian. Brings games to unusual spaces, festivals and cathedrals. Makes cool stuff:
📕https://mybook.to/whatwashidden
📘https://mybook.to/taminggaming
🎯http://www.ludocene.com
🔎http://www.familygamingdatabase.com
Wiley Wiggins @wysiwyggins.itch.io UCLA Design Media Arts/ Game Lab (BA ‘21, MFA ‘23), Fantastic Arcade, Computer Chess, Waking Life, Dazed and Confused
https://wileywiggins.com
matthias_code @matthiascode.bsky.social FOLLOWS YOU. Freelance Senior iOS & Flutter Engineer. Form. Chrono24, OetkerDigital, IBM. Making iOS Videos! Also Unity, VR, XR. Not on the 30u30 list, opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/matthias_code
fia! @fiashouse.bsky.social honorary magical girl | words @ VG247, RPS, GameSpot, Polygon, Eurogamer, Uppercut
📧 oisinkuhnke(at)gmail(dot)com
making videos https://www.youtube.com/@fias_house & @gameassistyt.bsky.social
Davey Wreden @hellocakebread.bsky.social The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, Wanderstop
Taki Udon @takiudon.bsky.social Reviews on everything handheld, with a mix of posts on product development.
Co-Founder of R².
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social I make bad games.
Malindy🔜Animagic @yourkyotowife.bsky.social News Ed Germany @ Crunchyroll
Games writer, narrative designer, journalist
You saw me do so many things like Wax Heads, Mars Vice, We Grew Up In War, Oddsparks, Eurogamer, PCGamer, PLAY
Pro cycling, narrative games, Kyoto, F1
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard.
WeAreMuesli @wearemuesli.bsky.social We are an arthouse game studio. Our new narrative game In Their Shoes is out now on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/In_Their_Shoes/
Santa Ragione @santaragione.com The Righeira of Video Games. https://www.santaragione.com
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/rsuwh9HbPJ
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More. [Unofficial] @kotaku.com.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://kotaku.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/kotaku.com
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social We write about PC games, and things to do with PC games, at http://rockpapershotgun.com.
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Gizmodo @gizmodo.com The future is here.
PlayStation @playstation.com Official PlayStation account. Updates on PS5, PlayStation VR2, PlayStation Plus, PS4 and more.
Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com The latest Nintendo Switch news, reviews and videos. We are the most visited #Nintendo site in the world. DMs open. #NintendoSwitch #Switch #3DS
www.nintendolife.com
ID@XBOX @idatxbox.bsky.social Celebrating independent games & helping you self-publish games to XBOX 💚
Official Links 📺 https://linktr.ee/idatxbox
Contact us 💌 id@xbox.com
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
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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Ted Regulski @tedregulski.bsky.social Indies @ NOA. Horror movies, theme parks, foods, etc.
Chris Charla @iocat.bsky.social Videogames at Xbox; zines, books, videogames, and skateboarding very slowly at home. I main Bluesky.
_nadine @nadinel.bsky.social Creative Tech Person and Media Artist: Text Generation. Depressed Bots. Alt-controllers. Collage. Terrible Furbies. Large TBR pile. Mostly forest and cat photos, and gaming screenshots. Sometimes projects.
Matt Hammill @matthammill.bsky.social 2.5D human gamedev. Rogue Legacy 2, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Gesundheit!, Guilded Youth. He/him
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Sokpop Collective @sokpop.co videogame boyband from the future | games: http://sokpop.itch.io | subscription: http://patreon.com/sokpop | @aran.sokpop.co @tijmen.sokpop.co @tom.sokpop.co @rubna.sokpop.co
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Tiny Cartridge @tinycartridge.com eric_c, aka the Planner God, aka Gunpei YoungBoi, aka the Kondo Comrade, aka Young Ube Ice Cream. He/Him. Join Club Tiny: http://patreon.com/tinycartridge 🇵🇭🇵🇭