James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social Catholic theologian, M.Div. Theology Department at DePaul College Prep, Chronicler of all things Catholic. Pope Leo XIV. Vatican analyst.
Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.social A game master, voracious bookworm and cinephile, a tired socialist and a manic depressive chocolate salesperson from Montreal. They/them. 34.
Dan Gerstein @pebby.net Game Director for Free Stars: Children of Infinity at @pistolshrimpgames.com
Formerly Toys for Bob (Skylanders, Madagascar, Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam).
Opinions are my birds’. he/him
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
Rhubarb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social Gan canny, man!
Game Dev
🎮Retro-inspired Games
📝1-Page RPGs
👾Pixel art
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
DARK PASSENGER coming soon...
🕹️ https://rhubarb-games.itch.io
🚫AI shite
The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io zium/noun/informal: 1. a virtual gallery game, composed of eclectic and wonderful things. 2. (kind of like a zine, but the museum version)
Curator: @pawsmenu.info
thezium.art
theziumsociety.itch.io
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com bugs and shrews, critters with booze
https://ascalaphid.com
https://bowelfly.tumblr.com
stickers: https://ko-fi.com/ascalaphid/shop
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social I study dark matter, cosmology, and particle physics for a living at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. On the weekends I write explainers about surprising places physics shows up in the natural world.
caragiovanetti.com
@livingwithbonsai.bsky.social @livingwithbonsai.bsky.social My trees trough the year. Documenting the changes on these little creatures. Admiering their beauty.
161
AllColorsAreBeautiful
Locatet in east germany
Playdate @play.date A brand new handheld video game system from Panic.
➡️ Available at https://play.date
💬 Need help? Go to https://help.play.date
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Sarah York | Panda Cat Games @sarahyork3d.bsky.social 🐼 Founder @PandaCatGames.bsky.social ~ linktr.ee/pandacatgames
https://discord.com/invite/RjrbBwejpZ
💖 Ensemble 2025
Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social Archaeologist. Technologist. Harvard researcher.
https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/abigail-desmond
Tiny Teams @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social Micro studios, massive ideas. Yearly indie game festival for small studios hosted by @yogscast.games on Steam and Stream. Join the chatter https://discord.gg/DHkgAh9H4B
megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social freelance journalist | previously wired, axios, the verge | seen in nyt, 404 media | nyc | signal meganfarokhmanesh.76 | face god and walk backwards into hell
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Postmark Games @postmarkgames.bsky.social Award winning board games playable straight from your printer. Voyages, Waypoints, 52 Realms: Adventures and others #printfun
www.postmarkgames.com
Paul James - Game Dev Heroes 2026 QA Winner @pauljamesqa.bsky.social Award-winning Independent QA Specialist. Credited on multiple indie titles, including BAFTA award-winning Blue Prince, and IGF winner, Cryptmaster.
pauljamesgamestesting.com
https://linktr.ee/PaulJamesGT
Jonny @darthmalks.bsky.social breaking down internet apathy by rooting joy in games ❤︎
podcast: https://indiegamegarden.transistor.fm/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@indiegamegarden
email: indiegamegarden@gmail.com
twine game: https://darthmalks.itch.io/harley-bleak
Michel Koch @michelkoch.bsky.social Co-Creator of Life is Strange. Creative Director of Lost Records
Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk Big gay. He/him. Game director, writer & narrative designer, ex-Mediatonic/Epic. Prev: Murder by Numbers, Hatoful Boyfriend, Heavenstrike Rivals, The Swords of Ditto, many more. LGB with the T🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
ゲームディレクターやシナリオライター パズル探偵スカウトなど。日本語OK!
Anine Bösenberg @anineillustration.com Scotland-based Illustrator
she/they
🇬🇧🇩🇪
https://www.anineillustration.com/
Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io I made YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS.
no pronouns or they/them
Ylva Grufstedt @ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social Finally (?) made it to Bluesky. Historian focused on on digital public history, historical game studies, game production and cultural heritage. PhD in shenanigans.
Marie Jasmin @mariejasmin.bsky.social Lead UI-UX Designer at Bethesda in Montréal. Gamedev since Assassin's Creed 2, the one with the fun UI. Bisexual with ADHD and a love of ceramics and bird photography. Thoughts my own. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🌱
Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social Oakland's All-Playable Video Game Museum! Community powered. - 921 Washington St., Oakland, CA 94612. - https://www.themade.org
David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com MAEK GAEM
Expert game engineer
Co-founder at @minorkeygames.com, making Eldritch 2
Guitar, vinyl, film, pro wrestling
All cats are beautiful
Anti-fascist
✝️🏳️🌈
👤 he/him 🌎 Texas 🔗 https://dphrygian.com/
matt @mattmurray.bsky.social I host, produce, and edit @bitharmonypod.bsky.social the best video game music podcast there has ever been
https://linktr.ee/bitharmonypod
Senior reviews editor @somanygames.co.uk
DM or email matt.murray@outlook.com if you're looking for coverage
Graeme Davis @graemedavis.bsky.social Game writer; WFRP co-creator; myth and monster nerd.
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/
https://buymeacoffee.com/graemedavis
Insta, Threads: @graemejdavis
Reddit: u/Gromit58
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @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
Thinky Games @thinkygames.com Discover games you'll love to solve. 🧩 🔎 🗺️
We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.
https://thinkygames.com/
https://thinkygames.com/dailies/
Jeremy Parish (Radio Edit) @jparish.bsky.social NES Works/Segaiden video and book producer; Retronauts co-host; RGB addict. Get it straight: I did not invent the word "Metroidvania," and my opinions don't represent those of my employers. He/him. Header pic: Sonya Yruel.
EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social We are the quiet unnoticed Heron, inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time.
"Nature is reported in the fullness of life... To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech"-Thoreau www.everyheron.com
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social Owner of Flippfly (Race The Sun), and CEO of Player Galaxy, a new web games platform for UGC games.
Bad Viking Games (Rob & John). Strange Antiquities OUT NOW! @badvikinggames.bsky.social Two colourblind brothers running an Indie game studio in the UK. We are making:
Strange Antiquities - Out now.
Strange Horticulture - Out now.
linktr.ee/badviking
Rob: @robdonkin.bsky.social
John: @johnnydonkin.bsky.social
EGOGARDEN @josephdev.bsky.social Howdy! I'm Joseph, a solo game developer and creator of indie game label EGOGARDEN.
Currently working on RavenStar!🌟:
Wishlist!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4414490/RavenStar/
Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social Game developer and adaptive music specialist
nifflas.itch.io
Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social Makes tiny games. Currently in grad school to be a librarian. Helps organize local game dev stuff near Detroit. they/them
https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/
https://virtualmoose.org/
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Gunfire Games ❤️💥
previously: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩 Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 Arkane 🧡🐀
contributions: Fallen London 💚🕯️
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖
linktr.ee/koopmode
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter 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
Webb Pickersgill @webbpickersgill.bsky.social Technical and Creative Director. I love creativity, technology, and great people.
Performance Director for Life is Strange: True Colors, Double Exposure. Co-Game Director on Life is Strange:BTS.
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
Bushmonkey @bushmonkey.bsky.social Green Mist over Portland demo coming out soon:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4644870/Green_Mist_over_Portland/
Play the first game in the series here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4488860/The_Red_Pearls_Of_Borneo/
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
slimehunter @slimehunter.bsky.social indie game co-dev
Working on Clock Out at 2 (No AI)
@andrelg.bsky.social @andrelg.bsky.social I’m passionate about bonsai, gardening, painting, and cooking, and here I share my projects (and photos of my dogs). They don’t always turn out perfectly (the projects, not the dogs), but I try... I live in Limmattal (CH)
James @nonzerosum.games Join a bleeding-heart liberal and compulsive speculator rambling about saving the world with win-win games at nonzerosum.games! #Philosophy #Ethics #Morality #Science #GameTheory #Economics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
ufo soup @ufosoup.com 🛸🥣 home of fine podcasts. we'll post new episodes and other stuff we do here~
https://ufosoup.com
Brianna Lei @briannalei.bsky.social I made Butterfly Soup 1+2 and Pom Gets Wi-Fi!
Please wishlist my new game, The Crane Rider's Tale!! 👇
briannalei.carrd.co/
The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social Aotearoa based. Mostly bonsai with my coffee is all I seek.
Started Bonsai 2020 = new to it. Also into aviation/space/science/geopolitics/wildlife/helpful tech stuff.
Bonsai feed
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sw2dek7u74jxlriba65utp4d/feed/aaaiycpqcyp4u
Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social Video Game Composer・Sound Engineer・Gameboy Musician・Producer・Performer・
Best known for Super Hexagon, Spectra, Dicey Dungeons, JSAB, Cadence of Hyrule DLC
🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸
🌐 https://linktr.ee/chipzel
Handelabra Games @handelabra.com Creators of video game adaptations of tabletops games like Sentinels of the Multiverse/Earth-Prime, Spirit Island, One Deck Dungeon/Galaxy, Aeon's End, & more!
https://www.handelabra.com/
Sean Jordan | Sharing Great Games You Probably Never Played! @greatestgames.substack.com There are tons of amazing video games that have been forgotten, overlooked or which never found an audience. I'm a researcher who's going through them and finding the Greatest Games You (Probably) Never Played!
Website: https://greatestgames.substack.com
tichodroma @feathertrail.net nature/nonsense. mostly my bird photos
Building Feather Trail, an open-world birdwatching adventure game.
🎮 Wishlist on Steam! bit.ly/FeatherTrail
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/XKt776sR2P
Also check out @biodiversitybot.bsky.social
Alma Stone @kinaliworks.bsky.social Alma Stone is an HD pixel action RPG by Kinali Works, a new remote indie game studio. Website: www.almastonegame.com | Discord: https://discord.gg/exX9nsWGRU
Demetri Sofides @thelordofhands.bsky.social 3D artist, game designer, NYC native, one-time archaeologist.
Wishlist STRANGE FINDS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4278870/Strange_Finds/
Jaws Slayer 🎃 @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
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
Xazzon @xazzon.bsky.social He/Him. Videogames, fighting games, cardgames. Slowly trying to learn plushmaking.
The furry side of me is very 18+ only. Fawns over friends too much. Macro/micro and cute tush appreciator. 33. Apologies for the trash
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
The A.V. Club @avclub.com Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. https://linktr.ee/the_avclub
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
Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social Librarian, wife, mom, geek. She/her. Executive function for at least 4 people at all times. Trying to be better than I was yesterday. 
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social I'm an editor. I make games. I have terrible opinions. I live in Central Virginia. These facts are unrelated.
90's Computer Games Box Art @90scompgamesboxart.bsky.social Discover (or rediscover) this classic era of computer games box art.
2-3 images each day, most of the days!
🌸 Mochi Moshi! JRPG + Roguelike Dev 🌟 MOCHI CONQUEST ▶️ Wishlist @mochiconquest.com 👺 MOCHI CONQUEST | A unique Turn-Based Roguelike JRPG Dungeon Crawler
⛩️ Wishlist Now on Steam! Demo coming soon 🔥
▶️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3518510/Mochi_Conquest?utm_source=bsk
🎮 JRPG at Heart, Roguelike in Spirit
Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Bluemax @bluemax.bsky.social I work on video games, love ska, Scottish terriers and when people don’t have to struggle for their basic needs. (He/him)
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social Synell J. Hartman (she/they) 🏳️⚧️
Also known as: Shard, Halfwheel
Writer of upcoming fantasy novel
THE SIGIL AND THE SERPENT
Developer of soulslike RPG Deadbeat!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2067430/Deadbeat/
https://linktr.ee/jahartman
doctober @docseuss.bsky.social ADIOS. HARDSPACE. PARATOPIC. Narrative Designer. Creative Director. Game design consultant.
http://patreon.com/docgames
http://medium.com/@docseuss
http://paypal.me/stompsite
Indie Game Awards @debugawards.com Debug’s Indie Game Awards take place soon. Brought to you by @debugmag.com and sponsored by @gamemaker.io
Free Tickets: https://debugawards.com
Akash Thakkar @akashthakkar.com Audio on Hyper Light Drifter/Breaker, OFK, Concrete Genie, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, host of the Sound Business Podcast & creative business educator/speaker. Get in touch:
www.akashthakkar.com
Josh Boykin @wallstormer.blacksky.app Founder, @intelligame.us. Head of Curation, @gdocexpo.com. Narrative Director, Lancer Tactics. #ThoughtfulPlay
For work/opps: josh@intelligame.us
Damon N. (seeking work) @interonaut.bsky.social 🎮 Video game producer / project manager (hire me!)
📸 Virtual photographer
✍️ Sometimes writer
🌱 Agender (any/all)
☄️ Outer Wilds enthusiast
🔗 drnagy.carrd.co
Ultima @stardustultima.bsky.social she/her e-catgirl. i stream on twitch. allegedly im also an artist and ghostwriter 
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Krunchie 🐓 @foxyvalli.bsky.social I like birds, climate stuff and binge playing video games. I think chickens are neat. I like your art.
Garden more. Fuck the bootlickers, racists and fascists.
🏳️⚧️Arm the trans kids🏳️⚧️
Estoy aprendiendo espanol. Se amable.
CootsRCool
30
OK
Any pronouns
PixelChark @pixelchark.bsky.social 🇲🇺🇬🇧 she/her.
Commercial and Platform Marketing Consulting ✨ Digital Strategy, Game Eval and Game Scout @KandoFactory. Prev: SEGA, BossaGames.
SafeInOurWorld & SpecialEffect Ambassador. Mental Health advocate - AuDHD & Chronic Pain life.
Bobby Wertheim @hitopopo.bsky.social Founding Partner of Kando Factory. BAFTA member and So-Fu mentor.
I travel the digital and physical world finding the next best indie games. Consider me a digital Indiana Jones :)
Wobbly "Cheap Date" Python @wobblypython.northsky.social Vtuber, Illustrator, Modeler, animator, video editor, and general neato creator type. He/They
Twitch Partner. Mon-Fri wobblesthepython@gmail.com
Ender Raccoon - Indie Game Content @endersindies.bsky.social Indie Game Content Creator here to show you all the fun indie games you wish you knew about! Contact: trashendervt@gmail.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@enderraccoonsindies
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social 🎮🎹 I make game music.
💿 FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica 2, Below Zero, Generation Exile & others.
❌ I did not work on Subnautica 1.
✨ Polyamorous, ADHD, cool jackets, cats.
🚫 No AI ever.
He/him.
Broken Arms Games @brokenarmsgames.bsky.social Under Par Golf Architect developer | Previous: Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator | 🇮🇹 GameDev | Messages from Elisa and/or Yves
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2928410/Under_Par_Golf_Architect/
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Deck Nine Games @deckninegames.com Dedicated to the forging of stories and gameplay into transformative entertainment pieces. OUT NOW - LIS: Double Exposure https://tinyurl.com/yva2drmm
Kenney @kenney.nl ✨ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl