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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social Programmer at Don't Nod Montréal, littleBits enthusiast, friend of rodents, dad.
You may remember me from such games as FEZ and Cooldog Teaches Typing.
Old tech ramblings @ http://theinstructionlimit.com
Tony @tony.coculuzzi.social • Programmer @innersloth.com
• Prev: Cuphead lead dev + Florence lead prog + other things
• Making cool things as @wilder.games
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🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
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Nancy Campbell @falsemaria2000.bsky.social Program Director at IFFBoston, outstaying my welcome.
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j @zerojay.com Gamedev, selfhosting, open source, gaming and retrogaming. All around nerd. Mastodon: https://social.zerojay.com/@jay Matrix: @jay:zerojay.com
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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social Senior Game Writer @ Eidos Montreal | Into cats, plants, snakes, and escaping the divine right of kings. | She/Her
Lu Nascimento @lunascimento.art Art director/Co-founder/Gremlin @bunnyhug.games
Worked on Moonglow Bay, Overthrown, Loco Motive, Wargroove, Assemble with Care, Timespinner, etc
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social 🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
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amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🔮 "most level-headed AI user" 🫐 working on something dataflow-shaped 🦀 known for teaching rust and not much else
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Tom Fulp @tomfulp.newgrounds.com I run Newgrounds, co-founded The Behemoth, made a game about The Room and I'm currently making Nightmare Cops!
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social 🍹 an aperol spritz in human form 🍹
📝 senior reporter @ digiday 📝
📚 The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 📚
(views expressed are mine alone)
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics!
tylerglaiel.com
Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Play-Ability Cognitive Expert. Accessibility (LiS: Double Exposure / Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy) / Cultural Consultant (DA: The Veilguard). Podquisition. 2024 WIG Journalism Impact + 2024 GAConf Best PR / Comms Winner.
LauraKBuzzOfficial@Gmail.Com
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social Playful.
elizabethsampat.com
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
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
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
Amora B. @amora.ink Practically dripping with ennui.
Tamagotchi collector and character designer on Celeste currently working on something secret!
See more of my art at:
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Brazilian/Canadian
She/her
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Emma Kidwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social Award-nominated writer | Contracting @ Ruckus Games 💀| Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Civilization VII, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Hindsight | Opinions my own | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
Work With Indies @workwithindies.com A kind job board and inclusive community supporting careers in #indiegames.
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social Award-winning Game Designer. Lead Narrative Designer - @shinyshoegames.bsky.social. Tall Bermudian 🇧🇲. Tiki-drink enjoyer. Prev: Cyan (Myst, Riven), Blizzard (Diablo IV), Telltale (TWD, TFTBL), 2K (Mafia III) - www.harrisonpink.com - NO AI NO NFTs
Danielle Partis @daniellepartis.bsky.social Editorial @wire.xbox.com. Former news editor gamesindustry.biz. Chattin' about riffs, robots, D&D, Warhammer and video games. 🏳️🌈
Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social First video game champion (1980). Created Bard's Tale III: The Thief Of Fate & Dragon Wars. Former board member of GLAAD. All views and opinions are my own.
Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social Indie gamedev who made Axiom Verge. Special needs dad. Curious about everything. Likes too much stuff and tries to do it all.
axiomverge.com
axiomverge2.com
thomashapp.com
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Johan Toresson @jtoresson.bsky.social Now: Scouting for Raw Fury
Before: Lots of stuff.
Pitch me that new game of yours -> https://form.asana.com/?k=SF4rPk6Y5L-NFSrVml5JOg&d=1123805143377851
(He/Him)
Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com Unionizing the games industry one person at a time. Cofounder of @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com.
Game worker, rock climber, cat hugger based in Glasgow, Scotland.
https://www.austinkelmore.com
Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
...
she/zij 🇳🇱🇪🇺
IGDA @igda.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
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.
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social I write tools and code for videogames!
Links and newsletter: https://yal.cc/links
Rosie T @rtparty.bsky.social 💚 Games Bundle Person
👾 Game enthusiast
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🔬 Advisory Board Member at iGGi
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💛 GIBiz Game Changer ‘23
🌿 Plant based
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Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social www.rosacarbo.co.uk
🎮 CD sona bona
💫 Freelance game design atm @ Panic Stations
🍊 Spanish in UK
💼 Prev Preloaded, APWOT, Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus...
🏆 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
✌🏼 she/her
Squidly @squidly.newgrounds.com Squid-shaped dev on Renaine
I stream #gamedev weekdays ➡️ twitch.tv/squuuidly
@streamnotifs.bsky.social for stream notifications
Scott Hartsman @hartsman.bsky.social Shipping talks, bullshit walks. I've worked on a ton of MMOs and other online games. Mostly helping games startups these days. Also, corgis. Specifically, one large, lazy one in particular.
__eirik @strotchy.bsky.social https://garyyk.com
Shams jorjani @shamsjorjani.bsky.social CEO Arrowhead Game Studios and video game "enthusiast". Still not a vampire.
Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social knyght full of thought and slepy • musician (harrison lemke, brother android, dragon warrior) • game dev (boots quest dx) • he/him
Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com Award-winning indie game designer, web developer, and artist from Philadelphia (he/him). RunMan, Deepak Fights Robots, One Million Stars, Hugby, and more https://tomsennettgames.com
Jason de Heras 🎮 @jasondeheras.bsky.social Co-Game Director on the Star Wars Jedi team at Respawn/EA. Design Director Jedi: Survivor/Lead Combat Designer Jedi: Fallen Order. Combat Design God of War 3/Ascension. 2x Evo Finals Street Fighter.
https://www.jasondeheras.com
Kris Antoni - Toge Productions @kerissakti.bsky.social Founder of Toge Productions #gamedev #indiedev from Indonesia.
Made: CoffeeTalk, Infectonator.
Renee Gittins | Indie Game Dev @rikukat.bsky.social Plays video games. Makes video games. Helps others make video games.
Developer of "Potions: A Curious Tale"
PotionsACuriousTale.com
Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social "Her Generation's Greatest Wordsmith" / I'm the b!tch!! I'm bisexual and I WILL bring it up!! I make games at https://thewaether.itch.io/
https://www.patreon.com/amyrot
https://ko-fi.com/thewaether
main blog at: https://katebnormal.tumblr.com/
Lola @lolashiraishi.com
BT @borystrienin.com indie games business @rcp.family
publishing https://songs-of-silence.com
borystrienin.com
Joana @layn75.bsky.social I make games and stuff! 🔸 she/her 🔸 Tech Artist 🔸 co-organizer @FemDevsMeetup🔸 Cosplayer 🔸 🏳️⚧️♠️🏳️🌈 🔸 layn75.carrd.co
Joana Vieira (Ziraeliss) @ziraeliss.bsky.social Solo dev and founder of Negative Sun Studios. Narrative and Game Designer. Portuguese currently in Malmö, Sweden 🏳️🌈🇵🇹
Emelie Edholm @emelie.bsky.social Cat herder for a bunch of gfx folks at Rockstar.
Coffee and a stiff drink, please.
Scott @positronplays.bsky.social 🛠️ Senior QA Analyst at Epic Games
📺 Sometimes Youtuber / Twitch streamer
https://linktr.ee/PositronPlays
Jan-Bart van Beek @janbart.bsky.social Studio Director & Art Director at Guerrilla Games. Original concept creator of Horizon Zero Dawn. BAFTA & Golden Calf winner. Poweruser of the word Basically.
Paul Grzymkowski @paulogy.com Lover of games, music, movies & staying thoughtful among the chaos. Watch me sprout more awesome / awful / clever / crazy ideas than I know what to do with :-)
[ http://www.paulogy.com ]
Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social Associate art director on Darkest Dungeon 2! Outdoor enthusiast, coffee drinker, gamer
Vancouver, BC/ Londoner
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Jack The Generalist @jackgutmann.bsky.social Freelance Games VFX Artist
Podcast host: The Generalists: Where game devs spill the tea with 0 filter.
Full episodes on YT, Spotify & Apple Podcast
https://linktr.ee/jack.the.generalist
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Julie Elven @julieelven.bsky.social Soundtrack vocalist 🎙️ for #JamesNewtonHoward, #LorneBalfe, #HorizonForbiddenWest, #HorizonZeroDawn, #InfinityNikki, #Netflix, #BAFTA, #CriticalRole, #BBC, #TheGameAwards, #WorldofWarcraft, #LeagueofLegends & more ❤️ she/her • 🌈
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
Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com a longtime industry vet, I make games and lead design teams, and am looking for my next opportunity. Check out my rarely updated blog at http://www.zenofdesign.com
I'm a white cis straight male (he/him), an ally albeit an occasionally imperfect one.
Nana Moon { game dev } - WISHLIST BATHORY @moonana.bsky.social Anti Capitalistic Rethroric through games narrative.
Director, Narrative Designer, Artist.
⭐Virgo Versus The Zodiac
🎸Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk
🩸 @bathorygame.bsky.social
💜 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/c/moonana
📧 nana@moonanagames.com
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
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/