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
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
MattieBoomBattie @mattieboombattie.bsky.social Do not ask for whom the cookie crumbles; it crumbles for thee.
Web vigilante | He/him | Swift/js/php/css/etc | 🇬🇧/🇳🇱 | CalStats for mac/iOS | leobite.com | gizcrunk.com
Miikka Poikela🇫🇮 (PixelingsOc Series) @miikkapoikela89.bsky.social Pixel Artist / Finnish OC artist / Creator of the #PixelingsOc series as a fantasy Classic
The Alien Species from the planet Puukust (Fire, Flying, Slime and War elements)
Games Loves: PvZ, Deltarune and Roblox
🚫NO MORE BAD AI/NFTs🚫 BEGONE 😡!
Abhi | Venba @brownmoney.bsky.social Creative Director at Visai Games
Making games that tell intimate stories with interesting mechanics, like Venba!
Steven Stoermer @stevenstoermer.bsky.social EIC at Deleted Saves, words at Start Menu and Stop Caring.
https://www.deletedsaves.com/
Views own.
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/
THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
hilkojj @hilkojj.nl Making a retro-styled isometric parking lot simulation game..
🅿️🚘🚗🚙🛻🚐💨
Wishlist on Steam! https://s.team/a/3031880
Discord server: https://discord.gg/tpyrwjGxat
linktr.ee/hilkojj
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social 📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
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
Troy Gilbert @troygilbert.com I used to make games, now I make lunch. Past: Mockingbird, Dumbhack, Puzzles by Thumb. Live Notes Only™. He/him. https://troygilbert.com/
Heat Death Studio| Wishlist Appa on STEAM ⬇️ @heatdeathstudio.bsky.social Creators of APPA - a surreal narrative-driven card battler.
Wish list Appa On steam ,
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3503500/Appa/
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
Will Bateman @willbatemancrc.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Games and Animation books at CRC Press 🎮📚
Got a book idea? Get in touch 👉will.bateman@tandf.co.uk
He/him. Views my own.
Sean Connelly @seanconnelly.bsky.social I publish game design and animation books for CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. Everything from video game design, tabletop game design and development, film animation, game animation, UI/UX, and more!
Greater Boston awesomezone.
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Raquel de Miranda @rdemiranda.bsky.social Narrative Designer & Freelance | Solo Dev @fibrils-studio.bsky.social
[TBA, SOMBRAS: negative frames 📸, The Merlies 🌱, Last Time I Saw You ⛩️, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden 👻, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 🏹]
Opinions are my own.
she/they. FR/EN/PT(BR)
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Lucy James @lucyjames.games Video game enjoyer @lookingfor.game podcast: @friendspersecond.bsky.social email: hello@lucyjames.games
IGDA Portugal @igdapt.bsky.social The Portuguese chapter of the International Game Developers Association.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Ty 💀 @tys.work I delete my posts often.
Follow me on mastodon - ty@slime.land - https://slime.land/@ty
Cofounder of Comradery.co
Working on a game called High Iron Manifesto
Teaching evil game design ideas to America's youth
Sagar Beroshi @sagarberoshi.bsky.social Storytelling in Games.
– Narrative Designer / Writer for more unannounced things at The Chinese Room
– Writer for Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest
– Deputy Game Director for Helldivers 2
– Producer for As Dusk Falls
Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social He/him. Journalist at Rascal News. Interested in the art, history, and science of games. Makes the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indied Podcast. notrueindian@outlook.com
Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social I write games & jokes. Sometimes both.
⌛ past: journalist & presenter @ ONM, OXM, Nintendo Life, The Guardian, GameSpot, Xbox, Minecraft, etc
🔮 present: games writer @ Moonstone Island, Owlchemy, & Hello Kitty Island Adventure
@ Nova Scotia, Canada
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Eric @mokkograd.net (they/them) I'm passionate about explosions and skeletons.
Buy Virtue's Heaven on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/Virtues_Heaven/
Subscribe to my Newsletter:
https://buttondown.com/MOKKOGRAD
Rob, The Bishop Of Bobbins @fishwithlasers.bsky.social ACAB includes Mappy.
Rob. Writes and writes about videogames. Ex remakes person, ex legend. Grumbles, watches tat films, does some box art doodling and stuff. Disabled, depressed, tired. Terfs and bigots shit off elsewhere.
He/Him
http://www.robf.me
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com Writer • Winner, PEN/Dau • Work in The New York Times, Polygon, Catapult, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere • Opinions my own
Blog: onemorerun.blog
Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝 @charlesgames.bsky.social Prague-based studio pushing boundaries of what games can do and say. Hidden-object Velvet 89 out now, new game We Grew Up in War in the works.
www.charlesgames.net
adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
dhamster @dhamster.bsky.social making @megaknockdown.com with @alanmcmillian.bsky.social
i post about fighting games, indie games, and other stuff.
Andrea Roberts @andrearoberts.bsky.social Game Designer of Wonderbelly Games, Mother of Imps, Champion of Forgotten Side Quests. Cooking up Arcane Eats, a fantasy cooking deckbuilder. Made Roundguard, a bouncy pegglelike roguelike. We all need joy
https://www.wonderbellygames.com/
aka TanookiFruit
Niels Monshouwer @nielsmonshouwer.bsky.social Producer Speculative Agency working on #AllWillRise. Please wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3165340/All_Will_Rise/
Formerly
@Guerrilla #HorizonForbiddenWest
@WeirdBeardGames #TrickyTowers #99Bricks
MAROcha @pormaro.bsky.social ✧˖°. Digital & Traditional Artist ⋆˚✿˖°
UI Designer & Art Director for games. Currently working on: ✊All Will Rise & 🚃 Steam to Electric
Past games:🏡Town to City🚂Station to Station, 🏹Horizon Forbidden West
website: marochaarredondo.com
Three More Years @threemoreyears.bsky.social Indie Games and Neon Future Narratives.
a permanent echo - coming 2027:
https://s.team/a/3727200/
Mini Mini Golf Golf out now on Steam:
https://s.team/app/3188050/
Dan Panfili, PhD @drdanpan.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Software Engineer. Other stuff I'm sure.
Founder of DualPlex, a serious games studio 🤓
Fastfrwrd.info @fastfrwrd-info.bsky.social Fastfrwrd is a place for you and your friends to surf ecologically while you socialize. We incentivise ecological action and innovation, by giving points for avoiding oil, gas or plastic (waste).
Co-host of Solarpunk Presents podcast!
Char @alphachar.bsky.social making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
Ramsey رمزي @marskye.com pfp by @pormaro.bsky.social
Palestinian music man 🇵🇸
https://marskye.bandcamp.com/
All Will Rise | Dosa Divas | Thirsty Suitors | Boyfriend Dungeon | BoomerangFu | GNOG | Orchids To Dusk | Lara Croft GO: Mirror of Spirits
📍Seattle, WA
www.marskye.com
Chante Goodman @chantefuzz.bsky.social Just tryna orbit the sun. SMM and CM in games. Bethesda Softworks and Speculative Agency/All Will Rise. Sic Parvis Magna. She/her.
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
WINGS @wingsfund.me Investing in the best PC indie games from studios led by women & gender marginalized devs.
Everything good comes with a side of WINGS. 🔥⚡️
📨 www.wingsfund.me/pitch 😎
Deconstructeam @deconstructeam.bsky.social Narrative shenanigans:
🔨Virtue and a Sledgehammer
🏹Many Nights a Whisper
🔮Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
🍸Red Strings Club
🐶Gods Will Be Watching
🎨 @marineteta.bsky.social
🎹 @fingerspit.bsky.social
✍ @jordidepaco.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/deconstructeam
StrayFawnStudio @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social Indie Game Studio & Publisher from Switzerland
Creators of WanderingVillage, Dungeon Clawler, Nimbatus
and Niche
Publishing Airborne Empire, Flotsam, TerraScape & Gambonanza
strayfawnstudio.com
anima interactive @anima-interactive.com A new socially conscious indie games studio that blends art and technology to ignite positive cultural impact. Currently developing Take Us North! ⬆
Back our Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/takeusnorth/take-us-north
Valiant Game Studio ⭐ KreatureKind is OUT NOW! ⭐ @handle.invalid 🎮 Wholesome & meaningful indie games! ✨🌈
🧑💻 Solo dev working with freelancers and Aurora Punks
💻 https://linktr.ee/valiantgamestudio
Niva Kay @nivakay.bsky.social Sustainable Futures x Video Games. Co-Chair IGDA Climate SIG. Author, filmmaker & farmer amongst other things. PhD candidate UoA
Kyle Alexander Thompson @wiegraf.bsky.social Researcher in transformations, futures, and games. Tabletop game designer. Board member of Enneagram Canada. Formerly co-host of General Intellect Unit. Secretly an owl 🦉
Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-5949
Games: https://wiegraf.itch.io/
monkeyverse @monkeyverse.bsky.social Building worlds in public
design · stories · research · studio notes
monkeyverse.in & baanar.com
Henry Driver @henrydriver.bsky.social Artist, Game developer & farmer. Creating projects inspired by nature & powered by solar energy. Plants 100s of trees every year Suffolk, UK.
Making Treeplanter, & made Secrets of Soil for BBC Arts
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3531490/Treeplanter/
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Nonadecimal @nonadecimal.com Making social impact games like:
🪐 episodic systemic narrative Jovian Nights
💾 cyberPUNK open world RPG Black Ice
♟️ Forbidden Chess
🦠 cellular automata RTS about feedback loops
nonadecimal.com
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Made Wax Heads (out now on Steam / Switch / PS5 / Xbox)
Now working on: 👀👀👀👀
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Father of Twins
https://murraysomerwolff.com
Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za We bless the rains down in Africa... but in UE5
Relooted can be played today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/
https://linktr.ee/Nyamakop
Ryan Young @ludicryan.bsky.social he/him // Game Designer // Sword Fighter // Cat Dad
Previously worked on: Ballgame, Monument Valley 3, Surviving the Abyss, Dynasty of the Sands
Currently freelance Game Designer. Game developers must unionise! Based in Belfast
ludicryan.com
Sam Scaife @samuelscaife.bsky.social somewhat smiley. I make games at @canteen.bsky.social. He / Him.
Cy Lowen @cylowen.bsky.social I'm passionate about stories and games expanding our horizon, imagining new ways to be in this world - more sustainable and with more empathy for one another.
Developing games with @b1is.bsky.social: https://linktr.ee/greenwavegames
Salty 🌱 Play What Surrounds Us on Steam! @salty-gamedev.bsky.social 🎮 French indie game developer. Working on meaningful short games🌱
🧂 Salty but friendly! (most of the time)
Play WHAT SURROUNDS US on Steam!
⭕ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4178950/What_Surrounds_Us/
🔗 https://linktr.ee/florent.martinais
Small Loan Studio @smallloanstudio.bsky.social We are Small Loan Studio, a collective of volunteer junior game devs and career changers expanding our skillsets!
Find our games on Itch [https://smallloanstudio.itch.io/] and Steam [https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45199855] ❄️🚊👻🩸
The Regreening | Wishlist Now! @cozy-impact.bsky.social Hamburg-based indie studio making wholesome & cozy games.
Working on The Regreening, a cozy nature-restoration management game where you befriend folklore spirits and bring life back to the wasteland 🌾🌿
Wishlist on Steam: bit.ly/TheRegreening
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.
mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social game dev on🕯️Order Automatica 🔪 500 Finger Fillet ⌚ Echo Weaver 🐸 Big Hops 🪄 Wizard With a Gun 🌳 The Wild At Heart 🌑 Robot Island
💻 My Website -> mickeysanchez.com
Dito Seregin @terzalo.com 3D generalist, hobbyist game developer
https://terzalo.itch.io/
Wishlist AntiMatcher on Steam: https://s.team/a/4336520
Wishlist Tome Tumble Tournament: https://s.team/a/3596820
Gigo @gigomakes.bsky.social Play Antimatcher Demo on Steam! 🫧✨
https://s.team/a/4336520
Designer at Demon Spore 🎮
All Iinks: https://linktr.ee/gigomakes
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
miffrandir @miffrandirgames.bsky.social I am a Godot gamedev who is just trying to live the dream! Gridlam is the first project I am hoping to publish #Godot #GameDev
Play Gridlam!: https://miffrandir.itch.io/gridlam
a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social I'm making a tool to help you make games like Paradox does, or like Maxis did, back in the day.
https://clayote.itch.io/Lisien
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com Editorial Director, GamesIndustry.biz; co-founder, Jank.cool. Formerly: Editorial Director at Gamer Network, stage stuff at Rezzed/EGX, EIC OXM, words in lots of places.
Brendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social Writer, journalist, and co-founder of PC games blog Jank.
Visit: jank.cool | Follow: @jank.cool
Prev bylines at Rock Paper Shotgun, IGN, PC Gamer, Edge, Eurogamer.
Narrative for: Cataclismo, Creatures of Ava, and Moonlighter 2.
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
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/
Peter Taylor @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social 40, he/him 🧙
Narrative Designer for Sports Interactive on Football Manager 27 ⚽
IWGB & Lib Dem member ✊🔶
Views solely mine, etc. 😉
https://ctrl-the-narrative.com ✍️
Krish Raghav @krishraghav.bsky.social Bullshit comic book artist. Chaoyang Trap stagehand // krishcat.com
Co-organizing [Untitled Games Event], a monthly space for experimental games in Amsterdam // untitledgamesevent.nl
Andrei Pechalin @apechalin.bsky.social Videogame words mainly in Edge and Eurogamer.
andreipechalin@gmail.com
www.pechalin.com
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com @mothership.blog co-founder/managing editor ✨ i like books, games, feminism, and my dog. DM or reply for email!
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.
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/
A-OK @anayaka.bsky.social I’ll talk about Lisbon, and whatever amuses me
Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com The Yacht Rock of Video Games
giantbomb.com/join
For business inquiries: giantbomb@rightclick.gg
Media: media@giantbomb.com
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
Meu romance: https://tinyurl.com/349wdeud
Blog: https://finisgeekis.com.br/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3F9RVGD
fishbowl (OUT NOW on steam & ps5) 💜 @imissmyfriends.bsky.social Wishlist Fishbowl on PS5 & Steam 💌 Spend a month at home with Alo in this heartfelt coming of age story 💬📦 💻 Two people from India making Fishbowl 💜 WISHLIST: https://imissmyfriends.studio/links
HOTOL Vuh @hotlineaguirre.bsky.social 
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
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social News Contributor @ Polygon. Formerly: Associate Editor @ The A.V Club, Assistant Editor @ Paste Magazine. Bylines: GameSpot, Game Informer, Fanbyte, The Gamer, Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, But Why Tho?, etc. TCA member, Rotten Tomato-approved critic. he/him
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/