Murska Digital @murskadigital.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/4865910/She_Hunts/
Murska Digital is an independent Finnish game studio that creates narrative experiences with emphasis on the feeling of freedom and exploration.
Chip Morningstar @epopt.bsky.social Working hard to save the world from (or maybe it’s for) software.
Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Jamil Moledina @jamilmoledina.bsky.social Consultant, Advisor, Founder in Games
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
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Nicky Robinson @nickyrobinson.bsky.social Hockey, gaming, cats, coffee and castles. And now, 3rd book as co-author!
hendrik lesser @hendriklesser.bsky.social game maker, entrepreneur, teacher, lobbyist, nerd, nafo
chair of @egdf, run rcp & chimera entertainment,
game director death from above,
executive producer songs of silence
Tami Borowick @tamiborowick.bsky.social Friends, flowers, felines, inflammation, and chronic fatigue. On a mission to fix and reframe. Maybe not better, stronger, faster. But heck, being able to walk is a start!
David Mullich @davidmullich.bsky.social Game producer for Disney, Cyberdreams, 3DO, Activision, Spin Master and others. Game design professor at Art Center College of Design. Game history lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social SFWA promotes, advances, and supports science fiction and fantasy storytelling by educating, promoting, and empowering its creators and the larger community. This account is for informational purposes.
The Heinlein Society @heinleinsociety.org To promote the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein by encouraging the reading and discussion of his written work, the use of critical thinking skills in our daily lives, and a love of science essential in promoting humankind’s future beyond our home planet.
Paul Fox @therealpaulfox.eurosky.social 🔊 Aural Acrobat. Unassuming part-time party clown. Patron of: bachelors, diseased cattle, dogs, falsely accused people, invalids, Istanbul, surgeons, tile-makers, grave-diggers, second-hand dealers, pilgrims, apothecaries
@desideriuserasmus.bsky.social @desideriuserasmus.bsky.social
Adam Bormann @adambormann.bsky.social Game designer (BioWare, Hangar 13, Crystal Dynamics, LucasArts, Monolith, Sierra Online)
Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk Professor and Head of Education & Practice, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Co-director, Games & Gaming Lab. Director, Ada Scotland Festival.
Tim Laning @timlaning.bsky.social CEO/ Commercial Director of Grendel Games, Serious Game Designer for Affordable Healthcare, Sustainability and Education.
In private life a loving husband and father, pinball enthusiast, avid video game player and a fan of spicy food!
Steffen P Walz @playbe.bsky.social
Johanna Pirker @joeyprink.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science | Director GameLabGraz GameDevDays | #GameDev Research Science Tech VR AI | @TUGraz | past LMU ETH MIT EA | Forbes 30u30 Science | mountains ⛰️
twitch.tv/JoeyPrink
youtube.com/@JoeyPrink
jpirker.com
Linda Troost @lvtroost.bsky.social Prof of English and Professional Writing, esp. 18th c British lit; expert on Jane Austen adaptations; former English department chair; Smithie, Penn Ph.D. https://www.clippings.me/ltroost
SynaMax 🎧 Nested Dreams Dev // Video Game Historian @synamax.bsky.social Video game historian, Music/SFX, self-taught programmer, 1/2 of Psychic Rink (w/ @shoffur.bsky.social)
Working on: Nested Dreams (punk duck game), Vid Kidz Documentary
youtube.com/synamax
psychicrink.itch.io
patreon.com/synamax
synamax.bandcamp.com
Matt Costello @matthewcostello.bsky.social Co-creator and co-writer of the best-selling Cherringham and Mydworth mystery series. Game writer -- Doom 3, Rage, Resident Evil IV among others.. Reviewer for Operawire. Not a bad cook. http://www.mattcostello.com
LucasArts Memory @lucasartsmemory.bsky.social Unofficial account.
From artworks to fun facts: 4 decades of LucasArts & Star Wars games.
yaz0r @yaz0r.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇺🇸 Software engineer in the SF Bay area.
Ex-gamedev, worked at QuanticDream (HeavyRain), Havok (Destiny,...).
Retro gaming and reverse engineering (ScummVm,...), occasional graphic programmer.
Oscar Clark (He/Him) @athanateus.bsky.social Chief of Curiosity (He/Him) On a podquest to learn everything about #gamedev you never dared to ask...
Host of #ActualPlay #Improv #Game @achdilemmashow
Wolfgang Engel @wolfgangfengel.bsky.social Graphics Programmer, CEO at The Forge Interactive
https://theforge.dev/
https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge
Michael Saladino @michaelsaladino.bsky.social Video game leader, investor plus a lover of music, film, cooking, science, and fact gathering.
Game Dev List @gamedevlist.bsky.social This account acts as a list of game developers. Just click on the 'following' link to get a list of developers to follow. Follow this account for updates on future additions. And @ this account to be added.
Maintained by @zenofdesign
Fabrice Florin @fabriceflorin.com Multimedia innovator, social entrepreneur, nature lover, artist and activist. I help people play, learn and act together to create a better world. Now helping each other live sustainably at GreenChange.net .
https://linktr.ee/fabriceflorin
Jon Jones @jonjones.bsky.social He/him. #gamedev art management, external production, and pipeline automation in Seattle. Author (How I Escaped Evangelical Hell), ramen enjoyer, cat hugger, name haver.
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.- L No @lucasartsfans.bsky.social Bye
Neal Hallford @nealhallford.bsky.social RPG Designer - Betrayal at Krondor/Dungeon Siege/others. Author, Filmmaker, Composer. OU grad. ᏣᎳᎩ Nation.
Audio Drama Honcho at http://Uncharted Regions.bsky.social
http://linktr.ee/NealHallford
#gamedev #writer #synthsky #filmmaket
Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social Making games for longer than seems advisable.
Recently, AI lead at Take-Two; earlier at SomaSim, Zynga, EA etc.
Doctor of AI, under the hippocratic oath bound to help all game AIs.
Author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/
Hello from Chicago!
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.
RootlessRoutes @januarymoon.bsky.social Former nomad, hunkered down in Western Mass. Living, learning, teaching, doing & trying to understand. Leftist, disaster relief volunteer, cat rescuer, career transition coach, vintage slinger.
🕊️🇵🇸🇸🇾🇺🇦🕊️ @dustythecampfirecat
Слава Україні
حرية لفلسطين
Tess Snider @malkyne.com Fairy codemother. Free-range veteran game programmer and underground programming teacher. Co-owner of indie game studio Hidden Achievement.
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.
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
Gordon Walton @pswtyrant.bsky.social Game developer/Team leader
Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert.bsky.social Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Simon Cooke @fleetingshadow.bsky.social Game developer, music maker, ex-journalist (Your Sinclair, Internet & Comms Today, Net User, .net, arcane), programmer, biohacker, physicist.
Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social Worked on games like The Suffering, The Church in the Darkness, and Homeworld: Vast Reaches. Wrote Game Design: Theory & Practice. Now Studio Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new things.
Don Daglow @ddaglow.bsky.social Veteran game designer and producer, best-selling author.
Daniel Greenberg @winterion.com 👨🏫George Mason University Game Professor
👔Winterion Game Studios CEO
💍GalexQuest's Husband, Babycrab's Dad
🍺Root Beer Aficionado
📧info@winterion.com
▶️watch.winterion.com
Daniel Albu 🕹️ (Tech Talk with Daniel Albu) @danielalbu.bsky.social • Freelance #GameDev 🎮
• Host of 'Tech Talk with Daniel Albu' 📼
• Co-producer & co-host of 'Conversations with Curtis' 📼
🎙️ Tech Talk with Daniel Albu: https://www.youtube.com/@danielalbu
💻 Website: www.danielalbu.com
Brian Fargo @brianfargo.bsky.social Studio Head InXIle Entertainment and fortunate that I'm still making RPG's after all these years.
Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social Out now https://outerloopgames.com/dosa
Director on Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, narrative, art, biz, UI/UX, production, photos. Uplifting marginalized devs.
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social CEO/Creative Director:
BLACK PONY IMMERSIVE
Deus Ex, Dishonored
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
Carla Engelbrecht @carlaeng.bsky.social Founder Betweened - family-friendly social media. Interactive media innovator. Backpacker. Improviser. Mom. Badass. https://betweened.io
AWE XR @awexr.com The world's #1 spatial computing event series for the AR & VR (XR) industry where you can try hundreds of the latest demos, learn from talks by top leaders, and network with peers.
More on awexr.com
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
John Passfield @johnpassfield.bsky.social Made Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Co-created TY the Tasmanian Tiger. I’m making Super Robot Survivors and Halloween Harry.
https://linktr.ee/retrojohnno
Robert Nyman @robertnyman.com Web Developer Relations at Google. Open Web Docs co-founder, MDN Advisory Board Member. Into sneakers. 👟
Jo Cronk @jocronk.bsky.social Gen X autistic aroace trans-masc non-binary software engineer, Technical Design instructor, MSCS grad student, Pilates teacher-in-training, fledgling aerialist, and professional hermit [when I'm not bouncing around the west coast].
Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social Gamedev designer/writer/director - Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Pajama Sam, Sam & Max, Wolf Among Us, etc. Most recently, Return to Monkey Island! Currently fiddling around with a game about paper. Halloween-liker, food-maker, dad.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Chris "CMel" Melissinos @cmelissinos.bsky.social Principal Evangelist - Video Game Industry Specialist at AWS - Technologist, futurist, game historian. Opinions / posts are mine, not employer's.
David Fox💙🫘🇺🇦 @davidbfox.com Lead game programmer: ThimbleweedPark2 ReturnToMonkeyIsland
Designer/Project Lead at LucasfilmGames/LucasArts: Fractalus Labyrinth ZakMcKracken Indy3
ManiacMansion
VR XR EV GameDev
Handpan newbie
❤️ @anniefox.com
@RubeWorks.com
https://linktr.ee/davidbfox
Alisha Thayer @alishathayer.bsky.social Design Director and Technical Design Advocate
Silona @silona.bsky.social OpenSource, CitableAI, Blockchain, OpenWork@RIT, OpenData, Privacy, OpenHardware, GlobalStandards, Privacy legislation
Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social Game developer, father, cultural critic.
Available for work and consultation.
Liminal glimpses & absurdity @francescaprada.bsky.social Filmmaking, story seeking, flaneur, friend
Tim Fowers @tfowers.bsky.social
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Andrew Greenberg @hdiandrew.bsky.social Game Dev, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Game Tech Hub Accelerator, GGDA, SIEGE, HDI, and other game dev acronyms.
Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social Dog-person, cat wrangler, air sculptor, prompteer, imaginaut.
Naomi Black @nayray.bsky.social 67 years of activism. Red diaper baby. Lover of Joe Hill among other songs of love and protest. NAACP, Southern poverty law center, Committee to Support Journalism, environmental defense fund, Sierra Club, and all the human rights & women’s organizations
Rachid El Guerrab @rush2k.bsky.social Founder, software engineer, game coder, enjoys math and loves storytelling.
George Broussard @georgebsocial.bsky.social Co-founded the original 3D Realms/Apogee. Published, funded, produced & created many games. Known for Duke Nukem 3D.
Game designer, artist, programmer.
linktr.ee/georgebsocial
Dave Weinstein @t-dye.bsky.social Recovering Game Developer turned Security Professional. Sometime musician, potter, player (and occasional author) of games. Not a speaker for my employer. He/Him.
Also dhw@infosec.exchange on Mastodon.
Tom Dowd @tomdowd.bsky.social Game Writer, Designer, Storymaker, Gamer, Shadowrun guy, MechAssault, Educator, etc. Interim Director/School of Design Columbia College Chicago. Beyond that, your guess is better than mine.
(Header from a visual novel I'm working on.)
Michelle Driskill-Smith (Breiner) @artsmith.bsky.social Creative Professional, Tech nerd, Photographer. Passionate about climate.
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
Tomo Moriwaki @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social Our shared fiction is our reality, so... let's take better care of it. Long time game designer. Most noteworthy impact: creative director of Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Serafina @serafinapechan.bsky.social
David Lawrence @dlawrence.bsky.social art~media~design~research
linkedIn: http://lnkd.in/Cfz92F
vimeo: vimeo.com/dlawrence
Instagram/Threads: instagram.com/dlawrence/
Dan Galpin @dgalpin.bsky.social Android developer, singer, cook, gardener, and dad.
Caryl Shaw 🚫👑 @handle.invalid Game Dev (ret.)
Bourbon, pets, family (not in that order)
Oakland, CA
Michael Hengst @michaelhengst.com Old Fart since 1962 and Gamer since 1972.
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
Chris Pruett @cpruett.bsky.social Director of Games @meta. Thirty years of game dev, incl. Dead Secret, Wind-up Knight, and sick Hypercard stacks. I am a walking encyclopedia of horror games.
Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social Past lives include, LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, SillyBytes, Beep Industries, iWin. I like tinkering and playing games. Husband, Father, Nerd and Game Programmer- S Oded Sharon @soundguy77.bsky.social Indie game dev, foodie, VR//MR/AR , AI , burner )’( , musician.
Paul Stephanouk @gamegeek.bsky.social I make and play games.
Scott Jon Siegel @numberless.bsky.social Designer of playful social experiences. Lead Game Designer @ Board.
I love making things that bring people together.
https://numberless.net
https://board.fun
Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social Game Designer and Play Theorist / Designer of Rainbow Six & Ghost Recon / Author of The Aesthetic of Play & Situational Game Design
For fun I make board games and watch anime!
William Volk @bikingbill.bsky.social Cyclist, Game Designer/Producer, Environmentalist.
denise @23pinkcats.bsky.social
Craig "2547" Good @clgood.bsky.social Storyteller, cinema geek, science communicator, foodie, voice of Star Command
RJ Mical @rjmical.bsky.social Much too loud
@stuartmoulder.bsky.social @stuartmoulder.bsky.social
Ian Schreiber @ianschreiber.bsky.social Game designer, educator, parent.
Christy Marx @christymarx.bsky.social Writer of words & stuff. Owned by 5 cats.
Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social ARPA-H PM | DARPA Alum | Experimental Psychologist | Navy CAPT (ret) ⚓️ | Tech innovation in education and behavioral health | Autism parent | Views expressed are my own | 👾 https://russ-shilling.com/ideas
Paul Sawaya @pas.bsky.social Startup founder, building a new kind of video games studio. 🎮 Generative AI and capitalism non-hater. It’s okay, you can block me. :)
📍San Francisco
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