Tori Schafer @torischafer.bsky.social Lead Narrative Designer @ Elsewhere Entertainment (Activision) ✧ Formerly World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Spellbreak ✧ Award Winning Designer ✧ Published Author ✧ torischafer.com
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
drew shapiro ✦ @organzola.games i like to make things, oftentimes on the computer
https://organzola.games
working on MUTAGEN🧬
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3507690/MUTAGEN/
contact: drew at organzola dot games
Harris Foster @harris.zone Community Strategist - @devolverdigital.com | Award-losing video games Comms Manager | G4TV commercial contest winner, 2004ish | Name frequently misspelled for comedic effect. (he/him)
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
Finn Carney @finnjc.bsky.social Game Dev / Designer
Working on things, consulting on others.
Previously at Nerial, Glow Up Games
Blogging at: https://sandboxdunes.neocities.org/
Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social Narrative Director for videogames at discoglobe.ca. MFA Creative Non-Fic student at UKC. Luddite in the historical sense. She/They www.jillmurray.com
ben linsay @blen.blinsay.com here for a long time (not a good time)
Jake Weidner @jakeweidner.bsky.social #Gamedev Jake of All Trades!
Admin & Industry Liaison at NYU Game Center
Advisor for Experimental Game Workshop team at GDC
Formerly a Producer at: Pontoco, Pixelberry, Funomena
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
spencer chang @spencer.place software you can touch
artist, engineer, toymaker
🌐 spencer.place (home)
🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet)
🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space)
📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol)
🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)
Emilia @lazerwalker.com Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
Jackie Vecchitto @jackiev.bsky.social Holy Wow Studios dev - creators of BAFTA-Nominated Trombone Champ and other stupid games 🎺
Brooklyn, NYC - She/Her
linktr.ee/JackieVecchitto
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
Jo Kreyling @horsephone.bsky.social Owns Pillow Fight Games, made Later Alligator and We Know the Devil. Working on a game with fortune-telling dragons. 
garrett miller @garrett.bsky.social boy from maryland, making art, games, apps and creative ephemera, big-time dad, in carrboro nc
starfriends is out now!
https://starfriends.online/
MOSS studio is coming this fall to iPhone + iPad
https://moss.town
co-founder, @brainfruit.bsky.social
Liz Walcher @lizwalcher.bsky.social Senior 3D Artist (looking for work!)
Craft dabbler, & admirer of creatures, beasts, bugs, & mosses 🐛🌱 she/her 🏳️🌈
Previously @ OtherSide Entertainment, Wildflower Interactive, Tender Claws.
https://linktr.ee/lizwalcher
Charlie Tangora @ctangora.bsky.social Video game programmer from Chicago. Currently Wildflower Games. Previously Yacht Club Games, Naughty Dog, Hello Games. She/her🏳️⚧️ 
joannes @playthroughline.com • "Experimental DM" of https://neurocracy.site
• I've peaked and I'm kidding myself
• https://playthroughline.com
• he/they
Tim Pope @tpo.pe Vim plugin artist
Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social Game developer and adaptive music specialist
nifflas.itch.io
Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social ✏ Writing Warren Spector’s next game
✏️ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
🏆 BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
⭐ Marketing: SCMedia
🎤 Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
✉ shao.karrie@gmail.com
🧐 karries.carrd.co
Ben Myres @benjamming.bsky.social CEO & Creative Director at @nyamakop.co.za
“a white guy” - @Aftermath.site
Sam Eng @bysameng.com solo game developer
SKATE STORY @skatestory.com
published by @devolverdigital.com
WIL @goodbyeworldwil.bsky.social Captain of BAFTA winning indie game/ttrpg studio Goodbyeworld Games, Co Founder of http://arwall.co. Mastering computers and other arcane rituals for fun and profit. They/them
Clara Sia 🍜 @seriouslyclara.bsky.social 👔: clarasia.com Game Biz & Marketing Consulting
🍁: @vangameexpo.ca Game Community Events
📧: hi@seriouslyclara.tv
👧🏻: instagram.com/seriouslyclara 🎮🐰🍣🥁🎹🗺️👴🏼
Ex-Devolver, ex-agency, living the dream
charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social Associate Art Professor at the NYU Game Center
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social artist rolling down a big hill getting very dizzy
https://www.evakhoury.com/
member @boshis.place
all-purpose eva @recurse.com
puppeting @ Bread + Puppet
Previously: NYU Game Center, Babycastles, Wonderville, Pratt Institute
NYC
they
🕊️🇵🇸
Kate Ludlow @majorboredom.bsky.social She/Her
Liberal Texan Weird-Aunt Type Person
SpecOps @devolverdigital
Nina Freeman @ninamarie.bsky.social Game Dev for 14 years - Principal Narrative Designer for Dontnod MTL/Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, also makes indie games like Cibele, Last Call, how do you Do It? etc etc | stream: twitch.tv/ninamarie | games: ninasays.so
Daisy Fernandez @daisyfern.bsky.social designer and co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making BAD MAGPIE
Brett Camper @bcamper.bsky.social I work with maps and computer graphics, and I like film, cities, transit, architecture, pixel and procedural art, history of media technology
Casey Yano @caseyyano.bsky.social Mega Crit's Cat Walker. Independent Game Developer
Slay the Spire & Untitled Projects. He/Him
Matt T. Wood @matttwood.dev 🗡️ Founder/Director @ Double Dagger Studio (@doubledaggerstudio.bsky.social)
🎩 BAFTA nominated game creator
😺 Little Kitty, Big City 🏙️
💾 Previously worked on Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal 2, CSGO, etc
🧠 Team Neuro Spicy 🔥🥳
www.matttwood.com
Laine Bruzek @lainebruzek.bsky.social co-founder + chief marketing office @ Evvy — evvy.com
Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
✨ Production-for-hire (Massive Monster, onepixel. dog & more)
💜 Co-Founder Girl Geek Academy
🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
https://linktr.ee/lisyk
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
M Joshua @mjoshua.com Crafts game trailers at Devolver. Runs a Game Dev Club for tweens.
Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz ⚡ PR, copywriting, and design for Devolver Digital
⚡ Writer, photographer, artist, etc.
⚡ Author of Perfect Organism: A Celebration of Alien: Isolation
⚡ Glaswegian
📍 Yorkshire, UK
🔗 www.ultrabrilliant.xyz
isa @isadora.codes debugger queen ✨ forbes 30u30 ✨ working on Neverway and my own engine! co-founder at @coldbloodinc.studio
WISHLIST NEVERWAY ✨ http://steam.neverway.co
and more ✨ http://isadora.codes
🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social computer graphics and computer graphics accessories
http://ivansafrin.com
currently working on:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2886700/Star_Scum/
.. and another secret thing.
Unofficial USDA Recall Bot @usda-recall-bot.bsky.social Recall notices from the USDA. Not affiliated with the USDA. Bot will update once/day at midnight CST and will not respond to posts. For any questions, feature requests, or bug reports, please reach out to @davidw1457.bsky.social
sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
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Dries Depoorter @driesdepoorter.be Artist working with technology
www.driesdepoorter.be
Brian Moore @brianmoore.com a car crash at the intersection of art and technology
🌐 brianmoore.com
📷 instagram.com/lanewinfield
Jessica Harllee @harllee.bsky.social 37/f/nyc
jessicaharllee.com
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com I explore code as a design material. Co-founder of @designsystems.international. Author of programmingdesignsystems.com. Former New York Times, O’Reilly Media and ITP NYU.
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Wonderville 🕹 @wonderville.nyc An indie arcade and event space in Brooklyn NY
hello@wonderville.nyc for inquiries
Alex Hague @alex.cmyk.games Making games at cmyk.games
Mark Kleeb @kleeb.bsky.social Head janitor at @wonderville.nyc
Adjunct faculty at NYU
I build arcade cabinets
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
Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social Writer, Game Designer, sometimes authority figure.
I’ve been a journalist, a publisher, a producer, a designer, and more. Attractions, alt controllers, audio games, films, etc. These days I teach at USC Games.
Cohost @everydamnframe
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta.bsky.social reporter covering video games and digital culture for Bloomberg News
www.cecianasta.com
Discord: ehvee
Signal: Cecilia.01
François Alliot @galiopant.bsky.social Creative director and gamedev. Reigns (and family), Card Shark, Crush House, Animal Farm… Nerial cofounder, now part of Devolver Digital. @nerial.bsky.social. Live and work in Paris.
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
Tamara Alliot @tamtama.bsky.social Reader (not avid), decorator, gardener, parent, gamer-adjacent, writer 
Jack Cheng @jackcheng.bsky.social Children's author, pattern linguist, slow technologist, newish dad. Senior editor at Every and Extension Master Gardener. Building lively worlds, real and imagined. jackcheng.com
Arnaud De Bock @arnauddebock.bsky.social I make games / Reigns / Card shark / Pikuniku / Crush House/ Pikuniku 2
@screenkwame.bsky.social @screenkwame.bsky.social 
John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social ハチノヨンとスパデラのジョンです。Tokyo-based game lover/gatherer and 8-4 & SDX co-founder. EGM alum. 集まり屋。(He/Him) くわしいことは本をみて下さい。
Milan @milanks.net Making a game about thought loops
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648200/Stellations/
work @ milanks.net
Miranda Sanchez @havokrose.bsky.social Executive Editor of Guides at IGN and Podcast Unlocked member
Into books, beer, stationery, cats, video games, and writing.
She/her
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!
remy siu | 1000xRESIST @remysiu.com founded indie game studio sunset visitor 斜陽過客 • made 1000xRESIST
Peabody Award Winner, Hugo and Nebula Nominee
www.remysiu.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
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
swiftp @swiftp.cc creative developer, designer, artist, maker. sometimes e-girl vj
🌐 https://swiftp.cc
💼 https://lucp.xyz
Jeremy Couillard @jeremycouillard.bsky.social arts and games
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jeremycouillard.com
store.steampowered.com/developer/JeremyCouillard
youtube.com/jeremycouillard
twitter.com/jeremycouillard
Mohamed @moemalik.bsky.social writer / socials @ nice dream games - BAFTA-winning Before Your Eyes + Goodnight Universe (2025) / Los Angeles / you’ll be aight.
Malik @maliksquared.bsky.social Socials @ Nice Dream Games (@nicedreamgames.com). We made BAFTA-winning Before Your Eyes, now we’re working on Goodnight Universe. | Writer |📍 Los Angeles
I make Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X
George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making bad magpie
also to blame for bird alone & far from noise & hot date
georgebatchelor.com | he/him
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
Nerial @nerial.bsky.social Award-winning game studio. Crush House, Card Shark, Reigns Witcher and co (OG, Her Majesty, Game of Thrones, Beyond, Three Kingdoms), Animal Farm.
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com Director of publishing, editor, translator. Manga, democracy, civil rights, foster kittens, sci-fi, beer. Another world is possible. He/him. Portfolio etc.: benapplegate.com (pfp: Marume Goshika)
Alexander Muscat @alexandermuscat.bsky.social Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast ● Making & researching ● Working on multi-perceptual puzzler SITE UNSEEN 🔴 siteunseengame.com ● Mech head ● he/him
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social 電子音楽家 parked illegally at the intersection of art & technology 🎛🔊🎶🔻✌️🫠
💌 SUPPORT MY WORK: https://ko-fi.com/janusrose
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📸 https://instagram.com/janus.rose
👤 by @cara.city
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Mark Slutsky @slutsky.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Compulsion Games, movie director (You Can Live Forever), newsletter maker (Something Good, Barely a Book Club)
www.markslutsky.com
æon @aeon.bsky.social gamedev: The Black Tower, Slayers X, Gatefold, Folia
https://icosahedron.website/@aeonofdiscord
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
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
Anita Tung @anitatung.bsky.social home to over a trillion microbes
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
allen @thankfuck.studio i guess in descending order: people developer, web developer, game developer, writer, potter, fiend
proprietor @ thank fuck ceramics
sr. eng. mngr. @ NYT/wirecutter
Detroit, MI
David Gallagher @dfg.im A journalist in Amsterdam via NYC. https://dfg.im
Robbie Fraser @squidcor.bsky.social South African indie developer at Free Lives. (He / Him).
Designer of Dustbiters, Anger Foot, and Genital Jousting.
grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com .1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc
https://grapefrukt.com
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social ⏪ PAST: Naughty Dog; co-writer/narrative designer Uncharted 4, Uncharted:The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Pt II
▶️ NOW: Cautionary Tales game narrative consulting
🗣️ video games, baking, bad puns, shitposting
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/joshscherr
❤️ fix your hearts or die
Fun City Ventures @funcityventures.bsky.social Cyberpunk TTRPG pod set in NYC 2102 🐉 Played by Bijan Stephen, Jenn de la Vega, Nicholas Guercio, and Shannon Odell 🕴️ Bad Boys by Taylor Moore 🎲 GM'd by Mike Rugnetta 😎 http://funcity.ventures and wherever you listen to podcasts.
izzy kestrel @iznaut.com 🎮 Tech Designer on @blanksword.bsky.social (prev Astra Logical, No Goblin, Funomena)
🏳️⚧️ trans poly bisexual she/her
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC
🦎 Gex’s #1 fan
iznaut.com
lizzywanders @lizzywanders.bsky.social Illustrator & character designer
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