Dirty Rectangles @dirty-rectangles.com Hosting monthly game dev meetups in Ottawa, Toronto, and Kitchener/Waterloo.
Streaming games on twitch.tv/dirtyrectangles
VODs on youtube.com/@dirtyrectangles
https://dirty-rectangles.com/
https://dirty-rectangles.com/discord
A small group of nobodies.
Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social Actor/comedian/writer in Toronto. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, The Toronto Star, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlackwoodComedy
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social Canada's authority on music, film and comedy. Find us at exclaim.ca
Anti-Spectacular @antispectacular.bsky.social Toronto duo trying to do a lot with a little. I Am This Flesh EP out now!
https://linktr.ee/antispectacular
Booking: antispectacularmusic@gmail.com
Sasha Tudvaseva @tudvaseva.bsky.social Game concept artist and wokie
tudvaseva.art
Peow2 SPX W61 @peow.bsky.social Peow2 is a new open-world immersive AAAAA comic pub from the creators of Peow(1). Working w/ the best artists ever. https://peow.studio
charli xkcd @ky.fyi body { will-change: transform; }
💌 https://ky.fyi
📺 https://hypertext.tv
🏳️⚧️ @namesake.fyi
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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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp uvula.jp
Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social Games Writer: Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora
Co-director @ 3-Fold Games: Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member.
Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books & films.
Indrani @indrani.bsky.social 🕹️ Game designer @durontogames.bsky.social
🎲 Community @blacktabbygames.com, @sunsetvisitor.studio
🐉 Co-founder @desisndragons.bsky.social
🌍 Find me @ indrani.me
🏳️🌈 She/they 📍Mumbai, India 😴 Probably tired
Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social Writer of video games, books, short stories etc.
A SPELL FOR MIDWINTER'S HEART out now
Rep: Aurora Fernandez @ Trident Media
Games: GW2, Tell Me Why, Halo, Rift, and more
http://www.lockhartwrites.com
__eirik @strotchy.bsky.social https://garyyk.com
Rosie T @rtparty.bsky.social 💚 Games Bundle Person
👾 Game enthusiast
🧶 Crochet Hobbyist
🎤 Ex Podcast host
🌎 Patron @ Safe In Our World
🔬 Advisory Board Member at iGGi
🧠 Mental Health Advocate
💛 GIBiz Game Changer ‘23
🌿 Plant based
linktr.ee/rtparty3
Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social I write tools and code for videogames!
Links and newsletter: https://yal.cc/links
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social I make bad games.
Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net BLIND GAMER | Creator/Host | Available for Accessibility Consulting | Twitch Ambassador | #AMDAmbassador | Future Class 2020 | Biz: steve@stevesaylor.net
stevesaylor.net/links
💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social Director of marketing & community teams. 14+yrs in game dev. VanCity🇨🇦
Previously: company of heroes, dawn of war, marvel contest of champions, transformers forged to fight, squad, starship troopers
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
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
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
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
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
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/
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social Speaker. Storyteller. Director @MountSinaiNYC, Philosopher. Writer. Aspiring Iron Man. Guy trying to make the world better. Views my own.
zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social a real good person in a real bad place
http://zaratustra.itch.io
Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social she/her | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Game dev/Pixel Art/3D
Made UNSIGHTED, working on ABYSS X ZERO: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2872300/ABYSS_X_ZERO/
Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social Writes about consumer tech at Ars Technica, formerly Wirecutter. Podcasts about books at Overdue and sometimes about TV at Appointment Television. Dad, D&D, organized labor. He/him. @arstechnica.bsky.social @overduepod.bsky.social
Signal: andrewwrites.25
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
Vinny Caravella @vinnycaravella.bsky.social Find me at https://nextlander.com
Shaun Mooney @mooneysart.bsky.social Concept guy, co founder of machinefun games - @machinefun.bsky.social
https://cara.app/mooney
Ann Brauer @annies330.bsky.social Making my original contemporary art quilts is my passion and my sanity as I try to piece together imaginary landscapes of time and space. www.etsy.com/shop/annbrauer
Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social Writer; voice of the baby T. rex from the lost world jurassic park | https://linktr.ee/audipenny | https://audipenny.substack.com
Mike Minotti @tolkoto.com Co-owner of Giant Bomb. I podcast! Game Mess Decides, Last of the Nintendogs, 90s Disney. I like Arby's and Mega Man. giantbomb.com/join profile pic by @mleelunsford.com
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
GKIDS Films @gkids.com In Theatres:
🐑 Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom – 9/18
🐺 PRINCESS MONONOKE – 9/26-30
🏯 SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage – 10/1 & 8
🔗 https://gkids.com/links/
Follow us @GKIDSfilms on other platforms!
Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
drop me a line: jriverawrites@proton.me
gblekkenhorst @gblekkenhorst.bsky.social does things with stuff. experimental narrative. course director of game design and prototyping and York University. master of portals. Renters Market game as @scaredcreature, blackmail your landlord. Open for work.
http://blekkenhorst.ca
Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social 🐰 Cartoonist, bunfriend, learnin the drums
📚 BABY-SITTERS CLUB 5-8
🪀FREESTYLE & FRESH START✈️
🦔 http://galesaur.com/quick-links/
🏳️🌈 they/them
next book: BSC Super Special! (Sept 2026)
Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social art; yet again. SORRY ABOUT THE EMAILS it's a lot & I'm v tired
buy things/other socials: https://linktr.ee/turndecassette
Toronto Games Week @torontogamesweek.com A celebration of playful arts and culture in the city of Toronto!
Toronto Games Week ran from June 11th-17th, 2026. Subscribe to our newsletter for info about #TGW27!
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Posts by @metroidcrime.com + staff.
Toronto, Canada
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social Prints available here: https://store.falseknees.com/
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.
Toronto Tempo @tempobasketball.bsky.social Set the pace. Change the game.
The WNBA in Canada.
https://linktr.ee/wnba_toronto
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social Microplastics, they’re fantastic. Content Director @ GLHF. Consultancy, mock reviews. Did some writing for a video game called The Axis Unseen.
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social "It's hard to say, it's sad but true, I'm kinda dumb and so are you."
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Sam.END.ICE.Machkovech @samred.com 1/3 dog, 1/3 arts+tech, 1/3 something something. You may have seen my reporting at: NYT, Polygon, Digital Foundry, The Stranger, Game Developer, Games Radar, Ars, American Airlines, The Atlantic, Wired, Dallas Morning News. He/him, from Seattle. Zero AI.
J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social My next book, FUN, hits Kickstarter Sept 22! Boop my bio link to get notified on launch day AND get a free glow-in-the-dark enamel pin!
🎉 mrlovensteinpresents.com
Geimu Chronicle @geimuchronicle.bsky.social HONEST reporting on games, gaming culture, video games, gaming, and the culture of games.
𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚎 🐊 @rosehammer.art perpetual dopamine machine
✰ art director/dev at @tempolab.games (Bits & Bops)
✰ animator at flying bark on Avatar Aang / Moon Girl / Rise of the TMNT / Monkie Kid
✰ opinions mine
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
Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social Official account for The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF)!
TCAF returns June 6-7, 2026 at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre.
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social my stuff:
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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social Game studio from Louisiana.
https://linktr.ee/geographyofrobots
✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social Screenwriter. A walking study in demonology. Film Student. Engineer. Cinephile. Astrophotographer. Anarchist. Monster Movie Maven. MUA. Mad Max Historian. Pug mother. Jeff VanderMeer stan. She/Her
🎥 https://www.patreon.com/ElizabethWalker
Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social Make me laugh and I’ll love you forever 👀
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vvlw2ggojhkpmivjzdcniuzr/feed/aaafyok6b2wuy
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐄 @funland.itch.io now you're playing with power / http://patreon.com/funlandmag / https://linktr.ee/funlandmag
Jackbox Games @jackboxgames.com Developer and publisher of YOU DON’T KNOW JACK®, Fibbage™, Quiplash, The Jackbox Naughty Pack, and The Jackbox Survey Scramble.
Connect with us: http://linktr.ee/jackboxgames
Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social Daily artists galleries, helpful animation references and tidbits + all latest updates & news from the “Character Design Challenge” community! 🎨
Shank @shankmods.bsky.social 
Denimcatfish @denimcatfish.bsky.social Kat here~ She/They 🏳️🌈* Character Layout Artist - Castlevania Nocturne, The Line, Titmouse, Wizz, Avatar Aang*🚫NFT/AI/TERFs
https://www.patreon.com/denimcatfish
denimcatfishart@gmail.com
🍉
Jess Conditt @jesslconditt.bsky.social I create boondoggle apology for the polite existence of a social opiate. [Engadget Senior Editor, video game beat] [she/her they/them]
🩷💜💙
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/jessica-conditt/ | https://www.jessconditt.com/
Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social she/her - writing, newsletter, RSS: https://dialedindie.net - gamedev interview podcast: https://dialedindie.captivate.fm/ - cohost of video game podcast @vgbees.com and music podcast K-YOS - Steam Curator: is it on itch? - icon by liizardemojii
Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com Comicbook Artist and Writer and Character Designer | They/Them
💬Comics: http://www.mleelunsford.com
✉️Contact: MLeeLunsfordArt(at)Gmail(dot)com
Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social Not here much! Toronto journalist, editor at @thelocal.to, reach me at inori@thelocal.to. she/her
Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca 3D illustrator & animator | OCAD Illustration 2024 | (Fill request form on http://Crisppyboat.ca for commission inquiries)
Brandon B. @drawbrandondraw.com Worked on some cartoons and made a few comics. Occasional 18+ content.
https://linktr.ee/drawbrandondraw
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social hey guys I’m here now. Comics comics comics
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social editor/writer. games, travel, theme parks, music, movies, etc. recently at Kotaku. writing the Moon College Football Weekends guide (2028), and writing about theme parks at https://easily-amused.beehiiv.com. ex-Paste, ex-AV Club, could be ex-your site too.
VoidBurger (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com Video/audio producer, former GiantBomb, current Twitch streamer/Youtuber/sometimes podcaster, future monster romance novelist. Big fan of skeletons.
she/her/they, bi, 'tistic, 🇺🇸➟🇫🇮 http://ko-fi.com/voidburger
Voidburger.com for a Linktree of stuff
Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social Toronto magazine writer and executive editor @thelocal.to. Here for smart long-form articles and dumb basketball posts. Email nick@thelocal.to
Moises Taveras @platanoranger.bsky.social 🇩🇴| he/him | www.underleveled.xyz | words @ kotaku, gamespot, av club, gamesradar, etc. | reachable ➡️ moises.taveras59@gmail.com
jae @jkap.gay former CEO of posting cohost.org | WACCA 🏳️🌈 2613 | icon by @feralroyal.bsky.social | opinions are someone else's, i'm just the messenger
also at:
https://jkap.io
https://xoxo.zone/@jkap
Aura @aurahack.ca artist + gamedev
she/her・💍 @lena.fyi
Vancouver, BC
EN/FR/JP
Art ➡ #myart
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Dawn of The Discs @dawnofthediscsnews.bsky.social A celebration of physical media.
Amazon Associate: commissions earned.
Jeb-Shaped Dollthing @namelesswrench.bsky.social They/Them, Allo-Aro
A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.
Disabled former journalist, now maybe a witch.
The only known Rotten Dollhart fan in captivity.
https://ko-fi.com/jebwrench
Charles Harte @chuckduck365.bsky.social Professional tall guy. Associate editor at @gameinformer.com. Contributor at MinnMax. Words at the Indie Informer. Private GM. Improv performer.
CAPCOM OFFICIAL／ARTWORKS Ⅱ @capcomart.bsky.social カプコンアートワークBluesky公式アカウントです。デザイン室時代から現在まで、イラストに関する活動情報、アーカイブネタをお届けします。※ご返信はできませんのでご了承ください。 Hello there! This is the official account of the Capcom Artwork Team.
Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere.
Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Derek Stone @heyderekstone.bsky.social Video games, wrestling, financial reports
Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social Expert in horror and video games
Making video essays and livestreaming
Master's Degree in Media and Culture
business inquiries: jenna.stoeber (at) gmail (dot) com
pronounced stee-bur, she/her
www.JennaStoeber.com
Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca Game history, programming, nonsense.
Multimedia blog: https://cdrom.ca
Pen to Pixels @pentopixels.com Game reviews, features, and more.
xenia hospitality princess @m01r4.bsky.social hi im walt whitman and this is jackass
https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
The Beguiling @thebeguiling.bsky.social 35 years of comics, manga, graphic novels & high-art funny books | Original art |
Asher @skydome.bsky.social @eephusasher and @urban_asher combined into one great taste. Hiding here as the world crumbles around us.
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
Palette Swap @paletteswap.site The true colors of gaming & entertainment news. // Gaming and entertainment news of a different color.
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