Acceptable Risk Studios @acceptablerisk.bsky.social 
Keith @keithmilburn.bsky.social he/him
reviews @ yeahnahgaming.co.nz (other places too)
damn
demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social they / them
supposedly in possession of pretty handwriting
award-winning toy maker โฆ digital humanist
luddite
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. ๐Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Zander Hulme ~โช @zander.supertonic.au Award-winning noisemaker for games โข dad โข director of @Supertonic.au โข bi ๐๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โข (he/him) โข Meanjin/Brisbane
Alexander Swords @alexanderswords.bsky.social Playful storyteller. Engaging educator. Maker of games both serious and not. Working on Totem Teller and other unannounced things.
They/them
alexanderswords.com
CONTINUE? Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
www.continuemagazine.com
NZ Games Festival @nzgamesfest.bsky.social New Zealand's very own celebration of gaming, for all ages โจ 2026 NZ Games Festival starts from May 1 - 13! ๐
Tickets on sale now! | tinyurl.com/NZGF-Tickets2026
Our website! | www.nzgamesfest.com
Calliope Ryder @callioperyder.bsky.social Made that hobbit game.
Gamedev, Producer, Artist, PR
On some neat lists (hi ma!)
Now: game analytics platform director @ GYLD. Resident cozy-game-expert @ Dragon Snacks.
Prev: Lead Producer on Tales of the Shire @ Wฤtฤ Workshop, Gamerunner @Starcolt
Killing Things With Your Friends @ktwyfgame.bsky.social A co-op game about survival, dark humour, and dismemberment.
Tear off body parts, work as a team, and navigate randomised clinical trials for profit.
Wishlist now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3675340/Killing_Things_With_Your_Friends/
Cold Salvage - A Multiplayer Horror Game @coldsalvage.com https://store.steampowered.com/app/2368320/Cold_Salvage/
Cold Salvage is a horror co-op game set aboard abandoned wrecks. They drift through the void of space, but they are not safe - something lurks within. Explore. Repair. Survive
From @bunguin.games
Apothecurse ๐ฆ Wishlist now! @lesserkeystudios.bsky.social Otepoti Dunedin based๐๐บ
Indie game dev studio ๐น๐พ
Check out our links below! โฌ๏ธ
linktr.ee/apothecurse ๐
WISHLIST GO PHISH ON STEAM | Cosmic Soup Games @cosmicsoupgames.com distributed video game studio from aotearoa / new zealand
WISHLIST GO PHISH ON STEAM NOW: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3909150/GO_PHISH/
JOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8KxSYJ4AUp
Ninja Kiwi Games @ninjakiwigames.bsky.social Game dev and creators of Bloons TD 6, Bloons TD Battles, Bloons Card Storm, and SAS Zombie Assault 4.
More Awesomer.
Discord: http://discord.gg/ninjakiwi
Alec Shea @alecshea.com Composer, voice actor/director and sound designer for games and animation! Also do improv. ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK!
Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz Dean Walshe:
3D Art lead on Wild Bastards and Void Bastards
Past games I have worked on include Stellar Warsy things and the Borderlands Interquel doodad.
https://deanw.xyz/
(He/Him)
DwarfHold: Tokens & Towers @wearejonk.bsky.social A Dwarven village builder and tower defence!
Wishlist on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3686880/DwarfHold_Tokens__Towers/
Guardian Maia @guardianmaia.bsky.social Guardian Maia is a Mฤori sci-fi story set 300 years into the future. It follows Maia, a young warrior, as she battles ancient powers, faces a poisoned world, and fights to protect her people.
Deep Field @deepfieldgames.bsky.social Making co-op games in the cosmic dark; creators of Abiotic Factor, Unfortunate Spacemen and new things beyond.
www.deepfield.games
Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool ๐๐๐ฑ
https://yarnspinner.dev โข http://discord.gg/yarnspinner โข Human-Made
SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net Solemnly sworn to make weird games | slumps.net
linktr.ee/slumpscreative
Game Informer @gameinformer.com Over 30 years celebrating the best of games in print and online.
Follow our work: GameInformer.com
pantaloon | OFFBEAT OUT NOW ๐ @pantaloon.io Game label and home for misfits.
Get bold and bizarre #indiegames to your inbox every month๐
www.pantaloon.io
Follow on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Pantaloon?action=follow
Brews & Bastards | Happy Hour Update OUT NOW! @brewsandbastards.bsky.social An intoxicating dungeon crawler, overflowing with action-packed combat, potent brews and outlandish bosses. Coming to Xbox and PC | Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2556240/Brews__Bastards/ | Discord: discord.gg/2vjFq3ZxBb
shannon//cannon @majorarlene.net a girl at the bottom of the world | crash test dummy (QA) | screams for games (VA) | memelord in chief for Hellforge Studios | LD/VA Project Absentia | opinions = mine | https://majorarlene.carrd.co/
PlanetSmith | Wishlist on Steam! @planetsmith.bsky.social Open world survival crafting game set on spherical voxel planets! Craft tools, expand your base, defeat bosses, build your spaceship and explore the solar system!
Wishlist Now!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2539340/PlanetSmith/
Karl @alleyrock.bsky.social Solo dad to three awesome boys & NZ indie game creator.
www.alleyrockgames.com
๐ค Little Robo Climber
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761028873?mt=12
๐งฉ Radical Moves - Tiles of Rage
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761696465?mt=12
Funk Games @funkgames.bsky.social Web: https://funk.games
Discord: https://discord.gg/xNXXdpcNEE
Sludgineers Demo: https://funk.games/sludgedm
Blades, Bows & Magic: https://funk.games/stbbm
Interactive Tragedy, Limited @interactivetragedy.com A small, sad studio in Wellington, NZ
Nick @smallsmallfriend.bsky.social Independent music, independent games, independent samples ๐ณ๐ฟ
Steve Gallagher @stevegallagher.bsky.social Behavioural Scientist by training. Senior Lecturer @Otago - Digital Health and Health Education including immersive technologies and AI.
Music, food, games, dogs. Maybe some academic stuff. Personal opinions.
Stormcloak Games @stormcloak.games Developers of http://adaptorygame.com, an upcoming base-building survival game! Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa โก https://store.steampowered.com/app/2201620/Adaptory/
Dylan Blight @dylanblight.com Founder/EIC โข Writer โข Podcaster @explosionnetwork.com๐ฅ | Inquires/Pitches: dylan@explosionnetwork.com | He/Him | Brat | Australia, TAS
Abiotic Factor @abioticfactor.com Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the worldโs greatest minds must craft ... and survive!
abioticfactor.com
Outi Kaarina Laiti @outi.bsky.social Senior research fellow at University of Helsinki Indigenous studies. Samigamejammer and Ethnoprogrammer.
Andrew Jack @andrewjack.bsky.social Game dev, writer and vo in Aotearoa New Zealand. 
Wishlist NIGHT PLANE! ๐ฑโ๏ธ @liquidstatic.bsky.social A lucky lil team making cool stuff ๐
โ๏ธ Wishlist NIGHT PLANE now! bit.ly/NightPlane
๐ Play NIGHT BUS on Steam! bit.ly/NightBusSteam
Other links: linktr.ee/liquidstaticstudio
Little Projecta Studio @littleprojecta.com Art, VFX and Game Development
Find Lars at @lars.littleprojecta.com
Jason Imms @jasonimms.bsky.social Product Manager at a place to be disclosed later | Founder and board member of Tas Game Makers | Former Freeplay board member | Recovering games journalist | peoplemaking.games/@jasonimms | He/Him
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
Lewis Speller @dysonism.lol Partner Development Manager @PlayStation - tell me about your game! ๐ฎ
๐ Chelsea FC โญโญ
Posts my own opinion etc. He/him.
Explosion Network | Pop Culture, Gaming, Movies, TV & More @explosionnetwork.com Australian pop culture & gaming news site
๐ฎ Games โข ๐ฌ Movies โข ๐บ TV โข ๐ฅ More
๐ Podcasts, reviews & opinions
| mail@explosionnetwork.com | Shared links may be affiliate.
Ashley Hobley @ashleyhobley.bsky.social Executive Editor for @explosionnetwork | Host of #WDYWW and All-New Marvel Cast | Arcade Couch Ashley on Arcade Couch | He/Him
Cam @camrogerslegal.bsky.social Lawducer or Prodawyer. I can never remember which..
Trans Rights are human rights.
Pro-Feminist โ
I help people make cool things.๐ฏ
Buddy Frost @buddyfrost.bsky.social Game designer at Frost Flame Games. (he/any)
stevi ๐ต๐ธ @itsstevi.bsky.social a wildly ambitious, occasionally incompetent must-play. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ฟ senior editor f(r)iction, illustrator, advocate. sir julius vogel finalist. gamedev: burger bois, amarantus, if not us.
๐ค๐คโค๏ธ
Shaun Hammond @idiot.bsky.social UI man
Wishlist my latest: avs03.com
Did:
Itโs Only Money - Usual Suspects
Icarus/Stationeers/Out of Ammo - Rocketwerkz
Made the logo for New Blood
Portfolio: iisshaun.com
Francis Kirkpatrick @frakirk.bsky.social Co-founder of @LiquidStatic.bsky.social
I'm a game designer with a lot of tech art experience and a software engineering degree, so uuhhh I'm a technical designer I guess?
Living in Aotearoa.
He/him
Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social Design Director / CEO of Deep Field Games ๐
Lead on Abiotic Factor ๐จโ๐ฌ abioticfactor.com
Lead on ๐ซ๏ธ
Creator, Designer, Writer of Unfortunate Spacemen ๐งโ๐
Located south of south ๐ณ๐ฟ
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngฤi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
Pedro Klein @pedroklein.bsky.social Technical Artist and Game Designer
Co-founder of @liquidstatic.bsky.social
NIGHT BUS on Steam!
โจChantelle Coleโจ @chanticole.bsky.social Game Development Sector Rebate Programme Director for NZ on Air | Former CEO at Dinosaur Polo Club | Former Board Member, Treasurer, and Sponsorship Director at NZ Games Festival | she/her
David Mason @davidmasoncomposer.bsky.social Classical and Game Music Composer. Sound Designer/Sonic Artist. Filter Brew Enthusiast.
[LOOKING FOR NEW WORK!]
Email: davidmasoncomposer@gmail.com
๐ผ DREDGE, Penguin Colony, Life Eater, Denari, Truck-kun, CRDM3
๐ I Am Your Beast, TMNT: Tactical Takedown
Zac Watson @itsmisterzac.bsky.social Lecturer @ MDS NZ .
Software Engineer / Designer.
Views here are my own. He/Him.
NZ Game Developers Association @nzgda.bsky.social Supporting & developing the Aotearoa video games industry since 2001.
https://linktr.ee/nzgda
Shape Sender Deluxe โญ๏ธ by Dead Teapot @deadteapot.games Aotearoa, New Zealand-based studio making Shape Sender Deluxe!
๐ก ๐ง โญ๏ธ
โญ๏ธ Wishlist here โญ๏ธ s.team/a/2976470
Josh Kโจ @blametherobot.bsky.social Mฤori Content Creator || Senior Community Manager
@PikPokGames
Robots Make Games @robotsmakegames.bsky.social Scuffed and unhinged two person Kiwi indie game studio. Making our first horror game: The Poacher. Posts by Karyn (phaiakia) (she/her). The professional one? And Fin (he/him). The argumentative one.
www.robotsmakegames.com
IndieDevAndy @indiedevandy.bsky.social Kiwi Game developer at @tacturnalgames.bsky.social ๐จโ๐ป|| Engineering fabricator ๐จโ๐ญ๐ฅ
Working on an unannounced Turn-Based RPG with Rogue-Lite elements.
Jonathan does UI @jcaridia.bsky.social Games UI artist and cat enjoyer from New Zealand. You can check my stuff here: https://jonathancaridia.com
Cameron Rooney @keyblademastercam.bsky.social NZ Game Developer ๐ณ๐ฟ | Programmer, Gamer, Father | Portfolio: theusualcam.wixsite.com/cameron-rooney | All you need is a little Heart โค๏ธ | 7.8.20
Rachel Maggie Anning @racreate.bsky.social Kiwi, genX, creative, designer, songwriter, rugby fan, surf/skate/horses, learning Spanish and always wanting to do some good in this crazy world. Childfree. Living in Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) lands, Sunny Coast. Solidarity w/ all First Nations people.
Jarrod Farquhar-Nicol (he/him) @jarrodfn.bsky.social ๐ I'm Jarrod. I run events, help Aussie game devs and make games on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra
๐ฎ President @canberra.games
๐ป Games Admin screencanberra.com.au
๐ญ Creative Director anecdotegames.com
๐ฒ Designer paperkeygames.itch.io
linktr.ee/jarrodfn
Auckland Makes Games ๐ฎ @aucklandmakes.games AMG is a community organisation creating spaces for Auckland game developers to network, socialize, and grow.
Website โ๏ธ https://aucklandmakes.games/
amila @amilanuh.bsky.social currently working on THE bus game ๐ a competitive board game about riding the bus. background in game ui/ux design and production. really enjoy cooking veggies!!!!!! and organizing events at @aucklandmakes.games
https://www.amilanuhodzic.com/
Skull Issue @gothpink.bsky.social Keeper of useful sarcasms. Spooky Gamedev Doll.
Currently making Southwoods, a surreal co-op horror game.
Also building the Revenant game with @luigiyagami.bsky.social and friends.
Give me your money: https://ko-fi.com/skull_issue
Burger Bois | Mischief Makers Studio @mischiefmakers.studio We're a scrappy indie team from Aotearoa making games that tingle the brain and tickle the weenus - like Burger Bois! ๐
http://wishlist.burgerboisgame.com/
#cozygame #cookinggame #wholesomegame
Callum Uwunderwood @callum.uwu.biz Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive๐
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
Frosty Games ๐ฆ @frostygamesfest.com Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ ๐ฆ๐ฎ Join the Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! ๐ https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social ๐ค๐ฝ
Luis Van Slageren @luisvsm.bsky.social All of the Indie Multiplayer hats / Technically Games / Spies & Soldiers / Naarm & Bulleke-bek based ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Amy Potter-Jarman ๐บ @hellomisspotter.com games + marketing + my dog ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ป the @FrostyGamesFest.com girl ๐ฎ join my lil indie games club: @pixelexplorersclub.bsky.social โง* kiwi in sydney *โง she/her
ben @avgceleryman.bsky.social ๐ณ๐ฟ country bumpkin turned unity game developer & 2024 otago polytech bdes(com) graduate
currently obsessed with astroneer (again)
https://benmead.carrd.co/
GG Studio, Indie Dev๐ฒ Cheat Death Demo is on Steam @ggstudio.bsky.social Cheat Death. Roguelite + dice poker + horror: Every roll can save you or end your run (Slay the Spire meets Inscryption)
store.steampowered.com/app/3756340/
Indie Arena Booth @indiearenabooth.de The world's largest Indie exhibition aiming to generate visibility and opportunities for Indie devs from around the globe! โจ
Submissions for the EU showcase at POLARIS 2026 are open!
Valentina Birke @violencia.bsky.social She/her
Director Indie Arena Booth.
Selection committee WINGS.
I'm funnier than you.
Abe Foster @heartandnoise.bsky.social UK-based Kiwi and Freelance Video Games PR Manager
Working w/ Game Drive: abe(at)game-drive(dot)nl
Prev: Team17, Kalypso Media, Ninja Kiwi
RJducats @rjducats.bsky.social Game Artist based in New Zealand. ๐ฟNo AI
3D Props and Environments! I love making cosy warm art but I adore all kinds of art ๐
n00begon @n00begon.com Hi I'm Tim. I love creating things, learning and teaching. I am fascinated by how things are connected and the cogs behind the scenes.
You can check out some of the games I have made at https://n00begon.com/
Oli Potter @olipotter.bsky.social indev & games at @screentasmania.bsky.social. opinions infrequent but still not reflective of employer. he/him ๐ผ
Carl Leducq @carlleducq.bsky.social Father | Producer at Cerebral Fix | Chairperson NZGDA | Prev. Futureverse Rocketwerkz WetaWorkshop Gameloft | Speaker
Rhys Elliott @superhys.bsky.social Head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics.
Ex-Newzoo & Nielsen. Analysis in IGN, BBC, Giant Bomb, The Guardian, GameSpot, GIBiz and more.
Lives on a canal in the Netherlands, but spends most of the time looking at screens instead.
Very Welsh.
@kiwijagz.bsky.social @kiwijagz.bsky.social 
Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social Runaway is an independent game developer based in ลtepoti, New Zealand. We make beautiful games inspired by the natural world. ๐ฆ
โ๏ธ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/3arvau5S4g
www.runawayplay.com
Fantail Games @fantailgames.bsky.social 
SlipperyMoa @slipperymoa.bsky.social Kiwi in Europe | Game developer working on Planetary Prospectors, a survival-crafting game that takes you across the solar system.
https://linktr.ee/h32interactive
Stitchedink @stchdink.bsky.social || Shhhh, if it hears us, it will consume us ||
Art Director on Denari: @astrodiaries.bsky.social
Hooded Horse @hoodedhorse.bsky.social Publisher of Manor Lords, Against the Storm, Norland, Workers & Resources, 9 Kings, and other great strategic and tactical games.
Our store page: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HoodedHorse
Erekose Watson @erekose.bsky.social Video game developer and co-founder at Mune Studio. Working on a Tavern themed dungeon crawler called Brews And Bastards - @brewsandbastards.bsky.social
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)
@flamdod.bsky.social @flamdod.bsky.social 
Jevon Wright ๐๐ @soundasleep.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Making #Adaptory at @stormcloak! Brand new mum โค๏ธ. Plays musicals ๐ธ๐ฅ. she/her
๐ bridged from โ https://mastodon.social/@soundasleep, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
meredith ๐โโ๏ธ @merryh.bsky.social ๐๐ป hello!
๐ฆ head of marketing @wingsfund.me
๐ bizdev & production consultant
๐ ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
๐ข cofounder @accessunlockanz
๐ curator for @indiedigest.dev
๐ฆ she/her
๐ฎ merryh.dev
Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social Accessibility specialist, helping studios avoid excluding disabled players. DMs are open, if you prefer email i_h@hotmail.com
Gerrard ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ค๐ฑ @brknfixie.bsky.social Crossword streamer, doggy daddy
Also making wordy puzzle game Spelly Cat
In early access on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445350/Spelly_Cat/
twitch.tv/brknfixie
Anthony Richards | Sound Designer @anthonyaudio.bsky.social Sound Designer for Video Games based in ลtautahi, NZ ๐ฎ๐
Baby bath temperature expert and sleep deprivation connoisseur ๐ค
Worked with: Fluyo, CerebralFix, Tiny Kiwi, Chaos Theory, and more
Website/Portfolio:
www.anthonyrichardsaudio.com
๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฟ + ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ต๐จ๐ฐ
Alex.b @aloxbii.bsky.social they/them | nz gamedev | prev: cfix | outside of work: untitled spooky mystery rhythm game | other interests lie in music, VA+animation, and bad horror cinema โจ
Fnife Games @fnifegames.bsky.social ๐ ลtautahi indies making queer narrative games: Small Town Emo (Gay GameBoy Walking Simulator) & ShelfLife: Art School Detective (Mystery Adventure Dating Sim)
sniff us at fnifegames.com
Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant @thousandtonic.com Kiwi indie game development studio: Thousand Tonic
Our current project: Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1157900/Ten_Thousand_Coins_The_Golden_Merchant/
https://thousandtonic.com
David Smith @rhunwords.com Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords