Ben-Gurion University of the Negev @bengurionuniv.bsky.social 
André Almo @andrealmo.bsky.social Scientist interested in communication, art, games and education. 👻👾 | He/Him. | Art account: @almoghost.bsky.social
Taoyue Wang @taoyue.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne | 🎮Game Studies | 🍦Cultural Studies | 🍎Architecture | 🍍Science and Technology Studies
Some1onearth @some1onearth.bsky.social Wannabe Game Dev
He/Any
Mogagazuborosokusaremagurobaromi
Buru and The Old People | Wishlist on Steam @buruthegame.bsky.social An upcoming, short narrative adventure game 🌳 Explore the hand-drawn world 💬 chat with quirky locals 🎲 encounter D&D inspired mini-games.
💌 https://buruthegame.beehiiv.com/subscribe
🔗 https://linktr.ee/buruthegame
📫 buruthegame@gmail.com
@duncancorrigan.bsky.social @duncancorrigan.bsky.social 
IGDA Sydney @igdasydney.bsky.social A Sydney game development community. We run #BeerAndPixels every second Tuesday of the month!
Click here for all our channels: https://linktr.ee/igda_sydney
@ericaroyle.bsky.social @ericaroyle.bsky.social makes games sometimes
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
reymira | game dev 🎮 @reymira.bsky.social for someone who doesn't play cute games, i sure make a lot of them
she/they/he | game programmer | sydney
https://reymira.itch.io/
thea @tyaisco.bsky.social artist & game dev making REAPRIEVE at @10pmclub.bsky.social
Koder @koder.au https://koder.au
games, art, tech, etc
he/they
Kate Clark @kateeuph.bsky.social Researcher on new media and immersive reality technologies 👩💻🎮 exploring the relationship between gender, inclusion, and new media
Founding member of the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research network (cavrn.org)
she/her
Pete from Fuzzy Ghost 🔜 MIGW @fuzzyg.host IGF Nominated, Freeplay & AGDA winning, queer game making duo based on Turrbal and Jagera Land - Brisbane. 🏳️🌈
Freeplay board member
linktr.ee/_fuzzyghost_
Kaveh Tabar @kavehth.bsky.social 
cécile @haraiva.bsky.social 🌞 working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
Ben Turner @bananaben.bsky.social Game Dev? , Event organiser?
Prev. Lumber Punks, Freeplay Festival, Contours Exhibition
Naarm(Melb), Australia (he/him)
andy @gleeson.dev a melbourne gamedev
> gleeson.itch.io
brandonhare the cool and neat @brandonhare.com hello
website - https://brandonhare.com/
games - https://brandonhare.itch.io/
twitter - https://twitter.com/double_bucket_
google - https://google.com/
he/him/hello
Amy PJ 🌺 @hellomisspotter.com video games + marketing + probably photos of my dog 👩🏼💻 the @FrostyGamesFest.com girl 🍦 ✧* kiwi in sydney *✧ she/her
REAPRIEVE GAME 🦋 @10pmclub.bsky.social Reaprieve is an existential puzzle game about a desperate office worker at a memory collection company between life and death.
Currently in pre-production. Follow for updates! https://linktr.ee/10pmclub
StormCat - Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social Just your average 23 year old conspiring game developer.
https://stormcatgames.com/
Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3332770/WIZARD_PUNKS/
Go to Asymptotes:
https://asymptotes.au/
leura 🐭 @smitleu.bsky.social hi it’s leura 🦭 im making an architecture game called…. canvas street!!!! please wait in eager anticipation!!
I don’t wanna verify my age so you can email me if you want :)
leura@apartment809.com
jae @ equip canberra games, alt: games, beyond the script @jemztones.bsky.social games, film, queer culture. gamedev from lutruwita.
@serenade.games co-founder
prev games include the freeplay zone and my lil fanfic
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. Kaboom! Bucket Brigade member since 1982.
ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social 🪷just here for attention🪷 making games.
just a mibabo @mibaboh.bsky.social The other half of NoMouth Studio's shared unmyelinated axon
Indie Game Developer :)
𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘴 → @nomouthstudio.bsky.social
https://www.nomouth.studio
Currently Looping: Milk, Mili
Jasumi @jasumi.bsky.social Indie Game Designer @NoMouthStudios
Occasionally playing games as @natsujasumi on twitch
NoMouth Studio @nomouthstudio.bsky.social @jasumi.bsky.social and @mibaboh.bsky.social's unmyelinated axon.
we make games with an emphasis on gesture.
developers of OWSU1! (2025 alt.ctrl.GDC Finalist)
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Daniel Mullins @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Indie game developer who made Pony Island, The Hex, and Inscryption. Currently working on Pony Island 2: Panda Circus!
Joel from video games @walistudios.au 🐉 Wishlist Wyrmspace 🌌 Tactics today!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122350/Wyrmspace_Tactics/
[-o-] Always was, always will be
💾 Co-founder and Game Design lead @ Wali Studios
❤️🔥 Freeplay board member
🃏Certified card game freak
RetroAchievements @retroachievements.org A zero-profit community. Achievements made by and for the community.
https://retroachievements.org/
http://docs.retroachievements.org
We also have a Discord server:
http://discord.gg/retroachievements
clam @clam-meditation.bsky.social 22. she/her. jewish artist, game dev, and court jester. sometimes i stream.
stream schedule: mondays and wednesdays at 4PM EST (for now)
erix verkaaik @oddhours.bsky.social (they/them) • researching gamemaking communities • co-organiser of Squiggly River • occasional gamemaker • https://odd-hours.net/ • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Dan Carlin @dancarlin.bsky.social Host of Hardcore History. I do other stuff too. Find our (free) irregularity updated newsletter at https://dancarlin.substack.com
Website: www.dancarlin.com
MFWitches @mfwitches.bsky.social Avoid if scared of sweary women, politics & feminism. We run consumer boycotts to stop toxic media (#MurdochFreeWorld, #VileKyle etc). See website at mfw.org.au & let's go.
Jonathan @jonathanelv.bsky.social He/him. Enjoyer of video games, music, food, comedy, horror, improv and other things of the silly and beautiful nature.
Chopped dad @jamescoyne.bsky.social An educated fool with bacon on my mind.
Sasha Soraine @sashasoraine.bsky.social HCI and Games Researcher. Postdoc @ UniMelb. Software Engineering PhD
Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
liminalzero @liminalzero.bsky.social Developing Cow Chess
( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3444110/Cow_Chess/ )
and a Game Development teacher
Sydney, Australia🦘
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
Jess Rowlings @jessrowlings.bsky.social Next Level Collaboration CEO & Co-Founder | UniMelb Researcher/PhD student
AuDHD neurodiversity advocate | Video game enthusiast
Games are for everyone! 🎮
Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social Digital Game Literacies - Critical Pedagogies - English Language Arts - Youth Literacies - Critical EdTech - Postdigital research. The University of Melbourne.
Matthew Harrison @hattdesigns.bsky.social 🔬🎮🧠 Associate Professor/researcher #neurodiversity #digital games-based learning & Co-lead Neurodiversity Project @UniMelb (https://www.unimelb.edu.au/neurodiversity). Co-founder Next Level Collaboration (https://nextlevelcollaboration.com)
@lucyamsparrow.bsky.social @lucyamsparrow.bsky.social 
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb 🏫 | Game Studies Scholar 🎮 | Deputy Director of MAGPIE 🐦⬛| DiGRAA Board Member 🌏 | Checkpoint Critic & Writer ✍️ | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/cbarkman
MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social MAGPIE (Melbourne Academic Games, Play and Interactive Entertainment) is an interdisciplinary games research initiative at The University of Melbourne, launched in 2024.
www.linktree.com/magpiegamesresearch
Rainbowmon of the Care-monic Spirits @rainbowmon.bsky.social Just a Care-mon who loves video games and animation. 🚫Racists/anti-LGBTQ+/other bigots *NOT WELCOME*🚫 He/him
Zander Hulme ~♪ @zander.supertonic.au Award-winning noisemaker for games • dad • director of @Supertonic.au • bi 💖💜💙🏳️🌈 • (he/him) • Meanjin/Brisbane
dinopoke @dinopoke.bsky.social hello i am an idiot
Serenade @serenade.games We put on alternative games events!
Next: ???
Prev: FORM, Tangents @ Sabby ALT: EX @ Powerhouse ALT: GAMES, #gameaweeksyd2025, Serenade Showcase @ #SXSW Sydney 2023, Games Spaces for Static Vision, Ink Jam Sabby https://serenade.games
Leonie @leonieyue.bsky.social Character illustrator & low energy autistic hermit ❦ she/her
❧ Artist @ Hipster Whale
❧ about me & email http://leonieyue.com/about
❧ https://blog.leonieyue.com/
❦ studies, fanart, designs, rambles
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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