jootdev @jttieu.bsky.social game dev - making 1 game a month in 2026
https://jootdev.itch.io/
David Zhu (Gundarm12) @yuevid.bsky.social I am an animator (Based in Toronto), I mostly post my fan artworks here, I am also currently looking for work, contact me at davidydzhu@gmail.com
Website: www.davidzhuanimation.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@gundarm12
Vanessa Chia @caravandetta.bsky.social Producer / Director at Cococucumber 🎮🍁✨
13AM Games | Wishlist Dungeon Lurker on Steam! @13amgames.com Indie game studio based out of Toronto! Makers of Runbow, Double Cross, Dawn of the Monsters, and Dungeon Lurker ⚔️
Discord: http://bit.ly/32mzKp5
Cococucumber @cococucumber.bsky.social Echo Generation 2 is Available Now on Steam and Xbox! ✌️ Toronto-based indie studio, creators of Ravenlok, Echo Generation, Riverbond + more! 🎮❤️
Heather Jackson @hjacksonwrites.bsky.social Full-Time Game Writer / Part-Time Trampoline Coach / All-Weather Cyclist
Narrative Director @bloomdigital.bsky.social
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
Gabby DaRienzo @gabbydarienzo.com game developer / artist
gabbydarienzo.com
Ben Gelinas @bengelinas.bsky.social I tell characters in video games what to do! Senior Writer on Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. My weird indie Times & Galaxy is out now on all platforms! Other writing/editing credits include Dragon Ages, Mass Effects, Gotham Knights, and Controls.
Alex Zandra @zandravandra.com light novel author, streamer, artist, game designer, public speaker • turning people into catgirls • I miss cohost a lot
she/her 🏳️⚧️
zandravandra.com
· SK JYNX · @sk-jynx.bsky.social Technical Audio Designer @softrainsgames🎧 Prev: Beans // @DevolverDigital || @DisruptiveGames || VTuber 2D/3D Artist || He/him || GameDev 🎮 || Chinese🍁
https://twitter.com/SK_Jynx
Hanner @gangsthannah.bsky.social Producer @ Big Fan Game & Good Shepherd Ent. Ex QA Extraordinaire on BG3, DOS2, etc
Divine Hag of the Ashes
She/Her
Wear a mask, Covid is an ongoing mass disabling event
Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social Podcaster/cultural consultant/game designer | @aznsrepresent.bsky.social & @JohnWhoPodcast.bsky.social | CandleKeep Mysteries, The Dragons of D&D, Dragon Delves, Avatar Legends, Dark Archive, Tian Xia, Ross Rifles | Opinions mine | danielhkwan.carrd.co
bren @buhren.bsky.social I like to make stuff and play 3rd strike
🌈he/they
Neonhorn @neonhorn.bsky.social 3D Artist
Early 30's They/Them
Tumblr: Neonhorn
Twitter: Neonhorn
back yard @backyard321.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/backyard321
Miko @mikosramek.bsky.social | web dev
| they / them
| 한국어를 배우고 있어요
| Warhammer; MTG; One Piece
Lightning Rod Games @lightningrod.bsky.social Cute, thoughtful, and creative describes both our team and our games.
mr boyfriend/ colton @mrboyfriend666.bsky.social Writer at Lo-Fi Games ~ Kenshi 2 | writer/programmer at Bad Pet | he/him | pfp by @shutteye
i am lord of all that is colton
Chris Cowger @bigdumbobject.bsky.social Lead Zombies Gameplay Designer, Treyarch
Prev SDS, Ubisoft, Volition, ZOS, CCP
I only speak for myself. Poorly.
Brook Jensen @brwarner.bsky.social Game designer and tenant organizer with the New West Tenants Union. Writing a game about how you can't blame your poor boundary setting on your cybernetic superpowers.
BountyXSnipe @bountyxsnipe.bsky.social I'm an indie game dev and pixel artist who loves cute characters! Creator of RoA Amber mod.
(🎂 April 11)
https://bountyxsnipe.carrd.co/
Duncan Botwood (he/him) @oldwulf.bsky.social Videogame developer of 31 years, member of original GoldenEye team, chronic nerd
Black Lives Matter / Trans rights are human rights
Reece Themen @sinistercid.bsky.social Master of Polygons at Mangledmaw and partially responsible for unleashing amanda the adventurer into the world, oops
Ex-Beans
Rob Colonico @robcolonico.com Lead Game Designer at SEGA. Previously UNSEEN and Ubisoft. Worked on KEMURI, the Splinter Cell remake, Far Cry 6, and Starlink: Battle for Atlas.
www.robcolonico.com
egg boy color @eggboycolor.bsky.social Hi, I'm Andy! I make pixels, cute games, and NES/GBC homebrew. Let's be friends! they/them
Ash K @cisash.bsky.social making games / recreational software / multimedia art
t4t ravegirl she/it
Klayton 🇨🇦 @klaytronic.bsky.social he/him. Designer & programmer for games! TTRPGS. INFP.
Alexis Young @cloudyning.bsky.social 🌸 Book Illustrator & 2D Artist
🌸 Chinese-Filipino Canadian | She/her | alexisyoungart@gmail.com
🌸 http://linktr.ee/cloudyning
Gamma Space @gammaspace.bsky.social We are a cooperative studio of game developers, artists, and creative technologists dedicated to exploring community-led flows of individual and collective support.
www.gammaspace.ca
Toronto Game Jam @torontogamejam.bsky.social TOJam 2026 happening May 8th-10th! Registration IS OPEN: forms.gle/ww1ExuCGpEQvrZUm7
TOJam 2025 - See the games here: https://itch.io/jam/tojam2025
Jim Squires @jimmycanuck.bsky.social Chief Strategy Officer, Commodore
Keely (Chicken Scratch) @keely-brown.bsky.social Game Dev from Canada working on a chicken game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2267230/Chicken_Scratch/
Spencer Harrill @spencer-h.bsky.social Game Designer working on things in the AAA space
Opinions/posts are mine and dont represent the views of any large conglomerates of people
Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social Game Dev | Senior Programmer
• Working on www.Scaravan66.com
• Marvel’s Deadpool VR
• Dwarrows
• Psychonauts 2
• Horizon (4X)
• Cel Damage HD (Switch)
Co-founder & Technical Lead
Lithic Entertainment Inc.
https://www.lithicentertainment.com
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social
Jordan Sparks @supersparkplug.bsky.social Black Multimedia Artist, Designer, Educator. MA, BFA
Former Games Professor
President of Shining Spark Entertainment
Friendly Neighbourhood Sparky-Man
How have you saved the world today?
Portfolio: https://GrindSpark.com
#Artist | #GameDev | #Education
Talarian @talarian.bsky.social Technical Director;
Former Senior Programmer on Phobies; Former Lead Programmer on Eon Altar; Canadian back from America; He/Him
Sebastian Scaini @sebastianscaini.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at Gearbox Studio Quebec.
Worked on Borderlands 3, Borderlands 4, and A Buttload of Free Games!
https://sebastianscaini.com
Seamus 👾 @seamusly.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🇻🇳 he/him
💻 portfolio: seamusly.carrd.co
#️⃣ posts: #seamusmakesgames
🎨 pfp @jellipopi.bsky.social, banner https://linktr.ee/vqmpunk
Mary Arroz @maryarroz.bsky.social Writer + Narrative Designer | Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution | Invincible Presents: Atom Eve | Prev: The Beans Team (Game + Narrative Designer) ♡ She/Her 🏳️🌈 (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
Eleanor C @eljchan1221.bsky.social Senior Game Designer @ A9 Interactive | Prev: Peculiar Path, Brass Lion Entertainment, Ubisoft | She/Her | I like weird bugs | Hanging in there
Mack. @macktimus.bsky.social Lead and/or Senior Game Designer. Dabbling in stuff on the side. (he/him)
Ian Campbell @bootdiskrev.bsky.social Game designer: Nobody Saves the World, Guacamelee! 2, Bleed 1+2, and more!
Cycling and light gun enthusiast.
Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social Steven from Lightning Rod Games. I’m mostly trying to add games industry mutuals right now. Toronto 🇨🇦
Kaitlin @kaitlinms.bsky.social 🌙 Knitting, sewing, FFXIVing by moonlight
☀️ Producing games @capygames.bsky.social by daylight
🇨🇦
EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social Dad. Making Game Boy games: Roguecraft GB, OutRun GB, Cave Dave, Hero GP, Starseed, Block Droppin, Word Forward + more.
I will pet your dog!
Indigo Doyle 🔜 Gamescom @indigodoyle.bsky.social Awesome 3D Artist and Indie Dev
Currently developing RollerGirl - @rollergirlgame.bsky.social
Co-Host of Bonus Stage Toronto - @bonusstageto.bsky.social
Drinkbox Studios @drinkboxstudios.com Makers of Nobody Saves the World, Guacamelee! 1&2, Severed, Mutant Blobs Attack, and About a Blob
⭐Now working on Blighted!⭐
💚 drinkboxstudios.com
💚 discord.gg/drinkbox
💚 linktr.ee/drinkboxstudios
DMG @dmgtoronto.bsky.social A community of marginalized game professionals and artists who want to make, play, and transform games on their own terms.
keegan charles @keegancharles.bsky.social comedy, dogs, games, gay stuff 🌈
toronto 📍
Penny 🏳️⚧️ @aluckypenny.bsky.social A disaster kiwi trans girl, lost in the mystical land of Toronto Canada.
Senior Game Designer on Soulframe at Digital Extremes | Prev: A bunch of other games, Mortal Shell, Ashen, Gamefroot, Beans.
JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social I make videogames: https://ergman.itch.io/
contact me at johnleeerg@gmail.com, im probably not gonna use bluesky much unless it blows up
John Lethbridge @archaicjohn.bsky.social Dad x3 ¤ Game Dev ¤ Storyteller ¤ Musician ¤ Old Man VideoGames ¤ Tired ¤ 🏴🇨🇦 ¤ Neach-ionnsachaidh Gàidhlig ¤
🚢 Some Games 🚧 Secrets
Design Thoughts at: https://www.norightanswers.net/
Elsewhere: https://grumble.social/@ArchaicJohn
Pe Metawe Games @pemetawe.bsky.social Indigenous-owned tabletop board game and RPG shop in what's known as Edmonton, AB and Amiskwaciwâskahikan. Our space includes a public gaming area and private rooms. Gaming is for all! https://linktr.ee/pemetawe
Yellow Brick Games @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social We value people over everything; brick by brick we are forging the golden path of ethical development and great games.
Andrew Carvalho @andrewcarvalho.bsky.social Tech Director @ Laundry Bear Games
Sam Sharma @s3rioussam.bsky.social I make Destiny the game at Bungie.
Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca Programmer at Blackbird Interactive. Occasional indie game developer. Previously at Ubisoft Toronto.
I made Pinball Spire! https://pinballspire.com
he/him | 🇨🇦 | No AI 🚫
Sagan, as in Carl @saganyee.bsky.social Animation (Lackadaisy, Goodbye Volcano High, Titmouse), games (Hand Eye Society), speculative fiction. UCLA Design Media Arts '26. He/they 🏳️⚧️
www.saganyee.com
Henry Faber @henryfaber.bsky.social I develop accessible arts spaces (www.tomediaarts.org)
& communities (www.gammaspace.ca); VR, #videogame & digital projects producer. Avi by Kelly K!
email: henry@gammaspace.ca (He/Him)
Saffron Aurora @saffronaurora.bsky.social ✨I make games and draw stuff✨ [she/her]
Toronto-based Creative Director at Kitten Cup Studio &
Art Director at Mighty Yell.
Website: https://www.saffronaurora.com/
#art #sketch #gamedev #devdoodles
Douglas @dmgregory.ca Game design professor, math and science geek.
Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com
Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)
Mobeen Fikree @mobeenfikree.bsky.social Makes videogames and game engines. Founded Vertex Pop (🪨 HYPER METEOR ✨ Super Crush KO 🚀 Graceful Explosion Machine 💥 WE ARE DOOMED)
http://vertexpop.com
http://mobeenfikree.com
Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social Lead Game Designer at Ubisoft Toronto, working on Splinter Cell
I post just enough to stay irrelevant.
daffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @daff.space eats plants
does stunts
made STREET UNi X
@street-uni-x.bsky.social
working on it's solitaire
support me on patreon:
https://patreon.com/dafffodil
liberation for everyone
fascists collapse and rot
Ryan Blanchard @thatryanb.bsky.social sr. community developer @ dead by daylight // prev. gameloft, ubisoft, evolve_pr // he/him // video games + horror + wrestling // jamiroquai enjoyer
Achimostawinan Games @achimogames.bsky.social An Indigenous-owned (Métis/Néhiyaw) story-first #gamedev studio working on Hill Agency: PURITYdecay, an Indigenous cybernoir detective game.
linktr.ee/achimogames
Kitten Cup Studio @kittencupstudio.bsky.social We're a small Toronto-based indie studio making games full of heart!
😻PEKOE early access!
🍊Working on @capycastaway.com
🎮Wishlist: http://bit.ly/3ENdmL7
🍵https://discord.gg/zQgfEsG
👋social@kittencupstudio.com
Jonathan Levstein @jlevstein.bsky.social Game Designer 🥨 Food, games, neat little things 🐨 he/him
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing
Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social Editor @filmstories magazine. Pro void shouter. Author: Geek's Guide To SF Cinema. Former dep ed Den of Geek UK, ex-editor Wireframe mag. Style boy 4 life.
shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social they/them • art director • visdev • illustration • comics • ttrpgs • videogames
🏞️ • 🐦 • 🎨 • 🎸 • 🎶 • 🏳️🌈 • 💪
www.portablecity.net • stories.portablecity.net • sorcererscatalogue.itch.io • shel@portablecity.net
🚫AI / NFT / etc
Rebb ford @rebbford.bsky.social Warframe creative director
Joey...? but in August:^) @joeya03.bsky.social Game Designer(debatable). Programs silly numbers to make games, controllers, and sometimes art. I swear I'm funny in person. | 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Unapologetically GAY. 23
Mare Sheppard @maresheppard.bsky.social Designer, Artist, 1/2 of Metanet Software Inc www.maresheppard.com / www.metanetsoftware.com
She/her
KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖
linktr.ee/koopmode
Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social Nonprofit empowering more women & other underrepresented genders in game development. Volunteer-run and based out of Montréal (Canada), we organize free career development opportunities — in-person and online.
ℹ️ http://pixelles.ca
✉️ info@pixelles.ca
anthony (AFK) @panecasio.bsky.social seasoned indoorsman. over a decade of making video games, somehow. he/him.
design portfolio: panecasio.com
Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.fyi Phantomcompass.com studio head. 30+ yrs in the #gamedev biz & still learning. He/him/ratboy.
✍️ #artist + #writer
👾 #videogames + #tech
🎲 #ttrpg + #minipainting
🎤 #karaoke
🦝 #Toronto
Baby Ghosts @babyghosts.org We are a charity supporting cooperative and worker-led video game studios in Canada. Cofounded in 2021 by eileen & jennie. 🤝👻 babyghosts.org
Steph H @maplethistles.bsky.social Community & Marketing @ popagenda | Prev. Inflexion Games, Clever Endeavour, Evolve PR | Sometimes I talk about CM work | She/her
Farah Coculuzzi @farah.coculuzzi.social 💙 producer @capybaragames.com
🥝 kiwi in canada
💞 @tony.coculuzzi.social
Cassie 💜 @d20love.bsky.social She/her. Game Designer (looking for work!). Dicemancer. Previous work: All Systems Dance, Rushdown Revolt, Guacamelee! 2, Electronic Super Joy. Kirby's mom. Ace 🖤🩶🤍💜 Tries not to cry. Cries a lot. 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇨🇳
Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
Colin Cummings ✨🎷 @astroscout.ca game & graphic designer, community & marketing manager | prev. riftweaver, studio camelia, threshold games
community manager | 🧵 silverstring media & ☔️ soft rains
board member | 👁️🗨️ hand eye society
✨ astroscout.ca | 🎷 boyproblems.ca
toronto | he/they
Sedona @anodesu.bsky.social Senior Animator on Warframe who draws sometimes.
(Previously: Watchdogs Legion, Farcry 6, Trollhunters)
Robby Duguay @robbyduguay.com Game composer, Audio Director at @levelcurve.bsky.social, Trumpet in @thegamebrass.com, Game Audio lecturer at Sheridan College.
BancyCo @bancy.co Husband-and-wife #indiegame studio in Toronto, Canada. 🇨🇦 Made 😱 Home 🚀 Alone With You 💀 Worse Than Death 🚑 Neo Harbor Rescue Squad
🌐 bancy.co
🔀 https://linktr.ee/bancyco
Owen Goss @owengoss.com Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, Photobomb. Amateur potter. (he/him)
Links: owengoss.com
Tanya Kan 🌸🏳️🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social Vivid Foundry's Founder. She/They; BiDemi. Dev since 2012. 2D+3D art, game design, game writing, production, teaching. We made the award-winning Solace State: Embolden activists, take back power from big corp!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/928000
Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev Game developer, world builder. I made Ikenfell and NOISE1. Look at my dog.
chevyray.dev
Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social Experimental animator in Toronto.
SIGGRAPH 2024, SXSW 2010.
https://fox-gieg.com
Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social Apihtawikosisân (Fed: Métis Nation of Ontario), 2S indiginerd doing weird-ish things. Slowly healing from burnout/ME/CFS.
Lead Designer at Achimostawinan Games (go play "Hill Agency: PURITYdecay")
https://linktr.ee/meaganbyrne
Dave Proctor @positivelaser.bsky.social Director at Mighty Yell. All Systems Dance, The Big Con, A Knight in the Attic. Singer in a nerdy punk band. Relentless optimist.
Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, and Trans Rights are Human Rights. (He/Him)
StefanieGD @spac3gh0s7.bsky.social senior ux game designer @ Fortnite✨| co-facilitator @ Hitchin’ Bitches Mtl🪢 | she/they | opinions are my own | 🇮🇷🇨🇦🏳️🌈
https://m.twitch.tv/spac3gh0s7
Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social Award winning Director of Marketing & Communications for video games.
IGDA, BAFTA, Canadian Game Awards Judge.
Speaker, Advocate, Snacker & Flâneur!
Reach out if you want to work together or need help with stuff.
✉️raj@ohmpage.ca
🍁Toronto, Canada
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
Joel Burgess @joelburgess.bsky.social Studio Head at Soft Rains
Priors: Capy games, Watch Dogs Legion, Fallouts 3/4/76, TES: Skyrim, Oblivion, Aeon Flux, Bloodrayne 2, technically Grandma’s Boy
Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (pixel art)