Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Juniper Dev @juniperdev.bsky.social I make yt videos about games & game dev
📽️ https://www.youtube.com/@JuniperDev
✉️ juniperdev@rightclick.gg
Niels NTG @niels-ntg.bsky.social 🍅✊🇳🇱🇪🇺
Senior Developer and UX designer at Learnbeat.nl + Researcher of PCG & Computational Creativity. Passion for art, technology, games and science.
Personal website: nielspoldervaart.nl
@isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social Procedural Content Generation! In Video Games!
I'm currently available for hire if you are in need of having something generated, or your generated things aren't behaving.
Jacktionman @jacktionman.bsky.social Making games @ SUPERHYPERMEGA: Noun Town! Project AEROES! Wet! PhD in Virtual Reality .🏳️⚧️👍
SebyFlyFly @sebyflyfly.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@sebyflyfly
Solo Indie gamedev 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Working on a Noita-like Broforce-like
https://linktr.ee/sebyflyfly
W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social Arthur (佢/he/they)
Neurodivergent game dev, photographer and crystallographer
Brighton-based Hong Konger 🇬🇧🇭🇰
Games: https://aryl-ether.itch.io
Carrd: https://wharthur.carrd.co
Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social UK Indie Game Dev - Recently "The Horror At Highrook"
A clockwork-card narrative-board game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/The_Horror_at_Highrook/
Previously "Into The Pit", BigRobot, Phd in the digital sublime
castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social 🎨 Senior game artist and art director with 20 years of experience | 🎮 Pixel artist & gamedev | Playdate dev | ⚧️⚢
🍉 🇵🇸
Clients: Mojang (Minecraft), WB Games, Hasbro, SEGA, Panic, Unity, IDW
📬 christina.neofotistou@gmail.com
🎨 castpixel.artstation.com
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com Creative Director @electricsaint.bsky.social
BAFTA Breakthrough // artsy weirdo // illustrator, gamedev, stubborn idiot 🧹🏍️
she/they
annahollinrake.com
👇 Wishlist Crescent County 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2202650/Crescent_County/
Trash Goblin @spiltmilkstudios.bsky.social The cozy, wholesome, chill, no pressure shopkeeping game, with a great name 😇 Out now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2407830/Trash_Goblin/
Kathrin Gerling @kathringerling.bsky.social Professor at KIT, Germany (http://hci.iar.kit.edu). Research on human-computer interaction, accessibility, VR, and games (preferably Quake 3). ERC StG AccessVR and Real-World Lab Accessibility (http://accessibility.kit.edu). she/her
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social Gamedev and overall psycho ✵she/her✵
I run 🌷SLUG WORLD🌷
Born 1993, Unity dev since 3.x
Current: FERAL BLOOD DOLL
Prev: Dread Delusion // Dog Witch //The Devil
🔞mdni
Letian Wang @letian-wang.bsky.social PhD Researcher @JKU Linz | Game Computing | #Cosplayer & #Gamer | #gamesUR, #GameAnalytics, #infoviz | https://www.wang-letian.com/
Johanna Pirker @joeyprink.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science | Director GameLabGraz GameDevDays | #GameDev Research Science Tech VR AI | @TUGraz | past LMU ETH MIT EA | Forbes 30u30 Science | mountains ⛰️
twitch.tv/JoeyPrink
youtube.com/@JoeyPrink
jpirker.com
Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social 🔬 Lead Researcher, Overwatch | Blizzard
🎓 PhD human factors psych
🐝 Previous Amazon Games, Georgia Tech Research Scientist
👾 #GUR #HCI
🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list"
💬 my own thoughts/opinions
🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social Researcher in Game Studies, Design, AI and Science & Technology Studies. Trying my best to read critical theories. He/Him. Committed to my lifelong duty of no original tweet. https://normand-1024.github.io/
Simon Wallner @simonwallner.bsky.social (Former) game designer, father of the year (runner-up), constructivist, questionable taste.
Product/UX specialist and program manager at LocalStack. Ramblings are my own and may contain bad language and typos. You can talk to me about cooking any time.
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Duygu Cakmak @aphraella.bsky.social
Jeff Orkin @jefforkin.bsky.social Cofounder @ Bitpart.ai. Ex: Drift, Giant Otter, Monolith, Sierra. AI Lead for FEAR and NOLF2. MIT Media Lab alum
Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com The worlds largest online #GameJam, established in 2002. Join us every April & October. #LDJam
〽️ax krieger enters phase 2 @maxkriegervg.bsky.social Max! He/him. Game dev. Loves design, culture, cooking. Aromantic/enm. Games: CROSSNIQ+, Among Us VR. Runs @aqualounge.tv. Next: more games!
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social Technical system designer, proc gen ranger/druid, Roguelike Celebration MC, kaiju groupie (she/her)
Marielle Fox 🍂🦇 @ironswan.bsky.social 🔥 Darkest Dungeon Senior Environment Artist @ Red Hook Studios🗻
chinese filipino canadian, elder mall goth, ex radio dj, aspiring worm
Vancouver, BC
Leon Xiao @handle.invalid Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
Tamsin Isaac @tamsinisaac.bsky.social 📚 PhD Researcher at iGGi York | Exploring Player Engagement in Limited-Time Events
🎮 Blending psychology & game design to understand what keeps players coming back
🏉 Rugby & F1 fan | 📖 Avid reader | 💎 Crystal jewellery creator
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social
Nick Ballou @nballou.bsky.social Early career research fellow at Imperial College London - video games, trace data, adolescents, mental health, open research.
Eniko Fox @enikofox.com I make gay video games @kitsunegames.bsky.social with @nj0rd.bsky.social. Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss dev. Mask wearer. Programming language development enthusiast
Fuck AI
Follow me on Mastodon @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
She/her
Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy Non-academic #UKRIFLF research fellow at non-profit org @thentrythis, working on algorithmic patterns (@alpaca).
Instigator of @tidalcycles, and co-founder of @algorave […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Spaxe Austral ⚡ @spaxe.space researcher & singer from australia!
telegram t.me/spaxe_space
banner @blueroo.bsky.social
fursuit @kigurumikagetsu.bsky.social
stickers @spikhyenna.bsky.social
chair @furrystudies.org
Scrap Takes @scraptakes.bsky.social
Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Ignyte-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social freelance game writer/narrative designer (Borderlands 4’s Loveless, Endoparasitic/Endoparasitic 2, Star Trucker, a bunch of other stuff) open to new work!! ✨ #1 Ratatouille Fan ✨ she/her
my website has pictures of my dog: https://www.nessacannon.com/
David Melhart @davidmelhart.bsky.social 🎓 PhD in Games and Affective Computing | 🎮 Assistant Professor @ SDU Metaverse Lab [https://gdlt.sdu.dk/staff/] | 🎲 game goblin [http://goblingoulash.com] | 🌈 he/they
Gæmz Meetup @gaemz.bsky.social Community for people who are into art/experimental games & playful media founded by @thenomi.bsky.social.
#gaemzmu. Let’s meet irl in Tokyo, London, & Taipei
https://gaemz.carrd.co/
Discord: https://discord.gg/Fjhjjk9HSc
We got a starter pack btw!
Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social Indie game developer (Maia, Trash Goblin, Compound Fracture, Soccer Story, VVVVVV, Kinectimals), technical artist, photographer, and community gardener.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social Moderately popular YouTube game critic and travel author.
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social game? designer??
Forget Starlight releasing soon. currently ???.
Amberspire, The Banished Vault, and others, formerly of Bithell Games. Blog at blog.enceledean.com, analog games at enceledean.itch.io, design podcast at paperlabyrinths.com.
they
eevee @eev.ee fox ✩ she/her ✩ 🦊 ✩ computer witch ✩ making games, puzzles, and toys ✩ other half of floraverse ✩ https://eev.ee/
sometimes 🔞, should be tagged
🧡 https://eevee.itch.io/fox-flux-deluxe
🎮 https://eevee.itch.io/
🖼️ #art #tameart #spicyart
Sam Snodgrass @sampsnodgrass.bsky.social Manager of the Applied AI team at modl.ai;
PCGML person;
Industry and Academic Researcher;
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
Alex Flint @alexlflint.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher @ IGGI PhD | Narrative playtesting & democratisation of #GamesUR • Prev Research Operations @ PlaytestCloud
Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social Tool & game developer | Godot Engine alumnus
💶 Support me https://humnom.net/donate.html
🎮 Check out my apps and games https://yurisizov.itch.io
🎮 Or here https://store.steampowered.com/dev/yurisizov
🌐 Home & Portfolio https://humnom.net/
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com podcasts at abnormal mapping, posting here these days
Cryptmaster @thecryptmaster.bsky.social Award-winning necromancer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/Cryptmaster/
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Firesprite • Prev Splash Damage, Ubisoft, etc • Writer of theatre and science fiction 🎭👽 • Pagan 🌿 • she/her • NE England • amyflorence.co.uk
Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social Indie Game Clinic on YouTube 〰️ Podcasts: One More Run! + The Game Developers’ Library 〰️ currently writing “Game Design for Indie Devs” while developing “Golem Gourmet” 〰️ (he/him/they/them) 🍽️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/4209800/Golem_Gourmet/
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
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography, Treeplanter ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
bsg_joel @bsg-joel.bsky.social Programmer, writer & community on DREDGE 🎣 at Black Salt Games 🇳🇿
Nebula, Hugo and 4x BAFTA nominee.
Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io All images belong to their original owners. See http://possumeveryhour.io for more places where to find your poss fix.
Axel حسن Taiari @shevek.bsky.social Writer.
ZERO PARADES. Neurocracy. weird fiction. narrative design. game studies. (He/they)
Catherine Litvaitis 🐀 @litvac.com project coordinator @ halo studios (via aquent) ✦ @albanyigda.bsky.social board member ✦ she/her ✦ one-woman neopets cult ✦ ✉️: catherine@litvac.com ✦ thoughts = my own
Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists.
Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social Nice Communist. Often YouTuber. It/Them.
My links: https://linktr.ee/spice8rack
Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design) @letibus.bsky.social letibus.com
blazgracar.com/blaz
Herd out now!
Game designer of LOK, LOK Digital, Abdec, Workworkwork, Herd, All Is Bomb // Making music for theatre, keyboardist, electronic producer as Blaž // Some other stuff as well // he/him
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor.
Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/
Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Giuseppe Navarria @techdesign.rocks Tired of the AAA industry. Started a new london-based indie studio @weareunderdog.bsky.social
| prev. Splash Damage / Gears Tactics, Gears of War franchise. Passionate retrogamer. He\Him.
Ilyass | Brave Rooster Games @braverooster.bsky.social 💡 Game Designer | UX/UI Expert | Digital Artist
🎮 Passionate about game design, creating experiences, and educating on UI/UX. 🇵🇸
brave-rooster.itch.io
James Lewis @trentjim.bsky.social Nottingham Trent University - Senior Lecturer Virtual Reality. Started with VRML in '99
evangelising & criticising #3D #VR #AR & #MR via the media of #UnrealEngine #3DS & #Unity.
Research interest straddles Neuroscience, Rehabilitation and Neurodiversity
Matt | DEMO COMING SEPT 30th ON STEAM! @pmrd.net Creating my debut game: 'Incoherence: Dark Rooms' - A Survival Horror Puzzle Game Inspired by Blue Prince and Resident Evil
DEMO COMING SEPTEMBER 30th!
STEAM: darkroomsgame.com
KICKSTARTER: tinyurl.com/yc5t3577
DISCORD: discord.gg/E3Q9PMqKdK
NGPZ @ngpz.bsky.social she/they - genderfluid - autistic - gamedev 🎮🌌🧠🏳️🌈🦕🛸
Programmer on Trek of the Oddities ( #totoddities ) 💻🎮
AI / NFT / Crypto DNI ⛔
#GameMaker #gamedev
Robert @ Tall Tide Games @talltide.bsky.social 🔪 Horror game dev
⚠️ Wishlist Dark Lessons on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2675700/
✉️ Sign up for my newsletter: https://subscribepage.io/darklessons
Lara J. Martin @laramartin.net Applying and improving #NLP/#AI but in a safe way. Teaching computers to tell stories, play D&D, and help people talk (accessibility).
Assistant Prof in CSEE @ UMBC.
🏳️🌈♿
https://laramartin.net
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
Eliza Easton @elizaeaston.bsky.social Soft power and creative industries expert. Founder of Erskine Analysis. Middle name Erskine. Mantelpiece borrowed from should've-been-best-picture Paddington 2.
Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social He/him. Sr. Game Designer. Prev: Epic, Bungie, Turbine, more.
I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
Faden Cross @faden-cross.bsky.social Co-Host of Club Flashpoint and The Lost and The Damned, grumpy, and dog enjoyer
They/Them Michigander
Josiah Boucher @not-a-gai-guy.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in Computational Media conducting critical research of ethical and creative inquiries of generative AI and art. I use the lens of an ecosystem to reframe dominant narratives and highlight interconnected concerns raised by artists.
Laughing Coyote Software @lcsoft.bsky.social Laughing Coyote Software makes computer RPGs that are hard. You will die often, and you will like it.
Website: laughingcoyote.net
Alena Denisova @sevenfridays.bsky.social Associate Professor @ the University of York, UK.
Research: HCI, video games, research methods.
Interests: travelling to see places I miss out on calling home, making crappy art, playing weird video games.
Günter Wallner @wallnergue.bsky.social Professor @JKU Linz | Game Computing | Ass. Prof. @TU Eindhoven | Adj. Prof. @Ontario Tech | head: replaylab @JKU | editor of "Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment" | #gamesUR, #GameAnalytics, #infoviz autoteles.org
Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social Games User Researcher | PhD in games | movies are my favourite language
Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social 💻Computer Scientist🖼Art Historian👨🏫Prof in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
Douglas Brown @dougjustdoug.bsky.social Associate Professor of Games and Story, also Dean of Screen, Technology and Performance at Falmouth University in the UK.
Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social Lead developer behind independent Noisy Shooter 'Selaco'
Netherlands
✉ contact@alteredorbitstudios.com
🎮 http://store.steampowered.com/app/1592280
💬 http://discord.gg/SelacoGame
Deanna @philosophette.bsky.social Games & AI | Researcher | Data Scientist | Game Developer
Blogger @ medium.com/game-science
Formerly of Sega, Unity, and Supercell.
she/her 🏳️🌈 Interested in art, people, queer theory, mutual aid, social justice, competitive AI programming and AI demoscene
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social he/him exclusive access to a youtubers opinions
https://allmylinks.com/lackingsaint
Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social Making trailers. Making comics. She/her
Comic: https://iteatsplanets.com/
Trailer Portfolio & Contact: https://sammgreer.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sammgreer
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/samanthamackgreer
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SamMGreer
Kruggsmash @kruggsmash.bsky.social I make Youtube videos n' stuff allegedly:
https://www.youtube.com/@kruggsmash
If you want to help me do what I do:
https://www.patreon.com/c/Kruggsmash
Raindrinker ❄ Icedrop Games @raindrinker.bsky.social I place pixels, make games, and teach!
Icedrop Games ❄ LOK Digital, 1 Billion Spells, Ultrapool
He/him
Icedrop Games - 1 Billion Spells @icedropgames.bsky.social Indie studio making lil games that make you think and wonder
Ultrapool: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4195110/Ultrapool
LOK Digital, 1 Billion Spells, Constellations
Join our discord! https://discord.gg/Spj6GAQQjY
freya @spdrcstl.bsky.social ⚧ indie gamedev, writer, occasional musician. She/Her. Senior Designer at [horror game company]. Proud member of Domino Club. Made Videotome.
masto: https://timetheft.rip/@spdrcstl
games: communistsister.itch.io
website w/ contact info: spdrcstl.com