Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
Marek Plichta @artbymarek.bsky.social Game Designer/Developer, UX and 2D Art/Animation.
Past: Future Unfolding, Spirits, Ordnungswissenschaft.
Passions: 🤸♂️ & 🧘
Also @artbymarek on other social media 🐘 📸
He/Him
www.artbymarek.com
René | Bippinbits @bippinbits.bsky.social Making games!
Made Dome Keeper.
Making PVKK - Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, Bandwagon & others.
Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social Recovering game developer. Made Threes + Beast Breaker. he/him
grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com .1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc
https://grapefrukt.com
Jakub Dvorský @jakubamanita.bsky.social Game Designer and Director at @amanita-design.net Machinarium, Samorost, Botanicula, Chuchel, Creaks, Pilgrims, Happy Game.
Phonopolis in development - Wishlist on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/Phonopolis/
aran @aran.sokpop.co game developer, part of @sokpop.co - i made stacklands, clickyland, wurdweb & more - now making Rat Game
Tijmen Tio @tijmen.sokpop.co game developer at @sokpop.co
rubna @rubna.bsky.social game designer, ex- @sokpop.co i always follow back
contact rubna.studio
Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co creating videogames | made bernband, grunn, and more | part of @sokpop.co
George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making bad magpie
also to blame for bird alone & far from noise & hot date
georgebatchelor.com | he/him
Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch Designer making games and other playable things at @playables.net. Pocket Boss (out now! pocketboss.ch), KIDS, Plug & Play, Rakete, Drei and more: mariov.ch
Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io Makes games and animated films with his finger
https://michaelfrei.io
Made a video game called Time Flies https://timeflies.buzz
Ben Kane @ben-kane.bsky.social Gamedev, runner 🏃♂️💨
🎮: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, DLC Quest, Loot Box Quest, Lair of the Evildoer, Zombie Accountant
Remember XBLIG? Good times.
Marius @mariuswinter.games ♡ Co-Founder @wunderfax.com
♡ Directed Say No! More
♡ Prev Studio Fizbin, Double Fine, Major Bueno, Telltale Games
♡ He/They
♡ Ask me about Monkey Island
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
François Alliot @galiopant.bsky.social Creative director and gamedev. Reigns (and family), Card Shark, Crush House, Animal Farm… Nerial cofounder, now part of Devolver Digital. @nerial.bsky.social. Live and work in Paris.
Henry Smith @hengineer.bsky.social Creator of Spaceteam and soon Blabyrinth! Game Programmer/Designer. Worked at Epic Games, BioWare, Irrational Games. Puzzled Pint GC. New-ish dad. He/him.
Patreon: http://spaceteamadmiralsclub.com
Mastodon: @hengineer@mastodon.social
Nina Freeman @ninamarie.bsky.social Game Dev for 14 years - Principal Narrative Designer for Dontnod MTL/Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, also makes indie games like Cibele, Last Call, how do you Do It? etc etc | stream: twitch.tv/ninamarie | games: ninasays.so
Mahdi Bahrami @bahrami.bsky.social made Engare and Tandis
Itay Keren @untame.com Dad, husband, designer/developer. Head of Upstate NY game studio Untame, creator of Apple Design Award 2017 winner Mushroom 11. More at untame.com
Kitty Calis @kittycalis.bsky.social DISC ROOM, Minit, Horizon Zero Dawn, Minit Fun Racer and a few things I can't say yet 👀 
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
thomas "noio" 🏔️ vandenberg @noio.games he makes games, including:
🏰 Kingdom: New Lands
🌱 Cloud Gardens
🍕 Pizza Possum
Messhof @messhof.bsky.social Nidhogg, Flywrench, Wheel World. Check out Blood Dungeon at https://blooddungeon.com
Tim Garbos @timgarbos.bsky.social Awkwardly trying to make people laugh through video games. WHAT THE GAMES?
Queer Communist Game Jam ☭ @queercomgames.bsky.social International Game Jam organized from Cuba 🇨🇺
“Let’s start a queer, communist, game industry revolution.”
🎮 itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026
📝 instagram.com/queercomgames
👾 https://discord.gg/sZkfS9NtG
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net Indie game studio based in Prague, Czechia. Phonopolis (out now!), Happy Game, Creaks, Pilgrims, Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula, CHUCHEL http://bit.ly/PhonopolisSteam
madebygare @madebygare.bsky.social Working at https://www.puzzmo.com/
Working on:
Corvian Curse (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2626080/Corvian_Curse/)
MossRanking (https://mossranking.com/)
Spelunky.FYI (https://spelunky.fyi/)
Game Jams (https://made-by-gare.itch.io/)
Robin Ward @eviltrout.com "The Incident at Galley House" is out now on Steam! You might also enjoy our previous game, “The Roottrees are Dead”.
Previously: co-founder of Discourse
https://galley.house
https://roottrees.com
https://eviltrout.com
Noah Poole @noahpoole.bsky.social noahpoole.com
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
Jack @jackturps.bsky.social making games
School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.
◌ https://sfpc.study/links
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
Cogh @coghdev.bsky.social devving indie games this year with mango
will my bank account hit 0 before I release a game? 🤔
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Buried Giant Studios @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social Beautiful, interactive board games with expressive systems, emergent gameplay, and player-centered storytelling. 🎲 Oath: New Foundations 📜 Arcs: Beyond the Reach 🚀
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
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
av by @garrett.bsky.social
banner by john hwang
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
🔠 Word Play: http://s.team/a/3586660/
🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/
Jay Ma @jarmustard.bsky.social ・Reposts of game dev and art・
・Cofounder of Subset Games・
・she/her・
・京都・
XanaGear @xanagear.com He/Him. I've raised $30k for charity. Making a game.
youtube.com/xanagear
twitch.tv/xanagear
xanagearbusiness@gmail.com
Leder Games @leder.games We are a spunky indie board game publisher with asymmetric tendencies. Saint Paul, MN | Our games: Vast, Root, Fort, and Ahoy! www.ledergames.com
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics!
tylerglaiel.com
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration- G gabe cuzzillo @gcuzzillo.bsky.social game dev, baby steps, ape out, foiled
gabecuzzillo.com
Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social Game designer, writer, teacher in NYC. Co-founder Scryptid Games & Unquiet Games. They/them 🤖 natmesnard.com
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
Celia @celia-14.bsky.social 💜 Hobbyist gamedev at https://celia14.itch.io
✨ Making a narrative daily puzzle: https://the-daily-spell.com
🔎 Big fan of thinky, story-focused, and cute games
🏷️ She/her
Flatfoots and Fools: A Podcast about Detective Games @flatfootsandfools.bsky.social We are going to touch on anything we think is detective themed, or has significant detective mechanics. We plan to release every two weeks
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/
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
robin uvw-cwa @rbn.fyi hi 💜
Designer of playful experiences. Looking for work! Prev: lead GD @ Lunacy, Reflector, Ubisoft... https://robin-v.net
him, lui 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Intentionally spending my energy fighting the doom, not posting about it.
Pic by McSkirt https://linktr.ee/mcskirt
rhoeb @rhoeb.bsky.social coder, gamedev, previously SYNTHETIK 2 and GEM collective
currently working on https://rhoeberg.itch.io/tacn
he/him
portfolio: rhoeberg.com
Bracht @bracht.bsky.social PLAY • TECH • ADHD • RATS • DICE • APPS • TALK
I’m “gifted”, they said, but in everything that doesn’t matter. Hopelessly inept at anything important.
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
Misty _ @misty4ptg.bsky.social Hey everyone, Welcome on my Bluesky. I like to play video games.
Tim Krief @timkrief.com My indie game, Fallacy Quiz is out now:
itch_io → https://fallacyquiz.com/itchio
Steam → https://fallacyquiz.com/steam
Heavy #GodotEngine user
https://links.timkrief.com
adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
Thinky Games @thinkygames.com Discover games you'll love to solve. 🧩 🔎 🗺️
We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.
https://thinkygames.com/
https://thinkygames.com/dailies/
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
Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social 29+ year veteran of writing, developing, and publishing ttRPGs.
Co-Author of Starfinder and Star Wars Saga Edition, worked on D&D, Pathfinder, Fantasy AGE, Everyday Heroes and more.
Freelance writer/consultant
https://www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephens
He/Him
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
WereCoder @werecoder.gamedev.blue 🕹️ Solo Game Dev 🎮 Former AAA Dev.
🌳 Working on a custom engine + survival game.
🔁 I repost Indie Dev progress.
steamcapsule @steamcapsule.com 💚 Discover, appreciate, and get inspired // steamcapsule.com
🤖 I’m a bot sharing Steam capsule jobs daily,
created by @benithemaker.bsky.social
beni @benithemaker.bsky.social game designer, trained as a playwright
built steamcapsule.com (acquired)
currently building @findgamepublishers.com
Dragon Wasabi Potato ドラゴンワサビポテト @dragonwasabipotato.bsky.social writer, streamer | creating TELE @telegame.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/dragonwasabipotato
contributor @warpdoor.com
ambassador @safeinourworld.org
operator at Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β
https://dawn2021.orylab.com
Kenny Sun @kennysun.com Indie game developer
kennysun.com
evie hall @space.froghat.dog (aka space)
Game Developer • VFX / Pixel Artist
She / Her.
Excessively gangly creature.
Working on https://detective-baku.com, with my gf.
🤎💛 @baku.dk
baku @baku.dk game girl advance (she/her)
working on:
- a game with my gf: https://detective-baku.com
- secret other game
- being epic for the win
💛🤎 @space.froghat.dog
The Rabbit 2026 Indie Games Residency - Call closed @therabbitgames.bsky.social 🐰🎮 The games developers’ residency 🎮🐰 develop indie games right in Brandenburg’s hoppinest (just 1 hour from Berlin)
http://coconat-space.com/the-rabbit
come join the fluffle
(\ /)
( . .)
(“)_(”)
Adrien Dittrick @adriendittrick.bsky.social French hobbyist queer poly gamedev composer. Play my games here: https://adriendittrick.itch.io/
Join my discord server if you feel like chatting!
https://discord.gg/ggqZ2c4
Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I make video games and art. Or something.
Made Celeste with friends, working on City of None and Jumper at EXOK.
www.noelberry.ca
Le Scotaire @vbettenfeld.bsky.social 🇫🇷 / Amateur-made games, pico8, 3D printing, TTRPGs, so-bad-it's-good movies / Banner by Zagnanar
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngāi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social making games and doing things at PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞 (@punkcake.club)
Shotgun King, Moonpong, Hot Wax, If Letters Had Pants, SUGAR ☆ mother of cats ☆ she/her🏳️⚧️ ☆ aka "trasevol_dog"
streamers tell me about yourself here: https://forms.gle/7VEJ3oSEYdVD9Cdw7
DoubleXP PR @handle.invalid doublexppr.com
Getting noticed is the final boss. We're the cheat code. Grassroots PR that helps great indie games cut through the noise and find their players.
Contact: Contact[at]DoubleXPPR.com
Press list: Press[at]DoubleXPPR.com
Arena-Entertainment @arenaent.bsky.social 57 Year old indie dev who's working on a vertical arcade space shooter called Gazar! ^^
Demo live now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3656330/GAZAR/
press gazar@doublexppr.com
Sander Antoniades @s4ra8s.bsky.social Sailor on the seas of fate, rockin' the great filter, likes some subset of retro computers, comics, and mass culture. Densha otaku.
@superbenji63.bsky.social @superbenji63.bsky.social 
Andrew "Ace" Arsenault @acearsenault.bsky.social Open Thoughts, Electrical Engineering, Computer Programming, Music & Oldskool Technology.
I design audio gear, compose music and build experimental musical instruments.
Unplug ICE @unplugice.org unplugice.org
Disrupt. Disconnect. Defeat.
Secondary targeting ICE business collaborators.
DM here or connect through our blog:
unplugice.substack.com
Auntie Batty @batriciagoodblood.bsky.social Auntie Batty 🦇 Retro/Indie Gamer, Artist, & Author. 🎮 Queer, disabled, and proud. 🏳️🌈 My interests include bats, spooky aesthetics, 👻 and being disgruntled about injustice.
You can watch and follow me at the belfry:
https://www.youtube.com/@auntiebatty
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Tory Games ⚢ @torygames.bsky.social 🎮 Indie Game Developer & 3D Artist
🔥 Developing a post-apocalyptic shooter in Unity3D
👉 Follow the progress & download the demo: torygames.itch.io
Gleb Volkov @glebv.bsky.social I make games based on strict limitations ✂️
The software engineer, annual game-jammer 🙃
Also, find me here https://linktr.ee/volkov_ayyy