@buildmachinegames.bsky.social @buildmachinegames.bsky.social
Alma Stone @kinaliworks.bsky.social Alma Stone is an HD pixel action RPG by Kinali Works, a new remote indie game studio. Website: www.almastonegame.com | Discord: https://discord.gg/exX9nsWGRU
Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social Potential fire hazard. Writer at Remedy (Control Resonant). Previously at Mad Head Games (Hellraiser: Revival). They/them 🪰✶
⚘ Finland via England 🔗 mariannecassidy.com
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📗📕📘
README: http://jisaacgadient.com
🌐 🔗 https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social Films, etc. | Critic, curator | Podcasts, books + screenings as Ghibliotheque
Foolish Mortals Point & Click Adventure Game | Out Now! @inklingwood.bsky.social A Merry & Macabre Point & Click Adventure Game by David & Sophie Younger
Wishlist: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1848440
Late Pledge: http://shop.foolishmortalsgame.com
Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social A database of interviews with the Zelda team. Our goal is to preserve that legacy, share it here, and build a safe community for our followers!
By @maxnichols.bsky.social
www.hyruleinterviews.com
History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com Melora Hart. Zelda archivist & publication campaigner since 2001. Art, books, manga, the retro & rare. Into Zelda? I've quietly been the source for a lot of what you know. https://linktr.ee/historyofhyrule artist/animal dork/hiker doin' my nerd shit
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
Lena Guerrero @lenagrrarrow.com I write code to help people (and computers) connect! 🎮 | they/any | chicagoooo
backend engineer at Gardens 🌳 previously Singularity 6, Jackbox Games | IGDA-F Next Gen Leader
Milo Duclayan @antennasunite.bsky.social Narrative designer, TTRPG maker, life experiencer.
Alice Camp @acampwriting.com Narrative Designer @ Microfun
Writer @ Pistol Shrimp
Translator @ J-Novel Club
Prev. Deck Nine Games, White Owls, ProbablyMonsters, Netmarble.
https://acampwriting.com/
EN/日本語/中文 ⭕
(I mass block, it's not personal)
Jess Haskins | The Game Editors @jesshaskins.bsky.social Game editor, narrative consultant, community organizer, educator. Adventurer and tea fiend.
Editor of IGF winner Titanium Court!
✨I elevate games with rigorous professional editing, narrative polish, and VO.✨
thegameeditors.com
jesshaskins.com
John Ryan says No AI Roles @johnryanwrites.bsky.social Senior Writer/Narrative Designer/Consultant for Games | Horizon Forbidden West | Destiny: The Taken King and beyond | IRON MAN VR | Guild Wars 2 | Forza 7 | Fable 2 | Lily's Garden. Husband, Marathoner, Cat Wrangler, BAFTA member. johnryanwrites.com
sarah @shslovak.bsky.social she/her • perpetually tired writer person • narrative designer at Lunacy Studios, co-founder of snacktime games, MENA cultural consultant
https://shslovak.squarespace.com/
Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com)
Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@gamedeveloper.com)
📝: www.bryantfrancis.me
🎥: https://boxd.it/hp9UB
Pierre Novellie @pierrenovellie.bsky.social Stand up, co-host of BudPod w/ Glenn Moore, BUTTON BOYS w/ Glenn and Sarah Keyworth, read my comedian’s guide to autism book, listen to my Radio 4 show
Nick Crosgrove - Gameplay Engineer for Hire! @occultgamedev.bsky.social Looking for my next gig in games!
Creative & Gameplay Lead at FateBound
Former Senior Gameplay Engineer at Question Games
Husband, Dog Dad, He/Him
Nhi Do @nhitendo.bsky.social she/her
Actor • VO Actor • Event Host
Parts made in Vietnam, Assembled in 🇨🇦
Libra with Capricorn Rising
See me: #Invasion #SightUnseen #DoorMouse #Watchmen
Hear me: #1000xRESIST #LegoFriends #AClassicalChristmasChord
http://www.imdb.me/nhido
The Killing Stone @thekillingstone.com From the makers of The Blackout Club and The Magic Circle comes a new deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century folk horror narrative. Demo is out now! Wishlist us on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
Courtenay Taylor @courtenaytaylor.bsky.social Actor • Friendbeast • DemiGirl • Magpie • Ally • Resister • child of immigrants • CourtenayTaylor.com • nerdsvote.com • Citizen 🇺🇸🇬🇧 🇦🇺 • she/they • https://streamily.com/courtenaytaylor
Formative Media w Christian Spicer @formativemediashow.bsky.social Celebrating the media that inspires, influences, and defines us. FormativeMediaShow.com
Patreon.com/FormativeMediaShow
JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social i've got style, miles and miles | researcher for the podcast ‘blank check’ | writer for 'check book,' the ‘blank check’ newsletter, and elsewhere sometimes | phd in movies from the university of wisconsin-madison
Chris Remo @chrisremo.bsky.social
Ivy Dupler @ivydupler.bsky.social 🎙️Voice actor in adventure games | #Pathfinder #WhispersOfAMachine #Unavowed #TheRoottreesAreDead | 🌟 Rhinedottir & Naberius in #GenshinImpact | 📧 ivydupler@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/ivydupler
aj fillari✨ @ajfillari.bsky.social i host and produce podcasts and play TTRPGs | 32 | they/any
talking about indie games @dotzip.online☁️
producer/editor: into the aether, formative media, frog of the week, paws and clause + more!
hire me!: https://ajfillari.online
go birds🦅
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
Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social Hello, I'm Richard. I write games. Please like them and also me. http://www.thecuriosityengine.com
Kevin VanOrd 🏳️🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Game designer and writer: Divinity, Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2 | Your gay dad: partnered to Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social | Doing my best
Steam / PlayStation / Xbox Live: fiddlecub
Signal: fiddlecub.85
Lewis | ICO Partners @persistentworld.bsky.social 📝 Publishing producer, game marketing, self-publishing @ ICO
✍️ Worked on Baldur's Gate 3, Dispatch, Darkest Dungeon 2 & Witchfire
📧 Reach me on lewis@icopartners.com
📢 I did a talk at GDC once
🔎 View just some of my work here https://www.lewisburnell.com/
Pete Davison @moegamer.net Manuals and digital @evercade.co.uk.
Ex-GamePro, USgamer, Rice Digital.
Games words: https://moegamer.net
Daily ramblings: https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net
Videos: https://youtube.com/@ThisIsPete
I have played Atari today.
GenAI sucks.
he/him, autistic
Bertie @clert.bsky.social Associate editor at Eurogamer. Writes, sometimes podcasts, talks a lot. I'd rather live in a fantasy land. (He/him)
Seva Khusid🔜gamescom @sevakhusid.bsky.social οἴμοι
From Classics & Philosophy into making indie games.
Currently working on: https://bsky.app/profile/harvest-of-names.bsky.social
Gardens Interactive @gardens.dev A videogame studio growing the future of social roleplay. 🌳 Follow along here and on our website: www.gardens.dev
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social thisisstar.com // A tornado disguised as a girl. // Art & Creative Direction. UI/UX. Illustration. Animation. 3D. Game trailers. // Aconite & Inkle. HoloVista.
J. Thomas @nullspeak.bsky.social Lead Writer / VO director of @thekillingstone.com, The Blackout Club 🔦 Creative Director, Bioshock 2. Designer, Bioshock: Fort Frolic, Thief 3: The Cradle. | he/him
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
into the aether @intothecast.bsky.social a low key video game podcast by @stephenhilger.bsky.social and @bb.wavelengths.online produced by @ajfillari.bsky.social
support the show on patreon! - https://patreon.com/intothecast
visit our website! - https://intothecast.online
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online i host a low key video game show called into the aether, write and make videos at wavelengths, cohost a show about handheld gaming called npc, manage overworld, and take photos! wow!
https://wavelengths.online
https://overworld.vg
Stephen Hilger @stephenhilger.bsky.social I like drawing and writing. I also like talking about games on @intothecast.bsky.social and youtube.com/@memorycardmanuscript
Laura Cress @cressup.bsky.social BBC journo interested in gaming, tech and culture | ⭐ MCV Women in Games 2025 Journalism Impact Nominee | 🕹️ Adventure game lover and streamer! twitch.tv/cressup | https://linktr.ee/lauracress | Work email: firstname.lastname@bbc.co.uk
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social Bitch 😎 lover 😽 child 👼 mother 🦾 sinner 👹 saint 🎅 sometimes feel ashamed 🧚♂️
Olivia Wood 🔜 Gamescom @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
Harry Flanagan - Revolution Software ⚔️ @harryflanagan.bsky.social ~ Assistant Producer @ Revolution Software ⚔️
~ Founder of The Save Room Club 💾 (Like a book club 📖... but for games!🎮)
~ Long live the Playdate 💛
A creative passionate about games & involved with the communities that engage with & contribute towards them!
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social Studio lead Tributary Games. I worked on King of the Castle, Over the Alps, Fallen London & Occlude. He/him
partridge.games
tributary.games
Peter Silk / KestrelPi @kestrelpi.bsky.social Community Support Manager @ Double Fine
Sometimes Video Games Maker and Composer
Little Scamp
He/Him.
This is a personal account with personal opinions and/or bad jokes. Profile pic by Michael Firman
The Steve @thesteveiam.bsky.social I make games
https://www.generationexilegame.com/
https://thesteveiam.itch.io/
ada null @worldenddisk.com artist and game maker
worldenddisk.com
she
Sagar Beroshi @sagarberoshi.bsky.social Storytelling in Games.
– Narrative Designer / Writer for more unannounced things at The Chinese Room
– Writer for Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest
– Deputy Game Director for Helldivers 2
– Producer for As Dusk Falls
Anastasia Wyatt🐗 @anastasiawyatt.bsky.social Artist at inkle @inkle.co 🎨
Reposting art and posting about art and things I find cool 🌝Occasionally drawing stuff in my personal time 💖 She/Her 🖍️ #gamedev
Lauryn Ash @espressocat.bsky.social Writing, Systems, & All Things Narrative • Currently rebranding and playing with my cats Mugicha and Kupoccino ☕️ ✍🏼• Formerly State of Decay, Marvel’s Avengers, and NDAAAAs • ✨ • 🎙️ 1/2 of Furidashi Podcast • she/her
Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social QA (now retired) for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Failbetter Games, etc.
Former Highways Clerk, Highway Inspector & Streetworks Supervisor.
Accessibility ally.
I ❤️ Civil Engineering, Archaeology & Greenock Morton FC.
Cis, he/him.
BLM, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Rebekah McLoughlin @rmcloughlin.bsky.social Northern Actor & Voiceover Artist
Voice Rep: Jabbervoices, Squawk voices
Acting Rep: JBR Creative Management
Co-Director of Crew of Patches Theatre Company
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/rebekahmcloughlin
Paul Warren @paulwarren.bsky.social 🏴 I do voices | Demos, portfolio and testimonials at the link below! | Profile art from The Banner Saga
https://paulwarren.carrd.co/
Rep: Fitzrovia Talent
Jem Alexander @jemalexander.bsky.social Video games and TTRPG writer/narrative designer. BAFTA member. Improviser. Forever GM. UX writer. Immersive narratives. Neurospicy. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Currently working with Mojang and Sketchbook Games.
Portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/jemalexander
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Rourke Bywater @rourke.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Hidden Door. lesbian. 💜 procedural systems, women, folk music + art with a touch of melancholy and bitterness. Organizer @ Roguelike Celebration
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
Bria 🌻 @thevoidencore.bsky.social Community Director for Young Horses. voted most likely to become a pokemon master in 8th grade. Prev: CD for Blaseball
Michelle @michellehwu.bsky.social Audio Director | Sound Designer www.michellehwu.com
Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social Narrative Director, Borderlands 4 at Gearbox Software | Prev: Lead Writer, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands | BL3 | BL3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles | Non-canonical lore item | He/him.
Nikita Radostev @fahrengeit.bsky.social Gameplay Scripter @ Larian Studios.
Posting about games and stuff.
Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social ✨ i’m like if tifa lockhart loved carbs
☕️ features editor @gamespot.com
🌙 into grand stories, art, mtg, anime, coffee & esoterica
🔮 as seen at giant bomb, kinda funny, game informer, paste magazine, collider, uproxx, uppercut & more!
Terrible Toybox @terribletoybox.com Official account of Terrible Toybox, creators of modern classic adventure games, including Thimbleweed Park and Return to Monkey Island. 🏝️
Founded by @grumpygamer.com
Spooky Doorway @spookydoorway.com Multi award winning indie game developers. Makers of darksidedetective.bsky.social and @BlakeManorGame.bsky.social, tellers of spooky tales 👻 Discord - http://discord.gg/spookydoorwaygames
Laurence Chapman @composerchapman.bsky.social Composer & Orchestrator. Video Game Credits include Heaven's Vault, A Highland Song, Mask of The Rose. Orchestrator for Total War Series (CA) and other films/TV shows.
inkle @inkle.co Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink; home of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope podcast..
Games: TR-49, A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery, and Pendragon.
🔗 inkle.co
Burhan @burhanplays.bsky.social he/him
game enjoyer
game producer
Malaysian
Ben Austwick / BiggusBennus @biggusbennus.bsky.social Gaming Partnerships | Twitch Partner | biggusbennus1@gmail.com | https://linktr.ee/biggusbennus | 🏳️🌈 | Views are my own
Neil Newbon @neilnewbon.bsky.social Father, actor , director, producer. Human. He/Him all socials - neilnewbon neilnewbon.com
Dan Trachtenberg @dantrachtenberg.bsky.social PREY, 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, THE BOYS (pilot), BLACK MIRROR “PLAYTEST”
Larissa Gallagher @larissala.com Wyfey, voice actor, Aussie expat, happy lady!
she/her
#vampireinthegarden | #stevenuniverse | #okko | #animaniacs | #harleyquinn
beacons.ai/larissagallagher
Ben Gentry @bentry.bsky.social
Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social 🫧The Good Witch of Game Dev🫧Lead writer + narrative designer for video games and stuff. Babygirl connoisseur. NOW: Gearbox, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED]. A Host of AIAS' Game Maker's Notebook.
https://linktr.ee/alexaraycorriea
Will @soundstrider.dev Technical Sound / Haptics Designer
Prev. Retro Studios, Respawn Entertainment, Merge Conflict
Personal account, opinions are my own
Adam Ritchie @damritchie.bsky.social Noise for Games, Lofty Aims.
Dialogue supervisor, sound designer, voice director, rusty composer.
2x GDC Speaker and BAFTA member.
Game Audio Professional since 2008.
Michael Schwalbe: 𝚊̶𝚌̶𝚝̶𝚘̶𝚛̶ 𝚑̶𝚞̶𝚖̶𝚊̶𝚗̶ concept @michaelschwalbe.bsky.social sandwraith. AAA Director, Voiceactor, metal singer. #Kawaki, #Powerplex, ZZZ, Transformers, DMC5, Half Life: Alyx and more. any pronouns.
Represented by: AVO Talent
Cons / Appearances: Celebworx
http://linktr.ee/Michaelschwalbe
Jordan DeVries🔜Rebel Scum Con @jordandevries.com UI/UX Director (Jedi: Survivor, Jedi:???) at Respawn, award-nominated, GDC/GAConf speaker, LEGO designer/hyperfixater, black cat guardian, they/them
Exceedingly personal account. 🇹🇼/🇨🇦/🇺🇲 living near Washington, DC
https://www.jordandevries.com
Dr Sharkie (PhD) - 5yearsnow.com @5yearsnow.com https://5yn-os.com
https://ascendingrealms.com
https://5yearsnow.com
5YN-OS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4695620/5YNOS/
Ascending Realms Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3635950/Ascending_Realms_Demo/
Sydney, Australia.
#gamedev #indiedev
Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse.
Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer.
Games, books, bio, etc: http://www.chriskohler.biz
Aysha 🔜 Gen Con @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Bafta-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
Kelsie @kdlunas.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer @ Obsidian (The Outer Worlds 2). Here for the shitposts. Opinions are my own, etc
Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social • Principal Writer - Iron Man @ Motive Studio
• Comic Writer - Star Trek, Killtopia: Nano Jams, Hoax Hunters, ReincarNATE
• prev games: Jurassic Park Survival, 40K Space Marine 2, Gotham Knights
• 🏳️⚧️
• All views my own
www.ashleywritesgames.com
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
ruari :3 | looking for work <3 @rawrku.bsky.social narrative & game designer | they/she | “irl maelle” | WomenIn 2026 DICE Scholar | nyu game design | S.K.R.U.B SQUAD | Diablo IV Level Design Intern | ruariroot.com
Lucy 👾 🔜 BitSummit @squarienicks.bsky.social 🎮🐕🌙✨💃
Wellington, NZ
QA @ Dinosaur Polo Club
Doug Cockle @dougcockle.bsky.social I do things! Actor, Father, Husband, Dog Dad, Witcher. Natural Six D&D chaos gremlin.
Sasha Dmitrieva @sashathedm.bsky.social production of story @ wdas 🐭 (they/them) gacha cursed but we’re still thriving
noelle 🪩 @noelleingway.bsky.social game production and narrative. previously firaxis. she/her, opinions are my own 🎤💃
Lis @thewritegame.bsky.social Creative Lead: Disney, 20th Century Games.
Working on cool stuff like Alien, Predator, Simpsons, etc. Fmr Senior Game Writer, Narrative Designer
Opinions are mine. she/her
https://www.thewritegame.com
stephen pero @pero.gg narrative designer? / comedian?? / normal guy???
Tim Clark @timothydclark.bsky.social Group Editorial Director, Games - Future. Doomy gooner. Hearthstone survivor. Destiny 2 Warlock main. Lapsed Cheeseburger connoisseur.
Adam Hills @adamhillscomedy.bsky.social Comedian, writer, TV Host, Current President of the RFL
Fade In @fadeinpro.com Because you deserve better screenwriting software.
www.fadeinpro.com