Westen- BigNerdGaming @bignerdgaming.bsky.social Gaming Takes, Ranks, and Lists from a big ol' nerd. New posts twice a week.
email me at BigNerdGamingtakes@gmail.com
www.bignerdgaming.com
lookingfor.game @lookingfor.game lookingfor.game is a weekly newsletter from @lucyjames.games that highlights upcoming PC games and delivers demo codes straight to your inbox. Let’s find your next favorite game.
Chelsea Stark @chelseabot.bsky.social Polygon forever, but not any more; instructor: nyu j-school; other duties not specified
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Kurt @kaatokunart.bsky.social ✨ patreon.com/kaatokunart - Sticker Club (new stickers every month!!) ✨
✨ kurt.bigcartel.com - Sticker Shop ✨
suggestive sometimes!! 🔞
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Adam @adamgryu.bsky.social 🎮 i make video games and stuff
🐦 created http://ashorthike.com
(he / him)
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
James Pratt @rattfinks.bsky.social I make games and voice a funny sheep.
Co-founder of MANGLEDmaw Games. Opinions are my own
Play Amanda the Adventurer 3 now on Steam!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3657210/Amanda_the_Adventurer_3/
ustwo games - The Garden of Life is out now 🌷🌸🌼 @ustwogames.co.uk Creators of Monument Valley, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, Assemble with Care & Desta: The Memories Between ✨ Buy Monument Valley 3 today!
linktr.ee/ustwogames
Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made
PM Studios🐺Wolf Among Us 2 @pmstudios.bsky.social Partnering with Telltale to publish Wolf Among Us 2 and Wolf Among Us Remaster. Doin’ our part to publish awesome games and keep physical gaming alive! | Send help. There’s too many good games to play! #PlayMoreGames
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
2000s @popculture2000s.bsky.social i don’t think 2000s pop culture can ever be topped✨
Gina Giannetti @ginacities.com 👩🏽💻Junior Software Engineer for BBC News
👾coding my way back to 2002
💾 Play Potion Puzzle Shop in your browser! https://ginacities.itch.io/potion-puzzle-shop
My own linktree! https://ginacities.com/links
Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social Text adventure / CRPG creator.
🕹️ WISHLIST Cyberganked on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@icecreamjonsey
Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social Freelance journalist and copyeditor. I cover tech, media, and power. Dirty optimist.
Often making a chart.
🖊️ Reporting at The Backbone: https://the-backbone.beehiiv.com/
✍️: Rewire, Assigned Media, The Objective, Mothership, etc.
Signal: marsbars.81
madeline! @mads.haus 📖 PENITENTS (Ghoulish, August ‘26)
✍️ Mothership, The A.V. Club, Paste, Anime News Network, Anime Herald, Anime Feminist, CGM
💸 www.patreon.com/c/madshaus
🏳️⚧️+ wrestling + anime
Andrea Shearon @majora.bsky.social she/they 🏳️🌈 | redneck disco elysium & ffxiv posting | evergreen @ PC Gamer | bylines: IGN, USA Today, Fanbyte, RPG Site
→ contact: andrea.dianek@gmail.com
Low HP Games @lowhpgames.bsky.social Making Pump Away! - an idler & clicker indie game.
A railroad adventure that sits at the bottom of your screen.
✨ Wishlist now on Steam ✨
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4631520/Pump_Away/
Stuck In Attic - making Hocus Focus! @stuckinattic.bsky.social Making Hocus Focus, wishlist 👉 https://s.team/a/4202710
We made http://gibbousgame.com/steam
And http://near-mage.com/steam
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!
Kristala 😼⚔️ AVAILABLE NOW @kristala.bsky.social Cat Souls 😼⚔️ combine Sekiro-inspired combat, acrobatic parkour, and innovative exploration to uncover a detailed story.
✨ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1206410/Kristala/
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy our games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/
Kloscur @kloscur.bsky.social • Working on #Sugarcoded! A really weird horror game
• Double Act (Co-Creator of Sugarcoded)
@double-act.bsky.social
• Official Sugarcoded account
@sugarcoded-game.bsky.social
Chiarra Sue @chiarra.bsky.social Data Engineer. #AI Smart Policies. Dev. Digital Artist. Writing about the future.
Good Ethical AI believer.
https://medium.com/@chiarrasue
https://taxtheshorties.substack.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
🎴 高 | irene koh 🎴 @koh.money イラストレーター 🌽 Professional comic artist & illustrator, from Korra comics to Fortnite loading screens. PGG Xrd TO 【imouto】, vtuber. 日本語も一応🆗
#Rev2Forev2
🎴 http://koh.money
🪽 https://angelarcade.net
🎁 http://patreon.com/koh
📺 http://twitch.tv/kohquette
Potion Rouge @potionrouge.bsky.social 🩸 RPG, City Builder & Dungeon Crawler, Narrative
🔥 10 people, 3 years, 1 game
🌱 Early Access on Steam by 2027
🎮 Jazz Dev, French indie studio
https://potionrouge.com/index.html
Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Veteran freelance games crit & PR. Hyped for indie games & mods. Bylines on RPS, PC Gamer, PCGamesN. Find my work, Steam curation & contact info below - He/Him
Find me elsewhere online at dominictarason.com
Contact email: jdtarason@gmail.com
Luca 🖋️ @lucawriting.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Perfect Garbage, working on Grave Seasons| Prev: Contract Writer on Borderlands 4
*Opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinions or values of any current or past employers*
Helen Carmichael - Game Dev @bchezza.bsky.social #GameDev with @greyalien.bsky.social at Grey Alien Games. Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. Writer: Going Medieval & more…https://greyaliengames.com/blog/writing-editing/
Smarto Club @smarto-club.bsky.social Working on Bubblegum Galaxy, a game about designing planets tile by tile 🌌 Wishlist now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989120/Bubblegum_Galaxy/
family computer @sukinapan.bsky.social suki ♀
artist and gamedev from chile
part of @smarto-club.bsky.social & lonely house
BUBBLEGUM GALAXY OUT NOW 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 .ᐟ.ᐟ
˚₊‧꒰ა ♱ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚
mainly pixel art and low poly 3d
https://beacons.page/sukinapan
Girl Mode Podcast @girlmodepod.bsky.social A podcast about games and media by two trans women with too many opinions and too much free time.
hosted by @robinbombus.bsky.social and @thewillarowe.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/girlmodepod
You can support us at https://ko-fi.com/girlmodepod!
Iosif /Trueself Games @trueselfgames.bsky.social Writer. Coder. Storyteller.
Author of Soul of Fire.
Trueself : Choice Stories RPG is now in alpha testing in Google Play. DM me for access!
trueselfgames.org
Snarkle Studios @snarklestudios.bsky.social Indie game developer 🇬🇧 🇵🇭
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/SnarkleStudios
But Why Tho? @butwhytho.net Butwhytho.net is an independent media outlet covering video games, film, TV, anime, and comics.
🎬 Film/TV reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
🎮 Game reviews on Metacritic, Open Critic, and CriticDB
Email us: info@butwhytho.net
ian @iantothemax.bsky.social bristling and ugly | luddite | tellthemidied.blog | https://ko-fi.com/iantothemax | formerly kotaku, polygon (rip), shoryuken (rip) | also seen on aftermath, mothership, video game town, game developer, waypoint (rip)
𝑹𝒚𝒂𝒏 | 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 / 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒗 @therealrybo.bsky.social Founder @loadingscreentm.bsky.social
• Artist • Worldbuilder • Mad Scientist
ArtStation: artstation.com/ryanbartley
Silk Softworks @silksoftworks.bsky.social Hi, I'm Erik! I'm a solo dev making weird videogames like Kainga: Seeds of Civilization and now ShantyTown; a relaxing diorama builder where you craft vibrant, cozy city scenes.
Outersloth @outersloth.com We fund game.
By Innersloth.
https://outersloth.com/
SpectreVision @spectrevision.bsky.social spectrevision.com
Astronomical Monarch @astromonarch.bsky.social Twitch Affiliate ⭐️ They/them ⭐️ Makes weird noise ⭐️ Plays platformers, adventure and puzzle games ⭐️ http://twitch.tv/astronomicalmonarch ⭐️ astronomicalmonarch@gmail.com
prettysmart games @prettysmart.bsky.social We're heeeeeeeere... makers of THE SPIRIT LIFT and Code Romantic
https://linktr.ee/prettysmartgames
Play 👻🏨THE SPIRIT LIFT on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/THE_SPIRIT_LIFT/
Polygon Treehouse @polygontreehouse.bsky.social Award-winning indie game studio • Mythwrecked & Röki Creators • The Game Awards & Double BAFTA nominees
Wardstone Studio @wardstone.bsky.social All about making a little whimsy and joy over at www.twitch.tv/wardstonestudio
Also sometimes I make games
Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
https://linktr.ee/crecente
BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
Doot 🪲🪷 Wishlist Milki Delivery 🐮🚲 @dodoot.bsky.social Indie gamedev working on small cute games 💖
(He/Him)
Minami Lane, Froggy's Battle, Kabuto Park, Milki Delivery
https://linktr.ee/dodoot
Alex25820 @alex25820.bsky.social I like to code sometimes, it can be anything from bots to games.
Check out my games at alex25820.itch.io.
Indie Dev Bot @indiedevbot.bsky.social Hi, I'm a bot sharing posts related to indie games.
Check out my creator @Alex25820.bsky.social.
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
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
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
NarraScope @narrascope.org NarraScope is a hybrid conference on interactive narrative by @iftechfoundation.org. Join us in 2026 at the University at Albany, June 12-14. https://narrascope.org/
@berlinist.bsky.social @berlinist.bsky.social 
io9 @io9.com We come from the future. By @gizmodo.com. Sign up for our newsletter if you prefer http://gizmodo.com/newsletter
Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social ScyllaDB | P99 CONF | "Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read" book (https://github.com/scynthiadunlop/WritingForDevelopersBook)
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency aren’t important)
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon. 
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. - D Dan Luu @danluu.com Active on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@danluu. Also trying https://threads.net/@danluu.danluu
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 currently working on https://vixen.rs and ML/ASR stuff, occasionally making videos about my latest code crimes 🦀 rust shill until something better comes up
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Glauber Costa @glaubercosta.bsky.social Former Linux Kernel, ScyllaDB, Datadog - storage, virtualization, low level stuff.
Founder/CEO at https://turso.tech
Luca Palmieri @lpalmieri.com Author of zero2prod.com, a book on backend development in Rust, and https://rust-exercises.com.
Building pavex.dev, a new Rust web framework.
Principal Engineer at Mainmatter. Opinions are my own. He/him.
@algo_luca on Twitter.
Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com Texan (prev Australian). Father (prev gamer). Pynchon fan (prev illiterate).
Building a new programming language for CAD at zoo.dev. Built a lot of Cloudflare Tunnel. I run a meetup austinsystems.org and love reading sci-fi, history and Jewish stuff.
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social CEO of @fermyon.com. Creator of Helm and the Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes. Fan of delicious coffee. Author of a bunch of books. WebAssembly enthusiast. Colorado resident.
Fermyon.com
rmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net Shitposting & Memes.
Data & Stuff.
#dataBS #trailrunning
✍️ https://rmoff.net 🔗 https://rmoff.info
(DMs closed because of stupid UK age verification requirements).
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Loris Cro ⚡ @kristoff.it VP of Community @ Zig Software Foundation • Zig Livecoding http://twitch.tv/kristoff_it • Curator of http://softwareyoucan.love • Creator of https://zine-ssg.io • Blogging http://kristoff.it
Alex DeBrie @alexdebrie.bsky.social 💻 Independent consultant
⭐️ AWS Data Hero
📖 Author of DynamoDBBook.com. Creator of DynamoDBGuide.com
⚡️ Ex-@goserverless, @HudlEngineering 
Piotr Sarna @sarna.dev Currently: poolside
Hacking history: Turso, libSQL, Seastar, ScyllaDB, LizardFS, some kernel stuff
Ivan Burmistrov @isburmistrov.bsky.social Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Tanel Poder @tanelpoder.com Creator of https://0x.tools, also a long-time computer performance nerd. Perf & troubleshooting blog: tanelpoder.com. All onions are mine.
Rohan Desai @rohanpd.bsky.social Co-Founder of @responsive.dev. Views are my own.
Almog @almog.xyz Favorite Buzzwords: Kafka Streams | SlateDB | Stream Processing | Distributed Databases
co-founder @ https://responsive.dev
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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social Julia REPL stan | Rust Software Performance Engineering
https://miguelraz.github.io
www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-raz-guzmán-macedo-64895a127