Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Phil Berne @philipberne.com Technology editor, reviewer and writer. Parent to large human, small cats and needy dog. Supercilious about lots of stuff. https://byli.me/philberne
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com ★ i make silly video game comics
★ she/her ★ 日本語大体OK
★ twitch partner: http://twitch.tv/othatsraspberry
★ comics: othatsraspberry.com
★ patreon: patreon.com/othatsraspberry
Daniel Mullins @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Indie game developer who made Pony Island, The Hex, and Inscryption. Currently working on Pony Island 2: Panda Circus!
Bryant Cannon @lasercannon.bsky.social Game Developer. Night School alum. OXENFREE | Afterparty | OXENFREE II | Black Mirror: Thronglets
he/him
Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
Fiona Gallagher 🏳️⚧️ ⚢ @psychic.surgery https://psychic.surgery
Steam/PS5: ItsMeFifiG
Senior Graphics Programmer @ Double Fine
Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social (Sometimes Tucović)
Comics:
The 7 Deadly Sins/First Knife/Slavic Nihilism/SHARP EYE
Games:
Cantata/Dread Delusion/ENTROPY
bio.site/ohotnig
OR
patreon.com/ohotnig
ohotnig.itch.io / ohotnig.gumroad.com
inprnt.com/gallery/ohotnig
buymeacoffee.com/ohotnig
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev I am a blast-processed skeleton.
lead mission design on STAR WARS: Zero Company.
ttrpgs: sulcata.itch.io
blog: brendanmcleod.dev
game design pod: http://paperlabyrinths.com
avatar by @feralroyal.bsky.social
Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social Freelance social guy and writer for hire | jesse . vitelli @ gmail . com | bylines @ Kotaku, IGN, Game Informer, Inverse, Digital Trends | Send News Newsletter | Stagehand | Young Elmo | Avid FFXIV Player | Weird Little Guy Enthusiast
Lady Blackstone @girlsatcomputers.bsky.social They/She | OSR TTRPGs | Dungeon Synth | I repost cool projects | No AI
Website: https://girlsatcomputers.neocities.org/
Bandcamp: https://girlsatcomputers.bandcamp.com
Dungeon Synth Discord https://discord.gg/fWjdeargZB
thorhighheels @thorhighheels.bsky.social i talk about games on youtube & make music & games & music for games. composer for Umurangi & MARBLE SOULS & lunacid
https://www.youtube.com/@thorhighheels
https://thorhighheels.bandcamp.com/
https://www.patreon.com/c/thorhighheels
she/they
Fynn Levy @fakefrogsonly.bsky.social Making games!
MARBLE SOULS, FALLSTRUKTUR
https://fakefrogsonly.itch.io/
𓆏𓆏𓆏
Rollin'Barrel @rlnbrl.com producing cool trash out of love
Mosa Lina, FALLSTRUKTUR, MARBLE SOULS
https://rlnbrl.com / https://rlnbrl.itch.io
Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social He/him. Lead Writer/Assoc. Narra Director @Ubisoft Bordeaux - Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ghost Recon Wildlands. Prev: Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes, Atlas Fallen, Under the Waves.
Vehemently anti-GenAI
Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social Software developer interested in rendering and game development tools. Developing RT64 in my free time.
Punished Dia @punished-dia.bsky.social tfw ur girl is on restriction
Let's Plays:
youtube.com/@dialacina
www.patreon.com/dialacina
Bylines at:
remapradio.com/author/dialacina/
www.avclub.com/author/dia-lacina
小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp ゲームクリエイター：僕の体の70%は映画でできている
Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
Old Ogremode @ogremode.bsky.social The posts that sound smart are my real posts. If any of my posts sound dumb it’s because I’m doing a character
Jess Hoops @prettygrimgames.bsky.social Slightly spooky. Editor, writer, producer, etc. at Second Wind. https://linktr.ee/prettygrimgames
LIA 福振凡 🇺🇳🇨🇳🇺🇸 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago alum
United Nations contractor
Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections contributor, et al.
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
Joe Robinson @agameofjoes.bsky.social Communications Director for Hooded Horse | Former games journo, ex-PCGamesN flunky | I say a lot of things.
Dani Lucas @daniellamlucas.bsky.social Freelance consultant, writer and editor in gaming. Bylines in PCGamer, The Guardian and others. Loves FFXIV, stationery and lunch. She/her Email: dmlucasfreelance (@) gmail . com
Wesley LeBlanc 🔜 TGS @wesleyleblanc.bsky.social Senior Associate Editor @ Game Informer | Previously: PR Specialist @ Vicarious PR, Freelance @ IGN and more | He/Him
📩 wesley@gameinformer.com
Kellan jett @kellanjett.bsky.social Illustrator and Art Director
Lead Visual Development Artist on TMNT2
Animation Guild Local 839
Prev TMNT Mutant Mayhem, Across the Spiderverse, and Mitchell’s vs the Machines , Where the Water Tastes like Wine, other games
the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social games writer, designer, and critic. co-founder of Crit Build. formerly: kotaku & waypoint.
find my work at critbuild.org
email me at ren@critbuild.org
bridget! @brdgtwnn.bsky.social 🎮 Gameplay Programmer
👩💻 worked on #MinaTheHollower, Crash Bandicoot 4
👾 I like making enemies, objects, bosses, npcs, systems, etc 🤡 🍁💃
👀 looking for work or a silly side project
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Alex Orona @oronalex.bsky.social One of the hosts of the NPR of Illinois podcast Super GG Radio. I write for Nintendo World Report, Third Coast Review, Culture Combine and guest writer for Start Menu UK
grace @gracemachine.bsky.social Writer, critic, co-editor @tier-review.com
Wallace @exalclaw.com Wallace Truesdale: Runs exalclaw.com | Seen at Unwinnable, Stop Caring, Mothership, etc. | Weak against soft cookies (and maybe news bloopers) | he/him
📬: exalclaw@proton.me
Sam Bodrojan @helmetgirl.bsky.social words in Filmmaker Mag, LARB, Reverse Shot, Peach Mag, Little White Lies, etc.
https://cchelmetgirl.substack.com
Yacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social We are developers who have dedicated our lives to video games ever since we saw our first pixels. Creators of Shovel Knight & Mina the Hollower!
YachtClubGames.com
SpeckObst @speckobst.bsky.social (ENG/GER) Some kind of video game critic (he/him)ㅣbusiness email: bjoern.balg@speckobst.de
Chris Rosenthal @chrisro.bsky.social Game developer. Currently working on The Secret of Crystal Mountain
Babs | SIGNALIS @antihelios.bsky.social Animator, game dev. @laststarfarer.bsky.social and I made #SIGNALIS, a melancholic anime pixelart retro sci-fi survival horror game. she/her; Hamburg
SIGNALIS spoilers in reposts.
http://rose-engine.org/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1262350/SIGNALIS/
Yuri Stern | SIGNALIS @laststarfarer.bsky.social Made #SIGNALIS, a dark anime sci-fi survival horror game, with @antihelios.bsky.social
http://rose-engine.org
OUT NOW ✨ Buy SIGNALIS: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1262350/
Nicole @cyn-cedilla.bsky.social they/she game programmer and producer @sunsetvisitor.studio
Made 1000xResist! Now making Prove You're Human!
Jason Fanelli @jasonfanelli.com “He’s alright.” - @lotrlore.bsky.social
Voted #1 Jason Of All Time by Game Mess Decides.
Freelance games writer, bylines @ GameSpot, Rolling Stone, MMORPG, and more. Steph’s husband, Olivia and Charlotte’s dad. Contact: jason@jasonfanelli.com.
Shawn McDowell @turboshawn.com Producer & Editor for Giant Bomb. Producer & Occasional Co-host for Jeff Grubb's Game Mess. Lifelong Pokémon & fighting game nerd. (He/Him) https://www.twitch.tv/turboshawn | https://www.youtube.com/@TurboShawn
Chuck Zimmerheld @chucktowski.com site engineer & IT for GIANT BOMB @giantbomb.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/chuckzee/
twitch: https://twitch.tv/chucktowski
twitch VODs: https://www.youtube.com/@chucktowski_
he/him
Will Crosby @hunt270.bsky.social I do the Social stuff @giantbomb.com
Stream/Podcast/Video @subpixelfilms.com
brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online i host a low key video game show called into the aether, write and make videos at wavelengths, manage overworld, and take photos! wow!
https://wavelengths.online
https://overworld.vg
Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com Pronounced Shy’d. Writer/Doofus.| OLLIE ISLAND (2027) | BENDY AND THE SILVER SCREAMS (2026) | MAYOR GOOD BOY | AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER | STAR WARS | AGENTS OF SLAM| WRAPPED UP| Repped by Charlie Olsen @ Inkwell Managment
Aysha @ SPX B11B @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
[eve] @ninehydras.dev 🎮 Senior World Artist @bungie.net - Marathon, Destiny 2
🧪 Indie Horror Game Dev - making Hollow Doll
♾️ Witchcraft and Androids
🏳️⚧️ haunted sapphic girl 🐇 33 [she/her]
🌐 ninehydras.carrd.co
[opinions are my own]
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio sunsetvisitor.studio makes diverse narrative games through the lens of speculative fiction.
1000xRESIST | s.team/a/1675830/
Prove You're Human | s.team/a/4533950
DISCORD: discord.gg/sunsetvisitor
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
🐔 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
Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social Creative Director, TPCi. #PokemonEmployee. Author, Design Beyond Devices & Game Development Strategy Guide. Adjunct @ Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Riot Games, Scopely, MSFT, AMZN, EA, Disney. EDS 🥄. Owner of @ideaplatz.com. Ideas my own. 🏠 https://Cherylplatz.com
flo veltman 🔜 AdventureX maybe?? @vltmn.itch.io they/them • @florianvltmn on the bird site, #gamedev, made How to Say Goodbye! prev: Lieve Oma, designer on Monument Valley 2, Assemble with Care • links: https://linktr.ee/vltmn
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Adam @adamgryu.bsky.social 🎮 i make video games and stuff
🐦 created http://ashorthike.com
(he / him)
Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social Recovering game developer. Made Threes + Beast Breaker. he/him
dicey @dicey.bsky.social tunic
he/him
https://twitch.tv/andrewshouldice
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
charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social Associate Art Professor at the NYU Game Center
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/
nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social stay tuned for wet mystery at @telodendron.bsky.social
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
Wilhelm Nylund @wilnyl.bsky.social CEO and game designer at @LandfallGames He/him
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
Ben Esposito @benespo.bsky.social 
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
Sarah Elmaleh @selmaleh.bsky.social games x performance. acting, directing, consulting, forever advocating for joyful collaboration & sustainability for all. 1/7 of @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org Made ICONOCLASTS Switch/PC/PS4/Vita/Xbox -- ✉ mr.noitu at gmail ✉ -- (he/him) -- 💍❤ @tupelohoney.bsky.social
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Vincent // HEARTWORM 📸 THE ATTIC DOOR 🚪 @adinolfi.bsky.social made Heartworm - a retro suburban gothic survival horror game
Studio: https://atticdoor.org
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/vadinolfi
Discord: http://discord.gg/hke9Yf9Ww5
Original Chungus @tronknotts.bsky.social Writer for Nintendo Force - https://www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/
Maximum Utmost - https://maxutmost.com/
And many other things! Also running the Talking to Women about Videogames podcast network! - https://anchor.fm/jonathan-c-holmes
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
Samuel Horti @samuelhorti.bsky.social Freelance editor and reporter, mainly about video games for PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Remap Radio, and many others.
Previously BBC News and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Portfolio is samuelhorti.com / email sphorti@gmail.com
Cal 🦐 In The Woods @chalicewarden.bsky.social 🏰 Co-Founder @brimstone.games
🔦 Crafting Super Battle Golf!
🎊 Writing a weird horror book
🚧 We do not stand Ahu slander in this house
Adam Stjärnljus @m05et.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-founder at @wishfully.bsky.social Co-Game Director of Planet of Lana ( planetoflana.com )
Edvard Rutström @edebarudo.bsky.social Senior game programmer at Wishfully Studios (Planet of Lana 1 & 2). Father of two wonderful daughters ❤️
Nomada Studio @nomada.studio Video game studio based in Barcelona. Creators of NEVA & GRIS.
Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social Director @eteogames.bsky.social • Creative Director of Sable
eteogames.com • Director at Shedworks
Sarah Marrs @cinesnark.bsky.social Deputy Editor of LaineyGossip.com | Member: Critics Choice Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society | All writing: https://bit.ly/3G2qegq | Email: sarah@laineygossip.com
Toby Alden @brlka.com game dev & DJ
they/them
LOVE ETERNAL OUT NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3010610/LOVE_ETERNAL/
📝 blog: brlka.com
🎲 games: brlka.itch.io
🎹 music: brlka.bandcamp.com
💿 mixes: mixcloud.com/brlka
Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social Food account. NB: Doesn’t naruhodo. He/him 🇸🇬
Mission control @ysbryd.net (Publisher of VA-11 Hall-A, WORLD OF HORROR, Demonschool, LOVE ETERNAL + more).
PFP @kiri.sukeban.moe
Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Designer. Formerly Destiny 2 UI Lead and Staff Designer. Currently Independent, looking for what's next. 🚫 AI. ✅ Adobe Illustrator.
📍Minneapolis, MN
👁️ www.alexgriendling.com
🛍️ lunarsaloon.bigcartel.com
📺 www.twitch.tv/alexgriendling
alex nguyen @alexjn.bsky.social breaking news reporter @motherjones.com, @cir-union.bsky.social | writing on labor and politics, fact checker | posts on good art sometimes
Email: alexajn@proton.me
Signal: anguyen.91
Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com not a spy.
investigative journalist.
President, SJAA.
Co-founder, CONTINUE magazine
i write about people, science, integrity, dodgy stuff, video games, art
newsletter: nobreakthroughs.com
Emily E. Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social contract audio artist at EA. music maker at home. previously at Retro Studios and Arkane Austin. N2日本語でOK. she/her.
Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social Experienced video producer open for freelance work. Credits at IGN, Game Informer, Inside Gaming, NVIDIA GeForce, Yahoo Esports, and GameTrailers.
rowan kaiser @rowan.monster high-risk, mid-femme
one-time tv and game critic, retired into podcasting with @totalmassacre.bsky.social
current video game consultant
🏳️⚧️ PDX, millennial elder
s @paellagenius.bsky.social game artist for LOVE ETERNAL by @brlka.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3010610/LOVE_ETERNAL/
Lola @lolashiraishi.com 
Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social Horse Game Consultant. Game Designer, Producer, Writer. Creator of @themanequest.com and doing marketing at @okomotive.ch and @thoglistudios.com
Based in Zurich, Switzerland http://aliceruppert.ch/ (she/her)
Pierrec @wednesdays-game.bsky.social Award-winning game writer
Bury Me My Love - Haven - Road 96 : Prologue - Shinobi Art of Vengance - Wednesdays and many more. https://pierrecorbinais.com/
Play Wednesdays: https://www.arte.tv/digitalproductions/en/wednesdays/
The Gammelier @thegammelier.bsky.social Videogame essays with a focus on screenwriting techniques. Former screenwriter, current nobody
https://youtube.com/@thegammelier?si=j5-9q_h0iejLdyVp
Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Gender, Sexualities and Social Justice at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal/pornography/games studies scholar working on sex in video games ⚖️💦🎮 The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com 🅿️
antoine @antoine.fyi creating stuff on good days - game designer at The Game Bakers working on Cairn - enjmin alum - rayonnant contrarié
antoine.fyi
Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games Indie narrative games publisher. Host of #LudoNarraCon. On a journey to discover innovative story-driven games.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/fellowtravellergames