Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Alen Lapidis @alapidis.bsky.social I mostly repost awesome art and gamdev media.
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Senior Artist // Cold Iron Studios
🎨 https://www.artstation.com/alapidis
Formerly:
🎮 Standing Stone Games
🎮 Rogue Planet Games
🎮 Sony Online Entertainment
🎮 Blizzard Entertainment
🎮 Interplay Games
EverQuest Legends @everquestlegends.bsky.social Build your hero, adventure your way, and forge your legend!
Sign Up for the Beta: https://www.everquestlegends.com
Maggie Mojsiejuk @hellomaggie.bsky.social Game designer occasional DM
www.maggiemakes.games
@westrayet.bsky.social @westrayet.bsky.social
Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Toronto. Bloodborne infections, Lyme disease, misinfo. COVID-19 Resources Canada. Defend journalism. Look for the helpers. Opinions mine. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
https://covid19resources.ca
Felicia Day @felicia.day Actor. Writer. Producer. Internet Native. “Lost Daughter of Sparta” out March 17, preorder now! https://bit.ly/LostDaughterOfSparta
Strange Pixel Studio @strangepixelstudio.bsky.social Indie game studio located in Edmonton, Alberta, creating the retro-inspired horror game B10CK.
https://strangepixelstudio.itch.io/b10ck- P pyraxis.bsky.social @pyraxis.bsky.social
Krista D Ball is Canada's Trade War Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
@augustbelhaha.bsky.social @augustbelhaha.bsky.social Play Spirit Crossing on Steam, Free Beta is Open Now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/Spirit_Crossing/
Lead Character Tech Artist at Spry Fox working on Spirit Crossing! 🦊✨
🏳️🌈 augustbelhumeur.com 🏳️⚧️
🚫 All of my art is made without AI 🚫
christa 🌻 @christapaolucci.com 🥕 artist & tiny creature enthusiast
🦊 community @ spry fox
🎮 prev: strange scaffold, winter burrow, ooblets
linktr.ee/itsachrista
Camila Cumplido @chiisao.bsky.social Latina 🇨🇱 • She/Her.
💛 Artist at SpryFox working on Spirit Crossing! ✨
💛 ENG/SPA/日本語
💛 http://instagram.com/chiisao/
Molly Jameson @ultrarat.bsky.social Game Programmer, Cat haver, Women's soccer fan, mostly lurker. www.MollyJameson.com She/Her
autenil 🚀 @autenil.bsky.social Engineer extraordinaire for NVIDIA. La Croix evangelist. Tweets or whatever they’re called here are my own. He/him. 🧵:@autenil 🐘:@autenil@mastodon.social 🐥:@autenil
James Berg @jamesbergcanada.bsky.social Gamedev - Research & Accessibility
(Prev. Research @EA, Accessibility @EA/Xbox)
Disabled (ADHD, Autistic, TBI, Aphasia, etc)
He/Him
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com Inventor of things.
Currently working on rePebble.com
Previously: cofounder Beeper.com, partner @ycombinator, founder @pebble
alliways @alliways.bsky.social Senior Animator at Spry Fox
lover of food, games, cats, and cuddles
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
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
Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (pixel art)
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.social . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social Out now https://outerloopgames.com/dosa
Director on Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, narrative, art, biz, UI/UX, production, photos. Uplifting marginalized devs.
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @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.
Lauren Scott @laurenscott.bsky.social Game designer, writer, piano player, sister, human.
Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social
Nina Kim @rainysector.bsky.social Senior Designer at Rare
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
Alicia Fortier @batteringham.bsky.social GDC Talk: Bear Hugs and Dev Tears https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/bear-hugs-and-dev-tears-building-stories-for-cozy-grove-camp-spirit/907863
Lead game designer for Cozy Grove; Camp Spirit, scavenger of knick-knacks. ❤️🐌
https://linktr.ee/aliciafortier
JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, BAFTA, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. Originator of #WhatAGameDevLooksLike. She/they. I hope you like ferrets. 💜
Elaine Gómez ✨ @elainegomez.bsky.social 🎮 Founder & Game Director | Midnight Hour Games
🇵🇷🇩🇴 President | Latinx in Gaming
✨BAFTA Breakthrough US 2024
🪶Enrolled tribal member, Higuayagua Taino of the Caribbean
Ian Schreiber @ianschreiber.bsky.social Game designer, educator, parent.
Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social Technical system designer, proc gen ranger/druid, Roguelike Celebration MC, kaiju groupie (she/her)
William Chyr @chyr.bsky.social Artist and game developer. Directed Manifold Garden, Hotel Infinity, and Strata. Creative Director at Studio Chyr. Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College Chicago.
https://studiochyr.com/
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io • Founder, Dejobaan Games • Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve • 30 Year Veteran Game Dev • Boston!
Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social Indie game dev and design consultant. Prev. Lead Champ Designer on Riot's 2XKO, Spry Fox, Kongregate, SuperBot, UW CSE PhD. Cursed problems, player mythologies, immersive designer, game master, dad, a lot of sincerely giving a shit. alexjaffe.games
Jacob Garbe 💀 @logodaedalus.bsky.social Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer.
Views my own.
Joel Burgess @joelburgess.bsky.social Studio Head at Soft Rains
Priors: Capy games, Watch Dogs Legion, Fallouts 3/4/76, TES: Skyrim, Oblivion, Aeon Flux, Bloodrayne 2, technically Grandma’s Boy
Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social www.rosacarbo.co.uk
🎮 CD sona bona
💫 Freelance game design atm @ Panic Stations
🍊 Spanish in UK
💼 Prev Preloaded, APWOT, Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus...
🏆 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
✌🏼 she/her
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Kelly Tran @kellymtran.bsky.social Senior Systems Designer at CD PROJEKT RED. Formerly Believer, Mobile Game Doctor, Evolved Play.
Designer, writer, Ph.D. and former Assistant Professor of Game Design.
Rolling Hills 🍣 | Fetch my Blade 🐕 🗡️
Natasha Miller @natashamiller.bsky.social
klawdd @klawdd.bsky.social
@tylermakesgames.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social
Zack Hiwiller @zackhiwiller.com 20+ years as a professional game designer. Author. Football official. Board gamer. Dog lover. I was the main character of video games internet for two days in 2010. Opinions are always my own. No one else would take credit for them.
Elaine @muselle.bsky.social Studio Director @ HeartLoop Games | Faculty and Coordinator @ IVGD - Dawson College | Coordinator @ Pixelles | She/Her | Game Dev Mom
Ziz Simoens @zizmakesgames.bsky.social Game Designer for Digital, Immersive, and IRL play - currently senior designer at Warcradle Studios for tabletop games
Current obsessions: sewing, knitting, jewellery making, mtg commander, 40k necrons, crochet, hiking, lrping, making ceramic little dudes
Jeff Pobst @jeffpobst.bsky.social CEO of Hidden Path Entertainment - a Video Game Developer. RPG focused these days. Builders of CS:GO & Age of Empires II HD. Creators of Defense Grid
Tomo Moriwaki @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social Our shared fiction is our reality, so... let's take better care of it. Long time game designer. Most noteworthy impact: creative director of Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Theresa Duringer @tduringer.bsky.social CEO & Owner @Temple_Gates. We make boardgame apps like Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.
Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social Toronto based game designer/developer.
SSMP. Marc. Gone Vroom. A pile of digital trash that's disappeared.
Working on new stuff. Still missing Miitomo.
Abhi | Venba @brownmoney.bsky.social Creative Director at Visai Games
Making games that tell intimate stories with interesting mechanics, like Venba!
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Marcus Montgomery @marcusingames.bsky.social Creative Director / Game Design Director @cstoneintstudio
www.sleepy-genius.com
Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social https://mkremins.github.io
Darth Mel @melrambles.bsky.social Name's Mel 🖤 Systems Designer II on Valorant. Prev. The Sims✨FaeFarm, Stonefly🪲Star Wars Squadrons, SW Battlefront II and Mass Effect Andromeda 💫 TGA Future Class ‘21 🏆
Opinions are my own.
PFP by @nicholaskole.bsky.social
Pam, Godkillingway v.2026, Patch "Even Eepier" @thedovetailor.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇨🇦
Core Game Design Team, #CosmereRPG
Ennie-winning/Nebula Finalist
#ffxiv: Balmung queer, fanfic writer
business: pam.punzalan@gmail.com
https://thedovetailor.carrd.co/
Radiant Citadel • Spire/Heart • Hunter • TSL • Cosmere • BitD: The Dagger Isles
Roxanne Blouin-Payer @rbpayer.bsky.social Game Designer, Crochet-lover, RPG fanatic
Andreia Gonçalves @andreiag.bsky.social Sr Social Systems Designer at @EA Full Circle, working on @skate. Previously on @PlantsvsZombies. 🇵🇹🇨🇦 she/her. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/andreiagg
Chris Proctor @dorukai.bsky.social Core gameplay designer and design director
Design Director @ Guerrilla Games
Ex-Bungie, 343 Industries, 2K Marin, Funcom, Bigworld
e. drake kajioka @3sxp.bsky.social Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. Views mine &c. 🎲 they preferred, she accepted. was @3spce/gryphoness on twitter, @edk@mastodon.social.
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
rayla heide @jellbug.bsky.social Franchise Narrative Director @ Scopely. Previously Netflix, Riot Games, Unannounced Blizzard Survival Game, Mageseeker. She/her.
@squirreleiserloh.bsky.social @squirreleiserloh.bsky.social
Graeme Lennon @gfsl.bsky.social
Wagner Natural Area @wagnerfen.bsky.social A little slice of Nature just West of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. One of the most biodiverse areas of the province, home to over 3000 species of arthropods, birds, mammals and 16 rare orchids.
https://wagnerfen.ca/
MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social Bot that tweets quotes(incl spoilers) from
@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
Spry Fox @spryfox.bsky.social makers of Cozy Grove, Triple Town, Alphabear and now Spirit Crossing, a cozy social MMO.
+ wishlist on Steam! 🧡
✨ http://s.team/a/2321960
read our developer blogs!
🦊 spryfox.com
Varric’s Bianca 🏹 @varricsbianca.bsky.social Senior Designer at MBC Game Studio on 1001: Threads of Mizan
Past: Level Designer at BioWare & Motive
Shipped: Star Wars Squadrons, Dragon Age the Veilguard & Battlefield 6
The Bianca Varric deserves
🇷🇴 🇨🇦
Sonca @soncagh.bsky.social Just a small hobbit from Woodhall in the Shire (Landroval). Notable smart-ass. Lover of pies, cats, & otters (but not at the same time or combined)
I do not automatically return-follow. Don’t engage haters, just block em. And Fuck IA.
Bilwise 🏴☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social Video games | LOTR | Hobbit | Professional sneakologist | Fantasy / Sci Fi | Foodie
He / Him
esther ko @eskoko.bsky.social gameplay animator + consultant (she/her)
a lot of plants named Bob
one devious cat named Mo-Mo!
avoids direct sunlight unless it's for a Merlin lifer
linktr.ee/eskoko
Coprolithic 💩🪨🗺️ @coprolithic.bsky.social GIS wonk occasionally kidnapped by archaeologists, palaeontologists and fish people. Photographer, knapper, and all weather cyclist in a city reputed to be winter 11 months per year.
#GIS #archaeology #climate #cycling #yegbike #yegdt #cats #photography
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Geener @regeener.bsky.social Regina “geener” Legaspi. i sculpt and draw things sometimes.
she/her | FilAm 🇵🇭🇺🇸| illustrator | ceramics | bay area, CA | shark | dog auntie
🎨: *WIP*
☕️: https://ko-fi.com/regeener
Tags: #fanart | #ceramics | #myart | #pottery | #sculpture
Interactive Arts Alberta @iaalberta.bsky.social Interactive Arts Alberta is a non-profit dedicated to supporting game development and games culture in Alberta. Join us at the Game Discovery Exhibition Conference in October of 2026!
Get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/iaalberta
Madison Côté @madisonrcote.bsky.social Co-Founder @cozycometgames.bsky.social | Interactive Arts Alberta (@iaalberta.bsky.social) | Women in Games Ambassador
In ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ/Edmonton (Treaty 6, #YEG)
she/her
Jon Renish @jonrenish.bsky.social Father, Game Developer, Generally okay person.
Kat Barkwell @scardeykat.bsky.social Indie Programmer (ex Bioware, Full Circle)
she/her
opinions are my own
Owlchick @owlchick.bsky.social I'm very busy at the cellular level.
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Scott Hartsman @hartsman.bsky.social Shipping talks, bullshit walks. I've worked on a ton of MMOs and other online games. Mostly helping games startups these days. Also, corgis. Specifically, one large, lazy one in particular.
Patrick Kemp @patkemp.bsky.social Father. Game designer at Spry Fox (Netflix Games). Weekend side project noodler. He/him. https://patkemp.itch.io/ 🥑🍣🍜🥟🍛🌯
MMORPG.com @mmorpg.com #MMORPG news, reviews, opinions, and giveaways. | MMORPG.com
Game Informer @gameinformer.com Over 30 years celebrating the best of games in print and online.
Follow our work: GameInformer.com
Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social Artist
PRINTS! https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ravenkult/
http://www.cotronis.com
https://linktr.ee/cotronis
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social he\him, also a Dad
AD @ Spry Fox on Spirit Crossing
Open playtest: s.team/a/2321960
Black Trans Lives Matter
Jen Cheverie @jencheverie.bsky.social She/Her
Producer @ Full Circle (previously BioWare, Fantastic Pixel Castle )