IGDA Austin @igdaaustin.bsky.social Welcome to the official Austin Texas IGDA Chapter!
The mission of our chapter is supporting and empowering game developers in the greater Austin area to achieve fulfilling and sustainable careers.
submit your game here: forms.gle/vcXBadWZpXtb3zhf9
Alie Lark @alielark.bsky.social game : https://store.steampowered.com/app/4937210/South_Fork/
book : https://alielark.itch.io/
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Eniko Fox @enikofox.com I make gay video games @kitsunegames.bsky.social with @nj0rd.bsky.social. Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss dev. Mask wearer. Programming language development enthusiast
Fuck AI
Follow me on Mastodon @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
She/her
CyanCapsule @cyancapsule.bsky.social 🇸🇪 BOI 30
I draw stuff!
CSP
Wacom Cintiq 16
Working on the Visual Novel " My Pig Princess " !
Play it and get some behind the scenes stuff on Patreon:
http://patreon.com/CyanCapsule 
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social Artist/Illustrator Dead & Lovin’ it
Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth.bsky.social Big nerd. Building things
Trump voters: History won’t be kind to you. Neither will I
Progress isn’t about making you comfortable
Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
Solo Game Developer
Pixel Artist
Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day
Male presenting NB
Pronouns: Any if you must
Avatar alt: Pixel art of a male presenting Black person with pink hair in Kente Kufi and Robes
PixelChark @pixelchark.bsky.social 🇲🇺🇬🇧 she/her.
Commercial and Platform Marketing Consulting ✨ Digital Strategy, Game Eval and Game Scout @KandoFactory. Prev: SEGA, BossaGames.
SafeInOurWorld & SpecialEffect Ambassador. Mental Health advocate - AuDHD & Chronic Pain life.
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
pqRachel @pqrachel.bsky.social They/Them - 29
OC Artist
🔞18+ Only
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Check my Website & Read my Blanksford Comics:
https://pqrachel.neocities.org/
https://pqrachel.webcomic.ws/
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Comms: https://ko-fi.com/pqRachel/commissions
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Profile Pic: @maddel_art
Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social Award-winning writer, designer, critic, translator
Collector of books & video games
Against fascism & generative AI
Working at NeocoreGames | HUN / ENG | He / Him
balazsfarkas.com | oubliette37.com | epik.hu
Dither1987 @dither87.bsky.social 39 • Atheist • Anti-MLM (Multilevel Marketing) • Intersectional Feminist • Mom • Pansexual
Pizza Gloverrrr @pizzaglover.bsky.social 18+ Pixels (and more??) He/Him.
DM or email for commission inquiries. If you mess with AI then fuck off. 🚫
pizzaglover@gmail.com
http://patreon.com/pizzaglover
Fundue 🔞 @funstuffdev.bsky.social Game developer doing game developer things
Klem @indieklem.bsky.social Play now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4760210/Another_Door_Demo/
https://linktr.ee/indieklem
Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social 🔞Free Palestine. Filmmaker, mtg player, model. wumpus priestess. Neon Genderless Evangelion. 18+ only
journalist.
one of the hosts @podatog.bsky.social &
@atticmagic.bsky.social
any/all :3
Professionally Hot:
- https://linktr.ee/bugsmaytrix
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Rcpxl(comms open) @rcpxl.bsky.social 17, An Pixelart artist landscape enthusiast and also Military
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
KRITIQAL @kritiqal.com Indie games publication and podcast network.
kritiqal.com
Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/
We’re a website about shooting games, among other things.
Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/bulletpoints
Retro XP @retroxp.bsky.social The retro video games newsletter of @marcnormandin.bsky.social
https://retroxp.beehiiv.com/
FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com Video games media and culture, seen through the lens of what rocked (and what sucked) about the retro game magazines that inspired @tyschalter.com & @aidanmoher.com to become professional journalists, authors, and critics.
📺 funfactorpod.com
shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social 80s/90s/00s japanese gamedev interviews | patreon: http://patreon.com/shmuplations
Crossplay @crossplayblog.bsky.social A newsletter at the intersection of parenting and video games by longtime games reporter and father of two kids, Patrick Klepek. Subscribe now at https://crossplay.news
Flashback 64 @flashback64.com The chronological Nintendo 64 podcast. Hosted by McKenna and Gooey. Part of the Sound Stone Podcast Network.
flashback64.com
soundstone.network
Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social A newsletter about the game industry, by consultant, writer and former Edge editor Nathan Brown.
Sign up for free: https://newsletter.hitpoints.co/
Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. | stay wavy
Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com Indie retro gaming book publisher. Video Game Maps series, Pixel Art Metroid, History of Rygar, + more.
Store: https://retrogamebooks.com
Contact: retrogamebooks@gmail.com
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/retrogamebooks
Discord: https://discord.gg/mY7JFNcWG6
insert credit @insertcredit.com The only show about video games. W/ @frankcifaldi.bsky.social
@adashtra.bsky.social
@brandon.insertcredit.com
host @alexjaffe.bsky.social
editor @esper.bsky.social
https://patreon.com/insertcredit
https://forums.insertcredit.com
https://insertcredit.com
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
My Life in Gaming @mylifeingaming.bsky.social Official My Life in Gaming account. We do that YouTube show about video games, tech and video quality.
Hosted by Coury Carlson & Marc “Try4ce” Duddleson.
StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social Stop Skeletons From Fighting
The dumbest and weirdest video game show on YouTube since 2007 | 📧 stopskeletons@gmail.com
📬 PO Box 3261 Seattle WA 98114
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
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
Unwinnable @unwinnable.com A place for stories | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1VQ9omB | Pitch: http://bit.ly/3oBCo5z
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Danielle ♡ @woodspixl.bsky.social 🌿 Freelancer #pixelartist | twitch partner #vtuber | game dev | No NFT Projects
📺 http://twitch.tv/woodspixl - 30% OFF Pixquare (IOS) with code 'woods'
💚 linktr.ee/Woodspixl - https://vgen.co/woodspixl
Mwaayk @mwaayk.itch.io 🎮 Game Developer 🇵🇭
🎨 Pixel Artist (OPEN TO WORK)
☕ Support / Commissions https://vgen.co/mwaayk ✨
https://linktr.ee/mwaayk
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Dmitry Petyakin @el-metallico.bsky.social I draw stuff.
Commissions are open.
el.metallico86@gmail.com
https://www.artstation.com/el-metallico
mothra stewart @gorl.gay i’m tay. and the kitty is frankie.
tay: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c5lcwcbubqa3rvbjq4awpy7q/feed/aaajylgj63zyk
frankie: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5f642ejcpths5dehw7shm5t/feed/aaapzh63cttzy
Ryan Van Dongen @ryanvandongen.bsky.social he/him | Concept Artist | Freelance Illustrator
📍 Philadelphia
🚫 No ĀĪ
📧 ryanvdon@gmail.com
Portfolio & Prints: ryanvandongen.art
🔗 https://linktr.ee/ryanvandongen
WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social Artist, she/her, possibly a werewolf. Clients include Metallica,Smashing Pumpkins, Magic!The Gathering, Boom!, Anchorage Brewing and more
Volunteer at Wolf Watch UK, a wolf sanctuary
https://wolfskulljack.com/
HUMAN MADE ART
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social Artist & mathematician. I’m serious, I am mathematician. She/her. Actually autistic 🚲
Aspiring polyglot:
🇹🇭🇨🇳🇭🇰🇱🇦🇰🇭🇩🇪
I used to be a tattooer until I took an arrow to the knee
https://linktr.ee/Acid_Lich?utm_source=linkt
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Augh @augh3d.bsky.social I'm doing art don't touch me.
🔞No minors go away.🔞
they/them
Fizzifu Pixel @fizzifupixel.bsky.social Playing with pixels
Fragile Doll @fragiledoll.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️
lesbian
pixel artist
Real life doll, handle with care!
Disabled
no ai
Pink Pixels 🔞 @pinkpixelsdraws.bsky.social some guy drawing nsfw stuff (18+)
Used to develop Framed (https://pinkpixels.itch.io/framed)
Tealst @tealst.bsky.social Commission info on VGen!
https://vgen.co/Tealst
┐(´ー｀)┌
Human Artist
🚫AI🚫
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
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/
Andréas Söderberg @3dreas.bsky.social 2D/3D artist and game developer.
Homepage - https://andreas-soderberg.se/
Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/@3Dreas
Twitter - https://x.com/3Dreas
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social She/her. USCG Veteran, Author. Crisis Management/Comms Professional 🏳️🌈
www.theMerewif.com
CCO- International Association of Search and Rescue Coordinators. www.iasac.org
F*ck it, Watch This: Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud https://a.co/d/cE6svsC
Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social Retro game fan and artist. Creator of Hand-Drawn Game Guides. Making & sharing cool things.
HelenPixels 🇺🇦 @helenpixels.bsky.social Hello! I’m Helen and I make pixel art.
Commissions open🌱 https://vgen.co/helenpixels 🌱
My links: https://linktr.ee/helenpixels
🎨 pfp by Woodspixl
Smitten For Fiction @smittenforfiction.bsky.social https://smittenforfiction.ca/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/smittenforfiction
Librarian
Educational Assistant
Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery/Thriller, 2SLGBTQIA+
BozeMart.wtf @bozemart.bsky.social 🎨Art & creative works of partners @childlessgambino.bsky.social and @xaq.bsky.social
🛍️Visit our site & shop our wares here:
BozeMart.wtf
#Art #Design #stickers #miniatures #ttrpg #illustration #bsnm #supportartists #shopsmall #shoplocal #polyamory
hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social pixel art, gamedev
https://hby.itch.io/
https://www.instagram.com/hby_stuff/
https://www.twitch.tv/hby_stuff
https://bio.link/hby_stuff
Sorry, I'm not interested in N\F\Ts or A\I.
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Sineprin @sineprin.bsky.social Also at https://sineprin.newgrounds.com/
NSFW R-18 art, adults only! All characters are adults and everything is consensual.
You can see much more and help support me at
subscribestar.adult/sineprin. Thank you 🧡
Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social I'm an artist, love graphic, fairy tales and northern forest.
https://www.patreon.com/KononenkoElena ✨
Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Nanners (Pixel art commissions available) @bananannertoast.bsky.social 24 y/o pixel artist, open for work
Business inquiries can be sent to bananatoastart@proton.me
I don't want to hear about your web3 project or NFTs or whatever, please don't bother me with that.
Luenna: School of the Magi @luenna-rpg.bsky.social 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘴...✉️🕊️ A magical student life-sim with global exploration, turn-based combat, and connections waiting to be formed!
https://linktr.ee/luennarpg
Ponk @ponkpixels.itch.io I love pixels
🍵 Ko-Fi: http://ko-fi.com/ponkpixels
🔳 Itch: https://ponkpixels.itch.io/
mosshead @mosshead90.bsky.social Strokes & Pixels
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
dtrebella @dtrebella.bsky.social Founder of Spoke & Wheel Strategy. PR/marketing for indie games, tech & startups. Theatre lover, chocolate eater & dog snuggler. Dana@spokeandwheelstrategy.com
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
boba ✿ VGen @bobablin.bsky.social pixel artist from 🇺🇦
comms open!
for business - bobablin.contact@gmail.com
or DM
ellielotus (comms open!) @ellielotus.bsky.social ellie / elliot • he/they
I make art with headachey colours! 🌈✨
Please do not use or post my work as your own.
https://patreon.com/ellielotus
andy vs. @im-all-id.me middling jokes/existential dread
shirts and stuuffff: https://inkdoubt.etsy.com
all posts 👉 👉 👉 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nhytley6vv7tq6k2at6kvl5b/feed/aaabgxg57gn7e
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
cathwizard @cathwizard.bsky.social Pixel Artist (derogatory), Illustrator, Twitch Streamer
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•synthwave, anime, fan art, game dev
•find me everywhere @cathwizard
•18+ space
🥰 tip me: https://ko-fi.com/cathwizard
💪STICKERS & COMMS: https://ko-fi.com/cathwizard/shop
Yooni @yoonisan.bsky.social Freelance game animator, digital and pixel art
🎨 Commissions closed
FR/ENG
No NFTs, crypto or AI
Contact ✉️ yoonisan@outlook.fr
skeddles @skeddles.com I make pixel art, websites and games
Check out my pixel art course for beginners, PixelSchool.org!
Lospec.com | PixelSchool.org | skeddles.com
l&y @handle.invalid Pixel arts practitioner, and sometimes 3d, and that's not all of it.
AKA lampysprites.
Portfolio: cara.app/lampysprites
Stuff: lampy.casa
No ai, no exceptions.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk Curated game news for game workers & gamers
I run @LostInCult.co.uk's games label • Indie Mixtape creator • Debug IGA winner • BAFTA full Member • ex Super Rare/Numskull/journo • indies + physicals ❤️🏳️🌈
ryan@lostincult.co.uk
Isaac 🌿 @isaacary.com guy who does stuff on web sites. art and code. internet explorer (job title not browser) - https://isaac.zone - he/him
Dianna 🇩🇴 @grlpants.bsky.social IP/Partnerships Producer | #gamedev
D&D #DM & #TTRPG Player|
Red Mage & Spoony Bard
AfroLatina & #Bronx as fug | 🇩🇴
She/ Her
#Dragonage is Life
Reformed Theater Nerd |
Owner of @thesecretlantern.bsky.social
Still Fighting.
https://solo.to/grlpants
The Secret Lantern: Books & Games @thesecretlantern.bsky.social Now Open!!
Indie bookstore + game space in Cedar Park, TX.
We throw game nights, recommend chaotic reads, and love a good plot twist.
🌀 Come hang out.
https://solo.to/thesecretlantern