offbrand games @offbrand.games making cool games before we’re all dead
SOON: 👽 JOHN GLEEP 🎱 Ultrapool 😈 Demon Bluff |💫 Stretchmancer
OUT NOW: 🐸 Bonnie Bear |🔮 Aethermancer |🔥 Rivals 2
brooklyn @bbrooklynn.bsky.social local idiot
˗ˏˋ Neelam ˎˊ˗ @neee.bsky.social She/Her | ✨Chicago-based✨
Senior 3D Artist @owlchemylabs.com
3D Contract Artist @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social
Art Director @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Prev: HakJak Studios, Funomena
neelamjani.com
✨ Opinions are my own ✨
🚫 Say No to AI 🚫
BradStar | Game Dev @bradstar879.bsky.social Indie Game Dev | Software Engineer | Rubik’s Cube Artist
Co-founder of @lostgatorco.bsky.social
Working on That Time I Got Trapped in an Office Dungeon -> store.steampowered.com/app/3424620
Also made Murder At Midnight-> store.steampowered.com/app/1578890
Skizznugget @skizznugget.bsky.social Gamedev
I cant stop making music and art and stuff it makes me so happy
Les! @lezl.bsky.social 28 🇲🇽| Fashion Designer & Illustrator
also game dev and makes silly doodles ✨
Project Manager / Artist @lostgatorco.bsky.social
My website/socials: https://heylezl.carrd.co
Nick McKay @nicholasmckay.bsky.social Chicago indie game dev by day
... and the same by night
Charles Voita @chawlsv.bsky.social Chicago game dev. Working on cool stuff. Sr Programmer @ E-Line Media. Previously Seafrog, One Hand Clapping, Grim Tranquility. (he/him)
https://chawls.itch.io/
Indie City Games @indiecitygames.org Chicago nonprofit community supporting the local game development scene with exhibitions, playtests, meetups, game jams and more!
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/indiecitygames
Itch: https://indiecitygames.itch.io/
https://www.indiecitygames.org
🚫🤖🚫
𝕮𝖎𝖆𝖓 (key-in) @cianrice.dev Irish lad in Chicago.
DevRel @ Magic Leap
Founder @kohococoa.dev
Prev: BostonFIG, nWay, EA, Harmonix + more
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PMEPDX Out Now: https://bit.ly/pmepdxbsky
HYPER GROOVE AX soon™️
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Thoughts are my own | 少し日本語OK
#gamedev | #indiedev | #rhythmgames
nattie ✨ vaaasm @vaaasm.com Artist, Writer, Gamedev! ✨
Art Director on HyperTyper 2000 💻⚡
Wishlist HT2K now! -> s.team/a/3125430
Solo dev of Hallow Grove, Trash Dungeon, & more
Play Hallow Grove on Steam!🎃: s.team/a/3096140
they/them, 🇵🇷
💛🤍💜🖤
The moose @trueandhonestmoose.bsky.social Any pronouns | Game dev that dreamt they were a software engineer | big fan of critters and cratures both real and imagined | love spooks and spirits | jackalope
Young Horses @younghorses.com Creators of Bugsnax & Octodad! Out NOW PS5, PS4, EGS, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10, Steam, and Nintendo Switch eShop! Join our Discord at http://discord.gg/younghorses . Links to our games and places to buy them -> bugsnax.com | octodad.com
CΛΠDICΞ @candis.bsky.social Video Game Profesh. PR & Marketing // RPR
You'll get a lot of food pics here, friends. Cooking, movies, video & board games and SO much yacht rock, jazz and R&B.
🌸 Content Creator Specialist: Ask me about my current games! 🌸
𝒦𝒾𝓂𝒾 ♡ @kimikimi-more.bsky.social 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 chicago game, film, & stage composer
✨ wishlist the afterlife cafe on steam ✨
📱 @aapiingaming.bsky.social
👾 fortune 500 gaming company marketer
🎵 https://linktr.ee/kimikimi_more
Simon @slepkin.bsky.social Chicago-based #gamedev. I like swarms and robots and unfortunately complex interlocking mechanics!
Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3941030/SOLARFLARE/ before it releases on May 27!
Studio: @swarmforge.bsky.social
Gamejams: knaughts.itch.io/
Seren Briar @faefatalegames.bsky.social they/them | 32 | TTRPG designer
https://faefatale.itch.io
Current Project: SWALLOW RPG, a 1-2 player splatterpunk game about consent and cannibalism
City Wizard Games @citywizardgames.bsky.social Chicago Indie game studio (of one, hi i'm Keith).
Wishlist Dock King - https://s.team/a/2014160?utm_source=bluesky
More - https://citywizardgames.com
Sonk @sonki-boy.bsky.social Harrison || 23 || He/him || Chicago Game Developer || your local blonde boy
Pfp: @yeeobun.bsky.social
Banner: @creaseninja
https://sonki-boy.itch.io
CURRENT GAME: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4775480/TO_THE_CENTER_OF_THE_EARTH/
Wurm Fud (in dev: SLAUGHTER VOID) @wurmfud.itch.io Chicago artist/gamedev. Horror games, art games, and RPGs in no particular order. Overly fond of skeletons holding swords. Chicago Indie organizer.
Currently developing Slaughter Void: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730700/Slaughter_Void_Demo/
Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social Making games for longer than seems advisable.
Recently, AI lead at Take-Two; earlier at SomaSim, Zynga, EA etc.
Doctor of AI, under the hippocratic oath bound to help all game AIs.
Author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/
Hello from Chicago!
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Cam Collins @copperodyssey.bsky.social COPPER ODYSSEY & OTHER ARTWORKS
Formed By Zach @formed-by-zach.bsky.social Freelance game developer in Chicago, IL
In a state of perpetual rumination
Currently reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Currently playing: Scrolling through my Steam library until I get bored
Binary Clone (HyperTyper 2000) @binaryclone.bsky.social Developer of HyperTyper 2000 with @vaaasm.com. Musician.
Occasional pixel artist. Jack of all trades. They/them
Wishlist HyperTyper 2000 on Steam! s.team/a/3125430
Juice_Baby @juicebaby.bsky.social Creator of joy games, appreciator of art, living creature under the sun
My games: https://juice-baby.itch.io/
Join my server to get updates whenever I post a new game!
https://discord.com/invite/TZBCZz9GE9
Trinket Ben @ben.trinketstudios.com I principally wear a programmer hat at Trinket Studios. Arguably I wear other hats there too, but they're tinier and sillier. Battle Suit Aces, Battle Chef Brigade, and a handful of other Unity tinkerings. he/him.
Eric Huang @trinketeric.bsky.social Trinket Studios art guy
Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW @tom.trinketstudios.com Battle Suit Aces coming Oct 7!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/Battle_Suit_Aces/
President/Programmer of Trinket Studios. Battle Chef Brigade,
Battle Suit Aces; Previously Wideload/Disney; Tall; He/him; tom@trinketstudios.com
Cranky Chibi Cthulhu🐙Steam Demo Available NOW!! @littletlalocinteractive.com Kvlt creative team making an 8-bit style, retro shmup/STG. I (lead designer) attempt to keep our online presence relevant.
WISHLIST Cranky Chibi Cthulhu! rb.gy/8g1gcl
All opinions and typos are my own! #gamedev
spacedani2 ✨💖🪐 @spacedani2.bsky.social I paint with pixels!
Also, occasional music, and game dev!
Chicago based.
Stream my debut release, Lunar Psychosis!! out everywhere ✨ https://daniorizaba.hearnow.com
Kailey @kvpm2.bsky.social Project manager by day, director of @indiecitygames.org also by day | Chicago
The Men Who Wear Many Hats @hatsproductions.bsky.social HatsProductions.com
🎩 Max Gentlemen Sexy Business! MaxGentlemen.biz
💀 Organ Trail https://hatsproductions.com/organtraildc/
Working on: Max Gentlemen: Escape From Moriarty Mansion https://store.steampowered.com/app/3047590/
Kevin Geisler @luthyr.bsky.social Programmer/Producer at Young Horses, creators of Bugsnax & Octodad.
Hobbyist Photographer. Perpetually on FFXIV.
Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com Co-founder + President @younghorses.com, creators of Bugsnax and Octodad. (he/him) https://younghorses.com/
The Midwest, USA
Megan Carnes @magmacranes.bsky.social Composer for 🎬 & 🎮 & more: Shouting Down Midnight, This Is Desmondo Ray!, Noclip, _starweaver_, and a lot more
Music Implementer: The Lamplighters League
🎶 game dev making Divinuet
Chicagoan, she/they
megancarnesmusic.com
taplink.cc/freshfromthecoven
Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net Creator of turn-based tactics games and SRPGs; most recently, Together in Battle! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1267210/Together_in_Battle/
📧: sinisterdesign@gmail.com
BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com An anime-inspired, card-battling, narrative-focused RPG from the makers of Battle Chef Brigade. Play now!
Steam: https://t.co/KEwMsjZDhS
PS5: https://tinyurl.com/3afpp5mh
Switch: https://tinyurl.com/7amc5fef
Discord: http://discord.gg/trinketstudios
David Laskey @d-lask.bsky.social 🎮 programmer @ Evening Star
talk to me about volleyball, language learning, one piece tcg, or cycling. if you don't then i'll probably start talking to you about one of them lol
📍chicago
Bumblebean Games @bumblebeangames.bsky.social Solo dev in Chicago!!
Grove: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3307710/Grove/
Ewe Shall Not Pass: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2480210/Ewe_Shall_Not_Pass/
Also a director of Indie City Games
Jonah (he/him)
Sam Castree, III: Ace Attorney @indiegamelawyer.bsky.social Video Game Lawyer, Lord High Executioner at Sam Castree Law. All opinions are *your* own. How do you like that? (You like it very much.)
matt viglione @mattviglione.bsky.social I make games at SomaSim. I help run the Chicago Game Lab. I live in Chicago. Go Sox.
Matt Ryszkowski @mattryszkowski.bsky.social 3D Artist | BA Game Art Columbia College Chicago
Previously at SomaSim, Trixel Creative
Games, VFX, Animation, Entertainment
Greg Wohlwend @aeiowu.com Hard to pronounce videogames.
rj @rj.dcellgames.com direction + writing + trailers + voice direction + "running comms" for UNBEATABLE at @dcellgames.com
also OST + SFX + VO direction for I AM YOUR BEAST, EL PASO ELSEWHERE, TMNT, SPACE WARLORD ORGAN TRADING SIM ++
https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/
Bit Bash Chicago @bitbashchicago.com Chicago's Alternative Game Festival.
Keep up to date by signing up for our mailing list at https://www.bitbashchicago.com/
CatTrigger [Wishlist "Date Time❤️" on STEAM! @cattrigger.bsky.social Chicago-based Artist & GameDev
Made Melissa❤️, No Robots Allowed & MORE!
WISHLIST:
CatTrigger Horror Collection:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3572050/
Date Time:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313010/
Links: https://cattrigger.com/links/
Zvrra Music @zvrra.com Techno Demon | She/They
🪐BOOKINGS: zvrra@proton.me
🪐https://zvrra.bandcamp.com
🪐https://www.subvert.fm/zvrra
🪐cashapp - zvrra
🪐venmo - zvrra
Joey Bleau @jbleau.dev 🏢 Senior Software Engineer II, World of Warcraft
💪 Proud WoWGG Union Member
📍Ann Arbor ➡️ SoCal ➡️ Chicago (current)
🇺🇸 🇩🇪
All views are my own. I periodically delete old posts. I sometimes delete brand new ones.
Megan Varde 🐴 @mvardeparty.bsky.social 3D environment artist @YoungHorses.com on Bugsnax and something else 👁️👁️
I have approximate knowledge of many things
⭐️ she/her
📍Chicago
💍 @hatsproductions.bsky.social
pfp by @tgi.bsky.social
Kathryn Healy @khealy.bsky.social horror author, narrative designer, weird doll collector, goth club haunter (she/her) kathrynhealy.com
Kylie Coyote @kyliecoyote.bsky.social game dev | narrative designer | writing lead for The Elder Scrolls Renewal: Skywind @skywind.bsky.social
here for the girls, gays, & theys.
📍Chicago
my stuff: kyliecoyote.com
Dave Finseth @davidfinseth.bsky.social Senior Product Manager on MTG Arena at Wizards of the Coast | Cooking, Games, Travel | He/him
Zuhn @kevinzuhn.bsky.social Creative Director at Young Horses 🐎 (Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Bugsnax) I play all of the games.
They/Them
dovetail (Fretless is out now on Steam!) @iamdovetail.bsky.social indie dev | sound and music for Fretless the GuitaRPG. Get it here ~ https://bit.ly/Fretless-Game ~
from Chicago
my music/contact: http://linktr.ee/dovetailmusic
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
Brady Soglin @bradysoglin.bsky.social indie game dev. browse my fine softwares!
made Tall Trails, Fossil Corner, & Plant Daddy
overfull.games
sam @samloeschen.bsky.social "Leading" "engineering" at Messhof. Made Wheel World. Making a new thing!
Max Duggan @maxdugganmusic.bsky.social Songwriter & Video Game Composer
Mini Metro, Usagi Shima, Project Timi 🎵🎶
and many more :)
Chicago 🌃
https://linktr.ee/Maxdugganmusic
Karley (´◔‿ゝ◔`) @gleefulbeest.bsky.social 🐝 Making Video Games Gay Again | Artist & hijinks @Young Horses | ex-Philadelphian in Chicago | hiking buddy | community pillar | garden gnome |
Capt Ripley @captainripley.bsky.social She/They | 3D artist and GamDev in Chicago.
Play my games @ http://captainripley.itch.io
🏳️🌈🇳🇮
Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action!
website: www.newarteest.com
Lost Gator Collective @lostgatorco.bsky.social We're Lost Gator Collective! We're a tiny indie game studio based out of Chicago, currently working on: That Time I Got Trapped In An Office Dungeon
Follow our devs!
@bradstar879.bsky.social
@skizznugget.bsky.social
@neee.bsky.social
@lezl.bsky.social
Swarmforge @swarmforge.bsky.social Hi! We're Swarmforge, a miniscule indie #gamedev studio in Chicago.
Wishlist SOLARFLARE today!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3941030/SOLARFLARE/
Discord: https://discord.gg/vPbpk5TB86
Elemera @elemera.com Elemera is an open-world monster tamer game with a persistent simulated ecosystem and a focus on connection rather than collection.
Go to elemera.com for more details or join our community Discord https://discord.gg/pXFKW89mub
Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com Game Director @ Luckshot Games: Big Hops & Sausage Sports Club. Previously: Owlchemy Labs, Battle Chef Brigade, Manifold Garden. Liker of rock climbing, running, sudoku, tiktok. Austin / Chicago guy.
https://linktr.ee/chriswade__
Bun Gun @bungunart.bsky.social Chicago based artist, primarily games
Cat enjoyer
Check out my latest projects:
https://skeeeth.itch.io/degausser
https://knaughts.itch.io/anathema
Business inquiries: bungunart@gmail.com
#art #gamedev
Chris Vasquez @3xchris.bsky.social Just a dad & artist drifting through time & space.
Chicago Game Dev // Photography // Films 🫶🏽
Senior Material Artist @ Thats No Moon
https://www.artstation.com/chrisnvasquez
ANIMAL WELL @animalwell.bsky.social A Game of Secrets - available now on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch
http://www.animalwell.net/
Wyld Land - Demo Out Now! @wyldland.bsky.social Developers of Wyld Land, an Enter the Gungeon and RoTMG inspired bullet hell roguelike MMO!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3387720/Wyld_Land/
Discord: https://discord.gg/6GXWp8UPf5
girlsoft @girlsoftware.bsky.social girlsoftware.com
Adam Gaddis @agaddis1.bsky.social Freelance 3D artist. Worked on the indie game Broombot battlegrounds. Download here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262620/?snr=1_5_9__205
serial shitposter
🚫THIS IS AN ANTI-GEN AI PAGE🚫
Gen ai accounts who follow me will be blocked!
@coraroc.bsky.social @coraroc.bsky.social Coraroc is Coraroc! Run by @metroixer.bsky.social
Wishlist Coraroc: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3963120/Coraroc/
Simon A @eponymoose.bsky.social 🎮 Indie Gamedev 🎮
🚀 Making Sol Mates, a co-op space game for you and your friends!🚀
🪐Play the demo at https://www.solmatesgame.com/ 🪐
Will Carlson is Making Stuff for Games @theredfriend.bsky.social Hi, I’m Will! I write music and make art. I like video games (a lot)
Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social Game dev currently working on Untitled Mech Project!
- Looking for a 3d artist/animator
Community Discord: https://discord.gg/h56uhwYWjM
Engineer/Co-Founder of Actual Nerds (@actualnerds.bsky.social)
Fervir @fervirgames.bsky.social Working on RRRATGAME in #godot
Creator of Creature Keeper
Benn Marion @bennmarion.com Artist and GameDev - artstation.com/benn
COCOBOY 🥥 Demo Disc out now! @cocoboygame.bsky.social A 2D puzzle platformer within a 3D retro gaming simulation! Hack an ’80s cult classic with modded abilities, decorate your room, and witness a fandom take root in 2005.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3589190/COCOBOY/
🔗 https://discord.gg/dCwBCxGcSa
Jordan Mechner @jmechner.bsky.social I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo, Liberty) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social creative director/writer of Crow Country, The Mermaid Mask, Tangle Tower, Snipperclips, Haunt the House. SFB Games w/@sfbtom.bsky.social
Adam@SFBGames.com
Stephen Kick ➡️ Follow me on Instagram @pripyatbeast.bsky.social Studio Head of Nightdive Studios! https://bsky.app/profile/nightdivestudios.bsky.social
Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/stephen.kick/
Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@Moloch_Machine
Slaps🔞 @s1aps.bsky.social Indie Game Dev / Artist - working on, Mecha multiplayer game, Drift Shell
Black 27 He/Him
🔞 Minors Begone!
My itch io: http://s1aps.itch.io
Jasper Boerstra @jappa.bsky.social Minecraft's Art Director
Views and opinions are my own
SmallAnt @smallant.live Neither ant nor small
Twitch.tv/SmallAnt
Quigley @quigjam.bsky.social Digital and Tabletop Game Designer
Advanced Technical Designer @ Schell Games
https://linktr.ee/quigjam
james@quigjam.me- Y @ynot01.bsky.social @ynot01.bsky.social
Christopher Paolini @christopherpaolini.bsky.social Creator of the World of Eragon and the Fractalverse. Artist. Storyteller. Full-time asker of questions. https://linktr.ee/christopherpaolini
ThinMatrix @thinmatrix.bsky.social Indie game dev and Youtuber. Developer of 'Equilinox', now working on 'Homegrown'.
Check out my Youtube channel for devlogs: http://youtube.com/user/ThinMatrix
tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com chicken
BIGMODE Games @bigmode.bsky.social indie game publishing, go bigmode!
bigmode.com
ivy sly @ivysly.com jerk of some trades
ivysly.com
bbno$👶🚫💰 @bbnomula.bsky.social it’s baby no money +1 (808) 900-4493
azzzertyy @azzzertyy.bsky.social - G Garry @garrynewman.bsky.social The g in gmod
Joshua Hallaran | 8-Bit Adventures 2 @criticalgamesau.bsky.social Australian indie behind 8-Bit Adventures 2 - a turn-based JRPG focused on story + characters! #indiegame
Buy or Wishlist here: https://linktr.ee/8bitadventures2
Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social ✦ UK Indie Dev & Co-Founder of Robust Games (@robustgames.bsky.social) • Made Loco Motive - a train based murder mystery game! • Pixel Artist, Animator, Writer & Designer • IGF Award Finalist 2026 • BAFTA Member
🗡️ Buy: s.team/a/1709880 🌐 robust.games
Alex @orbitalowl179.bsky.social He/him - 3D artist and co-founder of Prismapunch Games, working with Foehammer Group
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app