rachel @nershly.bsky.social graceful failure. game programmer, designer, doodler, etc. likes tea. is a she. paints and plays with minis. personal site: https://rachelnertia.github.io/ also: https://linktr.ee/rockstargamesworkers
Rapid Response Deed Poll Service @deedpoll.lgbt https://deedpoll.lgbt
n3rdybirdy | Susi Bauer @n3rdybirdy.bsky.social Bilingual, bisexual chaotic good hobbit | ADHD & Games Industry | Loves D&D, tea, hikes, etymology, puns & cats (She/They)
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Niq @tekf.itch.io Hazel Quantock
pronouns: she/it🏳️⚧️
adjectives: tired autistic butch
shader artist/coder, games dev >25yrs
AuDHD | poly | furry | union girl
fedi: https://pony.social/@niq
https://www.shadertoy.com/user/TekF
Jamie Trimmer 🌱 @trimbo.bsky.social Game designer | Game dev organiser | BAFTA member | Ex-Rockstar Games | 18 years in AAA game dev
RSGWU @rsgworkersunion.bsky.social
UnderDeveloped 2026 @underdevelopedconf.bsky.social UnderDeveloped is a relaxed unconference to celebrate all things games and play: DIY, unfinished and works in progress. July 15th, 1-4pm - Brunswick Square, Brighton.
https://www.underdeveloped.games/
Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social Award-winning reporter. News editor at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open / Signal: kerrblimey.43
Jupiter Doomsday @jupiterdoomsday.bsky.social (She/her) Aro. Ace. Lesbian. Black Chicana. C++ Gameplay and Game systems programmer. VA.
🎙️ https://www.jupiteraispuro.com
🎮 https://jupiterdoomsday.itch.io/
Owen Trett 🦦 @perky.bsky.social Game Trailer Otter 🦦 • Senior Video Editor @futurefriendsgames.com 🎞️ • MCV 30u30 '24 🏆 • LBMentorship committee ⚔️ • FFM suiter 🐾 • They/Them 🏳🌈 • Opinions are own
Hedge Wizardly 🌱🌈 @hedgewizardly.bsky.social Non-binary communist hedge wizard from space. 💛🤍💜🖤 (they/them)
Game Dev Technical Producer, Previously @ Rockstar | IWGB 🌱
Lvl 31 Wizard✨🎲 Spare-time 2D artist, designer, programmer, friendly neighbourhood twitch moderator. No GenAI🚫
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar
Fay Maillardet @faymai.bsky.social Indie dev making kind adventure games. Composer. Designer. Artist. Writer. Singer. Songwriter. Voice Actress. Brit. ND. Spoonie. Queer. She/her. Prev Nintendo. Kent, UK. bit.ly/FayOnTheWeb
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social Game Dev | Ex Rare and Rockstar
My views are my own
they/them
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
IWGB @iwgbunion.bsky.social The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain is a grassroots member-led union fighting for of some of the most ignored and marginalised workers in the UK.
James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Welfare Not Warfare. Free Palestine, from the River to the Sea. 🇵🇸
Long time software engineer.
One time net artist.
Overtime philosopher.
Out of time musician […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@atomless, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social One day I'll share stories with my grandchildren about the twisted reality of end-stage capitalism.
This collection will help me remember.
Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af At ⋂ of software/tech, cities, political economy, uneven dev, labor. Data centers, AI, climate. Obsidian/QGIS/R/LaTeX. (he/him)
Geography Prof at UMBC; Chair Urban Geography SG of AAG.
SEA/THR/ATL/DUB/ATX/PDX/BWI/MTL.
Ben Newbon @bennewbon.itch.io TTRPG designer, AP host & performer.
Videogames analyst at Rare. Vice Chair of IWGB union Game Workers branch
https://bennewbon.itch.io
https://anchor.fm/cybertopiaap
https://youtube.com/@ben_newbon/videos
Say no to genAI
Janokins @janokins.bsky.social Socialist gremlin.
Bassist and Beat Saberer on YT.
David F Chapman @autocratik.bsky.social TTRPG Game designer (Vortex, Doctor Who, WILD, Conspiracy X 2.0, Buffy, Star Trek Adventures, The Laundry), writer, X-Phile, and WILD Dreamer www.autocratik.com he/him
gril @funambulism.com Stories, games, philosophy. Jew.
Currently: Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius
Previously: PUBG: Black Budget, Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
Helle's Belle/Eleanor Hingley/Magpie_Elle @stardustandsigil.bsky.social Queer AuDHD TTRPG/interactive fiction writer and blogger. No AI, Black Lives Matter, trans rights are human rights. Doctor Who: The RPG, Wrath & Glory, Spire, Aegean, Hollows, Diablo: The RPG. Social Media Manager for UK TIN https://magpie-elle.itch.io
Alex @alexforbescalvin.bsky.social Freelance writer, journo and photographer // Done books about RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 & Tomb Raider //
Words – www.thegamesbiz.com
Pictures – www.snapsbycalvin.co.uk
Linktree – www.linktr.ee/Alexcalvin
Eryk @peregrinecoast.press https://eryk.zone
head bookseller at peregrine coast press • award-nominated pierogi-core grafik dezajner & book doula • iwgb game workers • kras mazov stan
leeds
Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice.
We are a UK-based campaign to ensure fair justice in UK courtrooms.
www.defendourjuries.net
Random Bazar @random-bazar.bsky.social 🕹 Jeux vidéo à contrôleurs alternatifs
🎤 Conférences jeu
🛠 Ateliers Educo'jeux
📍 Strasbourg - France - Europe
#altctrl
Contact : festival@random-bazar.fr
https://linktr.ee/rdbz
Cowley Club @cowleyclub.bsky.social 100% volunteer-run, DIY, anarchist social centre in Brighton. Cafe/radical bookshop/library/bar/gig space/base for a variety of activist projects 🖤🏴
georgie @georgiesucks.bsky.social 28 ✰ 1/6 of @guillotine.agency ✰ social media manager for out making games ✰ prev: neonhive, into games ✰ game dev heroes rising star '23 ✰ the game awards future class '23 ✰ same @ on the evil app ✰ georgie@guillotine.agency
Hungry Horrors | Play on Steam @clumsybearstudio.com Clumsy Bear Studio 🐻🎮
A real-life couple
working on Hungry Horrors
a card based culinary adventure
Play now on Steam⬇️
https://clumsybearstudio.com/links
Tone Brennan @tonebrennan.bsky.social Studio Head @ MAG Interactive Brighton, not head of anything at home. CrossFit, running, dog owner, etc.
izzy kantor-jagan @izzydragon.bsky.social senior campaign manager @ YRS TRULY 🎮 prev. Life is Strange (square enix)
brighton based 🌈 she/her
women in games awards nominee for Comms Impact '24 ✨
Jane J @janej13.bsky.social Biz Dev Director @ CULT Games | Prev: Neonhive 💜, EGX 🎮 & MCMComicCon ⚔️ | She/Her
Opinions stubbornly held
H @loooah.com Korean in Eng 🇰🇷🇬🇧
Love cute things
Working at @icopartners.com
Ayo it’s Jack @ayoitsjack.bsky.social Technical Producer at Boneloaf
beacons.ai/jackmarshall
Brighton, Uk
Joe Neeves @limonium.bsky.social He/him. Senior UX/UI Designer for games. Worked on Exoborne, New World, Judas, Microsoft Flight Sim, Apex Legends, and more. Brighton, UK. 🏳️🌈
Yves @yvesalbuquerque.bsky.social 🎮 Game Dev
🐶 Dog Parent
🇧🇷🇬🇧Carioca in Brighton
Flo DR @electric-brunette.bsky.social Player since 1991, storyteller in the entertainment industry since 2007. Freelance PR. Formerly at Blizzard Entertainment, Creative Assembly, Double Eleven and Ankama. Lover of indie games, tea and cheese. She/her. Opinions are my own.
Peter Hansen @pitecohansen.bsky.social Brazilian game dev based in Brighton, UK
Previously Head of Tech at FuturLab (PowerWash Simulator 1 & 2), currently working on some cool stuff :)
Escolhido do Botafogo também!
Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social Likes people. Likes making things (usually video games). Also likes bouldering, cycling, art, fossils, books. I've not thought any of this through. He/him. AMA
Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social Helping creative organisations make rapid changes. Previously ops at Playmint / Epic / Mediatonic. Opinions not my own.
Jay Baylis @jaybaylis.bsky.social Game Director @ the BAFTA-Nominated Bytten Studio ► Working on Cassette Beasts 2002, prev: Cassette Beasts + more ► Game Design/Narrative Design/Art Stuff/Animation ► Brighton, UK
Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social Mostly works in marketing. Mostly.
Author of gaming books including Aliens: The Video Games, the first complete history of Alien/s games, available now.
#saintsfc
Luke Thomas @videogamestax.bsky.social #Chartered #Accountant and #Tax Advisor
@plusaccounting.bsky.social for the UK independent #videogames developer and #tech industry.
Joris Navarro @pragmaticlemur.bsky.social Senior Gameplay Designer with 11+ years experience, currently working at Hangar 13 on the next Mafia game, prev Wargaming, Chinese Room, Ubisoft.
Views are my own #gamedev #gamedesign
Kirsty Gillmore @soundswilde.bsky.social Director • Casting Director • #TheFirstDescendant #Valorant #BaldursGate3 #Fortnite #SplinterCellDeathwatch #TheQuietThings #CallOfDuty • Dialogue Producer • Games + Animation + Audio • #BAFTABreakthrough • Kiwi • She/Her www.soundswilde.com
CreativeChris @creativechris.bsky.social Engineering Leader
Striving To Make 3D Tech Accessible
Multiplayer
Unity since 2009
Investor in Fintech and Renewable Energies.
http://chrispope.tech
@notthevampire.bsky.social @notthevampire.bsky.social One half of Just For Fun 🌟 Former video Producer Dicebreaker 🎲 Only moderately vampy🦇 She/her
Christopher Patrick @blankshore.bsky.social 📌Southampton, UK
Probably at the movies! Follow me on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/PF9V
Previously Head of Comms @ Mooncat Games
Previously 📽️ @ Southampton FC
Chris Olsen @olsen.bsky.social Writer/Director/Animator
Co-founder of something new...
Prev: Directed Somerville- Animator/Previz Artist @ Animal Logic, The Third Floor, DNeg, Passion Pictures, MPC, Ninja Theory.
https://linktr.ee/olsey
Lilly D @lillydev.bsky.social Art/Creative Director & Co Founder @ ??
BAFTA Member.
human shaped cryptid, concrete enjoyer, easily distracted by your dog
Brighton, UK
https://linktr.ee/lillydevon
Flo Burchill @floburchill.bsky.social 👾 Creative Producer & Twitch Streamer at Snap Finger Click
Dan Goodayle @dannygoodayle.com Game Dev based in 🇬🇧, Brighton
Engineering + Unreal + Planes + YouTube + Motorcycles
Currently: Running hiddenstate.games
Prev: S. Eng Manager 2 @ Zynga / Take2, Just a Pixel co-founder, Brighton Game Collective
NaCty ✨🦇 @nacty.bsky.social 🎮 Producer
🇬🇧 Brighton
🦇 Horror enthusiast
🪡 Fashion afficionado
vicki @vickitingle.bsky.social one half of canteen @canteen.bsky.social
working on REMOTE CONTROL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253280/REMOTE_CONTROL/
developer of corponation http://bit.ly/CorpoNation
solitaire aficionado
she/her
Enrique García @enriquegper.bsky.social 🎮 Helping game studios to launch cool games
🕹️Video Games Marketing, Comms, and more @icopartners.com
📧 enrique@icopartners.com
Justin French @justin.gamedatacore.com Co-Founder, CEO, Product Manager & System Architect @GameDataCore - The De-Risking & Decision Intelligence Engine for the Games Industry - Launching Soon! #GameDev #IndieDev
Dream Harvest Games @dreamharvest.co.uk #Indiedev / #GameDev building genre-defying, narrative-rich strategic experiences influenced by board games. Lovers of strong coffee and late nights.
Join us on discord at https://bit.ly/4fpoeOE
Studio Gobo @studiogobo.bsky.social Studio Gobo is renowned for working on acclaimed and award-winning games, with the very best publishers and game creators.
Luke Hebblethwaite @lukethehebble.bsky.social Video games / music / creative industries kinda guy.
Former Head of Games at BAFTA, prev. Insight Manger at Ukie
Runs UK Games Composers: https://gamescomposers.co.uk/
Here to fight the good fight for games.
Rip 'n tear until it is done.
Nina Kim @rainysector.bsky.social Senior Designer at Rare
Galaxies Showcase @galaxiesshow.com A digital event bringing you video game world premieres and announcements every April and every October
The next edition of Galaxies will stream 15th October 2026
GalaxiesShow.com
twitch.tv/galaxiesshow
youtube.com/@galaxiesshow
Lisa Eliasson @lisaeliasson.bsky.social She/Her🌻Communications Manager @icopartners.com🌻
@specialeffect.bsky.social Ambassador🌻
Swede living in the UK but happiest in the mountains <3
Lisa Kneidl (she/her) @lisaorgana.bsky.social PR Manager @larianstudios.com - Previously @icopartners.com - Cosplayer - Twitch Affiliate - GDC Speaker
🇩🇪 based in 🇬🇧
linktr.ee/lisaorgana
Jessica Richard @winterfaye.icopartners.com EN/FR Senior Communications Manager @icopartners.com
Ex Dotemu & The Arcade Crew.
Pro: jessica@icopartners.com
David Ortiz @kroniksan.bsky.social Computer Engineer (he/him) | COO @icopartners.com
♥️ games, Bikes, Japan, Aikido and games industry chatter
Prev: Teamkano, GuildWars2, NCSOFT
Dan Pearson @danbosh.bsky.social Neurodivergent games industry comms specialist retraining as a psychotherapist.
Games. Dogs. Foods. Colossal existential anxiety.
Laura Fournier @fournierlaura.bsky.social Senior Producer @ Arrowhead on Helldivers 2.
Formerly Nerial (@devolverdigital.com)
Rupert Loman-West @rupert.justabout.com Founder of Just. Chair of Hookshot Media. Previously Founder of Gamer Network. Support Brighton!
Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 DICE Europe @icotom.icopartners.com 🙋 Co-founder of @icopartners.com | @crowdfunding-agency.com | @mightymerch.store
👾Supporting self-publishing game companies (Strategy | Marketing | PR)
🙆♂️Crowdfunding specialist (Kickstarter Community Advisory Council member)
FuturLab @futurlab.co.uk The award-winning studio behind PowerWash Simulator, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, Velocity 2X & more | Great games 🤝 no crunch | bit.ly/FuturLabCareers
The Chinese Room @thechineseroom.co.uk Critically-acclaimed games studio in Brighton UK.
Creators of Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Still Wakes the Deep, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
Working on new unannounced projects. ✨
Player Research @playerresearch.bsky.social Video game research ◐ Enabling game developers to gain meaningful insights from real players ◌ A Keywords Studio • #GamesUR #UX ◍ Signup to try new games!
JD @jd2302.bsky.social IWGB Game Workers Branch Secretary
Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com Unionizing the games industry one person at a time. Cofounder of @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com.
Game worker, rock climber, cat hugger based in Glasgow, Scotland.
https://www.austinkelmore.com
Jess @ellynart.bsky.social 🌙 artist of some kind
🐱 she/her
Union Workers’ Union @unionworkersunion.org Founded by union workers, for union workers. We represent workers of trade unions and professional associations in the United Kingdom. We're a #TradeUnion that's independent, campaigning and member-led.
Join us today at unionworkersunion.org/join
Debug Magazine @debugmag.com The indie games magazine // Available in print and digital // Order support: help@teamdebug.com
Subscribe Now: debu.gg/sub
For Developers: debu.gg/dev
Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social Doing this and that, now and again, hither and thither.
Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk Clapton Community FC
East London's 100% fan-owned and fan-run football club
Women's First Team play at Tier 6 and Men's First Team at Tier 9
Our home: @oldspotteddog.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/claptoncfc
IWGB Game Workers Northern Ireland @gameworkersni.bsky.social Representing the Northern Ireland regional group of IWGB Game Workers Union
Join our union here: http://iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game-worker
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Marie Vilain @bloodyfoxie.bsky.social Indie Games Producer 🎈 Formerly at @maschimensch.bsky.social Snowcastle, Flatter Than Earth, Land & Sea, Krillbite and DON'TNOD 🎮 ENJMIN P12 🎓 🇫🇷
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
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I make games. I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Games Transformed @gamestransformed.bsky.social Games Transformed is a volunteer-run organisation celebrating games and radical politics 👾
We run a yearly festival and game jam, bi-weekly board game nights, and a year round programme of events.
linktr.ee/gamestransformed
Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | NOW: Kinali Works & Stupendium Softworks | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️ 💜🤍🖤💚 | she/her | annacwebster.com
IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk The largest union for game devs in the UK.
Work in game dev or TTRPG? Join the union: https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/
Steve Rose (Hopkins) @steve-rose.bsky.social Enjoying being a dad, husband, and then having some time for board games and performing in amateur musicals and plays at the Dolman Theatre, Newport. Work fits in somewhere too.
Sam ಠ_ಠ D'Elia @samdelia.bsky.social freelance bd mostly working on Among Us🔪 + Vampire Survivors🧄 also: BAFTA Games 🏆 general flaneur 🏳️🌈
Chris Wulf @christopherwulf.com 💸 Biz Dev @fellowtraveller.games
👀 Senior Business & Event Manager @iii-initiative.bsky.social
📚 Festival Manager #LudoNarraCon
📈 BD Stuff @ Monster Prom
He/Him - I love F1 🏎️
Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social 🍊 Founder, designer, artist, programmer http://blendogames.com
🍊 Most recent release: SKIN DEEP http://blendogames.com/skindeep
🍊 Blog https://blendogames.com/news
🍊 Co-founder https://glitch.city
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Thomas Reisenegger_xcx @olima.bsky.social co-founder & director Future Friends Games
futurefriends.lol
publishing & self pub support for cool indie games // this is what dreams are made of // he/him // 6 x GDC speaker // latest GDC talk https://youtu.be/-341jEXj-iI
Future Friends Games @futurefriendsgames.com indie games publishing & self-publishing support
cool games for cool people by cool people
since 1896
games http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/futurefriendsgames
Sickhouse @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social 🎈 Playful art space for
🪅 interactive art
🕹️ indie&art games
🎬 alternative movies
🪩 experimental music
🇳🇱 Enschede, The Netherlands.
🔮 Home of The Overkill Festival 💜🌈
sickhouse.nl
theoverkill.nl (26 - 29 Nov 2026)