Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Diamond Geezer Blog @diamondgeezerblog.bsky.social Announcing new posts on
@diamondgeezer.bsky.social's blog
diamond geezer @diamondgeezer.bsky.social East End blogger bloke (2002-2026) diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
Vialixia @vialixia.bsky.social I'm Sally ๐ CEO of UK-Based Game Studio SilentGames! DM me for game dev support & advice! // All opinions are mine only โจ //
Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social Game systems designer. Worked on Directive 8020, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Fights in Tight Spaces, and others.
๐ต๐น Portugal-born, now London-based. ๐ฌ๐ง
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. ๐๐น Typos promised.๐ผโค๏ธ
AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app Adanna (She/Her) Game Writer, Narrative Designer, Researcher, Dev, Speaker|๐น๐น๐บ๐ธ|๐ AFNarratives@gmail.com
๐บ Cat Mom ๐บ
afnarratives.carrd.co
John O'Really ๐๐ฃ๐ช @johnoreally.bsky.social Technical Artist @ NDA on NDA ๐ผ๐ป๐คบ๐ถ
John_O_Really on Twitter
โฆ Prev: Cult of the Lamb, Vampire Survivors
โฆ Shaders & Real Time VFX โจ
โฆ ADHD :) ๐ซ
โฆ They/them
https://johno.re
(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social Turning caffeine into code, via questionable osmosis.
Founder of Ropixel, specialising in Gameplay, Tools, Optimisation &c programming within Unity & Unreal (& soon, Godot) .โซ๏ธLet's chat!
GamesAid & SpecialEffect Ambassador
Marcus Montgomery @marcusingames.bsky.social Creative Director / Game Design Director @cstoneintstudio
www.sleepy-genius.com
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
@squirreleiserloh.bsky.social @squirreleiserloh.bsky.social
rayla heide @jellbug.bsky.social Franchise Narrative Director @ Scopely. Previously Netflix, Riot Games, Unannounced Blizzard Survival Game, Mageseeker. She/her.
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | โSingularly horrifying โ 5 starsโ
Narrative Lead & Writer
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.
Theresa Duringer @tduringer.bsky.social CEO & Owner @Temple_Gates. We make boardgame apps like Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.
Elaine @muselle.bsky.social Studio Director @ HeartLoop Games | Faculty and Coordinator @ IVGD - Dawson College | Coordinator @ Pixelles | She/Her | Game Dev Mom
Natasha Miller @natashamiller.bsky.social
@tylermakesgames.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social
Jacob Garbe ๐ @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.
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/
Elaine Gรณmez โจ @elainegomez.bsky.social ๐ฎ Founder & Game Director | Midnight Hour Games
๐ต๐ท๐ฉ๐ด President | Latinx in Gaming
โจBAFTA Breakthrough US 2024
๐ชถEnrolled tribal member, Higuayagua Taino of the Caribbean
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. โค๏ธ๐
https://linktr.ee/aliciafortier
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)
SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social Bringing the kampung together to support the people and a world in need.
PFP: โช@harecygnus.bsky.socialโฌ | Cover by โช@chiielein.bsky.socialโฌ
Charity bundle: https://itch.io/b/2979/play-for-peace-games-for-palestine-2025-charity-bundle
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Matteo Menapace ๐ @baddeo.bsky.social Very serious game designer https://ma.tteo.me
ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social (she/her) I'm ebi-hime & I write VNs inc. Blackberry Honey & It gets so lonely here
carrd: https://ebihime.carrd.co
discord: http://discord.gg/5swZWV8fzU
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ebihime
email: ebihimes@gmail.com
Jerica Webber @jericawebber.com no mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
Katie Goode @mrsgame.dev Creative Director @triangularpixels.com
#VR #AR #BAFTA #breakthroughbrits. Made UnseenDiplomacy, SmashHitPlunder. Help run @cornwall.games
#gamedev #indiedev
Opinions my own
http://mrsgame.dev
davemakes๐ถ @mixolumia.com indie gamedev in japan โข mixolumia โข executive golf dx โข core fault
Martin ๐จ @lydmartin.bsky.social Sound purveyor @noknok.bsky.social
Done work on: Sable, GoNNER, Dome Keeper, neverway , Tiny Glade, Townscaper, Manifold Garden
kc ๐ play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net โจ game dev & translator / @tokyoindies.comใฎในใฟใใ
๐ฎ made A YEAR OF SPRINGS / a pet shop after dark / A TAVERN FOR TEA / &c.
โถ๏ธ site โ npckc.net
โถ๏ธ blog โ tnywndr.cafe
Chris Cox @closecosmos.bsky.social Art Director (prev Roll 7 / ustwogames) ๐ Illustrator ๐ AD on Apple Design Award winner Ordia ๐ Bafta Breakthrough Brit ๐
Ben McInnes - Making ๐๐ @benmcinnes.bsky.social Designer, programmer and occasional hardware tinkerererer
One half of @lootdonkey.bsky.social
Making Fool King (Wishlist now)
He/him
mari โจ @catamariii.cloud media producer in the game industry โญ
sometimes I draw, sometimes I pet cats, sometimes I type fast on mechanical keyboards
๐ธ she/her
๐ฑ vegan
๐ฆ born on the first day of summer
https://catamariii.carrd.co/
jenny @qdork.bsky.social posting (at least) 1 video a day until my video game, CONSUME ME, sells one million copies.
buy now! ๐๐๐๐๐
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/consume-me/id6769877287
steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me/
Spoonie ๐ฎ @spoonienet.com artist, game dev, writer
audhd queer disabled baddie
they/them ยท horror ยท accessibility
involved with: sony, the horror game awards, impact (manycats), ig50, DARK
โ๏ธ li@spoonienet.com
๐ www.spoonienet.com
๐บ youtube.com/@spoonienet
๐ฝ๏ธ twitch.tv/spoonienet
Juju @jujuadams.com GameMaker Planeswalker (Skies Of Chaos, SK: Pocket Dungeon, Deltarune, Disc Room, Swords Of Ditto, Hyper Light Drifter). I also do open source stuff
https://www.jujuadams.com/
he/him
copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com I write about technology politics. Please read Horrific/Terrific for anti-capitalist analyses of tech & society https://www.horrific-terrific.tech/
I also produce Computer Says Maybe: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast
georgiaiacovou.com
Afry Curiel @afrycuriel.bsky.social
Jen @jenuinepanic.bsky.social Baby trail runner. Gym hamster. Once made a game about puns.
Gio(vanni) Rubino โก๏ธ A MAZE @gioborrows.bsky.social โ๏ธ๐๐ฎNarrative and Game Design (MD Studio, Kittens in Timespace)
Teaches Indie Game Dev at Falmouth University.
Based in Turin, Italy, originally from Apulia.
Ben Bertoli ๐ซ @radishgames.com Indy-based board game designer, games journalist, and teacher ๐
Designed Bark Magic, Head Hauntcho, Mythic Menu, and Sands of Crime (coming soon!) ๐ต
Bylines at Polygon, Game Informer, IGN, APWOT and many more ๐ซ
Marijam Didลพgalvytฤ @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic โ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis ๐ธ๐ด
marijamdid.com
Games Transformed @gamestransformed.bsky.social Games Transformed is a volunteer-run organisation celebrating games and radical politics ๐พ
We run a yearly festival and game jam, bi-weekly board game nights, and a year round programme of events.
linktr.ee/gamestransformed
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South ๐น
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
fingerspit @fingerspit.bsky.social noisemaker @deconstructeam.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
~
VIRTUE AND A SLEDGEHAMMER.
THE COSMIC WHEEL SISTERHOOD | THE RED STRINGS CLUB | GODS WILL BE WATCHING
https://fingerspit.bandcamp.com/
max turnbull @max.please.rest game developer working on young suns @ko-op.com
i like capybaras and sports and public transit
portfolio @ cara.app/oats
Anna Barham ๐ NZGDC @annabarham.bsky.social 2026 NZGDA Chair. Managing Director of Balancing Monkey Games. Beyond These Stars is coming 15 October!! on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295060/Beyond_These_Stars/
Julia Makivic @jmakivic.bsky.social I make alternative controller games about ghosts, organic technologies and parallel worlds.
erin louise harrison @erinlouise.bsky.social level designer @ mografi games โญ
prev LD @ za/um studio, media molecule, cardboard sword
bafta games connect & juror | professor layton fan ๐ฉ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinlouise/
Cassia Curran @cassiacurran.bsky.social Curran Games Agency founder - biz dev for XR game studios, consultant for games funds. she/they. hello@curran.games
Dan @deathbulge.bsky.social Creator of DEATHBULGE. Spent several years on an RPG where you kick down every door. Check it out here: https://s.team/a/1083790
Contact: isitsafe@gmail.com
Bianca ๐ผ @biancathemaker.com Artist & Animator
Calliope Ryder >NZGDC @callioperyder.bsky.social Made that hobbit game.
Gamedev, Producer, Artist, PR
On some neat lists (hi ma!)
Now: game analytics platform director @ GYLD. Resident cozy-game-expert @ Dragon Snacks.
Prev: Lead Producer on Tales of the Shire @ Wฤtฤ Workshop, Gamerunner @Starcolt
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Made Wax Heads (out now on Steam / Switch / PS5 / Xbox)
Now working on: ๐๐๐๐
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Father of Twins
https://murraysomerwolff.com
Els White @elskwhite.bsky.social I make games at spiderlilystudios.itch.io and I write tutorials for GameMaker, but more importantly I love my cat Tilly. Retrace, Schrodinger's Catgirl, Cabernet. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โฟ๏ธ he/him
David H @nachimir.bsky.social
Feral Vector @feralvector.bsky.social Yorkshire-based festival about games, gamelike things, and making
School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.
โ https://sfpc.study/links
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social A geographer who makes games and interactive stories.
Creator of Pin the Tale, a game about discovering and telling stories of places using what3words: https://pinthetale.co.uk/
jackalowe.co.uk
Nina Kim @rainysector.bsky.social Senior Designer at Rare
jwest @follysoft.bsky.social Dad, photographer, gamemaker
follysoft.github.io
jwest.itch.io
Eric Park now awake for GDC again @pjheric.bsky.social He/they gayme designer. UCI GDIM '24 | USC IMGD '27
@pjheric1219 on Twitter (but you knew that right?)
Eli๐ @cauleyflowers.bsky.social GARBAGE COUNTRY w/ @noio.games, prev: Cloud Gardens, Nexus Studios ๐ amaze nominated ๐ watson fellow ๐ he/him
Sol Sรกnchez @solmsanchez.bsky.social ๐ฎ Making games at @somberpixel.bsky.social
๐ President of FemDevs Perรบ
๐ซฐ Supporting Peruvian Devs at 7th Beat Foundation
beacons.ai/solmsanchez
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
The Video Game Library ๐ @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ
๐ www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books cataloguedโ๏ธ
New books added daily.
โข Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
โข Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
๐๐ถ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฐ๐พ๐ป๐ฒ @amaiguri.bsky.social ๐From #Writing to #GameDev, Edgy and Adorabelle -- I'll make worlds that touch your heart!๐
Founder of the #Yssaia Worldbuilding Project
https://amaiguri.itch.io/
Myriameใป๏ผ๐ฆ @mllepilgrim.bsky.social Event Producer at @iii-initiative.bsky.social ใป Excecutive Producer gamedev.world ใป Production ConsultantใปPhotographer
Worked on POSSESSOR(S), Beast Breaker, & a lot of other stuffs~
she/herใป๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐
Tobias Kopka @dedux101.bsky.social Programme Director & curator connecting games, culture & XR. Leads curatomic & VRโฏDanceโฏClub, coโinitiated European Gameย Showcase & #ArtOfCoding, and curates gamescom congress. Systemic coach.
Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social Variety Streamer & Charity Consultant ๐ฅฐ โข ADHD brain ๐ง โข Twitch Ambassador ๐ฃ โข @specialeffect.org.uk Ambassador & @safeinourworld.org Patron ๐ NO AI ๐ซ
๐ง Lombucket@gmail.com
๐ฎ Twitch.tv/lomadiah
๐ฎ youtube.com/@Lomadia
๐ฅ๏ธ Lomadiah.com
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
๐พ๐ฟ๐ฝ kb.place ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐พ
castpixel โง๏ธโข @castpixel.bsky.social ๐จ Senior game artist and art director with 20 years of experience | ๐ฎ Pixel artist & gamedev | Playdate dev | โง๏ธโข
๐ ๐ต๐ธ
Clients: Mojang (Minecraft), WB Games, Hasbro, SEGA, Panic, Unity, IDW
๐ฌ christina.neofotistou@gmail.com
๐จ castpixel.artstation.com
Samantha Wren @samwren.bsky.social Narrative Director of a certain video game | prev BioWare, ArenaNet, Monolith | SFF writer | ๐ฉท๐๐
www.samantha-wren.com
Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social Indie gamedev who made Axiom Verge. Special needs dad. Curious about everything. Likes too much stuff and tries to do it all.
axiomverge.com
axiomverge2.com
thomashapp.com
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Words that make you cry or stuff explode. Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. โThe shiny Pokรฉmon of games writersโ -Aidan Moher
Tanya Kan ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ @vividfoundry.bsky.social Vivid Foundry's Founder. She/They; BiDemi. Dev since 2012. 2D+3D art, game design, game writing, production, teaching. We made the award-winning Solace State: Embolden activists, take back power from big corp!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/928000
Ian Schreiber @ianschreiber.bsky.social Game designer, educator, parent.
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social
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
Andreia Gonรงalves @andreiag.bsky.social Sr Social Systems Designer at @EA Full Circle, working on @skate. Previously on @PlantsvsZombies. ๐ต๐น๐จ๐ฆ she/her. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/andreiagg
Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social Comic/Cult Leader/THE DARK ROOM ๐
London. Work: Lee@gagreflex.co.uk ON TOUR ALL 2026! Next tour stops 5-30/8 EdFringe 5 Sept PAX West 9-12 Sept Asylum NEW YORK CITY and MORE!
๐ฑ eli rainsberry ๐ฑ @elirainsberry.com composer -- sound artist -- audio + music designer -- they/them
elirainsberry@gmail.com -- elirainsberry.com
currently: Signet City + Bad Magpie + Surf Club
previously: Wilmot Works It Out, Flock, Saltsea Chronicles, No Longer Home, A Monsterโs Expedition
Adam Jerrett @twoleft.bsky.social Hi, I'm Adam, a game designer who wants to make the world a better place. Reality gamer, developer, and educator by day; pizza-loving, corgi-cuddling, and podcast-hosting by night.
Find me at: https://drjmakes.games
I made this: https://whatwetakewith.us
Gemma Cooper @xgemgem.bsky.social Gaming Director @ DDA PR ๐ฎ
Ex Media Molecule, Bandai Namco, Creative Assembly, Warner Bros.
SCP 100 | MCV 30u30 | GIBiz 100 |
Travel, Disney, F1 and LFC fangirl โฅ๏ธโจ
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
๐พ florencesmithnicholls.com
Dom2D ๐ @dom2d.bsky.social Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Dig Dig Dino, Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
๐ https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Jake Tucker @jaketucker.bsky.social He/him | โ๏ธ | Editorial director @ PC Gaming Show |FrontLeft newsletter| Prev: launched NME Gaming / EIC at TechRadar Gaming & others / special projects @ Red Bull
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called โThe Husbandsโ.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
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