Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jon Whitmore @encrypted9h057.bsky.social Formerly snwbrdtraing
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
Soren Johnson @sorenjohnson.bsky.social Founder of MohawkGames. Designer of Civ 3, Civ 4, Dragon Age Legends, Offworld Trading Company, and Old World. Still a Mouth Breather.
Rachel Heleva @hlywa.bsky.social games, systems, verse @ http://singlab.org
building the future of playable culture @ http://themade.org
scouting games & supporting teams @ https://tophat.studio/
curating convos & events @ gamesbeat.com
Arcane Bullshit @arcanebullshit.bsky.social Profane nonsense for a trivial lifestyle.
arcanebullshit.com for physical bullshit.
Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art Everything you see on the internet is real.
Making spooky images on Photoshop. He/Him.
All my work and links: https://valdevia.art/
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Ben Wright @benwrightatl.bsky.social I used to work for a hockey team and I used to live in Canada (not in that order). Now I do other stuff.
PEI, ATL, Thrashers nostalgia, random music, food takes, dad life
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social 🫧The Good Witch of Game Dev🫧Lead writer + narrative designer for video games and stuff. Babygirl connoisseur. NOW: Gearbox, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED]. A Host of AIAS' Game Maker's Notebook.
https://linktr.ee/alexaraycorriea
Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social The union makes us strong.
Proud member of the Cringe Community.
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)
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Daniel @c418.org I Music sometimes 🐈⬛
Davey Wreden @hellocakebread.bsky.social The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, Wanderstop
Dorian Hart @dorianhart.bsky.social Connoisseur of fine dad jokes.
Author of the Heroes of Spira epic fantasy series, starting with The Ventifact Colossus.
www.amazon.com/dp/B077LBHV92
Game designer: System Shock 1 & 2, Thief, BioShock
Dad, husband, board gamer, RPG player, hiker. He/him
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
High North Studios @highnorthstudios.bsky.social Creator of retro-style CRPGs. Made "Skald: Against the Black Priory".
www.skaldrpg.com
Let's venture forth!
@oligarchssuck.bsky.social @oligarchssuck.bsky.social Power tends to corrupt.
Absolute 🍊power corrupts absolutely.
It is later than you think…..
Given the current state of affairs 🍊, America 💙💙 needs more satire than ever ….and lots of effort to awaken the 90 million who didn’t vote 🇺🇸
Cosimo Galluzzi @cosimog.bsky.social King of Pizza Island | @fictions.com
Previously: Annapurna Interactive / Heart Machine
www.cosimogalluzzi.com
sam bradley @sambradley.bsky.social ★ current: art director lost records: bloom & rage
★ prev: entergalactic, jett: the far shore, thelma the unicorn, space between stars, etc
★ www.dreamylabs.com
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Charlie Theel @charlietheel.bsky.social Board game critic. Bylines: Polygon, IGN, Ars Technica, Tabletop Gaming Magazine, Dicebreaker, Geek & Sundry, PC Gamer, Wargamer. Co-hosted the Ding & Dent podcast.
cdtheel@gmail.com
Most of my writing appears at my site, http://playerelimination.com
Crumbing James @crumblingjames.bsky.social The coolest wooden minis this side of the Underdark are coming to Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/.../bekirs-battlers-orcs-and...
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Shannon Lala @lalashannon.bsky.social Colorful and scrappy urban planner living in Brooklyn and working in parks advocacy. Formerly from Texas. Love art, live music, odd movies, vinyl, indie comics, pinball, the subway, and my two pups.
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
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
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social Founder of Pontoco and Project Lead for The Last Clockwinder. Engineer, Game Designer, Tea Lover; in no specific order.
Previously: Lead XR Eng at Funomena | Research at Google Brain
@kleptine on the Hellbirdsite
Neal Laurenza @nealneato.bsky.social 
Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Cloak and Dagger Games • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (BAFTA longlisted), Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, Football Game and more • Working on TBA
UK based/NZ born • Folk horror nut • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/cloakanddaggergames
Rob Koier @koiercreative.bsky.social 3x🏆 Writer & Director
1M+ views for clients
Produced 100’s of videos for nat’l & int’l brands at Koier Creative
www.robkoier.com
Kaya Dzankich @kaya-dzankich.bsky.social 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺
Mostly sketches. Fine artist working in the animation biz. Color Supervisor on “King of the Hill”. 👻
🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
Lee Seymour @leemourseymour.bsky.social Tony-winning writer, producer, gardener. Recovering journalist. Incorrigible theater kid.
0451
Literarily repped by @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
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
Tom Lehmann @tomlehmann.bsky.social Freelance board, dice, and card game designer.
Rob Bliss @therobcat.bsky.social Theme park and podcast enthusiast. Middle aged and just fine about it. I'm not half dead, I'm half alive! I like basic human rights and compassion and stuff. Even advanced human rights. Monster to some, indifferently accepted presence to others, that's me.
Lis @thewritegame.bsky.social Creative Lead: Disney, 20th Century Games.
Working on cool stuff like Alien, Predator, Simpsons, etc. Fmr Senior Game Writer, Narrative Designer
Opinions are mine. she/her
https://www.thewritegame.com
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Trent Polack @trentpolack.bsky.social looking for a new place to make video games.
Previously: Expert Gameplay Designer/Associate Design Director at CD PROJEKT RED, Housemarque (Returnal, Saros), Arkane Austin (Redfall), etc.. Personal account.
https://trentpolack.com
Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social I do words for the likes of PC Gamer, IGN, Edge and The Guardian, and consult for games studios. Developers and publishers: if you're looking for a seasoned mock reviewer, let's talk!
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
Iceberg Interactive @iceberg-int.bsky.social We are a video game publisher for indie developers! Playing it cool since 2009.
https://linktr.ee/Iceberg_Int
Emil Pagliarulo @dezinuh.bsky.social Bethesda Game Studios Veteran. Sentient gingerbread man. Dad. Southie Boy. Video Game Junkie. Rebel Alliance Operative.
#Starfield #Fallout #ElderScrolls
Jeff Row @jeffrow3d.bsky.social 3D artist - game developer
running Studio Polyfire: https://bsky.app/profile/studiopolyfire.bsky.social
Working on Dreams of Sand (and other games) -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3031160/Dreams_of_Sand/
Rudolf Kremers @rudolfkremers.bsky.social Co-creator Eufloria, Bioframe Outpost, and MOAR!
Author, BAFTA Nominated Game Dev/consultant, Writer, Photographer. Making games since 1984, Director Omni Systems Ltd & Publishing
https://www.omni-labs.com/
http://www.rudolfkremers.com/
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Joshua Boggs @jboggsie.bsky.social Game Director & Designer making the hardboiled https://stealth.game @sleightofhand.game
× Made Kojima's GOTY『 FRAMED 』
× Proud Dad / multi-award winning cliché
× He/Him
Evan Balster 🍂 @art.imitates.life they/them. 🪗 game dev, audio software, harmony and decay, swords into ploughshares. Free Palestine.
worked on: imitone, Cave Story, SoundSelf, MIDI 2.0 standard.
currently: HYPERCITY VERMIN, a co-op game
🏠 @evan@merveilles.town
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Randy O'Connor @randyogames.bsky.social Game designer. Artist. YIMBY. randyo.net
Gun It, Stranger Things VR, Roll In One, Escape Goat 2, Waking Mars, Dead End, Spider: TSOBM
I write sometimes: https://randyoconnor.substack.com/
Ɖɵminus @dominuz.bsky.social ✦ Concept Artist | Art Director | Illustrator
✦ Co-founder @shardstone.bsky.social
✦ Taffer art prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/dominus
✦ linktr.ee/pandemoniumarts
Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com 🔸 Making intriguing worlds with heart
🔸 Streets of Fortuna, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Thousand Hells
🔸 Join: http://discord.gg/kitfoxgames
Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com Caves of Qud is a science fantasy RPG & roguelike epic, built on deep simulation, set in an intricately etched, far-future world.
🚀 2025 Hugo Award for Best Game
🖥️ PC Gamer Top 100 games of 2019, 2020, and 2024.
🍄 by Freehold Games & Kitfox Games 🍄
Shane Bettenhausen @shanewatch.bsky.social ★
NO WAR
Ex-EGM/1up, blazing new trails in gaming with PlayStation. (Expressed opinions are my own, and not that of my employer.) RESIST / Stay Woke 大丈夫だ、問題ない (He/Him)
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Henry Smith @hengineer.bsky.social Creator of Spaceteam and soon Blabyrinth! Game Programmer/Designer. Worked at Epic Games, BioWare, Irrational Games. Puzzled Pint GC. New-ish dad. He/him.
Patreon: http://spaceteamadmiralsclub.com
Mastodon: @hengineer@mastodon.social
@alexxkay.bsky.social @alexxkay.bsky.social 
Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others.
MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games.
Next project: TBD!
Thief - The Circle @thiefthecircle.bsky.social This place has lots of shadows to hide in.
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Erik Robson @erikrobson.net Game/level designer | LFW | Valve (Portal 2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact) | Double Fine (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) | 3DO ()
25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
Husband, father, PNW, living through Interesting Times
Grue @bengrue.bsky.social Just a man, not a brand
Nikita @danshinwastaken.bsky.social 🫣Building an abstract imsim
🦝ex: founder Tails Noir
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC
🏳️⚧️ Noone's gonna know
Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social Made Mythmatch, an anti-capitalist merge game. Previously worked on Knights and Bikes, LittleBigPlanet, and Ratchet & Clank.
Mythmatch on Steam: s.team/a/1778050
SON M. 🔜 TGS @bogboogie.bsky.social Award winning court jester📍 chicago
founder, director, designer
co-founder & creative director @ perfect garbage | senior narrative @ elsewhere | d.i.c.e. juror | comics: currently The Hollowed Night #3
theboglands.com
Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
eddybox (hemisphere games) @eddybox.bsky.social Osmos and Karmaka creator (www.hemispheregames.com)
Most recently collaborated on Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (http://apple.co/-Gibbon) w @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social
Living in the alpine meadow...
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
Dana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️ @danaenight.northsky.social Director of level design at Arkane Lyon.
Author of queer speculative fiction.
Transfemme neurodivergent immigrant.
Gay as hell.
she/her fae/faer 🏳️⚧️
Unionized anti-authoritarian leftist 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 BLM
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
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
Grace Bruxner @gracebruxner.bsky.social ive decided to post……. gracebruxner.com for work stuff 
Ty Taylor @imakeindiegames.bsky.social I worked on The Bridge, Tumblestone, Freshly Frosted, Cozy Grove, Marble It Up! Ultra, Sail Forth, Roundguard, and more. Forbes 30 Under 30. He/Him.
Itay Keren @untame.com Dad, husband, designer/developer. Head of Upstate NY game studio Untame, creator of Apple Design Award 2017 winner Mushroom 11. More at untame.com
Matthew Wegner @mwegner.com 🤖 Computer Person
Now:
🧑💻 Code/infra at Capy
Before:
◼️ Aztez
🦖 Flashbang/Blurst founder
📋 IGF/GDC curation systems
💰 Indie Fund founding member
🎙️ Independent Games Summit founding advisor
🧶 Fun-Motion (still online!)
🕹️ TIGSource sysadmin
Joost van Dongen @joostvandongen.bsky.social Game creator. Founder & Creative Director of Galaxy Grove (Station to Station). Former co-founder of Ronimo (Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers, De Blob, Blightbound). Solo creator: Robo Maestro, Cello Fortress, Proun. Composer and cellist of The Ageless Gate
zanderz 🌀 @zanderzzzzzz.bsky.social he/him 🏳️⚧️
🇦🇺🇳🇱
☆ internet loser
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
@mythmasterrpg.bsky.social @mythmasterrpg.bsky.social Official account for MythmasterRPG - a fully featured fantasy tabletop RPG, entirely online, and available for anyone to play for free, right now at www.mythmasterrpg.com . Designed and developed by @ClickNothing.bsky.social
@clicknothing.bsky.social @clicknothing.bsky.social Creator, designer, writer of some videogames you may have played. I (still) (occasionally) blog at www.clicknothing.com. I am also the creator of Mythmaster RPG - available now at www.mythmasterRPG.com Follow @mythmasterRPG.bsky.social, or come and play!
Jason Cross @jasoncross.org Nerd stuff and hobbies I’m into: games, guitar, bread, tech.
I work at Macworld, but nothing I say or do here is in any way the opinion or endorsement of that brand or our company.
Rich Wilson @richwilson.bsky.social Expert Level Designer at CDPR. Arkane and 2K Marin Alum.
Callum Uwunderwood @callum.uwu.biz Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury