Christophe De bont ๐ gamescom @cdebont.bsky.social Kindness above all else ~ building the future of sustainable Belgian #gamedev @vlaamsavfonds.bsky.social ~ raising videogame literacy everywhere else ~ EN/NL ~ he/him
DEATH PLASTIC ๐ origins game fest @deathplastic.bsky.social A tabletop miniatures publication by @failnaut.bsky.social. Coming in Q2 2026. Website in progress!
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design | ๐ALLโ๐พWILLโ๏ธRISE๐ | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics ๐+๐น liberation
grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com .1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc
https://grapefrukt.com
Char @alphachar.bsky.social making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social ๐ฅ making playful things
๐ฆโโฌ he/him
๐๏ธ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Greatest Trek and The Greatest Generation @greatesttrek.com Star Trek podcasts by embarrassed nerds @benjaminahr.mobi and @cutfortime.bsky.social
Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Turn on your radio and hide. welcometonightvale.com
Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games Making games, and helping others do the same @ decaying.games
Busy with a full-time consultant gig.
Making a vending machine game after that: decaying.games/discord
Done a bunch of games and VR.
For other things me: @deekej.bsky.social
Swedish. He/Him
Zoรซ โBaddie Proctorโ Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please donโt tell anyone Iโm here, Iโm just trying to exist ๐คซ they/them
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
@entomancy.bsky.social @entomancy.bsky.social Insects, Warhammer, writing. she/her
Mia Mulder @miamulder.bsky.social YouTuber, Political Operator
She/Her
Host of Be Gay Solve Crimes & LeechFest
www.MiaMulder.com
www.BeGaySolveCrimes.com
Gary J Kings ๐ฎ๐๏ธ Game Trailer Maker @garyjkings.bsky.social Hobbyist photographer and professional trailer maker, game writer, game designer, and some other useful stuff. He/Him.
Trailers+contact: https://garyjkings.wordpress.com/
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
The Elder Scrolls Online @elderscrollsonline.com Update 50: Live Now - all platforms
Season One: Live Now - all platforms
Visit elderscrollsonline.com for more info.
ESRB RATING: M
Riker @riker.itch.io I make games ๐ฎ
https://linktr.ee/realriker
Cukia โSugarโ Kimani @sugarbycukia.xyz Hi ๐, I make games under ALL DAY ALL NIGHT, a small mom-and-pop dev shop I run with my partner, @riker.itch.io.
Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social Accessibility specialist, helping studios avoid excluding disabled players. DMs are open, if you prefer email i_h@hotmail.com
Dave Wiskus @dwisk.us Two-Time Emmyยฎ Award Attendee.
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
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube โ๏ธ
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDURโS GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond โจ๐
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him ๐
Lia @liasae.bsky.social French-Swedish UI game engine plumber, textile tangler (Fibraquarelle) and glassblower-in-training. DIYing public health since 2020. Ranter extraordinaire. Queer. No pronouns, else they/iel/hen.
WINGS @wingsfund.me Investing in AMAZING indie games by teams founded or co/founded by women and gender marginalized developers ๐ฎ๐ฅโจ
PITCH your game โถ https://www.wingsfund.me/pitch ๐
AstridMie @astridmrefstrup.bsky.social CEO @wingsfundme Parttime law student. Dyslexic โ๏ธShe/her.
Brenden @brendengibbons.bsky.social Senior Game & Narrative Designer (Lucky Punk, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, Say No! More, Minute of Islands, Last Day of June, etc) - He/Him - Avatar by Viv Schwarz
Portfolio: brendengibbons.me
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Martha Henson @marthasadie.bsky.social Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight Biosphere. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
Sherida H @gamesbysherida.bsky.social ๐บ Making games again ๐บ Made Beyond Eyes ๐บ Working on Trails of Life ๐บ Post Covid recovering
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
Peter Silk / KestrelPi @kestrelpi.bsky.social Community Support Manager @ Double Fine
Sometimes Video Games Maker and Composer
Little Scamp
He/Him.
This is a personal account with personal opinions and/or bad jokes. Profile pic by Michael Firman
Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social Dual British/Irish citizen in Ireland. #FBPE Rejoiner. Cat lady. Lymphoma survivor. PhD Biochemist. Watercolour artist. Trans ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Former pharma manager. Querying not one but two novels! www.judisutherland.com for more stuff.- B @beermat.bsky.social @beermat.bsky.social
Geoff Marshall @geofftech.bsky.social If I had more time, I would have edited you a shorter video.
Transport Filmmaker : bit.ly/2TBWFsX
Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social Author & photographer Luke Agbaimoni's project capturing stations & stops on the London Underground tube map.
Tubemapper.com
๐ฐ Book,Prints & Calendars
โ luke@tubemapper.com
DM for info
Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social UK Indie Game Dev - Recently "The Horror At Highrook"
A clockwork-card narrative-board game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/The_Horror_at_Highrook/
Previously "Into The Pit", BigRobot, Phd in the digital sublime
Creature Cheeseman @psychicteeth.bsky.social upholsterer / sourdough / handyman / cough gamedev cough
butlerian jihad in bio
some games:
psychicteeth.itch.io
https://store.steampowered.com/app/221180/Eufloria_HD/
Fergus Doyle @mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social Brittunculus. A frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe. Something Yorkshire in the state of Denmark. I write games and sometimes I put them online.
Narrative Designer, Sea of Rifts: https://www.seaofrifts.com/
Website: https://mrfergusdoyle.com
Daniel Nye Griffiths @d-nye-griffiths.bsky.social Technology, media, communications. Ex-journalist. Opinions are mine and not representative of my employer. He/him.
ๆๆ็ Jade Leamcharaskul ๐ต @jdwasabi.bsky.social ๐น Composer-Arranger โข ๐
Game Audio + Events Producer โข ๐ฅ Taiko drummer
๐ Launching live game music events
๐ IGDA London Co-Chair โข ๐๏ธ POCInPlay โข ๐ญ BAFTAGames โข ๐ Future Class 2022 โข ๐Game Dev Heroes Sound Award Winner 2020 โข She/Her โข ๐น๐ญ๐ฒ๐พ โข ๐ซ GenAI โ
Anna Winterstein @awstein.bsky.social Game Designer & Writer - Burnt-out raccoon
โ Coffee Talk 2 & Tokyo ๐ฎ Ex-Lively Studio
๐๏ธ Words in LITG, F1 Manager, Anchored Hearts, BCS Mag
๐ฅ Baguette in Porridgeland
Trans rights are human rights, I can't believe that needs to be said.
awstein.com
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Khan @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social Looking for my next opportunity โ GDC speaker 2025 & 2019 โ Dead Island 2, Gears: Tactics, LotRO, f2p games โ sasspot, ethnic mutt, tired, bi, adhd, she/her โ back on my Tumblr word nerditry as jetsetnarrative
C.Bedford @cbedford.bsky.social Artist, one half of ร la mode games. Working on the indie title Sorry We're Closed : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796580/Sorry_Were_Closed/
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Bertine van Hรถvell @baroness.bsky.social Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
๐ต Indie Dev
๐ Freelance Game Designer and Writer
๐ฎ Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
โจDGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
๐ธ www.lostagain.nl - DM open
...
she/zij ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ช๐บ
Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and more. Narrative Director on Battlefield. Previous Horizon Forbidden West/CalloftheMountain- Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own.
He/him. www.andrewwalsh.com
Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
๐ฑ http://www.janeng.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.
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleachโs horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social โจThings and Stuffโจ
anitasarkeesian.com
Rebbbbb @mintyreb.bsky.social Pixelles Director and UI/UX Technical Artist in games
โ she/elle/iel
๐
potato chip expert
๐ป game dev mom
Sarah Ford ๐๐จ๐ฅ๏ธ Time Zone Era @angeloslh.bsky.social Freelance Concept/2D/UI artist - Total War Battles:Shogun/Rome II/Fable Fortune/The Bradwell Conspiracy/Voodoo Detective/Onlycans:Thirst Date
UI Designer on Pacific Drive/Date Everything!
Enquiries: saford@outlook.com
She/Her
www.saford.art
#Art
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||๐Seattle || ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social Senior Character Artist โจ
Jenni @pixiejenni.bsky.social Editor and writer. Academically interested in alchemy + magic. Asexual, ADHD and OCD-having nerd.
Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Play-Ability Cognitive Expert. Accessibility (LiS: Double Exposure) / Cultural Consultant (Dragon Age: The Veilguard). Podquisition. Access-Ability. Author. 2024 Journalism Impact Winner. 2024 GA Conf Best PR / Comms Winner.
LauraKBuzzOfficial@Gmail.Com
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands โข made a really big video game once but is doing something else now โข tha Gร idhlig agam โข cannot be killed โข cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they โข e/iad ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Eevi Korhonen @silliet.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer @Housemarque. CONTROL, Returnal, SAROS.
I like weird things. Bigots need not follow.
She/her
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Making Wax Heads: cosy punk record store sim!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Discord: https://discord.gg/7UVZ7SBExE
Father of Twins
https://murraysomerwolff.com
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
failnaut @failnaut.bsky.social i help nonprofits, organize workers, paint minis, make games at @skullshapedmoon.com, write @deathplastic.bsky.social, and i love my wife @thatbgdork.bsky.social
anti-AI, trans rights are human rights (he/him)
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social Writer and composer on Friends at the Table - Side Story - Media Club Plus
nat. @natclayton.bsky.social girl who makes levels
zero company๐ธ highland song ๐ธ tron catalyst ๐ธ unbeatable charts ๐ธ ???๐ธ she/they ๐ธ avi by aurahack ๐ธ vancouver edition
Elbi @elbi.bsky.social "Michael" ยท game dev since '12 ยท June's Journey, SelfCare, Ghost Detective, others ยท freelance design/code ยท ๐ purple, boardgames, cats ยท @derElbi elsewhere
he/him or they/them
Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช & Vienna ๐ฆ๐น
Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social Pale. Curious. Game-maker. Writer. (de-)Archivist.
Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her.
Current things:
- Darkened Hill & Dale ๐ฒ๐๐๏ธ
- TERMINUS ๐ฒ๐๐
- Trick or Retreat ๐๐ฒโโบ๏ธ
links.patchworkfez.co.uk
Hanna @thebirdmountain.bsky.social Head of Community @landfall.se ๐
Lover of questionable home decor, gold eyeshdow and expensive meals ๐๐ฝ๐ท
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
devoted homo ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Konstantinos Dimopoulos ๐ Gamescom Dev @konstantinosd.bsky.social Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Reverse Hurricane @lordmune.bsky.social A phone reflected. Game designer. [Unannounced], Dune: Awakening, [unannounced], Crusader Kings III, Stellaris, else Heart.break().
Posts are *extremely* my own.
Byron Aytoun @baytoun.bsky.social Game Designer for Stellaris at Paradox Development Studio. he/him
Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social Gamedev, cat lover, shitposter, content designer @ Paradox (Stellaris, Cool Unannounced Game) |
http://giadazavarise.com/ | https://cheerfulgoth.itch.io/ | https://cheerfulgoth.bearblog.dev/