austin @aparker.io the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
director of ai strategy @honeycomb.io
av by @extinctinks.net
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Nixxes Software @nixxessoftware.bsky.social Previously TT Games and WeirdBeard Games. A member of Port Jackson Greens and the Sustainable Transport branch of Climate Change Balmain/Rozelle.
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
James Margaris @markymarg2.bsky.social A perfectly harmless box. Game dev, half of Dark Roast Entertainment. Games criticism at http://jmargaris.substack.com
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень
TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social Podcast about the bad times
trashfuture.co.uk
Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
ArchHeather @archheather.bsky.social Hobbyist Game Developer
she/her
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social I know things and squeak a lot.
Begrudgingly Seattle.
Something Awful Leper's Colony @leperscolony.pileofgarbage.net Bot account, unofficial feed for the Something Awful Leper's Colony: https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
Operated by: @pileofgarbage.net
dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social not affiliated with https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com, but I do use their data
if I repost your quote post and you didn’t want it broadcast to a larger audience lmk
maintained by @jojjjajjr.bsky.social
https://github.com/johnmatter/dfbugs
Friedemann Allmenröder @friedemanna.bsky.social ✨ Artist and Game Designer
🎮 made Superflight, ISLANDERS, Pizza Possum & SUMMERHOUSE
👨💻 currently SLOTS & DAGGERS
🎰 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3631290/Slots__Daggers/
Remote Game Jobs @remotegamejobs.com We love Games. We also love remote work.
So we made a place for you to find Remote Game Jobs!
https://remotegamejobs.com
#gamedev #gamejobs
austin (e/chicken 🐔) @thebadcode.com 🦋sre@bsky.team
🐱dad
🪵worker
seattle, wa
Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org Eternal Skies is a moddable singleplayer TCG RPG. It is inspired by GBA/GBC TCGs, Skies of Arcadia, and Slavic mythology There are also a variety of difficulty options and a card creator.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133320/Eternal_Skies_TCG/
Łukasz Piwiński @vaultcrawler.bsky.social 𝕺𝖑𝖉 𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖔𝖑 𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖊𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞 𝖘-𝖋 𝖆𝖗𝖙
https://linktr.ee/vaultcrawler?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYvTgB_R6U1AS6AVfwIqNNDriSLlLXmiHfQIxblb4un7QcFUiD16qnbu7Q_aem_ciNiRcY2ZTNlUQLhIuzSrQ
Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social she/her - writing, newsletter, RSS: https://dialedindie.net - gamedev interview podcast: https://dialedindie.captivate.fm/ - cohost of video game podcast @vgbees.com and music podcast K-YOS - Steam Curator: is it on itch? - icon by liizardemojii
Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social Speaker. Storyteller. Director @MountSinaiNYC, Philosopher. Writer. Aspiring Iron Man. Guy trying to make the world better. Views my own.
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🦾 AI liker 🫐 working on https://vixen.rs to improve build systems 🦀 known for teaching rust and not much else
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Tom Fulp @tomfulp.newgrounds.com I run Newgrounds, co-founded The Behemoth, made a game about The Room and I'm currently making Nightmare Cops!
Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners.
I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA.
I tweet insights about gaming + more.
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social Playful.
elizabethsampat.com
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
Amora B. @amora.ink Practically dripping with ennui.
Tamagotchi collector and character designer on Celeste currently working on something secret!
See more of my art at:
https://amora.ink/
Brazilian/Canadian
She/her
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social Director of marketing & community teams. 14+yrs in game dev. VanCity🇨🇦
Previously: company of heroes, dawn of war, marvel contest of champions, transformers forged to fight, squad, starship troopers
Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net BLIND GAMER | Creator/Host | Available for Accessibility Consulting | Twitch Ambassador | #AMDAmbassador | Future Class 2020 | Biz: steve@stevesaylor.net
stevesaylor.net/links
Work With Indies @workwithindies.com A kind job board and inclusive community supporting careers in #indiegames.
banner by @ericalee.cc
Danielle Partis @daniellepartis.bsky.social Editorial @wire.xbox.com. Former newshound gamesindustry.biz. Chattin' about riffs, robots, D&D, Warhammer and video games. 🏳️🌈
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Johan Toresson @jtoresson.bsky.social Now: Scouting for Raw Fury
Before: Lots of stuff.
Pitch me that new game of yours -> https://form.asana.com/?k=SF4rPk6Y5L-NFSrVml5JOg&d=1123805143377851
(He/Him)
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
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social I write tools and code for videogames!
Links and newsletter: https://yal.cc/links
Rosie T @rtparty.bsky.social 💚 Games Bundle Person
👾 Game enthusiast
🧶 Crochet Hobbyist
🎤 Ex Podcast host
🌎 Patron @ Safe In Our World
🔬 Advisory Board Member at iGGi
🧠 Mental Health Advocate
💛 GIBiz Game Changer ‘23
🌿 Plant based
linktr.ee/rtparty3
Squidly @squidly.newgrounds.com Squid-shaped dev on Renaine
I stream #gamedev weekdays ➡️ twitch.tv/squuuidly
@streamnotifs.bsky.social for stream notifications
Scott Hartsman @hartsman.bsky.social Shipping talks, bullshit walks. I've worked on a ton of MMOs and other online games. Mostly helping games startups these days. Also, corgis. Specifically, one large, lazy one in particular.
__eirik @strotchy.bsky.social https://garyyk.com
Clifton B @cliftonb.bsky.social Designs games with time mechanics || Organizes Demospree || Throws One Drop yo-yos || He/they || Ask about my research & product design workshop!
Play Seasonspree on Switch! https://bit.ly/seasonspreeswitch
Not on Steam! https://bit.ly/seasonspreesteam
Shams jorjani @shamsjorjani.bsky.social CEO Arrowhead Game Studios and video game "enthusiast". Still not a vampire.
Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social knyght full of thought and slepy • musician (harrison lemke, brother android, dragon warrior) • game dev (boots quest dx) • he/him
Kris Antoni - Toge Productions @kerissakti.bsky.social Founder of Toge Productions #gamedev #indiedev from Indonesia.
Made: CoffeeTalk, Infectonator.
Ben Porter @eigenbom.bsky.social Game developer for life. I made MoonQuest and many other things. AAA gamedev by day. On the web at https://bp.io. Also https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eigenbom.
Change my profile pic: https://bp.io/app/avatar
Historically: https://twitter.com/eigenbom
Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social Games for computers. More or less recovered after finishing ☄️Go Mecha Ball☄️: https://t.co/DzRqWvFIVR
Current thing: Stomp City
Renee Gittins | Indie Game Dev @rikukat.bsky.social Plays video games. Makes video games. Helps others make video games.
Developer of "Potions: A Curious Tale"
PotionsACuriousTale.com
Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social "Her Generation's Greatest Wordsmith" / I'm the b!tch!! I'm bisexual and I WILL bring it up!! I make games at https://thewaether.itch.io/
https://www.patreon.com/amyrot
https://ko-fi.com/thewaether
main blog at: https://katebnormal.tumblr.com/
Lola @lolashiraishi.com
Borys B. Trienin 📊 @borystrienin.com indie games business @rcp.family
publishing https://songs-of-silence.com
borystrienin.com
Joana 🔜 Gamescom @layn75.bsky.social I make games and stuff! 🔸 she/her 🔸 Tech Artist 🔸 co-organizer @FemDevsMeetup🔸 Cosplayer 🔸 🏳️⚧️♠️🏳️🌈 🔸 layn75.carrd.co
Joana Vieira (Ziraeliss) @ziraeliss.bsky.social Solo dev and founder of Negative Sun Studios. Narrative and Game Designer. Portuguese currently in Malmö, Sweden 🏳️🌈🇵🇹
Emelie Edholm @emelie.bsky.social Cat herder for a bunch of gfx folks at Rockstar.
Coffee and a stiff drink, please.
Jan-Bart van Beek @janbart.bsky.social Studio Director & Art Director at Guerrilla Games. Original concept creator of Horizon Zero Dawn. BAFTA & Golden Calf winner. Poweruser of the word Basically.
Paul Grzymkowski @paulogy.com Lover of games, music, movies & staying thoughtful among the chaos. Watch me sprout more awesome / awful / clever / crazy ideas than I know what to do with :-)
[ http://www.paulogy.com ]
Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social Associate art director on Darkest Dungeon 2! Outdoor enthusiast, coffee drinker, gamer
Vancouver, BC/ Londoner
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Myriame・.🦂 @mllepilgrim.bsky.social Event Producer at @iii-initiative.bsky.social ・ Excecutive Producer gamedev.world ・ Production Consultant・Photographer
Worked on POSSESSOR(S), Beast Breaker, & a lot of other stuffs~
she/her・🏳️🌈 🍉
Julie Elven @julieelven.bsky.social Soundtrack vocalist 🎙️ for #JamesNewtonHoward, #LorneBalfe, #HorizonForbiddenWest, #HorizonZeroDawn, #InfinityNikki, #Netflix, #BAFTA, #CriticalRole, #BBC, #TheGameAwards, #WorldofWarcraft, #LeagueofLegends & more ❤️ she/her • 🌈
Liana Ruppert @dirtyeffinhippy.lianaruppert.com Community, VA, Creators, Marketing, Accessibility in games, books & TV. Owlchemy Labs Sr Comm Manager. TV-side:
✨Fallout
✨Vox Machina/M9
✨The Mighty Nein
✨Secret Level
Prev➡️Multi-award winning D2 CM/Accessibility Co-Lead at @Bungie, Game Informer,+more
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social Principal Level Designer (17+ yrs in games) Ex-Respawn, Ex-Irrational, currently at Demiurge
🌿 she/her ☘️
🎮 #IronMan #StarWarsHunters, #BioshockInfinite, #DOOM, #LastExpedition #Mafia3, #PerfectDark #TransformersReactivate 🎮
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
🏳️🌈 You Matter 🏳️⚧️
blender bitch | making a karate-kid like beat 'em up 💢 @luluuland.bsky.social Luiza Diniz
Senior game artist and co-founder at @ragdollfrog.bsky.social |
IGDA F Next Gen Leader | prev: senior 3D artist at Timberline Studio
https://linktr.ee/luluu_land
🎮 Silvia Gaetano ☕ @meowstations.bsky.social I handle comms in games | Safe In Our World & Pioneers of Game Dev Austria Ambassador
💜🎮 | 🗣️ 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇨🇳
She/Her (they/them ok) | Views mine, kinda fruity 🌈 kinda kinky 🤫
🔗 linktr.ee/meowstations
Catt Small @catt.design Designer with too many hobbies in Brooklyn. I run @gdocexpo.com in my spare time. People go "ooh" when I say I make video games.
Shawn @shawnpierre.com Doing some things - http://jimjastajay.itch.io - PhillyGameMechs - NYUGameCenter - IGF Chairperson (he/him) https://cohost.org/shawnpierre
FourbitFriday @fourbitfriday.bsky.social Irredeemable Game Dev
: Co-founder @oddobject.zone
: Catacomb Kids - ckgame.net
: Scrubbin' Trubble - scrubbintrubble.com
: UFO 50 - www.50games.fun
: Streams - twitch.tv/fourbitfriday
: Music - frror.bandcamp.com
: he/hɪm : ♠ ace : fourbitfriday.com
Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social Co-Founder @cstoneintstudio
Past: Art Director #Psychonauts2
Advisor: @gameheadsoakland
Nominations/Awards: @BAFTAGames & @TheGameAwards
https://linktr.ee/LisetteTitre?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMT
Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social Games Writer: Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora
Co-director @ 3-Fold Games: Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member.
Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books & films.
adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com creator of IN STARS AND TIME ✨ working on @truthscrapper.bsky.social 📚 i make things that make you feel things
website ✨ www.insertdisc5.com
All My Games On Steam Are Here Click Here ✨ https://store.steampowered.com/developer/insertdisc5/
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
CalixJumio 🇲🇽 @calixjumio.me https://calixjumio.me
César (He/Him) Code + Art + Design
🧩 Dev'd at Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
🪲 Made SUPER CRANE http://bit.ly/42ea9NN
🇲🇽 Admin at INDI-ES http://discord.gg/Z9eyP8A
Check out: @lagshowcase.bsky.social
remy siu | 1000xRESIST @remysiu.com founded indie game studio sunset visitor 斜陽過客 • made 1000xRESIST
Peabody Award Winner, Hugo and Nebula Nominee
www.remysiu.com
Ashraf (١٠ف) @ashtaf130.bsky.social Duck lover and game developer. I make games, write stories, and run communities. He/him
keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp uvula.jp
Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social Producer. Co-host, Shift+F1. Formerly: Digital Eclipse, Cloth Map, Giant Bomb.
https://drewscanlon.com
danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at GameDeveloper.com, Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, BJJ Purple Belt 🤼♀️, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork, volunteer EMT. She/her.
Alanna Linayre @tybawai.bsky.social Founder @ ToadhouseGames 🍄
Creating "crunchy wholesome" visual novels about found family and walkable worlds, mostly because I want to live in them.
Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social 🧬 Co-Founder, Lore + Wiki Manager @ dnacreative.ca
🎮 Producer of video games
📜 Archivist + Caretaker of dnacreative.notion.site/codex
✨ Notion template creator
⚔️ Semi-retired #cosplay lady
🖤🩶🤍💜 she/her
Dianna 🇩🇴 @grlpants.bsky.social IP/Partnerships Producer | #gamedev
D&D #DM & #TTRPG Player|
Red Mage & Spoony Bard
AfroLatina & #Bronx as fug | 🇩🇴
She/ Her
#Dragonage is Life
Reformed Theater Nerd |
Owner of @thesecretlantern.bsky.social
Still Fighting.
https://solo.to/grlpants
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ 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 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Redigit🌳 @redigit.bsky.social Creator of Terraria
Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
Bonfire Sit: https://player.gg/publications/bonfire-sit
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
Instagram: instagram.com/tamoorh
Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
Sithe Ncube @sithe.me Producer for @nyamakop.co.za
Here for game dev stuff 🎮
Zambian in South Africa 🇿🇲🇿🇦
Collecting myself here: sithe.me
Tina Amini @tinaamini.bsky.social I produce shows at Xbox
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
Guy 'Yug' Blomberg @yug.bsky.social Aussie in NYC || Biz Dev @gcxevent.bsky.social @stridepr.com || Founder @thegameclub.bsky.social @thegig.bsky.social
Previously Director of DreamHack, E3, PAX, The Mana Bar
https://linktr.ee/yugstar
Rocío Tomé @rothiotome.bsky.social 🥔 1/2 of Patattie Games - Developed Wax Heads
GameDevHero Programming award '26 · Clinical Psychologist · Co-founder of Femdevs · Former DSE at Unity
Twitch Partner: twitch.tv/RothioTome
http://linktr.ee/RothioTome
legally cami @anodynerhyme.bsky.social freelance journalist, recreational rower, two time award winning bar darts player // 🌅 https://driftautumnal.blog/
Brightperegrine @brightperegrine.bsky.social Designer. Writer. Tech thoughts go here.
https://contactwithgravity.leaflet.pub/
Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social Software developer and creative dabbler sharing what I learn along the way.
I write and make videos about programming. I spend a lot thinking about TypeScript, Rust, Ruby, and the web! No AI.
https://brettcodes.com
Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social Erstwhile researcher in human computer interaction/tech, accessible environments, sociology, politics, transport/urbanism and rare diseases: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oSEzsOoAAAAJ&hl=en
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
countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social immortal bisexual
echerry @echerryart.bsky.social 🍒 http://artstation.com/echerryart
🎲 https://echerryart.itch.io
📧 echerry.pixelart@gmail.com
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
Ugaso @ugotsoul.bsky.social Occasional artist. she/her