AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social thisisstar.com // A tornado disguised as a girl. // Art & Creative Direction. UI/UX. Illustration. Animation. 3D. Game trailers. // Aconite & Goodbyeworld & Inkle. // HoloVista, Slime in the Ice Machine, The Forever Labyrinth, and more!
Oh Apollo! ✨ wishlist now! @ohapollogame.bsky.social Oh Apollo! is a cozy narrative management game where you are Pythia, the priestess of Apollo's oracle in Delphi! ✨️🏛️
Play the demo on Steam NOW:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4406930/Oh_Apollo/
Join our Discord community:
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Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social Game Developer/Electromagician/Cat Master 😹
Epic Megagrant 2022 Recipient
BAFTAConnect 22/23/24
IGDA Foundation Next-Gen Leader 2022
Currently working on Rogue Eclipse!
Wishlist Here!
https://bit.ly/4bRLumD
Views expressed here are my own 👍
Brain&Brain @brainandbrain.bsky.social Ozark game dev duo, making The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler.
Previously: Burly Men at Sea, Doggins, Wooden Nickel. brainandbrain.co
💧 raincastergame.com/wishlist
Owen Goss @owengoss.com Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, and others. Amateur potter. (he/him)
Links: owengoss.com
Cayla Dengate @cayla-dengate.bsky.social Emergence Quantum Communications Director. Talk to me about science communication, ocean swimming and sci-fi.
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
BitSummit / ビッツサミット @bitsummit.bsky.social Kyoto. The gaming convention. Since 2012.
Next up: May 21-23, 2027.
Loot Donkey @lootdonkey.bsky.social We're Gareth and Ben, two game developers joining forces to make stylish games.
Links - https://linktr.ee/lootdonkey
@spudonkey.bsky.social @benmcinnes.bsky.social
Alex Kempton @funwithtriangles.net Berlin based creative developer. Making Hedron and tinkering with electronics.
Me: funwithtriangles.net
Band: polyop.uk
Doodles: @dailydoodle.art
Matty!? @mtylpg.bsky.social A11Y design stuff, alt ctrl game stuff, other stuff
Julian Viezens - The Berlin Apartment 🏬 Out Now! @viezensj.bsky.social Game dev & all around nerd stuff enthusiast ✨
Working at bluebackpack
Mike Kasprzak❓🦈🍁 @distraction.engineer Former professional GameDev (1999+); IGF Finalist (2009); Retro, DIY, Repair, C64 nerd; AKA PoV, PoVRAZOR, VA3POV 📻; They/them; 🍁
Caretake and co-creator of the @ludumdare.com online game jam
Empathy is punk! Trans rights! 🏳️⚧️💜🤘
Gianluca Pandolfo @giucapan.bsky.social Gamedev Teacher @bauhaus_uni
Indiedev @spacebackyard.bsky.social
Founder of Bauhaus Gamesfabrik
Game Jam Orga @amazefest.bsky.social
Creator of FLIPPER
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Daisy Shearer @quantumdaisy.bsky.social Quantum Computing Outreach and Education Lead @ NQCC | Quantum physicist turned science communicator, writer & educator | Public Engagement Professional | STS practitioner-researcher | Neuroinclusion advocate
Views my own
(they/she)
Matthias Löwenotter @sp4c31nv4d3r.bsky.social Playful Interaction-Designer (he/him), Coordinator CodeWeekGermany, Curator @PLAY-festival & Creative Gaming, Award @AMazeFest, Gameculture BerlinGamestorm, Profileimage by Paintbucket ❤️
Saskia Freeke @saskiafreeke.bsky.social ART & CODE & PLAY / Daily artworks every day since 01-01-2015
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://linktr.ee/sasj
Zach Aikman @thezaikman.bsky.social Technical Director @ChuhaiLabs + @ViteiBackroom // Former Lead Engineer @17_BIT // Ambling Aesthete Architect and Assembler // Order of Merlin - Zeroth Class
Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists.
Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social He/him
Brewing new videogame(s)
Host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Co-founder @furnimatgames.bsky.social
Ex-Director of Publishing @panic.com
Ex-PlayStation, 1UP, etc. etc.
linktr.ee/nsuttner
Devillé Arcade @handle.invalid two brothers combining their love for woodworking and game development into playful installations - devillearcade.com
Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social Creative Director & Founder of A Profound Waste of Time.
Graphic Designer aiming to be a jack of all trades, master of some.
Ben Myres @benjamming.bsky.social CEO & Creative Director at @nyamakop.co.za
“a white guy” - @Aftermath.site
Natalie @ncthbrt.northsky.social Trans, Woman, Game Dev/Tech Artist, Neurodivergent, Recovering Startup Founder, South African, Cat mom x2, Gay Married, Tentative belief we're already post human and cyborg and might as well act accordingly. RADICAL BODY AUTONOMY NOW
increpare @increpare.bsky.social Game developer in Berlin, innit.
www.increpare.com
Alan Zucconi @alanzucconi.com Director of Studies at Goldsmiths, UoL • Senior Lecturer • Game AI • Game Developer • Shader Master • Content Creator
MicroBlocks @microblocks.bsky.social MicroBlocks is a free, live blocks programming language for microcontrollers such as the micro:bit, Calliope mini, Raspberry Pi Pico, ESP32 and many more.
https://microblocks.fun/
https://fosstodon.org/@microblocks
https://discord.gg/TCpHYbcvkS
FabLab München e.V. @fablabmuc.bsky.social MAKE | LEARN | SHARE
Maker, Tüftler, Experimentierfreudige, Technikbegeisterte, Künstler, Kreative, Experten - jung & alt.
MAGFest Indie Arcade @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social Skeeting about DIY cabinets, alt-control games, and all the other weird stuff we got at the MAGFest Indie Arcade
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
Arcade Commons @arcadecommons.org DIY arcade cabinets for local multiplayer indie games based in Brooklyn, New York.
https://arcadecommons.org
https://linktr.ee/dbaarcade
https://discord.gg/M32eyPRmGF
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
mathew olson @mathewolson.com blogging at virtualvector.xyz • writer and creative technologist at large • makin’ arcade stuff • totally sincere hater • he/him •
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Messhof @messhof.bsky.social Nidhogg, Flywrench, Wheel World. Check out Blood Dungeon at https://blooddungeon.com
Nicole He @nicole.pizza game developer 🍭 director of The Crush House 🍫 BAFTA Breakthrough '24 🍿 she/her
https://nicole.pizza
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Mark Kleeb @kleeb.bsky.social Head janitor at @wonderville.nyc
Adjunct faculty at NYU
I build arcade cabinets
Kjell 'skitfula spel' Håftén @kjellhaften.bsky.social Hej, det var Kjell här. Visste du att alla gillar skitfula spel?
✅Driver Automat CO+OP
✅Spelpedagog på Håfténs Spelverkstad & Spelkultur för alla
✅Styrelseledamot på Dataspelscentrum
❌Never use GenAI
automat.town
spelverkstad.com
dataspelscentrum.se
Andrea Campanella @emuboy.bsky.social I see beauty in everything, I'm passionate and curious, love technology, humans and life.
Collect 💾🖥️
Embedded 🐧 dev
Ally of 🏳️🌈
"The Funniest Man I Ever met" (H. O'Hara, journalist)
James Wootton @decodoku.bsky.social Misusing quantum computers for fun and/or science. Spock at Moth Quantum. Two Ts and no Es. All nonsense here is my own doing
A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027 - 16th edition - May 5-8
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - Summer break - Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
Helen Leigh @helenleigh.bsky.social Hardware hacker, author & maker of musical oddities
Cymru - London - Berlin - Portland
Oskar⚡オスカー🔜Tokyo Game Show @okiokipanic.bsky.social Tokyo-based designer making games, UI/UX, vector, pixel, and 3D art!
東京でゲーム、UI•UX、イラスト、ドット絵、3Dアートを作っています!
GREZZO ➡️ One or Eight ➕ Cool Indie Stuff
https://thinkoskar.com/ ⚡
Isaque Sanches @isaquepicaosanches.bsky.social Game designer @Ubisoft by day. Founder and creator of weird experiments @notagamestudio by night.
Existential anarchist. Opinions are my own.
Adoné Kitching @adonekitching.bsky.social Production Manager at Devolver Digital
she/her
❤️ @benmcinnes.bsky.social
Eli🍊 @cauleyflowers.bsky.social GARBAGE COUNTRY w/ @noio.games, prev: Cloud Gardens, Nexus Studios 🍊 amaze nominated 🍊 watson fellow 🍊 he/him
The Funtastic @thefuntastic.bsky.social Maker of games and things, namely Cadence www.thefuntastic.com
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche e.V. @gameverband.bsky.social Wir sind der Verband der deutschen Games-Branche. Unsere Mitglieder bilden das gesamte Games-Ökosystem ab, von Entwicklungs-Studios und Publishern bis hin zu E-Sport-Veranstaltern, Bildungseinrichtungen oder Institutionen.
Panel/Board Design & Assembly @panelboardshop.com Furniture that really ties the room together 🕶️
Denver-based fine furniture & mad science. Wood, metal, leather, & electrons. Makerspaces & neighborhood resilience. Vector files & dovetails are both handmade.
panelboardshop.com
JIW @ IBEW LU 68 💪🏼
Nat 🍉🏳️🌈 @natbott.omg.lol Librarian and Game dev 🎮 ☆ Creative Tech and Makerspaces @cityofmelbourne 🏙 ☆ Tech support @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social 💌 ☆ they/them ☆
Tobias Kopka @dedux101.bsky.social Programme Director & curator connecting games, culture & XR. Leads curatomic & VR Dance Club, co‑initiated European Game Showcase & #ArtOfCoding, and curates gamescom congress. Systemic coach.
Adelle lin @adellelin.bsky.social Artist, technologist, indie games, working on the resistance @newinc @onx @nycresistor
Faculty at Parsons and helping out at the Math Museum in NYC
adelleninja.com
Daniel Tabar @datab.bsky.social
Emilia @lazerwalker.com Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
rémi 🌸 @remi-tootata.itch.io 🧩 game maker & illustrator
🌱 colorful & cosy vibes
🌈 likes to read a lot, play curious games and think too much
🫖 they/them (il/iel)
Wonderville 🕹 @wonderville.nyc An indie arcade and event space in Brooklyn NY
hello@wonderville.nyc for inquiries
Jakub Koziol @jakubkoziol.com The Little Alchemy Jakub
3DunaLAB @3dunalab.com We are two engineers passionate about design and manufacturing, this is where we put our skills to the test!
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
Luke ✈️ TGS @spierek.net Making puzzle games at @afterburn.games
Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social Designer & Engineer trying to make technology work better for disabled people and cities work better for everyone. Ex BBC2 #BigLifeFix, Dyson, RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design . Also make robots as The Crafty Robot
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social Variety Streamer & Charity Consultant 🥰 • ADHD brain 🧠 • Twitch Ambassador 📣 • @specialeffect.org.uk Ambassador & @safeinourworld.org Patron 💚 NO AI 🚫
📧 Lombucket@gmail.com
🎮 Twitch.tv/lomadiah
🎮 youtube.com/@Lomadia
🖥️ Lomadiah.com
Patrick Ohlson @patrick-ohlson.ms-dot.net 404
YT: https://youtube.com/@paomakes
Signal : @pao.1337
Mattias Ljungström @spacesofplay.com minc.dev, spacesofplay.com, based in berlin.
Ido Yehieli - Stellar Cartography Interactive @tametick.bsky.social Indie game dev! To the Stars and Prophet Margin. Previously: Slayaway Camp, Cardinal Quest, lots of 7DRLs.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/Prophet_Margin/
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
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
The Rabbit 2026 Indie Games Residency - Call for applications! @therabbitgames.bsky.social 🐰🎮 The games developers’ residency 🎮🐰 develop indie games right in Brandenburg’s hoppinest (just 1 hour from Berlin)
http://coconat-space.com/the-rabbit
come join the fluffle
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(“)_(”)
Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ brown belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him
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
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
⁂ @polclarissou.bsky.social
Torfi @torfi.bsky.social Little friends inside the computer http://mylittlecomputerfriends.com/
Cosmo D @cosmoddd.bsky.social Moves Of The Diamond Hand demo out now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778240/Moves_Of_The_Diamond_Hand_Demo/ Made Betrayal At Club Low, Tales from Off-Peak City, The Norwood Suite, Off-Peak.
nothke @nothke.bsky.social Indie gamedev. Making physicsy games, and custom engine in C++ and zig
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
Simon @firepunchd.bsky.social Game developer & CEO Firepunchd Games. I made http://Tentacular.com, http://ChickenJump.com, and Ridiculous Glitching
walt @runningjump.games shaped like a friend. making indie arcade games as "running jump". engineer at blizzard but this is a personal account. https://runningjump.games
Robert Atkins @ratkins.net I miss Usenet. Torching tokens at Comply365, ex Pivotal Labs.
Sylvia Duerr @sylviaduerr.bsky.social Conference Director @ Konsoll Bergen, Managing Director @ NONEDA, Chairperson of the Board @ Women In Games Norway. Loves tonkotsu ramen, feminist sci fi, and pictures of pets. (she/her)
Dr. Adam Streck @dradamstreck.bsky.social Computational Biologist, simulations enthusiast.
Postdoc at ICCB Cologne, MDC Berlin
CTO at neomento GmbH - Virtual Reality psychotherapy.
Maximo @maxiborga.bsky.social 1/2 of @Videogamo, makers of #NAVEArcade, the traveling arcade cabinet, and #DOBOTONE, our Party Game Console.
https://chaos.social/@maxiborga
Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net https://jaytholen.net lead designer, writer, artist, & composer for Dropsy, 1999 web sim Hypnospace Outlaw, & Slayers X. Clickteam software oldhead. follower of Jesus. husband of Katie. dad. 70s prog/fusion/zeuhl guy. Braunschweig, DE / Florida
Gorm Lai @gormlai.bsky.social Making games since 2004.
Co-Founder https://globalgamejam.org/ https://nordicgamejam.com/
Personal site: https://gormlai.github.io/
Working on Fugl - https://bit.ly/3st8vLs
BAFTA Member & Winner
PhD Student in AI & Games at @IGGI
Lapsed Demoscener
Ferran 斐浪 @ferran.games Wishlist Off-Score on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355000/OffScore_A_game_of_songs/
Making games sometimes at https://fonserbc.itch.io
Music games & games for music @offscore.bsky.social
Currently in Taiwan, back to Barcelona when I can.
dave @davedarko.bsky.social (he/him)
profile image done by David Neal (@reverentgeek.com)
Emilie Breslavetz 🕹️👽 @emiliecorne.bsky.social French Playful Artist making weird #altctrl #videogames on my little planet ⭐ Socially awkward 🐥 Yellow fanatic 💛 MacGyver disciple 🍌 Making uncontrollables at @incontrolab.bsky.social
Find me : https://linktr.ee/Emilie_Corne
Marek Plichta @artbymarek.bsky.social Game Designer/Developer, UX and 2D Art/Animation.
Past: Future Unfolding, Spirits, Ordnungswissenschaft.
Passions: 🤸♂️ & 🧘
Also @artbymarek on other social media 🐘 📸
He/Him
www.artbymarek.com
Ruth Bosch 🇯🇵 TGS @ruthbosch.bsky.social Concept Artist & AD making Shady Business! @shadybusinessgame.bsky.social
Prev: League of Geeks, Massive Miniteam & Studio Fizbin. Freelance Artist on Horizon Forbidden West, Guild Wars 2, Vampire Therapist & more.
https://linktr.ee/ruthbosch
Amanda Förtsch @marchingduck.bsky.social Funding Manager Games at @medienboard.bsky.social
she/her
Love games, cats, gundam and mechas in general
Jeremy Gow @jeremygow.bsky.social Academic. AI & Games. London. QMUL Game AI Group. https://www.iggi-phd.org/
Papa Pepe @alexpieper.bsky.social ex co-founder, ceo and TD @studiofizbin.bsky.social, co-founder of @saftladen.bsky.social
https://www.alex-pieper.de
(he/him)
Mr. Luca @mrlucagames.bsky.social Mostly making video games.
Working on http://tentacular.com
Proud member of saftladen.bsky.social
BerlinGameScene.com @berlingamescene.bsky.social A platform by @lorenzopilia.bsky.social dedicated to Berlin's game scene. Organising the #TalkAndPlay event series since 2013.