Steven T. Wright @steventwrite.bsky.social Content writer-editor at Epic Games / Novelist / Freelance writer at GameSpot, IGN, PC Gamer, etc. / @MadCathedral on the other site / Proud dad and card-carrying Wife Guy
Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com 2D illustration, animation and design. In Bristol, UK
http://2dforever.com
Jon @jontafkasi.bsky.social Bikes, beer, piano, security, gaming.
Edge @edgemagazine.bsky.social The future of interactive entertainment
Mateusz Piaskiewicz @leveldesignorg.bsky.social Principal Level Designer at Elsewhere Entertainment (Activision Blizzard).
Quake 1 Mapper.
Ex Level Designer at Treyarch, CDPR, Techland.
LEVEL-DESIGN.org guy.
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
Ian Thomas @wildwinter.bsky.social Games, books, larp, films, rats, and shoggoths. Narrative Director. Brit in Stockholm. He/him.
Narrative Tools and Articles: https://storytools.se
Matthew Horsfall @horsfall3d.bsky.social 🕹️ Curator at National Science and Media Museum + Yorkshire Games Festival
🖼️ Former video games artist and lecturer
🎭 BAFTA Connect member
Genesis Asis @genesisasis.bsky.social Lead Environment Artist at The Chinese Room. Previously in Ubisoft 🇵🇭 on multiple AC titles
www.artstation.com/genesisasis
Current season: sculpting/photography/painting
🐔 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
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
Ramo @antoineramo.bsky.social Niche videomaker
Weird games explorer @origami.ng
Game/Narrative designer (Northgard, Wartales, Dune...)
Brazilian French trained in Pottery
🌌 https://antoine-ramo.com
🌌 youtube.com/@ZephRamo
🌌 patreon.com/c/ZephRamo
Andy Zawadzki @andyzawadzki.bsky.social Senior Game Designer @ Raw Power Games
Solo developer on A Bit Dicey
Prev: CDPR, IO Interactive // Board Game Enthusiast
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4551800/A_Bit_Dicey/
Max @maxplay.bsky.social 🇩🇪 Game Programmer & Level Designer | Loves Platypuses and Video Games | UI/UX Platypus | https://maxstuerzl.com
Sam Read-Graves 🌿🎮 @readgraves.com “Developer, lecturer, and potential entry-level sociopath.” - Forbes
18+ years Indie Dev. He/Him. Folklore Guy.
Writing Horror and making Games.
Task Time | Trolley Problem, Inc | Gang Beasts | Mainlining | Dream
ReadGraves.com
Henrique Basto @rarotunga.bsky.social Game dev, writer, game jam junkie.
I worked on Super Nanny Sleepytime, Dakar18 and other stuff!
I also teach game programming and design at the Lusófona University of Porto 😁
miles peery @drearypeery.bsky.social Brooklyn
associate writer / producer / other things @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social
freelance sound designer/audio engineer for off-broadway
proud owner of one dimple
Robert @bad-cabledotmgmt.bsky.social Creative, Design type. Vehemently Anti-AI. 28/HimThing
Games Industry Murmures
/ˈkɛːˌteɪkə/ — 🫀✏️📦🎛️🔧
https://bad-cable.management
Natalie Winter @winternatters.bsky.social Actor | VO | Director
I do games, audio dramas, theatre, TTRPGs, nerdy stuff and swing swords! Recently: #BaldursGate3, #SpaceMarine2, #LocoMotive #MarvelMove she/her
nataliewinter.co.uk/linktree
BC Camplight @bccamplight.bsky.social Song Behemoth.
https://linktr.ee/bccamplightgigs
Jamie Ogle @jamieogle.bsky.social Dad
Data Designer @ R* North
Some terrible games I’ve made:
https://jamieogle.itch.io/
Manon Gage @manongage.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/manongage
Vedant Gore @vedantgore.bsky.social Level Designer at Sumo Digital
TolerLive | Tyler Klimek @tolerlive.bsky.social | Currently:
| Senior Lighting Artist @ #TurtleRockStudios |
| www.tylerklimek.net |
| Previously:
| Lighting Artist II @ #EA #skate |
| Senior Lighting Artist @ #DeviationGames |
| Lighting Artist at #343Industries #Halo |
| Twitch.tv/tolerlive |
@lukenockles.bsky.social @lukenockles.bsky.social Level Design Director @ Chokepoint Creative 🎮 Former Ubi & Lionhead. He/They
Andy Baker @andybak.net Software Dev, Creative Tech. Making open source tools for artists, designers and educators. Mainly Open Brush/Blocks and Icosa Gallery https://linktr.ee/andybak
Jameson Thatcher @sireel.itch.io Professional game programmer, dad of two. Vegetarian, jazz fan, MTG player. I like thinking about a positive eco friendly future, and learning about technology of the past
Marcin Szambelan @itschamberlain.bsky.social ✍️ Illustration · graphic design · art direction
🇵🇱 Based in Warsaw, Poland
linktr.ee/marcin.szambelan
Connor @conallenby.bsky.social I like games...
Alex Earle @thealexurl.bsky.social 👾 Producer at @radicalforge.bsky.social
✨ BAFTA Member
🎤 Host of Yorkshire Games Festival
🕹️ Producer on Vampire Survivors VR and Beat Saber
🎮 Prev: Gun Jam VR, Zombie Army 4, Minecraft Dungeons, Rust CE
#BlackLivesMatter
#FreePalestine
He/Him
Tristan 🏗️🏰 @tristanld.bsky.social Level Designer at ??? • Occasionally Speaker & Workshop Host • Cologne Game Lab Alumni • He/him
https://tristanhantschel.de/
Conor Lee-Smith @cfleesmith.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Glick Lab at UChicago
| he/him | Hobbies include watching grass grow, paint dry, and the Golgi mature.
Nicole 🥤🦔 | The Grey Road @nicolebarburne.bsky.social They/Them | 28 | Game Dev | Anti-grammar Programmer
Working on The Grey Road:
store.steampowered.com/app/3375700/The_Grey_Road
I run Hush Fin Games @hushfingames.bsky.social
with my wife @viviannebarburne.bsky.social
Fredrick Nolting @neeslow.bsky.social Principal World Builder at CDPR, previously Arkane Studios, technically an artist at http://www.artstation.com/fredricknolting, personal account
Rob Harper @sloppysnek.bsky.social Senior technical designer @ nDreams Elevation, dark mode evangelist, thall enthusiast, computer graphics gawker, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect and Xenoblade enjoyer.
Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social Retired QA for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Failbetter Games, etc.
Former Highways Inspector, Emergency Callout Highway Engineer & Streetworks Supervisor.
Accessibility and trans ally.
I ❤️ Civil Eng, Archaeology & Greenock Morton FC.
Cis, he/him.
BLM, 🏳️🌈
Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel @wayward.bsky.social Award winning Game Design Lead (Tempest Rising). Commentator. Bearded. Lover of horror fiction. https://waywardstrategy.com
Joe X Young @joexyoung.bsky.social I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
https://joexyoung.com/welcome-home/
Sarah D @pikapies.bsky.social Semi-competent miniature painter. Expect posts about heavy metal, pro wrestling & Magic The Gathering. Quite annoying. Views are my own.
Nerbert Fekkes @artofcode.bsky.social Game Programmer at Climax Studios
www.artofcode.nl
robertdee @robertdee.bsky.social Writer/Director/the uncanny and psychological horror. Also workshops on directing. https://cinevisionary.com
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Gladestock Studios @gladestock.co.uk Mark Angus
Award-winning Sound Designer and Audio Director
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Alien:Isolation
- Telling Lies
- Harry Potter
- Need For Speed
- Burnout
...and many more.
www.gladestock.co.uk
Into Games @intogames.bsky.social We are a UK charity that helps people get the skills and support they need for a career in game development, particularly if they are from a working-class or under-resourced background. Find us here: https://intogames.org/
Lisa Eliasson @lisaeliasson.bsky.social She/Her🌻Communications Manager @icopartners.com🌻
@specialeffect.bsky.social Ambassador🌻
Swede living in the UK but happiest in the mountains <3
CJ Melendez @cjmelendez.bsky.social VP of PR at UberStrategist. Formerly RelyOnHorror. Dog dad 🌈🎃🍪 Opinions my own.
Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social Engineer · Game dev · Musician · Writer · Wiseass
Formerly at Red 5 Studios and Disruptor Beam
Creator of Urban Flight, a custom campaign for L4D2 that's so old that it's actually embarrassing that I put it in my bio.
Michael Howe @miketorious.bsky.social Level Designer @ Studio Gobo. Previously @ CA & SMG. RPG Lover. Disney Parks Nut. Bethesda Modding Enthusiast. Certified AI Slop Hater. All Views Are My Own.
Portfolio: https://www.miketorious.com/
Romain Barrilliot @skacky.bsky.social Level Designer @ Arkane Lyon | Previously 3D Realms, Streumon Studio | Project Director on The Black Parade for Thief | Opinions are my own | Immersive Sims forever!
Jem Alexander @jemalexander.bsky.social Video games and TTRPG writer/narrative designer. BAFTA member. Improviser. Forever GM. UX writer. Immersive narratives. Neurospicy. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Currently working with Mojang and Sketchbook Games.
Portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/jemalexander
Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.social #GameDev with @greyalien.bsky.social at Grey Alien Games. Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. Writer: Going Medieval & more…https://greyaliengames.com/blog/writing-editing/
Rem // Kowloon's Curse @kowloonscurse.bsky.social Developer of next-generation interactive entertainment experiences.
Currently working on Kowloon's Curse.
Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of @secondwindgroup.com Creating the video series Unpacked, and working on secret projects. Former Editor in Chief of The Escapist.
Email: nick.calandra@secondwindgroup.com
Will | Horror Game Central @horrorgamecentral.bsky.social Co-Creator: @horrorgameaward |
Email: recentraltwitter@gmail.com |
Chris Pruett @cpruett.bsky.social Director of Games @meta. Thirty years of game dev, incl. Dead Secret, Wind-up Knight, and sick Hypercard stacks. I am a walking encyclopedia of horror games.
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp uvula.jp
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. 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
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social 🍹 an aperol spritz in human form 🍹
📝 senior reporter @ digiday 📝
📚 The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 📚
(views expressed are mine alone)
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
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social 🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
🪡 neoluddite
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Annie @agirl404.bsky.social Lead Game Designer at Radical Forge // Views my own
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
Jodie Azhar @jodieazhar.bsky.social Technical Art Director -> Solo Indie Game Developer @ Teazelcat Games making a wholesome, magical, narrative game
GameDev; Freelance Technical Artist
BAFTA Breakthrough
Gardener; bibliophile; flautist
🏳️🌈🇬🇧
Valentina Chrysostomou @valentinachrys.bsky.social 🎮 Your friendly neighborhood Principal/Lead Game Designer
🕹 Making AAA & Indie games for 13 years (Rockstar Games, Microsoft, Sony - current)
🎙️ Co-host @ Level Design FM
💛 Mentor @ Limit Break Mentorship
🔗 Links https://linktr.ee/valentinaChrys
🏳️🌈🇨🇾🏴
thermyy @clipthru.bsky.social narrative designer @ The Coalition
makes games for #VR and other stuff. prev: pistol whip, aperture hand lab, journey to foundation, and chronostrike.
currently making ODYSSEY: Starship Pinball @ clipthru.gg
Jimmy Bowers @jimmybowers.com Community Manager for Indies @Team17.com 💜 Writer & BAFTA Member 🎭 Ex-Games Journalist ✍️ Yorkshire starting zone 🏵️
Prev. Cortopia, Rebellion, Tencent, and nDreams.
🔗 | jimmybowers.com
Currently…
📖 | Half a King
🎮 | Echoes of the End
Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social Currently: CCO Yellow Brick Games, working on Eternal Strands (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/Eternal_Strands/ ). Formerly: Lead Writer for Jade Empire; Creative Director for Dragon Age. Always: dog lover.
Colorfiction @colorfiction.bsky.social Gamedev | Art Director @ Critical Reflex
(0°N 0°W, Becalm, Ode to a Moon, HPS1, Dread X 5, +)
🏠 www.colorfiction.co
🎮 colorfiction.itch.io
Spoonie 🔮 @spoonienet.com artist, game dev, writer
audhd queer disabled baddie
they/them · horror · accessibility
involved with: sony, the horror game awards, impact (manycats), ig50, DARK
✉️ li@spoonienet.com
🔗 www.spoonienet.com
📺 youtube.com/@spoonienet
📽️ twitch.tv/spoonienet
Sven Gießelmann @svengiesselmann.bsky.social Principal Level Designer @4AGames
Personal account!
Making maps since 2007-ish (Republic Commando!)
#leveldesign
Bernhard Werner @bernhard-werner.de Doctor of the Things of Nature
Learning Technology Officer
at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Makes YouTube videos:
youtube.com/@sumandproduct
youtube.com/@untitleddevlog
He/him. #IchBinHanna
https://www.bernhard-werner.de
Reinout Ruland @reinoutld.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Sr. Level Designer @ Electric Square, former Hangar 13 / Ubisoft
Andrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social Gamedev and 1-person studio @ThunkdGames Past credits: The Magnificent Trufflepigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Amnesia: AMfP. Also run gamedev networking events.
https://linktr.ee/andrewcrawshaw
(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) .▫️Let's chat!
GamesAid & SpecialEffect Ambassador
London is Unreal @londonisunreal.bsky.social Check out London Unreal Engine Meetup on Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-unreal-engine-meetup
FRANK THALIATH @frankthaliath.bsky.social LEVEL DESIGNER @ Flyingwildhog
Jay Britton @jaybritton.com Voice actor, director & performance consultant
Narrator of The Paleblood Hunt
Can I be friends with your dog?
Rep'd by CESD (US) & Nordlings (UK)
BAFTA Member & Judge
📧 jay@jaybritton.com
https://jaybritton.carrd.co
www.gameperformances.com
Darren Weekes @tddaz.bsky.social Senior level designer at Splash Damage
Arcane brush monkey. Amateur photographer.
When I'm not gamedeving, I'm riding my bikes very far!
https://tddaz.artstation.com/
https://youtube.com/@darrenonabike
brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev I am a blast-processed skeleton.
lead mission design on STAR WARS: Zero Company.
ttrpgs: sulcata.itch.io
blog: brendanmcleod.dev
game design pod: http://paperlabyrinths.com
avatar by @feralroyal.bsky.social
meltyfox @meltyfox.bsky.social game developer 🎮 • d&d 🎲 • queer idiot 🏳️🌈 • (he/him)
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social Sharing the wildest volcano eruptions, extreme weather, disasters, breaking news and anything I find amusing & interesting.
You can buy me a coffee at - https://ko-fi.com/volcaholic
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Andrew Rennie 🏳️🌈 @nerdy4tw.bsky.social Senior UI/UX Designer at Respawn - Star Wars Jedi Team • Accessibility Advocate • Co-Founder @wecanfixitinui.com • Scottish • My Opinions • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/nerdy4tw
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Nath @headwaregames.bsky.social Creator of Hollowbody, Chasing Static & Guard Duty.
www.headwaregames.com