Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social Indie game dev and design consultant. Prev. Lead Champ Designer on Riot's 2XKO, Spry Fox, Kongregate, SuperBot, UW CSE PhD. Cursed problems, player mythologies, immersive designer, game master, dad, a lot of sincerely giving a shit. alexjaffe.games
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf President and owner of Giant Bomb
giantbomb.com/join
Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social Writer / Executive Producer at Rick & Morty.
Podcast: Get Played
Comedy: Whose Line is it Anyway, Hebecky Drysbell at UCBLA.
Alum: SNL, Creepshow, Eric Andre Show, Twilight Zone.
She/Her/It
@glitch.city @glitchcity.bsky.social The home of indie games in LA. Support us at http://patreon.com/GlitchCityLA
Spry Fox @spryfox.bsky.social makers of Cozy Grove, Triple Town, Alphabear and now Spirit Crossing, a cozy social MMO.
+ wishlist on Steam! ๐งก
โจ http://s.team/a/2321960
read our developer blogs!
๐ฆ spryfox.com
Paul Sawaya @pas.bsky.social Startup founder, building a new kind of video games studio. ๐ฎ Generative AI and capitalism non-hater. Itโs okay, you can block me. :)
๐San Francisco
elsewhere.zone
Alex Zandra @zandravandra.com light novel author, streamer, artist, game designer, public speaker โข turning people into catgirls โข I miss cohost a lot
she/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
zandravandra.com
Don Bellenger ๐ฃ ๐ค ๐ฃ @donnotron.bsky.social Game Developer, humanist, musician and baker from Oakland. Grim Optimist. Made Black Future '88, working on NECTARMANCER at The Beauty Cult. Does music as SKYMELT, currently playing synths in FRTRSS, current MLIS student.
|DevZac| @criss-cross.bsky.social ๐/ 32 / He/Him / Pixel Artist and Character Artist / Game Dev at The Beauty Cult
๐ฑWishlist below It helps a lot!๐ฑ
https://store.steampowered.com/app/739790/The_Beauty_Cults_NECTARMANCER/
Sim Kaart @simkaart.co Graphic designer working on games. Now making Castle Away! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4362480/castle_away
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
Puzzmo @puzzmo.com puzzles that love you back
a zach gage and orta therox joint
www.puzzmo.com
AJ Ashton @ajashton.ca Maps, open data, open source. Formerly @ Mapbox, Development Seed
Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social Human art only
Game dev, Senior Artist, programmer | he/him
Handmade Plushy Commissions closed
Play my bug game!: https://ianzell.itch.io/bug-chain
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ian_zell/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Paul @paulplay.bsky.social Game- & Software developer. >> https://paulplay.studio
Currently working on rootprivacy.com and openguessr.com
Garden Of Indie ๐บ๐ฎ @gardenofindie.bsky.social Solo indie game yapper & streamer highlighting new releases, demos, Kickstarters, and upcoming games!
๐ฑ Plant-Based vTuber
๐ซ NO Gen AI!!
๐ค Not a bot!
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Lvl 34 Femme NonBinary Goth (Any Pronouns)
๐Grown in Western MA
๐: gardenofindie@yahoo.com
+ DMs Open!
@dietcoke86.bsky.social @dietcoke86.bsky.social
Roni Kaufman @ronikaufman.bsky.social Programmer & artist ๐จ he/him
https://ronikaufman.github.io/
Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social Artist & developer making a cool thing with cool people. Prev: Riot, Blizzard, Epic, Heart Machine, Phoenix Labs, Wildlife, FRD. Inventor of the Crumpwich.
Jillian Tamaki @dirtbagg.bsky.social Bump on a log
Andy Pressman @andypressman.itch.io Designs, games, games designs?
andypressman.itch.io
andypressman.com
Portland, OR
Alberto Vildosola @bembot.bsky.social ๐จ๐บ Ex-Designer at Nest + Google
๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐๏ธ
Building https://about.tinytown.app
josh @cyberb.space writer
& reader
&c.
(he/him)
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
kelin @kelin.bsky.social here for the love of the game
ben โถ @bf.wtf senior dream engineer, miracle farmer, game dev โ https://bf.wtf โข https://common.tools โข https://twopm.studio
โณ PAR52 s.team/a/4862720
๐ง WizardChess https://s.team/a/1274210
๐ช The Thin Silence https://s.team/a/314630
๐ฎ Subconscious
๐ฆ๐บ Meanjin (Brisbane)
Arne @androidarts.bsky.social "a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
Art, old games, miniatures, gunpla and electronics.
http://www.androidarts.com
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@androidarts
(No twitter account anymore)
@benmeyerson1.bsky.social @benmeyerson1.bsky.social
Orta Therox @orta.io Somewhat indie games dev/founder on @puzzmo.com with @stfj.net and friends - always thinking about dev tooling
Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net
lilith @lillustrate.bsky.social Sentient drawing slime mold. Fanart and WIPs live here โกฬ
IG: lillustrate
lilithwu.com
madebygare @madebygare.bsky.social Working at https://www.puzzmo.com/
Working on:
Corvian Curse (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2626080/Corvian_Curse/)
MossRanking (https://mossranking.com/)
Spelunky.FYI (https://spelunky.fyi/)
Game Jams (https://made-by-gare.itch.io/)
Michael Bullington @mbullington.net Iโm really into computers! he/him
https://mbullington.net
Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and @amityvilleville.bsky.social. I used to make Reply All. One day I will be in the ground hopefully flowers will grow out of me.
Katherine Rae Mondo @wearahelmet.bsky.social into bikes, vegetables, & mountains
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
avocado_ibuprofen @nightphilosophy.bsky.social nightphilosophy.carrd.co
https://avocado-ibuprofen-shop.fourthwall.com/
Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social Game developer, digital artist, animator, musician โข wordpeaks.com and snowsta.mp โข 100% human-made โข looking for work โข he/they โข vegeta897 on Discord
Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social Friendly neighborhood game dev (he/him)
๐ Wrote How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/
๐ท Working on Pixel Washer: https://playacclaim.com/pixel-washer/
The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social Advocating for a democratic, equitable, and inclusive world through cooperatives, worker ownership, unions, mutual aid, and workplace democracy. ๐
#EconomicDemocracy ๐ฒ๐ฒ
usworker.coop | ncbaclusa.coop | workers.coop | ica.coop
Jonathan New @jonnew.com Transplanted Pittsburgher doing the Software Engineering thing in the Bay Area. Yimby, urbanist, transit fan, tennis player. Husband of 1.
Ludipe @ludipe.bsky.social Project Lead on Thinky Dailies, game designer, and other things. Sushi For Robots, Bleep Bloop, etc.
www.ludipe.com
Verekia ๐ฎ ManaBlade.com @verekia.com ๐ WebGameDev.com
๐ฎ WebGamer.io
๐ฎ ManaBlade.com
๐โโ๏ธ Verekia.com
๐ฆ JavaScript / TypeScript game dev
3๏ธโฃ Three.js โข React Three Fiber
#threejs #r3f #gamedev #indiedev
Ezra S @ezra.zone creator of longcovidstudies.net, member of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, and freelancer.
Craig @craigplazure.bsky.social Itโs a 2000 Land Cruiser with about 250,000 miles
Tom MacWright @macwright.com bikes, runs, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
Micah @micahscopes.bsky.social creative programmer, musician, math and science lover
https://wondering.xyz
https://github.com/micahscopes
๐ฆ
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social Graphics editor @nytimes.com weather. Formerly @mapbox.com
https://williambdavis.ca/
Brandon โโ
โช @bdon.org building a new map of the world at @protomaps.com
cartographic tools, neogeography, systems programming, @recursecenter.bsky.social, https://80s.nyc
https://bdon.org
https://www.are.na/bdon
https://github.com/bdon
๐ NYC
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
SimonWL @simonwl.bsky.social Tries to do too many things*, and therefore ends up doing very little.
* #comics, #illustration, #gamedesign, #photography, #graphicdesign
Allen Tan @tealtan.bsky.social design director at propublica
Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com Designer and developer from Finland. Made websites for 20 years, now making video games. Posting about every part of gamedev.
Working on a tactics RPG. Not using AI.
Site: https://jonikorpi.com
Mastodon: https://jonikorpi.com/@jonikorpi
Jeff Lee @jeffomatic.com gamedev @ maingauche.games
Mrmo Tarius @mrmotarius.bsky.social I make things!
Procedural, sandbox and simulation stuff fascinates me to no end.
If you like what I do, please consider supporting me at http://ko-fi.com/mrmotarius โ
Check out the various stuff I made over on Itch!
http://mrmotarius.itch.io
Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com #pixelart and #lofi enthusiast obsessing over small games with big pixels.
Wishlist Icy Tower - http://s.team/a/3014860
Get picoCAD 2 - https://s.team/a/3675940
Get the inside scoop with my newsletter:
๐ https://apskeppet.se/newsletter.html
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
๐ Brian Bucklew ๐ โอค๏ผโฟ๏ผโอค โ๐ฎ @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. ๐IGF Narrative. ๐Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
sourencho ๐ Mimic Meadows! @sourencho.com Wishlist Mimic Meadows: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136640/Mimic_Meadows/
Indie gamedev
โข Mimic Meadows - godot
โข BWIRDS - playdate
โข Slime Rancher 2 - unity, sr eng
https://www.sourencho.com/
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
โ๐ข You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Kenney @kenney.nl โจ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Dom2D ๐ @dom2d.bsky.social Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Dig Dig Dino, Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
๐ฆฃ mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Mason Lindroth (he/him) @masonlindroth.bsky.social Animator, game developer. "Hylics" creator
Electron Dance @electrondance.com Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence.
A place - www.electrondance.com
ian @ianvilleda.bsky.social
nat alison @tesseralis.site peddler of math explorables and puzzles
https://tesseralis.site
https://ko-fi.com/tesseralis
brooke husic @xws.bsky.social a. ladee (she/her) solved/wrote/edited yr crossword
catch me at @puzzmo.com
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Luke Stacks @leapinglaelaps.bsky.social Keep feeling fascination.
Posting my figurine collection. #dinotoys #mammaltoys #marinereptoys #stemmammaltoys #pterotoys #tetrapodtoys #birdtoys from #pnso #haolonggood #collecta #safariltd #papo #eofauna #bullyland #botm
Heather @heatherrudow.bsky.social Stumbling my way through but relatively hopeful about it.
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net ๐ฎ Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
๐ Senior Lecturer (in Games)
๐ญ Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
๐๏ธ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
๐ Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon ๐
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
โจ lauraehall.com
๐ cfia.org
๐๏ธ secretlives.games
Andy Nealen @nealen.bsky.social game creator and scholar, artist and music maker, computer scientist, architect, engineer, professor @ USC, co-host of https://secretlives.games/. He/him.
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
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
dan @danabra.mov no, this is how it works
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Charlie Loyd ๐ฏ๐ฐ๏ธ @vruba.bsky.social A pixel/geography/other person. Salish Sea โ Oakland. Also @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. He/him.
GEEZERS BUTLER @chirpendale.bsky.social Brian Chippendale: Lightning bolt drummer, printer, gnArly comic drawer, soccer dad and finder of lost LEGO pieces
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social Iโm the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
๐NYC