Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
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Game A11y Gathering @ga11ygathering.bsky.social An independent gaming accessibility micro conference.
🎓Sharing knowledge 🎤Celebrating speakers ♿Accessible & approachable
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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
Pierre-Loup Griffais @plagman.bsky.social Valve coder. Currently working on Steam Deck.
@donuttella.bsky.social @donuttella.bsky.social 🐙
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Andres Galvis @galvis.bsky.social Gamer, Amateur Musician, UX Researcher
Keywords Studios @keywordsstudios.bsky.social 🎮🎬 We help make video games, films, and fan favourites you’ve probably played, watched, or heard. 🌍 13,000 people worldwide. Creative. Innovative. Fan-first. 👀 www.keywordsstudios.com
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
RossMinor - Game Accessibility @rossminor.bsky.social Multi-award winning #blind #accessibility professional, consultant, and content creator with a passion for gaming and tech! \ rossaminor@gmail.com \ RossMinor.com
Jennissary @jennissary.bsky.social Producer for Live and Interactive Audio Description at Descriptive Video Works (she/her), veteran, parrot owner, #A11y #DescribeEverything
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Chris Goodyear @cgoodyear.bsky.social Many Cats person.
@manycatsstudios.bsky.social
Accessibility, solving it for publishers and devs.
Disability Advocate. Deaf/Hard of Hearing. MS person.
Cassia Curran @cassiacurran.bsky.social Curran Games Agency founder - biz dev for XR game studios, consultant for games funds. she/they. hello@curran.games
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com Creative Director @electricsaint.bsky.social
BAFTA Breakthrough // artsy weirdo // illustrator, gamedev, stubborn idiot 🧹🏍️
she/they
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👇 Wishlist Crescent County 👇
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Des Gayle @kiddesimo.bsky.social Writer-Director on an animated short on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alteredgene/taltfe?ref=c715xy
Deputy chair BAFTA Games committee and I also work at Unity.
dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social maker of video game documentaries @noclip, alternative game coverage @noclip_2, selling out with style @SecretTape and F1 chat @shiftf1podcast. Irishman inside an American.
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
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.dev Design Director @ Cardboard Sword
Cait Goodale ✧ @caitgoodale.bsky.social principal UX designer ✦ Glowmade & Mythmatch & other secrets prev: DREST, King, Memrise, Minecraft ✧ printmaker and creative dilettante
🏴 in LDN ✦ she/her
📬 designcaitlin.substack.com
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
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
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Hollie Emery 🏳️⚧️🌿 @slinkyfishy.bsky.social CEO Kwalee Labs (formerly Bonsai Collective), creators of @lunaabyssgame.bsky.social!
Prev Producer credits; Horizon: Call of the Mountain VR, Yoku's Island Express, Overcooked
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social 🎮 Game UI/UX Designer (Freelance)
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James Batchelor @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social Comms Manager at @digitalbandidos.bsky.social. Runs Non-Violent Game of the Day (@nvgotd.bsky.social). Former journalist
Author (The Best Non-Violent Video Games, Wandless, Blow The House Down) www.jamesbatchelor.me
Father. Gamer. Soundtrack Nerd
Callum Uwunderwood @callum.uwu.biz Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
Harri @hfrayling.com Senior Accessibility Specialist - Many Cats Studios
Accessibility Co-Lead - Limit Break Mentorship
I am a woman the way a tomato is a fruit, and I meet at least 5 of the 7 characteristics for something to be considered "alive".
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Jess Moreau @jmoreauroberge.bsky.social ✦ UI/UX Designer at Next Level Games ✦ Quebecer 💙 ✦Admin Team of @WeCanFixItInUI.com
✦ She/They - Queer / Non Binary 💪
Opinions are mine
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Limit Break Mentorship @limitbreak.co.uk The largest mentorship program for marginalised people working in the UK games industry.
Applications for 2026 will open on March 30th!
Visit our website to apply: www.limitbreak.co.uk
IGDA @igda.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
Fran Court @lefran.bsky.social
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
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Xan Smith @bumblegumbees.bsky.social Fake gamer | PhD | they/he | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | 🥁 drummer | #gamesUR | The x makes a 'z' sound | Secretly Canadian
Rachael Rose @rae-ami.bsky.social Senior Producer at No More Robots • Prev: PlayStation, Bithell Games, Roll7 • BAFTA Member • Develop 30 under 30 • GI.Biz 100 • Women in Games Ambassador
@lucy-s.bsky.social @lucy-s.bsky.social
Alena Denisova @sevenfridays.bsky.social Associate Professor @ the University of York, UK.
Research: HCI, video games, research methods.
Interests: travelling to see places I miss out on calling home, making crappy art, playing weird video games.
Irem Undeger @irem-u.bsky.social 👾Games User Researcher
🧠PhD in neuroscience & psychology
⚔️Limit Break Mentorship Training Comittee
Player Research @playerresearch.bsky.social Video game research ◐ Enabling game developers to gain meaningful insights from real players ◌ A Keywords Studio • #GamesUR #UX ◍ Signup to try new games!
Ugo Bui-Xuan @ugobuixuan.bsky.social Director of Research @PlaytestCloud | Prev. UR Manager @Gameloft | ex-@PlayerResearch ex- @Ubisoft | Msc in Neuroscience.
I love games, tech and cats
Jordan Lynn @premiumjordan.bsky.social Senior Games User Researcher at Amazon Games/ ex Bethesda ex Daybreak ex Scopely ex Volition/ my opinions are my own/ Golden retriever gamer boyfriend/ #foreverDM
Rui Craveirinha @metavideogame.bsky.social Associate Lead UX Researcher at Rockstar North.
Credited on Still Wakes the Deep, Bloodlines II, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, Little Nightmares III.
Former Games HCI Professor and Critic for IGN Portugal
Ula @uxula.bsky.social Games User Researcher @PlayerResearch.bsky.social Brighton 🌊 | GUR SIG Steering Committee & UXR Mentor | dog parent to Lady Yoda 🐶 🐾 | she/her
Dahlia Hegab @dahls11.bsky.social Games User Experience Researcher. Lover of research & design, hyper kitties, cookies, and Raspberry Pis.
John Dickens @johndickens.bsky.social Senior Accessibility and User Researcher at Tencent Games. Trying to make games more accessible for every player. Music, tech, adventure cycling nerd. Views my own, obviously.
Cari 🍉 🔜 Develop / GA11y Gathering / GAConf @cariwatterton.bsky.social Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her
Worked on ⚛️ Atomfall, 🔫 Sniper Elite and 🐉 Skye Tales.
Witch who crafts, owns an unhealthy amount of board games and has a black cat called Toothless.
Shane Doherty @shanedoh8t.bsky.social Design Lead @ustwo • Play Thinking • Knee deep in new tech & gamedev • UX, Visuals & Motion • Came up the Foyle in a bubble • Derry • 🇮🇪 • 🎮 • 💚 •
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Games User Research @gamesur.bsky.social Games User Research (#GamesUR): making video games better by understanding players 🧠 and play 🎮.
A volunteer-run IGDA SIG. Sharing articles, blogs & events!
Erik Ortman @erikortman.com Game UX Director @ GOALS. Ex. Fall Damage, EA DICE. Travels far for food
John Hopson @johnhopson.bsky.social Games research and analytics. Chair of the IGDA Analytics SIG. He/him. Opinions are my own.
Gina Leigh Smith @ginaleighsmith.bsky.social Los Angeles based SAG-E Voice Actor, Host of ShortOneGaming, Video Game UX Research Leader. She/They. Repped: The Osbrink Agency http://ginaleighsmith.com
Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com UI/UX Director at Respawn (prev Star Wars: Zero Company, Jedi: Survivor), award-nominated, GDC speaker, custom LEGO designer, black cat guardian, they/them
Exceedingly personal account. 🇹🇼/🇨🇦/🇺🇲 living near Washington, DC
https://www.jordandevries.com
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net BLIND GAMER | Creator/Host | Available for Accessibility Consulting | Twitch Ambassador | #AMDAmbassador | Future Class 2020 | Biz: steve@stevesaylor.net
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners.
I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA.
I post insights about the video games industry, as well as thoughts on tech, politics, history, science and public transit.
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
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Tara Voelker @tarav.bsky.social Chaotic Neutral Game Dev | Co-Director of Award-Winning GA_Conf | BAFTA Member | Micro-brew beer slinger | Museum Docent | be accessible, do crime
Stacey Jenkins @hereliesstacey.bsky.social 🎮♿ Senior Accessibility Design Specialist @ Ubisoft • #TGA Future Class '22 • Retired Twitch Partner • Disabled • Queer • Spooky Goblin • they/them
Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net Kiwi, Dad, Human Factors Psychology PhD, & Games User Experience Research.
Director of Intended Experience: https://intendedexperience.nz/
Formerly Epic Games, Player Research, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Te Manatū Waka, & Hamilton Zoo.
Lissanna @lissanna.bsky.social Elisabeth Whyte, PhD. Senior User Researcher. Opinions are mine and don't reflect my employer.
James Berg @jamesbergcanada.bsky.social Gamedev - Research & Accessibility
(Prev. Research @EA, Accessibility @EA/Xbox)
Disabled (ADHD, Autistic, TBI, Aphasia, etc)
He/Him
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
Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social UX Lead @ Rift | ⏳Prev: The Outsiders, Funcom, EA, King
Time Person of the Year 2006 | Keynote Speaker | IGDA Next Gen Leader | Eyeroller in Chief | 🌍TCK 🧠ADHD 🩻EDS 🌈bi 🤘metalhead 🤓LoL dork 🔪Feminazgûl
Views are mine & you can't have them
she/her
Mila Pavlin - Accessibility Game Dev @missfire.bsky.social Director, UX Design at Wizards of the Coast #WotCStaff. Previous:Zenimax Online Studios - Design Director UX, and accessibility for Monolith Productions on Wonder Woman - UX Lead, God of War Ragnarok. Opinions expressed are my own.
Nikki 'Gazelle' Crenshaw @gaiazelle.bsky.social [she/they]
Associate Principal User Researcher, Warcraft Franchise
#a11y; PhD; Druid; Social Justice Waluigi
shitposts are my own.
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Nat 🃏 @ngedeon.bsky.social Researcher, game developer, magician. | Opinions are my own | 🇵🇸🇦🇲 | ENG/한국어/日本語 🆗 | @nogamesforgenocide.com | linktr.ee/ngedeon
Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social Likes people. Likes making things (usually video games). Also likes bouldering, cycling, art, fossils, books. I've not thought any of this through. He/him. AMA
Steve Bromley @stevebromley.bsky.social 🎮 games user researcher, author of books about user research | led playtests for some games you’ve heard of, many you haven’t. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social Games Research @ 2K | Making games since 2008 | Amazon, Bethesda, and Volition alum | Midwest is Best | Opinions expressed are my own | She/Her
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