Mitch @sixfourtythree.bsky.social Mitch Loh 🦎 Any pronouns are fine.
Senior Producer and Video Editor over at @sifterhq.bsky.social
Mina @dominadianthus.bsky.social Streamer, Completionist, Collector and lover of good stories with interesting characters. cRPG enjoyer 🏳️🌈
Stream: twitch.tv/DominaDianthus
favs: Pillars of Eternity/Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader/Pathfinder/BG3/Dragon Age/Mass Effect
pfp: Wépépé
Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ AnimeNYC @pizzapranks.bsky.social Top (& only) Guy at Indiepocalypse | Home for the Unmarketable | indie games' most widely known person of zero importance
http://indiepocalypse.com
Starter Guide http://indiepocalypse.com/starter
http://indiepocalypse.com/patreon
indiepocalypse@gmail.com
nocaps @nocapsbb.bsky.social posting about cool indie games
currently playing: Persona 5
videos: youtube.com/c/nocapsbb
she/her
Queer Communist Game Jam ☭ @queercomgames.bsky.social International Game Jam organized from Cuba 🇨🇺
“Let’s start a queer, communist, game industry revolution.”
🎮 itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026
📝 instagram.com/queercomgames
👾 https://discord.gg/sZkfS9NtG
Symmetria Sound @symmetriasound.bsky.social Composer / Arranger / Copyist 🎵
she/her 🦘🇦🇺
Website: https://anniepirotta.wordpress.com/
Bandcamp: https://symmetriasound.bandcamp.com/
Reizor @uselrei1500.bsky.social They/She, a disabled artist and game maker. Sometimes poet. Sometimes podcaster.
Bi, Polyam, Genderfluid, Trans. 33.
Living on Worimi and Awabakal Land in so called australia.
Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection.
You can see our past events here: https://asymptotes.au/
Point & Pixel Adventures @pointpixeladv.bsky.social Point & Click indie developer. I created "The Castle" (2019) and "The Legend of Skye" (2024). I am currently working on a new game: "Mesektet".
Nate Shearer @faultrunner.bsky.social Award-Winning Writer (was gifted a “World’s Best Dad” mug)
Omi @omik.bsky.social 🎮 Australian Video Games Media Person
🌈 Editor/Writer/Radio @CheckpointAU
🫂 Comms & Engagement Specialist
🌞 Culture & Diversity
🔗 linktr.ee/okoulas
📸 @omi.kou
Making Night Shift: 1999 @winterschloss.bsky.social Stories about monsters in mundane places and finding humanity where you least expect it. Wishlist Night Shift: 1999 on Steam Now!
Three Moves Ahead @3ma.bsky.social Three Moves Ahead is an independent, ad-free, listener-supported podcast deep diving into strategy, tactics, and management games with passionate genre experts since 2009.
Free feed: idlethumbs.net/3MA
Membership: patreon.com/3MA
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.net Conservationist and critter-drawer in Australia
(he/him)
milesdavitt.net
Going Rogue Podcast @goingroguepod.bsky.social A podcast about the film industry, with a focus on both the films, and the industry (but also mostly Star Wars)
Georgina @gcoxmm.bsky.social indie dev | digital artist | she/her
www.nightshift99.com
Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakes.games AMG is a community organisation creating spaces for Auckland game developers to network, socialize, and grow.
Website ↗️ https://aucklandmakes.games/
Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social chaotic foolish. writer, critic and recovering TV producer. host of Going Rogue, a podcast about troubled films and the industry that makes them, if you even care.
Simon @simonchauvin.bsky.social Designer and developer of games and interactive installations. Made Éclaircies: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1356120/claircies/
Lisa Mantel @patatjes4life.bsky.social Game Artist and PLAYFUL ARTS maker - A fry of KATPATAT and a rider of Le Manège - Worked on stacklands, working on badabeam and other interactive installations & games.
Oleg Dolya @watabou.bsky.social Procgen enthusiast: cities, dungeons, tarot, castles... antlers!... and other fascinating stuff. Many years ago I made Pixel Dungeon.
https://www.patreon.com/c/watawatabou
David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. Making an isometric shooter called B.U.G.B.I.T.E
http://szymanski.games
Taffer King @tafferking451.bsky.social Lead developer on Gloomwood by New Blood Interactive.
BRIEFS @briefsge.bsky.social A micro-fund presented by @goldextra.bsky.social. run by @allworms.bsky.social and @mercuryskies.bsky.social. Open call every year. For more info: goldextra.com/en/briefs-microgame-series
Elissa @elissablack.com The lesbian roadkill of the information superhighway.
Makes games, shoots photos, does indie film. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧛🏻♀️ she/her
Currently: Death by Scrolling, Second Hand Computer, and Dungeons of Freeport.
www.FuntimeElectrics.com
www.GoodNameForABlog.com
Crewtapes @crewtapes.bsky.social hi i'm ollie / tunes + DJ: soundcloud.com/crewtapes crewtapes.bandcamp.com / games: crewtapes.itch.io / he/him pakeha living in so-called australia
Yuxin Gao @ghaoyuxin.bsky.social
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
Katsumi Yoshida @yozibak.bsky.social programmer/game dev
メルボルンでゲーム開発してる人
working on Canvas Street with @smitleu.bsky.social
canvasstreet.net
yozibak.com
[untitled games event] Amsterdam @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social A space for experimental games and playable arts. A monthly Amsterdam-based 'book club' for games and conversation on play.
https://untitledgamesevent.nl
NEXT EDITION: Sun 23 August
CONTINUE? Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
www.continuemagazine.com
Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social Award winning yapper talking about video games online and on TV | Presenter, performer, (p)writer | ABC | Views are my own | she/her
Email: gemmabdriscoll@gmail.com
Rory Manning Graham @publicfacingrory.bsky.social PhD candidate @ USYD - researching how we make sense of scale in videogames
Melody Watson @ohnomelody.bsky.social editor of your favourite ttrpgs (lancer et al). she is an unlicensed hottie, a pest, a scoundrel and a menace.
living on kaurna land (never ceded)
Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb 🏫 | Game Studies Scholar 🎮 | Deputy Director of MAGPIE 🐦⬛| DiGRAA Board Member 🌏 | Checkpoint Critic & Writer ✍️ | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/cbarkman
avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social writing designing programming games. she/her. living on stolen land in naarm, sovereignty was never ceded.
corunning https://asymptotes.au
https://crestofthebeast.itch.io/
Oscar Brittain @moomoomang.bsky.social Slayblade | Nanomon Virtual Pet | Kardboard Kings | Desert Child | World's Fastest Pizza || 1/2 of Henry's House
📍Melbourne, AUS
Chrysanthe (Sankee) @sankee.bsky.social 23• naarm • they/she • Game Designer, Esports & Game Cultures Researcher • PhD Candidate at RMIT
https://linktr.ee/chrysantheliontis
Bitcrush @bitcrushstudio.bsky.social Crushin’ Bits 💿
Naarm/Melbourne
bitcrushstudio.carrd.co
Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social Online May 22-23, 2026! A new game industry event by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed.
tiredlyrebird @tiredlyrebird.itch.io (she/her)
give me wings so i may fly away (and look sick as hell doing it)
professional programmer, unprofessional human
i try to make games, any that make it out alive go to my itch.io
(original banner image by Mark Basarab on Unsplash)
Max @coldout.bsky.social game dev in Aotearoa NZ | making sad games
CORPOREAL: s.team/a/3255140 & secret projects
CanDev @canberra.games CanDev is the local game developer community on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra, Australia - we run game dev community events in-person and online
🌐 canberra.games
💬 canberra.games/discord
🎮 candev.itch.io
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngāi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
ORIGAME DIGITAL @origamedigital.bsky.social Creators of Umurangi Generation and Penguin Colony
FTP @playftp.bsky.social An indie top battling rogue-like game where you play spinning tops to spin the world, developed by JunkFall33
🕹️ Wishlist on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3585160/From_The_Top/
Robin Ward @eviltrout.com "The Incident at Galley House" is out now on Steam! You might also enjoy our previous game, “The Roottrees are Dead”.
Previously: co-founder of Discourse
https://galley.house
https://roottrees.com
https://eviltrout.com
peter nichols @peternichols.bsky.social making CRUDE OIL :) a game about a loose puddle of petroleum
Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social Moderately popular YouTube game critic and travel author.
Atom Brain Games @atombraingames.bsky.social WISHLIST DUNWICH HORROR ➡ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3751600/Dunwich_Horror/
Developer of Dreams in the Witch House & Dunwich Horror adventure games
Louise Weard @weard.moe maker responsible for all unnecessary sex scenes
https://louiseweard.com/
Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social Game Dev. Making: As Time Surrenders
Made: No Sun To Worship / It Comes In Waves / The Chameleon / etc
https://linktr.ee/merlinogames
Backyard Zoo | Wishlist Mayfly on Steam @backyardzoo.bsky.social Solo indie game dev
Currently working on my first game ‘Mayfly’, a story-rich psychological horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England.
Wishlist now on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4057470/Mayfly
Lancashire, UK
✨🏳️⚧️ @niksbluesky.bsky.social fumblecore 🧍🏼 25, he/they/他, singapura + boorloo on stolen whadjuk noongar boodja
Rotub @rotub.bsky.social Making Doggy Don't Care https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438180/Doggy_Dont_Care/
Pat Naoum Games @patnaoumgames.bsky.social Making video games with real paint and paper. The Master's Pupil is out now, and Wizards In the Sewer is still being painted.
Pronounced 'Nay-oom'
Daniel Draper @draperdanman.bsky.social Solo Indie Dev @ Mirror Door Interactive. Prev EA, Sledgehammer Games, Samurai Punk. Making jank jam games is very appealing to me. He/Him
Michelle “Mish” McCausland (she/they) @mccauslander.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 37, so called “Australian”, former games producer, always a dirty commie loudmouth. Woman-In-Training. Loves to wax lyrical (hopefully alongside tunes someday). Gadigal based.
HRT since 26/11/25 💕🏳️⚧️
No one is free until everyone is free 🇵🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇩🇨🇩🇾🇪🇨🇺|-o-|
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.
Nicola Acler @laconicaler.bsky.social Solo Game Developer working on LAMINA BRUISE http://s.team/a/2860280
nicolaacler.com
Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026 @scherawyss.bsky.social Gamedev and overall psycho ✵she/her✵
I run 🌷SLUG WORLD🌷
Born 1993, Unity dev since 3.x
Current: FERAL BLOOD DOLL
Prev: Dread Delusion // Dog Witch //The Devil
🔞mdni
Safe Room: A Horror Gaming Podcast @saferoompod.bsky.social New episodes every Monday!
Part of @bloody-disgusting.com.
Email: SafeRoomPod@gmail.com
Hosted by @notfunnyj.bsky.social & @nezzkobedamned.bsky.social
Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social Cinephilic "gamer". Based in Naarm (Melbourne).
Latest writing: https://umbycord.substack.com/
No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com We are a group of game workers, activists, union organisers, and journalists that care about the games industry, Palestine and all people living under the violence of colonialism and imperialism.
https://nogamesforgenocide.com/
IGDA Sydney @igdasydney.bsky.social A Sydney game development community. We run #BeerAndPixels every second Tuesday of the month!
Click here for all our channels: https://linktr.ee/igda_sydney
Anthony Ratmouse @zippohour.bsky.social
Ratmouse Games @ratmouse-games.bsky.social A couple of rats making games
reymira | game dev 🎮 @reymira.bsky.social for someone who doesn't play cute games, i sure make a lot of them
she/they/he | game programmer | sydney
https://reymira.itch.io/
Liam Flannery @liamflannery.bsky.social Sydney based Indie Game Developer (he/him)
Play Factory 95:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/Factory_95/
Sign up for the Factory 95 mailing list:
https://subscribepage.io/C1erpq
Aemyn @aemyn.bsky.social 🐸 https://aemyn.itch.io
📚 https://ko-fi.com/aemyn/shop
🎶 https://aemyn.bandcamp.com
Indie Dev Digest ANZ @indiedigest.dev Bringing indie dev news for Australia & New Zealand straight to your inbox. The Indie Dev Digest (est. July '24) is a newsletter round-up of information for digital game developers across Australia and New Zealand, primarily in the independent games space.
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
Fiona Johnson @fionajohnson.bsky.social landscape architect/researcher/indie game dev
Studio Director @ Lucernal - making Little Ruin
https://linktr.ee/fiona.lucernal
Wishlist Little Ruin on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1571860/Little_Ruin/
digiphile @digiphile.co Premium game & book collections, with more to come!
Alice Maio Mackay @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️20 y/o filmmaker
5 Shudder / AMC plus exclusives
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on horror, exploitation and cult cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Máté Pribelszky @matepribelszky.bsky.social • Developer of Through The Fragmentation
• Working on Fragmented City
• Amateur ragtime pianist
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/crow-bar
@marevocollectiv.bsky.social @marevocollectiv.bsky.social Anxiety-fueled indie game dev band from Ukraine. wishlist ZERO LOSSES http://s.team/a/2491830 play NO ONE LIVES UNDER THE LIGHTHOUSE http://tiny.cc/99nrlz
Podoba Interactive @podobainteractive.bsky.social Indie gamedev team from Ukraine
Dread Fields is OUT NOW: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4258770/Dreadfields/
PLAY Blessed Burden: https://shorturl.at/muyHV
PLAY Back to Hearth: shorturl.at/kJKTU
PLAY Museum of Monoliths: http://shorturl.at/ADEV5
Azusa (Sophia) 💕🌷 @azusakayo.bsky.social i am mentally 6’5”
SMG Studio 👉🏻 Play Lego Party! 🎉
🃏working on @oraculusgame.bsky.social
ORACULUS: A wonderland murder mystery ♣️ @oraculusgame.bsky.social Welcome to the spectaculous, miraculous, wonderful world of: ORACULUS! ✨
The murderously musical visual novel where fighting for real estate has never been so spectacular.
📍 Wonderland, Down Under 🇦🇺
Wishlist NIGHT PLANE! 😱✈️ @liquidstatic.bsky.social A lucky lil team making cool stuff 😎
✈️ Wishlist NIGHT PLANE now! bit.ly/NightPlane
🚌 Play NIGHT BUS on Steam! bit.ly/NightBusSteam
Other links: linktr.ee/liquidstaticstudio
GuavaJagular @guavajagular.bsky.social My name is Jaime, I am a Filipino Animator/ Illustrator and leather man based in Australia on Gadigal land. I worked on AH
Animated, draw hunks and pokemon, play walking simulators and generally do social media wrong :)
Guavajagular.com
#art #comic
Izzy White @izzy.pixelpasture.studio
XTN @xtineagerilla.bsky.social 👩🏻💻Technically Games
😴 Games Exchange
👾 Twitch: xtinesixteen
Technically Games ➡️ QGF26 @technicallygames.bsky.social All things technical in games art, programming & security. Bring on the niche, the nerdy & the nifty.
https://linktr.ee/technicallygames
@elricm.bsky.social @elricm.bsky.social
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social we'd like to thank you for the cards you sent us | proprietor of the world's only book podcast - patreon.com/SFUltra
aleksandra @aleksandraht.bsky.social hi, I'm aleksandra! | indie game dev | 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | sapphic girl | developer of Metal Garden | https://tinerasoft.net/
pfp from Kino no Tabi
Arbitrary Metric @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social ANOMALOUS CONSUMER PRODUCTS.
Manufactured by @jessiscah23.bsky.social, @lazzieb.bsky.social, and friends (see follows). #Paratopic #RomanSandsREBUILD #Tangiers
Wishlist & play the demo for Roman Sands RE:Build here!
bit.ly/3AcBy9G
Luke M @upmultimedia.bsky.social Software engineer, Naarm
Follow me on mastodon: @upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place
Painticus @painticus.bsky.social Spooky Villain from YouTube
youtube.com/painticus
twitch.tv/painticus
Umbrella @umbrellaent.bsky.social An independent Australian distributor of local and international film.
ROUGH CUT @roughcutfilm.bsky.social An independent publication for film reviews, interviews, and reflections.
Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
roughcutfilm.com
gurtt @gurtt.dev I love making things people love to use.
📍 Melbourne
Get Trophy Case for your Playdate! gurtt.dev/trophy-case
Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social I sometimes make art, play video games (and sometimes make them), learn languages (intermediate French & beginner Japanese), and make videos about video games. https://youtube.com/@MarkDuval
Christopher Yabsley @christopherdev.bsky.social Working on HEATHEN a First Person Diablo-Like
Wishlist Now store.steampowered.com/app/4702700
Join the Discord discord.gg/kkuvFAY3DB