MadMoa @madmoa.bsky.social Developer of the upcoming Metroidvania Game "Dumbriel: Magnificent Adventure in Hell"
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- Store.steampowered.com/app/2500690
- Discord.com/invite/Pp2pJjPscF
Survansix @survansix.com We are slow-cooking, self-doubting, heart-spilling, never-ceasing, take-a-deep-breath-and-releasing gamemakers.
✨ Wishlist Phantom of the Grove! ✨ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3510510/Phantom_of_the_Grove/
The Nerd Chat Podcast 🎮🌯⌨️🍕 @thenerdchatpodcast.bsky.social The Nerd Chat is a podcast celebrating all things gaming, food, and the good old days (think Halo LAN parties).
We go live Thursday nights at 7:30PM Mountain Time. Subscribing would be based.
https://youtube.com/@thenerdchatpodcast?si=CpmxnPvmV5AqYJSM
Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social He/Him | Australian living on noongar boodja.
Lead developer of 🍺Innkeep @ Boot Disk Games | Husbando/Dad | Once a Jpn-Eng translator.
Steam👉 https://mythwright.gg/Innkeep
Discord👉 https://discord.gg/q5nyWXRmqU
Mailing List👉 http://eepurl.com/gzRndT
House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Big Walk is out now: bigwalk.game
househouse.com
Skill Up @skillup.bsky.social YouTube sellout https://linktr.ee/skillupyt Business only: skillup@night.co
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Gavin Clayton @gavinclayton.bsky.social Hello! I'm the creator and lead developer behind Daggerfall Unity.
Now working part-time on another game.
Devlog: https://dev.interkarma.net
Location: Australia
Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)
Jacob Janerka @jacobjanerka.bsky.social Making comedy adventure game 'The Dungeon Experience' with Bone Assembly
Made the game 'Paradigm'
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
Toast Interactive | Max Mustard Out Now! @toastinteractive.bsky.social Award-winning Australian Virtual Reality Studio, creators of Max Mustard and Richie's Plank Experience | Join our Discord 👉 https://discord.gg/DQqK59B4Nv
froggi @froggi.dev I do all sorts of stuff | 26 | 🇦🇺🏳️🌈
www.froggi.dev
Safe place for everyone <3
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
Ryan Penning ✨ @ryanpenning.com ✨Award Winning Producer and Games Industry Expert. Thinking and looking for what’s next?
Previously @ Chaos Theory Games, @ Mighty Kingdom, @ Ultimate Studio, Games Investment Manager @ Screen NSW
Won some AGDA's • Rising Star & more!
Stubbornly made
Serenade @serenade.games We put on alternative games events!
Next: ???
Prev: FORM, Tangents @ Sabby ALT: EX @ Powerhouse ALT: GAMES, #gameaweeksyd2025, Serenade Showcase @ #SXSW Sydney 2023, Games Spaces for Static Vision, Ink Jam Sabby https://serenade.games
Waypoint @waypoint-events.com Waypoint is a premium networking event for the video game industry, providing a professional environment for developers, publishers, and media to socialise.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/waypointevents
Noble Steed Games @noblesteedau.bsky.social Your game's best friend.
✨Indie game studio & consultancy in Sydney
✨Website: https://noblesteedgames.com/
✨Our Discord: http://discord.gg/Ka8suskKcs
Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
✨ Production-for-hire (Massive Monster, onepixel. dog & more)
💜 Co-Founder Girl Geek Academy
🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
https://linktr.ee/lisyk
Massive Monster @massivemonster.bsky.social Game making MONSTER!!!
We made Cult of the Lamb!
twitter sucks hehe
Paul Kopetko @paulkopetko.bsky.social Game developer, sound designer and composer.
Creator of @boomerangfu.bsky.social on Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and Steam.
Portfolio 👉 https://paulkopetko.com/
BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social Previously worked on many, many games; gamedev for nearly 20 years. I am old. I post random 3d printing stuff and sometimes bunnies. He/Him. Australia. Also birds apparently.
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Nixxes Software @nixxessoftware.bsky.social Previously TT Games and WeirdBeard Games. A member of Port Jackson Greens and the Sustainable Transport branch of Climate Change Balmain/Rozelle.
Reloader @reloader-au.bsky.social Australia’s newest outlet covering video games, tech, and entertainment
reloader.com.au
Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social Awards-nominated freelance writer (ScreenHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, CheckPoint, SUPERJUMP, Qualbert, NG+, LT3, JPG). Highly opinionated on games, miniatures, & wrasslin'.
They/Them.
https://muckrack.com/jam-walker
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social Krome Studios co-founder
Award-winning Australian video game designer & drawing guy.
Blade Kitten, TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The Crinoline Crime Club, and Gunwale.
I love making pizza.
https://linktr.ee/spacecaptsteve
Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social Senior videogame tech artist /art director.
Unreal Tournament 04, Dragonage, D&D Online, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Stellaris, Civ IV + more. VFX Where The Wild Things Are.
https://www.delaneyking.com
Renee O'flynn @scree.bsky.social Freelance video game journalist. Reviewer for Qualbert.com. Making content for Switchaboo and the IndiEXP.
Apologies will happen.
Contact me! Scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Portfolio: (in progress) http://scree66.wordpress.com
Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io Queer Monster - TransEnby (They\Them)
Occasionally NSFW | Queer & Disabled Game Dev
Adventure Game, Giant Monster & Film Noir nerd
http://ko-fi.com/enbykaiju | http://enbykaiju.com (Digital Diversity Project)
Chris Yearn @chrisyearn.bsky.social Senior Animator @sledgehammergames.com • Prev: Lecturer, worked on some old games • Dad x 3 • ✝️ 🥁 🏹 • Opinions are my own
📍 Brisbane, Australia
🔗 https://linktr.ee/chrisyearn
Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social // Managing Editor, @ThisWeekInVideogames.com
// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
// DM's open, edmond@thisweekinvideogames.com
Ben Kosmina @kosmologyb.bsky.social Associate Product Manager for Fellow Traveller | he/him | ace | opinions are not that of my employers
I like good movies and terrible movies, and I have two cats. Narrative games are rad too
Callum Williams @misterwolfen.bsky.social • 3D Character Artist • Open to full-time, freelance or commission •
I draw sometimes 😌 and make 3D things 🤙
Andrew Mendlik @andrewmendlik.bsky.social Freelance video game Tech Artist. Portfolio website at andrewmendlik.com
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
ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit on Steam @finalprofit.bsky.social Melbourne based queer indie dev. Anti-capitalist. Mask wearer.
Made Final Profit, and making Oil Town 🏳️🌈🎮
Freeplay award winner | AGDA nominee | IGF finalist.
Final Profit: https://tinyurl.com/finalprofit
Oil Town: tinyurl.com/oiltwn
Heather [Han] @hanhula.com English game dev @ PlaySide & writer living in Melbourne. WiG Ambassador. I fell into TTRPGs and FFXIV & can't get out! ♥ She/her
FFXIV: Hannelore Lyrium @ Lamia, Azsire Tulyatar @ Sophia
Socials: @hanhula
FE dev @ PC & XR
Check out Istralar @ WorldAnvil
Jack Kirby Crosby🌹👨🎨 @jkcrosbyfun.bsky.social 👨🎨🌹Art stuff. Game dev.
🚫 gen-images or Cr*pto
Free Palestine
✍️Concept art / illustrator
✍️Summerhill.
🎨Art Director: Moving Out 2,
🎤DnD Podcast: @dicepaperrole
Insta: http://instagram.com/jkcrosbyfun/
AS: www.artstation.com/jkcrosbyfun
he/him -Naarm
South Australian Games Association @sagames.org SAGA is a games industry non-profit created to promote, champion, network and inspire the SA game development community.
https://sagames.org
Tony Albrecht @tonyalbrecht.bsky.social Aussie Game Dev of 25+ years.
Principal Engineer at Riot Games.
Brews beer, plays games, lives life.
he/him
Kelsey Gamble @kindofsquishy.bsky.social Studio Momager for @newblood.games. Executive Producer for Oddlark. Publishing Producer for hire. For legal reasons I am a joke and so is everything I say
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Samurai Unicorn @samuni.bsky.social Harness the power of Samurai Unicorn and fight to save Sydney3 from the Dream Eaters.
Wishlist > https://store.steampowered.com/app/2494020/Samurai_Unicorn/
Support us > https://www.patreon.com/SamuraiUnicorn
Elliot @skelliot.bsky.social Lead, Product Designer, Games Developer. B.Sc. (Game Programming SAE Sydney). Ex Founder of Young Australian Skeptics. JumpJumpDie.
Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social Gamedev Priestess. Making stuff at Neon Giant. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
Caps Collective @capscollective.com We're an Australian indie game dev collective committed to making games, building and maintaining open-source projects, and sharing the arcane knowledge we happen upon along the way.
Contact: devs@capscollective.com
AstroKerrie @astrokerrie.bsky.social Content at PAX Aus.
🌻 Previous: ESLAustralia/DreamHack, Crunchyroll/AnimeLab ANZ ✨ She/Her 🍋
Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social Award winning yapper talking about video games online and on TV | Presenter, performer, (p)writer for hire | ABC | Views are my own | she/her
Email: gemmabdriscoll@gmail.com
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com I made Cult of the Lamb 🕹Accessibility Advocate 🤔Opinions are mine (and probably bad)
Senior Developer at SMG Studio
willmesilane.com
SIFTER @sifterhq.bsky.social 🎮🏆Australia Podcast Award winning video games podcast network with interviews, reviews and news | 📧hello {at} sifter.com.au 
🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder OUT NOW! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social Asian-Australian Art Heaux™️, Art Director for @summerfallstudios.com, Magic: the Gathering Illustrator, Dungeon Master, plays games on easy. (He/Him) 🦇❤️💜💙
NO AI / NO NFT | Opinions are my own
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
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
James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social Reviews Editor & Features: @ThisWeekInVideoGames.com
Personal Blog: https://jameswould.pika.page/
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/omgmorejames
He/him 🏳️🌈
Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social freelance writer & consultant | seen @ Game Informer, IGN, Polygon, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edge, Tech Radar, NME + more | she/they | 🇦🇺 in ? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
サラ スウェイツ
💌 thwaitesannsarah [at] gmail [dot] com
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
ruby! @rubyinnes.bsky.social agent of chaos at massive monster & back pocket | former slopstress at kotaku au | illustrator
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them 
Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me Human intelligence for a synthetic age. Analyst exploring the friction between humans and AI. PhD candidate at UNSW / ADM+S researching generative authenticity. Regular on ABC radio. Living on Gundungurra land.
David Smith @rhunwords.com Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
Chris “Mutton” Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social Editor of GadgetGuy, award-nominated video games + consumer tech journo, lover of sports and cats. A very silly boy. He/him
Christie @auralynxian.bsky.social Award-nominated freelance games journalist 🎮
✨ As seen on GamesHub & WellPlayed ✨
Fan of The Witcher, Kingdom Hearts, Bratz 💕
💌 christie.auralynxian@gmail.com
Portfolio + socials: https://linktr.ee/auralynxian
Jess Zammit @jesszam.bsky.social Games writer, reviewer, journalist, researcher, designer, producer and diversity advocate. Writer on Puzzle Quest 3/Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart. Deputy Editor @ Player2.net.au . Prev: Represent Me, Mighty Kingdom, Infinity Plus Two. She/her 🏳️🌈
Mig Considine @migsommar.bsky.social 🌿 a druid and an author by night | sm/pr girlie by day | games, pop culture & horror | she/her
📕 These Tainted Things out now
https://linktr.ee/migsommar
Luke Mitchell 🎮🐻 @checkpointboss.bsky.social 🏳️🌈He/Him. PR at Zero Latency VR | Editor-in-Chief, Checkpoint Gaming - @CheckpointAU | Award winning journalist & radio producer who sometimes brags.
Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social Journalist/presenter for hire, video game and TTRPG freak, big sandwich day advocate, and general menace.
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
Alex Hutchinson @bangbangclick.bsky.social Creative Director @ Raccoon Logic. Also Journey to the Savage Planet, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 3, Army of TWO: 40th Day, Spore, Sims 2 etc. 🇦🇺in Canada.
Alex Walker @alexwalker.bsky.social Comms guy who spent 20 years writing about gaming/tech/esports (fmr. Kotaku Australia editor, ABC Tech + Games columnist, games.on.net, Gizmodo AU, Lifehacker AU, elsewhere).
Press Start Australia @pressstartau.bsky.social Bringing the best of gaming to Australia! 🎮 https://press-start.com.au/
Jeremy Bratetich @jeremy.minimap.com.au Managing Editor of @minimap.com.au He/They
Jeremy@minimap(dot)com(dot)au
Obiwanjezz most other places
Michal Napora @michalnapora.bsky.social Video games marketer and publisher. Founder of 32-33 and @unikat-label.com || Dying Light, The Medium, Sherlock Holmes, Squirrel w/a Gun, The Sinking City, Dystopika, Dinkum, POOLS, and dozens more
DDmeow 🐶 Cyber Paradise @ddmeow.bsky.social A wife-wife gamedev team 🏳️🌈working on Cyber Paradise!
ACTIONS! DOGS! CAFE!
🎮 Wishlist👉 s.team/a/2431790
🦵Kickstarter👉 ddmeow.net/ks
🌐 cyberparadise.net
ALL: ddmeow.net/sub
📍Au / Tw / Hk
Bumblebean Games @bumblebeangames.bsky.social Solo dev in Chicago!!
Grove: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3307710/Grove/
Ewe Shall Not Pass: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2480210/Ewe_Shall_Not_Pass/
Also a director of Indie City Games
Jonah (he/him)
T-Dog eXtreme @tdogextreme.bsky.social Game dev making a game about clowns, just here to have a good time | Prev. EA and Weta
https://linktr.ee/tdogextreme
Scott Neely @scottdoesgames.bsky.social Game Designer, 3D Artist, approximately bipedal.
He/Him
Games Lecturer at SAE Institute
Aaron (Pikaaroon) 🎮📝 @theaaronleigh.bsky.social Make | Play | Discover -
#GameDesigner at PlaySide Studios - Prev: Warcraft III: R / @KromeStudios and @RareLtd on @SeaOfThieves / 🇦🇺 - he/him
#gamedev #GameDesign
Resmi @resmi.bsky.social I do systems programming for games (apologetically)
Smoggy 🇦🇺 @juggle-bubble.itch.io Lifelong GM, part-time game designer.
I run Brisbane's (Australia) most active and inclusive RPG group - Brisbane Social RPG.
I make games here: https://juggle-bubble.itch.io/
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
kv @trepegroupie1.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at covergeek.com
Team Frosty Games Fest (as seen at Summer Game Fest!)
he/they
📧: kieron@covergeek.com
Nate Shearer @faultrunner.bsky.social Award-Winning Writer (was gifted a “World’s Best Dad” mug)
Code Stew @codestew.itch.io Game Dev (Programmer, Designer & Level Designer), ADHD 🇦🇺
Anti-Ai, LLMs not welcome here.
Currently developing Non-Euclidean Boomer Shooter called:
Slipgate Crisis
Game Link:
https://codestew.itch.io/slipgate-crisis
Other Socials:
linktr.ee/codestew
Vooks @vooks.net Celebrating 25 Years of covering Nintendo for Aussies. News, Reviews, Guides, Bargains, Podcast & more. http://www.vooks.net/
Leo @nucleonic.bsky.social Cereal Artist #UnrealEngine / #Blender Art, Games, Space, Music, EV's.
https://cara.app/leocadle
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LeoCadleDesigns
https://www.youtube.com/@leos_videos_channel
https://twitch.tv/dungeonaged
https://leocadle.artstation.com/
PxlPrince @pxlprince.bsky.social 🤡 Sam Zeid
🎮 Game designer
🐈 Cat dad
⭐ One half of Bytesprite Games
🩸 Currently working on Red Swing
Paper House @paperhousegames.com videogames + culture shop + other stuff 🏚
WISHLIST Wood & Weather on Steam! ⛈️
Paperbark | BKPC
paperhousegames.com
MissDeusGeek @missdeusgeek.bsky.social Culture & Games Marketing | 1st ANZ @Xbox MVP | Head of AU Desk @Kakuchopurei | Award Winning Women in Games Ambassador | Views are my own ✊🏾🇲🇾🇳🇿
Lone Pine 🔜 Demo Out Now @lonepinegame.bsky.social Aussie indie game developers 🇦🇺 || Lone Pine is a narrative graphic adventure where you photograph cryptids || Wishlist on Steam - made in Godot
Links: https://linktr.ee/bangbangbangio
E: hello@bangbangbang.io
Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social Just a lil guy making lil games
Co-founder of @capscollective.com, based in Australia
Letterboxd: boxd.it/2tZXZ
Amanda Yeo @amandamyeo.bsky.social Assistant Editor at Mashable. Bylines at Kotaku, Gizmodo AU, Fandom, and Cosmos Magazine. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Alex Venville | Trailer Editor 🔜 MIGW, GCAP & PAX! @alexvenville.com Freelance Trailer Maker / Video Editor / Motion Designer.
Prev. EA, Gameloft, Roadshow Films
Melbourne, Australia - https://www.alexvenville.com/
Kenn @ Pinebox Games @pineboxgames.bsky.social • hobbyist solodev 個人ゲーム制作
• WIP 2D p&c/RPG ❴Future Ghost❵
• mostly indiegame adjacent stuff
• he/him EN/日本語 in 🇦🇺 on [-o-]
• http://www.pineboxgames.com/
Joe T @animboy90.bsky.social Principal Animator at Beethoven & Dinosaur - Working on Mixtape
James Burns @kuribojim.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 He/Him. SUPERJUMP Founder and Editor in Chief. Always making stuff.