Chris Arneil @chrisarneil.bsky.social professional(?) video game archivist @ the national film and sound archive of australia
Penguin Dev @daviddigioia.bsky.social Graphics software engineer at AMD. I'm making Penguin's Progress, a game that's basically if club penguin were an rpg.
penguinsprogress.com
Join the Penguin's Progress discord: discord.gg/akt5mFptcC
Paul and Viv | making b-e-e-t-l-e: be right back! ๐ชฒ @paulandviv.bsky.social โ๏ธ dev duo in LA and Sydney. Sharing our game dev journey making b-e-e-t-l-e: be right back! and posting about other cool games!
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngฤi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
BarmE @barmearme.bsky.social Wiradjuri Wizard
Award Winning Advocate
Creative Director, Senior Producer and Narrative for @buruthegame.bsky.social
Ouss Ouss ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
Tana โญ pls wishlist Shape Sender Deluxe @tanamakes.games makes games, does swing dancing & photography, and likes to talk
Director @deadteapot.games making Shape Sender Deluxe โญ๐ก๐ง
ex-Technical Designer
@dinopoloclub.bsky.social on Mini Motorways & Mini Metro
he/him
Pete from Fuzzy Ghost @fuzzyg.host IGF Nominated, Freeplay & AGDA winning, queer game making duo based on Turrbal and Jagera Land - Brisbane. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Freeplay board member
linktr.ee/_fuzzyghost_
Cat O'Nine Genders @cat-o-nine-genders.bsky.social Trans Sapphic Ex-Sailor, GameDev QA and Design, and Photographer
She/Her/They/Them
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฆ๐บ
Bird Magician ๐บ๐ฆ @birdmagician.com ๐จCreative ๐ฆBirds lover
๐พIndie Game Dev @chunkyquail.com
Wishlist Slumbering Woods: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3243350
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/brZTCU4d6U
Other links: https://linktr.ee/birdmagician
#indiegames #artist
Chunky Quail | Wishlist Slumbering Woods @chunkyquail.com Chunky Quail is a two-person game development studio from Brisbane, Australia.
Working on a mushroom growing exploration adventure Slumbering Woods.
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3243350?utm_source=bsk
Linktr: https://linktr.ee/ChunkyQuail
Elissa @elissablack.com The lesbian roadkill of the information superhighway.
Makes games, shoots photos, does indie film. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ she/her
Currently: Deck & Conn, Death by Scrolling, and Dungeons of Freeport.
www.FuntimeElectrics.com
www.GoodNameForABlog.com
Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social professional good boy // democracy, cities and tech
// travisjordan.work // these are my own opinions and not those of my employer
he/him // living in Meanjin Brisbane
Jack Kirby Crosby๐น๐จโ๐จ @jkcrosbyfun.bsky.social ๐จโ๐จ๐นArt stuff. Game dev.
๐ซ gen-images or Cr*pto
Free Palestine
โ๏ธConcept art / illustrator
โ๏ธSummerhill.
๐จArt Director: Moving Out 2,
๐คDnD Podcast: @dicepaperrole
Insta: http://instagram.com/jkcrosbyfun/
AS: www.artstation.com/jkcrosbyfun
he/him -Naarm
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
๐ฉ Building Relationships ๐๏ธ
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist ๐
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
fishbowl (OUT NOW on steam & ps5) ๐ @imissmyfriends.bsky.social Wishlist Fishbowl on PS5 & Steam ๐ Spend a month at home with Alo in this heartfelt coming of age story ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ป Two people from India making Fishbowl ๐ WISHLIST: https://imissmyfriends.studio/links
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, genre cinema enjoyer, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
JEL @jelart.bsky.social Jess โข gamedev and 2D character artist in naarm โข she/her
prev. Lead 2D Artist @ Summerfall Studios
comms closed
https://jel-art.carrd.co/
Rotub @rotub.bsky.social Making Doggy Don't Care https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438180/Doggy_Dont_Care/
Simon Long @simon-long.bsky.social [he/him]
Currently animating at Normal Wholesome Games.
My career is basically a meme between working on The Cats Movie ๐ฑ and 420 Blaze It 2 ๐ฅ
ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social ๐ชทjust here for attention๐ชท making games.
kv @trepegroupie1.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at covergeek.com
Team Frosty Games Fest (as seen at Summer Game Fest!)
he/they
๐ง: kieron@covergeek.com
Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social writer + researcher of play + place!
๐ josefinahuq.com.au
Intarsia Interactive @intarsia.studio Handcrafting weird little games with weird little guys
https://intarsia.studio/
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.
Simon Loffler @sighmon.com Writes software for ACMI and New Internationalist. Enjoys equity, film, and space.
https://sighmon.com
Xavi @xavibell.bsky.social Writer and game maker. Sometimes in Melbourne.
Play Calamity Cait:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4200450/Calamity_Cait
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him
Chris Wright @surprisingchris.bsky.social Founder and MD at narrative indie games label, @fellowtraveller.games, and games marketing agencies, Double Jump Communications and Two Frogs In a Trenchcoat. Board Member, ACMI museum of screen culture.
Amy PJ ๐บ ๐ NZGDC & MIGW @hellomisspotter.com video games + marketing + probably photos of my dog ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ป the @FrostyGamesFest.com girl ๐ฆ โง* kiwi in sydney *โง she/her
Sasha Mutch @sashamutch.bsky.social [-o-] Always was, Always will be.
Co-Founder of Wali Studios.
https://linktr.ee/wali_studios
Porplefish @porple.fish ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK
3D Technical Artist / Programming Teacher / Indie Developer
Working on Last Passenger
porplefishtv@gmail.com
https://porple.fish/
common-or-garden Mads ๐ฆ @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social Mads Mackenzie ๐ narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer ๐ they/them, icon by Penta ๐ director @fine-fiends.bsky.social
Joel from video games @walistudios.au ๐ Wishlist Wyrmspace ๐ Tactics today!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122350/Wyrmspace_Tactics/
[-o-] Always was, always will be
๐พ Co-founder and Game Design lead @ Wali Studios
โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Freeplay board member
๐Certified card game freak
Sokpop Collective @sokpop.co videogame boyband from the future | games: http://sokpop.itch.io | subscription: http://patreon.com/sokpop | @aran.sokpop.co @tijmen.sokpop.co @tom.sokpop.co @rubna.sokpop.co
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.
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
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair ๐ช at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Victoria Tran โจ @victoriatran.bsky.social โจ Comms Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us
โจ Wholesome Games organizer
โจ Forbes 30u30, Adweek's Creative 100
โจ Get my book Mastering Community Management: https://www.victoriatran.com/book
โจ My newsletter: https://www.victoriatran.com/newsletter
Jessica Shipard @jessicashipard.bsky.social Co-founded Studio Folly, designed Gubbins (it's a word game) and Real Bird Fake Bird <3
James Manning @jimaroonie.bsky.social Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Co-Chair, Freeplay.net.au. Board member, DiGRAA. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.
Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social musician/illustrator/animator/etc.
https://www.louiezong.com
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Mickie @hey-mickie.bsky.social Product Dev @ New Blood
Getting oil in hair @ Underside of my mazda
Frosty Games ๐ฆ @frostygamesfest.com Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ ๐ฆ๐ฎ Join the Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! ๐ https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social
nick kaman @smashynick.bsky.social Aggro Crab small business tyrant
Studio Folly โ DOGPILE!!! @folly.studio DOGPILE OUT NOW ON STEAM, iOS, ANDROID AND NINTENDO SWITCH!!! ๐ฉ๐๐ฆด https://linktr.ee/folly_studio
GUBBINS (it's a word game) OUT NOW on iOS & Android โ๏ธ ๐ฅฆ ๐
realbirdfakebird dot com PLAY NOW in ya browser ๐๐
darcy w smith @darcywsmith.bsky.social Partially irresponsible for @folly.studio, Dogpile, Gubbins, Real Bird Fake Bird, etc etc
StormCat - Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social Just your average 23 year old conspiring game developer.
https://stormcatgames.com/
Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3332770/WIZARD_PUNKS/
Go to Asymptotes:
https://asymptotes.au/
oddgoo @oddgoo.bsky.social Play. People. Places.
www.oddgoo.com
REAPRIEVE GAME ๐ฆ @10pmclub.bsky.social Reaprieve is an existential puzzle game about a desperate office worker at a memory collection company between life and death.
Currently in pre-production. Follow for updates! https://linktr.ee/10pmclub
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, Leonardoโs Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.comโs husband.
๐lutruwita ๐ซ no crypto/AI
Aggro Crab ๐ฅ๐ช @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social very professional indie game studio
๐ฅpublishing REBOUNDER
๐ฆmade PEAK, Another Crab's Treasure, Crashout Crew + Going Under
โจhttps://bit.ly/CrashoutCrew
Max Kearney @kearneymax.bsky.social ๐ถ Audio Generalist ๐ป
๐ Prev: Sound Designer @ iRacing ๐
๐ Naarm Australia, he/him, queer ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐ฅฆ broccoli's biggest fan ๐
Katsumi Yoshida @yozibak.bsky.social programmer/game dev
ใกใซใใซใณใงใฒใผใ ้็บใใฆใไบบ
working on Canvas Street with @smitleu.bsky.socialโฌ
canvasstreet.net
yozibak.com
RMIT Games @rmitgames.bsky.social News from RMIT's Bachelor of Design Games program from students, instructors, and researchers.
๐งโโ๏ธ๐งฉ๐ฒ๐จ
๐ Melbourne, AU
Monica Keeler @monicakeeler.bsky.social Illustrator, Designer & Game Dev
monicakeeler.com โฆ https://linktr.ee/monicakeeler
UI/UX @ghoulish.com.auโฌ
Editorial Illustration for Dan Murphy's
prev: Graphic Design / Marketing Art at Little Pink Clouds
not sure why I'm here I have fomo I guess
GHOULISH - Wishlist PARASENSOR now! @ghoulish.com.au Making videogames in Naarm/Melbourne!
Creepin' it real
๐ชฐWishlist PARASENSOR now: store.steampowered.com/app/3722090/Parasensor๐ชณ
ghoulish.com.au
Darcy Sandall @darcysandall.bsky.social Lead Audio Engineer @ Sledgehammer Games
Makes Call of Duty
Opinions are my own
Teddy Dief โบ PAX @teddydief.com Director/Designer of Videogames
โ Hyper Light Drifter
โ We Are OFK
โ Glitch City LA
โ prev: Square Enix, XBox, Disney
โก IGF & Peabody Winner
โ https://linktr.ee/teddydief
Ollie @ollieroger.bsky.social Sometimes game dev, sometimes circus performer, sometimes tech tickerer. I like video games, I don't like hot weather
GuavaJagular @guavajagular.bsky.social My name is Jaime, I am a Filo Animator/ Illustrator based in Australia on Gadigal land and Sydney Mr Leather 2026. I worked on AH
Animated, draw hunks and pokemon, play walking simulators and generally do social media wrong :)
Guavajagular.com
#art #comic
Cherie ๐๏ธ @cheriedavidson.bsky.social Nerd โก Lover โก Game Midwife
Co-founder, studio director & programmer @intarsia.studio
Prev: VicScreen, Media Molecule, Mountains, Goose Game & more.
๐๏ธโ๏ธ๐ซง๐ฑ๐โ๏ธ๐ชฟ๐ ๐บโด๏ธ๐๐ค๐โโฌ๏ธ๐ซณ๐พ๐ชฒ
meredith ๐โโ๏ธ @merryh.bsky.social ๐๐ป hello!
๐ฆ head of marketing @wingsfund.me
๐ bizdev & production consultant
๐ ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
๐ข cofounder @accessunlockanz
๐ curator for @indiedigest.dev
๐ฆ she/her
๐ฎ merryh.dev
clare @cockatootwin.bsky.social let's get sillay
Michael McMaster @mjmcmaster.bsky.social I make video game at @househouse.com
michaeljmcmaster.com
he/him
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking๐ฆ, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
William Pugh @honestwilliam.bsky.social i make video games at crows crows crows - the stanley parable, dr langeskov, EAT, the club, accounting+, temple of no and MORE! (he/they)
Nico Disseldorp @ndisseldorp.bsky.social One time we made a goose game. After that Big Walk.
Wilhelm Nylund @wilnyl.bsky.social CEO and game designer at @LandfallGames He/him
jenny @qdork.bsky.social posting (at least) 1 video a day until my video game, CONSUME ME, sells one million copies.
buy now! ๐๐๐๐๐
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/consume-me/id6769877287
steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me/
aran @aran.sokpop.co game developer, part of @sokpop.co - i made stacklands, clickyland, wurdweb & more - now making Rat Game
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them 
cรฉcile @haraiva.bsky.social ๐ working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io โฆ cecilerichard.design
tom โ @thomasbowker.com โข makes videogames โข lyne : split signal : frog detective : surf club โข
https://thomasbowker.com/
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Louie Roots @louieroots.bsky.social 
stuart @smoothgourd.bsky.social doin' it, stuart style
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅMALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder OUT NOW! ๐ฏ๏ธ๐น @theboyofcheese.bsky.social Asian-Australian Art Heauxโข๏ธ, Art Director for @summerfallstudios.com, Magic: the Gathering Illustrator, Dungeon Master, plays games on easy. (He/Him) ๐ฆโค๏ธ๐๐
NO AI / NO NFT | Opinions are my own
Mickey Krekelberg @mickey.ghoulish.com.au Director of:
@ghoulish.com.au
Technical artist & generalist
Prev:
Letters to Arralla, Wood & Weather, Moving Out 1 & 2, My Arms Are Longer Now, Risk, No Way Home, other stuff.
in Naarm / Melbourne
(they/them)
Kidney @dmkidney.bsky.social Design Director @intarsia.studio
Working on ๐โค๏ธ๐ชฒ
Formerly:
Minigames Lead - LEGO Party! @ SMG
Dreams @ Media Molecule
he/him
bulboka Tropic of Dinosaur IS OUT!!! @bulboka.bsky.social Tropic of Dinosaur IS OUT!
https://gamepoems.itch.io/game-poems-issue-1-first-moves
https://gamepoems.com/issue01
Making small awkward naive personal games https://bulboka.itch.io/
Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com Videogame developer currently working on Mars First Logistics: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/Mars_First_Logistics/
leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io โฒ http://itch.io โฒ http://moonscript.org โฒ http://leafo.net/lapis โฒ he/him
dom @zerstoerer.bsky.social art + animation + game maker in berlin
Minit / The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe / Accounting
https://dom.ink
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
Emma W @ewitkowski.bsky.social Academic posts are all mine. Esports & game culture 
Lise L. @lisekarel.bsky.social Writer/Games/Games Writer ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | '22 IGDA Next Gen Leader | Currently games at VicScreen (prev. Bin Chicken/Wheeler Centre/MMORPG Tycoon 2 & more.) and working away on a novel. | ๐ง๐ช in ๐ฆ๐บ. | they/them.
Graceless Games @gracelessgames.bsky.social Hi, Iโm Gracey and I make vehicular adventure games, like Deity Driving and Beautycopter.
Currently working Low Beam Lullabies, planned release Autumn 2026!
www.graceless.net
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
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Jake Clover @jakeclover.bsky.social Games: https://jdques-clover.itch.io/
Drawings: https://jake-clover-art.bigcartel.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jacquesclovere/
Maya @may.as goddess of rot
https://may.as/
Sea Lord, beyond the land there's another world @tycarey.bsky.social Co-founder/Creative Director League of Geeks, co-creator Armello, IGF nominated. Art Direction @ Chaosium. Former Board of IGEA. Solium Infernum (OUT NOW!) - I was discovered under a monolith.
Kalonica @kalonica.bsky.social 3D Artist + Game Developer . she/her ๐ฟ
Currently:
Mars First Logistics with Shape Shop
Big Walk with House House
kalonica.com
League of Geeks (LoG!) @leagueofgeeks.com Crafting inspiring videogames and enthralling worlds, with exceptional people. ๐
Made Armello ๐ฆ + Solium Infernum ๐ฅ+ Jumplight Odyssey ๐
Currently hibernating. ๐ป๐ค