Dan Magaha @dgackey.bsky.social I enjoy long walks on the beach, self-actualization and the rule of law.
THEN: I used to make vidyagames.
NOW: Certified Powerpoint Engineer™️, professional curmudgeon
Leyla Johnson @leylacj.bsky.social CEO & Creative Director at MohawkGames | Ambassador at WomenInGames | NIX Juror | Old World Grammy Nominee | Board Member at HoodedHorse
Matt Firor @thefiror.bsky.social Graybeard Game Developer, Historian of the real and the fictional. Elder Scrolls Online and Dark Age of Camelot project lead. Lover of the written word and interactive entertainment. Three chord guitar player. Perpetual lurker.
Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social indie games // electronic music // words
Mode 7 // nervous_testpilot + _ensnare_ // Mode Collapse
mode7.games - indie games
nervoustestpilot.com - electronic music
modecollapse.com - words
Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social Owner of Positech Games. https://www.positech.co.uk Coder of Democracy, Gratuitous Space Battles etc blog: http://cliffski.com. Built a solar farm. Ex heavy metal guitarist & teacher. Cat owner. Making Ridiculous Space Battles!
@tomislav-uzelac.bsky.social @tomislav-uzelac.bsky.social 
Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social 🍊 Founder of http://blendogames.com
🍊 Most recent release: SKIN DEEP http://blendogames.com/skindeep
🍊 Co-founder https://glitch.city
Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social Author and journalist. Creator of the My Perfect Console podcast. www.simonparkin.com
Caroline Marchal @caromarchal.bsky.social CEO & Creative Director of independent narrative studio @interiornight.com
CD on As Dusk Falls
Former Lead GD on Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls
GDC and Develop Advisory Board
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
Chris Hecker @checker.bsky.social chrishecker.com
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
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
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Caryl Shaw 🚫👑 @handle.invalid Game Dev (ret.)
Bourbon, pets, family (not in that order)
Oakland, CA
@sirlin.bsky.social @sirlin.bsky.social Game designer. I wrote Playing to Win and created the Fantasy Strike world. http://patreon.com/sirlin
Nathan Vella @nathanvella.bsky.social Part of the Fictions crew. Used to make games at Capy then I helped publish games at Annapurna Interactive. LA by way of TO.
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
Chris Charla @iocat.bsky.social Videogames at Xbox; zines, books, videogames, and skateboarding very slowly at home. I main Bluesky.
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social Artist, Art Director, and Project Lead working in video games. At Double Fine Productions, leading Keeper! Past: Art Director of Brütal Legend & Broken Age, Project Lead of Stacking, Headlander, and RAD. Worked on Psychonauts 2!
https://leepetty.com/
Amy Hennig @amyhennig.bsky.social Co-President, New Media, Skydance Media – MARVEL 1943: RISE OF HYDRA and STAR WARS. Formerly Director / Writer, UNCHARTED franchise, and LEGACY OF KAIN / SOUL REAVER series.
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy our games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/
Ben Brode @benbrode.bsky.social Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder @ Second Dinner
Marvel SNAP | Hearthstone | Commander-At-Home guest | Rapper
Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
Casey Yano @caseyyano.bsky.social Mega Crit's Cat Walker. Independent Game Developer
Slay the Spire & Untitled Projects. He/Him
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
Colin Northway @colinnorthway.bsky.social Married to Sarah
Independent game maker
Vancouver B.C.
http://NorthwayGames.com
Ryan Clark @braceyourselfok.bsky.social Founder of Brace Yourself Games, co-founder of Claren Academy. He/him. 📸 https://instagram.com/slopeoak
Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
Jay Ma @jarmustard.bsky.social ・Reposts of game dev and art・
・Cofounder of Subset Games・
・she/her・
・京都・
Brian Fargo @brianfargo.bsky.social Studio Head InXIle Entertainment and fortunate that I'm still making RPG's after all these years.
@clicknothing.bsky.social @clicknothing.bsky.social Creator, designer, writer of some videogames you may have played. I (still) (occasionally) blog at www.clicknothing.com. I am also the creator of Mythmaster RPG - available now at www.mythmasterRPG.com Follow @mythmasterRPG.bsky.social, or come and play!- P @pondsquid.bsky.social @pondsquid.bsky.social
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/
Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 DICE Europe @icotom.icopartners.com 🙋 Co-founder of @icopartners.com | @crowdfunding-agency.com | @mightymerch.store
👾Supporting self-publishing game companies (Strategy | Marketing | PR)
🙆♂️Crowdfunding specialist (Kickstarter Community Advisory Council member)
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
Shams jorjani @shamsjorjani.bsky.social CEO Arrowhead Game Studios and video game "enthusiast". Still not a vampire.
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
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
adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
Yves Le Yaouanq @ubikh.bsky.social @Focus Entertainment Chief Content Officer. Publishing & Acquisitions (Former @Ubisoft) /@DevCom_global & @GameCampFrance Advisory Board/Words my own
Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social Art director and concept artist, currently designing vampires at Netflix. Previously at Cyan, Valve, Campo Santo, HBO. Draws a lot of rocks and historical fashion. | ClaireHummel.com | linktr.ee/shoomlah
Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social Cool dad. Game director and designer. Classic Thief series, indie studio Tiger Style (Waking Mars, Spider: Bryce Manor, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon), freelance game developer. Multiple GotY award winner. Austin and Vermont.
rowan kaiser @rowan.monster high-risk, mid-femme
one-time tv and game critic, retired into podcasting with @totalmassacre.bsky.social
current video game consultant
🏳️⚧️ PDX, millennial elder
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
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
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com a longtime industry vet, I make games and lead design teams, and am looking for my next opportunity. Check out my rarely updated blog at http://www.zenofdesign.com
I'm a white cis straight male (he/him), an ally albeit an occasionally imperfect one.
KRIS GRAFT STARTER PACK @krisgraft.bsky.social marketing @ alienware | ever-recovering game journalist fmrly gamasutra & game developer dot com | video games | motorcycles | smoked meat 🇵🇭 / 🇺🇸
Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others.
MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games.
Next project: TBD!
Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Demetri Detsaridis @detsaridis.bsky.social Game developer by day, chocolate-covered frozen banana by night 
Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social Worked on games like The Suffering, The Church in the Darkness, and Homeworld: Vast Reaches. Wrote Game Design: Theory & Practice. Now Studio Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new things.
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
GregFoertsch @gregfoertsch.bsky.social Co Founder/CEO/Creative Director at Bit Reactor working on a Star Wars strategy game. Past - Art Director of XCOM 2 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Sid Meier @sidmeier.bsky.social Game designer creating strategy games for the world to play.
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Tyler Sigman @tyman.bsky.social Co-Founder @redhookstudios.bsky.social Game designer, Darkest Dungeon I/II, HOARD, Crows, Age of Empires DS, more. Disc golf nut. Pilot. Opinions my own; not reflective of employer or broader team.
Bourassa @bourassa.bsky.social Concept Art + Art Director + Narrative on Darkest Dungeon I & II.
Creative Director/Co-Founder of Red Hook Studios.
Horror, movies, 40k, artwork, existential dread.
Jeff Pobst @jeffpobst.bsky.social CEO of Hidden Path Entertainment - a Video Game Developer. RPG focused these days. Builders of CS:GO & Age of Empires II HD. Creators of Defense Grid
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
Nick Popovich @nickpopovich.bsky.social Co-Founder and CEO Monomi Park, Director of the Slime Rancher series and ???, he/him
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Ed Beach @edbeach23.bsky.social Creative Director for Civilization franchise @Firaxis. Designer of boardgames Here I Stand, Virgin Queen, and Border Reivers @GMT Games.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Jason Bergman @jasonxbergman.com Husband, father, Director of Production at Gearbox Entertainment, pie enthusiast, infrequent contributor to The Comics Journal, and unapologetic nerd.
#pieforthepiegods
https://jasonxbergman.com/
(Profile pic from PVP by @scottkurtz.bsky.social)
Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social A river to my people.
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.social . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social CEO/Creative Director:
BLACK PONY IMMERSIVE
Deus Ex, Dishonored
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
Hooded Horse @hoodedhorse.bsky.social Publisher of Manor Lords, Against the Storm, Norland, Workers & Resources, 9 Kings, and other great strategic and tactical games.
Our store page: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HoodedHorse
Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social Boardgame enthusiast, podcaster, books: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Universe Explained with a Cookie games: Versailles 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He/him
https://open.substack.com/pub/gametek
Rob Daviau @robdaviau.bsky.social Board game designer, amateur chef, avid rpg fan, leftie.
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social I learn. I create. I teach. He/Him.
Game Designer / Developer / Writer
https://linktr.ee/senfoonglim
Co-host of the Meeple Syrup Show and the Ludology Podcast
Volko @volko.bsky.social Historical boardgame designer. Ⓥegan.
https://phalanx.co.uk/1943-race-to-rabaul-a-new-game-by-volko-ruhnke/
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1162-drachen.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1102-coast-watchers.aspx
https://www.fortcircle.com/the-hunt-for-blackbeard/
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Victoria Tran ✨ @victoriatran.bsky.social ✨ Comms Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us
✨ Wholesome Games organizer
✨ Forbes 30u30, Adweek's Creative 100
✨ Get my book Mastering Community Management: https://www.victoriatran.com/book
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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social History Nerd, political junky, Hill rat and historical board game designer. 
Tor @ccxvii.bsky.social I made rally-the-troops.com, mupdf, gargoyle, and some other stuff.
Ron Gilbert @grumpygamer.com Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
Tom Lehmann @tomlehmann.bsky.social Freelance board, dice, and card game designer.
Matt Leacock @mattleacock.bsky.social Game Designer known for cooperative games including Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Daybreak
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social Software and game designer (Six Ages, King of Dragon Pass, Opal). My new game, Thousand Hells: the Underworld Heists https://store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/Thousand_Hells_The_Underworld_Heists/ is out on 8 September!
Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social Technical system designer, proc gen ranger/druid, Roguelike Celebration MC, kaiju groupie (she/her)
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account