Stephan Schwingeler @schwingeler.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at HAWK, Germany, formerly at ZKM
Wikipedia: https://t.co/oG5vVSzMib
Vectrex @vectrexofficial.bsky.social Stay connected around Vectrex! 🕹️
https://linktr.ee/vectrex.official
daberny St. Rider @daberny.itch.io gamedev, XR, geek culture, kindness
he/him
from 🇦🇹
🎮 https://daberny.itch.io/
Everflux Games | Developing Edenfall @everfluxgames.bsky.social Solo dev working on an atmospheric RPG called Edenfall.
Game Conference Guide @gameconf.bsky.social Tracking every #gamedev & #indiedev event, conference, summit, showcase & summit around the world. Created by @spacejunker.bsky.social
Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com Slate, Gizmodo, BBC, Audible Original, Why Files, etc.
Substack at http://josephmatheny.substack.com
More writing at https://josephmatheny.com/portfolio/writing/
Autoscopia - 'As Long As You're Here' out now🍂 @autoscopia.bsky.social Small game studio of four friends making introspective games.
Released 'As Long As You're Here', an emotional game about living with Alzheimer's disease 🍂
Get it on Steam: https://tinyurl.com/yc3z67a4
Marlène Delrive @marlenedelrive.bsky.social Game & narrative designer.
I’m here to make you laugh or cry.
Co-founder @autoscopia.bsky.social
Made "As Long As You're Here", a personal game about Alzheimer’s 🍂❤️🩹
Steam: https://tinyurl.com/yc3z67a4
Prev: WHAT THE GOLF? | WHAT THE CAR?
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Play Praxis @playpraxis.bsky.social
Sindi Breshani @breshansi.bsky.social 💌 https://episod.substack.com/
Designer, researcher, writer of meaningful games
Firelight Games @firelight-games.bsky.social Indie studio based in Vienna
Working on Dawn of Ramonda, a cozy farming game set in the post apocalypse
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3986700/Dawn_of_Ramonda/
https://discord.gg/CQWrzKePSz/
Hawkbit Interactive @hawkbit-interactive.com Tiny studio, big passion. We're a Vienna-based indie team crafting games one pixel and byte at a time.
Founded by @kevhell.bsky.social.
ichbinhamma | indie game dev @ichbinhamma.bsky.social Full time indie game dev from Austria, developing games about dwarves and kakapos.
Follow me on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/hammastudios
sound art games @soundartgames.ch Swiss game dev of all trades (including teaching), mainly game audio, started as a coder & make 2d pixel art, working on a new game in #godotengine, mission is to make easy to play casual games full of dark humor, operated by dkah.bsky.social she/her
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Santa Ragione @santaragione.com The Righeira of Video Games. https://www.santaragione.com
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/rsuwh9HbPJ
Republik Magazin @republik.ch Das digitale Magazin für Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur. Seit 2018. Unabhängig. Werbefrei. Finanziert von seinen Leserinnen und Lesern.
www.republik.ch
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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social Home to the world’s largest Gustav Klimt collection the Belvedere Museum is one of the most significant museums in the world, located in Vienna, Austria.
✨ www.belvedere.at
Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social Human. Posting screenshots (sometimes with commentary) from 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 retro commercials/station IDs/interstitials/etc. throughout the day.
Run by @seraphiscain.bsky.social
NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social An experimental game studio by @martinpi.bsky.social & @alphachar.bsky.social
🌴 Links: https://linktr.ee/sparrowwarfare
✨ Wishlist Sparrow Warfare: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland.
Tobias Kirchner @tobiaskirchner.bsky.social Freier Journalist und Autor u.a. für GameStar, PC Games, IGN & ZEIT / Freelance Journalist covering Games, Movies, Art and Popculture / I saved Planet Popstar many times
tobiaskirchner.de
Steve Lin @stevelin.bsky.social Board member @gamehistoryorg, arcade & pinball enthusiast. Adopt senior pets!
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
Angie H @erbsenfrau.bsky.social Game designer | Horse girl | working on Blackboard Ponies
https://www.superstablegames.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4670040/Blackboard_Ponies/
Game Dev Graz @gamedevgraz.bsky.social Website: https://gamedevgraz.at/
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jZWHcg2
Non-profit association supporting the #gamedev community in #Graz, by organizing game jams, monthly meetups, gamedevdays.com, and more!
RubyDev @rubydev.bsky.social Indie game developer from Austria.
Developing Tiny Rogues: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088570/Tiny_Rogues/
@gamesforchange.bsky.social @gamesforchange.bsky.social
Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at You may know me from the Austrian parliament or national library, "hacktivist", computers this and that.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at
https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/
@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place
https://mariozechner.at
Die Tagespresse @dietagespresse.com Nachrichten erfahren, bevor sie passieren. https://dietagespresse.com
⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social An Angelic brain-swapping Roguelike RPG!
⚔️Funded on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/283910083/blanksword ⚔️
⚔️ Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/ ⚔️
⚔️ Join our Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv ⚔️
Playables @handle.invalid We make playable things.
playables.net
Jonas Vogt @l4ndvogt.bsky.social Journalism, but make it cute. Konto voll Cream und Streit mit der halben Stadt.
Kontakt: jv@jonas-vogt.com.
Play History @playhistory.bsky.social Independent games researcher, Ethan Johnson. Preserving gaming history!
Patreon: http://tinyurl.com/pdp5pdrj
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@play_history/videos
Blog: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Editor of Gaming Alexandria
André Bernhardt @indieadvisor.bsky.social André 4.000 (he/him)
/ Works with indies devs - now with SpielFabrique 🏭
/ Private thoughts & opinions here 💭
/ ♥s games, books & pencils ✏
/ Neutral Good out of Offenbach 🦊
Gwen Foster @ifnotnowgwen.bsky.social sad owl studios / viewfinder ✨ sokpop ✨ sfbgames ✨ bunnyhug
self publishing support && bizdev
Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social Horse Game Consultant. Game Designer, Producer, Writer. Creator of @themanequest.com and doing marketing at @okomotive.ch and @thoglistudios.com
Based in Zurich, Switzerland http://aliceruppert.ch/ (she/her)
TMW Technisches Museum Wien @tmwpress.bsky.social
transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social Independent Academic Publishing | #WissenschaftStattFakeNews
https://linktr.ee/transcript_verlag
Mads Vadsholt @madsvadsholt.bsky.social Guy behind - The Forest Quartet -
Also worked on: Cocoon, Death Howl, Miniatures, Figment 2, Lost Tracks.
Based in Copenhagen.
https://madsvadsholt.site/
WeAreMuesli @wearemuesli.bsky.social We are an arthouse game studio. Our new narrative game In Their Shoes is out now on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/In_Their_Shoes/
Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social A newsletter about the game industry, by consultant, writer and former Edge editor Nathan Brown.
Sign up for free: https://newsletter.hitpoints.co/
Bandaloop Games @bandaloopgames.bsky.social Austrian indie studio on a mission to bring fun and passion through video games.
https://linktr.ee/BandaloopGames
Pierrec @wednesdays-game.bsky.social Award-winning game writer
Bury Me My Love - Haven - Road 96 : Prologue - Shinobi Art of Vengance - Wednesdays and many more. https://pierrecorbinais.com/
Play Wednesdays: https://www.arte.tv/digitalproductions/en/wednesdays/
ARTE Interactive - LOOKING FOR FAEL OUT NOW!! @arteinteractive.bsky.social Yes, ARTE makes video games too! 😎
Publisher and co-producer of The Amusement, Looking for Fael, Wednesdays, The Merlies and more!
Stories, puzzles & strange worlds, always with a twist. ✨
Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social The Wreck, now available anywhere you play! https://linktr.ee/thepixelhunt
Wednesdays, 99.3% positive on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/Wednesdays/
Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
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
@ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social Discovering the arcade's past!
A journey through the history of coin-op. Games, jukeboxes, vending, and more from the 1st century to the 20th!
Also @playhistory.bsky.social
BOIE | CHILDREN OF SATURN @strawboie.bsky.social Developing CHILDREN OF SATURN together with @shoray.bsky.social:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3105190/CHILDREN_OF_SATURN/
Making games to fill the void
elkmoose 🫎 @elkmoose.bsky.social elkmoose a.k.a. TMB or ReeBoK, former member of Pulsar, Success, Creators, Scoopex, Rebels, TRSI, S!P, Damones and others. I like the oldschool years 1987-1993.
Develop:Brighton 2026 @developconference.com Develop:Brighton 2026 - 14-16 July | The UK's biggest game developer conference. Bringing together the European game dev community from global superstars to micro indies - since 2006
Computer History Museum Slovenia @racunalniskimuzej.bsky.social 🖥️🏛️🇸🇮 Celovška 111, Ljubljana
https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en
👉 https://linktr.ee/racunalniskimuzej
PLAY - Creative Gaming Festival @play-festival.bsky.social PLAY - Creative Gaming Festival. Organized by Creative Gaming. Workshops, discussions, exhibition, #CGAwards and more. #PLAY26 coming up November 18-21! 🔗www.playfestival.de
Elena Tagliabracci (Raitonexe) @raitonexe.bsky.social videogame artist in vienna
i like to learn all kind of things and I have too many hobbies :)
https://www.artstation.com/elenatagliabracci4
https://raiton.itch.io
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
Debug Magazine @debugmag.com The indie games magazine // Available in print and digital // Order support: help@teamdebug.com
Subscribe Now: debu.gg/sub
For Developers: debu.gg/dev
katharina prager @kathiprager.bsky.social historian/biographer
📝 lifewriting, vienna 1900, exile, women's/gender-history
new book:
📕»ein spiel, gesinnungslos wie die liebe«. das leben des satirikers karl kraus [sonderzahl 2025]
📷 christian lendl
Brandon Boyer @brandonnn.bsky.social Professional good thing liker.
http://brandonnn.com
Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur @games-stiftung.bsky.social Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur gGmbH | Chancenbotschafterin für Games | Kultur, Bildung und Forschung mit 🎮✨ | Impressum & Datenschutz: https://t1p.de/SDSKInfo
gamescom dev @gamescomdev.bsky.social 🌍 gamescom dev - hub for the global game development community
🎮 Twitch shows, podcasts & community networking all year
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018
Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights”
Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/
Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Calligram Studio @calligramstudio.com Eleanor 🎨 Alex 🎹 and Jigmé ✍️ we made Phoenix Springs. Next: I'M YOUR HOST, an audio deduction game where you must restore a lost podcast.
🎧Wishlist I'M YOUR HOST s.team/a/4720280
🏝️Play PHOENIX SPRINGS s.team/a/1973310
✌️Explore www.calligramstudio.com
ustwo games - The Garden of Life is out now 🌷🌸🌼 @ustwogames.co.uk Creators of Monument Valley, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, Assemble with Care & Desta: The Memories Between ✨ Buy Monument Valley 3 today!
linktr.ee/ustwogames
natsha @natsha-sebben.bsky.social Narrative Game Designer / Teaching Assistant at ZHdK / Creator of Psychotic Bathtub
The Chinese Room @thechineseroom.co.uk Critically-acclaimed games studio in Brighton UK.
Creators of Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Still Wakes the Deep, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
Working on new unannounced projects. ✨
Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝 @charlesgames.bsky.social Prague-based studio pushing boundaries of what games can do and say. Hidden-object Velvet 89 out now, new game We Grew Up in War in the works.
www.charlesgames.net
Jennifer Estaris 🔜 DevGAMM @aeiea.bsky.social Game director & designer. Sustainability advocate.
Known for Monument Valley 3, Monument Valley 2's The Lost Forest, and Subway Surfers. Advisory Council of Playing for the Planet.
thankfully banned from x
now what
moesgaard @tatsavitr.bsky.social Indologist, ethnomusicologist, pinhole photographer, research librarian, and game archivist at the Royal Danish Library.
game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche e.V. @gameverband.bsky.social Wir sind der Verband der deutschen Games-Branche. Unsere Mitglieder bilden das gesamte Games-Ökosystem ab, von Entwicklungs-Studios und Publishern bis hin zu E-Sport-Veranstaltern, Bildungseinrichtungen oder Institutionen.
Embracer Games Archive @embracergamesarchive.com The official Bluesky account for the Embracer Games Archive. We believe that games carry a heritage worth celebrating and safeguarding for the future.
https://embracergamesarchive.com/
Eu. Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects @efgamp.bsky.social Founded 2012 EFGAMP (European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects) represents more than 20 cultural heritage institutions and other organisations collecting and preserving digital games heritage
> www.efgamp.eu
Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at I never had a crab cocktail in Malmö
Daisy Fernandez @daisyfern.bsky.social designer and co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making BAD MAGPIE
Davey Wreden @hellocakebread.bsky.social The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, Wanderstop
🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Highdive · Game Dev since 1997 · I swear a lot ·🧂🧂🧂
She | They · 🖤🤍💜 · 🏳️🌈 · BLM · Stop AAPI Hate · 💙 · Per aspera ad astra · Do not obey in advance · #ATINY
Co-author of The Game Narrative Toolbox: https://tinyurl.com/NarToolbox
Linda @ldacruz.bsky.social I'm a nut loving game designer living on a green planet & founder of @thegoodevil.bsky.social. She/Her. 🍃🐿️🌎
the Good Evil GmbH 🎒✈️ OUT NOW: Rascal's Escape @thegoodevil.bsky.social 🌱 We create games to make the world a better place! 🎮 We are an Indie Game Studio based in Cologne, Germany.
✨ OUT NOW: http://RascalsEscape.com 🦡(Nintendo Switch, PC/Mac, iOS, Android)
📌 More about us: https://linktr.ee/thegoodevil
Connie Geppert @corneliageppert.bsky.social Founder & Director of JO-MEI /
Art & Creative Director / Writer, Leveldesign & other shenanigans
• SEA OF SOLITUDE • former comic artist • TED Talks Speaker • Interviews LA Times, NY Times, LeMonde, Die Zeit, Guardian, Variety etc •
www.jo-mei.com
Philomena @philomenaschwab.bsky.social Co-Founder of Stray Fawn Studio & Publishing
Making Wandering Village + Dungeon Clawler
Council Member at Wings Fund
#30under30 #SwissGames #indiedev
Contact: hi@philo.me
Matthias Löwenotter @sp4c31nv4d3r.bsky.social Playful Interaction-Designer (he/him), Coordinator CodeWeekGermany, Curator @PLAY-festival & Creative Gaming, Award @AMazeFest, Gameculture BerlinGamestorm, Profileimage by Paintbucket ❤️
Stay Forever Podcast @stayforever.de Wir machen einen Podcast über Retrogames.
www.stayforever.de
Paula Langthaler @poppysounds.bsky.social Game Audio Designer & Jazz Pianist
🎮 Panta Rhei, Duskpunk, Sacred Gems
☕️ from audio concept to implementation
🎹 Jazz musician
🎶 organising Austrian Game Audio Meetups
www.poppysounds.audio
Ted Grimes @tedgrimes.bsky.social Technically, an artist
Working on Bad Magpie with @milktooth.bsky.social
linktr.ee/moquetteartist
Felix Bohatsch @mcloister.bsky.social Co-founder of @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social. Game designer at heart, spreadsheet wrangler out of necessity.
I’m also a dad of three, love dancing to techno and think we need another economic system than capitalism.
Jan Hackl @v01pe.bsky.social Indie game developer
Co-founder of Broken Rules
Regina @reginatown.bsky.social 3D & Games Artist, Co-Founder MicrobirdGames, working on Dungeons of Hinterberg.
Mateusz Gorecki @gauziestmocker.bsky.social game dev, co-founder @rarebyte.com
Dani @derdani16.bsky.social Game dev from Austria, mostly doing VR.
Love games, football and books.
Currently working on Deadly Delivery, previously We Are One, Caravan Chaos.
Jakub Dvorský @jakubamanita.bsky.social Game Designer and Director at @amanita-design.net Machinarium, Samorost, Botanicula, Chuchel, Creaks, Pilgrims, Happy Game.
Phonopolis in development - Wishlist on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/Phonopolis/
grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com .1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc
https://grapefrukt.com- G Till Weinhold @gamebasedteacher.bsky.social Gymn.-Lehrer Kunst, Werken Digitales Gestalten, Spielekulturen, GameDesign;
Künstler
Simon Wallner @simonwallner.bsky.social (Former) game designer, father of the year (runner-up), constructivist, questionable taste.
Product/UX specialist and program manager at LocalStack. Ramblings are my own and may contain bad language and typos. You can talk to me about cooking any time.
Kev Hell @kevhell.bsky.social Game Dev working at @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social and on @tagtool.org 🎮⌨️
Melle @wellemelle.bsky.social I do game art for VR games, living in Austria
Co-Founder at Flat Head Studio
Hannes Seifert @hannesseifert.bsky.social 🎮 Games enthusiast aka SkyRun71
🛠️ Video game executive, producer, developer, and marketeer since 1987
💼 Crytek, Riot Games, Square Enix/IO Interactive, Deep Silver, Rockstar Games/neo Software
Raymond 35.000 @rmd35000.bsky.social gameDev. creative dude @ Lost in the Garden
Vienna/Austria
>> LIGHTFIELD omnidirectional precision racing
—> PlayStation4 / XBOX1 / Steam.
http://www.raimundschumacher.com
Flat Head Studio @flatheadstudio.bsky.social We are an award-winning indie VR studio based in Austria.
Currently working on Deadly Delivery, an online VR co-op horror game about delivering parcels into haunted mines 👥📦👹
Also developers of the VR puzzle shooter We Are One