Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social Liminal creative beast. Small. Terrible.
More context: https://linktr.ee/scarygorgon
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.
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social game developer, yuri enthusiast, your beloved problematic girlfriend
Gabby DaRienzo @gabbydarienzo.com game developer / artist
gabbydarienzo.com
Nicole He @nicole.pizza game developer 🍭 director of The Crush House 🍫 BAFTA Breakthrough '24 🍿 she/her
https://nicole.pizza
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Creature Cheeseman @psychicteeth.bsky.social upholsterer / sourdough / handyman / cough gamedev cough
butlerian jihad in bio
some games:
psychicteeth.itch.io
https://store.steampowered.com/app/221180/Eufloria_HD/
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
badaude @badaude.bsky.social does things with words
writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social I make a comic called Band Vs Band. Cartoonist, sapphic designer, friend to all cats, she/her. bvbcomix.com
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social Chug Jug With You (Number One Victory Royale)
HXLNT @hxlnt.bsky.social An electronic artist dreaming of a better world but shitposting until further notice
avril @sego.li they/them | editor by day, movie watcher by night
adriel x @adrielxyz.bsky.social Senior 3D game artist from France - he/they
formerly @onemoveawaygame @dreamfeel
adrielxyz@outlook.com
https://adriel.xyz
queer, trans, adoptee, & a bunch of other things
don't repost my art thx
Mike Robinson @rekim.com Game dev. Owner of Rekim games. Made Pool Panic with @AngusDick.com. Worked on Flock, Monsters Expedition, Over the Alps, Hohokum, etc. Ye olde Gorillazer. Was Mike_Robbo on twitter.
isaac io @eyesack.bsky.social they/them | composer | accordionist | electronicsist | professor | parent | autist
Sam Boucher @monsieureureka.bsky.social Designer/Artist at KO_OP (he/him) Young Suns, GNOG, Winding Worlds, Goodbye Volcano High
Emma Theresa @emmatheresa.bsky.social Daytime geologist, nighttime artist. New parent.
🎮 / 🎨 / 🧶 / 🪡
she/her 🦻
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
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Making Wax Heads: cosy punk record store sim!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Discord: https://discord.gg/7UVZ7SBExE
Father of Twins
https://murraysomerwolff.com
Siobhan @sgxyz.bsky.social 💻 technical writer/editor, software documentation. good at explaining things.
✨ crochet, music, videogames, crosswords, nature, rest.
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
lizzywanders @lizzywanders.bsky.social Illustrator & character designer
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
˖⋆ lizzywanders.dunked.com ⋆˖
♡ fungi ⚘ lichen ⚘ moss ♡
⟢ All photos are mine ⟣
Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker @garyjkings.bsky.social Hobbyist photographer and professional trailer maker, game writer, game designer, and some other useful stuff. He/Him.
Trailers+contact: https://garyjkings.wordpress.com/
H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social Fantasy Illustrator and Texture Enthusiast 📜✍🏻 • She / Her
https://hbtyson.carrd.co/
Hannah Williams @hanwilliamsart.com Artist & Muralist 🎨
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
Michael McMaster @mjmcmaster.bsky.social I make video game at @househouse.com
michaeljmcmaster.com
he/him
Bentosmile @bentosmile.bsky.social I'm making things again! Games, comics, craft... 🏳️🌈 they/them plz :3
Previously: Thrillville OTR, LostWinds, Tanaka's Friendly Adventure, Air Pressure, The Life of a Pacifist... RSOM UK2, Best New Manga. Printing shit since 1996!
dicey @dicey.bsky.social tunic
he/him
https://twitch.tv/andrewshouldice
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch Designer making games and other playable things at @playables.net. Pocket Boss (out now! pocketboss.ch), KIDS, Plug & Play, Rakete, Drei and more: mariov.ch
MayonnaiseGenderFreak @jo02.bsky.social Sound, art, and stuff
(they/them)
thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social Ⓐ angry skeleton in waiting.
Sounds on Flimsy Rituals and games with @furtiveshambles.
actual dr, phd personal games.
trans, they/he, 34 🍞🌹
Harry Lee 尚倫 @leeshanglun.com antidisciplinary artist
Kalonica @kalonica.bsky.social 3D Artist + Game Developer . she/her 🌿
Currently:
Mars First Logistics with Shape Shop
Big Walk with House House
kalonica.com
Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social Author, artist, interactive designer.
Hopes you are mostly happy.
She/they
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Kirsty Keatch @kirstykeatch.bsky.social Designer • playful design + dynamism
Previously: ustwo games - Alba: a Wildlife Adventure
kirstykeatch.com
San Francisco
Jay Sid @jaysidgamedev.neocities.org • They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
• Up North, England, UK
• Games QA, UX, Accessibility (CAPXP) 🛠️
• Artist @distortarte.bsky.social
• COVID-concious & sober ✖️ 😷
• Data preservation enthusiast 💽✅
• Tech, gender, art, and goofs
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
ClareRed @clarered.bsky.social CEO of Watershed, a home for culture, technology and society. Also Chair of Wise Children and trustee of RSC. 🏳️🌈 Queer, nature loving, anti racist.
Mariana Marangoni @mmarangoni.bsky.social Artist and researcher
Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts
87 🏖 @bonaneh.bsky.social 🦑 illustrator and whatnot
🦞 Monument Valley 3, No Longer Home, Before Your Eyes
🦐 open for work // contact: hana.c.lee@live.com
🦀 he/they 🏳️⚧️🇯🇵🇰🇷
🪼 https://www.hana-lee.co.uk
Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social creative things all the time. freelance exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london.
https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social Composer. Fall Guys, Minit, Dave the Diver, Nuclear Throne, Minecraft remix, Celeste B-sides, Luftrausers, etc. he/him. Wanna work with me? Great! Contact management at katariina@1358cr.com
susie @susepicious.bsky.social producer and social media menace for Bad Magpie with milktooth 🦷 creative producer, curator, facilitator, performance artist 🤠 1/5 director of biome collective ✨
linktr.ee/susepicious
Alex Perry @sneakachu25.bsky.social Indie game dev, co-founder of Skeletons. Fake Cornish in Bristol.
Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social Museum archaeologist. Likes making things and colourful video games.
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s First Exhibition https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-display-9781350191365/
abigailbaker.co.uk
Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social miniatures, synthesizers, and labor for videogames
blog: notes.jonathanbrodsky.com
shop: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanbrodsky
Anna Krasner @slothysunday.bsky.social she/her, gamedev, programmer, artist, activist. Currently with Graceful Decay. Codesmith and nuisance, previously at Outerloop, Lighthaus, Ubisoft SF, Adobe, Mixamo
Wishlist Skinscribing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4462890/Skinscribing/
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com — 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 — she/her
David Blandy makes games sometimes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Artist/TTRPG designer. ECO MOFOS!! || Lost Eons || Solo games ||Weird little modules.
Blog - https://open.substack.com/pub/davidblandy
Zines - https://www.copypastecoop.com
Links - https://linktr.ee/davidblandyrpgs
Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social www.rosacarbo.co.uk
🎮 Creative Director sona bona
💫 Freelance game design
🍊 Spanish in UK
👗 Sewist
💼 Prev Preloaded, Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus, etc.
🏆 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
✌🏼 she/her
Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social Presenter, host, tastemaker. Seen/heard on BBC, BAFTA and more
♢ Fen ♢ @fensartden.bsky.social ✧ Art Director @ Tree Den Games ✧
✧ they/them 🏳️⚧️ ✧
Contact: fensartden@gmail.com
Portfolio: https://fensartden.com/social-links
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fensartden
Carmen "Fern" Poupard @yesterdaysblood.bsky.social campaign manager @guillotine.agency 🗡️
manic playlist maker and irl twin peaks character (she/they)
💌 carm@guillotine.agency
色塩 @oxstl.bsky.social フリーランスイラストレーター
∟📧お仕事募集中🎨
|https://lit.link/shokuen
連絡先-詳細-他実績-SKEB-各種リンクは上記まで
イラストの無断転載・使用並びにAI学習への使用禁止
izzy kestrel @iznaut.com 🎮 Tech Designer on @blanksword.bsky.social (prev Astra Logical, No Goblin, Funomena)
🏳️⚧️ trans poly bisexual she/her
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC
🦎 Gex’s #1 fan
iznaut.com
Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net ♿️💻🎶🎨 Disabled, Programmer, Artist.
Disability to explore Digital. Digital to explore Disability.
He/Him. UK, Bath.
https://art.josephwilk.net
Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social Games Writer: Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora
Co-director @ 3-Fold Games: Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member.
Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books & films.
gabrielle genevieve @elloradatura.bsky.social art person, game designer, history lover, zine and book collector - let's be friends!
Nick Nazzaro is Looking 4 Work @thenazzaro.bsky.social Nick is an award-winning artist out of Los Angeles, designing for TV animation, tabletop games, apparel, and more.
Nick is also a professor at ArtCenter.
bio.site/thenazzaro
Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net https://jaytholen.net lead designer, writer, artist, & composer for Dropsy, 1999 web sim Hypnospace Outlaw, & Slayers X. Clickteam software oldhead. follower of Jesus. husband of Katie. dad. 70s prog/fusion/zeuhl guy. Braunschweig, DE / Florida
Kenney @kenney.nl ✨ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social Game designer and graphic artist in Seattle, WA. Blades in the Dark, AGON, Lasers & Feelings, Lady Blackbird. johnharper.itch.io
Kaho @kaho.bsky.social Game designer & media artist who makes physical, digital multiplayer games, and custom controllers to play them with. 向き合い、触れ合いながら遊ぶデジタルゲームとカスタムコントローラーを制作するゲームデザイナー・メディアアーティストです。 🇯🇵🇺🇸
🏠 https://kahoabe.net
🔪 I’m already dead @nullphy.bsky.social ⚰️ hey baby, wake up from your asleep • DRAWS ONLY ACCOUNT for @deads.bsky.social • 18+ FUB🆓 • Life is cheap, especially mine
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/deadums
✏️ https://nullphysics.tumblr.com
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
Kitt Byrne @kittbyrne.bsky.social ✧ Game Artist & Designer who loves making historical puzzle games
✧ Botany Manor, The Mermaid Mask, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
✧ BAFTA Breakthrough 2023
✧ She/They 💖💜💙🏳️🌈
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Jo Summers @profaniti.bsky.social 💜 Branch Organiser for game workers at IWGB 💜 Ex-Program Manager at Unity 💜 Ex-Tech Producer for Now Play This 💜
Board member: Global Game Jam and Games Anglia 💜 Ex-Rep at UTAW.tech 💜 Drummer in Extinction Rebellion 💜 Volunteer at cowley.club 💜
LaTurbo Avedon @mirror.bsky.social avatar artist (they/them)
trust your technolust
Cat Mac @musebloom.bsky.social Exhibitions Manager in London, UK
Views own | she-they | ♿️🦿🌱🏴🇪🇺
I am musebloom everywhere
eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social artist rolling down a big hill getting very dizzy
https://www.evakhoury.com/
member @boshis.place
all-purpose eva @recurse.com
puppeting @ Bread + Puppet
Previously: NYU Game Center, Babycastles, Wonderville, Pratt Institute
NYC
they
🕊️🇵🇸
Karla Coals Zimonja @coals.northsky.social Indie games long-timer. A Good Narrative Collaborator. Dramaturge.
Currently on something unannounced. Previously on Dr. Katz, Home Movies, BioShock 2 & Minerva's Den, Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop.
Invite me to play TTRPGs!🙇
Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social London’s longest-running (de)centre for art and tech
#CultureStake #peoplesparkplinth #furtherfield
Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social Writer, illustrator.
Australia.
Rep: Shena Wolf.
linktr.ee/tanaudel
@girlfleeshouse.bsky.social & @improbablemaps.bsky.social
#artthoughts #storynotes
patreon.com/tanaudel
Prints: tanaudel.redbubble.com
Fabric: www.spoonflower.com/profiles/tanaudel
molly carroll @mollygos.com here on earth to fart around. community director @gardens.dev
prev: Baldur's Gate 3, Steam, Starbound, more.
maxiborgart @maxiborgart.bsky.social my art account
Wiley Wiggins @wysiwyggins.itch.io UCLA Design Media Arts/ Game Lab (BA ‘21, MFA ‘23), Fantastic Arcade, Computer Chess, Waking Life, Dazed and Confused
https://wileywiggins.com
Daniel Rourke @therourke.net Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • AI, aphantasia and mycelial pantelegraphy • machinemachine.net
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Sarah Badr @sarahbadr.bsky.social technical artist, composer; ixdm hgk @fhnw.ch
rīga · basel · القاهرة · london 🪼 sarahbadr.com
Charlotte Madelon @charlottemadelon.bsky.social Making art games | Biophobia | Inferno 13 | Rosa’s Garden | also UI/UX designer e.g. Mindset Go
Wislist Inferno 13: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4592320/Inferno_13/
https://www.charlottemadelon.com
P. Puck @peapuck.bsky.social Sculptor, illustrator, designer & fabricator 🔮
Nat Buckley 🏳️⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social Designer, they/them
YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@natbuckley
Old school website: https://natbuckley.co.uk
Aleena Chia @aleenachia.bsky.social 谢能安 Lecturer in Game Studies & Media Studies at Goldsmiths UoL. Research on videogame production and digital wellness: how media technologies automate work, optimise life, and shape inequalities. http://www.aleenachia.org
Careful Trouble @carefultrouble.bsky.social We are Careful Trouble. We are a research studio and a social enterprise, helping make technologies work better for more people, more of the time.
🌍 carefultrouble.net