Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social ✨ i’m like if tifa lockhart loved carbs
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Jake (sj33) @sj33.bsky.social 日本語はOK |
筋トレ、ゲーム、パソコン、ホラーに興味がある|
Wrote for @nintendolife, @bordersdown @press_quit |
sj33 on forums |
He/him.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally.
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Asher Zhu @vuthric.bsky.social Director @ Duck Shake Games
ex Tech Art R&D @ Epic Games
LEGO, Fortnite, Matrix Awakens, Unreal Engine 4 & 5
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she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Now: Sr. Director of Product Design, Xero / Trustee at TAA
Ex: VP Product, Jetpack / WordPress / Woo
Andy Allen @andy.works CEO & Chairman of Not Boring Software Ltd.
notboring.software
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social Product design leader, ex-Shopify (taxes and payments and fraud, oh my!) Finally back in Scotland ❤️🏴 Cats. Books. Writing. Renewable energy tech. Skeptical optimist.
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Shane Bettenhausen @shanewatch.bsky.social ★
NO WAR
Ex-EGM/1up, blazing new trails in gaming with PlayStation. (Expressed opinions are my own, and not that of my employer.) RESIST / Stay Woke 大丈夫だ、問題ない (He/Him)
Denise ☾ @surudenise.bsky.social Artist, Photographer, Game Dev living in Tokyo 🇯🇵
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Mark MacDonald @markmacdo.bsky.social SVP Production & Biz Dev at Enhance, host of 84play. Former 8-4, 1UP, EGM. For talk about Japan, games, and Japanese games, come: follow Gaming Jesus.
Miggi from Figgi @miggi.me Designer Advocate @ Figma for Education.
Design, illustrator, content maker, and generator of boops and beeps.
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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social VP Design at Medium
Jared Spool @jmspool.bsky.social Always focused on eliminating all the poorly-designed products and services from our world. People’s lives are complicated enough. We don’t have to make it worse for them.
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Tim McKenna @timmckenna.design At Work: Senior Director of Product Design. Professional stuff here: https://timmckenna.design/
At Home: TTRPG Games, Drums, Art. Talks about too many interests.
Personal Account / My Views
Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social Musings about Design & Product. Currently at Zillow, Design Tech & AI.
Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is design at flora.ai
brooklyn
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Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social New ideas daily.
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Scott Jenson @jenson.org UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired
Dan Hiester @majtom2grndctrl.bsky.social Lighthearted takes on UX, creativity, and other goofy things—by a technology wunderkind who grew up to be a product designer, and former agency developer.
Was really into Poppins before it went mainstream.
Currently in Seattle.
Andy Vitale @andyvitale.bsky.social Executive Design Leader
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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com Founder @ Devographics. I run the State of JS/CSS/etc. surveys. Kyoto, Japan.
Into hiking, climbing, making music, LEGO…
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Anton Sten @antonsten.com I write about design and careers at https://www.antonsten.com
Brian Gray @brilingual.bsky.social Freelance game translator/writer. ゲーム業界のフリーランス翻訳者・ライター Kingdom Hearts/The World Ends with You/Death Stranding/Fire Emblem/Gotta Protectors
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components, the web platform & my road cycling adventures.
📮 https://arielsalminen.com
📍 Helsinki, Finland
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Matt Birchler @birchtree.me 
Nature is Incredible @natureisincredible.bsky.social Landscape photography 🏔️| Nature 🌿| Wildlife 🐿️
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
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Sebastiaan de With @sdw.bsky.social human interface design
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Dusko @bajicdusko.bsky.social Dad • Engineering Lead @Deel • Writing about leadership and software development
Figma @figma.com figma.com/make
David Pierce @davidpierce.xyz Editor-at-large at The Verge. I could eat.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
The Famicast @thefamicast.bsky.social A podcast, YouTube channel and website based in Japan covering all things Nintendo!
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Daan K. 🔜 TGS 2026 / Japan @nintendaan.com Represent and Senior QA games. Sometimes I write and make videos in my free time! / Wooper and Clodsire’s #1 fan. / Enjoy card/board games, traveling, tech, watching sports/anime/wrestling, animals & music!
Posts in Dutch & English. Pronounced: Dahn.
Tokyo Game Life @tokyogamelife.bsky.social Tokyo based video game podcast focusing on Nintendo and gaming culture in Japan’s capital. Available on your favorite podcast app!
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Time Extension @timeextension.com Breathing new life into old games. Retro gaming news, reviews and features from the lovely people behind @nintendolife.com
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Cheesemeister 🔜 TGS @cheesemeister.bsky.social Playing video games in Japan.
Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social Video game insights and photos from Japan! | @PowerUnlimited monthly columnist | @automatonwest.bsky.social freelance reporter | Business email: genkigamerjp@gmail.com
jedmund @jedmund.com I put buttons in corners @ https://jedmund.com
Previously @ Pinterest (1st design hire), Figma, Slack. グラブルやってます・日本語OK
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Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Senior personal tech columnist @WSJ
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vaexperience @vaexperience.bsky.social Design and Product
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hyam @hyam.bsky.social designer
Femke @femke.bsky.social www.femke.design
˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ @rog.ie Chaos animal. Designer Advocate at @figma. Loves horror movies, electronic music, ass-numbing hot sauce, art shit and code stuff.
Dan Mall @danmall.bsky.social 
Fons Mans @fonsmans.com Founder of Offgrid® — (offgrid.inc)
Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social Video Game Collector & Player - Nintendo, PlayStation, RPGs and more!
Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co 🇩🇪🇨🇦 Product Experience Leader · Advisor & Speaker · Former VP VW Group · Ex Nokia, SAP · Fortune 500s & Startups
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sam byford @multicore.blog proprietor of www.multicore.blog
editor at @japantimes.co.jp in tokyo
formerly @theverge.com and @reuters.com
dad of pascal the shiba
Riley Testut @riley.social App developer. Building @deltaemulator.com and @altstore.io
Aday @aday.bsky.social 👨🏽💻 Interaction Designer (He/Him)
🦋 Learning to live with ADHD
🎮 PS5 + Switch 2
⚡️ Pokémon trainer
Rafa @rafa.design Designer and app developer, working on Sketch and Hand Mirror ✨
Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com An online magazine for designers and web developers. Questions? The Smashing Team has your back! Curated by Iris, Vitaly, and the Support team.
Lex Lofthouse @loftio.co.uk ✨ lead ux designer at abstrakt
🗣 design & tech speaker
🐍 comic sans evangelist
😈 veteran pokémon tcg collector
loftio.co.uk
Jonas Downey @jonas.do Design Director @ Superhuman // Co-creator of Hello Weather. Ex-Figma, Twitter, and some other stuff. Puns always intended. he/him
🌐 https://jonas.do
🌞 @helloweather.com
Charlie Chapman @charliemchapman.com Dev Advocate at @revenuecat.com, indie #iOS dev building @darknoise.app and host of the @launchedfm.com podcast.
Me: charliemchapman.com
Launched: launchedfm.com
Dark Noise: darknoise.app
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Jon Riesenbach 🎮 ひぐらし奉 @moriyoshijon.bsky.social Loc Producer/Sr. Loc Editor @ 8-4, formerly Atlus/SEGA
Indie dev on the side
Credits:
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Masahiro Sakurai on Making Games, Unicorn Overlord, FE Warriors: Three Hopes, Persona 5, Yakuza K2/3/4/5/6, Judgment, +. He/him
古代祐三 (Yuzo Koshiro) @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social Video game music composer/enthusiast
Dermot Creegan @dermolo.bsky.social Writer・Photographer・Soccer person
Localization Director at 8-4. Formerly of Pokémon.
He/Him. Opinions mine.
Jake Kazdal @jkooza.bsky.social Long-time game developer and CEO/Creative-Director/Art Director @17_BIT. Living in a Ghibli film in deep Kyoto. I love photographing remaining nooks and crannies of old Japan. Creator and director of AWAYSIS. Spends a lot of time underwater.
chespace @chespace.bsky.social Don’t worry about it. 
David Hellman @davidhellman.bsky.social http://davidhellman.art // artist from Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure (video game), Braid (extremely old video game), A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible (evergreen web comic), Second Quest (graphic novel) // anti-zionist Jew 🇵🇸
Denkiworks - TANUKI: Pon's Summer DEMO OUT NOW! @denkiworks.bsky.social A Kyoto-based boutique indie game studio. Currently developing TANUKI: Pon's Summer (Wishlist on Steam now!)
Liam E 🚲 🦝TGS @liambme.bsky.social Game designer in Kyoto 🗾 Co-Founder of Denkiworks. Directing & Designing TANUKI: Pon's Summer. Creator of Cursed to Golf. 🦝⚡
Roy Blakely @kotowari.bsky.social Tokyo-based localization man at 8-4 | Indie dev dabbler | pasta enthusiast | nature is swell but capitalism could use some work
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
Gabriel Deleon @gabrieldeleon.bsky.social Tokyo
Toena @tinabuttz.bsky.social Cucco Wrangler at 8-4・I'm not mad, I'm just excited・{she/her}
9to5Mac @9to5mac.com We break Apple news. Leading source for all things iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, more
Mike Beasley @mikebeas.com Full stack developer.
https://www.mikebeas.com
@shades.mikebeas.com for Destiny 2.
@updatekit.mikebeas.com for Apple Shortcuts.
8-4 Play @84play.bsky.social Every other week, tune in to 8-4 Play for talk about Japan, video games, and Japanese video games, straight from the 8-4 offices in beautiful downtown Tokyo.
John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social ハチノヨンとスパデラのジョンです。Tokyo-based game lover/gatherer and 8-4 & SDX co-founder. EGM alum. 集まり屋。(He/Him) くわしいことは本をみて下さい。