INDIGO @indigo-showcase.bsky.social INDIGO is the premier business event for the games
industry in the Benelux, connecting developers, publishers, and investors to drive innovation and growth. Providing unparalleled
access to stakeholders and B2B opportunities.
https://indigoshowcase.nl
Constantin "The Gaming Copywriter" Dumitru @gamingcopywriter.bsky.social Marketing @krasskollektiv.com
Independent Game Reviewer (medium.com/@constantin.gcopywriting)
Consultant & Mock Reviewer
Interview Host
https://www.twitch.tv/gamingcopywriter/
✉ constantin.gcopywriting@gmail.com
Jeroen Derwort @jeroenderwort.nl Dutch Games Association. GameLab. Indie. Co-Founder Gamebasics (exit Miniclip), RB Group (exit CAE).
@sanzianatudose.bsky.social @sanzianatudose.bsky.social 
WispRoy @wisproy.bsky.social I blog about #indiedev, food & my dog! 🐶 Narrative Designer of https://wispfire.com 🖋 Volunteer at https://games4diversity.com 🌈 Buy Herald: bit.ly/herald-steam 👾 Wishlist Red Kiss: bit.ly/RedKissSteam 💋🩸
@professionalpanda.bsky.social @professionalpanda.bsky.social 
Dom2D 💜 @dom2d.bsky.social Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Dig Dig Dino, Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
Ilyas Ben Haddou @ilygames.bsky.social 
@peterdj72.bsky.social @peterdj72.bsky.social 
Molly Heady-Carroll @creatureconsultant.bsky.social 👹 Creature Consultant
🦖 Animation Director
🖋️ Community Expert at Wacom
🇮🇪 Irish, 🇩🇪 Düsseldorf based
🌐 https://creatureconsultant.com/
Michiel Houwen @michielhouwen.bsky.social I help indie game studios! Coach at Flanders Game Hub, co-organizer of the UNWRAP festival and part of ForsVC
Joris B. Kok @koksiroj.com he/they 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🏴☠️
💚 games are pretty rad
🔶 @mysticforgeinc.bsky.social
⚠️ @megahard.games
🔤 Glyphs & Alphabets
Tim Laning @timlaning.bsky.social CEO/ Commercial Director of Grendel Games, Serious Game Designer for Affordable Healthcare, Sustainability and Education.
In private life a loving husband and father, pinball enthusiast, avid video game player and a fan of spicy food! 
Matthijs Dierckx @matthijsd.bsky.social Author. Composer. Game Creator. Game industry veteran.
Founder of #gamedev magazine Control & Control Conference.
Author of Dutch YA fantasy novel 'Het Verdwenen woud'.
Composer for the Unexplored-franchise.
Co-creator of Sumico, the numbers game.
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Dutch Games Association @dutchgamesassociation.nl We represent the Dutch games industry, are the main liaison with the government, provide information and networking opportunities to the Dutch game community and organise national and international industry events. https://www.dutchgamesassociation.nl
Dan @atomic-arc.com Game Developer?
https://dansanfranman.itch.io/
Worcester, UK
Trisha Lee🌸 @trishalee.bsky.social Investment and EU dev rel @Krafton Co-founder @PATI🎮
Prev. BD & Scouting @United Label @Kepler @Utomik
She/Her✨️ Say Hi👋
Ferdi Özgürel @ferdiozgurel.com Ludonarratologist
Joe van Burik @joevanburik.bsky.social 📻 Presentator Tech & Games @BNR.nl
🎮 http://bnr.nl/allinthegame
🖥️ http://bnr.nl/dgts
📱 http://bnr.nl/techupdate
🎮 @unpause.nl
🤺 Sabreur
🐉 D&D
Len Maessen @lenmaessen.bsky.social Hardware keyboards on phones supremacist | Gamejournalist voor oa NRC / redacteur streekomroep SRC.fm | she/her | bier en steak and sowing chaos by using NL and EN interchangeably
Joost van Dongen @joostvandongen.bsky.social Game creator. Founder & Creative Director of Galaxy Grove (Station to Station). Former co-founder of Ronimo (Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers, De Blob, Blightbound). Solo creator: Robo Maestro, Cello Fortress, Proun. Composer and cellist of The Ageless Gate
Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com Freelance Tool Design Director, Workflow Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/
Previously Hytale, Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC.
I get really excited about workflows!
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
🔠 Word Play: http://s.team/a/3586660/
🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/
Wouter Go @woutergo.bsky.social Helping studios and publishers build and scale their teams
- jobs at www.stridequest.com
- Director, HR and Talent Acquisition at Studio in stealth
The Powell Group @thepowellgroup.bsky.social 
Unreal Outpost @unrealoutpost.com A newsletter and podcast about the latest in Unreal Engine, the people who use it and the things they make. Subscribe at https://unrealoutpost.com/
Gerben Grave || Multiverse Narratives @multiverse.bsky.social Freelance Narrative Designer + Game Writer. Making Eloquence! Age of Wonders 4 | We Were Here Forever & Together | Game Bakery
Vlad Calu 🏠 @vladw.bsky.social Game Scout @ Bright Gambit | ex-Oro Interactive🦑 & Those Awesome Guys🐔 | Indie Publishing Consultant
🏄he/him🏄
Nikki @writernikki.bsky.social Changing the world, one story at a time - Author | Game Writer | Anime, Webtoon, and Musical Lover | Current project: Webtoon/comic development
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkiluwriter
https://lunikki11.wixsite.com/nikki-lu
Kitty Calis @kittycalis.bsky.social DISC ROOM, Minit, Horizon Zero Dawn, Minit Fun Racer and a few things I can't say yet 👀 
Pepijn Willekens 🌸 Plum Road Tea Dream releasing now! @pepijnwillekens.bsky.social Game dev // Punk of the digital age // REVEAL game studio // Different Perspectives Festival
Now making Plum Road Tea Dream: a game about rest, personal discovery, identity, and connection
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3206340/Plum_Road_Tea_Dream/
Lindeh. @lindahoogendam.bsky.social 🤷 Freelance 3D Artist based in 🇳🇱, just trying to figure things out
| She/Her | 🌿Environment Art | 🎮 Game Art | 🐈 Cat Owner |📚 Book Nerd |
https://linktr.ee/lindahoogendam
#3d #gameart #gamedev
Geert Nellen @geertnellen.bsky.social Game Designer and artist. In the past: Director of Metrico, Lead Designer on Mini Motorways, worked as a designer on games like Manifold Garden and Viewfinder.
Daphne Fontijn @daphnefontijn.bsky.social Environment concept artist from the Netherlands.
Anything arty or gamey or indie gamey is good.
www.daphnefontijn.com
Arjan Terpstra @ranja72.bsky.social Video game writer. Wrote for Guerrilla and PUBG games. Author of PAC-MAN: Birth of an Icon and Sonic Art and Design books. See ranja72.com for details, projects, contact.- D Dylan Nagel @dylannagel.bsky.social
Tim Hengeveld @hedgefield.bsky.social Dutch indie gamedev and illustrator. Making small narrative games about life’s joys and mysteries. Currently working on The Ruin Wanderer.
Gary White - GameDev @invidious.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 We might consider a Butlerian Jihad
Berserker's Domain | DEMO OUT NOW | Retro FPS Roguelike @berserkersdomain.bsky.social I'm developing an unhinged fast-paced boomer shooter freakshow with a roguelike game loop. Try the DEMO and WISHLIST on Steam: https://steam.pm/app/3277520/
People call me Breakky.
Zhenghua Yang (Z) 🔜 Tokyo Game Show @z.serenityforge.com Founder/CEO of @serenityforge.com, Creator of Fractured Blooms, Faraday Blues, TEDx Speaker, DICE Awards Jury
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus #DDLC, LISA, To the Moon, NSO, Slay the Princess, Vivarium, Sister Other Paranoia, Roman Sands.
serenityforge.com
Julia Norton @julia-norton.bsky.social Founder of Interwebicly.com
Publication centered on innovation and AI.
Building mini AI applications
#midjourney enthusiast
Matthias Schmidt @flownepp.bsky.social Contract Material Artist | 18+ years in the games industry | Ex-Level Designer and 3D Artist | Award winning modder | Leipzig, Germany
www.artstation.com/steppenwolf
www.fab.com/sellers/STW_Shop
Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com Fractional CTO. I help tech startups scale. Making games since 1981, 200+ published titles. Solo indie dev.
LinkedIn: https://markripley.net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grumpyoaf
Indie: https://wearedinosaurs.uk | https://bonk.ooo
Sarah York | Panda Cat Games @sarahyork3d.bsky.social 🐼 Founder @PandaCatGames.bsky.social ~ linktr.ee/pandacatgames
https://discord.com/invite/RjrbBwejpZ
💖 Ensemble 2025
Rhys Elliott @superhys.bsky.social Head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics.
Ex-Newzoo & Nielsen. Analysis in IGN, BBC, Giant Bomb, The Guardian, GameSpot, GIBiz and more.
Lives on a canal in the Netherlands, but spends most of the time looking at screens instead.
Very Welsh.
WCHC gamedev @wchc.pl Hi, I'm Kuba, a 🇵🇱 #polish 🎮 #sologamedev living in 🍔 #hamburg working on my first Steam release - 🪖 Bedroom Battlegrounds!
I work with ☑️ #unity and 🤖 #godot.
Buy and wishlist the game on Steam
https://t.ly/YDKKb
My socials
https://linktr.ee/wchcgamedev
George Rickard @epticx.bsky.social Principal Game Designer on Minecraft Dungeons 2
| Minecraft: Dungeons | Rust | Bafta member
Nuno Vicente @e-vinyl.bsky.social PhD and Principal AI Programmer DR Studios. Former co-founder of Titan Forged Games, Lda.
Avid gamer and retro game collector. Chrono Trigger is the best!!!
Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com I'm an indie game developer ゲーム開発者. I try to make fun and unique games that I hope people enjoy. Seeing people having fun playing the games I've made brings me a lot of joy.
https://linktr.ee/aerial_knight
Joost van Dreunen @superjoost.bsky.social Subscribe: superjoost.substack.com (over 14,000 subs!)
Academic and entrepreneur with expertise in video games • Author of ONE UP • Advisor @ Makers Fund • Teaches @NYUStern • Hosts @UNBOXINGpod
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)
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
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Producer, Strange Scaffold. Founder, F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@causewaystudios.com / mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
Kim Nordstrom @kimnordstrom.bsky.social Swedish guy living in Spain. Author of the game industry book "UP DOWN UP", advisor for gaming CEOs and used to be a decent 8bit pixel artist.
Tumult Kollektiv @tumultkollektiv.bsky.social Music and sound for video games. Work includes: Pine, Destruction AllStars, Hundred Days, Horizon Forbidden West and more.
Chris Tarrant @christarrant.bsky.social Animator at nDreams. Previously worked on Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Primal Rumble, SpaceTeamVR and a bunch of other things
Oswald de Bruin @oswalddebruin.bsky.social Freelance Game Person. Available as developer, designer & consultant. Website: http://obsessivesciencegames.com
Stratos @stratosphere.bsky.social Game design, UX, UI & animation. Co-founder at Bomburo
https://linktr.ee/stratos_bomburo
Sander Vanhove @sandervhove.bsky.social Godot Game Developer @duckosaurus.bsky.social
♥️ #GodotEngine & #GameJam ♥️
Franz 🔜Gamescom - Indie Arena Booth (10.2) @franzlazerte.bsky.social Amsterdam-based self-taught #Godot #IndieGameDev. We published Rift Riff, and am now working on another project 🤫
⭐ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/Rift_Riff
Christian Batist @cbatist.bsky.social Highly motivated and accountable team player, with broad business experience and extraordinary interpersonal, analytical, entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Energetic, extrovert personality. Outdoor enthusiast. Father of 2 boys.
Coby Jennings @cobyjennings.bsky.social Mid-career Network & Gameplay Engineer
Branching Source Engine in my spare time
He/Him
Outersloth @outersloth.com We fund game.
By Innersloth.
https://outersloth.com/
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
Oro Interactive @orointeractive.bsky.social We publish catchy, creator-focused games 👀
📨 contact@orointeractive.com
Murky Divers, Order 13 & Daemonologie
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Johan Toresson @jtoresson.bsky.social Now: Scouting for Raw Fury
Before: Lots of stuff.
Pitch me that new game of yours -> https://form.asana.com/?k=SF4rPk6Y5L-NFSrVml5JOg&d=1123805143377851
(He/Him)
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
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
Xandra van Wijk @xandra.bsky.social Data Analyst / Game Designer Space Ape Games
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/
aran @aran.sokpop.co game developer, part of @sokpop.co - i made stacklands, clickyland, wurdweb & more - now making Rat Game
Gwen Foster @ifnotnowgwen.bsky.social sad owl studios / viewfinder ✨ sokpop ✨ sfbgames ✨ bunnyhug
self publishing support && bizdev
Christophe De bont @cdebont.bsky.social Kindness first ~ building the future of sustainable Belgian #gamedev @vlaamsavfonds.bsky.social ~ raising videogame literacy everywhere else ~ EN/NL ~ he/him
Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl Game Producer specialised in remote production. Prev @blackmillgames.bsky.social & Grendel Games. Co-founder of @gamebakery.nl. Waterfowl enthusiast. He/him. www.thomasjager.nl
From Frank w/ Love @stroopwaffle.bsky.social Game Scout at Focus Entertainment, Dotemu & The Arcade Crew | he/him
Joni van der Leeuw @jonivanderleeuw.substack.com Business Developer w Ideals
Creative Producer
Enterprising Politician
Couldn't choose; did all three
Did choose to fight exploitation wherever I can!
http://deventer.partijvoordedieren.nl
http://roost.games
http://werkplant.com
http://jonivanderleeuw.com
Ewoud @ewoud.dev ✏️ indie tech artist
👀 made SCHiM
🎮 console porting
🔮 shaders!
SCHiM - https://schimgame.com/
website - https://ewoud.dev/
Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social 🎮 business coach helping videogame founders build better studios
15+ years in games | executive MBA
Read The Long Game newsletter: https://www.martijnvanzwieten.com/newsletter
Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
...
she/zij 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Koen Deetman @koendeetman.bsky.social CEO | Game Director | Founder | @KeokeNInteractive.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/theoneastronaut | Creator of #DeliverUsTheMoon, #DeliverUsMars & #DeliverUsHome | Founder | #HunchbackMusic
Control Magazine @controlmagazine.bsky.social Vaknieuws voor de gamesindustrie
https://www.control-online.nl/
also running: gamejobs.eu and ctrl500.com
Hydra @hydragames.bsky.social Hydra is a videogame studio based in The Netherlands. We build deep games with a wide reach, that respect your time.
www.hydra-games.com
Paul Deetman @pauldeetman.bsky.social Creating things. Questioning existence. Writing a book on Philosophy, Perception & Being. Founder KeokeN & Hunchback Studios, Creator of the Deliver Us Games.
Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com Not great at writing a good description of himself. Potential game designer and/or writer perhaps?
VashNL. #TeamHooman #Thumper Moderator At #HyperRPG on Twitch and Discord. He/Him. Anti-Fascist.
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
Seb Downie-Blackwell @downieseb.bsky.social Games Industry Veteran of 27.2 years & 100+ games
Partner/Head of Production at Remote Control Productions
Managing Director at It Matters Games
Owner of NOTHING MATTERS
"Mr Gamescom" - Linkedin
Star of "Seb Simulator 25"
Your new dad.
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
Sam De Boeck @samdeboeck.bsky.social Founded Oro Interactive // Murky Divers, Daemonologie & Order 13 // Professional calculated risks taker
John Lewis @neoliminal.bsky.social Making video games and helping other make video games with Generative AI.
http://www.Liminal-Group.net
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Willem Hilhorst @whilhorst.bsky.social Games Preservation at Beeld & Geluid (Sound & Vision) | Associate Editor NWR | Games-Journalist | He/Him 🇳🇱
https://linktr.ee/willemh
Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social Creator of the Falconeer,, Bulwark, Shipshaper and the Moonpath SKyrim Mods, passionate about games as Art. Honorable Luddite, Chaotic Creative Dad Game Dev, working on Ancient Waves. Creative Cockroach most comfortable behind the fridge.
Richie de Wit @richiedewit.com 🔥 Senior BD & Partner Manager at Raw Fury.
🤫 Consultant, more coming soon.
☕️ Forever under caffeinated & over-stimulated.
🎮 Games supported: Gemporium, Blue Prince, Cassette Beasts, Among Us, and more.
Opinions are my own.
richiedewit.com
Matthijs van de Laar @matthijs.twirlbound.com CEO & creative director & writer of ✨video games✨ @twirlbound.com 🎮🛡🌲 | he/him
Eline Muijres 🐇 @elinemuijres.com 🐇 Freelance Game Producer & Founder at https://cohop.games
👾 Lead Producer @blueridgegames.bsky.social
🕹️ Mafate, Billie Bust Up, On Your Tail, Threads of Time, Bounden
🌈 Board Member @games4diversity.com
🇳🇱 Dutch in Vienna
BloodyGoodReviews | Pirate PR @piratepr.com Unapologetically punny games writer | PR/Community Specialist | Captain at Pirate PR | Contact: Robby@piratepr.com
Trui @trui.bsky.social Helping You Become A Better Twitch Streamer 🎮📷 | Streamer Of Cozy Games (PC And Switch) 🦉 | ADHD 🧠 | Netherlands 🇳🇱 | Email: truiontwitch@gmail.com
Links: https://trui.tv/pages/links