Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com @mikestrawmedia.com 🎮Executive Editor for @insider-gaming.com
"Hack of the highest order"
DMs Open
Signal: mikestraw.15
Email: Michael@insider-gaming.com
Jacob Lincke ⚓ WINDWARD ⚓ Out Now! @jacoblincke.bsky.social 🎶 Video Game Composer & Sound Designer
🎮 Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, Flynn: Son of Crimson, Move or Die, Super Cloudbuilt, Cloudbuilt, Whispers of a Machine, The Frostrune
🔗 bio.site/JacobLincke
Jan Aponte @janapontemuvo.bsky.social ☀️ more info: janaponte.carrd.co ☀️
🇵🇷 | 33 | Any Pronouns | PFP by @HesbianHojo on bsky/twitter 🔞 (MINORS DO NOT INTERACT/FOLLOW, likes may be nsfw)
🛑 NO AI 🛑 All views are mine & not my employer's. Personal account.
Mega Crit - Slay the Spire 2 Out Now! ⚔️ @megacrit.com Seattle-based indie devs that made Slay the Spire ⚔️
Wishlist Slay the Spire 2 now 🌠 s.team/a/2868840
Support: support@megacrit.com
Contact us: devs@megacrit.com
Indie Games Developer Magazine @igdmag.com The Original Indie Games Developer Magazine - We're going back to our roots to complete our legacy. Games, Magazine, Awards, Events, Outreach, Publisher
Our website: www.indiegamesdeveloper.com
#indiegame #indiegamedev #magazine #marketing #publishing
Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social @godotengine.org project maintainer & @w4games.com co-founder (he/him).
Free and #opensource software advocate. #indiedev and #Linux gaming. Frenchman in Copenhagen.
Also on: @akien@mastodon.gamedev.place.
Danae Nova @danae.dev I'm a fairy who makes cute and immersive games and whimsical music!
🏢 Part of @whimlight.com and @newdawn.games
🏳️⚧️ fae/she 💎 plural 🦋 /dah-NAY/
Socials at https://danae.dev/
Avatar by glory_sketches
Divinity @divinity.com Built by the team who brought you Baldur's Gate 3, @larianstudios.com unchains its ambitions to bring you an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before.
Larian Studios @larianstudios.com The independent award-winning studio behind Baldur's Gate 3 and games in the Divinity universe. Learn more about our upcoming RPG @divinity.com
Jasper | Get Bent Games @getbentgames.bsky.social Dutch indie game developer working on a roguelike autobattler.
Join the mailing list for playtests: https://getbentgames.substack.com/embed
Previously worked on: Awesomenauts | Reus 2 | Swords & Solders
Tumult Kollektiv @tumultkollektiv.bsky.social Music and sound for video games. Work includes: Pine, Destruction AllStars, Hundred Days, Horizon Forbidden West and more.
Elvira Björkman @bjorkmanelvira.bsky.social Music Composer 🎼 & 🔊 technical audio code dork. #GameDev #GameAudio
Music:
MetalHellsinger
LeagueOfLegends
Vermintide2
AngryBirds2
Aragami2
Hammerwatch
VampireTheMasqueradeJustice
Go Fight Fantastic!
Ravenbound
and more!
🎶 twofeathersstudio.com
Fawzi Mesmar (فوزي) @fawzi.zone Creative Director on BGE2 @Ubisoft Award winning game designer, author, public speaker, serial expat, 1 of @thehabibis.show opinions are my own. he/him. 日本語OK🙆♂️
Cat Cafe Manager 2 😽☕ Demo OUT NOW! @roostgames.bsky.social Upcoming cozy management sim. 🐈 Build your cafe, discover a magical city, and take care of all your cats!
🩷Try the DEMO + Wishlist on Steam: https://bit.ly/catcafemanager2
💜Join us on Discord: discord.gg/JuSurSXc9r
Camille @cmarjoux.bsky.social 👩🏼🚀 Senior Animator II at Motive (specialized in creatures and boss fights).
📝 Horizon Forbidden West, Burning Shores, Dragon Age & Battlefield 6.
Prev: Guerrilla / BioWare
🎙 Podcast (fr): https://podcast.ausha.co/au-coin-du-checkpoint
Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social FREE A-Z of Strange & Fantastical Locations for your Fantasy TTRPGs • ENNIE'23 Nominated • Wondrously Aberrant Folklore & Fables • www.albyonabsey.com
Canvas of Kings @mightofmerchants.bsky.social Solo dev! Working on: MAPMAKER: Canvas of Kings | GAME: Might of Merchants
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2498570/Canvas_of_Kings/
@paulaubrymus.bsky.social @paulaubrymus.bsky.social Composer for video games, films and TV (Airborne Kingdom and Airborne Empire by @AWanderingBand, Station to Station and upcoming Town to City by @GalaxyGrovegame)
Emma Kramer-Rodger @emberbelladonna.bsky.social Flute folk metal 🎶 remote recording 🎮 sound design 🎧 Flute credits: The Spirit and the Mouse, Station to Station #Airbornekingdom 🎶She/Her
Camiel Povel // Camel Sounds | 🇳🇱 | @camelsounds.bsky.social Sound designer from the Netherlands. I'm working in films and games!
Tim de Man @timdeman.bsky.social Game music composer & multi-instrumentalist with a love for oldschool melodic game music.
Currently composing for CLOUDHEIM.
Portfolio: http://tiny.cc/boh5vz
Soundtracks out now: GUILD SAGA & SOUL STALKER
Joshua Veit @joshuaveit.bsky.social making 'games for the second half of life' @ Copper Coin studio. video games, film, religion, mysticism, business. he/him. https://linktr.ee/coppercoinstudio
ShorteDev @shortedev.bsky.social Indie Game Developer 👩💻
Real-time VFX artist 🔥🌊
Follow me on YouTube! 🎥
https://www.youtube.com/@ShorteDev
Moonleaf studio @moonleafstudio.bsky.social Indie Game Dev studio.
Simultaneously guide two characters - as one moves, the other follows - in the upcoming beautiful hand-crafted Platformer Halve! Wishlist on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906430/Halve/?utm_source=BlueSkyProfile
MarcoMaps Bernardini @marcomaps.bsky.social Fantasy Cartographer - Wizards of the Coast, Critical Role, Darrington Press, Cosmere RPG...
Portfolio - https://cara.app/marcomaps
Inquiries - marcomaps.art#gmail.com
Poly&Pan 🏳🌈 He/They - 🏳⚧ Trans Safe Space
Fuck GenAI&NFT🚫
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/
Mark Sparling @marksparling.bsky.social Music; sometimes SFX (A Short Hike, Cursed to Golf, Adopt Me!,
Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Pekoe)
https://marksparling.bandcamp.com/music
René Merkelbach @renemerkelbach.bsky.social Composer & Music Producer • www.instagram.com/renemerkelbach
Adinda | Acreates @acreates.bsky.social All about Game Design || Public speaker || Game journalist || Educator ||Youtuber ~ With games is nothing impossible.
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
Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and more. Narrative Director on Battlefield. Previous Horizon Forbidden West/CalloftheMountain- Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own.
He/him. www.andrewwalsh.com
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Rusty Lake 🚣 Servant of the Lake out now! @rustylake.com Creators of the praised Cube Escape series and the Rusty Lake adventures! Tag us with your #rustylake fanart! Servant of the Lake is out now! 🧹
https://linktr.ee/rustylake
Ben M-J @vben.bsky.social Creative Content Manager at Larian Studios. BAFTA Member, also secretly 2 kids in a really big coat. Was: NoE, REWIND, Rebellion. He/him.
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
Jan-Bart van Beek @janbart.bsky.social Studio Director & Art Director at Guerrilla Games. Original concept creator of Horizon Zero Dawn. BAFTA & Golden Calf winner. Poweruser of the word Basically.
Matthijs van de Laar @matthijs.twirlbound.com CEO & creative director & writer of ✨video games✨ @twirlbound.com 🎮🛡🌲 | he/him
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 🇳🇱🇪🇺
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!
Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social Developing 'gloriously unearthly' anticapitalist RPG @allwillrise.bsky.social. Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Games, mystery, transformative politics. Singer @terzijdehorde.bsky.social & @sunlightaltar.bsky.social
Molly Heady-Carroll @creatureconsultant.bsky.social 👹 Creature Consultant
🦖 Animation Director
🖋️ Community Expert at Wacom
🇮🇪 Irish, 🇩🇪 Düsseldorf based
🌐 https://creatureconsultant.com/
Ewoud @ewoud.dev ✏️ indie tech artist
👀 made SCHiM
🎮 console porting
🔮 shaders!
SCHiM - https://schimgame.com/
website - https://ewoud.dev/
Rick van Beem @rickvanbeem.bsky.social 💼 PR & Marketing Director #PearlAbyss 🎮 DokeV, PLAN 8, Crimson Desert, Black Desert 😊 I put the “elation” in “public relations"! ✉️ rick@pearlabyss.com
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
peter dijkstra @peter.dijkstra.website gameplay engineer, vj in a previous life
https://peter.dijkstra.website/
Arjan van Houwelingen @arjanvanh.bsky.social Tabletop game designer, psychologist, lecturer and more at Hanze Applied University. Founder of the Dutch Game Design Guild (Spellenmaakgilde.nl). Publisher of GRUNN and FRYSK, with collectible free museum expansions. arjanvanhouwelingen.com
TamTu (Tâm Tú) @tamtu.bsky.social » nerd about gamedev
» Dutch Games Mentor
» Currently CM @ BonusStageCo
» Former Communications Manager @ Dutch Game Garden
» Former CM @VertigoGames
» #gamedesign & #worldbuilding are my favorite things
» he/him
Esmeé van't Hoff🐞 @esmmazing.bsky.social 🎮 game artist & designer in NL 🐞 prev: Tracks of Thought, Wholesome Games | current: 2D/UI artist Cat Cafe Manager 2 @roostgames | 🏳️🌈 She / They
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.
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.
Tim Buhrs 🌿✨ @timbuhrs.bsky.social Lil game dev guy / Tech Artist, made GardenBuddies🍏
working on Footsy ⚽
(he/him) 🏳️🌈(queer coder)🏳️🌈
Helped on: Cat Cafe Manager 2🐱, Tracks of Thought🐞
Maya Bloem 🌻 @mayabloem.bsky.social 🎮 game writer, narrative designer & 2D artist in NL 🌻 Mail Time, Tracks of Thought, Reach: SOS. sometimes WiGNL meetup organizer.
🌈 she/her 🌟 be nice
dipsydoodle.games
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
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.
Rene Derks @thayoost.bsky.social Game Design lecturer at BUas Games. Modular synth geek. Lindyhop enthusiast.
Listen to my music on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dQuxbaAdVAtSqizqyVpev?si=HRI-j4mOTSaEpipkJwVcNQ
TomBoys BV @tomjongens.bsky.social Founder of JoTo.Games, Former CEO of Exiin, Previously Dutch Game Garden.
Bizdev, Marketing & Design.
Working on a SotC inspired kaiju slaying game and a 1st person co-op dungeon explorer.
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! 
@deloryan.bsky.social @deloryan.bsky.social 
Espen @jotungames.bsky.social We are currently working on our first game, Heirs of Eternity.
Check out the progress at https://jotun-games.com/
Game Drive @gamedrivenl.bsky.social 🎮 Game marketing specialists 🎮
Player 2 for: WW1 Game Series, Escape Simulator, We Were Here Series, Tricky Towers, Shapez 2 and PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions!
https://www.game-drive.nl/
Niels Monshouwer @nielsmonshouwer.bsky.social Producer Speculative Agency working on #AllWillRise. Please wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/3165340/All_Will_Rise/
Formerly
@Guerrilla #HorizonForbiddenWest
@WeirdBeardGames #TrickyTowers #99Bricks
Jeroen Derwort @jeroenderwort.nl Dutch Games Association. GameLab. Indie. Co-Founder Gamebasics (exit Miniclip), RB Group (exit CAE).
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.
@astonmartine.bsky.social @astonmartine.bsky.social 
Joris B. Kok @koksiroj.com he/they 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🏴☠️
💚 games are pretty rad
🔶 @mysticforgeinc.bsky.social
⚠️ @megahard.games
🔤 Glyphs & Alphabets
Lisa @lisabakker.bsky.social Sharing my thoughts on game design and other creative journeys.
🎮 Open world level designer
🥋Martial arts student
🎨Aspiring comic artist
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisannebakkerdesign/
👉 www.GiftsOfGames.com Portfolio
Coline Pannier @colinepannier.bsky.social Video games | Teacher | Reinventing organizations | Agile coach || Most posts are in English, some in French
Sander van Zanten @sandervanzanten.bsky.social Audio director for games. You may know me from KeokeN Interactive's sci-fi odysseys 'Deliver Us The Moon' and 'Deliver Us Mars'. For more info, check out my website: https://www.sandervanzanten.nl/ ! 
Manou IJpelaar @manouijpelaar.bsky.social Co-founder and Game Designer at Studio Mantasaur. Working on All Hands on Deck!
Also respunsible for the dumb puns in every post :)
Jean-Paul Hardy (aka JP) @jphardy.bsky.social 👨💻Co-founder of Hardy&Go 🕹️connecting interim video game professionals with companies 🤘punk rock fan
Derk de Geus @derkdegeus.bsky.social 
Remco de Rooij @remcooo.bsky.social Founder & CEO @ Triangle Studios. Father of three wonderful children, loves Sci-fi and Fantasy, but hey, who doesn't?
Laura de Looff @lauradelooff.bsky.social Currently working as lead publishing producer at Soedesco Publishing
Tobi Schnackenberg @tobischna.bsky.social Indie Game Developer, Co-Founder of Square Glade Games. Opinions are my own. Outbound closed Alpha:
https://outbound.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
All Hands on Deck🙌Out now! @studiomantasaur.bsky.social Lighthearted indie game studio working on All Hands on Deck!
Out now on Switch and
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/2122880
Switch EU: https://www.nintendo.com/nl-nl/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/All-Hands-on-Deck-2954542.html
@peterdj72.bsky.social @peterdj72.bsky.social 
eskea 🐍 @eskea.bsky.social Influencer/Community Manager looking for work! (EU based)
Twitch partner • Battlefield DICE friend • Writing a fantasy 📖
GlitchKraft (they/them) ✰ Indie/Retro Content Creator @glitchkraft.bsky.social ✰ they/them 🏳️🌈
✰ Supposedly very wholesome
✰ Full-time Indie Content Creator
✰ Judge at Dutch Game Awards '21 & '23
✰ Inq: hey@glitchkraft.net
https://twitch.tv/glitchkraft
Woke btw
Daniel Knightley - "Slop" is always a negative designation. @danielknightley.bsky.social Tinkerer, #TraditionalArt, #soloDev and #Animator | Dutch 🇳🇱 | He/Him
Currently working on:
[ 🌐 A proper website ]
[ 🐞 #CarapaceSkinEditor - a Minecraft skin editor]
[ 🪨 #OrichalcumCup - a PvE hero tabletop game ]
G @postsbyg.bsky.social The ramblings of a first time solo indie game dev.
Welshman in Amsterdam.
Award winning designer in another life.
Aleksandr Tiupin @atiupin.bsky.social Hand of Æoth
Robin - VFXlabs - Available for freelance! @vfxlabs.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Freelance Realtime VFX Artist
Prev: @fablecraft.bsky.social, Phantom Spark
🌐 VFXlabs.net
👤 linkedin.com/in/robinvfxlabs
🎨 artstation.com/robinwouters
✉️ robin@vfxlabs.net
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
Shanice de Jong @thedescendants.bsky.social Junior 3D Prop artist/Generalist.
Looking for work (NL/EU)!
With a passion for Nature, Animals/Creatures, Folklore & Mythology and Level Art.
Ratz 4 Brainz - 1 guy indie studio @ratz4brainz.bsky.social Sev, he/they, 22, Creative Media and Game Technologies (year 4!) Student
Strong believer in equal opportunities. Trying to make the world a more accepting place one game at a time 💓
Portfolio: sevfolio.tumblr.com
Karim @kskarim.bsky.social I’d prefer a dark sky tbh
MeetToMatch @meettomatch.bsky.social MeetToMatch is the world’s leading events and networking company in the games industry.
Twilight ✨ @twilightrealm.bsky.social Dutchess 🇳🇱 • software engineer • gaming since the NES • Zelda collector since 2012 (@hyliantreasures on Insta) • admin @takemyrupe.es
Dion Peek @bunkes.bsky.social Dutch Gamedev || Minecraft! || Co-creator of Bloody Hell || Lover of eating/cooking Indonesian food ||
Mathijs Pont | Art @mathijspont.bsky.social ✍️ I draw strange, weird and macabre stuff.
| Also a physics teacher.
Ilyas Ben Haddou @ilygames.bsky.social 
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
Black Screen Records @blackscreenrecords.com Your specialist for game/anime soundtracks and Japanese pop music. We're a record label and online store from Cologne, Germany ✨
https://linkin.bio/bsr/
Veronika Vitazkova @veronika-vitazkova.bsky.social flutist • world woodwind player
🎙 remote recordings
🎶 performances
📍 Vienna 🇦🇹
https://veronika-vitazkova.com/
https://youtube.com/@veronika_vitazkova
https://www.instagram.com/veronika_vitazkova
lasha3D @lasha3d.bsky.social i'm lasha , 3d environment artist! looking for work !
#blender #3d #art
instagram: http://instagram.com/lasha3d/
my store : https://www.artstation.com/lasha/store?tab=digital_product
Matthew Mercer @matthewmercer.bsky.social Storyteller, VO Guy, Vincent Valentine, Minsc, Thirst Trap Ganondaddy, #TheLegendOfVoxMachina, CCO/DM of
Critical Role. I’m always tired. He/Him.
𝒦𝒾𝓂𝒾 ♡ @kimikimi-more.bsky.social 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 chicago game, film, & stage composer
✨ wishlist the afterlife cafe on steam ✨
📱 @aapiingaming.bsky.social
👾 fortune 500 gaming company marketer
🎵 https://linktr.ee/kimikimi_more
Chloë Guppy @chloeguppy.bsky.social 🎬 Composer and Musician
🎻 Orchestra Director/Conductor
📍 South West, UK
Joris de Man 🎼🎶🎵 @jorisdemanmusic.bsky.social Father, husband, BAFTA nom and double Ivor Novello winning composer/ noisemaker.
Loves to cook, travel the world, into film, art, animation and games, and fascinated by VFX.
www.jorisdeman.com