Game Dev Digest @gamedevdigest.bsky.social A free, weekly newsletter containing Unity game dev news, articles, tips, tricks, assets, videos and more. 3D, 2D, VR & AR game/app development.
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Tiffany Smith @tifflsmith.bsky.social 
@rknak.bsky.social @rknak.bsky.social 
Tony Barnes | RetroNinja @retroninja.bsky.social Jerry Lawson Lifetime Achievement Award winner | 40 yr game veteran | designer | artist | musician | video editor | owner/founder RetroNinja game dev studio
Mountain King - Raptor - DemonStar @mking.com Hi I am Scott Host and I made games such as Raptor Call of the Shadows, DemonStar, Galactix, TreasureFall and BananaBugs. I worked at PopCap games in the past. Shaders!
Discord: https://discord.gg/VgQvPPPkTW
DemonStar on Steam https://tinyurl.com/2jranvhr
Lee Rudnicki @leerudnicki.bsky.social Entertainment Lawyer
Los Angeles - Roma
www.LeeRudnicki.com
https://scene7.substack.com
A. Drake @pageofbrushes.bsky.social Not content to go quietly into that sweet goodnight.
Somer Andom @randorific.bsky.social Simply randorific!
Rudolf Kremers @rudolfkremers.bsky.social Co-creator Eufloria, Bioframe Outpost, and MOAR!
Author, BAFTA Nominated Game Dev/consultant, Writer, Photographer. Making games since 1984, Director Omni Systems Ltd & Publishing
https://www.omni-labs.com/
http://www.rudolfkremers.com/
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
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
Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social ⏪ PAST: Naughty Dog; co-writer/narrative designer Uncharted 4, Uncharted:The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Pt II
▶️ NOW: Cautionary Tales game narrative consulting
🗣️ video games, baking, bad puns, shitposting
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/joshscherr
❤️ fix your hearts or die
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social Made Mythmatch, an anti-capitalist merge game. Previously worked on Knights and Bikes, LittleBigPlanet, and Ratchet & Clank.
Mythmatch on Steam: s.team/a/1778050
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
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/
George Broussard @georgebsocial.bsky.social Co-founded the original 3D Realms/Apogee. Published, funded, produced & created many games. Known for Duke Nukem 3D.
Game designer, artist, programmer.
linktr.ee/georgebsocial
Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert.bsky.social Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Locomalito @locomalito.com Hobbyist developer of traditional video games: #MalditaCastilla #Hydorah #TheCurseOfIssyos #Gaurodan #AbbayeDesMorts #Darkula #Verminest #8bitKiller and more… locomalito.com
jasper byrne @jasperbyrne.bsky.social making new game+ (for 14 years)
superflat games / lone survivor / hotline miami / romeo is a dead man music etc
music: spacerecordings.bandcamp.com
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net Indie game studio based in Prague, Czechia. Phonopolis (out now!), Happy Game, Creaks, Pilgrims, Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula, CHUCHEL http://bit.ly/PhonopolisSteam
MrBiffo @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/digitiser
https://linktr.ee/Digitiser?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6aaa762-ff04-482b-8bba-631961b86cbd
Alexander Bruce @demruth.bsky.social I made Antichamber. Now I'm making something else.
Andrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social Gamedev and 1-person studio @ThunkdGames Past credits: The Magnificent Trufflepigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Amnesia: AMfP. Also run gamedev networking events.
https://linktr.ee/andrewcrawshaw
Die Gute Fabrik @gutefabrik.bsky.social An award-winning 🇩🇰 indie game studio, we made ⛵ Saltsea Chronicles, ☄️ Mutazione, 🤼♀️ Sportsfriends, & more. Handcrafted games made by human beings. linktr.ee/gutefabrik
Kaplan @kappische.bsky.social Game developer
http://keepsake.games Previously: bizdev Coffee Stain Publishing, production director for Minecraft. 1st employee at Mojang. Aspiring to be Max Martin of gaming
Noel Llopis @noel-llopis.bsky.social Making games since 1985: World of Goo 2, Subterfuge, Casey's Contraptions, Flower Garden and AAA games before that. Runner. Cyclist. Swimmer. Board game addict. Avid reader.
My retro computer channel @noelsretrolab.com
Aubrey Serr @serr.bsky.social Veteran indie game developer and GDC speaker on Level Design. Artist, animator, and programmer with 10+ years of experience. Trained economist bringing analytical skills to game design. 1990 Nintendo World Championships semi-finalist- S Sillytuna @sillytuna.bsky.social Bonkers projects & stuff.
John Passfield @johnpassfield.bsky.social Made Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Co-created TY the Tasmanian Tiger. I’m making Super Robot Survivors and Halloween Harry.
https://linktr.ee/retrojohnno
Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social Independent game designer and generative artist.
Games I worked on: ibb & obb, Chalo Chalo and Dubio.
Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social Bafta nominated game developer and owner of Tikipod. Co-Dev and Publisher of Astro Aqua Kitty, Iron Crypticle, Aqua Kitty, Rock Boshers.
Currently based in VIC region, AUS.
Aaron Steed @st33d.bsky.social Makes games and pictures.
itch: https://st33d.itch.io/
mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@st33d
Ralph Barbagallo @flarb.com Founder FLARB. DEMON’S TILT, XENOTILT, VR, AR, XR! #gamedevelopment #pinball #virtualreality #augmentedreality #mixedreality
Brad Welch @bdubzford.bsky.social Design Monkey. Aussie. Angelino. Old cyborg. Archetype. Team Kaiju. Visceral Star War RIP. 343 Haloz. Mercs Deux. Destroy All Humanses! Dark Reign. Amiga jams. Now we have them right where they want us. Fnord!
Letterbox : https://letterboxd.com/bdubzford
Bryson Whiteman @sonofbryce.bsky.social I make Sokay games in Los Angeles. Visual Novel Cheddar Beach NOW AVAILABLE on mobile and PC! Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2755510/Cheddar_Beach_Episode_0/
cheddarbeach.com
Dave Parsons @davepelican.bsky.social I made a thing once.
🐈⬛🐈
David Navarro @dnavarro.bsky.social Game developer since 2001
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Petri Järvilehto @pjarvilehto.bsky.social Likes making games.
Led, directed and created variety of acclaimed and best selling hit titles and IP such as Max Payne, variety of Angry Birds titles and Best Fiends. Board member @ Sustainable Games Alliance. 
Nate Purkeypile: Solo Indie Dev🤘 @npurkeypile.bsky.social Made The Axis Unseen, a heavy metal horror game: http://bit.ly/3ryQ6Zg and Deedlee! Doo! Carkour! 🏎️💥http://bit.ly/43ne3H0 Worked on Skyrim, Fallout, etc.
Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social Game industry veteran for an absurdly long time.
Tanned, rested and ready, and #OpenToWork again. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhanbeeman)
Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer at Prime8 Entertainment.
Principal Designer by day at LBI
Prev: LBI, Zynga, Blizzard, ATVI, Sega. My views are my own, and entirely absurd.
Profile pic by @meggoart <3
She/Her
I stream at https://www.twitch.tv/emberdione
Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social Metroid Prime 1 and 2 Technical Lead Engineer, MP3 Principal Technology Engineer, formerly Founder and Technical Director Armature Studio, Principal Engineer at Bluepoint Games.
Mike Arkin @revoemag.bsky.social Multi award winning game producer/studio head. Over 200 shipped games including WWF, Die Hard Trilogy, AVP, TXR, Oddworld Soulstorm, Bloodrayne. Currently working on 7 days to die and Croc.
Mitch Zamara @mitchzam.bsky.social Economy & Systems Game Designer for 17+ yrs.
Games: Vampire Wars | CityVille | Castle Story | Weed Inc
Prev: Zynga | Storm8 | FunPlus | NetEase | Metamoki
https://gamedesign.gg/designers/mitch/
Martin Donlon @wickerwaka.com Professional game developer. Unprofessional FPGA developer, hardware hacker and reverse engineer.
Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social Software dev, video game maker, writer, general dogsbody.
Karlo Eldic @karloel.bsky.social CEO @ Fearem. Board Member @ Croatian Game Dev Association. Unity Game Developer. 15+ Years of Game Dev Experience. Networking & Multiplayer Expert.
🌐 fearem.com
Anthony N.Putson @anthonyputson.bsky.social Retired veteran of the videogame industry. Composer/FX/Voice for 229+ games spanning 33 years, inc monster IP's Resident Evil, Sonic & Minecraft.
Film score aficionado with a 2400+ collection of film score CDs.
A/V enthusiast with Atmos cinema setup.
Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social Full time video game developer. Some time comic artist.
Not won an award since Primary School.
c64 @superbrothers @c64.bsky.social craig d. adams
videogame creative director type 💭🕹️
superbrothers AV // #sworcery JETT
superbrothersHQ.com
superbrothersHQ.bsky.social ✨
cooking up something new, something fun
Code Ninja @iamcodeninja.bsky.social Veteran gamedev person.
Ex-Gremlin/Infogrames QA and motion capture technician.
Performing quirkafleegs since 1986.
Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ SleepyTime Holiday @angeloslh.bsky.social Freelance Concept/2D/UI artist & UI Designer - Total War Battles:Shogun/The Bradwell Conspiracy/Voodoo Detective/Onlycans:Thirst Date/Pacific Drive/Date Everything!/ Nightmare Operator
Enquiries: saford@outlook.com
She/Her
www.saford.art
#Art
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Sam Swain @sam.apparance.uk A child of the procedural generation. Long-time tools coder off of
the games industry. Worked on Fable, NMS, Gloomhaven. Building crazy proc-gen technology: www.apparance.uk 👈 Try Unreal & Unity plugin for free!
he/him ▪ forever 42 ▪ surrey, uk ▪ no AI
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
🍃Leafy💣 @theleafybomb.bsky.social Creator | Collector | Dad 🍉
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theleafybomb
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@theleafybomb?si=V7Ryte7d5rU4ZeF9
Tobacco Pipes
Books
Movies
Cartoons/Anime
Video Games
TTRPGs
Board Games
Card Games
Vintage Toys
RedVonix @redvonix.bsky.social Cerulean Games & Drunk Robot Games Founder & CEO. Visible Games CEO & Lead. He/him. Game dev and console porting!
Currently developing:
- GHOSTS
- Runic: Eternal Sunrise
QuangDX @quangdx.com Founder / Technical Game Design Director @Asobitech.com ☯️
Ex @BitmapBureau.com🕵️♂️
Event organiser @BrilliantIndieTreasures.com💎
Column writer @DebugMag.com📝
BAFTA member😉
ENSEMBLE 2019✊
He/Him🙋♂️
Kornel Kisielewicz @epyoncf.bsky.social Professional roguelike and engine programmer. Indiepocalypse survivor. Founder of ChaosForge. Author of Jupiter Hell, DoomRL, DiabloRL and AliensRL!
Doug Sharp @dougsharp.bsky.social Antifascist comic artist, sci-fi author, and game dev.
Check out my comic "Bill of Fights: Constitutional Crisis" at https://dougsharpcomics.com
My game ChipWits: chipwits.com
TMI: https://dougsharp.info
Resist!
Jared.farney.audio @jfarney.bsky.social 🎮 Technical Audio Designer at Panic Button Games.
🎶 When I am not working on sound for games, I am drumming or hanging with cute dogs.
Lets make all the stuff! 
Lesley M @lesleymath.bsky.social Fascinated by puppets, nature, crafting & random oddities. Also made a few games.
Nyakuza Games | ニャクザ・ゲームズ @nyakuzagames.bsky.social 🎮 Ex-big-studio dev turned solo indie menace in Tokyo.
🐰 Happy Hotel is out now on PS5, Switch & Steam! If you’re down with creepy bunny dolls that want to kill you, check it out.
🔗 Steam: s.team/a/3295230
💬 Discord: discord.gg/TtFaW83waf
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, genre cinema enjoyer, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social I make bad games.
EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social Dad. Making Game Boy games: Roguecraft GB, OutRun GB, Cave Dave, Hero GP, Starseed, Block Droppin, Word Forward + more.
I will pet your dog!
Hector Padilla @elhector.bsky.social 20+yrs in GameDev. Eng and Product Lead @ places like Timbre, IOI, GameHouse & Zynga.
Love building cool things with great teams, and coaching others how to do the same.
Driven by curiosity & kindness advocate.
🇲🇽 in 🇨🇦 • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/elhector
Jordan Mechner @jmechner.bsky.social I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo, Liberty) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Mark Inman @fortressinman.bsky.social Video games industry lifer since 1993, Scouser living on the south coast, recent convert to miniature painting. If poorly painted space marines are your bag, then strap in.
Tom Fulp @tomfulp.newgrounds.com I run Newgrounds, co-founded The Behemoth, made a game about The Room and I'm currently making Nightmare Cops!
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Matt "Kupo" Roszak 🌻🍉 Wishlist Find Matt's Cats! @kupogames.bsky.social Coder and artist who made the Epic Battle Fantasy games. Epic Battle Fantasy 5 is free on Android and iOS. Working on Find Matt's Cats. Using Flash for 23 years.
Thing 1 from Fossil Games @fossilgames.com One half of Fossil Games. Old bugger that loves horror. Made some games and might make more.
https://www.fossilgames.com
Geoffroy Vincens @geoffroy.nova-box.com Writer, musician, master of the Dark Arts.
Partner & Founder at @nova-box.com since 2007.
IGF finalist, twice.
I sometimes post in (approximative) English et parfois en français.
🎮📝 https://nova-box.com
🎶🎸 asunder.bandcamp.com
Hervé Gengler @hervegengler.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-Founder of Alvera Studios
20+ years of Game Design experience. Passionate about systems and RPGs.
Worked on Fable (Xbox), The Crew 1&2 (Ubisoft), Wakfu (Ankama), etc.
Views are my own. 🇧🇪 #GameDev #GameDesign
www.alverastudios.com
Hidetaka SWERY SueHERO @swery65.bsky.social CEO of White Owls Inc.
I'm creating unique, spirited work based on the slogan: From Osaka to all of YOU around the world!
大阪から世界中のあなたへ！
Ruud @ Engine @mrrudi.bsky.social Veteran game developer / Former pixel artist / World designer. Worked on over 160+ games from MSX2 to SNES to Gameboy Color to PS5/Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2. Occasional nice guy. (He/Him)
Lissa Capeleto 🌺 Tropical Bird UX/UI @uberlis.bsky.social ♒️ She/Her
📱 Game UX Direction & UI Design
🇧🇷 Brazilian Bird in Barcelona
🎶 Samba & Bossa Nova
🛼 Forever a novice Roller Skater
🎲 RPG enthusiast and DM
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💻 https://www.tropicalbird.design/
OpsCat @opscat.bsky.social You make great games, I help make game companies great.
Fractional COO / Advisor / 3x Founder / Board Member / ex-AWS Head of Games Partnerships
Alex Epstein @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social Narrative director, screenwriter, author. South of Midnight, We Happy Few, Bon Cop/Bad Cop, Crafty Screenwriting/TV Writing/Game Writing. Theatre kid. He/him.
Stories are a lever to move the world
Skyboy Games @skyboygames.com Making New Games for Old Game Systems:
https://skyboygames.com/static/Skyboy_Landing.html
Owned and operated by Robbie (she/they), Assoc. Prof. of Game Design at GMU: @nobunagaota.bsky.social
#gamedev #nesdev
Scott Scorcherer Warped @scorcherer.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Game developer, Colorado sports fan.
President Warped Games. 
Hanako Games @hanakogames.bsky.social indie game developer whose mind is full of twisty little passages, all alike
Best known for Long Live The Queen and Magical Diary, probably
Joel M. @zombienormality.com Dad, Lead Publishing Producer / Developer, Comic Nerd, Video Game Enjoyer.
Sports: Wakatakakage / Onosato (Sumo) & ATL Braves, UGA Dawgs, ATL Hawks, ATL United, ATL Dream, ATL Falcons
Shahid Kamal Ahmad @dancingmonkeys.net “A punk existentialist coder alive to his mortality, standing in wonder at the world”
I make Reverie, the journal app: freeholder.dev
I wrote Code is Just and Chimera
Substack: newsletter.dancingmonkeys.net
Pouchmouse @pouchmouse.com Indie gamedev and Moby Dick stan account.
Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, and more recently Edmus - the world’s largest one-finger MMO.
#gamedev #indie
Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social Indie game dev ex Bullfrog, ex MuckyFoot, ex Rockstar North, ex Visual Science, ex THQ, ex Sega, ex Krome, ex Pandemic studios, now Five Lives studios.
Into astro photography, complaining about unity, go, MTG, indie game
Cam @gribbly.org Cameron Brown aka 'gribbly'. Game developer & musician. If you'd like to be notified of future projects:
https://gribbly.org/hq/
David Amador @djlink.bsky.social Indie game developer (like that movie) running Upfall Studios. Maker of Quest of Dungeons, Vizati and other weird games.
https://www.david-amador.com
https://www.upfallstudios.com
📍Portugal 
GorillaOne @gorillatactics.com Lead Engineer. Experienced Designer. Game Development Mercenary. Two decades of experience. Master of short statements.
Making an Unreal Engine game called Overcloud, and a web GM Worldbuilding tool called https://loreframe.app
www.gorillatactics.com
✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social Video Game Composer・Sound Engineer・Gameboy Musician・Producer・Performer・
Best known for Super Hexagon, Spectra, Dicey Dungeons, JSAB, Cadence of Hyrule DLC
🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸
🌐 https://linktr.ee/chipzel
Nathan Fouts, ChainStaff is Out Now @mommysbestgames.bsky.social #GameDev since 1994. I do action mechanics with a twist!
Made "ChainStaff" https://tinyurl.com/chainstaff
Made Shoot 1UP, Serious Sam DD, Pig Eat Ball, Bumpy Grumpy. Worked on POSTAL, Resistance Fall of Man, Ratchet n Clank.
http://www.mommysbestgames.com
Robert / Zeboyd @zeboydgames.bsky.social Robert Boyd (werezompire). Zeboyd. RPG game dev. Working on Zombie Fun Run. We did This Way Madness Lies, Cosmic Star Heroine, Cthulhu Saves Christmas, and more. In Taiwan.
Our podcast: https://zeboyd.podbean.com/
My links: t.co/uAAO1CWnTm