Gabby DaRienzo @gabbydarienzo.com game developer / artist
gabbydarienzo.com
August Håkansson’s 115th Dream ✨ @augusthakansson.bsky.social 50% of Motvind Studios - unlikely gamedev, artist and animator - any/all - working on BEYOND THE PLASTIC WALL
𓂆Tai تاي˙⋆ @gurabti.bsky.social ✧･. Egyptian Character Designer
✧･. Comic artist & illustrator
✧･.📩: Gurabtiart@gmail.com
𓂆 قاوم Resist | 🇵🇸🇾🇪🇸🇩 ִֶָ☾. ๋ ࣭ ⭑
✧₊⁺Portfolio: Gurabti.com
Patreon: Patreon.com/Gurabti
A.H.G. @ahgcolor.bsky.social artist/writer/comic colorist and certified tired person
Currently working on my Webcomic
Colored titles from:BOOM! Studios, Dauntless comics,Caliber comics
ahgcolor@gmail.com
portfolio: http://ahgart.com
Ahmed Raafat @theahmedraafat.bsky.social Ringo nominated UK based Egyptian comic book artist: Dark Horse (WHO ARE THE POWER PALS - Kevin Smith’s QUICK STOPS)/Netflix/Oni Press
He/Him
Portfolio:
https://ahmedraafathussein.myportfolio.com/work
@bashish.bsky.social @bashish.bsky.social Free Palestine
الحريه لفلسطين
Basem @basemarts.bsky.social Environment and background artist.
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/basem_arts
https://linktr.ee/basemarts
NO AI🚫
Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.
سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social 🔻• Mixed (nb) Palestinian • lesbian • 23 • they/them
نور 🇮🇶🪬 @aeniiac.bsky.social nour/نور | 🇮🇶 | lesbian - هو/he/they - 26 | oc artist | #reapingresolve | fanart ok! | https://aeniiac.straw.page/
plazy ☾*✲⋆. @plazynoodles.bsky.social plaz ✨ 24 ✨ cosplayer/artist/BJD hobbyist! 💖💕 :3c
post this cat 🐈✨ [any pronouns]
zigzag @cattuchino.bsky.social
thelma stan account #3
she/her - fr/en
🇵🇸☭🔻
Marguerite Dabaie/مارغريت دباعي/ダバ-イ マルガリ-ト @mrrg.bsky.social ⭐they/them
⭐ www.mdabaie.com
⭐🇵🇸🇺🇲 comix creator in 🇯🇵
⭐Drew LEGENDS IN THE HEIGHTS (https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/legends-in-the-heights/) & THE HOOKAH GIRL
⭐️Rep: Shena Wolf at KO Media
⭐English OK, 日本語 OK (Regional Janglish champion)
Sara Alfageeh @saraalfageeh.bsky.social Illustrator + Marketer 🌿 Forbes 30 Under 30 🌿 Author of picture book NOT YET and award-winning comic SQUIRE 🌿 co-founder
One More Multiverse
Portfolio: Sara-Alfa.com
Say hello at alfaillustration@gmail.com
❥𝄡 𝐑𝐚𝐲𝐚… 🍉 || GRINDING ON COMMS!!! @rayalitysaga.bsky.social ۞ A parasol-wielding outcast ⋄ 20 ⋄ 🇵🇸🇺🇸 ⋄ Mature themes present ⋄ icon: @ducckeroo ⋄ OC tag: #rayality_oc
✦ Commissions CLOSED (5/5)
✦ Tip Jar: https://ko-fi.com/rayalitysaga
✦ Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/RayalitySaga
rana @anarnu.bsky.social egyptian artist and lover of rotating 3d things
also occasional rambler
no ai/nfts
free sudan and free palestine
RandallMakArt🍉 @randallmakart.bsky.social He/HIm. Just a hobbyist artist interested in comics. Will sometimes post fanart. Political. Abrasive. The archetypal luddite.
🚫LIBERALS AND AI BOTS UNWELCOME🚫
Ruu | HIATUS @marmaruu.bsky.social Artist, Illustrator and graphic designer ✨ ENG/AR/FR ✨ functioning mostly on chamomile tea ✨🇩🇿✨
Comms form: https://marmarlavenders.carrd.co/#commissions
Kafeino @kafeino.bsky.social Digital artist using procreate.
I draw to remember. ✨Musicals | Cartoons | Games | Manga & Anime.
IG: @kafeino // Twitter: @kafeino_art
Contact: kafeino@gmx.de
Pfp by @\s0lmere 💖
Shahla @fadebound.bsky.social 🇮🇶 🇨🇦 ✧ 26 ✧ she/they lesbian ✧ #GITFdnd
✧ "with love from the fade and back..." my partner : @miccyart.bsky.social!
icon by @yuzes !
Commissions OPEN: https://vgen.co/Fadebound
RUBY 🆓🇵🇸 @shadowsofvalentia.bsky.social we are connected by this ocean…
ruby, she/her, SWANA lesbian 🇪🇬🇮🇷🇺🇸👩❤️💋👩
i don’t post art too often so sorry for all the artists following me lol
https://albein.straw.page/
SPROUT 🌱🫒 @sproutwiki.bsky.social SPROUT 🌱 *:･ﾟ✧ 🍉 disabled oc factory! ✧ i: @inioli 🧃 🍓!! ✧ 🍌🍇 banner: @crisppyboat ♿️ 🌈🇵🇸
Full-Time powerchair user + Autistic disabled artist 🌤️𓂃 𓈒 ࣪ ˖ #disabledartist
ONLINE SHOP: https://acggoods.com/store/sproutwiki
PHANTOMEROS 🫀🍷 || Artist | 🔞 @phantomeros.vtubers.social historian, writer and artist who loves morbidity & romance
🍷 Phantom | he/him | 23 | 🇩🇪 🇲🇦 | ENG/GER
🫀 OC's, Art, Gamedev + NSFW warning 🔞
🫀 Boyfriend of @hyphess.bsky.social <3
🫀 https://phantomeros.straw.page/
🍷 No AI usage of my art allowed.
🖌️Jolly🔥🐾 @jollynchill.bsky.social 🔥Nasser/ناصر🔥 🇸🇴 ⚢ ⚧ Black Artist ۞ he/هو/they ✦ 25 y/o Nonbinary Butch Lesbian/مسترجل مثلية ۞ HRT:💉11/4/25 ۞ Θ∆ Tired Hyena ۞ Other socials: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/jollynchill & https://www.tumblr.com/jollycryptid
skylar @ grief pit @transmisc.bsky.social 🔞 he/they illustrator & ttrpg creator specializing in horror, erotica, and horror erotica 🖤🩸 gay both ways & the drawings will be too.
💌 transmiscart@gmail.com
🌻 lirrah 🌻 @lirrah.bsky.social she/her 🇪🇬 21+
you'd better believe I love creatures and mermaids 🧜🏼♀️
and art I guess
commissions: https://vgen.co/lirrah
Ren's closet @renscloset.bsky.social A lurking artist from 🇸🇩
Nonbinary | They/he | 30
No genAI | Some NSFW
Multi-fandom but I like my oc better
🇵🇸🇸🇩 We're not free til we're all free
https://ko-fi.com/renscloset - commissions
https://www.twitch.tv/rens_closet - streams
✦ Sister Eva @evabeesmith.bsky.social DON'T repost my art. +20 ↑ ADHD // ⵣ //Purveyor of very oddly specific history bits and pieces. Alchemist by trade 𖤐 Dragon chronicler and old man enjoyer.
Comms on VGEN.
for business deals business@herukas.com
for more art - http://patreon.com/herukas
Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social Maru/ 29 /she/her | Illustrator/designer based in the US | BA of Science in Design | I draw pieces of wonder. looking for work. inquiries: maru.illoart@gmail.com
Website: maruillo.com
Other socials can be found at : linktr.ee/maru_illo
Mika Briki 🇾🇪 @mikabrikii.bsky.social Yemeni Artist
illustrator + graphic designer 🌟
Uzair Rashid (comm open) @uzairrashid.bsky.social Concept artist/Illustrator
tee ☁️ @ uni grind @eclipticas.bsky.social 🇵🇸🇨🇦 | 20↑ | she/they | researcher/artist | gbf + ocs + ffxiv | no ai/nft
✧ comms: https://vgen.co/eclipticas
✧ shop: https://eclipticas.etsy.com
✧ find me: https://linktr.ee/eclipticas
Minimap: Track your games @minimapglobal.bsky.social Letterboxd for video games - Video game tracker/Social platform for gamers/Gaming media (Available on mobile devices)
Download on App Store and Google Play
https://minimap.net/
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/
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Lu Nascimento @lunascimento.art Art director/Co-founder/Gremlin @bunnyhug.games
Worked on Moonglow Bay, Overthrown, Loco Motive, Wargroove, Assemble with Care, Timespinner, etc
♿ 🏳️🌈 🇧🇷 in the 🇬🇧 • they/them
Booked til Jan '27
🎨 https://lunascimento.art
📧 lunascimento.art[@]gmail.com
🚫AI
Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social she/her | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Game dev/Pixel Art/3D
Made UNSIGHTED, working on ABYSS X ZERO: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2872300/ABYSS_X_ZERO/
zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social a real good person in a real bad place
http://zaratustra.itch.io
Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social 🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
🪡 neoluddite
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social Speaker. Storyteller. Director @MountSinaiNYC, Philosopher. Writer. Aspiring Iron Man. Guy trying to make the world better. Views my own.
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🦾 AI liker 🫐 working on https://vixen.rs to improve build systems 🦀 known for teaching rust and not much else
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
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!
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners.
I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA.
I tweet insights about gaming + more.
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
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
Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social Out now https://outerloopgames.com/dosa
Director on Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, narrative, art, biz, UI/UX, production. Uplifting marginalized devs.
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social 🍹 an aperol spritz in human form 🍹
📝 senior reporter @ digiday 📝
📚 The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 📚
(views expressed are mine alone)
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics!
tylerglaiel.com
Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Play-Ability Cognitive Expert. Accessibility (LiS: Double Exposure / Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy) / Cultural Consultant (DA: The Veilguard). Podquisition. 2024 Journalism Impact Winner. 2024 GA Conf Best PR / Comms Winner.
LauraKBuzzOfficial@Gmail.Com
Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social Senior Character Artist ✨
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social Playful.
elizabethsampat.com
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
Saleem @seemo.bsky.social Co-founder, Executive Committee @ko-op.com They/them. Free Palestine. Wear a mask.
Producer on Young Suns! www.youngsuns.com
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
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
Chris Charla @iocat.bsky.social Videogames at Xbox; zines, books, videogames, and skateboarding very slowly at home. I main Bluesky.
Amora B. @amora.ink Practically dripping with ennui.
Tamagotchi collector and character designer on Celeste currently working on something secret!
See more of my art at:
https://amora.ink/
Brazilian/Canadian
She/her
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social Narrative Director for videogames at discoglobe.ca. MFA Creative Non-Fic student at UKC. Luddite in the historical sense. She/They www.jillmurray.com
Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net BLIND GAMER | Creator/Host | Available for Accessibility Consulting | Twitch Ambassador | #AMDAmbassador | Future Class 2020 | Biz: steve@stevesaylor.net
stevesaylor.net/links
Emma Kidwell @emmakidwell.bsky.social Award-nominated writer | Currently @ Ruckus Games 💀| Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Civilization VII, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Hindsight | Opinions my own | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social I make bad games.
Work With Indies @workwithindies.com A kind job board and inclusive community supporting careers in #indiegames.
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
Harrison G. Pink @ DragonCon @gilespink.bsky.social Award-winning Game Designer. Lead Narrative Designer - @shinyshoegames.bsky.social. Tall Bermudian 🇧🇲. Tiki-drink enjoyer. Prev: Cyan (Myst, Riven), Blizzard (Diablo IV), Telltale (TWD, TFTBL), 2K (Mafia III) - www.harrisonpink.com - NO AI NO NFTs
Danielle Partis @daniellepartis.bsky.social Editorial @wire.xbox.com. Former news editor gamesindustry.biz. Chattin' about riffs, robots, D&D, Warhammer and video games. 🏳️🌈
Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social First video game champion (1980). Created Bard's Tale III: The Thief Of Fate & Dragon Wars. Former board member of GLAAD. All views and opinions are my own.
Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
⚡️Marina Díez 🔜 Gamescom @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
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!
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social Indie gamedev who made Axiom Verge. Special needs dad. Curious about everything. Likes too much stuff and tries to do it all.
axiomverge.com
axiomverge2.com
thomashapp.com
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
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)
Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com Unionizing the games industry one person at a time. Cofounder of @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com.
Game worker, rock climber, cat hugger based in Glasgow, Scotland.
https://www.austinkelmore.com
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 🇳🇱🇪🇺
IGDA @igda.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
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.
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social I write tools and code for videogames!
Links and newsletter: https://yal.cc/links
Rosie T @rtparty.bsky.social 💚 Games Bundle Person
👾 Game enthusiast
🧶 Crochet Hobbyist
🎤 Ex Podcast host
🌎 Patron @ Safe In Our World
🔬 Advisory Board Member at iGGi
🧠 Mental Health Advocate
💛 GIBiz Game Changer ‘23
🌿 Plant based
linktr.ee/rtparty3
Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social www.rosacarbo.co.uk
🎮 CD sona bona
💫 Freelance game design atm @ Panic Stations
🍊 Spanish in UK
💼 Prev Preloaded, APWOT, Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus...
🏆 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
✌🏼 she/her
Squidly @squidly.newgrounds.com Squid-shaped dev on Renaine
I stream #gamedev weekdays ➡️ twitch.tv/squuuidly
@streamnotifs.bsky.social for stream notifications
Scott Hartsman @hartsman.bsky.social Shipping talks, bullshit walks. I've worked on a ton of MMOs and other online games. Mostly helping games startups these days. Also, corgis. Specifically, one large, lazy one in particular.
__eirik @strotchy.bsky.social https://garyyk.com
Clifton B @cliftonb.bsky.social Designs games with time mechanics || Organizes Demospree || Throws One Drop yo-yos || He/they || Ask about my research & product design workshop!
Play Seasonspree on Switch! https://bit.ly/seasonspreeswitch
Not on Steam! https://bit.ly/seasonspreesteam