Chris Hanel @chrishanel.com Fights for the users. Co-Founder @supportclass.net, Lead Production Designer for GDQ, Major League Balatro, OQL Host/Designer, Baseball stats @ewstats.com, Twins fan, ex-game dev. (he/him)
Links/info: https://chrishanel.com
@pixeldough.bsky.social @pixeldough.bsky.social 
Bryoz @bryoz.bsky.social Scottish designer. Ex-Rockstar on #GTAV and #RDR2. Ex-Tokyoite (都民だった). Part time model. Tired. He/Him. 🏴🇯🇵🏳️🌈
glass embroidery @glassembroidery.bsky.social Shops
https://www.goblinmall.com/
https://glassembroidery.com/
Business Email
glassembroidery @ gmail dot com
Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social Creators of Trombone Champ 🎺 and other stupid and/or funny games.
linktr.ee/holywowstudios
Chris Wulf @christopherwulf.com 💸 Biz Dev @fellowtraveller.games
👀 Senior Business & Event Manager @iii-initiative.bsky.social
📚 Festival Manager #LudoNarraCon
📈 BD Stuff @ Monster Prom
He/Him - I love F1 🏎️
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
BOM @bomlab.bsky.social BOM is an immersive arts organisation. We engage and empower communities through immersive technology and inclusive learning programmes. 🎮💥
📍 Birmingham, UK
👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/bomlab
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Thomas Reisenegger_xcx @olima.bsky.social co-founder & director Future Friends Games
futurefriends.lol
publishing & self pub support for cool indie games // this is what dreams are made of // he/him // 6 x GDC speaker // latest GDC talk https://youtu.be/-341jEXj-iI
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
Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social I play with sound and make things
http://www.yannseznec.com
Korina ✨🐛 @shikaboom.bsky.social Comms cryptid at Wolfeye Studios & freelance games marketer. Prev: Founder of Neonhive. Marketing at Bethesda, SQEX, Ubisoft
Chaotic gardener, insect queen, lifts heavy things. Found in Glasgow.
💌 korina@panicdepartment.com
🐺 korina@wolfeye-studios.com
Rudeism @rudeism.com I build cool things. Twitch Ambassador. Not Australian. linktr.ee/Rudeism
Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant @pvkkgame.bsky.social Welcome back, Commanders. PVKK launches Summer 2026! Made by @Bippinbits and published by @Kepler_Interact
Critical Reflex @cr-games.bsky.social kick-ass game publisher, CR Channel's cool sibling
Pitches: tinyurl.com/ymyubrkt
Say hi: hello@criticalreflex.com
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them 
ThirtyThree Games @thirtythreegames.bsky.social Canadian indie game studio. Makers of ATOMIK: RunGunJumpGun. Now working on REBOUNDER w/ @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social
Matt Stark @mattstark256.bsky.social the game designer behind Viewfinder. he/him 🏳️🌈
Mj L 🌀 @ocarina0fslime.bsky.social Producer 3️⃣3️⃣
MCV x WiG Rising Star 2025 🐣
MPhil in Japanese videogames as cultural artefacts 🌿
日本語OK 🔮 UKGI Slack admin, SIOW Ambassador 🏳🌈 she/her 💗💜💙
Views my own and often dumb af
Indie Arena Booth @indiearenabooth.de The world's largest Indie exhibition aiming to generate visibility and opportunities for Indie devs from around the globe! ✨
Simon Oliver @simonoliver.com Game Director @HandCircus.com . SimonOliver.com - Block Rancher, Rolando, Okabu, Seabeard. Prev Toy Invention Director @LEGO.
landervr @landervr.bsky.social Freelance artist and gamedev, working on PVKK and more.
🎨 www.landervanregenmortel.com
René | Bippinbits @bippinbits.bsky.social Making games!
Made Dome Keeper.
Making PVKK - Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, Bandwagon & others.
Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2028.
Website: emfcamp.org
Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org
Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
Dave 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com The Drifter - OUT NOW! Game dever and the other half of Powerhoof- The Drifter, PowerQuest, Telwynium, Crawl, Regular Human BBall, Riders of Rhea, Peridium, etc..
https://powerhoof.itch.io
Super Friendship Arcade @superfriendshiparcade.co.za Alternative games party from Cape Town, South Africa, making The World a more awesome place through the magic of creation and play! Be excellent to each other!
Sloppy Forgeries ✨ Wishlist on Steam! @sloppyforgeries.bsky.social A competitive multiplayer painting game about butchering iconic masterpieces coming soon to Steam.
Wishlist ✨
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3030560?utm_source=bluesky
Created by ✨
@playfulsystems.bsky.social
More at ✨
sloppyforgeries.com
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
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
ABS @abs.ventures https://abs.ventures/
https://bsky.app/profile/abs.ventures
https://www.instagram.com/_a_b_5_
https://mastodon.social/@ABS
"The Janitor" Chris Johnston @vsthejanitor.bsky.social Voice of Scottish Street Fighter, Pro Wrestler in training
Jasper Stocker @jasperstocker.com Procedurally Generated Developer
PlayStation One Obsessive
Occasional Mini Painter
Player of Bass Guitars
Edinburgh, Scotland
he/him
https://www.jasperstocker.com/ <- Portfolio
https://www.psxpaldb.com/ <- PS1 Collecting Database
Melissa Nzuza @melissanzuza.bsky.social Director at The Playtopia Foundation
External Operations Manager at Free Lives
she/her 🐅
Craig 🍉 @fairweather.bsky.social @WeThrowSwitches | @GLUMland | @altctrlparty | @RushdownEdinburgh (long ago)
Heather Jackson @hjack.bsky.social hjack.dev
caitlin @yamyak.bsky.social game dev | digital art | 3D+2D | no AI/nfts |
1/4 of @bitloomgames.bsky.social | she/her
yamyak.itch.io
instagram.com/yyamyak
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
Tom Vinita @tv-neato.bsky.social Game Designer at Deep Field and Strange Scaffold. Tabletop & giant robot enthusiast. (he/him)
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social SLC || AAA Technical Game Designer || opinions my own || 28 || I like gunpla, video games that are spreadsheets, video games that aren't spreadsheets, and pushing for a better world || my love is @ecctoplasm.bsky.social
Mike Mandel @manrad.bsky.social XR all day everyday. Part of the duo making VR indie game THRASHER. Past: XR R&D at Harmonix, EA, Apple, Microsoft. (he/him)
AvantBeetle @avantbeetle.bsky.social Atlanta based gallery for experimental/alternative/weird games. Bridging the gap between local arts and videogame scenes
Protest Games Jam: https://itch.io/jam/avantbeetles-protest-games-jam
Discord: https://discord.gg/NuXh64rQS7
Kepler Interactive @kepler-interactive.bsky.social Kepler Interactive is a video game company and creative studio headquartered in London.
http://kepler-interactive.com
Jonathan Blair @kokode.io Video wizard - NYC
🪩 LCD - Digital Experiences for Leading Brands
⚡️ Flux - Rapidly build interactive sites
🔩 MUN - Fabrication and hardware incubator
boshi's place @boshis.place boshi’s place is a space in brooklyn, ny that celebrates game making as a craft and *something related to play/experience*
website --> https://boshis.place <--
Kaho @kaho.bsky.social Game designer & media artist who makes physical, digital multiplayer games, and custom controllers to play them with. 向き合い、触れ合いながら遊ぶデジタルゲームとカスタムコントローラーを制作するゲームデザイナー・メディアアーティストです。 🇯🇵🇺🇸
🏠 https://kahoabe.net
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Mairi Spaceship Nolan 🚀✨ (she/her) @mairispaceship.com 🕹️ Puzzle Game Designer #boardgames #videogames
✍️ Escape Industry News & The Escape Roomer
🧩 TERPECA & ER Champ UK Ambassador
🏢 Studio Manager @ Draknek, Director @ HEFT & others
mairispaceship.com
Alex @ayealreet.bsky.social Cofounder @ Uwu.biz
Prev: Modern Wolf, Caffeine, Robot Teddy, Iko Iko,
adriel x @adrielxyz.bsky.social Senior 3D game artist from France - he/they
formerly @onemoveawaygame @dreamfeel
adrielxyz@outlook.com
https://adriel.xyz
queer, trans, adoptee, & a bunch of other things
don't repost my art thx
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
Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org Bringing the best indie games to Glasgow ⋆｡°✩
. ݁₊⊹ July 11-12 2026 ⊹₊ ݁.
📍BAaD
https://glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Chris McLaughlin 🔜 TGS @fishtopherx.bsky.social Tech Director at @moonmode.com
Til Nomi @thenomi.bsky.social an idiot. vids, illos & games events?? 2/3D art (or 6D). founder of @gaemz.bsky.social. been making flamingos for @amazefest.bsky.social. worked on 2 or 3 camera games. co-producer for a video game dog musician. music fan.
https://www.thenomi.com
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Made Wax Heads (out now on Steam / Switch / PS5 / Xbox)
Now working on: 👀👀👀👀
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Father of Twins
https://murraysomerwolff.com
𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤 @angusdick.com videogames artsman.
Currently ART MANAGER on Cult of the Lamb at Massive Monster
prev Pool Panic / Saltsea Chronicles / Hohokum / I am Dead / YOU DIED / Over the Alps
He/him
www.angusdick.com
Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social creative things all the time. freelance exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london.
https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
Leah Dungay @leaheline.bsky.social Sheffield Based Human (English & Norsk)
Learning & Community Curator @nvmuk.bsky.social 🎮✨
She/Her
Joost Eggermont @joosteggermont.bsky.social art director at Geometric Interactive
Rotterdam based • occasionally lost in Copenhagen
https://linktr.ee/joosteggermont
aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social sysops, humanops, security sin-eater, infrastructure paladin, devops dad. games, tech, food. ally. he/him.
@aahrun@infosec.exchange on mastodon
@tinyblob on twitter
Bit Loom @bitloomgames.bsky.social 💙 Four friends making Glenmara: Still Life Artist
💙 Become a painter on a wee Scottish Isle. 🧑🏻🎨
💙 WISHLIST NOW! ✨🎨
http://linktr.ee/bitloomgames
Emma Boulton @electr0gecko.bsky.social Bristol based producer working with weird tech and games, printmaker and other stuff. 
Ben Neal @psiconlab.bsky.social Arts-focused freelance Creative Technologist, Digital Artist, programmer, games/gadget builder, educator. Making technology-infused Immersive Art experiences.
www.displace.org.uk
www.psiconlab.co.uk
Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social Yr new fav game-band!
🌈✨🍦💖🎸👽🍑🐈🛹✨🌈
Currently making: Shroom and Gloom 🍄 link below!
Past hits: Teenage Blob, Snow Cones 1 & 2, Wrestling With Emotions.
https://linktr.ee/teamlazerbeam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602770/Shroom_and_Gloom_Demo/
Playtopia Festival @playtopia.bsky.social An Indie Games and Immersive Arts Festival
Cape Town | South Africa
5-6 December 2025
www.playtopiafestival.com
#playtopia
By creatives For creatives
Empowering developers to reach the zenith of their creative ambitions!
nat. @natclayton.bsky.social girl who makes levels
natclayton.uk
zero company🔸 highland song 🔸 tron catalyst 🔸 unbeatable 🔸 ???🔸 she/they 🔸 avi by aurahack 🔸 vancouver edition
Free Lives @freelives.bsky.social Stick it to the Stickman, new update out now! : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2085540/Stick_It_to_the_Stickman/
Sarah D @pikapies.bsky.social Semi-competent miniature painter. Expect posts about heavy metal, pro wrestling & Magic The Gathering. Quite annoying. Views are my own.
Gianluca Pandolfo @giucapan.bsky.social Gamedev Teacher @bauhaus_uni
Indiedev @spacebackyard.bsky.social
Founder of Bauhaus Gamesfabrik
Game Jam Orga @amazefest.bsky.social
Creator of FLIPPER
Ewan! @ewanjams.com Freelance Game Dev
Abertay DARE 2022 Award Winner
Perpetually Committed to the Bit
🌎 Edinburgh, Scotland
🖥️ Portfolio: https://www.ewanjams.com/
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography, Treeplanter ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
leafcuts @leafcuts.bsky.social game/film music 🍃
campsite.bio/leafcuts
lofi/ambience/guitars/beats ✨
Birmingham, UK 🌧️
Ben Myres @benjamming.bsky.social CEO & Creative Director at @nyamakop.co.za
“a white guy” - @Aftermath.site
Devillé Arcade @devillearcade.com two brothers combining their love for woodworking and game development into playful installations - devillearcade.com
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
raxter @raxter.bsky.social they/them, myth, minor legend, artistic technician, that person you've met at that thing way back yeah I was so sure when I saw you that we met somewhere a year or so ago how are things since then?
am looking for work! ➤ http://raxterbaxter.com/portfolio/
CodeRed @codered-dev1.bsky.social Game developer and meme enthusiast. 🇳🇬
https://linktr.ee/codered_dev
Dylan Cruz @dracomora.bsky.social 
Amy Goodenough @goonwuff.bsky.social (they/she)
Game Designer at Tripledot
DM at my friend’s house
Most excited person at the conference
🇿🇦 in 🇬🇧
Francois van Niekerk @francoisvn.bsky.social Studio Director at @clockworkacorn.com • he/him • https://leafcloud.com/ • Cape Town, South Africa
Steven Tu @tuism.bsky.social VR, game dev, illustrator. Sticker collector. Makegamessa. Burner. Karaokeist. Seamstress. Animal magnet. He/him. With 24bitgames🕹️ linktr.ee/tuism
Claire Kwong @clairekwong.bsky.social I connect art and technology to make people move.
Zeena @zeena.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer @VRGamesShowcase.bsky.social | Previously at HTC, Upload + Payload Studios
Follow me for VR gaming + awful takes | Sheffield
Arcade Commons @arcadecommons.org DIY arcade cabinets for local multiplayer indie games based in Brooklyn, New York.
https://arcadecommons.org
https://linktr.ee/dbaarcade
https://discord.gg/M32eyPRmGF
Alice @asponge.bsky.social https://readmedottxt.tumblr.com/
DrPeace @drpeace.bsky.social Fight game relic known as roboduck, always outnumbered, never outsponged
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social artist rolling down a big hill getting very dizzy
https://www.evakhoury.com/
member @boshis.place
all-purpose eva @recurse.com
puppeting @ Bread + Puppet
Previously: NYU Game Center, Babycastles, Wonderville, Pratt Institute
NYC
they/them
🕊️🇵🇸
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
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/
Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk Professor and Head of Education & Practice, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Co-director, Games & Gaming Lab. Director, Ada Scotland Festival.