Alice Rendell @alicemrendell.bsky.social Narrative Design Consultant specialising in narrative systems | 16+ years in games: indie to AAA. www.alicerendell.com
Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Corey Brotherson (open for new contracts/work, drop me an email) @coreybrotherson.bsky.social Award-winning writer / editor / narrative designer: Windrush Tales; Clockwork Watch; Butterfly Books; Magic of Myths; Deadlier Than; PlayStation; Apple; Rewriting Earth; Tales of Kenzera Zau; BAFTA. Rep: Anna Dixon at YMU.
๐ coreybrotherson.com
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.
Marijam Didลพgalvytฤ @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic โ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis ๐ธ๐ด
marijamdid.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Beyond The Pixels @beyond-the-pixels.bsky.social Indie Game Developer creating Modern Retro IP in Games, Film & TV. Grab Cute-em-up ASTRO BUN on stream now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3810660/Astro_Burn/
Christian Hรผbel @citgoesnuts.bsky.social Creative Director on Herdles I https://store.steampowered.com/app/2429600/Herdles I Indie Dev, UX Specialist & Lecturer
Nikhil Murthy @murthynikhil.bsky.social Experimental game designer currently working on Hoop Dungeon. Previous games: Syphilisation, The Quiet Sleep
โญ๏ธ Najmah Salam โญ๏ธ @najmahsalam.bsky.social โ
Creative Artificer ๐ช & Marketing Alchemist ๐งช
โ
Producer @ Panda Cat Games
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Brand Manager @ Team17
โ
Women in Games Ambassador
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Game Dev Heroes Production Hero โ26
najmahsalam.com
@amaheer.bsky.social @amaheer.bsky.social 
Char @alphachar.bsky.social making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Cari ๐ ๐ Develop / GA11y Gathering / GAConf @cariwatterton.bsky.social Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her
Worked on โ๏ธ Atomfall, ๐ซ Sniper Elite and ๐ Skye Tales.
Witch who crafts, owns an unhealthy amount of board games and has a black cat called Toothless.
Kate Edwards @geogrify.bsky.social ๐ฎ33+ year Award-Winning Game Industry Veteran
๐Geographer & Culturalization Innovator at Geogrify
๐ฌCXO & CoFounder at SetJetters
๐Former Executive Director of the IGDA & the Global Game Jam
โ๏ธEvent/Keynote Speaker, Traveler, Cosplayer, Geek
Kitty Crawford @kittycrawford.com Freelance Creative Producer of remote indie teams http://kittycrawford.com
Co-Director @murdermeetcute.com: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253020/Murder_Meet_Cute
VAF mentor. Bafta member. She/her.
Ask me about my freelance producer discord.
Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social Gaming historian / digital archeologist @ https://genesistemple.com
Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/trKjYjtnjP
Twitch streamer/podcaster - https://www.twitch.tv/thegenesistemple
Unemployed gaming journalist - support https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
Sander Flisijn @sanderflisijn.bsky.social Lead Character Artist at Bloober Team working on #CronosTheNewDawn | Prev. Hangar 13 Games | ๐ Author of ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ (https://sanderflisijn.com/#book)
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
Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Emilie Coin @emiliecoin.bsky.social Senior Editor for Psychology at Routledge books, commissioning for our Developmental Psychology, Family Studies and Speech and Language Disorders portfolios
Part time PhD student of linguistics at Lancaster ๐
Caitlin Davies @caitlintandf.bsky.social Higher Education Sales Executive (Central and Southern Europe) at Taylor and Francis. Book a drop in session here: https://tinyurl.com/32feys2c
Routledge, CRC Press, Focal Press, Psychology Press and Gower imprints
Lucy Kyriakidou @lucydoesart.bsky.social Freelance character designer and AD โพ๏ธ Art Director on Disney's Illusion Island โพ๏ธ Bafta member โพ๏ธ WomenInGames ambassador โพ๏ธ Busy bee โพ She/Her
launchsteam @launchsteam.bsky.social In the journey from 2D to 3D in Adventure Jam, which type of mode do fans prefer? Boom, Boom, Boom, test a new bullet tracer in the game.
http://patreon.com/AdventureJam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3772820
http://www.letmod.com/tag/adventurejam/
Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social Tiefling from the CZ ๐ Game Analyst ๐ฎ Looking for D&D and TTRPG inspired friends ๐ฅน
Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social ๐ฎ business coach helping videogame founders build better studios
15+ years in games | executive MBA
Read The Long Game newsletter: https://www.martijnvanzwieten.com/newsletter
Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social A database of interviews with the Zelda team. Our goal is to preserve that legacy, share it here, and build a safe community for our followers!
By @maxnichols.bsky.social
www.hyruleinterviews.com
Pijus Krลซminas @pijusk.bsky.social Associate professor at ISM, Lithuania. Wargaming, game theory, comparative politics, economics), blogs about wargaming at: https://pijus.substack.com/
Kawa Teaรฑo ๐ @procgenkawa.bsky.social Proc gen ranger, city slicker, multidiscipline crafter and mender. They/them pronouns, "strange and indulgent" adjectives.
Melissa Phillips (She/Her) @melphillips.bsky.social Views yours, never mine.
www.gamesleadership.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
๐พ florencesmithnicholls.com
Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social Executive Publisher at T&F. โค๏ธ ๐ ๐ฉ ๐จ โ๏ธ #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
Lara @laracrc.bsky.social Editor for #Statistics, #RStats and #DataScience books at Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. The usual caveats apply, views are my own. https://www.routledge.com/statistics
Adam Campbell @ac-revolution.bsky.social Program Manager
Co-founder @ pocplay.org
P.L.H. is on Bluesky @plhblue.bsky.social Twitter? Bad. Bluesky? Now, a S***. Everything is destructible. My pinned is not introduction | He/Him | pfp remade by me (OG art @mayanasettv Twitter)
๐ซInauthentic User๐ซ
I'm the 'adult' from nowhere
Twitter: ๐คข (@PLHIsOnTwt)
Skid Solo ๐๐๏ธ๐พ @skidsolo.bsky.social ๐ช๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช #NAFO #NAFOfellas #NAFOexpansion ๐ป #SlavaUkraini ๐ #united24
โRacing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.โ SMcQ
Eoin Loughrey @eoinloughrey.bsky.social Director/Lead Animator @SuperSpline
18 years animating in games
Survivor Super-fan!
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social Design Director @ Surgent | #GameAccessibility Activist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3933150/FixForce/
Alexander (TOTAL RELOAD game creator) @torshock.bsky.social ๐ฎ Dev of the puzzle indiegame TOTAL RELOAD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2412090/Total_Reload/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KzVB4YKvPu
๐ Newsletter / Press Kit:
https://torshock.kit.com/total_reload
Geoffrey Long, Ph.D. @geoffreylong.bsky.social Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Donna Carlyle @donnacarlyle.bsky.social PhD, Associate Lecturer, former NHS Specialist Health Visitor/CAMHs Early Years Mental Health Psychotherapist, Writer, Photography, digital artwork, love nature, my dogs, comics & popcorn, happy grandma to twins
Dr Tomas Rawlings @tomasrawlings.bsky.social Game Developer. ex-VP Sumo Digital. Co- founder Auroch Digital & Bristol Games Hub. Award winning game designer. Co-founder Digital Tabletop Fest. PhD in Software Studies. BAFTA Member. Warhammer, RPG, Strategy, Horror, Sim & TTRPG fan. Climate advocate.
AnnaMary Goodall @goodallannamary.bsky.social Routledge Commissioning Editor for Asian Studies | South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Asian Religion | All views are my own.
Thom Sansom @thomnstuff.bsky.social HE/HIM
โ Animation Lecturer & Freelancer
โ 3D & 2D Animaton Genralist
โ Motion Graphics Designer
โ Happy go lucky scamp
โ Geordie Lad from Newcastle, UK
Website: thomnstuff.com
Ron Ashtiani @ashtianiron.bsky.social Dad x3, Art Director, Author, Oil Painter. Board Director @SteamforgedLtd, Ambassador @Specialeffect, Serial company founder of @atomhawk & @bigthursday_uk Currently building a new video game studio called Last Arrow Games
https://www.ronashtiani.com/
Simon Brewer (bunnybb) @bunnyballball.bsky.social Principal UI/UX Designer at Supermassive Games
@supermassivegames.bsky.social
Author: The Pocket Mentor for Video Game UX UI
https://tinyurl.com/pocketmentoruxui
https://www.artstation.com/bunnyballball
#GameAccessibility / #GameA11y / #UIUX / #GameDev
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Patrick Schnorbus @pschnorbus.bsky.social Indie Game Dev and Educator (he/him)
I teach Game Development at University of Fine Arts Essen (HBK Essen).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pschnorbus
Kelly Bender @kellybender.bsky.social Narrative Designer | Game Writer | Comic Book Writer | Mentor | Teacher | Lecturer | World Traveler | Cat Owner | Documentary Watcher
#NarrativeDesignJobs #NarrativeDesignTip
https://gamedesignskills.com/courses/game-writing-bootcamp-kelly-bender/
Doug Pennant @ludiotic.bsky.social Senior Producer at Infinity Ward | He/Him | Colour-blind |
Author of "Pocket Mentor for Game Production"
Satish Shewhorak @asianastroboy.bsky.social ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฌ๐ง Dr. of Performance Capture. POC in Play. DVRS Games Festival Director
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.
Bart Simon @bartsimon.bsky.social Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social Snacks, sneakers, Seattle, sideo games.
Former: Game Developer, Paste Games, Unwinnable, Polygon and others. Current: Founder and creative director at Tenuous Studios.
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social ๐ธ Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera ๐ธ
๐ https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com ๐
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
๐ฃNEW SUBSTACK ๐
๐๐ธ๐๐ธ๐๐ธ๐๐ธ
https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Martin Lynagh @martinlynagh.bsky.social Game Maker, Lecturer in Game Production at Abertay University (Professional Projects Module Lead). Glasgow. Former Molecule. This is not a place of honour.
Gethin Jones @gethinjones123.bsky.social Welshman, Husband, Dad, Russian-speaker and Wildfowler
Declan Peach @decabus.bsky.social Game Designer who occasionally posts bad memes
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit๐ฑ
๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
๐ podcast: directional.show
โ๏ธ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Dave Pickett @davidmpickett.bsky.social Words, systems, games, etc.
davepickett.co
youtube.com/brick101
โก๏ธMarina Dรญez is finishing a new game! @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer โ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack โ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne โ Consultant โ @Forbesunder30 2021 โ ๐ she/her
Christiaan Moleman @ninjadodo.bsky.social I make games and animation. www.ninjadodo.net
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ninjadodo
Col Walder @colwalder.bsky.social Engineering Director @ CD Projekt Red, Composer, Audio Programmer, Drummer
Worked on GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077
Composer for Banshee: Demon Girl
Adrian Sandoval @adriansandoval.net He/him. Game dev professor @ Drexel U/UArts, IGDA Philly Chair, Lead designer for Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends, Cake enthusiast. Opinions my own. http://www.adriansandoval.net
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Carolin Wendt @coshy.bsky.social ๐ฌ๐ง/๐ฉ๐ช Content Creator Strategist (Expert) @ CD PROJEKT RED | Political Scientist
โค๏ธ big dogs, loud music & long books. I even wrote one!
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Adam Clewes-Boyne @chaosandcode.bsky.social ๐น๏ธGame Developer/Designer
๐ผ BetaJester and Playing Attention
๐ฌ Limit Break + IGDA Neurodivergent In Games SIG + Falmouth Uni + Play Sheffield + BAFTA Connect
๐ He/Him - ADHD
Talking about game dev and neurodiversity
Cameron โOakโ Akitt @magnemiteboy.bsky.social Senior Accessibility Researcher PlayStation ๐ฎ Founder of BSLGG ๐ค๐ป Bearish Gay ๐ณโ๐ Deaf ๐ฆป๐ปBAFTA Member ๐ญ Humanist ๐ญ Trekkie ๐ Just a boy and his Magnemite โ๐ป
Fawzi Mesmar (ููุฒู) @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. ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK๐โโ๏ธ
Jimmy Bowers @jimmybowers.com Community Manager for Indies @Team17.com ๐ Writer & BAFTA Member ๐ญ Ex-Games Journalist โ๏ธ Yorkshire starting zone ๐ต๏ธ
Prev. Cortopia, Rebellion, Tencent, and nDreams.
๐ | jimmybowers.com
Currentlyโฆ
๐ | Half a King
๐ฎ | Echoes of the End
Gary Alexander Stott ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ @garyastott.bsky.social Producer (prev. Coatsink, Lockwood Publishing). Worked on Men In Black: Most Wanted, Phantom Spark, & more.
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social Making quirky little games with a lot of heart.
๐ Senior Game Writer / Narrative Designer @ Frontier
๐ Portfolio: https://gameswriting.coffee
๐ https://rebeccam.carrd.co
๐ Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics / Yooka-Replaylee
Simon F @sifee.bsky.social 3D graphics including texture comp & RT.
Messing with pixels since early 80s. 34yrs @ PowerVR/Imagination.
Deluded opinions probably my own.
Banner circa '87: Amantides-style cone ray tracing+Perlin textures on Transputer. No tris or bitmap textures- N @ngia.bsky.social @ngia.bsky.social Graphics Development
WebGPU
Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social Friendly neighborhood game dev (he/him)
๐ Wrote How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/
๐ท Working on Pixel Washer: https://playacclaim.com/pixel-washer/
Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social Invented spatiotemporal blue noise, created Gigi rapid graphics prototyping & dev platform.
https://github.com/electronicarts/gigi
25+ year game dev, and graphics researcher.
Tech blog:
https://blog.demofox.org/
Destroy what destroys you.
Jorge Garcia @jorgegarciamartin.com Co-Founder & CEO of @afectivo.es
Background in games development, professional audio, broadcast, R&D and music. Previously SWE/programmer & audio folk at EA, Zynga, MercurySteam, Activision, Codemasters, Music Tribe and more.
Based in Madrid, Spain.
Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social The aim of Just Money is to encourage policy and scholarly debate around the monetary design of financial capitalism, its historical roots, its distributive implications, its social and ecological costs, and its alternatives: https://justmoney.org/
Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social Writer of video games, horror, and more. Professor of video games, bi/pan, they/he, visibility still matters.
Star aflame @staraflame.bsky.social Aspiring gamedev. Cats and flowers. AuDHD. Assume good intentions ๐ป
Seventh Coffee @seventhcoffee.bsky.social #IndieDev from the South Island of New Zealand.
Neurodivergent (ADHD). LGBTQ Ally. She/Her.
Social media is confusing, what does this button doooลฤรฑลรงฤฤลกลพลบลผลกx
Giuseppe Navarria @techdesign.rocks Tired of the AAA industry. Started a new london-based indie studio โช@weareunderdog.bsky.socialโฌ
| prev. Splash Damage / Gears Tactics, Gears of War franchise. Passionate retrogamer. He\Him.