Tynan Sylvester @tynansylvester.bsky.social Creator of RimWorld and author of Designing Games.
Alice Rendell @alicemrendell.bsky.social Narrative Design Consultant specialising in narrative systems | 16+ years in games: indie to AAA. www.alicerendell.com
Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social Creator of the Falconeer,, Bulwark, Shipshaper and the Moonpath SKyrim Mods, passionate about games as Art. Honorable Luddite, Chaotic Creative Dad Game Dev, working on Ancient Waves. Creative Cockroach most comfortable behind the fridge.
thomas "noio" 🏔️ vandenberg @noio.games he makes games, including:
🏰 Kingdom: New Lands
🌱 Cloud Gardens
🍕 Pizza Possum
Robin Ras @rustylake.bsky.social Co-founder @rustylake.com / @secondmaze.bsky.social. Organizing @indieshowcasenl.bsky.social
Bex @bexsaltsman.bsky.social CEO + co-founder of FinjiCo. 
Daisy Fernandez @daisyfern.bsky.social designer and co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making BAD MAGPIE
George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making bad magpie
also to blame for bird alone & far from noise & hot date
georgebatchelor.com | he/him
Friedemann Allmenröder @friedemanna.bsky.social ✨ Artist and Game Designer
🎮 made Superflight, ISLANDERS, Pizza Possum & SUMMERHOUSE
👨💻 currently SLOTS & DAGGERS
🎰 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3631290/Slots__Daggers/
Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social I design games, especially tabletop roleplaying games (Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark). I also write books on storytelling (Play Unsafe) and drift into interactive fiction (39 Steps) and LARP (Will That Be All).
And I love theatre, art and history.
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.
🌐 coreybrotherson.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
Matt (Tired) @mattfrith.bsky.social | Pixel Artist | Animator | Games Designer |
| City of Voices| Theropods | The Drifter | Feria d'Arles | Vampire Survivors | More! |
Wanderer
No AI/NFT
mattfrith.com
Based in Southern England
✨️ Jade @AdventureX @princesslettuce.bsky.social Singer-songwriter featured in Watch Dogs Legion & Beyond Good and Evil 2 🎧 Yoga instructor 🪷 Games teacher 🎮 Dog mom 🩷
Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX @pointered.bsky.social Game Dev and Director at College Fun Games,
Making our second game, a point-and-click parody of Les Misérables, wishlist here!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4090610
@collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
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.
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
Rocío Tomé @rothiotome.bsky.social 🥔 1/2 of Patattie Games - Developed Wax Heads
GameDevHero Programming award '26 · Godot Avocado · Clinical Psychologist · Co-founder of Femdevs · Former DSE at Unity
Twitch Partner: twitch.tv/RothioTome
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor.
Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/
Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
Tina Amini @tinaamini.bsky.social I produce shows at Xbox
Sithe Ncube @sithe.me Producer for @nyamakop.co.za
Here for game dev stuff 🎮
Zambian in South Africa 🇿🇲🇿🇦
Collecting myself here: sithe.me
Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
Bonfire Sit: https://player.gg/publications/bonfire-sit
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
Instagram: instagram.com/tamoorh
Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
Redigit🌳 @redigit.bsky.social Creator of Terraria
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ 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 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Dianna 🇩🇴 @grlpants.bsky.social IP/Partnerships Producer | #gamedev
D&D #DM & #TTRPG Player|
Red Mage & Spoony Bard
AfroLatina & #Bronx as fug | 🇩🇴
She/ Her
#Dragonage is Life
Reformed Theater Nerd |
Owner of @thesecretlantern.bsky.social
Still Fighting.
https://solo.to/grlpants
Kenney @kenney.nl ✨ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time
Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter
Gaming Ray @gamingray.bsky.social Game dev for over 20 years now
Producer @tributegames.com, working on MARVEL Cosmic Invasion and Scott Pilgrim EX
He / Him
EN / FR 🇨🇦
Video games / Board games / TTRPGs / LEGO / Music (drums) / Basketball
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Francisco González @grundislav.games Indie adventure game developer.
I’ve made Rosewater (IndieCade nominated), Lamplight City, Shardlight, A Golden Wake & the Ben Jordan series.
Currently working on #ProjectLion
http://grundislav.games
Arden Osthof @ardenost.bsky.social Freelance Senior Narrative Designer.
Helped make The Division 2, Anno 1800 & 2205, Red Kiss, Mars Vice & more.
🏳️🌈 They/Them 🏳️⚧️
Hire me for your projects: https://diorama-machine.com/
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/
Develop:Brighton 2026 @developconference.com Develop:Brighton 2026 - 14-16 July | The UK's biggest game developer conference. Bringing together the European game dev community from global superstars to micro indies - since 2006
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social Master of Some 🤷🏻♀️
🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Christian Hübel @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
⭐️ Najmah Salam ⭐️ @najmahsalam.bsky.social ★ Creative Artificer 🪄 & Marketing Alchemist 🧪
★ Producer @ Panda Cat Games
★ Brand Manager @ Team17
★ Women in Games Ambassador
★ Game Dev Heroes Production Hero ‘26
najmahsalam.com
Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.social #GameDev with @greyalien.bsky.social at Grey Alien Games. Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. Writer: Going Medieval & more…https://greyaliengames.com/blog/writing-editing/
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Producer, Strange Scaffold. Founder, F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@causewaystudios.com / mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com Award-winning game developer. Animated Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, The Last of Us series and more. Wrote GAME ANIM: Video Game Animation Explained. Shipped Apple Vision Pro.
gameanim.com
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/
Anna Waismeyer @risukora.bsky.social (She/Her) Accessibility Research Lead @ Xbox. Neurodivergent and passionate about game inclusion and accessibility
Opinions are my own. 
Sam Shields @smshieldsy.bsky.social Game Design Research Lead @ IDEO. PhD in procedural game design. Hoping one day to be the frontman of a ska-punk band.
AI and Games @aiandgames.com Hype-free analysis and deep-dives into AI for game development.
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Vialixia @vialixia.bsky.social I'm Sally 💗 CEO of UK-Based Game Studio SilentGames! DM me for game dev support & advice! // All opinions are mine only ✨ //
Des Gayle @kiddesimo.bsky.social Writer-Director on an animated short on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alteredgene/taltfe?ref=c715xy
Deputy chair BAFTA Games committee and I also work at Unity.
Chris Murphy @highlyspammable.bsky.social Principal Technical Artist on the Developer Relations Team for Unreal Engine. Generally handle Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia with Epic Games but sometimes you'll find me elsewhere. Have a tendency to rant.
Cari 🍉 🔜 Develop / GA11y Gathering / GAConf @cariwatterton.bsky.social Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her
Worked on ⚛️ Atomfall, 🔫 Sniper Elite and 🐉 Skye Tales.
Witch who crafts, owns an unhealthy amount of board games and has a black cat called Toothless.
Kate Edwards @geogrify.bsky.social 🎮33+ year Award-Winning Game Industry Veteran
🌍Geographer & Culturalization Innovator at Geogrify
🎬CXO & CoFounder at SetJetters
🌎Former Executive Director of the IGDA & the Global Game Jam
✈️Event/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.
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
hendrik lesser @hendriklesser.bsky.social game maker, entrepreneur, teacher, lobbyist, nerd, nafo
chair of @egdf, run rcp & chimera entertainment,
game director death from above,
executive producer songs of silence
Enrique Colinet 'Baxayaun' @enriquecoli.net Lead Level Designer at @TheGameKitchen.com . Former Yager & PyroStudios dev. Ex-berliner. Worked on #SpecOpsTheLine, #DeadIsland2 (Cancelled), #Blasphemous I & II and #TheStoneOfMadness!
BLOG: http://enriquecoli.net
PORTFOLIO: http://www.sdk-project.com
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 | 📘 Author of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 (https://sanderflisijn.com/#book)
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 🎓
René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social Video Game Attorney & Founder @ Deviant Legal (http://www.deviantlegal.com) | Women in Games’ Ambassador | Secretary at Breda Game City | Business & Legal Mentor at Dutch Games Association
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
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 ◾️ Art Director on Disney's Illusion Island ◾️ Bafta member ◾️ WomenInGames ambassador ◾️ Busy bee ◾ She/Her
Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social Tiefling from the CZ 😈 Game Analyst 🎮 Looking for D&D and TTRPG inspired friends 🥹
Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social 🎮 business coach helping videogame founders build better studios
15+ years in games | executive MBA
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social ❧ Interactive narrative innovation & research
❧ Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2
❧ Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit
❧ Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade
❧ Opinions mine
❧ More: staceymason.info
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social Academic publisher of books, journals, eBooks, textbooks, software, and online learning resources. 📚💡
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Pijus Krūminas @pijusk.bsky.social Associate professor at ISM, Lithuania. Wargaming, game theory, comparative politics, economics), blogs about wargaming at: https://pijus.substack.com/
Artur Carvalho @arturnottheking.bsky.social Brazilian-French 🇧🇷🇫🇷 Game designer🃏
Ph.D in Modeling & Simulation.
I like to explore the frontier between modern board games and simulation games (wargames/conflict simulation), focusing on how to improve pedagogy instead of reducing complexity.
Kawa Teaño 🏔 @procgenkawa.bsky.social Proc gen ranger, city slicker, multidiscipline crafter and mender. They/them pronouns, "strange and indulgent" adjectives.
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/
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/
Peter Taylor @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social 40, he/him 🧙
Narrative Designer for Sports Interactive on Football Manager 27 ⚽
IWGB & Lib Dem member ✊🔶
Views solely mine, etc. 😉
https://ctrl-the-narrative.com ✍️
Ukie @ukieofficial.bsky.social We are the trade body for the UK games and interactive entertainment industry. Our mission is to supercharge the future of the UK video games industry.
www.ukie.org.uk
Melissa Phillips (She/Her) @melphillips.bsky.social Views yours, never mine.
www.gamesleadership.com 
The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social Award-winning narrative expert for video games, writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of THE VIDEO GAME WRITER’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. Former Ubisoft/Crytek/Romero. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches, baseball, and cats.
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
Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social Executive Publisher at T&F. ❤️ 🐕 🍩 🍨 ☀️ #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com That Scottish AI and games guy...
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Founder of @aiandgames.com
Game AI Programmer & Consultant
Public speaker, educator, nuisance
BAFTA Connect
He-Him, PhD
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John Dickens @johndickens.bsky.social Senior Accessibility and User Researcher at Tencent Games. Trying to make games more accessible for every player. Music, tech, adventure cycling nerd. Views my own, obviously.
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
Jonas 'The Rising Star' Gawe @jttg.bsky.social What a(n award winning) silly man
Program Manager @ https://limitbreak.co.uk
Community Manager @ https://electricsaint.co.uk
Voice Actor - https://jonasgva.co.uk
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Many Cats Studios @manycatsstudios.bsky.social Socially responsible studio all about disability inclusion and accessibility in games. More info: www.manycats.uk
Email - hello@manycats.uk
Support us on https://ko-fi.com/manycats
Adam Campbell @ac-revolution.bsky.social Program Manager
Co-founder @ pocplay.org
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
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
Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
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 🎮 Dev of the puzzle indiegame TOTAL RELOAD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2412090/Total_Reload/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KzVB4YKvPu
📁 Newsletter / Press Kit:
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Geoffrey Long, Ph.D. @geoffreylong.bsky.social Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
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.