Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social Schipperke owner @PNW
Game Systems Designer, one half of Secret Dinosaur and also the other half (previously Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc)
Hire me! https://linktr.ee/djdesign.dev
#GameDev
he/him
Rosalie @rosaliediane.bsky.social Mom, Sister, Daughter, Friend, Video Game Producer
Cristina Ramos @saffroncr.bsky.social Gamedev, RPGs, retro gaming, electronics, boxing, and trolling
🎮🥊🤓👩🔧⚡🖥️
Making a metroidbrainia game about the end of the world before the end of the world
Itch: https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4843670/KATAVATIS/
Anthony Pham @viridianth.bsky.social #3D #HardSurface Artist. Indie #GameDev on Exoshift and Dreamwake. He/him.
Posts about: #3DArt, #Blender, #GameArt, #Miniatures, Science, and a lot of my #Dogs and #Cats
Links: https://linksta.cc/@viridian
Profile concept by: KaminskyW
tarinoi 🔜 AdventureX @tarinoi.bsky.social We're building Tarinoi, the integrated platform for narrative design and production support.
🔹 Designed and built by @sirin.bsky.social and @petteri-sulonen.bsky.social
🔸 Explore, check out our devblog and get in touch at https://tarinoi.com
🇫🇮 / 🇬🇧
silent w (hire me for your game!) @silentw.bsky.social actively searching for work in gaming or education - DM me if you've got anything!
game designer (level/world), tech writer, and educator
he / him
wear a mask, don't die, pretty simple
(@silentw@toot.cat)
Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social Erstwhile game developer, occasional writer, perennial lurker, eternal lover of the cinema. Formerly a Technical Designer at Rec Room; a Cinematics Designer at Camouflaj
Aleš Mlakar @amjazzbre.bsky.social Freelancer+IndieGameDev&&Ex(Lead@Outfit7, Lead@Zootfly, ArxelTribe);
// Coding engines, tools & games since '95!
// Worked on World Of Goo 2.
// Currently working with Metanet on
// N Plus Infinity Times Two!
Sally 🔜 AdventureX @sirin.bsky.social Co-founder @tarinoi.bsky.social - an upcoming narrative design platform for the full game lifecycle
software dev + ui/ux + game tools • lifts things • svenska med fel och allt
🔹prev: tools engineer @ za/um
🔸now: building cool things @ https://tarinoi.com
Simon Oliver @simonoliver.com Game Director @HandCircus.com . SimonOliver.com - Block Rancher, Rolando, Okabu, Seabeard. Prev Toy Invention Director @LEGO.
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
Naa Marteki Reed 💃🏾 💖 @marteki.bsky.social Two-word first name! Contract SLED accessibility/web design. Former: CFPB, Treasury. Philly born, NJ kid, Chicagoland mom, cat servant. She/her, bi/omni. 🇬🇭🇺🇸
Profile pic: Black woman in yellow blouse with glasses & long dark brown locs
Attilio Carotenuto @attiliohimeki.bsky.social I worked on a lot of games you know. Phasmophobia, Hollow Knight Silksong, Fall Guys, Disco Elysium, The Cycle Frontier, Farm Heroes Saga, and more.
attiliocarotenuto.com
Katie Lloyd Williams @yayitskatie.com Games curator at 🍏. Show me your cool indie iOS games (or just send memes, either's cool). San Francisco. she/her. yayitskatie.com
Sam 🏳️⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social UI Designer | UI Artist | Concept Goblin @ Question Games
"Be Authoritative, Sam's Very Favorite Shit"
🌎 Baltimore
👤 He/him and yet a forever horse/girl
🔗 samgauss.com
Ty Taylor @imakeindiegames.bsky.social I worked on The Bridge, Tumblestone, Freshly Frosted, Cozy Grove, Marble It Up! Ultra, Sail Forth, Roundguard, and more. Forbes 30 Under 30. He/Him.
Paolo Surricchio @rollingshark.bsky.social Rendering and Engine programmer. Now: Santa Monica Studio. Past: Deadpool, CoD:AW, Firewatch, God of War and Apex Legends. Opinions are my own.
Marcus Montgomery @marcusingames.bsky.social Creative Director / Game Design Director @cstoneintstudio
www.sleepy-genius.com
The Killing Stone @thekillingstone.com From the makers of The Blackout Club and The Magic Circle comes a new deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century folk horror narrative. Demo is out now! Wishlist us on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Nigel J W @nigeljw.bsky.social GPU Software Architect at Arm. Previously, Unity, PlayStation, and Qualcomm.
My opinions do not represent any of my current or past employers.
Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social 🍊 Founder of http://blendogames.com
🍊 Most recent release: SKIN DEEP http://blendogames.com/skindeep
🍊 Co-founder https://glitch.city
Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social 🎮🎹 I make game music.
💿 FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica 2, Below Zero, Generation Exile & others.
❌ I did not work on Subnautica 1.
✨ Polyamorous, ADHD, cool jackets, cats.
🚫 No AI ever.
He/him.
mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social cat and car enthusiast. worked at netscape before it was cool. made a game of dogs playing poker and wrote a book called sleepernet. go buy it
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social ✨ Director & one-man studio
🪄 Handmade stop-motion & VFX illusions
🔗 https://kevinparry.tv/learn
Halloween Appreciation Account (gcmaybe) @gcmaybe.bsky.social Unapologetic Halloween appreciation account until Nov. (at least)
Yay! Somewhere to put my cat pictures!
Programmer at Strange Scaffold (currently).
Technical Designer / Gameplay Engineer at Question (recently).
Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Yujin Ariza @yujinariza.bsky.social creative coder, ar/vr developer, musician, cmuetc 2019. personal account.
yujinariza.com
〽️ax krieger @ PAX West @maxkriegervg.bsky.social Max! He/him. Game dev. Loves design, culture, cooking. Aromantic/enm. Games: CROSSNIQ+, Among Us VR. Runs @aqualounge.tv. Next: more games!
✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social Award-winning narrative designer & writer🎮
Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games
Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱
Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex
https://brightwhitney.com
Karen @risu23.bsky.social Video game production human, head of studio ops & production at Interleave. Lover of video games, film (letterboxd = risu23), tv, animation, dark & spooky stuff. I was a goth at 924 Gilman. SFO -> YVR. She/her. "Fix your heart or die!"
DOGUBOMB @dogubomb.bsky.social Dogubomb is an indie game and film studio hidden among the long shadows of Hollywood. After a decade of making stuff for other people, we decided to make something for ourselves: Blue Prince. @blueprincegame.bsky.social
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.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
avashly @ashleyalicea.com games program manager @unity.com ▪ indie dev ▪ surfskater ▪ prev: global game jam, indiecade ▪ she/her ▪ boricua 🇵🇷
🌴 Los Angeles, CA
🌐 ashleyalicea.com
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
Adam Bormann @adambormann.bsky.social Game designer (BioWare, Hangar 13, Crystal Dynamics, LucasArts, Monolith, Sierra Online)
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
Derek Donahue @derkderkderk.bsky.social lead gameplay designer for wwe2k games. Formerly @derkderkderk on Twitter. Statements/opinions are my own.
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Mike W @gekido.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian Metis, Emmy award-winning Tech Producer / Tech Director. ex-Unity, Namco, Roadhouse, Gamedev for 25+ years... Tech Director on Adam & Baymax shorts, etc
Current: Cloudhead, Megacrush, Instructor @ VFS
In Vancouver
Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social How bizarre, this theatrical and pasteboard unconscious. Game & level designer, BioShock 2, Near Death, Psychonauts 2, Return to Moria, and others. He/him. Portland, OR.- F @futuredogname.bsky.social @futuredogname.bsky.social
Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social He/Him - 35 - Illustrator - Gargoyle - Museum Worker-
💼 https://www.upongoblinhill.com/
🖼️ patreon.com/upongoblinhill
🎨 upongoblinhill@gmail.com
🏷️ https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/upongoblinhill/
🪙 https://ko-fi.com/upongoblinhill
Andrew Weldon @andrew-weldon.design Game Designer: http://andrew-weldon.design/
Prev: Fortnite Festival, Marathon, Destiny 2, Destiny, Starhawk, Quake 4, Natural Selection.
📍 West Seattle, WA
🎮 Game Dev
📚 Books
🌽 Huskers
⚽️ Sounders/Reign FC
Michelle "Kikimaru" Benoit-Souza @mxkikimaru.bsky.social They/Them (AuDHD)
Pansexual/Nonbinary/Demiromantic/Married
Northern Californian
Podcaster/Youtuber/Artist
https://bio.site/Benoitproductions
@permadeath.bsky.social @permadeath.bsky.social
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Mattias @mattiaswargren.bsky.social
Leon @donjuanleon.bsky.social Linux. 60 FPS goblin. Worked on some video games. Tacoma, Gone Home (console), Dishonored, BioShock 2, Counter-Strike.
Emilia Schatz @thegreatbluebit.bsky.social Principal Game Designer at Naughty Dog. Tools dev, Accessibility! Level design hotshot and mom. Mandolinist. she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏻
Edvard Rutström @edebarudo.bsky.social Senior game programmer at Wishfully Studios (Planet of Lana 1 & 2). Father of two wonderful daughters ❤️
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:
https://torshock.kit.com/total_reload
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Jeff Fisher @jefffisher.bsky.social
Chris Pruett @cpruett.bsky.social Director of Games @meta. Thirty years of game dev, incl. Dead Secret, Wind-up Knight, and sick Hypercard stacks. I am a walking encyclopedia of horror games.
Andrew Spiering @wackoisgod.bsky.social Director of Engineering @ Stoke Games. Former Lead Engineer at Riot, Unity, Engineer at Blizzard on BNET, SC 2, WoW, Natural Selection 2. These are my own thoughts
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
Whitaker Trebella @whitakr.com 🎲 Indie gamedev: Piloteer, Pivvot, Polymer & Remedy Rush
🩻 Making medical games & tools: snke.com
🎹 Musician: wtrebella.bandcamp.com
🌆 LA. Formerly Chicago.
😷 Covid aware
🧍He/Him
Amanda Rush @batmandar.bsky.social Games Industry. Producer/Project manager Lead, formerly at WB Games/Unity. Consulting and working on personal projects. Collecting waifus and cats. I love artists, game dev and gaming. <3
✌︎ Kate Kavanaugh 🎮 @katenouveau.bsky.social COO @ Monomi Park, creators of Slime Rancher.
Gabe Telepak @gabetelepak.bsky.social forever making a game called Butt Sniffin’ Pugs while raising 4 kiddos - he/him
Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
shana 😋 (andreia gaita) @shana.spoiledcat.com Making games, hacking tools, porting stuff. ex-GitHub, ex-Unity, ex-Xamarin, indie dev, unity ninja, open source hacker. she/her.
https://spoiledcat.com
https://blog.worldofcoding.com
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shana
https://github.com/shana
@bertini007.bsky.social @bertini007.bsky.social SDET that loves Movies, cooking, hiking. My opinions are my own. Not looking for followers - if I don’t know you I won’t follow back.
Ryan O’Donnell @ryanodonnell.bsky.social Filmmaker @ AREA 5
Outerlands, The 1UP Show, CO-OP, Grounded: Making The Last Of Us, Grounded II: Making The Last Of Us Part II, Tetris Forever, I Am Street Fighter, Making Games Is Hard, etc, etc.
he/him
Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social Rook, Rika, The Ghost of Yōtei | Worlds Beyond Number | D20, Dropout, Crit Role | BAFTA loser. Um, Actually CHAMPION | Gender🌊: all pronouns
Adam Alexander @atomander.bsky.social Senior Lighting Artist @ Undead Labs / previously Firewalk, Bungie, Hardsuit Labs / he/him
https://www.artstation.com/atomander
Karim Merchant @kmerchant.bsky.social Helping drive Accessible Design at Dell. Musician and Teaching Artist. Opinions my own. Not a fan of fascism. He/they.
@jcowles.bsky.social @jcowles.bsky.social Rolled my desk over to Valve. Past: Unity ML Artistry, Xoogler, TiltBrush. Pixar GPU team: Hydra, OpenSubdiv, and OpenUSD. Closet demoscener. 日本語はまだまだ。
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
Zachary Johnson is not ok @zachstronaut.com Game and Network coder for @StageFrightGame.bsky.social by Ghost Town Games. Director of Joggernauts by @spacemacegames.com. Minneapolis creative dev (he/him). Not okay.
Cat selfie enthusiast.
Visit: zachstronaut.com
The Phantom Second @untimelygamer.bsky.social He/him. Overeducated, failed academic. I'm into books, movies, videogames, tea, and wine. I sometimes write things. Video games: http://medium.com/@untimelygamer Films: http://letterboxd.com/untimelygamer/ and http://watchestoodamnmuch.wordpress.com.
Franny @francesmichelle.bsky.social (at)frannyfullpint on ig
Filipino-American writer, travel specialist, community advocate. Former nonprofit guild director & event producer. Mostly amateur photography, home gardening, and food content here.
Dakota Herold @dakotaherold.bsky.social Software Engineer @ Secret Dimension. Board of directors @ Roc Game Dev. Enjoys fixing code and writing bugs. Opinions my own.
https://www.dakotaherold.com/
Joshua T. Fisher (playmer) @playmer.bsky.social In my spare time #gamedev, mostly a core engine person. @playmer@social.treehouse.systems. He/Him. Avatar By @AC_Flare (Twitter). Work at Microsoft, tweets are my own.
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay Senior Technical Producer
Previously: Asgard’s Wrath 2, Gears of War, Unity, God of War, God of War: Ragnarok | Forbes 30u30 2020 | 🏳️🌈✡️ https://ko-fi.com/qorquiq
Slime Rancher @slimerancher.com Slime Rancher & Slime Rancher 2 Official! Made with love by Monomi Park 💖
💻 https://www.slimerancher.com/
🤠 discord.gg/slimerancher
Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social Burned out. Nectar Vector next. Before: Game Director + Lead Designer on Pacific Drive, Designer on Bioshock Infinite, various Don't Starve things, and Mafia 3. Liked Movie. Boston area. he/him
J. "null" Thomas @nullspeak.bsky.social Lead Writer / VO director of @thekillingstone.com, The Blackout Club 🔦 Creative Director, Bioshock 2. Designer, Bioshock: Fort Frolic, Thief 3: The Cradle. Eyeball enthusiast? | he/him
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
David Svez @daveranan.bsky.social Game Designer, Film Director, Producer, Product Manager, Writer. Debugging my consciousness.
Working on things
Personal hellsite: https://davidsvez.com/
Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social Procedural art nerd, ½ of Pounce Light with @h3r2tic.bsky.social, co-creator of #TinyGlade a diorama doodling game 🏰🌿 s.team/a/2198150 🏳🌈💟
Brit Gardner @britg.bsky.social Wishlist Dustdrive! dustdrive.dev
Engineering at coherence.io - a fresh and fast multiplayer SDK and platform for your next game. Formerly Blizzard
Derek Reese is making games @derekree.se The games guy in the red jacket.
Design Director at indie game studio @chroniclersoftware.com , worked on Minecraft, Halo, O3DE, Valve Proton, WoW Auth, PAX & more. he/him
Jake Gilla @gutterducks.site Game developer, parent, tired, he/him
Senior Technical Designer on Marathon @ Bungie
https://jakedidit.com/
Peter Hansen @pitecohansen.bsky.social Brazilian game dev based in Brighton, UK
Previously Head of Tech at FuturLab (PowerWash Simulator 1 & 2), currently working on some cool stuff :)
Escolhido do Botafogo também!
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Jordan 4D @jordancarroll.com Jordan Carroll (he/him) jordancarroll.com
🖥️ Senior Frontend Engineer / GameDev / Ex-HoloLens
🧠 Now with 100% more ADD medication
🔊 Mad Noise Scientist https://bsky.app/profile/ourladyofstatic.com
🏝️ #2 Bionicle Fan
Elizabeth @icetigris.bsky.social Lead Rendering Engineer at That's No Moon. Prev: Epic, Unity, Disbelief, PlayStation, Intel. Agender GPU goblin. They/Them
Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social Narrative Director - iwot Games
She/They
Formerly: Crystal Dynamics, Blizzard, Aniplex, Carbine, Riot, BioWare
Co-author: The Definitive Game Narrative Guide
Opinions = my own
“I am the very model of a modern major general”
https://diandralasrado.com
Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics
He/Him
Sol Brennan (3D Character TA) @wuffles.bsky.social Rigging Artist for video games (they/them, he/him). Scottish in Seatt- er - Scotland again. Non-binary trans and queer man.
I have ugly cats
🏳️⚧️🏴
Devin' @leftout.itch.io Leftist | Staff Engineer at Aggro Crab working on PEAK | previously rigging the shuffler at MtG:Arena and making wonky cameras at Unity
leftout.itch.io
(he/him)
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him