games people i enjoy following
not necessarily devs, not complete, just a skim down my following list for some people who are active on here and post some stuff about videogames. look if i missed you out you're still cool, okay?
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@v21.bsky.social
@pyrofoux.bsky.social
Award-winning game designer & AI researcher. I'm a triple A developer: AMAB. ARAB. ACAB. ❖ they/them ❖ 🇫🇷 🇲🇦 🇬🇧 Designer & Writer for neurocracy.site 🔬 knivesandpaintbrushes.org/younes 🎮 pyrofoux.itch.io
@vltmn.itch.io
they/them — @florianvltmn on the bird site, #gamedev, made How to Say Goodbye! prev: Lieve Oma, designer on Monument Valley 2, Assemble with Care — links: https://linktr.ee/vltmn
@doougle.net
🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust 🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games) at RMIT University 🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/ 🌏 Naarm/Melbourne he/him
@jwaaaap.com
Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of Vlambeer. www.jwaaaap.com
@esdin.net
Game programmer, designer, and consultant. Helping folks build games, studios, and other things with intention.
@lauraehall.bsky.social
Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games & escape rooms, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books) ✨ lauraehall.com 🔎 cfia.org 🎙️ eggplant.show
@legobutts.bsky.social
i need a massage and a treat toronto he/they production in games No Goblin - Team Meat - Polytron Previously: Panic - Finji - Tunic - Sable - Untitled Goose Game - Fellow Traveller - Blaseball
@adriaan.games
Game designer of Hidden Folks & many others: https://adriaan.games Now making Rift Riff: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800900?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=profile_link
@adrianhon.bsky.social
Founder and former CEO of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote "You've Been Played" and "A History of the Future in 100 Objects". Currently Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art. Blog: mssv.net
@mathewkumar.bsky.social
Game developer for hire. Writer of exp. zine (https://ko-fi.com/mathewkumar). He/They. Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
@shing.bsky.social
Eisner and Ignatz winning cartoonist, National Book Award finalist, 2x Indiecade winning game and experience designer. I build strange and delightful things, like fortune-telling cabinets and medieval eel marionettes. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
@chipzel.bsky.social
chipzel is one of the musicians of all time their music has been heard 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸 🌐 https://linktr.ee/chipzel
@hpowellsmith.bsky.social
Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/them // hpowellsmith.com
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@alienmelon.bsky.social
Slovenian gamedev, i make experimental games and software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker… http://tetrageddon.com ✨ http://unicornycopia.com 🌈 nonbinary bi they/them 🏳️🌈
@logodaedalus.bsky.social
Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Designer @ Bungie. Views my own.
@mrmotarius.bsky.social
I make things! Procedural, sandbox and simulation stuff fascinates me to no end. If you like what I do, please consider supporting me at http://ko-fi.com/mrmotarius ☕ Check out the various stuff I made over on Itch! http://mrmotarius.itch.io
@caitgoodale.bsky.social
principal UX designer ✦ Glowmade & Mythmatch & other secrets prev: DREST, King, Memrise, Minecraft ✧ printmaker and creative dilettante 🏴 in LDN ✦ she/her 📬 designcaitlin.substack.com
@adamatomic.bsky.social
Directing https://usualjune.com at @finjico.bsky.social I also make free games and pixel art packs at https://adamatomic.itch.io/
@sfbdim.bsky.social
creative director/writer of Crow Country, The Mermaid Mask, Tangle Tower, Snipperclips, Haunt the House. SFB Games w/@sfbtom.bsky.social Adam@SFBGames.com
@adamledoux.net
i make https://bitsy.org (and some other things too) https://adamledoux.net | https://merveilles.town/@ldx | he/him
@vividfax.bsky.social
Game Designer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer, generalist dev ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
@pentadact.com
Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
@sfbtom.bsky.social
½ of indie game co SFB Games w/ brother Adam, we made Crow Country, Snipperclips, Tangle Tower, Haunt the House & Detective Grimoire! + sfx tool http://sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone
@tom.sokpop.co
creating videogames | made bernband, grunn, and more | part of @sokpop.co
@hollygramazio.bsky.social
Writing, games, etc. Adelaide, London. My novel “The Husbands” is out now. book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly website: http://hollygramazio.net ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/ pic by Diana Patient
@celineveltman.bsky.social
working on curiosmos and other stuff • previously: hidden folks ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇs • ᴀʀᴛ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛᴏʀ ᴏғ the merlies ☞☞☞ celineveltman.com wishlist curiosmos: s.team/a/2585710/ ✶ ✶ ✶ curiosmos.space
@cityloop.bsky.social
Games Investment Manager at Screen Australia. Melbourne/Naarm based artist, educator and award winning gamedev. She/her/they Prev: ghosttowngoldie
@patrickashe.bsky.social
Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
@getdizzy.bsky.social
rumbleverse / iron galaxy / @infinitedeserts / barabariball https://linktr.ee/getdizzzy
@danielleri.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief at GameDeveloper.com, Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, BJJ Purple Belt 🤼♀️, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork, volunteer EMT. She/her.
@rich-lem.bsky.social
Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
@bonemade.bsky.social
Ⓐ angry skeleton in waiting. Sounds on Flimsy Rituals and games with @furtiveshambles. actual dr, phd personal games. non-binary, they/he, 33, 🍞🌹
@draknek.bsky.social
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/ Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends, making thinky puzzle games. He/him. https://www.draknek.org/ Our next game: The Electrifying Incident https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352300/The_Electrifying_Incident
@lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (although currently a full-time Sick Person). Organizer, Roguelike Celebration and !!con. Disabled (LC + ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent. https://lazerwalker.com she/her
@hollynielsen.bsky.social
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her
@sketchylogic.bsky.social
Developer of Small Saga and Aviary Attorney. What's next in the pipeline? Let's find out. Sketchy_Jeremy on twitter. Any pronouns.
@spadgy.bsky.social
Head fulla noise, toys, & hobbies. 🕹️🪀🛹 Freelance game journalist, copywriter, events, mock reviewer, etc. Edge, The Guardian, Eurogamer, BAFTA, PC Gamer, GI, Bitmap Books, etc. Arcade/shmup/retro player. Yo-yoer. https://linktr.ee/willfreeman_spadgy
@hannahnicklin.bsky.social
Writing, game & narrative design. Used to be a performance maker. Race bikes on occasion. Currently contract: story person at Night School. Previously Creative Director at gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti capitalist practice.
@tigershungry.co.uk
Creative director and playful curator. Rethinking exhibitions & experiential design. Studio lead at http://goodafternoon.uk you might also recognise me from W/Mild Rumpus, the V&A, a party in a shared google doc & the grannies
@molleindustria.org
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. he/him
@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social
senior reporter at polygon text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
@mrsambarlow.bsky.social
Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him NEXT! → PROJECT C (@blumhouse.com) and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
@steppinlazer.bsky.social
no one skeets like gaston, reads bad tweets like gaston www.alexis.work 🐣 she/her
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
critic | games | science fiction. Discussing culture on podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Used to write a lot. Growing things outdoors. Working on books: Assassin’s Creed and Magic: The Gathering.
@everest.bsky.social
Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Assistant Professor at Pratt Game Arts - Shepherd in the summers https://everest-pipkin.com
@mtrc.bsky.social
AI, creativity and procedural generation researcher. No, not that kind of AI. I write and make games and take photographs of cities. Senior Lecturer at King's College London. A prototype for a much larger system. http://www.possibilityspace.org | he/the
@ellaguro.bsky.social
she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
@lizardengland.bsky.social
Design Director at System Era. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
@meghna.bsky.social
narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
@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!
@freya.bsky.social
🎮 indie tech artist 🏗️ I made Shader Forge & Shapes 🌐 working on https://half-edge.xyz 🔥 shader sorceress 📏 math dork 🎥 rare YouTuber/streamer 📡 ex-founder of @NeatCorp my kids: 🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com 🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com 🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
@caraellison.bsky.social
She/her. Scottish, based in Scotland, writes, designs & helps make games. BAFTA mentor & AIAS peer. Ask me for a consult/writing help any time. https://linktr.ee/caraellison
@jon.inkle.co
Narrative @inkle.co he/him Writer: EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator. “Life doesn't always work out like it's s'posed t' / Like bread doesn't pop when you watch the toaster"
@radiatoryang.bsky.social
artist, game dev // https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand (nz) making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about an underdog rugby club; "wishlist on steam now" https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
@halfrobot.com
Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others) Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ ) Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, Brooklyn Queer Country drummer, strap-on.org etc. https://metasynthie.itch.io/
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@brendansinclair.bsky.social
Recovering game journalist, now simply a journalist. Context-Free Patent Art: https://www.tumblr.com/contextfreepatentart
@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him
@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.
@winterk.bsky.social
she/they 🔹games at @hotbrain.bsky.social (previously: goblet grotto) 🔹comics (current: devil world // past: monster killers) 🔹posts (words and pictures) thank you for visiting my homepage
@chouxsalad.bsky.social
@alt254.bsky.social
Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
@catacalypto.bsky.social
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
@ztul.bsky.social
"warrenisdead" from the other place. he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. writer and narrative designer, working on Project C for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
@patrickklepek.bsky.social
editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
@jesawyer.bsky.social
Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. ♂
@austinwalker.bsky.social
Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
@merrittk.com
Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com (buy our debut title: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/Fledgling_Manor/)
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
im gita they/them cofounder of aftermath.site gita@aftermath.site
@cara.city
I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics. Preservation, art, old tech. 18+ only Something beautiful is going to happen. (she / they) Writing: antientro.pics Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
@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