Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
The IGAs is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the indie scene where developers take center stage.
🗓️ December 2026
🔗 www.indiegameawards.gg
🎬 Production & Organization by @SixOneIndie.com
🌎 Curated & Voted on by Showcases, Media, Creators, & more.
Video game critic, Editor-at-Large @ Polygon. Formerly Digital Trends, Inverse, Hard Drive
i am never doing “discourse” i do not know what random post you are talking about
I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
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.
Lead Animator at Niantic Spatial | Prev. Niantic, Inc.
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Always have a coffee in hand and constantly covered in fur due to my two fluffy floofs.✌🏻
Opinions are my own.
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ashleyrosenbaum.com
🎮 Lead Gameplay Animator - #JudasGame @ Superseed Studios
🐺 Gameplay Animator - Edenfall @everfluxgames.bsky.social
🏫 AnimSchool Instructor
Lead Animator 🐀 TMNT: Mutant Mayhem 🐵 Monkey King 🍄 Smurfs
#GameDev
Principal Animator at Beethoven & Dinosaur - Working on Mixtape
Lord High Priestess of Documentation (technical writer in games). I know the good words. Ask me about my cats/fave games. Opinions, lamentably, mine. No Gen AI.
Makes: video game, wood junk, 3D printer spaghet, other.
Lead Game Designer @ Omeda Studios on Predecessor.
If I've edited this to say positive things about our country's government, you know I'm flying back into the country.
— level/environment designer 🔨
— previous work: Skin Deep 🐈🛰
— current work: Sleight of Hand 🕵️♀️🃏
— hitscanner apologist ⚡
— tired trans woman ⚧️☣
— 💜 @maddievivrose.bsky.social
📍 Melbourne, Australia
Game Dev/Goth Gardener.
https://bmitsoda.com/portfolio
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
🇳🇿 Founder/Editor: @gamesnight.bsky.social
Youtube Partner (600k+ Views)
Email: jayden@gamesnight.nz 🎮
Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Studio Director, Composer, Game Director @ https://ashellinthepit.com 🇨🇦
Composer: FNAF: Security Breach/RUIN, Rogue Legacy, Smarter Every Day, lots more
Creator of https://Fish.Game
Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I make video games and art. Or something.
Made Celeste with friends, working on new games with EXOK and City of None. www.noelberry.ca
Co-Founder / Creative Director @Hidden_Variable
Wishlist @spellomancer today!
Equal parts tea & whiskey. He/him.
インディーゲーム開発者/ Japanese Indie Dev / #Öoo / #ElecHead / #Battlloon
『Öoo』 is Out Now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo/
Game director of Mind Diver: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/Mind_Diver/
And other stuff: https://www.victorbreum.com/
Indie Developer - It's Anecdotal. Creating 39 Days to Mars, Mini Matches, and Up to Par.
Game Designer/Generalist - Searching Interactive
Wishlist Crabmeat
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/Crabmeat
Prev - Design / Co Founder @samuraipunk
https://nicholasmc1.itch.io/
CEO of White Owls Inc.
I'm creating unique, spirited work based on the slogan: From Osaka to all of YOU around the world!
大阪から世界中のあなたへ！
🦦 Freelance Games Producer
🐕 IGDA-F Next Gen Leaders Cohort Coordinator & NGL Alum '24
🐦⬛ Volunteer Org. and Art for brIGDA
🦭 Hobby Artist, Cosplayer, and Zinester @UncannyTitans
♏ She/Her • 🩷💜💙
🗺️ Meeanjin 🖤💛❤️ (Brisbane, Australia) • AEST
Art/Creative Director & Co Founder @ ??
BAFTA Member.
human shaped cryptid, concrete enjoyer, easily distracted by your dog
Brighton, UK
https://linktr.ee/lillydevon
Producer and Bizdev working with Basically Games on Baldi's Basics Plus. Writing a sci-fi/fantasy novel. Previously Sr. Producer at Akupara Games, & co-founded Dangen Entertainment. Still in love with Osaka. 英語と日本語もOK!
Words: https://medium.com/@thetrin
Youtuber dedicated to retrogaming. Loves Sega and Dos gaming. Briefly worked in the gaming industry. Channel: http://youtube.com/user/st1ka
Gameplay Programmer at Facepunch Studios, working on Rust
Actress & Writer. Currently playing Sophie in BLINK https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/blink-df19
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; Philosophy Tube & @KillJamesBond ✨👑
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
The Yacht Rock of Video Games
giantbomb.com/join
For business inquiries: giantbomb@rightclick.gg
Media: media@giantbomb.com
Freelance Concept Artist & Illustrator || Once in games, now everywhere ||🥤💀
portfolio: https://kim-hu.com
📩 hello@kim-hu.com
patreon blog: https://patreon.com/kimhu
art/work-only account: @elbowrocket.bsky.social
Now: VP @fandom.com // @gamespot.com @tvguide.com @metacritic.com and friends
Then: SVP @voxmedia.com // @polygon.com @theverge.com
Always: A dork
In: PHL
host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
im skeetin here
marbenx.itch.io
👨🏽🛁 https://store.steampowered.com/app/359050/
Hudson Valley game designer, hobby farmer, maker of jams.
🍊 Makes video games http://blendogames.com
🍊 Just released SKIN DEEP http://blendogames.com/skindeep
🍊 Co-founder https://glitch.city
Game Designer.
Previously: Ustwo Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Frontier, Planet Coaster, Jurassic World Evo, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and more. He/they.
Creative Director @PowerUpAudio. otdq, He/him. (Celeste, TUNIC, NecroDancer, Descenders, Darkest Dungeon...)
vidya gam pro-juicer @ Beethoven & Dinosaur 🎻🦖
currently juicing on 💿Mixtape!💿 (https://youtu.be/dL4WxbBO08o)
previously juiced on The Artful Escape and more
he/him
Indie Game Studio based in Munich
https://jumpybit.com
Check out The Games You'll Make: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2852750/The_Games_You_Make/
Game & Narrative Designer.
PhD Candidate at UChicago researching rad worldbuilding.
Lead organizer, QGCon.
they/he
Stay tuned about Paper Beast, Another World, and more!
Founded Mimimi Games, 2008-2023.
Now working on personal projects.
Currently focusing on Bowl Timer: an elegant, distraction-free meditation timer app.
hi 💜
Designer of playful experiences. Lead @ Lunacy, prev. Reflector, Ubisoft... https://robin-v.net
him, lui. ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
I am making a conscious choice to spend my energy fighting the doom & not posting about it.
Pic by McSkirt https://linktr.ee/mcskirt
https://www.lowbo.io/
Senior Game Designer. Formerly Sprocket Games, Riot Games R&D, LoL game modes, etc. 我会说一点中文(普通话)。PNW. 🏳️🌈
@PlaysideStudios Narrative Lead | Author of many games and books and such | Ex-@IGN | Ex-RebootPR | Come say hello!
Game / Creative Director with indie soul
(previously Game Director on R&D at Riot Games, Creative Director of Riot Forge, 10yrs of League of Legends, 20yrs of #gamedev)
日本語あり
Aussie abroad in APAC. I work in strategic comms and public affairs, but this channel is mostly about video games and fun things. Wannabe dinosaur whisperer. Dogs, drones, and fun things.
My tweets represent inGen Corp.
Wiradyuri & Greek
STEM Journalist & Broadcaster
🎙️ Weird Tech, ABC Radio National Download This Show, ABC Radio NSW Sunday Mornings
📺Going Places (NITV) Back Roads (ABC) & The Secret DNA Of Us (SBS)
UNICEF Australia Ambassador
I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Here I Am. Here I Remain.
CEO & Director at Wildflower Interactive
Errrr … hello, is this 🎙 on?
🎨 creative dabbler with a gazillion interests
🌏 🌍 🌎 virtual world creator 🪐 👾 game dev 📚 storyteller 📜 📝 politics 🪡 costumier 🧵 🖌️artist 🎞️ 📣 digital marketing 🎬 🎥 filmmaker 🎞️🎬
https://linktr.ee/praneemckinlay
🧑🏽🎤they/she
Game designer, coder, musician, adventurer, making #SecretKeep game.
Senior Technical designer at Epic games. UEFN stuff, sample projects, templates, tech talks, StackOBot 2.0, Project Parrot, Project Titan, Lyra and more! Ask me about Unreal, UEFN and indie stuff!
All non-work related views / statements my own.
Making comedy adventure game 'The Dungeon Experience' with Bone Assembly
Made the game 'Paradigm'
Head of Games at Range Media Partners
Formerly: Zenimax, Sony, EA/DICE, Valve, others…
These are my personal ramblings 🤪
Campaign Director #GhostofYotei.
Prev: Gow 2018, Ragnarok, Apple Vision Pro, The Saboteur.
I love all the arts but I love video games the most because they combine so many of them
narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal
🌙🎀👶🏼🎮🐱🌿🐱📖🐶🌸 👑
emotional support MILF
apprentice hairdresser
gunaikurnai country • she / her
undiagnosed, but peer reviewed
prev. esports/anime/games/events
instagram.com/maedicine
founder and studio creative director at The Outsiders. New Yorker. Made some games, wrote some games. Battlefield Bad Company 1/2, BF3, Killzone 2, Mirror’s Edge, Payday 2, Metal Hellsinger, others. Making (redacted) : a new game.
Event Producer at @iii-initiative.bsky.social ・ Excecutive Producer gamedev.world ・ Production Consultant・Photographer
Worked on POSSESSOR(S), Beast Breaker, & a lot of other stuffs~
she/her・🏳️🌈 🍉
Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon!
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
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.
Executive Editor at Game Informer. Host of the All Things Nintendo podcast.
📍 St. Paul, MN
Aussie in NYC || Founder of @thegameclub.bsky.social & @thegig.bsky.social &
Previously Director of DreamHack, E3, PAX, The Mana Bar
https://linktr.ee/yugstar
Writer. Director. BAFTA nominated actor.
Max Payne. Alan Wake. Quantum Break. Control.
Recovering game journalist, now simply a journalist.
Context-Free Patent Art: https://www.tumblr.com/contextfreepatentart
Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, proudly @ignunion.bsky.social. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. rvalentine@ign.com, Signal: duckvalentine.47
Writer: X-Men, X2, Watchmen, The Scorpion King, Warrior Nun. Director: Wolves. Actor: Lupin, King Shark, Guyver II, Metal Gear, The Long Dark, Yakuza. Jedi Master of The Old Republic.
Location: The Palace of Wisdom
I run marketing for the ID@Xbox program for independent game developers on Xbox. Fan of indie games and vintage synthesizers. I have a Buchla system, a Synthi AKS, Moogs, Korg MS series, Waldorf Quantum, etc. I mostly talk about indie games.
Author of queer science fiction & director of level design at Arkane Lyon.
Former conference lecturer / panelist.
Transfemme neurodivergent immigrant.
Gay as hell.
she/her 🏳️⚧️
Unionized anti-authoritarian leftist 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 BLM
He/Him | Living on noongar boodja.
Lead developer of 🍺INNKEEP @ Boot Disk Games.
Steam👉 https://mythwright.gg/Innkeep
Discord👉 https://discord.gg/q5nyWXRmqU
Mailing List👉 http://eepurl.com/gzRndT
Narratives, philosophy, art.
Currently: (Unannounced x 2), ZEPHON, Warhammer 40K: Gladius, Min/Max
Previously: Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
I have friends everywhere 🍁 Probably playing JRPGs or painting Space Marines. Writer on [TBA], Gotham Knights, Star Wars: Squadrons + Battlefront II 📸 by Luke Fontana
Washington Post games critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
EIC of Unwinnable, views own.
PFP by @shaferbrown.com
He/him
Brewing a new videogame
Host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Co-founder @furnimatgames.bsky.social
Ex-Director of Publishing @panic.com
Ex-PlayStation, 1UP, etc. etc.
linktr.ee/nsuttner
He/Him. Get over it. Exploring apocalypses. I founded and lead Hinterland, and created THE LONG DARK. Director, writer, designer, human. Proud Canadian. Just doing my best.
Creative Director & Founder of A Profound Waste of Time.
Graphic Designer aiming to be a jack of all trades, master of some.
Director of Operations @ Gardens 🌳. Used to build game worlds and now building a game studio. Prev on Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
Studio Head at Soft Rains
Priors: Capy games, Watch Dogs Legion, Fallouts 3/4/76, TES: Skyrim, Oblivion, Aeon Flux, Bloodrayne 2, technically Grandma’s Boy
Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
Signal: kyleorl.31
Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
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
artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
somehow, after all this time, video game music is still my job
previously - super meat boy, binding of isaac, crypt of the necrodancer, cadence of hyrule
currently - rift of the necrodancer, live shows with my band, dannyBstyle
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends, making thinky puzzle games. He/him.
https://www.draknek.org/
Our latest game: Spooky Express https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/Spooky_Express/
Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
Game director, designer, writer.
Deus Ex, Dishonored, others.
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
