Video game creator in Kyoto. Starfox Command, Pixeljunk Monsters, Scram Kitty...
Bafta nominated game developer and owner of Tikipod. Co-Dev and Publisher of Astro Aqua Kitty, Iron Crypticle, Aqua Kitty, Rock Boshers.
Currently based in VIC region, AUS.
Retired video game programmer. 40+ years developing videogames and software.
Creator of games for the BBC Micro, Electron, NES, SNES, PC, XBox, PS3/4, Mobile, Vita, 3DS.
I am currently rescuing and archiving old game development disks.
LEGO Dev/AFOL.
Acoustics and radio engineer in the UK, aka @acoustics_in_uk on Twitter and @zark_off on Mastodon
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Video @ FT, before that BBC
Mastodon @tomhannen@mastodon.social
Can’t DM here. Use Signal: tomhannen
Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
No longer standing in the twisted wreckage of the Twitter (and soon to be Threads) Airbus. If anyone wants to know, yes, I’m still full of shit but no longer funny.
Damn. I broke a nail.
Author and journalist. Creator of the My Perfect Console podcast. www.simonparkin.com
Apple news, reviews, stories, and podcasts. By @viticci.macstories.net, @johnvoorhees.macstories.net, and friends at https://www.macstories.net.
Want more MacStories? Join Club MacStories: http://club.macstories.net
✨ Lead Technical Artist at Dlala Studios ✨
Disney Illusion Island | Battletoads | Floor 13 | Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Studio Technical Director and Co-Founder of Expression Games. Previously at Rare, Evolution Studios and Fabrik Games.
Co-founder of Wired Productions | Co-founder of Black Razor Records |
Co-founder and Chair Trustee of Safe In Our World.
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Indie for life... which means stubborn as F$%k!!!
Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
Hand-to-hand punster, cipher mysteries expert, former caveman games programmer: now an embedded developer. He/him. Chaotic good.
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
Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for
Digital Foundry and creator of DF Retro! Open to contract work!
日本語ＯＫ
Developers of fabulous videogames such as Arcade Paradise, Arcade Paradise VR, Vostok Inc and The Hungry Horde!
Game Director at Beat Games/Meta, Former Sumo Digital, Fierce Kaiju, Rockstar Games & Activision/Blizzard dev, DJ, comic book geek and lifelong NFFC fan.
I help games businesses navigate growth... or something.
💖Co-director @ Limit Break Mentorship
🌿 COO @ Apparance
😻Growth @ IMPRESS
🎮 #GamesIndustry
🚐 #Vanlife
🚵 #MTB
📍Wales, UK
https://heydanthomas.com
Engineering Leader
Striving To Make 3D Tech Accessible
Multiplayer
Unity since 2009
Investor in Fintech and Renewable Energies.
http://chrispope.tech
Game Dev Dinosaur - ex Oculus Studios / Meta, Stadia / Google, Riot Games & Sony Santa Monica.
Don’t be an asshole, don’t obey in advance, grow old disgracefully.
UK / California. Making games since '89. 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Professional good thing liker.
http://brandonnn.com
📦 Shipping Like Crazy 🤓 Game Dev since ~1990 🟨 YOYOZO (GOTY 2023) 🕹️ Retro Games 🗿Moai 💿 Macintosh Magazine Media 🍎 ex-Apple
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com
Founder, industry veteran, and advisor with 25+ years in interactive entertainment. Key contributor to shaping and licensing globally recognized IPs. Instrumental in founding and growing successful companies in the industry.
(he/him)
I make totally sweet games like MechAssault, Shadowrun, Halo: Reach, and Destiny.
I use this account as a placeholder and for testing purposes. My main social media presence is over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@mantis
(Find me there!)
https://www.rudikolenc.co.uk/
Freelance Environment Artist and Animator currently working on Thief VR - Legacy of Darkness
Previously:
Animator, 3D Artist at https://dreamfeel.ie/
Animator at https://gutefabrik.com/
Will post, RT: art, cute stuff, and food
Two colourblind brothers running an Indie game studio in the UK. We are making:
Strange Antiquities - Out now.
Strange Horticulture - Out now.
linktr.ee/badviking
Rob: @robdonkin.bsky.social
John: @johnnydonkin.bsky.social
Senior Rendering Programmer at Sony Santa Monica Studio
📷 http://instagram.com/jendrikillner/
📑 https://www.jendrikillner.com
We are a UK charity that helps people get the skills and support they need for a career in game development, particularly if they are from a working-class or under-resourced background. Find us here: https://intogames.org/
With podcasts covering technology and creativity, Relay brings together some of the most influential and unique voices on the internet to create powerful content each and every week.
Cofounder of Studio Neat. @studioneat.bsky.social
I write about computers at @sixcolors.com and podcast about lots of stuff at @theincomparable.com and @relay.fm - I'm a human, raised by humans. (That's a reference.)
Indie iOS / Mac developer from Glasgow, Scotland. Maker of the PCalc scientific calculator, and a cool dice app. Occasional writer, conference speaker, D&D player, and podcast pundit.
Pretends to write. Owner, Ninty Media. Long time Spurs sufferer, amiibo collector, retro Nintendo fanatic. Liable to moan, swear or talk too much about the gym. Sorry.
I help people apply values-based productivity principles to get more out of the notes & ideas in their PKM systems, primarily using Obsidian.
Dog enthusiast. Tech enthusiast. Pensive being. Podcaster. Journalist. Empathy advocate. | he/him
Audio Engineer; Photographer; Musician
Irish, non-binary, maker of apps, taker of photos.
benricemccarthy.com / obscura.camera / croissantapp.com/
weirder here than everywhere else.
they / them
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇮🇪
We gave Croc his backpack, made Star Fox barrel roll, and bumped to the bass with the biggity Buck Bumble. Argonaut is back in the game.
💼 Game Developer 📍Gobbo Valley 🔗 https://linktr.ee/argonautgames
📅 Joined Croctober 2024
Professional nerd, developer, podcaster, geek!
🦄 Business Unicorn 🦄
🎙️ Podcaster 🎙️
🐉 CEO of Dragonmount 🐉
💕 Caregiver 💕
🥪 Official Sandwich Decision Maker 🥪
Founder and Editor-in-Chief @macstories.net. I write about iPad, iOS, indie apps, and making computers more fun.
I also co-host @appstories.macstories.net, a podcast about Apple and the world of apps, and @npc.macstories.net, a show about handhelds.
Podcaster and Co-Founder at @Relay.fm, Creative Director and Co-Founder at @CortexBrand.com.
Author, podcaster, inexplicably a two-time Jeopardy! champion. I have the death sentence in 12 systems. He/him.
https://dmoren.com
iPod Sock & PowerPC enthusiast.
I make stuff | currently making movies @Liberty Films | associate producer on the Rogue Trooper movie | Mike Bithell's muse | prev: No Man's Sky
An experimental volunteer indie game development studio, providing developers, new graduates and people interested in the games industry with help creating and growing a portfolio, networking and industry advice, and help launching games.
Author and commentator. Book: 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns'. Busy AI coding.
Topics: AI & fun geeky stuff, Brexit & UK politics. Expect facts & stats, sarcasm and gallows humour.
Handy tools: https://www.superuseful.com/
Me: https://www.edwinhayward.com/
Damp Gnat is Reece Millidge's independent games studio in Brighton UK. Icycle, Wonderputt, Adverputt and other curiosities. BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. He/him
Comms Manager at @digitalbandidos.bsky.social. Runs Non-Violent Game of the Day (@nvgotd.bsky.social). Former journalist
Author (The Best Non-Violent Video Games, Wandless, Blow The House Down) www.jamesbatchelor.me
Father. Gamer. Soundtrack Nerd
Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Coder on original Doom, Quake games. These days, I dig serving on advisory boards, helping with biz/tech strategy, raising money, recruiting, whatever comes up.
i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
BAFTA and Ivor Novello nominated composer for Disney’s Illusion Island, Luna Abyss, Battletoads, Thomas Was Alone, QUBE 2, Lost Words: Beyond the Page, Volume, etc.
Aussie Game Dev of 25+ years.
Principal Engineer at Riot Games.
Brews beer, plays games, lives life.
he/him
Multi award winning game producer/studio head. Over 200 shipped games including WWF, Die Hard Trilogy, AVP, TXR, Oddworld Soulstorm, Bloodrayne. Currently working on 7 days to die and Croc.
Indie game developer (like that movie) running Upfall Studios. Maker of Quest of Dungeons, Vizati and other weird games.
https://www.david-amador.com
https://www.upfallstudios.com
📍Portugal
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
Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
mostly cat pictures
He/him
Designer/Engineer. Maker of things. Emoji artisan. Keyboard enthusiast (@kapowaz.industries). Coventry City fan. Invented @-replies. Not John Green. Non-American. He/Him.
Video game composer since 1988
Graftgold, C64, PlayStation, OPM demo disks..
Currently Audio Director at Unity
Head of Marketing @wiredproductions.com | Co-Founder @safeinourworld.org | BAFTA Member | Ambassador for Special Effect | Mental Health Advocate | Hubby & Daddy
#NoMansSky Engine Programmer. Owner of #TrickyPixels who re-mastered #JourneyPS4. Platform lead on #ProjectCars and EA’s Harry Potter games. BAFTA member
Credited with making the image of video games older, edgy & ‘cool’ with #Playstation #ps1. Worked in #videogames #tech & #marketing , now in #AI driven games research & insights. #ADHD is my special power. Father of 5, passionate gamer for 40yrs.
Currently building a game development accelerator in Trondheim, Norway for game studios called Spawn Point Trondheim and loving every minute of it!
official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Creative director, designer, dreamer, maker, father, drawer, felter, gamer, writer, editor, flâneur, BAFTA winner, legit Games Media Legend, spoony
Writer. Rogue One, The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rebels, Batman, The Walking Dead, Gundog etc #COYS
Ex UK Games industry pom, now living in Australia. Marketer, Domainer. Layabout.
Communicator. Observer. Griot.
Gaffer @sigames
director @footballmanager
Industry Ambassador @warchilduk
@lofootball committee
VP @specialeffect
Governor @elamhq
Cooking Blog http://miles.cooking
Personal account
Games charity with mission to transform lives with games, governs The National Videogame Museum (@nvmuk.bsky.social), GamesEd Summit, award-winning learning and vocational courses.
Over 35 years in the games business ; former Domark, Psygnosis, Philips, Microprose, Universal, THQ, Digital Extremes. Now consulting, advising and developing IP.
The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
zerotomrr.me
supareels.com
Aging Gen x software developer making video games. Likes to help & run. Not always consecutively. 1981 60m dash runner up.
A pixel art image processing app for iOS
https://8bitartwork.co.uk/
Retrospecs lets you convert images and video clips so they appear as they would on a variety of home computers and consoles from the 70's, 80's and 90's.
Head of Publishing @RadicalForge
Board member of Manchester Game Network @Gameopolis
Side gig - https://www.unseen-galaxy.com
@SpecialEffect Ambassador
Member of @BAFTAgames
Proud Mancunian
❤️ 🎮 Sci-Fi & LEGO all views are my own
Game Director @HandCircus.com . SimonOliver.com - Block Rancher, Rolando, Okabu, Seabeard. Prev Toy Invention Director @LEGO.
Senior Digitial Designer. Liverpool FC obsessive. Gaming inspired merch. Designs seen on Redmen TV. Visit www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MovingUnit
I've made casual video games for 25 years. Web and mobile. Code, design, art, QA - the lot. Ex miniclip.com creative director, co-founder of yarn.games and lone-founder of totebo.com. London. Defold!
Fractional CTO. I help tech startups scale. Making games since 1981, 200+ published titles. Solo indie dev.
LinkedIn: https://markripley.net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grumpyoaf
Indie: https://wearedinosaurs.uk
I help people make games DevPods.gg GameDev since 97. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor. Formerly IGDA LA, IndieCade, Extra Credits. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 170k podcast DL. Vegan 24 years. Mask😷 he/him
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
BAFTA-winning Lead Game Designer behind Rollerdrome + OlliOlli2 ⚡ Retro Gaming Enthusiast ⚡ Gig-fiend
📍 London, UK 🔗 https://linktr.ee/dreofthedead
Making games since 2004.
Co-Founder https://globalgamejam.org/ https://nordicgamejam.com/
Personal site: https://gormlai.github.io/
Working on Fugl - https://bit.ly/3st8vLs
BAFTA Member & Winner
PhD Student in AI & Games at @IGGI
Lapsed Demoscener
We’re your single, award-winning destination for everything gaming - shop | community | blog | games publisher | official partner of 1200+ devs and publishers.
Technology enthusiast. Apple nerd. iPhone photographer. Digital creator. Movie buff. Occasionally funny. Writing tech at http://volatileinputs.com
🎮 business coach helping videogame founders build better studios
15+ years in games | executive MBA
Read The Long Game newsletter: https://www.martijnvanzwieten.com/newsletter
London Games Festival. Successfully not in any starter packs
coding since 1984. writing songs since 1996. husband since 2000. dad since 2015. 2X founder, currently of Rebecker Specialties. ex-LG, PlayStation, Roblox.
he/him. artist. activist. dinosaur lover. elder-goth. fan of sharks. Doing arty things for games & shows. Former Halo guy at Bungie & 343. HTC VIVE, ILM Disney, ARK. Embrace the strange and unusual, and be kind to each other dammit.
