Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
P-O / 3D Artist @ SonderlustGames / Illustrator & Hobbyist Tattoo Artist / He/They
https://www.artstation.com/pioldes
🌈They / Them 🧠 AuDHD
Filipino dancer, jiu-jitsu folder, blacksmith, photography & model hobbyist, game dev, marketing pro based in Montreal
Worked on Darwin Project, Dead by Daylight, GoT, Jurassic World, and a bunch of other games
🎨 Illustrations
🎮 Creator of Indie game 'Novaxandria'
🇦🇺 Australia
🚫 AI Learning Prohibited
https://linktr.ee/JoL_0915
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor; Pupperazzi | @mooncandy.games | Sundae Month | ancient evil trapped in a teen body trapped in a 30-year-old body | she / they / it | VT
free 🇵🇸
Artist, gamedev, enigma. Freelance art direction.
https://oldmanofthefire.com
Prohibition BL and silly antics 🧛♀️
games and comics artist, Drugs & Wires co-creator
Sometimes 🔞
🇱🇻 Based in Berlin, she/they
https://linktr.ee/cryodraws
🧑🏻🎨 #ocsky #ocart #comics
Indie game dev from Montreal working on Camille & Laura, a narrative game about the daily life of a single mother. I make sad games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3129110/Camille_and_Laura/
Spooky ace essay boy. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
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
Worker owned tabletop game design company. Revolutionary games live here!
Advocating for a democratic, equitable, and inclusive world through cooperatives, worker ownership, unions, mutual aid, and workplace democracy. 💜
People Above Profit ✊🏽 #EconomicDemocracy 🌲🌲
usworker.coop | ncbaclusa.coop | workers.coop | ica.coop
🌱 Game development cooperative.
Released 💥 Jump the Track, 🐲Baladins and 📦 Pile Up! Box by Box
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/seedbyseed
Demons who are really, very, evil.
Independent worker-owned game studio based in Dundee, Scotland 😈
Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Indie studio co-op based in Berlin 🏙️
Working on Frog Holm and Desktop Fishing
Desktop Fishing 20% off right now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411730/Frog_Holm__Desktop_Fishing/
he makes games, including:
🏰 Kingdom: New Lands
🌱 Cloud Gardens
🍕 Pizza Possum
artist
concept | illustration | believer in the rule of three
https://www.artstation.com/cicco
Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
currently working on THE bus game 🚌 a competitive board game about riding the bus. background in game ui/ux design and production. really enjoy cooking veggies!!!!!! and organizing events at @aucklandmakesgames.bsky.social
https://www.amilanuhodzic.com/
www.deepskygames.com
hello@deepskygames.com
https://linktr.ee/deepskygames
Deep Sky Games are a worker owned game studio based in Berlin and working on our first game -
"An Undystopian Couch Co-op Game about Sailing a Solarpunk Landscape"
based in VT🐄 we are a cooperatively structured studio making games that compost our favorite genres into lush, tasty experiences. yum.
https://www.mooncandy.games/
A worker co-op that makes video games. We're building something pretty great.
http://theglorysociety.com
Worker-owned co-op! We make games.
Fuck off with that genAI garbage! Handmade degen only.
✨“Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 to” is OUT NOW!✨
Play Spirit Swap: https://t.co/tr0q2UW1HV
✉️: contact@softnotweak.com
Worker coop making digital media & stories. Current projects: Motivi Galaxy🌌✨(demo on steam!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/4005940/Motivi_Galaxy/
https://lnk.bio/amelore
Cozy Comet Games is the first (of hopefully many) incorporated games worker cooperatives based in Alberta. #YEG / #Treaty6 based team.
"Bad games" apologists / enthusiasts. Not necessarily always talking about bad video games!
badgamehalloffame.com
twitch.tv/badgamehalloffame
youtube.com/@badgamehalloffame
A worker cooperative working on a wholesome life-simulation game about community and belonging.
✨ Wishlist Sally on Steam!✨
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165040/Sally/
indie game dev @ felismajor.com ~(▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ )~
working on GLOOPALAXY 🪐
https://micocool.quest/links
Canadian Web Developer, gamer, and traveler.
🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
He/Him
We fund game.
By Innersloth.
https://outersloth.com/
Creative Lead @BlumhouseGames
🏴 in LA
Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Senior artist at Norsfell.
I do Concept Art, Tech Art, Unreal, Blender.
I mostly do stylized stuff, helping the team where needed. Hmu if you want to talk shop!
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.
The only community dedicated to Scotland’s games ecosystem.
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/
Indie publisher of inclusive, accessible, approachable games! 🌈🤍
📍 Erie, PA
Press/Content Creator inquiries:
press@whitethorngames.com
https://linktr.ee/whitethorn.games
Yooka devs! Purveyors of fun 😎 Peek our Starter Packs for Playtonic Team and Fan Artists!
Indie Game Developer & Publisher
#LostEmber | #SmushiComeHome | #FarewellNorth | #HavenPark
#ColorsOfIndie
https://www.mooneyestudios.com/
🏳️🌈
Indie game developer and publishing studio from Indonesia 🌱 Our games: Coffee Talk, Infectonator, A Space for the Unbound, and more.
Join our community! ▶️ discord.gg/toge
Check out our games! ▶️ https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/togeproductions
🐢Tortoise-powered game publisher
🐢Behind The Frame, GRIME, Absolute Tactics, Rain World, Astrea + MORE!
Indie's best friend ♥ Physical games publisher & publishing original games on consoles + PC 💙
website: https://superraregames.com/
email: help@superraregames.com
A person you meet in the forest, who just puts their finger to your lips to shoosh you, and then gives you the budget for your game.
Indie game publisher supporting developers from across the globe in realizing their creative vision with sustainability and care. Pitch to us!
armorgamesstudios.com
Indie Game Studio & Publisher from Switzerland
Creators of WanderingVillage, Dungeon Clawler, Nimbatus
and Niche
Publishing Airborne Empire, Flotsam & TerraScape
strayfawnstudio.com
Award winning #indiegame publisher & agency working with games & streamers! Providing marketing, PR, influencers, community and TikTok 💜
We publish really awesome digital & physical indie games such as Core Keeper, Shadows of Doubt, REKA, and more!
We publish awesome indie games ✨
Check out & wishlist our games: https://mythwright.gg/StorePage-BS
Hi! We're Curve Games! We make and publish incredible indie games like For The King, Human Fall Flat, Dungeons of Hinterberg and more!
🔗 linktr.ee/Curve_Games
Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
indie games publishing & self-publishing support
cool games for cool people by cool people
since 1896
games http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/futurefriendsgames
Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Indie horror lives here, from cult hits to future classics.
Check out our full suite of games at https://dreadxp.com/ including The Mortuary Assistant, Amanda the Adventurer, Dread Delusion, White Knuckle, and beyond...
Publisher of Manor Lords, Against the Storm, Norland, Workers & Resources, 9 Kings, and other great strategic and tactical games.
Our store page: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HoodedHorse
2025 MCV/DEVELOP Indie Publisher of the Year! STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™, Still Wakes The Deep, NUTMEG!, A Storied Life: Tabitha, A Little to the Left + more
https://linktr.ee/wearesecretmode
Upcoming publisher of indie games, comics & creative culture from Middle East & beyond. We amplify emerging talent.
Collaborative game studio by Rebekah and Adam Saltsman. 👑 We publish a bunch of cool video games. We make some ourselves too! linktree.finji.co
We're working on @usualjune.bsky.social right now!
🔸 Making intriguing worlds with heart
🔸 Streets of Fortuna, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Thousand Hells
🔸 Join: http://discord.gg/kitfoxgames
Wayfinders of crafty, innovative experiences that push the boundaries of games.
For support and help visit https://discord.gg/invite/the4winds
video games r cool
Out Now: Loop//Error / HOTEL BARCELONA / Catto's Post Office / Go-Go Town / Don't Get Got / Tempopo / Autoforge
🔜: Catto's Post Office (Switch) / Awaysis / Blood Reaver
Links: http://linktr.ee/cultgames
Your friendly neighbourhood “Indie Publisher of the Year”! Also, home to Black Razor Records! 🎮 & 🎧 Talk to us on Discord: http://discord.gg/wiredp
We’re Thunderful! We publish awesome indie games 🎮❤️ Like these:
🎲 Lost in Random
📷 Viewfinder
🌍 Planet of Lana
🐺 ASKA
🤖 SteamWorld Games
⚔️ Reignbreaker
🌆 REPLACED
💥 GODBREAKERS
& more... 🔗 linktr.ee/thndr
A full package publishing partner! Currently cooking: Outbound, The Witch's Bakery, Quite A Ride, Slain 2!
https://linktr.ee/silverlininginteractive
We play games. We publish games. We are Yogscast Games.
PlateUp! 🍽️ Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ♣️ Caveblazers ☠️ Infinity Sweeper 💣
yogscastgames.bio.link
We're an independent games developer & publisher! Now working on @witchbrook.com. 🔮✨ Previously developed Starbound & Wargroove!
linktr.ee/Chucklefish
Purveyors of audacious & stylish indie games including Men In Black: Most Wanted, Islanders: New Shores, Augmented Empire PC & VR , Phantom Spark, Worldless, Jurassic World Aftermath, The Last Hero of Nostalgaia, Phogs...
https://linktr.ee/Coatsink
We’re a boutique video game publisher working with game devs the world over to publish games that have spirit, like VA-11 HALL-A, WORLD OF HORROR and Demonschool!
campsite.bio/ysbrydgames
Developer & games label behind Hell Let Loose, Worms, The Escapists, Overcooked, DREDGE, & more!
Creating meaningful & emotionally impactful experiences that challenge the way you think.
#DDLC Plus, LISA, To the Moon, NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD, Fractured Blooms, Gone Home, Tiny Bunny (Зайчик)
Discord: http://bit.ly/3a9Oy2O
https://serenityforge.com/
Gamedevs. We make Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess
Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias but this account is run by Tony
Discord community: discord.gg/blacktabbygames
☘️Catholic & native Irish speaker
🐻Gay bearberian
🧙♀️ Marketing, PR and Brand Leader
✨ Award winner, 2x BAFTA nominee & member. Ukie board director
🟪Team17 PR
🏡 WFH only
Check out my portfolio of services & accolades https://www.clairesharkbit.com/
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/
Writer, game designer, artist | Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | BAFTA, IGF, DICE + Game Awards nominee | Poetics PhD | they/them |
Jumpovertheage.com
I make experimental games & weird music!
website: https://mikeklubnika.com/
music: https://mikeklubnika.bandcamp.com/
email: mikeklubnika@gmail.com
Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
AdventureX 2025 ➡️ Happening on 22 - 23 November in London!
AdventureX brings together devs & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling. https://adventurexpo.org
Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
📖Research: planetary boundaries, apples, orchards, sustainable food systems
🌍Interests: European heatwaves, deep ecology, biodiversity loss, GCR and ER, ecological economics
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, semla, tosca
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Full time associate professor at the CRIDS/NADI, University of Namur
Member of the Liège Game Lab, the OMNSH and the LPCM
Research topics: video game narration, détournement, video game tutorials, humor and toxicity on Twitch
🦣 : @ypsenn@ludosphere.fr
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
Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
All things #GameStudies @ HKB Bern
Podcasts:
„Design. Macht. Gesellschaft.“ (https://podcast337600.podigee.io)
"Kritische Controller" (https://kritische-controller.letscast.fm/)
Krach bei DER ATOMAT. (https://deratomat.bandcamp.com/)
professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://tomgaar.carrd.co/
Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
