We’re creating opportunities and building platforms to celebrate women and femmes of all ages who love playing and creating games! 🎮
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Community builder ❤️
Vancouver | unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ territories
Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news 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
Relic Labs titles are smaller-scale projects that bring @relic.com’s depth, passion, and expertise to new areas of the strategy genre.
Play Earth vs Mars - https://linktr.ee/RelicLabs
She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
writer, editor. ✍️ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
https://www.nicoleaclark.com/
Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
The Indie Informer celebrates gaming's creative, touching, and innovative titles.
https://TheIndieInformer.com/
Hello@TheIndieInformer.com
www.youtube.com/@theindieinformer
www.twitch.tv/theindieinformer
Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
yet another bloody marketing video maker
some tiktok marketing tips, some birds & some nonsense
she/her | ENFJ | 💖💜💙
(opinions are my own and probably stupid)
MR, she/her. writer, teacher, tired · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · SFWA · Codex · words at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐 🗡️ 🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
Gonna fetch a 3mv enchantment you've never heard of gonna force you to LIKE it He/Him
https://linktr.ee/thebenwa
Game designer. Town Builder: Coevorden, Oxygen Not Included.
Artist of color, light, & atmosphere /🇹🇼 🇺🇸/ Visdev on Spiderman: Beyond the Spiderverse 🕷 / bio.site/chuwenjie
Apihtawikosisân (Fed: Métis Nation of Ontario), 2S indiginerd doing weird-ish things. Slowly healing from burnout/ME/CFS.
Lead Designer at Achimostawinan Games (go play "Hill Agency: PURITYdecay")
https://linktr.ee/meaganbyrne
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
📺 Video Specialist at @mooncat.games
✨ Enjoys taking photos and relistening to Joy Division's Disorder
He / They
Vancouver, BC.
🇺🇸 🇲🇾 🇸🇬 🇨🇦
Board game designer - Starry Night Sky, Abandon All Artichokes, Squabblin Goblins, Epilogue, and more! she/her. PNW. Not free until we're all free. http://emmalarkins.com
30+ video game announcements with no extra fluff - just games beamed straight into your eyeballs.
Coming soon.
https://iii-initiative.com/
game developer working on young suns @ko-op.com
i like capybaras and sports and public transit
portfolio @ cara.app/oats
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
Every year in Metro Vancouver, car crashes kill 100 people. We can get to zero by demanding that governments design transportation systems to put safety first. http://linkin.bio/visionzeroyvr
Artist, she/her, possibly a werewolf. Clients include Metallica,Smashing Pumpkins, Magic!The Gathering, Boom!, Anchorage Brewing and more
Volunteer at Wolf Watch UK, a wolf sanctuary
https://wolfskulljack.com/
HUMAN MADE ART
NYT/Sunday Times/Indie bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and The Daevabad Trilogy
♟️🎲🎮 The podcast for games of all platforms. Reviewing board games, video games, TTRPGs and everything between.
Hosted by Mark (@markyuasa.bsky.social) and
Daniel (@boardgamefeast.bsky.social)
✉️ Omnigamersclub@gmail.com
🔗 Omnigamers.club
Hello! You can call me Chris or Slowbrewd/Brewd!
Community Manager @IronOakGames! Retired streamer now working on For The King II
He/Him 🌈
🇨🇦 Vancouver!
Developer of ValoR Tactics and Director of WitchPop. Animation technical director by day, gamedev by night.
He/Him
https://www.flickr.com/mrlinds
Art and Code
Radial Games ( Fantastic Contraption | Monster Loves You Too! )
Monster Loves You Too! https://s.team/a/1149000
Current:
Klei - Away Team https://www.klei.com/games/away-team
We're creating Stardust Frontier - A Roguelike Microgaming Party Adventure! Wishlist on Steam Now!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3685050
Join our community: https://effortgames.ca/discord
An indie game studio by @aurail.us and @intics.bsky.social!
Play Flowerdrops!🌸🌹🍀▶ s.team/a/3708530/
💕 making video games & painting pretty pictures~
🎮 Flowerdrops, ViViD Relapse, INFINIDEMONS
💼 co-founder of @cozyz.one
💍 @skye.computer
✨ 31, she/her 🏳️⚧️
🍁 vancouver
🔞 MDNI
🐸
🔟 pancelor.itch.io/make-ten-deluxe - out now!
making short games, learning how to make longer ones too
- games: pancelor.itch.io/
- website/blog/etc: pancelor.com/
🔔 looking for work! business.skye.computer@gmail.com
🎹 music witch | 🕹️ game/web dev | 🎨 artist
💤 co-founder of @cozyz.one
💍 @natikatz.bsky.social
🎶 skyeash.bandcamp.com
🌐 skye.computer
🍁 vancouver
🏳️⚧️ she / her
🚫 no ai
🌺 Flowerdrops: cozyz.one/flowerdrops
Creators of the world's best first-person magical cat speedrunner! 🐈🪄
Play Meowmentum now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3236850/Meowmentum_Demo/
Visual Development/ Illustration
📍 Vancouver, BC
https://linktr.ee/leif_yooo
Senior QA by day. Game maker by night.
Lefty Scifi nerd dreaming of space flight.
🇨🇦🇫🇮🏴
Creator of the retro inspired brutalist 3D platformer
The Labyrinth At The End Of Time.
Due out before the heat death of the universe.
DebonairBreakfastBear.com
Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb
Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
David Huynh • Developer of a dreamy rhythm game called Melatonin • Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, and PS5
www.halfasleep.games
i make games and write words.
book lover. anti-genAI. friend of eggbug. she/they. 🇨🇦
💍 @pancelor.bsky.social
tallywinkle.bearblog.dev
tallywinkle.itch.io
A small group of international indie game developers! We made Parkitect and now we're making Croakwood, a town building game about frogs!
texelraptor.com
transfem | she/they | Game Producer, Motion Graphics, Video, and Streaming
Currently looking for work!🙌
https://www.melaniesevers.com/
www.twitch.tv/wadamelon
Game dev from the Vancouver area. Senior Game Designer at Studio MDHR. Views are my own.
Making Chronoblazer, a 2D shmup with progression and light exploration, in my spare time.
https://adammcdonald.itch.io/
https://adammcd.com
Composer and multimedia artist
❄️ Director of Art/Music at The Yetee 🎵
http://links.junker.ca
Composer: Wild Blue Skies, The Worlds Divide, Esluna, Street Uni X, Carve + more!
⚠️ aka @r23x.bsky.social 📼 Video-20XX @video20xx.com 🌎 Vancouver, BC
He/him. SF novelist/filmmaker at http://jimmunroe.net ~ Producer/Narrative designer ~ Co-founded Hand Eye Society, now Game Arts International Network and Toronto Games Week ~ Designed IF tool http://texturewriter.com
🧔🏽 Freelance Games Marketing, PR and Comms Consultant.
🖥️ Running my own thing at acossidente.com. Before: Atari, Firesquid, Raw Fury, Critical Reflex and more!
📧 hello@acossidente.com
Indie game marketing. Account Director @ Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat.
🐸: jasmine@twofrogs.biz
I bring a kind of clown reaction photos and bad dad jokes vibe to the party that everybody loves actually (she/her)
☘️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/
Occasional cosplayer | Video Games | Mental Health | Plants | Game Producer & Executive Committee at @ko-op.com | she/her | 🏳️🌈 Queer | My cat's name is Garrus
Hosting Vancouver Game Expo - an interactive exhibition featuring locally made video games, nerdy vendors, and more
💬 Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/vangameconnect
📷 Follow us on IG: instagram.com/vangameconnect
🌐 Website: vangameconnect.ca
☾ freelance composer, sound designer, audio engineer, vocalist
☾ game awards '23 nominee
☾ twitch affiliate
☾ host of @questmarkers.bsky.social
🇨🇦 🌈 she/her
💌 marina@marinamakes.co
linktr.ee/marinahascoffee
Freelance digital concept artist / illustrator 🇫🇷
A lot of Sci-Fi, a bit of fantasy.
🚫NO NFTs and 🚫NO AI
https://linktr.ee/dofresh
Author, copy editor, gardener, small goblin in a strange world. she/her
✨ i’m like if tifa lockhart loved carbs
☕️ features editor @gamespot.com
🌙 into grand stories, art, mtg, anime, coffee & esoterica
🔮 as seen at giant bomb, kinda funny, game informer, paste magazine, collider, uproxx, uppercut & more
She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Indie Gamedev (CHESTNUT GROVE, #GRIDHACK, #COGITO Godot template) at @thresholdanomaly.com
VFX Editor (Spiderman NWH, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, etc.)
https://www.philipdrobar.com/
he/him, Austrian 🇦🇹 in Canada 🇨🇦
Follows =/= endorsements.
Children's book illustrator, 2D animator, dog observer ✏️🐕 Previously Google Doodles. she/her
✧ Read The Day Leap Soared!
→ linktr.ee/oliviawhen
Running game dev community events in Vancouver linktr.ee/busgamedevs
Gaming, reviews, tips & more → https://kotaku.com
AAA Trailer artist turned Indie trailer specialist and educator.
🚫Absolutely none of my work is AI generated
Currently Studying:
Anthropology + Art History
St Francis Xavier University
Nova Scotia, Canada
Emilykolmcreative.com
Vancouver City Councillor. Fighting corruption and greed.
UBCM Director, planning commission, arts/culture, dog-guy. Green.
makers of Cozy Grove, Triple Town, Alphabear and now Spirit Crossing, a collaborative multiplayer life-sim. 🦊
currently live in open Alpha on Android & iOS:
⛅ www.playspiritcrossing.com
+ wishlist Spirit Crossing on Steam! 🧡
✨ http://s.team/a/2321960
Cohost of Maintenance Phase. Author of two books. In a documentary called Your Fat Friend. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
The game show where the rules change every show. Hosted by Sam Reich.
gamechanger.dropout.tv
🍁 Plein air painter, BG design and paint. She/her. #NoAI
Online store: https://www.laurabifano.com/shop/
Take a class!: https://www.warriorartcamp.com/stylizing-on-the-fly-4-day-workshop-with-laura-bifano
Pixel-artist, Animator, Art Director | Currently Game Director | Works: Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, Cadence of Hyrule, Sonic Mania, Sonic Mania Plus, Nuclear Throne, GunGodz, Super Crate Box & more.
pietepiet.com
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇨🇦
Narrative designer / co-CEO
They/them
Vancouver, BC
Iklo Studios Inc.
Narrative Director of Stika
(prev. writer for AOE4 @ Relic Entertainment)
Currently learning: Tarot
Perfecting: Bass Guitar
#SupportUkrainianArt
yennefer and judy alvarez propaganda machine | writing and social media/community @sunsetvisitor.studio, community @blacktabbygames.com | game design consultant | opinions mine | GLAAD emerging developers '26 | GDoC scholar '24 | future class ‘20
@mothership.blog co-founder and managing editor ✨
formerly games editor at polygon, deputy editor at hearst mags, and a buncha other stuff. DM or reply for email!
Antifa goat farm and beer garden in Field Store (Houston) Texas. We used to make cheese and trouble, but we no longer make cheese.
Buy stuff: https://blueheronfarmcajeta.com/
Writer, Curator, Cultural Omnivore | 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online/ | Author of Amnesia: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk // I mostly retweet games + art. Opinions are my own. He/Him | PFP: Kara Xu (Helium Raven) Header: Death Stranding 2
speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Games Community & Marketing @goldrivproject.fairviewgames.com (EARLY ACCESS OUT NOW 🏕) ♡ Full of Whimsy and Rage ♡ Queer and Jewish ♡
she/her
Words are my own
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
Indie games long-timer. A Good Narrative Collaborator. Dramaturge.
Currently on something unannounced. Previously on Dr. Katz, Home Movies, BioShock 2 & Minerva's Den, Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop.
Invite me to play TTRPGs!🙇
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
biz dev & comms @BBI | ex-marketing @Relic, @Hinterland, @Bethesda | opinions are my own, (re)sharing ≠ unconditional endorsement
Communications Director at Playstack working on Raccoin, Balatro, Abiotic Factor, UNBEATABLE, The Rise of the Golden Idol, Mortal Shell 2 and VOID/BREAKER
City Councillor with OneCity Vancouver. Road safety advocate, former environmental lawyer, cyclist, parent. Working for you.
she/her | latinx digital artist | community managering @ Mega Crit, formerly @ Brace Yourself Games
In the by-election, we served notice to Ken Sim and ABC. In 2026, we finish the job.
Fighting for housing, public services, climate action, and integrity at City Hall.
Honour MST 進步選民聯盟
https://www.votecope.ca/
Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! All my current and previous work is on my site: https://victoriaroserichards.co.uk/
Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - 15th edition - May 13-16.
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - open on Wed-Thu 15:00-18:00, Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
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
Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her 🇱🇹🇦🇺 Insta- ifyouseeamy/pyjamapolitics
aremeikis@thenewdaily.com.au
Photojournalist in Vancouver.
Senior writer for CBC Radio online. Won't stop talking about video games. Grammar pedant. One-time guest on the Giant Bomb @nite couch.
Bio & contact: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/author/jonathan-ore-1.3300194
Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
instagram.com/andreawoo
