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silly game maker
making @beastieball.bsky.social
blog: http://wishesgames.com
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A free, weekly newsletter containing Unity game dev news, articles, tips, tricks, assets, videos and more. 3D, 2D, VR & AR game/app development.
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(Former) Double Fine Engineer. Worked on: Psychonauts, Brรผtal Legend, Costume Quest, The Cave, Dear Leader, Broken Age, Headlander, Psychonauts 2, others. Plus a few tiny indie games.
Accidentally founded Molyjam.
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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
Creative Director on BGE2 @Ubisoft Award winning game designer, author, public speaker, serial expat, 1 of @thehabibis.show opinions are my own. he/him. ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK๐โโ๏ธ
1/3 dog, 1/3 arts+tech, 1/3 something something. Recently: Digital Foundry, NYT, Polygon, The Stranger, Game Developer, Games Radar. Currently: for hire. Previously: Ars, American Airlines, The Atlantic. He/him, from Seattle.
โ๐ป Polygon, New York Times, CNN, Complex, The Verge, NPR, Kotaku, Business Insider, Washington Post, Variety, LA Times, Rolling Stone, Inverse, Digital Trends, USA Today, Wired, and more.
Portfolio: https://www.georgeyyang.com
Developer Evangelist @ Xsolla | Game programmer, designer, and consultant | Helping folks build games, studios, and other things with intention
Senior principal games analyst at Omdia. Usual terms & conditions.
Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
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
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
marketing @ alienware | ever-recovering game journalist fmrly gamasutra & game developer dot com | video games | motorcycles | smoked meat ๐ต๐ญ / ๐บ๐ธ
The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. I helped get one of your favorite games greenlit.
Freelance writer, producer, and consultant -- as seen on IGN, Game Developer, Kotaku, CNET, Engadget, GameSpot, Ars Technica, ScreenHub, PCGamesN, and MMORPG.com. He/Him. Bay Area Millennial. Go read my words.
EIC of IndieGamesPlus.Writer for Game Developer and Siliconera. Formerly...a lot of places. Day job in assistive tech. I heart indie games! He/him.
Joel.indiegames at gmail
https://indiegamesplus.com/
https://joelcouture.itch.io/
Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
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Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
// Lead Character Artist @ AbsurdVentures - BAFTA Committee // Previously NaughtyDog / Respawn / Rocksteady / SEGA / PlayStation //
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โช PAST: Naughty Dog; co-writer/narrative designer Uncharted 4, Uncharted:The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Pt II
โถ๏ธ NOW: Cautionary Tales game narrative consulting
๐ฃ๏ธ video games, baking, bad puns, shitposting
๐๐ณ linktr.ee/joshscherr
โค๏ธ fix your hearts or die
One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com
Creative Content Manager at Larian Studios. BAFTA Member, also secretly 2 kids in a really big coat. Was: NoE, REWIND, Rebellion. He/him.
gay artist, game dev in nz // my website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about rugby https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Unionizing the games industry one person at a time. Cofounder of @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com.
Game worker, rock climber, cat hugger based in Glasgow, Scotland.
https://www.austinkelmore.com
Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Rรถki) โข BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 โข BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee โข 2 x BAFTA Juror โข Industry speaker & mentor โข He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Co-founder of @inkle.co, narrative game studio.
โฐ๏ธ A Highland Song
๐ค TR-49
๐ข Overboard! & Expelled!
๐ Heavenโs Vault
๐ 80 Days
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โจ Comms Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us
โจ Wholesome Games organizer
โจ Forbes 30u30, Adweek's Creative 100
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Director of video games. Most recently TRON: Catalyst, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
Writer. Rogue One, The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rebels, Batman, The Walking Dead, Gundog etc #COYS
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.
Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners.
I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA.
I tweet insights about gaming + more.
Seรฑor principal analyst covering games, AR & VR at Omdia. Chief sourdough whisperer at @fermentikitchen.bsky.social.
GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 9-13, 2026, in San Francisco!
Editor-in-Chief at GameDeveloper.com, Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, BJJ Purple Belt ๐คผโโ๏ธ, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork, volunteer EMT. She/her.
Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
girl who makes levels
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Celebrating independent games & helping you self-publish games to Xbox & Win 10 ๐ YouTube ๐บ http://youtube.com/idxbox Contact us ๐ id@xbox.com
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.
Writer and editor. bylines at New York Times, Vulture, IGN, Esquire, Scientific American and more. ex-WaPo and CNN
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I made GameHistory.org and you can too
Award-winning reporter. Senior news editor at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
Tips: chris.kerr@gamedeveloper.com / chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open
A guy who writes for a few places, currently writing at io9, formerly at SyFy Wire, IGN, Polygon, and Game Developer. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/gigawattconduit
Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum).
Snacks, sneakers, Seattle, sideo games.
Lawful Average, speaks at 1.5x speed. Publisher/Editorial Director at @GameDeveloper. Ace, Bi, She/Her.
Expect sandbox game, TTRPG, media preservation, midwest game dev advocacy, and weird movie tangents.
Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com)
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