Content writer-editor at Epic Games / Novelist / Freelance writer at GameSpot, IGN, PC Gamer, etc. / @MadCathedral on the other site / Proud dad and card-carrying Wife Guy
2D illustration, animation and design. In Bristol, UK
http://2dforever.com
Bikes, beer, piano, security, gaming.
The future of interactive entertainment
Principal Level Designer at Elsewhere Entertainment (Activision Blizzard).
Quake 1 Mapper.
Ex Level Designer at Treyarch, CDPR, Techland.
LEVEL-DESIGN.org guy.
Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Games, books, larp, films, rats, and shoggoths. Narrative Director @ The Chinese Room. Brit in Stockholm. He/him.
Narrative Tools and Articles: https://storytools.se
🕹️ Curator at National Science and Media Museum + Yorkshire Games Festival
🖼️ Former video games artist and lecturer
🎭 BAFTA Connect member
Lead Environment Artist at The Chinese Room. Previously in Ubisoft 🇵🇭 on multiple AC titles
www.artstation.com/genesisasis
Current season: sculpting/photography/painting
A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. 🏆Deloitte Fast 500 🏆Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
Game/Narrative designer (Northgard, Wartales, Dune, etc) 🦆
Niche videomaker @origami.ng 🦆
Brazilian French trained in pottery 🦆
🌌 https://antoine-ramo.com
🌌 youtube.com/@ZephRamo
Senior Game Designer @ Raw Power Games // Prev: CDPR, IO Interactive // Board Game Enthusiast
🇩🇪 Game Programmer & Level Designer | Loves Platypuses and Video Games | UI/UX Platypus | https://maxstuerzl.com
“Developer, lecturer, and potential entry-level sociopath.” - Forbes
18+ years Indie Dev. He/Him. 🇬🇧
Writing Horror and making Party Games.
Task Time | Trolley Problem, Inc | Gang Beasts | Mainlining | Dream
ReadGraves.com
Game dev, writer, game jam junkie.
I worked on Super Nanny Sleepytime, Dakar18 and other stuff!
I also teach game programming and design at the Lusófona University of Porto 😁
Brooklyn
associate writer / producer / other things @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social
freelance sound designer/audio engineer for off-broadway
proud owner of one dimple
/ˈkɛːˌteɪkə/ — 🫀✏️📦🎛️🔧
https://bad-cable.management
Actor | VO | Director
I do games, audio dramas, theatre, TTRPGs, nerdy stuff and swing swords! Recently: #BaldursGate3, #SpaceMarine2, #LocoMotive #MarvelMove she/her
nataliewinter.co.uk/linktree
Song Behemoth.
https://linktr.ee/bccamplightgigs
Dad
Data Designer
Some games I’ve made:
https://jamieogle.itch.io/
Level Designer at Sumo Digital
| Currently:
| Senior Lighting Artist @ #TurtleRockStudios |
| www.tylerklimek.net |
| Previously:
| Lighting Artist II @ #EA #skate |
| Senior Lighting Artist @ #DeviationGames |
| Lighting Artist at #343Industries #Halo |
| Twitch.tv/tolerlive |
Level Design Director @ Chokepoint Creative 🎮 Former Ubi & Lionhead. He/They
Software Dev, Creative Tech. Making open source tools for artists, designers and educators. Mainly Open Brush/Blocks and Icosa Gallery https://linktr.ee/andybak
Unemployed professional gamedev, dad of two. Vegetarian, jazz fan, MTG player. I like thinking about a positive eco friendly future, and learning about technology of the past
✍️ Illustration · graphic design · art direction
🇵🇱 Based in Warsaw, Poland
linktr.ee/marcin.szambelan
👾 Producer at @radicalforge.bsky.social
✨ BAFTA Member
🎤 Host of Yorkshire Games Festival
🧄 Producer on Vampire Survivors VR
🎮 Prev: Gun Jam VR, Zombie Army 4, Minecraft Dungeons, Rust CE
Views Are My Own
#BlackLivesMatter
#FreePalestine
He/Him
Level Designer at GRIP Studios • Occasionally Speaker & Workshop Host • Cologne Game Lab Alumni • He/him
https://tristanhantschel.de/
PhD candidate in the Glick Lab at UChicago
| he/him | Hobbies include watching grass grow, paint dry, and the Golgi mature.
They/Them | 28 | Game Dev | Anti-grammar Programmer
Working on The Grey Road:
store.steampowered.com/app/3375700/The_Grey_Road
#TheGreyRoad
#ThoseWhoCrawl
I run Hush Fin Games @hushfingames.bsky.social
with my wife @viviannebarburne.bsky.social
Principal World Builder at CDPR, previously Arkane Studios, technically an artist at http://www.artstation.com/fredricknolting, personal account
Senior technical designer @ nDreams Elevation, dark mode evangelist, thall enthusiast, computer graphics gawker, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect and Xenoblade enjoyer.
Freelance QA for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Chaos Cookie, or anyone else!
Former Highways Clerk, Highway Inspector & Streetworks Supervisor.
Accessibility ally.
DMs not working for me!
CIS he/him.
❤️ Archaeology & Greenock Morton FC.
BLM 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Award winning Game Design Lead (Tempest Rising). Commentator. Bearded. Lover of horror fiction. https://waywardstrategy.com
I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
https://joexyoung.com/welcome-home/
Miniature painter, working in video games. Expect posts about heavy metal, pro wrestling & Magic The Gathering. Quite annoying. Views are my own.
Game Programmer at Climax Studios
www.artofcode.nl
Writer/Director/the uncanny and psychological horror. Also workshops on directing. https://cinevisionary.com
Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Mark Angus
Award-winning Sound Designer and Audio Director
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Alien:Isolation
- Telling Lies
- Harry Potter
- Project D
...and many more.
www.gladestock.co.uk
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/
She/Her🌻Communications Manager @icopartners.com🌻
@specialeffect.bsky.social Ambassador🌻
Swede living in the UK but happiest in the mountains <3
VP of PR at UberStrategist. Formerly RelyOnHorror. Dog dad 🌈🎃🍪 Opinions my own.
Games industry programmer
Engineer · Game dev · Musician · Writer · Wiseass
Formerly at Red 5 Studios and Disruptor Beam
Creator of Urban Flight, a custom campaign for L4D2 that's so old that it's actually embarrassing that I put it in my bio.
Currently locked behind an NDA.
Level Designer @ Studio Gobo. Previously @ CA & SMG. RPG Lover. Disney Parks Nut. Bethesda Modding Enthusiast. All Views Are My Own.
Portfolio: https://www.miketorious.com/
Level Designer @ Arkane Lyon | Previously 3D Realms, Streumon Studio | Project Director on The Black Parade for Thief | Opinions are my own | Immersive Sims forever!
Video games and TTRPG writer/narrative designer. BAFTA member. Improviser. Forever GM. UX writer. Immersive narratives. Neurospicy. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Currently working with Mojang and Sketchbook Games.
Portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/jemalexander
#GameDev with @greyalien.bsky.social at Grey Alien Games. Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. Writer: Going Medieval & more…https://greyaliengames.com/blog/writing-editing/
Developer of next-generation interactive entertainment experiences.
Currently working on Kowloon's Curse.
Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of @secondwindgroup.com Creating the video series Unpacked, and working on secret projects. Former Editor in Chief of The Escapist.
Email: nick.calandra@secondwindgroup.com
Co-Creator: @horrorgameaward |
Email: recentraltwitter@gmail.com |
Director of Games @meta. Thirty years of game dev, incl. Dead Secret, Wind-up Knight, and sick Hypercard stacks. I am a walking encyclopedia of horror games.
Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
:: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
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
Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
rabid reporter, reluctant gamer, reclaimed italian
diehard hockey fan, cat mom, footy freak
views expressed are mine alone
I’m from Scotland, live in Scotland, and write and design the stories for videogames. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Lead Game Designer at Radical Forge // Views my own
Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
Technical Art Director -> Solo Indie Game Developer @ Teazelcat Games making a wholesome, magical, narrative game
GameDev; Freelance Technical Artist; ex-AAA
BAFTA Breakthrough
Gardener; bibliophile; flautist
🏳️🌈🇬🇧
🎮 Your friendly neighborhood Principal/Lead Game Designer
🕹 Making AAA & Indie games for 13 years (Rockstar Games, Microsoft, Sony)
🎙️ Co-host @ Level Design FM
💛 Mentor @ Limit Break Mentorship
🔗 Links https://linktr.ee/valentinaChrys
🏳️🌈🇨🇾🏴
narrative designer @ The Coalition
makes games for #VR and other stuff. prev: pistol whip, aperture hand lab, journey to foundation, and chronostrike.
currently making ODYSSEY: Starship Pinball @ clipthru.gg
Writer & BAFTA Member 🎭 Games industry MarComms specialist 🎮 CM at @cortopia.com. Yorkshire boy. Console kid.
Prev. Rebellion, Tencent, and nDreams.
🔗 | jimmybowers.com
Currently…
📖 | ???
🎮 | Marathon
Currently: CCO Yellow Brick Games, working on Eternal Strands (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/Eternal_Strands/ ). Formerly: Lead Writer for Jade Empire; Creative Director for Dragon Age. Always: dog lover.
Gamedev | Art Director @ Critical Reflex
(0°N 0°W, Becalm, Ode to a Moon, HPS1, Dread X 5, +)
🏠 www.colorfiction.co
🎮 colorfiction.itch.io
audhd queer disabled baddie
game dev, video essays, art & streams
they/them · horror · accessibility
prod team & jury @horrorgameawards.bsky.social
✉️ li@spoonienet.com
🔗 linky.spoonienet.com
📺 youtube.com/@spoonienet
📽️ twitch.tv/spoonienet
Principal Level Designer @4AGames
Personal account!
#leveldesign
Doctor of the Things of Nature
Learning Technology Officer
at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Makes YouTube videos:
youtube.com/@sumandproduct
youtube.com/@untitleddevlog
He/him. #IchBinHanna
https://www.bernhard-werner.de
🇳🇱 Sr. Level Designer @ Electric Square, former Hangar 13 / Ubisoft
Gamedev and 1-person studio @ThunkdGames Past credits: The Magnificent Trufflepigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Amnesia: AMfP. Also run gamedev networking events.
https://linktr.ee/andrewcrawshaw
Turning caffeine into code, via questionable osmosis.
Freelance Programmer (Gameplay, Tools, Optimisation &c.)▫️Let's chat!
www.andrewroper.co.uk ▫️Formerly at Payload Studios, Spilt Milk Studios, Bithell Games, Sigtrap
GamesAid & SpecialEffect Ambassador
Check out London Unreal Engine Meetup on Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-unreal-engine-meetup
LEVEL DESIGNER @ Flyingwildhog
Voice actor, director & performance consultant
Narrator of The Paleblood Hunt
Can I be friends with your dog?
Rep'd by CESD (US) & Nordlings (UK)
BAFTA Member & Judge
📧 jay@jaybritton.com
https://jaybritton.carrd.co
www.gameperformances.com
Senior level designer at Splash Damage
Sphinx, Gears Tactics, Star Wars Hunters, Project Astrid
When I'm not gamedeving, I'm riding my bikes!
https://tddaz.artstation.com/
https://youtube.com/@darrenonabike
I know what I-and-I means. I am a rude boy.
lead mission design on STAR WARS: Zero Company.
ttrpgs: sulcata.itch.io
blog: brendanmcleod.dev
game design pod: http://paperlabyrinths.com
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game developer 🎮 • d&d 🎲 • queer idiot 🏳️🌈 • (he/him)
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Gamedev, writer, lush, chopped unc. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Game designer on UFO 50, Air Land & Sea, Hot Streak, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Los Angeles native living in Philly. Website at jonperry.com
Passionate about volcanoes, extreme weather & wildfires. If it's exciting, informative, or unique, I'll share it. © to owners! DM for credit/removal/submission.
Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | jschreier@gmail.com
Senior UI/UX Designer at Respawn - Star Wars Jedi Team • Accessibility Advocate • Co-Founder @wecanfixitinui.com • Scottish • My Opinions • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/nerdy4tw
Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Creator of Hollowbody, Chasing Static & Guard Duty.
www.headwaregames.com
