Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Writer. Rogue One, The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rebels, Batman, The Walking Dead, Gundog etc #COYS
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.
I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
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Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
I made GameHistory.org and you can too
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
Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.social . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
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COO Midwest Games. Host AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast. xSony Music xMicrosoft xLucasfilm xSony Santa Monica xElectronic Arts xInterscope etc. Created ADR1FT. Musician. Guitar is life.
www.adamorth.com
immersive design + travel illustration + curiosity + books + paint + ink&pencil + listening more than speaking
Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
President, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS/DICE Summit, etc). Hates coconut. Likes robots. Needs coffee.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/Dosa_Divas/
Director on Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, narrative, art, biz, UI/UX, production. Supporting and uplifting marginalized devs.
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cofounder of aftermath.site
gita@aftermath.site
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
Game, TV & Film dev. Studio Head (Digital Eclipse/Atari), Ex-Journalist(NextGen), Hacker(DK Pauline), Atari:GameOver, Creator(#IDARB): Man(child)-of-Action.
Co-founder at 2weeks! Previously Possibility Space, Oculus, Double Fine, and ArenaNet. He/him.
Game director, designer, writer.
Deus Ex, Dishonored, others.
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crows crows crows, the stanley parable, dr langeskov, EAT, the club, accounting+, temple of no and MORE! (he/they)
Director of video games. Most recently TRON: Catalyst, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PROJECT C (@blumhouse.com) and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
I have friends everywhere 🍁 Probably playing JRPGs or painting Space Marines. Writer on [TBA Game], Gotham Knights, Star Wars: Squadrons + Battlefront II 📸 by Luke Fontana
Director of Operations @ Gardens 🌳. Used to build game worlds and now building a game studio. Prev on Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
🎮33+ year Award-Winning Game Industry Veteran
🌍Geographer & Culturalization Innovator at Geogrify
🎬CXO & CoFounder at SetJetters
🌎Former Executive Director of the IGDA & the Global Game Jam
✈️Event/Keynote Speaker, Traveler, Cosplayer, Geek
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
Co-President, New Media, Skydance Media – MARVEL 1943: RISE OF HYDRA and STAR WARS. Formerly Director / Writer, UNCHARTED franchise, and LEGACY OF KAIN / SOUL REAVER series.
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.
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.
🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
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Co-Creator of Mortal Kombat & Injustice..... Chief Creative Officer Mortal Kombat & NetherRealm Studios. We make games with Ninjas and Super-Heroes.
He/Him Game developer 😁 #GameDev
Solo Dev working on Oh!Ware
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Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Video games journo @Eurogamer. Baby-faced old soul with a penchant for Pimm's, pancakes and pirates, but not all at the same time 🥞 actually, maybe all at the same time...
It's @breath0air.bsky.social and @kitellis.bsky.social | Previously at Nintendo of America | Sharing insider stories/analysis & our love of games through podcasts & videos | hello@neveraminute.com
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
Artist, Art Director, and Project Lead working in video games. At Double Fine Productions, leading Keeper! Past: Art Director of Brütal Legend & Broken Age, Project Lead of Stacking, Headlander, and RAD. Worked on Psychonauts 2!
https://leepetty.com/
Award winning Senior Gameplay Programmer at Double Fine. Formerly PlayFirst/Glu, GREE, and Apple. My opinions are my own.
Director of Development at Double Fine. Previously Telltale, EA, Realtime Worlds and others. Just being a big 'ol nerd over here.
Senior Level Designer @ Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts 2 & Keeper) • Co-Founder @ 2 Player Productions
Audio Director at Double Fine Productions.
Running @StrangeScaffold. Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
maker of video game documentaries @noclip, alternative game coverage @noclip_2 and selling out with style @SecretTape. Irishman inside an American.
Official source of Action Posts from Double Fine Productions, creators of Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Broken Age, RAD, and Keeper
https://www.doublefine.com
https://doublefine.start.page
Founder of The Bureau escape rooms and The Underground Game Show. Building immersive and interactive experiences in Orlando, FL.
🌐 http://makereal.co
Tech Director at Assemble Tech Ltd. with a fondness for shiny graphics and good engineering.
Formerly Activision Central Tech & Bizarre Creations.
he/him
shadertoy.com/user/P_Malin
https://blog.mousefingers.com/
https://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=105060
Composer/Sound Designer/VA
My Music:
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Obsessing on PC gaming/tech news and fighting enshittification since before you could find Google on Yahoo!
No AI slop, no sponsored posts. Sorry, not sorry.
Game developer/Team leader
He/him. #gamedev art management, external production, and pipeline excellence in Seattle. Author (How I Escaped Evangelical Hell), ramen enjoyer, cat hugger, name haver.
• UK freelance composer, producer, sound design
• industrial synth & ambient horror
• commissions, work and links - https://doomdood.uk
• album art (V&D,DA) - @vekktor.bsky.social
Operations and Finance in games. Doing everything you don't want to do.
Director: Siegecaster 🏰☄️ Executive Producer: TRON: Catalyst /Identity, Amberspire, The Banished Vault, Fights in Tight Spaces, Solitaire Conspiracy, John Wick Hex, Subsurface Circular
software engineer + game dev enthusiast // lowercase g gamer // write code, drink coffee, love dogs
Writer. Former Features Editor at Polygon/Vox Media. Former EiC at The Escapist. Former Producer of The Screen Savers on TechTV.
Cool dad. Game director and designer. Classic Thief series, indie studio Tiger Style (Waking Mars, Spider: Bryce Manor, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon), freelance game developer. Multiple GotY award winner. Austin and Vermont.
Producer | Advisor | Storyteller | EA, Square Enix, Nexon, Sony🎙️🎬🕹️ Making games since 1993. Contributing to iconic franchises such as Wing Commander, Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy, and MapleStory. Currently advising AKA Virtual, Windup Minds, Zebra AI.
Design Fellow at Epic games (UT2k3/4, Gears 1-3, Fortnite, & more), long time indie and VR game dev, board game nut, mini modder and painter, huge fan of casual multiplayer games (the dumber the better!)
Oh, and huge fan of a good Pina Colada, obviously!
I’ve been making games for over 25 years. Design Director @ Epic. (LEGO Fortnite, Matrix Awakens, Lumen In The Land Of Nanite, Mandalorian.) Opinions are my own.
You can find my GDC talks at http://www.worch.com.
Principal Level Designer @Respawn
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🎮 #IronMan #StarWarsHunters, #BioshockInfinite, #DOOM, #Mafia3, #PerfectDark🎮
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👩💼 A Woman's Place is in the Resistance
Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
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(Former) Double Fine Engineer. Worked on: Psychonauts, Brütal 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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The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
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Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
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A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Senior editor, The Atlantic. Used to be on Friendster. Maybe Orkut, too. Google+ skeptic.
Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
A CTO in Seattle | Former Obama WH | Gamedev | EdTech | Frenchies
Professional good thing liker.
http://brandonnn.com
Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Worked on games like The Suffering, The Church in the Darkness, and Homeworld: Vast Reaches. Wrote Game Design: Theory & Practice. Now Studio Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new things.
Game designer that probably made some games you played as a kid, dog lover and a dad. Views expressed here are my own.
Previously at Unity, Roblox, Briganti.
Level design tools Realtime-CSG https://bit.ly/4ngBclb & Chisel: http://bit.ly/3Z1mohh
Creator of Zombie Gunship and Gunship X
GDC speaker: http://bitly.ws/au5r
Portfolio: http://bit.ly/3KFdRfb
Senior writer at Larian Studios. I talk about beans too much.
Mistress of pixels 👾
Producer @ No Brakes Games • game designer • narrative aficionado • cat lady • n00bie mixologist • explorer of many worlds
🍸 https://pikubytes.com
Indie Game developer ゲーム開発者 & Dr pepper addict
https://linktr.ee/aerial_knight
Maker of games, taker of naps
Senior Environment Artist at Bethesda Game Studios.
Opinions (and art) are my own.
Ex-Arkane/PlayStation/Activision
brettmarshalltucker.com
Lead Concept Artist and Art Director Assistant at Arkane Studios and breaking balls here since 2006. And stuffs on the side.
En panne en ce moment. Mais ça va revenir.
Game Designer, Level Designer, and Artist | LFW | Designer/artist @ Valve | Lead Designer @ Double Fine | Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Portal2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact
25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
CTO & Technical Director at Romero Games
Previously 3D Tech Lead at Ubisoft MTL (Far Cry, Watch_Dogs) & graphics coder at Radical (Prototype)
#irishgamedev
He/him
🛡️ Romero Games Ltd. - Administrator at http://Discord.gg/ROMERO
🛡️ Official DOOM Discord - Moderator at http://Discord.gg/DOOM
❤️ Building Communities since ~2004
Exploring the weird, wonderful world of video games.
Email: idtechpics@outlook.com
www.youtube.com/@AgentStrangeTV
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
Game designer and leader since 1994: Free Realms, Full Spectrum Warrior. Many awards including Lifetime Achievement. Also speaks about game dev wellness.
He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others.
MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games.
Next project: TBD!
Spent 20yrs with Apogee / 3D Realms. Now with a UK social media company. I post about all kinds of stuff, but mostly music, TV, & games. #GallifreyStands
Twitter: @sabbathfans & @joesiegler
Sites: https://joesiegler.blog & https://www.black-sabbath.com
President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
https://linktr.ee/crecente
BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
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Pro Game Designer for 37 Yrs! Co-founded id, ION Storm. Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Anachronox, DASH, VR. Current:-REDACTED-. Photography/Pico-8/Meditation/Movies/Hifi.
Game Director
https://www.mobygames.com/person/104354/will-kerslake/
Periodic Photographer
https://about.me/willkerslake
Tech reporter, tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Made Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Co-created TY the Tasmanian Tiger. I’m making Super Robot Survivors and Halloween Harry.
https://linktr.ee/retrojohnno
Author of queer science fiction & director of level design at Arkane Lyon.
Former conference lecturer / panelist.
Transfemme neurodivergent immigrant.
Gay as hell.
she/her 🏳️⚧️
Unionized anti-authoritarian leftist 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 BLM
Co-founded the original 3D Realms/Apogee. Published, funded, produced & created many games. Known for Duke Nukem 3D.
Game designer, artist, programmer.
linktr.ee/georgebsocial
