#FF

tha_rami

6 Jul 2013 — 3 min read

One of the nicer traditions of Twitter is #FF, or Follow Friday. I’m terrible at slimming lists down to a 140 characters, so instead I made a list of all my favorite sources for the different aspects of videogames. The rules were simple – people only (so no Vlambeer), people that retweet and aggregate news preferred, people that spam a lot excluded.

Obviously, this list is not final – it’ll evolve and change over time. It’s also most likely not a complete list. I did compile the whole thing into an actual Twitter list that you can follow, just for convenience.

Games:

@jwaaaap – Jan Willem Nijman is my fellow Vlambeer. Good music, too.
@PTibz – Phil Tibitoski is one of the minds behind Octodad & great insight / perspectives on modern indie development.
@ADAMATOMIC – Adam Saltsman, Canabalt, Hundreds, news, industry insights and musings on the state of the medium.
@KellyWallick – Kelly Wallick is the Indie MEGABOOTH Overlord.
@ZoeQuinnzel – Zoë Quinn of Depression Quest has great insights into the gaming scene, also pyrotechnic.
@zoewi – Zuraida Buter, organizer of many events and initiatives. Also Global Game Jam.
@brandonnn – Brandon Boyer, creator of Venus Patrol, IGF chairman and Fantastic Arcade organizer. Wonderful curated culture in all sorts, often related to games.
@terrycavanagh – Terry Cavanagh of VVVVVV and Hexagon, creator of freeindiegam.es, interesting insights and developer perspectives.
@AdriaandeJongh – Adriaan de Jongh, creator of Fingle. Interesting perspectives on social interaction, good postmortem writer.
@VideoDreaming – Robin Arnott – creator of Deep Sea. Interesting ramblings about random things.
@HelloCakebread – Davey Wreden, The Stanley Parable. Toughts, ramblings, satire and game development.
@smestorp – Michael Brough, Corrypt, Zaga-33 & GlitchTank, one of the best game designers around.
@bfod – Bennet Foddy, QWOP, CLOP, Super Pole Riders, interesting academic perspective.
@doougle – Douglas Wilson, Johann Sebastion Joust, interesting perspective on games, academic, good taste of music.
@helvetica – Zach Gage, Spelltower, Ridiculous Fishing, news, smart insights and intersting conceptual questions and musings
@aeiowu – Greg Wohlwend, Hundreds, Ridiculous Fishing, smart analysis of many situations, great artist.
@notch – Markus Persson – Minecraft – Industry perspectives and development.
@MikeBithell – Mike Bithell, Thomas Was Alone, interesting opinions and insights.
@shahidkamal – Shahid Kamal Ahmed – SCEE, interesting perspectives and thoughts about indie game development.
@Jonathan_Blow – Jonathan Blow, Braid, The Witness – industry perspectives and development.
@PHIL_FISH – Phil Fish, Fez – Diplomatic tweeting, industry perspectives.
@TimOfLegend – Tim Schafer – Industry perspectives.
@infinite_ammo – Alec Holowka – industry perspectives, news.
@checker – Chris Hecker, Spy Party, industry perspectives and development.
@zimmermaneric – Eric Zimmerman – Game design.
@flantz – Frank Lantz – Game design.
@nealen – Andy Nealen – Graphics, industry perspectives.
@grapefrukt – Martin Jonasson – Game development.
@kylepulver – Kyle Pulver – Offspring Fling, Snapshot – Game design and development.
@MaxTemkin – Max Temkin, Cards Against Humanity –
@pietepiet – Paul Veer, pixel art and animation.
@ibogost – Ian Bogost – Academic perspectives, game design.
@ludist – Tommy Rousse – Academic perspectives.
@andreaszecher – Andreas Zecher – promoterapp, Spirits – industry perspectives, tools and opinion.
@avantgame – Jane McGonigal – industry perspectives, applied games.
@JoostDevBlog – Joost van Dongen, industry perspectives and development, great blog.
@Demruth – Alexander Bruce, Antichamber – industry perspectives.
@krispiotrowski – Kris Piotrowski, Below, Sword & Sworcery, industry perspectives, art.
@MsMinotaur – Adriel Wallick – Perspectives and satellites.
@Capy_Nathan – Nathan Vella, Sword & Sworcery, industry perspectives, business.
@c_hedborg – Christoffer Hedborg – industry perspectives, good music.
@auntiepixelante – Anna Anthropy – industry perspectives and game culture.
@S0phieH– Sophie Houlden – industry perspectives and jam culture.
@retroremakes – Rob Fearon – industry perspectives and jam culture.
@dom2d – Dominique Ferland – industry perspectives, art and interesting games.
@jukiokallio – Jukio Kallio, KOZILEK – Game music.
@C418 – Daniel Rosenfeld – Game music.
@awintory – Austin Wintory – Game music.
@sosowski – “Sos Sosowski” – Game jam culture.
@McFunkypants – Christer Kaitila – Game jam culture.
@kertgartner – Kert Gartner – Game trailers and beautiful visual stuff.

Design:

@Chrisoshea – Chris O’Shea, interaction designer, design thoughts and musings.
@coffee_nat – Natalie Hanke, designer of VOID and beautiful typography.
@mathewkumar – Mathew Kumar, often intriguing perspectives, games as counterculture.
@CorySchmitz – Cory Schmitz, design and art.
@ScottBeale – Scott Beale, design, weird things.

Press:

@TronKnotts – Jonathan Holmes – ‘Sup Holmes.
@BenKuchera – Ben Kuchera – Penny Arcade Report
@RussPitts – Russ Pitts – Polygon
@JohnPolson – John Polson – IndieGames.com
@RussFrushtick – Russ Frushtick – Polygon
@ctplante – Chris Plante – Polygon
@BRKeogh – Brendan Keogh – EDGE
@JessConditt – Jess Conditt – Joystiq
@CPriestman – Chris Priestman – Indiestatik
@casskhaw – Cassandra Khaw – US Gamer
@LeighAlexander – Leigh Alexander – various
@jasonkill – Jason Killingsworth – various
@kirkhamilton – Kirk Hamilton – Kotaku
@bonzrat – Alec Meer – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
@hodapp – Eli Hodapp – TouchArcade

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