Gaming Follow Friday - Indie Videogame Superstars

Gaming Follow Friday. Wait, you don't know what it is? Well, have you heard of this thing called Twitter? Yes? Well Gaming Follow Fridays are a little post that we make every week in which we point out a number of Twitter accounts, always related to a specific topic, that you should be following . So in the past we've looked at 2012's biggest games, Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and even Minecraft. 

It's 2012! Did you make the transit through the New Year Wormhole alright? You did? How wonderful! Well then, time for some new years resolutions. Not got any? Well here's one for you – play more Indie games!

And how best to find out about Indie games? Why, Twitter of course. Independent designers can't afford huge billboards or full site takeovers so they naturally gravitate towards social networks in order to peddle their wares.

Below are a handful of accounts relating to some of independent gaming's best developers, both individuals and groups. And because we're extra nice we've also reminded you about their best projects, which are well worth investigating if you don't recognise them.

Edmund McMillien - @Edmund Mcmillen
Locaion: Santa Cruz
Bio: “Im the guy that made that one game, said those things and drew those creatures.”
Responsible for: Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, Gish, Aether and many more.

Tom Fulp - @TomFulp
Location: N/A
Bio: N/A
Responsible for: Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers. Currently working on Battle Block Theatre.

Notch - @notch
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Bio: “I work at Mojang. Working on a game called Minecraft. I love indie games!”
Responsible for: Minecraft

Derek Yu - @mossmouth
Location: San Francisco, CA
Bio: “Just a humble guy with a big dick
Responsible for: Spelunky, Aquaria, Diabolika and a few more.

Mark Essen - @messhof
Location: LA
Bio: N/A
Responsible for: Flywrench, Cowboymana, The Thrill of Combat and more.

Jonathan Blow - @Jonathan_Blow
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Bio: “Game designer, previously of Braid, now of The Witness. Partner in IndieFund.”
Responsible for: Braid. Working on The Wirness

Tyler Glaiel - @tylerglaiel
Location: USA
Bio: “Programmer / Game Designer. Current project is Closure (closuregame.com)”
Responsible For: Aether and Tetraform. Working on Closure.

Anna Anthropy - @auntiepixelante
Location: chokeland, california
Bio: “dot matrix dominatrix”
Responsible For: Mighty Jill Off, When Pigs Fly, REDDER and more.

Yahtzee Croshaw - @YahtzeeCroshaw
Location: Brisbane
Bio: “the real one”
Responsible for: 5 Days a Stranger, Trilby: The Art of Theft and more. Oh, and he does that little known review show Zero Punctuation.

Nathan Fouts - @MommysBestGames
Location: Indiana, USA
Bio: “We are an award-winning game developer devoted to 2D games with great art, amazing music, and smokin' gameplay.”
Responsible for: Shoot1Up and Weapon of Choice. Working on Grapple Buggy.

Ska Studios - @skastudios
Location: Ska-nectady, NY
Bio: “Dishwasheriffic Zombiemania!”
Responsible for: I made a game with zombies in it, Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.

Michael O'Reilly - @kayinNasaki
Location: Long Island, New York
Bio: “The indie game creator of I Wanna Be the Guy, also who decides to write too much about game design.”
Responsible for: I Wanna be the Guy.

Jonathan Mak - @queasy00
Location: Toronro, ontario, canada
Bio: N/A
Responsible for: Gate 88 and Everyday Shooter. Working on Sound Shapes for Vita.

PetriPurho - @PetriPurho
Location: Helsinki
Bio: I'm an independent game developers
Responsible for: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Planet of the Jellies, Jimmy's Lost his Toilet Paper and a mountain of others.

Amanita Design - @Amanita_Design
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Bio: “AMANITA DESIGN is an independent video game developing studio based in Czech Republic.”
Responsible for: Samorost and Machinarium.

Eddy Boxerman - @HemisphereGames
Location: Nelson, BC, Canada
Bio: “Games for both sides of your brain. (Makers of Osmos.)”
Responsible for: Osmos.

Brendon Chung - @BlendoGames
Location: N/A
Bio: “Delicious video games.”
Responsible for: Atom Zombie Smasher and Flotilla amongst others.

Terry Cavanagh - @terrycavanagh
Location: Cambridge, England
Bio: “makes games”
Responsible for: VVVVVV, Don't Look Back and more.

Polytron - @Polytron
Location: Montréal
Bio: “Worldwide leader in the field of polytronics, The Polytron Corporation is a name you can trust for all your electronic computer entertainment needs.”
Responsible for: Super Hypercube. Working on Fez.

IntroversionSoftware - @IVSoftware
Location: London, United Kingdom
Bio: “The Independent Games Developers behind cult hits Uplink, DEFCON, Darwinia, Multiwinia and Prison Architect.”
Responsible for: Uplink, Darwinia and Defcon. Working on Prison Architect.

Gaijin Games - @GaijinGames
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Bio: "Superstar indie developers of the BIT.TRIP games (so far!)"
Responsible for: The spectacular Bit.Trip series. 

Don't Forget your local friendly Independant Games Site -

Made2Game - @Made_2_Game
Location: England, various.
Bio: "The home of videogames opinion"
Responsible for: Awesome Video Game commentary.

Words by James Bowden (Twitter: @Dalagonash) 

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