[x3iv130f]

A company is only just a shell. It is the creative people that work for a company that make the actual products.

If you like a game, keep bookmarks on the people who made it and follow them around the industry.

[my_usernam3]

Dreamhaven & frostgiant are the ones I'm following (and super hyped for), is there anything else I should be aware of?

[bobiny]

Bonfire studios

[bitsoda]

Keep an eye on Ben Brode's scrappy new studio, Second Dinner.

[MikeTheGreat]

This is a really awesome point, and one that I hadn't considered before.

This is how I normally find new books to read (by following authors) for some reason it just hadn't occurred to me to follow individuals in the gaming space. (Except for the Mode 7 Games, which put out Frozen Synapse, the awesome turn-based RTS [0] )

I'm curious how you follow people when so many games are made by teams of people - how do you find them, how do you decide which ones to follow, etc. I'd love to hear more

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Synapse

[keerthiko]

Western gamedevs are almost universally on twitter. Pick the ones whose contributions to the games you enjoy you think mattered most (narrative designer of a story you liked, or combat designer of a gameplay loop you liked, or lead programmer of a technically robust complex game, 3D artist of a game with beautiful environments, etc). Follow them and their recommendations! Ditch them when they turn out to be predatory/abusive assholes.