The Interactive Fiction Competition @ifcomp.org Since 1995, the IFComp is an annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
Part of the IF Tech Foundation.
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator @ University of San Francisco.
Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD, Computational Media).
UX: jazztap.github.io | Games: jatazak.itch.io
Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk Glasgow based writer with credits across film, TV, audio drama, and theatre. www.grace-knight.co.uk. Current project for Choice of Games:https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/magic-at-the-masthead-by-grace-knight-wip-thread-60k-word-demo/178096
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NarraScope @narrascope.org NarraScope is a hybrid conference on interactive narrative by @iftechfoundation.org. Join us in 2026 at the University at Albany, June 12-14. https://narrascope.org/
Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social Art director and concept artist, currently designing vampires at Netflix. Previously at Cyan, Valve, Campo Santo, HBO. Draws a lot of rocks and historical fashion. | ClaireHummel.com | linktr.ee/shoomlah
Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social Top (& only) Guy at Indiepocalypse | Home for the Unmarketable | indie games' most widely known person of zero importance
http://indiepocalypse.com
Starter Guide http://indiepocalypse.com/starter
http://indiepocalypse.com/patreon
indiepocalypse@gmail.com
Shan Bennion @anonbeadraws.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 illustrator/comic artist/colourist | Art lead for Confluence TTRPG (they/them)
open for work!
for info about hiring/commissions, Email me @ anonbeadrawss@gmail.com ✨
Hannah Lock @hannahlock.bsky.social Illustrator. Chaotic Egg. Clients include NYT, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Mother Jones and Politico. 
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
Phil Riley @rileypb.com Computer Science guy. I like coding, text adventures, cats, and coding.
I wrote Galaxy Jones and Bureau of Strange Happenings.
Shelumei, Veils Dancer @shelumei.bsky.social kaemi.itch.io- R @russo2116.bsky.social @russo2116.bsky.social
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
amanda @amandaherzman.bsky.social plant enthusiast and illustrator from aus
⭐shop open⭐
mush.house/amandaherzman
amandaherzman.carrd.co/
becky 🏎️ @losergames.bsky.social writing, drawing, making games!
https://losingface.itch.io/ 🎮
https://losergames.tumblr.com/ 📝
https://ko-fi.com/losingface ☕
Olivia When @oliviawhen.com Children's book illustrator, 2D animator, dog observer ✏️🐕
she/her
✧ Read The Day Leap Soared!
→ oliviawhen.carrd.co
Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social Addicted to words. Used to be paid by the column-inch. (You can probably still tell.) Gleeful flipper of all the tropes. Queer, disabled, neurospicy thespian. Indie author of Chai and Cat-tales. (About to commit a trilogy.) https://lynnstrong.com
Svetlana K (smitchellmaps) @smitchellarts.bsky.social Painting fantasy environments and maps.
Commissions are open!
smitchellarts@gmail.com
Full paintings and insights are on my Patreon.
Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social I write about werewolves, spaceships, and sometimes other things.
@mjwrites-if.bsky.social @mjwrites-if.bsky.social 
Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com Independent publisher of adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
www.shirakipress.com
ines 💥 semi-wristed @inesvisual.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Visual Artist with a knack for a good story 🧇 graphic design • illustration • sequential art 🧇 at Matt Paquette & Co.
🧇 inesvisual.com
🧇 patreon.com/inesvisual
🧇 29 • ENG/PL • sapphic • no pronouns
#art 🧇 #ATPTcomic 🧇 #TheCuriosities
amy @amyinfamous.bsky.social if writer, reality tv show watcher, music enthusiast, constantly haunted by WIP ideas
blog: tumblr.com/infamous-if
she/her
veswrites @veswrites.itch.io they/them | demirom & ace
I grasp onto art to keep myself sane. Sometimes writing interactive fiction does the trick.
🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩
Albie @gamesbyalbie.bsky.social Interactive fiction writer currently working on Zorlok :)
Profile pic by @doubledeadstudio
Jasper Stuart @jasperstuart.bsky.social 3D artist, writer, fashion guy, game dev, and dabbler in every textile art you can fathom. he/they
Anna Megill @annamegill.com Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
Lionstooth (posting disliker) @lionstooth.bsky.social words, music, spinning in circles on the threshold (they/she)
https://lionstooth.space
linktr.ee/itslionstooth
latest: https://lionstooth.itch.io/hideous-fabulous
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安 @kwananntan.bsky.social 🇲🇾 in London | she/her
kastelpls (かすっち) @highimpactsex.bsky.social high impact they/them subculture media blogger and yuri vn writer (@proflilyvn.bsky.social) behind Spring Gothic and 31st March, Midnight.
blogs: mimidoshima.neocities.org
itch: kastelpls.itch.io
bylines: Germinate, Mothership, TIER Review
Joy Demorra @joydemorra.bsky.social Scottish international bestselling author & disability advocate living in the Midwest. she/her neurodivergent hEDS/MCAS/POTS♿🏳️🌈
Jubilee ❣️ @16pxl.bsky.social freelance pixel artist; MtG, microsoft, etc✨
outdoor adventurer in the PNW 🏕️
my shop 🩷 http://8pxl.co
wallpapers 💜 http://ko-fi.com/8pxl
commissions 💙 by.jubilee@gmail.com
game jolt: https://gamejolt.com/@8pxl
@mathbrush.bsky.social @mathbrush.bsky.social 
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social sick/crip trans artist & writer in minneapolis ⟡ they/he ⟡ hanolliver.com
Kanderwund @kadw.bsky.social Art and stuff.
kanderwund.neocities.org
See also @rainworldhourly.bsky.social
Andrew @anandrewschultz.bsky.social Text adventure author. Purdue sports fan. Former GameFAQs guide writer. No crypto/MAGA/DMs from ppl I dunno outside here.
itch https://andrewschultz.itch.io/
Youtube retro playthrus https://www.youtube.com/@andrewschultz6608
Michael Luca Behringer @mikeybehr.bsky.social ‘00. Enthusiast of indie TTRPGs, the Gothic, portraiture, Sanrio, pink, and oodles of kittens. Mikey/Mikie, if we're close!
(They/Them)(💖💜💙 / 🏳️⚧️ / 🇻🇳 )
https://mikeybehr.neocities.org/about
Charm! @overthinkings.bsky.social IFDB Award-winning game dev, composer, writer, teacher. Horror, weird fiction, sci-fi.
📍Atlanta, GA
✏️ “Sundown” “Gestures Towards Divinity” The RGB Cycle, “Retool Looter” “1 4 the $”.
27, queer, auDHD, disabled they/he 🏳️🌈
Tabitha 🐀 @tabithawrites.itch.io Writer & editor, architectural historian, animal lover, queer fiction fan | Ace & agender | 🚫 genAI | ey/em or they/them
Books: tabithaoconnell.com
Interactive fiction: alyshkalia.itch.io
kitchen @alt.red insect who dreamt it was a girl
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
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Manon (manonamora) @manonamora.bsky.social IF experimenter
Games here: https://manonamora.itch.io/
THIS ACCOUNT IS STILL ALIVE I'm just restructuring stuff xD
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // Date Everything, King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/he // hpowellsmith.com
Autumn Chen @red-autumn.itch.io interactive fiction writer - https://red-autumn.itch.io/
she/her ↙↙↙
Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social Text games, cats. This they writes and writes about parser games.
Baton Rouge.
Naarel ("everything in their hands" OUT NOW) @ednaarel.itch.io (NAH-rel, /nɑː rel/)
He/they/it, 26 🏳️⚧️🇵🇱
The guy behind Passerine Hills, "i won't finish this game", Lights series, and Oneironverse
Discord - ednaarel
itch - https://ednaarel.itch.io
ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/ednaarel
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