javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
Camille Martel @cmartel.bsky.social Rendering programmer/pixel witch at Relic Entertainment. she/her
Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social Lead Narrative Designer @ Eidos-Montreal
Previously—Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Crusader Kings 3, Crush Crush, Club Penguin, and more.
www.alexnewcombe.com
Unsurprisingly a bisexual TTRPG nerd as well. Happy to talk shop! He/Him
The Nest @thenest.media The Nest is a worker-owned video game studio committed to crafting human-made experiences that are artistically and interactively innovative, as well as politically and socially conscious.
https://thenest.media/
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Tim Keenan @timkeenan.bsky.social Indie Dev, provider of Biscuits. Making games as Ginger Biscuit Games
Sally 🔜 AdventureX @sirin.bsky.social Co-founder @tarinoi.bsky.social - an upcoming narrative design platform for the full game lifecycle
software dev + ui/ux + game tools • lifts things • svenska med fel och allt
🔹prev: tools engineer @ za/um
🔸now: building cool things @ https://tarinoi.com
Katherine Derbyshire @kderbyshire.bsky.social Renewable energy. Climate science. Semiconductor manufacturing. Plus various randomness.
https://tocarbonzero.tumblr.com/
https://semiengineering.com/author/katherine/
https://beyondwave.tumblr.com
Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social Emerging TV writer, current story coordinator, recovering stage manager, occasional copy editor (she/her) #NorthOfNorth #LessThanKind #KITH
undercraftbook.bsky.social @undercraftbook.bsky.social Sean Hood is a screenwriter, artist, and professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is currently writing a book titled Undercraft: The Creative Practice of the Waking Dream.
Gabe Graziani @gabegraziani.bsky.social I'm Gabe Graziani, former community management manager guy at some videogame companies. Opinions = mine, he/him
Marissa Koors @criticalkitten.bsky.social Literary Agent at Curious Minds Agency. Editor of books, video games, and TTRPGs. Cast Member at Manapot Studios. Formerly at Basic Books and Wiley-Blackwell. She/her.
https://marissakoors.com
https://curiousmindsagency.com/ 
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social narrative designer, writer, aspiring lich
Committee member/tyrannical social media overlord of the IGDA game writing special interest group (SIG)
All opinions are the result of consensus reached by the spiders psionically controlling me.
Milo Duclayan @antennasunite.bsky.social Narrative designer, TTRPG maker, life experiencer.
Lecenttra 🏳️⚧️ @chijikedikeogu.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Trans (she/her), HRT 12/9/2022, Gyaru, Los Angeles
💼 3D Artist & Narrative Designer at Subjective Reality Studios
⚙️ Ex Apple Senior QA Airpod/iphone Test Engineer & Database Dev
🎮 Portfolio: https://chijikedikeogu.com/
Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 @hoppingfun.bsky.social One of those creative types: Word-y, geek-y, game-y (oh wait).
I've been making games, stories, media, books, jazzy content for oodles of clients for decades. Come see: hoppingfun.com
Heather Stanford @heatherstanford.bsky.social Wife. Mom. 3 Kids. 4 Cats. 1 Lizard.
Pysanky
Livinpink @livinpink.bsky.social 🎮 General Manager & Exec Prod @CompulsionGames
💻 Prev. on R6 Siege, FC5, DG & DBD 💜 @amdgaming, @xidaxpcs @Twitch Partner: D&D, strategy games (she/her)
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
cory barlog @corybarlog.bsky.social head of creative @santamonicastudio.bsky.social.
collector of an unhealthy amount of handhelds.
storyteller.
lost.
Chris Rosenthal @chrisro.bsky.social Game developer. Currently working on The Secret of Crystal Mountain
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
cam4u @cam4u.bsky.social viveo ganes :3
https://cam4u.carrd.co/
PorcaLoc @porcaloc.bsky.social We're sexy and we honk it.
Italian videogame localization collective that believes that fever dreams come true!
https://porcaloc.com/
Bonnie Jean Mah @bonniejeanmah.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Santa Monica Studio. Prev. Franchise Narrative Director, Gears of War; Narrative Lead, Age of Empires IV; writer, 40K: Space Marine. Posts mine own.
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
H.L. Roberts - Comic Book Writer @hlroberts.bsky.social Indie Comic Writer from East Anglia
Coming back to Comics Full Time 2027
x2 "Best Indie Comic" Nominee from ComicScene Awards
https://hlrobertscomics.crd.co/
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
Alyssa Christian Ⓥ @veganmoviesnob.bsky.social Rhode Island-based childless vegan & animal lover. Film critic for Next Best Picture. Actor & flutist. Atheist. Neurodivergent. Anti-MAGA, Pro-Palestine. Aspiring digital nomad/expat.
inkle @inkle.co Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink; home of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope podcast..
Games: TR-49, A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery, and Pendragon.
🔗 inkle.co
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Bastlynn @bastlynn.bsky.social She/Her spoken with the awe and fear as with which the Depths Of the Sea are named.
Desiree Cifre @desireecifre.bsky.social Writer and Narrative Designer
Lost Records: Bloom& Rage @Dontnod Montreal
Wylde Flowers & Wylde Society @StudioDrydock
Seva Khusid @sevakhusid.bsky.social οἴμοι
From Classics & Philosophy into making indie games.
Currently working on: https://bsky.app/profile/harvest-of-names.bsky.social
SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social i am a drawer / any pronouns / MDNI / sometimes drawing 🔞
// personal alt: @noctsilk.bsky.social
// Fanart: #SpindleClub
// Lore & Yaps: #SpindleLore
// COMMS CLOSED - I don't know when I'll open them //
Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
...
she/zij 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Cheril N. Clarke @cherilnclarke.com 📚 for 40+ readers who want complex characters up against an emotional wall (also exec comms storyteller/speechwriter in another life)
New 📕 "Before I Am Erased" out now.
andrea @asaraviapt.bsky.social ♨︎ building stories & communities @ atrium interactive (indie, AA, AAA and +)
⤷ narrative & comms @ deviant games
⤷ lore & adcopy @ flameborn games
⤷ narrative consulting @ [redacted]
opinions are my own~
https://asaraviapt.wixsite.about/
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
amyash.me
Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social Narrative Director at Failbetter Games. He/him. Our titles include: Fallen London, Sunless Sea/Skies, and Mask of the Rose. Opinions are mine, so there.
NM8RKid17 @nm8rkid17.bsky.social 
Jack | Strider @striderau.bsky.social NB | ASD | ADHD
Sydney-based 3D artist, screenwriter, & hopeful storyteller
Drifting through life with @ambientcosplay and our flock 🦜🦜
Marianne Consuelo Monaghan @mariannemonaghan.bsky.social A broad in games. Producer, writer, musician, student of history, follower of science, chingona. I love stories, games, shows & the people who make them. Kindness is a superpower. Assume good will. Learning to be anti racist. ☕️📚🐈⚾️🕹️📺
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Emma Kidwell @emmakidwell.bsky.social Award-nominated writer | Contracting @ Ruckus Games 💀| Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Civilization VII, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Hindsight | Opinions my own | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
🇨🇦 I believe that with each other, we are stronger than we know 🍁 @nimelennar.bsky.social He/him
Labels, like shirts, tend to fit too tight at the collar and too long at the sleeves, but if you treat me as a mediocre, cishet, middle-aged white guy, you're not going to be far off the mark.
Might follow back if you'll add joy to my timeline.
Meghan Lands @meghanlands.bsky.social She/Her - Comics, Storyboards, Kids illustration. Good head of hair.
Prev. WB, Nickelodeon, Penguinworks, Annick Press
https://linktr.ee/meghanlands
#sketchbook thread
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social I make big action adventure side-scrolling games in weird worlds.
I also despise bigots and AI
#indiegamedev #solodev #irredeamable #blood&flames #thelegallydistinct
Fritz Ruhmann @fritzruhmann.bsky.social Black and white as a language.
Shaped through Leica and Midjourney.
Images drift between realism and invention.
Silent tributes to the masters of monochrome.
www.fritzruhmann.com
Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics.
Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social Writer/artist/office worker; openly meddling 🇨🇦; nerd re: superheroes + starships; autistic. He/him/il; Do say "Hi!" (💉 x10) + 😷=Peace of mind!
Ottawa/Adàwe/Odàwàng, Canada
https://web.ncf.ca/ad696/
The One JP Monge @loko08.jpmonge.com Technical Creative Director - Head (Master Chicken)
https://bsky.app/profile/official.headlesschickengames.com
WE make great games a reality.
I directed #NeoSprint for Atari and #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer for Game Mill.
Jesse Scoble @jscoble.bsky.social Game writer. Credits: Assassin's Creed Origins & AC Odyssey; FC5; WD2; Wizard101. TTRPG writer: A Game of Thrones RPG, MARVEL Multiverse RPG.
Dead Money KS:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadmoney/dead-money-a-western-horror-comic-book-2-and-3
Sally Beaumont |BAFTA Breakthrough|Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social BAFTA Breakthrough
British VA (remote studio) & Game Writer
Voice: Old Skies| Hob’s Barrow| Harold Halibut| Dread Delusion| Loco Motive| Heartspell| Rogue Trader| Earth Must Die| Blake Manor| El Paso 2
She/Her 😷
info/sallybeaumont.com
SallyBeaumont.com
Fred Kaplan @fredmkaplan.bsky.social Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
Arlo Midgett @amidgett.bsky.social New social media platform, who dis?
David Tveraas @davidtveraas.bsky.social Game Designer
Creator of Nightborn
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
The Crate and Crowbar @crateandcrowbar.bsky.social Venerable gaming podcast produced by a group of friends who work in the games industry.
These days usually some combination of @cjpt.bsky.social @marshdavies.bsky.social @matronboy.bsky.social and @tomsenior.bsky.social
crateandcrowbar.com
Antoine Ladouceur @toniodouce.bsky.social 👨🎨 Senior Level Designer at Highdive (past Compulsion Games and Cloud Chamber)
🎮 11 years of fun with Unreal Engine
Arone Le Bray @alebray.bsky.social Narrative Guy doing Narrative Things, tinkering away with the new Fable at Playground Games!
(no idea what I'm doing, doing it anyway)
(he/him)
Alison Lührs @alisontheperson.bsky.social Writer, Seattleite, outside kid, narrative game dev. Personal account.
alisonluhrs.com
Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social Narrative Designer & Writer || Creative Director on Disney Dreamlight Valley ||"Hunter: The Reckoning - Day for Night" coming Sept 2026 || "A Crown of Sorcery & Steel" out now || tied 1st place IFComp 2020🏆|| Opinions my own || www.joshlabelle.com
Margot 'Elawen' Blanchard @margotblanchard.bsky.social Lead Designer at Lowbirth Games 🥀
Bretonne montréalaise 🥞| French from Bretagne, best place in France😅| living her best game dev life in Montreal
📖 Narrative & Social impact Design ⚙️Challenging social bias players one game at time😼
Elle/She | Fr/En
Josiah Clark @josiahclark.bsky.social Narrative Designer looking for work.
Paul Kirsch @paulkirsch.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer at Obsidian Entertainment. Nebula Award winner, branching dialogue enjoyer, doesn't speak on behalf of employer. (he/him)
Author of [Untitled First Draft]
https://www.paul-kirsch.com/
Cory Lanham @corylanham.bsky.social Award-winning video game writer, Oxford Comma enthusiast, and failed home theater salesman.
Past works: Lone Echo, Lone Echo II, World of Tanks, Dreadnought, and F.E.A.R. 3.
He/Him.
http://www.corylanham.com
Ben Schneider @droctothorpe.bsky.social Professor of Practice in Narrative Design for Games at WPI (@WPI_IMGD). Worked on LOTRO, DDO, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Titan Quest, Empire Earth. (he/him)
jess lyon 🧸 Momento @jesslyon.bsky.social She/Her
Narrative Lead on Momento | Co-Founder of Fat Alien Cat
Devan Soyka @windmilljouster.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer at Crytek | She/Her | 🖤🤍💜 | A proud founder of the VOW game writers union | Opinions here are mine alone | PFP by @diansakhuart
Cameryn Tuliao @camerynt.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Desert Angels ~ IG50 2024 Winner ~ BAFTA YGD winner ~ Queer ~ any pronouns
pfp: ©BAFTA/Gabriele Thomas
banner: ©BAFTA/Alecsandra Dragoi
Matthew Medina 裸足のマシュー @barefootmatthew.com Advanced Narrative Designer at Arenanet working on Guild Wars 2. Game developer since 1992. Worked as: QA, 3D art, content design, now narrative design. Self published author.
Riley Wignall @writelywignall.bsky.social Lead Narrative for Disney Dreamlight Valley @ Gameloft MTL. || Opinions are mine. || she/they ||
Mark Slutsky @slutsky.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Compulsion Games, movie director (You Can Live Forever), newsletter maker (Something Good, Barely a Book Club)
www.markslutsky.com
Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social Making quirky little games with a lot of heart.
🖊 Senior Game Writer / Narrative Designer @ Frontier
🌟 Portfolio: https://gameswriting.coffee
🌎 https://rebeccam.carrd.co
🌟 Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics / Yooka-Replaylee
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social Lead Writer at Maverick Games. Podcasts with Crate and Crowbar. Lapsed tv writer. Traditional roguelikes, free jazz, weird fiction, yacht rock, neurodiversity, figuring it out. he/him.
Christie Golden @christiegolden.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Novelist of 60 books incl. work for Blizzard, Star Wars, Star Trek, Assassin's Creed, & some of my own. Also wrote cinematics etc. for WoW proper, Hearthstone & Diablo! Follow #Kittenroth for updates on Anduin & Sylvanas! 
Benjamin Luff @bigbadstorylad.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer, Narrative Craft Lead @ Avalanche Studios
Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com Eddy Webb (with a “y”) is a writer, designer, and consultant for video games and RPGs. He’s worked on Pugmire, Transformers, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Sherlock Holmes, and much more. When not talking in the third person, he can be found at pugsteady.com.
Manny “Luvs Farting” Hagopian @mannyhagopian.bsky.social Narrative Director & Writer: Titanfall 1 + 2, Star Wars JFO, Apex Legends. Co-Writer Off-Broadway Musicals: “Assistants” “The Christmas Carols”
Leon Lynn @leonlynn16.bsky.social Narrative Designer & (Copy)writer | Wargamer/Urbex-er | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror & Metafiction | Current: 👀 | Prev: Kwalee, Gloomhaven Digital | He/Him/Any | 25 | 🖤🐘💟💜 | Views My Own
Hire me: https://leonlynn.com/leonlynn/hire-me/
Vicky @trixx.bsky.social Writer @ Supermassive Games • I’m an absolute bi-con • Scriptwriter • She/Her
margot santa👁 @mementomar.bsky.social narrative designer & game writer looking for work, prev. @ parallelstudio @wildwits.games
Claire Carré @clairecarre.bsky.social narrative director at naughty dog - not here very often
c rhoad ellis @crhoadellis.bsky.social Narrative Designer/Game writer. SFF writer, codexian. I think about space a lot. Gravity is my nemesis. She/her.
Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Lit
www.crhoadellis.com
Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer of 11 years! Previously at TPCI(Contract), Monolith Productions, Hidden Path Entertainment, Pixelberry Studios, and more. she/her
ren alex-rose🌙 @archosaur.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer @ Fuse Games working on STAR WARS: Galactic Racer🌟 (prev Until Dawn 2🌴, Redwall🐭) // also writing a novel about love & loneliness || (she/they)+human
linktr.ee/archosaur_
Bárbara Framil @barbaraframil.bsky.social 🎮🖊️✨
Senior Quest Designer at Bethesda Game Studios, previously: Nightingale, Hunt: Showdown.
Passionate about TTRPGs, speculative fiction, comics, and animation.
Opinions are my own.
barbaraframil.com
Alysa Danielle with a brain full of puppies and demons @felwrites.bsky.social Editor, Narrative Designer/Writer: Prose, Poetry, Games. Formerly R6 Siege.
Neurochaotic.
Devourer of Books, Mother of Dogge, Weaver of scale mail. www.alysadsaliba.com 🗝️ idowords
Ross Alexander (he/him) @theroguester.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer - LOOKING FOR WORK
Previously: Avalanche Studios #rage2 #thehuntercotw #contraband
Amateur Rugby Player, Cyclist & Hill Walker
Recovering Potato Addict, prone to relapses.
Kelly Bender @kellybender.bsky.social Narrative Designer | Game Writer | Comic Book Writer | Mentor | Teacher | Lecturer | World Traveler | Cat Owner | Documentary Watcher
#NarrativeDesignJobs #NarrativeDesignTip
https://gamedesignskills.com/courses/game-writing-bootcamp-kelly-bender/
Sangita Nuli (she/they) @sangitanuli.bsky.social Writer, Narrative Designer
Narrative Design Intern @Zenimax Online