Liam Deane @liamdeane.bsky.social Games market analyst at Omdia. Once Cork, now Amsterdam.
Balatro @playbalatro.com Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder.
Mobile: http://playbalatro.com/mobile
Steam, PS, Switch & Xbox:
http://linktr.ee/balatrogame
🇨🇦
Anton Gritsenko @cybersamovar.bsky.social Staff writer @ VK Play Media
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Steam @steampowered.com Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform.
For support: http://help.steampowered.com/en/
Rhys Elliott @superhys.bsky.social Head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics.
Ex-Newzoo & Nielsen. Analysis in IGN, BBC, Giant Bomb, The Guardian, GameSpot, GIBiz and more.
Lives on a canal in the Netherlands, but spends most of the time looking at screens instead.
Very Welsh.
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
ArnejB @razorhack.bsky.social Horror, SF, and fantasy fan. Lover of coffee and cats. 
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social The most fun way to learn something new everyday.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls
🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others
Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
John Hedge @johnthehedge.bsky.social 🤸Circus & Parkour teacher. Part time firefighter.
🔹TTRPGs | Writing | Podcasts
🔹Serious about Play
🔹Seriously Silly
(he/him) 🏴 🇸🇪
MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,☪️,🌈, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
jenn sutcliffe 🔜 Serious Play Conference @jennsutcliffe.bsky.social Ed Psych/Tech Ph.D. student, MSU | Instructional Designer | TTRPG writer/designer, @ImmaterialPlane | Georgia (US) Wikimedia affiliate rep | Research: Game studies, social learning, learning communities, digital literacies ~ she/her
Dylan Grinder is making Erstwild @anarisis.dylangrinder.com Game designer, artist, & all-around nerd. Co-Lead on Plotweaver: Erstwild. Author of Become: Artificial Investigation & Spoken Magic/Legends. Explaining design & narrative through play at twitch.tv/anarisis
—
She/He
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📧 contact@dylangrinder.com
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Brian_Cooksey.gif @vaklam.bsky.social Gamer, podcaster (Infectious Enthusiasm - @iepodcast.bsky.social), editor
#TTRPG system analyst. Curling fan.
He/him. I make jokes for 12 people at a time.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights are human rights.
I have friends everywhere.
kieran cutting @kierancutting.bsky.social Writer of queer horror and weird fiction. Service designer, researcher, and games designer. Former indie publisher at EXIT Press. they/them
https://kierancutting.substack.com
Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social A ttrpg actual play podcast focusing on indie worldbuilding and storytelling games. Building a single world one game at a time!
Part of the One Shot Network!
Account run by TTBenjamin (he/him)
Find us on Megaphone: https://megaphone.link/OSPN8559272961
Hermione Khan @h3yatlas.bsky.social Community Manager 🩷 Panda Cat Games
Host & Editor 🌶 GoChuChats K-pop Podcast
Applying to full time UK roles ✅️
Sarah Farooqi @sadiekate.bsky.social Into art, illustration, writing, and board games. Favorite subjects to draw or photograph are buildings and landscapes, and I like writing about the possibility that everything could turn out even better than we imagine. (she/her)
#art #photography #wip
Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social SFF/horror #TTRPG + #WritingCommunity (see #AgentGuide). Wants #FriendPromotionFriday to be a thing
Writing: https://jklafondwriter.wordpress.com/
GM profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/julia_lafond
Calenmir's RPGs: https://www.calenmirsrpgs.com/
Megan @meganbeetle.bsky.social Books, Games, Games about Books, and Books about Games
Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social Quechua runa on O'odham land. Writer (fantasy, TTRPGs, nonfiction). Rabbinic student. Editor & sensitivity reader. Designer @koboa.bsky.social. #LandBack. He/him.
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/danieldelgado
Editing: https://www.siriusprose.com/
TTRPG Rising Tide @risingtide.bsky.social We're a peer support community for those working toward becoming professional creators within any niche of the TTRPG space.
Join us: https://discord.gg/n6EyyrDhqJ
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TTRPGRisingTide
#TTRPGResources
Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice reform, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Phil. A. Ménard (AKA The Chatty DM) @chattydm.bsky.social Dynamically-priced Gen X Gamer Dad. 42 years as a GM, sober 24 hours at a time. Ex narrative designer@VibrantStudios (D&D: The Immersive Quest. Looking for Work. Retired award-winning freelance #TTRPG designer. He/Him. FR/EN
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social Expert in horror and video games
Making video essays and livestreaming
Master's Degree in Media and Culture
business inquiries: jenna.stoeber (at) gmail (dot) com
pronounced stee-bur, she/her
www.JennaStoeber.com
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Emily Loney @emilylylo.bsky.social Visiting Asst Prof in English. Early modern literature | gender & sexuality studies | disability studies. Also reality tv, genre fiction, board games, and knitting. She/her
percival hornak @percivalhornak.bsky.social he/him
theater, TTRPG, trans stuff ✨ 
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Volko @volko.bsky.social Historical boardgame designer. Ⓥegan.
https://phalanx.co.uk/1943-race-to-rabaul-a-new-game-by-volko-ruhnke/
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1162-drachen.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1102-coast-watchers.aspx
https://www.fortcircle.com/the-hunt-for-blackbeard/
Brian Croxall @briancroxall.bsky.social How to do things with words and computers. Assoc. Prof of Digital Humanities at BYU. Formerly at Twitter, ProfHacker, ello, and The Aquabats.
Photo by https://instagram.com/marktwhitney/.
Matt Schneider @mattlaschneider.bsky.social Former academic; current library web admin. Probably gonna be saying something about Warhammer or Interactive Fiction. Tá cúpla focal agam—labhair Gaeilge liom, le do thoil.
He/him; sé/é
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social Writer, game designer, podcaster. Winner of the Diana Jones Award, 8 Gold and 5 Silver ENnies. Translated into 11 languages.
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long early modern period | Gothicist | Shakespeare+ | she/her
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social Early career psychologist researching: Do RPG players know if anyone is having fun? (No)
RPG writer & editor, brewer, big data, various bits and bobs. Irish childhood survivor.
He/him
ICQ - 5434131
Buddy Toledo @jessefuchs.bsky.social the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social 🍐 SU&SD 🍐 / kinda on hiatus
Amy Norgard @amynorgard.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Classical reception in film, TV, digital and analog games. Lover of Star Trek.
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Casual Academic and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Ross Thompson @itsrossthompson.bsky.social Often found playing games, painting miniatures, travelling to conventions and hitting friends with sticks | he/him
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Ethan @glyphtide.games Channeling arcane currents into small tabletop games | PREQUEL, Chain×Link, Fetch My Blade, Estate of Play | glyphtide.games
NOW CROWDFUNDING
🗡️🐕 Fetch My Blade: fetchmyblade.com
Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney @blueskynoise.com editor for gamespot | obsessed with horror | vegan, straight-edge, atheist, wife guy from Boston, and as annoying as that sounds | letterboxd: https://boxd.it/aA7G7
Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
Bonfire Sit: https://player.gg/publications/bonfire-sit
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
Instagram: instagram.com/tamoorh
Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
Tom Marks @tomrmarks.bsky.social Associate Reviews Director at IGN by day, pie maker and card slinger by night. Formerly at PC Gamer. He/Him (tmarks@IGN.com)
Miranda Sanchez @havokrose.bsky.social Executive Editor of Guides at IGN and Podcast Unlocked member
Into books, beer, stationery, cats, video games, and writing.
She/her
Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social news @ game developer. words @ new york times, vulture, rolling stone, the verge, wapo, npr, the guardian, vgc, pitchfork, edge, gamespot, av club, game informer, polygon, paste, fanbyte, & more
founder @ into the spine • diego6arguello6@gmail.com • he/him
Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social Editor at GameSpot. No, not the store in the mall, the other one. (he/him)
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Unwinnable @unwinnable.com A place for stories | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1VQ9omB | Pitch: http://bit.ly/3oBCo5z
Into The Spine @intothespine.bsky.social Stories about video games and what they leave behind /// Patreon: http://patreon.com/intothespine /// Founder: @diegoarguello.bsky.social /// Email: contact@intothespine.com /// https://intothespine.com/
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
SUPERJUMP @superjumpmagazine.com Multi-award-winning creative collective. Purveyors of wonder, imagination, and insight from the world of video games.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@superjumpmag
Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Justin Clark @justinofclark.bsky.social Literal/figurative giant blerd. Throws words at you from Kotaku, Slant Magazine, Gamespot, et al. Boston Society of Film Critics member. Occasionally, there's wrestling posts. Sorry about that in advance. He/Him
youtube.com/@justinofclark
Jeffrey Gerretse @gerretse.bsky.social Writer, pc gamer, ttrpg game master
(he/him)
Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social Tall man, weird little telly boy
Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing, TTRPG design with Handiwork Games and Taleturn, taking action, discussing NZ political nonsense. Usually walking the dogs. #FiveEvil is out!
(mr_orgue at the bird site)
OboeLauren @lauren-urban.com Professional bard/cleric doing oboe/TTRPG stuff. Thoughts are all mine, especially about snacks. WizKids Community & Social Media Manager. Orkira's handler. Contact info & current projects at https://lauren-urban.com & linktr.ee/LaurenUrban she/her
Thomas Grønvoll @handle.invalid Fueled by coffee and monster movies. I am professionally opinionated about video games. He/Him. Opinions are my own.
Running the Critical Reflection artzine: @criticalreflection.no
Contactinfo is in the linktree:
https://linktr.ee/kita_jin
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
FinleyJinley (they/he) ╰( ･ ᗜ ･ )➝ AdventureX @finleyjinley.bsky.social 📜 finley-jinley.itch.io / finleyjinley.carrd.co
🏳️⚧️ they/he, solo rpg sicko
✨ TTRPG writer/designer
😔 UK Based (DMs ok but broken)
💌 finleyjinley@gmail.com
📝Aspiring Narrative Designer
🎲Dicemaker @shrimpfrieddice.bsky.social
🖼️ icon by @snavii.bsky.social
Pascal Wagner @indieflock.bsky.social Gaming Linguist, Games Industry Journalist | makes @gamesmarket.global | pascal.wagner@gamesmarket.global | Signal: pascalw.47
GER/ENG, er/he/him
#GameStudies: languageatplay.de
Bylines: IGN Germany, GAIN, Unwinnable, Superlevel, bpb, Polyneux & more
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
Eric Stein (he/him) @steinea.bsky.social Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
John Bultena🧙♂️🔮 ➡️Mordheim @onlyplaywizards.com 📖UC Merced writing professor & TTRPG Educator
🎧More Than Metal podcast
🚀 @AbraxasPrecipic.bsky.social #TheExpanse #RPG
👕 @CauldronNTower.bsky.social
📚Academic Librarian
🎼Vinyl collector
📝Dysgraphic
linktr.ee/onlyplaywizards
Michael Freudenthal @playingresearch.bsky.social 📚 PhD student on informal learning & fiction in board games
🎓 Experice lab (Sorbonne Paris Nord university)
📢 Ex research fellow at Game in Lab
💬 they/them
Own opinions in 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
João Ohara @oharajrm.com Theory and Philosophy of History @ University of São Paulo - USP (Brazil)
Interested in narrative, trust, and epistemic dependence.
Louise Blain @louiseblain.bsky.social Creative Director @BlumhouseGames
🏴 in LA
Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social Martin. He/him. Norwegian.
I talk & write about video games. Even wrote a book. Now touring schools.
Make music as Nachtleben - check out my Heartslow EP:
https://nachtleben.bandcamp.com/album/heartslow
My Norwegian alt: @krushdbug.bsky.social
Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social Senior videogame tech artist /art director.
Unreal Tournament 04, Dragonage, D&D Online, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Stellaris, Civ IV + more. VFX Where The Wild Things Are.
https://www.delaneyking.com
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social PhD @ USYD — Games, World-building and Capitalism — he/him
Mark Hines @markshines.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Kentucky
Fulbright Taiwan
Race and representation in fantasy games, toxic fan studies, popular culture
markhines.me