Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ AnimeNYC @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
Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student
"bibliomancer" when wearing my gamer pants
https://bibliomancer.itch.io/
https://brendan-allen.com/
Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social English Literature PhD turned ML Researcher.
I medicate my imposter syndrome with cold brews.
Current:
Foundation Models @ Apple
Prev:
LLMs/World Models @ Riot Games
RecSys @ Apple
NYC 🏳️🌈
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social Researcher in Game Studies, Design, AI and Science & Technology Studies. Trying my best to read critical theories. He/Him. Committed to my lifelong duty of no original tweet. https://normand-1024.github.io/
Mirek Stolee @mirekstolee.bsky.social Curator of tabletop games and puzzles at The Strong | Texts & Technology PhD candidate at University of Central Florida (he/they)
M Charity @mastermilkx.bsky.social Just a they/them programmer | Assistant Professor at University of Richmond
Github: http://github.com/MasterMilkX
Itch: http://mastermilkx.itch.io
Tracy Ray Author @tracyrayauthor.bsky.social I love writing!
Married to Kyle Hester Film Maker
No Hate!
Support Indie Auth!
#witchsky #booksky
Sam Shields @smshieldsy.bsky.social Game Design Research Lead @ IDEO. PhD in procedural game design. Hoping one day to be the frontman of a ska-punk band.
Celia @celia-14.bsky.social 💜 Hobbyist gamedev at https://celia14.itch.io
✨ Making a narrative daily puzzle: https://the-daily-spell.com
🔎 Big fan of thinky, story-focused, and cute games
🏷️ She/her
Dr. Celine Latulipe @drceline.bsky.social Computer Science professor @ University of Manitoba. Research HCI and CS Education. Current focus on technology to support a digital partnership between older adults and close others. Avid animal lover, gardener, foodie. 
shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social "shim" (they/them)
@ the design of artistic support tools, sustainable creative ecosystems, puppets, train cosplay 🎨🚆🐰
berkeley, adobe research, mj storytelling
https://shmuh.co
🏳️⚧️🇵🇭
Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social Ruining the movie-going and game-playing experiences for students since 1999.
https://tadleckman.com/
UC Santa Cruz
Formerly Activision|Blizzard|King, Riot Games, Blizzard, Lucasfilm, ILM.
He/him.
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
P.L.H. is on Bluesky @plhblue.bsky.social Twitter? Bad. Bluesky? Now, a S***. Everything is destructible. My pinned is not introduction | He/Him | pfp remade by me (OG art @mayanasettv Twitter)
🚫Inauthentic User🚫
I'm the 'adult' from nowhere
Twitter: 🤢 (@PLHIsOnTwt)
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Christy Starr 🏳️🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Studies motivation and equity in STEM, identity & stereotypes.
#queer #firstgen #feminist, She.
[tone·milazzo] @tonemilazzo.com Novelist: Picking Up the Ghost, The Faith Machine
TTRPG Designer: ESPionage, the Role-playing Game of Psychics and Spies
(h/h)
Currently shilling: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyclopsroad/sunny-days-and-rain-an-espionage-adventure-for-the-fate-rpg
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator. Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD Computational Media).
University of San Francisco lecturer (incoming).
Projects: jazztap.github.io
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
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
proc_gen @procgen.bsky.social Procedural generation researcher. Currently making games.
https://procedural-generation.tumblr.com
#procgen #gamedev
Tamara Duplantis @tambalaya.bsky.social Tamara "Tammy" Duplantis
🎶Game Boy sound artist since 2014🎵
👾Digital media educator extraordinaire👾
Bjarke A Larsen, PhD @bjarkeal.bsky.social Technical Narrative Designer, Community Researcher
Yes, Destiny 2 is mythology, WoW is wrestling and Charles Dickens is the culprit. He/him.
lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social D. Vincent Baker, longtime indie ttrpg creator. Co-creator of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, and many more. Disarm, defund, abolish. He/him. https://lumpley.games
Cute Cat Photos 🐱 かわいい猫の写真 @catspictures.bsky.social 🐱Cute cat pictures to brighten your day! 🥰😽
Cat Pics Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a64togzspgfpuzyvgjazowkb/lists/3l5txlsmheq2q
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
Melanie Dickinson @meldckn.bsky.social technical narrative designer specializing in procedural narrative, storyworld simulation, and authoring tools \o/
dani >:3 @scareoset.gay she/they | 28 | queer gothic scholar | game designer
👩🏻🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC
🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC
🎓 MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC
🔗 scareoset.com
✉️ scareoset@gmail.com
Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social Writer/teacher/etc [computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract/CUPE5524. See https://titleduntitled.name/
Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social https://mkremins.github.io
Jacob Garbe 💀 @logodaedalus.bsky.social Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer.
Views my own.
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
uel aramchek @uel.bsky.social uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. minneapolis based.
greaterrealityarea.net, formerly compoundeye.substack.com, northofreality.com
Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social ❧ Interactive narrative innovation & research
❧ Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2
❧ Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit
❧ Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade
❧ Opinions mine
❧ More: staceymason.info
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe @quakefultales.bsky.social They/Them
Technical Narrative Designer at Fenris Creations (formerly known as CCP Games) | PhD in Computational Media from UCSC | MFA in Digital Art and New Media | Playwright | Indie Dev of Experimental AI Behavior Tools
https://njunius.github.io/