mk @neuromaamsir.bsky.social intersectional fremenist | deep⊔media ecological attunement · pace layer shearing · intercognitive comparative advantage · historicity of experience
SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social Illustrations / Character Designs / Comic Books / Partnered Twitch Streamer
https://linktr.ee/simz.art
@zerotrickpony.com @zerotrickpony.com 
katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social coder, music writer, game maker
katherinemorayati.com
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/
Chris Klimas @chrisklimas.com I like stories and user interface design and nonlinearity and code. I created Twine (https://twinery.org) and continue to work on it.
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/
Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Game Arts @ Pratt Institute
Founder of Essay Games (he/him)
https://essay-games.com/
Bundle of Joy (Narrative Wario Ware Dad-Simulator):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3138370/Bundle_of_Joy/
Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social Writer&Actor for page stage audio and screen. Two-time IWG Zebbie Award Nominee. New Irish Writing winner. Shortlisted for the Women's Playwriting Prize. Screams in fury in The Silt Verses, Omen, The Secret of St Kilda. meabhdebrun.org/about
🔪b. narr🔪 @sassylich.bsky.social actor, ap performer, horror writer, ttrpg designer, long-lost third frog brother
bnarr.com
(icon by the iconic michael van vleet)
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social post hoc on main
http://zaratustra.itch.io
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/
IndieCade @indiecade.bsky.social Celebrating and supporting international independent game development. Submissions are open! https://indiecade.com/submissions/
Dave Padilla 🔜 Develop Brighton @davepadilla.bsky.social CEO at Evening Star. Executive Producer on Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Irregularly here. Regularly elsewhere.
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social Cartoons, whatever.
catandgirl.com
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)
Grue @bengrue.bsky.social Just a man, not a brand
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Temple Gates @templegates.bsky.social We make boardgames apps!
Dominion
Race for the Galaxy
Roll for the Galaxy
Shards of Infinity
(iOS, Android, Steam)
Questions? https://discord.gg/RBddmRGJWA
Theresa Duringer @tduringer.bsky.social CEO & Owner @Temple_Gates. We make boardgame apps like Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
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.
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
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
🏳️⚧️🇵🇭
Games by Sam @cluesbysam.com 
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
Cephaccino! @cephaccino.bsky.social Ceph, cephie, etc.
Minneapolitan. Comic artist. Game Designer & Player. Octopuses and Coffee.
Still sometimes remembered as the Internet's Hot Soup.
▐░░░░░░▌--% Trans Pizza MN off for summer!
Donations and Commissions:
https://linktr.ee/cephaccino
Andaerz @andaerz.bsky.social Trying out posting the dailies here too for a change
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com Executive Director @TakeThis.org | Maker of strange things | Swears too much. Cat pics++. she/they
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
Natalie Downe @natbat.bsky.social Enthusiastic adventurer, artist, potter, conservation technologist, tidepool guide, California naturalist, community organizer & frontend web developer. WU3M 🦇🦭🦀(🐺🐓🐇) #scicomm
Mastodon @natbat@wandering.shop
Twitter @natbat
Instagram @natbat & @natbat.art
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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.
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
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
Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social 
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. - J Jenna K Moran @jennamoran.bsky.social who are we to describe reality in words? As well to shout into the nameless sky
Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social A nuanced melange of viking and capybara.
jae @jkap.gay former CEO of posting cohost.org | WACCA 🏳️🌈 2613 | icon by @feralroyal.bsky.social | opinions are someone else's, i'm just the messenger
also at:
https://jkap.io
https://xoxo.zone/@jkap
Alexander J Newall @alexanderjnewall.bsky.social Writer, director and geek extraordinaire, founder and CEO of Rusty Quill and maker of an excessive amount of stuff.
Alex is a Director, Writer, Actor and Producer and he has no idea what to do here yet!
Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social ten hundred minutes per second. game writer if that industry still existed cohenedenfield.com
Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com Worker-owned media. We make lots of video essays, podcasts and livestreams about video games, movies and TV shows. https://youtube.com/@secondwindgroup
From the former team of The Escapist.
Support us on Patreon. https://patreon.com/SecondWindGroup
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Borut Pfeifer @borut.bsky.social Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/Neighborhoods/
Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...
Adina Williams @adinawilliams.bsky.social NLP, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, AI, ML, etc.
Job currently: Research Scientist (NYC)
Job formerly: NYU Linguistics, MSU Linguistics
Aabria Iyengar @aabria.bsky.social she/her | @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social | your story friend on Dimension 20 // Critical Role // The Adventure Zone and more! |
@thomassquared.bsky.social @thomassquared.bsky.social 
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
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
Colin @colin-fraser.net Driven by industry progress, inspired by provocative leadership, plus don't mind a good pair of shoes or a great @PennStateFball scoreboard either.
Paul Sonnentag @paulsonnentag.bsky.social No more killer apps, kill the app!
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
J.D. Maxwell @handle.invalid I make TTRPGs, like Grimwild and The Wild Frontier of Venture. https://odditypress.com/
Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com Gamedevs. We make Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess
Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias but this account is run by Tony
Discord community: discord.gg/blacktabbygames
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social game developer, yuri enthusiast, your beloved problematic girlfriend
Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com 🔸 Making intriguing worlds with heart
🔸 Streets of Fortuna, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Thousand Hells
🔸 Join: http://discord.gg/kitfoxgames
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands • made a really big video game once but is doing something else now • tha Gàidhlig agam • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they • e/iad 🏳️⚧️
Jon Peterson @increment.bsky.social Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc. 
Raph @raphdamico.bsky.social Surreal horror, tabletop rpgs, storytelling, product design, nonlinear systems, and other such sundry creativities. Making THE ZONE RPG (thezonerpg.com)
John T. Murray @lucidbard.bsky.social He/him. Assoc. Professor of Games and Digital Media, UCF. Co-PI NSF Virtual Experience Research Accelerator. VR, AI, Interactive Narratives, Authoring Platforms. Co-author of Flash: Building the Interactive Web, Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
Aaron A. Reed @aaronareed.bsky.social Maker of books, games, games about books, and books about games. Social media content syndicated to multiple platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronareed
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.
Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social Physicist Turned Psychologist | Senior Researcher in #STEMed | Meta-Analysis Nerd | https://d-miller.github.io/
Also posts about 🧪 science funding to focus my attention.
Personal account. I don’t speak for my employer or any other orgs.
Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social "Her Generation's Greatest Wordsmith" / I'm the b!tch!! I'm bisexual and I WILL bring it up!! I make games at https://thewaether.itch.io/
https://www.patreon.com/amyrot
https://ko-fi.com/thewaether
main blog at: https://katebnormal.tumblr.com/
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Grant K. Roberts @gkr.bsky.social I voiced a giant alien slug and then I won a BAFTA but those two things are unrelated
ex-Longdue, ex-Sweet Baby, ex-Splash Damage, ex-Rocksteady, ex-Bungie, ex-E-Line, ex-Z2, ex-Amazing Society, ex-Gas Powered Games, ex-Legend
https://grant.games
Simogo @simogo.com Lorelei and the Laser Eyes • Sayonara Wild Hearts • SPL-T • The Sailor’s Dream • DEVICE 6 • Year Walk • Beat Sneak Bandit • Bumpy Road • Kosmo Spin
simogo.com
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Jarory de Jesus @jrawry.bsky.social Founder of Coquito Games, Board President at Global Game Jam, Narrative Designer on Guild Wars 3, Verso apologist, Programmer, Musician, Writer, Anthropologist, Activist, Polymath, Adventurer, Dreamer. Opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/JarorydeJesus
Moa @moa810.bsky.social 🇬🇧Freelance artist, writer, and EJ translator. If you want to hire me, email me via the link below.
🇯🇵フリーランスなんでも屋。イラスト、脚本、漫画、翻訳等。ご依頼、お問合せは下記リンクからどうぞ。
✍️I do not use any genAI. Do not reupload/use my art for any purposes.
✉️🔗 hatoking.com/moa810
Chris Gallello @chrisg.bsky.social Head of Product @ Fable.co
Hidetaka SWERY SueHERO @swery65.bsky.social CEO of White Owls Inc.
I'm creating unique, spirited work based on the slogan: From Osaka to all of YOU around the world!
大阪から世界中のあなたへ！
yokotaro @yokotaro.bsky.social 
Eevi Korhonen @silliet.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer @Housemarque. CONTROL, Returnal, SAROS.
I like weird things. Bigots need not follow.
She/her
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Eric Barone @ericbarone.bsky.social creator of Stardew Valley -- working on "Haunted Chocolatier"
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
William Pugh @honestwilliam.bsky.social i make video games at crows crows crows - the stanley parable, dr langeskov, EAT, the club, accounting+, temple of no and MORE! (he/they)
Nina Freeman @ninamarie.bsky.social Game Dev for 14 years - Principal Narrative Designer for Dontnod MTL/Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, also makes indie games like Cibele, Last Call, how do you Do It? etc etc | stream: twitch.tv/ninamarie | games: ninasays.so
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.
Finji @finjico.bsky.social Collaborative game studio by Rebekah and Adam Saltsman. 👑 We publish a bunch of cool video games. We make some ourselves too! linktree.finji.co
We're working on @usualjune.bsky.social right now!
No More Robots @nomorerobots.io Best video game publisher ever since 2018.
Little Rocket Lab, Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw, Yes, Your Grace, Earth Must Die, Let's Build a Zoo, Spirittea... just loads of games basically. Run by @mikerose.bsky.social
https://nomorerobots.io/