Kat Clay @katclay.com 🎲 ENNIE and ARPIA award-winning TTRPG author. Editor @chaosium.bsky.social. Short stories in Interzone, Aurealis, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Game reviews on YouTube.
Hobbit in a leather jacket. 🇦🇺🐨 katclay.com
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Melissa Dow @melissadowart.bsky.social Tattoo artist + aspiring illustrator + Portland, OR Cascadia
www.melissadowillustration.com
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.” - Fahrenheit 451
Third Shift 🚐👴🐶🏔️ Forever Ago @thirdshift.studio Narrative-focused indie game studio founded by two best friends.
📋 Wishlist Forever Ago on Steam http://bit.ly/3hI3mUz
🕵️ Learn more https://linktr.ee/thirdshiftstudio
Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com Creating extraordinary worlds and inviting you down the rabbit hole. Making games since 1995. #CONTROLResonant coming September 24th 2026. Pre-order now! Header by @valentinapaz.com
Now working on Control RESONANT and Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake.
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social UX Lead @ Rift | ⏳Prev: The Outsiders, Funcom, EA, King
Time Person of the Year 2006 | Keynote Speaker | IGDA Next Gen Leader | Eyeroller in Chief | 🌍TCK 🧠ADHD 🩻EDS 🌈bi 🤘metalhead 🤓LoL dork 🔪Feminazgûl
Views are mine & you can't have them
she/her
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
Zack Zwiezen @zackzwiezen.com Writer @ Kotaku | Also seen on: Kill Screen, USGamer, GameCritics, Hard Drive & Entertainment Fuse (He/Him)
Bri 💀 Williams @dazzlingcadaver.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Remedy Entertainment | Your Queer Goth Mom™ | She/Her or They | I write, I doodle, I'm glad you're here | Thoughts are my own | https://briwilliams.co/
Kayla Belmont @kaylaidoscopes.bsky.social Narrative Design Game Dev, Writer, Dramatic Goth
SHINE BRIGHTER THAN HEAVEN
Víctor Ojuel @victorojuel.org 🎮Senior Narrative Designer
🕵♀️ #ProjectChamois detective game
🎓 Lecturer @ESAT
🎖Previously: Coloratura, RiotForge, Temtem, Altered Alma, Wildermyth...
🇬🇧 Writers Guild of GB
🤷🏻♂️ he/him
🖥️ victorojuel.org
👉 ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW PROJECTS!
Nicholas McDonnell @nicholasmc1.bsky.social Game Designer/Generalist - Searching Interactive
Get Crabmeat on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/Crabmeat
Prev - Design / Co Founder @samuraipunk
https://nicholasmc1.itch.io/
Sea Lord, beyond the land there's another world @tycarey.bsky.social Co-founder/Creative Director League of Geeks, co-creator Armello, IGF nominated. Art Direction @ Chaosium. Former Board of IGEA. Solium Infernum (OUT NOW!) - I was discovered under a monolith.
Jair McBain @jairmcbain.bsky.social Conjurer of video games. ✨ Co-director @midnighters.games | Head of Ops/Production at @landandseagames.bsky.social on Alto’s Adventure & Summerhill. Prev: Funselektor on Art of Rally and Absolute Drift + Dinosaur Polo Club on Mini Metro & Motorways.
Luca W Rohr @lucarohr.com Associate VO Producer @ Rockstar Games
prev. credits: #Starfield, #Destiny2, #GuildWars2, #Fallout76 & more @ Blindlight
he/him
opinions are my own
ame searle @amesearle.bsky.social 🎮✨ marketing manager at AMC Games | Prev. Triple Topping, Fellow Traveller | 🏳️🌈 they / them
Luís Cláudio @luis.games Technical Artist @ Epic Games Brasil
Working on Fortnite
Prev: Horizon Chase 2
He/Him 🌈
My opinions are my own.
Steve McManus @stephenjmcmanus.bsky.social Experience Designer at Industrial Light & Magic. Previously worked at Telltale Games, LucasArts, Crystal Dynamics. In a band called Cassowary, so I know what a Cassowary is. he/him. https://cassowarysanfrancisco.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-time
Chride Lassheikki ✨ @classheikki.bsky.social Sr. Narrative & Game Designer @NitroGames. ✨ Probably a bard 🎹 Game jam, karaoke & waffle enthusiast 🧇 Aalto uni alumni ✨🌈🎮 they/she ✨ Opinions my own
Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social lingering phantom of a journalist for the verge, wired, rolling stone, the new york times, and more. former book designer. cfs/me. find me at geoffreybunting.co.uk for now. he/him.
tips and faint praise to g.a.bunting@gmail.com | signal: gabunting.89
Joakim Bodin @jb.ripley.se 👾 Dev @ Epic Games
📚 A virtue persists without payment or compensation
🎧 I can hear the deep rasp of your laughter, joyful
🔗 https://linktr.ee/jbripley
📍 🇺🇸 Seattle | 🇸🇪 Swede
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Tiana Smith @tianasmithbooks.bsky.social Author of closed door adult romcoms and sweet YA. THE SPY AND I and MR. NICE SPY out now from Berkley/Penguin Random House. Represented by Eric Smith.
https://www.tianasmith.com/links
Die Gute Fabrik @gutefabrik.bsky.social An award-winning 🇩🇰 indie game studio, we made ⛵ Saltsea Chronicles, ☄️ Mutazione, 🤼♀️ Sportsfriends, & more. Handcrafted games made by human beings. linktr.ee/gutefabrik
Giselle Rosman @jazzrozz.bsky.social She/her
Naarm, Tantalus/Keywords Australia. Game dev mum , mum worried about the death of the planet. I like birds, trees, and kindness. Former GGJ and IGDA Melbourne Lead
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
Toiya Kristen Finley Available for Consulting and Editing! @toiya.bsky.social Available for Narrative Consulting and Editing!
Writer | Editor | Pseudo-Academic | Geek Schnoodle Media, LLC
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/toiya (working on a VN)
http://schnoodlemedia.com
http://toiyakfinley.com
http://plumedeomnomnom.tumblr.com
Alex James Kane @alexjkane.bsky.social Games consultant and YouTube Partner.
https://youtube.com/@AlexJamesKane
alexjkane@proton.me
Lise L. @lisekarel.bsky.social Writer/Games/Games Writer 🏳️🌈 | '22 IGDA Next Gen Leader | Currently games at VicScreen (prev. Bin Chicken/Wheeler Centre/MMORPG Tycoon 2 & more.) and working away on a novel. | 🇧🇪 in 🇦🇺. | they/them.
(Ni)cole Stark @mildlyadventurous.bsky.social Game dev matriarch, uniboober, mild adventurer, tired since 1993
Shak @itsshak.bsky.social ✨ Level Designer | Previously Sanzaru and Hi-Rez | Opinions are my own and don't reflect employer | Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ | He/They ✨
Marc E.G. ★ Loc Madman @mittovac.bsky.social ❍ Game localization mercenary
❍ Director @fromthevoid.net
❍ Chaotic insane
❍ he/him
❍ eybertguillon.tr@gmail.com
Kate @katefanthorpe.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer at Creative Assembly
liker of things, especially space
Jay Britton @jaybritton.com Voice actor, director & performance consultant
Narrator of The Paleblood Hunt
Can I be friends with your dog?
Rep'd by CESD (US) & Nordlings (UK)
BAFTA Member & Judge
📧 jay@jaybritton.com
https://jaybritton.carrd.co
www.gameperformances.com
Susanah Grace @susanahgrace.bsky.social 🎨 Artist for #TTRPG (artstation.com/susanahgrace) Open for work
✉️ susanahgrace@gmail.com
🐈⬛ Media & Marketing / Art Direction @blackcatsgaming.bsky.social
🤖 Made CHVLR (https://susanahgrace.itch.io/chvlr)
🔴 twitch.tv/elloitsmebobby
🏒 Habs
🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇦
Alejandro Arque @darkvegetamad.bsky.social Creative Director @SuperMGames on #SwitchbackVR #Directive8020 • former Sr. GD @SquareEnix on Life is Strange 1/2/BTS/TC • #BaftaMember•#Limitbreak Mentor• GameDevHeroes Leadership
Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social indie game dev
Assault Android Cactus🔋, Unpacking📦, Tempopo🌷
Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz Dean Walshe:
3D Art lead on Wild Bastards and Void Bastards
Past games I have worked on include Stellar Warsy things and the Borderlands Interquel doodad.
https://deanw.xyz/
(He/Him)
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
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
Cale Schupman @caleschupman.bsky.social Designer @ Sucker Punch Productions past- Cold Iron Studios, Undead Labs, Airtight Games, Gas Powered Games. He/him
Here for games, urbanism, Seattle sports, and Star Wars.
https://caleschupman.com/
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
Nitai Bessette @nitaib.bsky.social Game developer. Canadian. One quarter sheepdog.
Nitai.com
Elliot Pinkus @maxmillion.bsky.social Senior Game/Systems Designer @ Epic Games. Previously: #PeopleCanFly, #DuneAwakening, #WatchDogsLegion, #GameOfThronesAscent. Bass Guitar in Parisian Museum. He/him
Andrew Trevillian @tresvillain.bsky.social Making cool things for beautiful people like you at Robot Circus (A Keywords Studio). Woodworker. Cat Dad. He/him. andytrevillian@gmail.com
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
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.
Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social Narrative Designer & Writer || Creative Director on Disney Dreamlight Valley ||"Hunter: The Reckoning - Day for Night" out now || "A Crown of Sorcery & Steel" out now || tied 1st place IFComp 2020🏆|| Opinions my own || www.joshlabelle.com
Sandra Sachka Duval @sandrasachkaduval.bsky.social Narrative Lead for video games, at Hinterland, previously EA, Arkane-Lyon (Dishonored 2, DotO, Deathloop), Cyanide…
Writer of weird sci-fi, autistic, mom
French but living on a small Canadian island
Khris Brown @voxpointkhris.bsky.social Narrative talent, Casting & VO Director. BAFTA, Peabody, AIAS, Emmy, Oscar winning projects. Pioneer, future-maker. Rooting for you. voxpointllc.com
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Manda Farough 🔜 GCAP | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca Dir. of Production, Causeway. Exec. Prod. & Writer (Truck-kun, TMNT: Tactical Takedown), Strange Scaffold. Principal narrative (Terrible Lizards, GNAW). Award-nominated Multiclasser. @virtualeconcast.com cohost. Queer mama. amandafarough.ca 🇨🇦
tom is looking for work! blm. @tomabernathy.bsky.social Storyteller in games, film, theater; musician/songwriter. Dad, progressive, empathy evangelist, Braves/Seahawks/Kraken/Torrent/Storm/Sonics/GT/UW/USWNT fañ, smartass. Opines mine; facts not in dispute. He/him. 💙 #DarkWoke #NoDemUnder30k
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Tony @tony.coculuzzi.social • Programmer @innersloth.com
• Prev: Cuphead lead dev + Florence lead prog + other things
• Making cool things as @wilder.games
• Married to @farah.coculuzzi.social
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
https://tonycoculuzzi.com
Hannah Filipski 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 @leftie.bsky.social vine historian | Narrative Lead @ Bungie | prev: Destiny 2, God of War Ragnarök & Afterparty | snake mom | personal account
Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social Gamedev designer/writer/director - Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Pajama Sam, Sam & Max, Wolf Among Us, etc. Most recently, Return to Monkey Island! Currently fiddling around with a game about paper. Halloween-liker, food-maker, dad.
Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social Artist, Art Director, and Project Lead working in video games. At Double Fine Productions, leading Keeper! Past: Art Director of Brütal Legend & Broken Age, Project Lead of Stacking, Headlander, and RAD. Worked on Psychonauts 2!
https://leepetty.com/
Paul Mastroianni @paulmastroianni.bsky.social Senior Writer @ Insomniac Games
#wolverineps5 #spiderman2ps5
Big personality in the Villa. Insolent boy, slave of fashion.
Ellen Jurik @ellenjurik.bsky.social Author and mother of two small children; previously Studio Narrative Director at Blowfish Studios, Senior Producer for live games at Blowfish/Gameloft, and Game Director of Storm Boy. Feat. POTS; she/her
Jolie Menzel @jolie.bsky.social Professional Video Games Person and art hobbyist | Design Director @ Probably Monsters | Past: Night School, CDPR, The Coalition, Ubisoft SF/Osaka, Telltale | they/them | たまに日本語でもポストする
Jess Zammit @jesszam.bsky.social Games writer, reviewer, journalist, researcher, designer, producer and diversity advocate. Writer on Puzzle Quest 3/Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart. Deputy Editor @ Player2.net.au . Prev: Represent Me, Mighty Kingdom, Infinity Plus Two. She/her 🏳️🌈
Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social Narrative lead @ Obsidian Entertainment, writer, occasional photographer
katedollarhyde.com
KSOH! 🧀 @karensoh.bsky.social Senior Cinematic Designer @remedygames.com🔸 Former Blizzard, High Moon, etc. 🔸 Personal account, opinions are my own 🔸 She/Her 🔸 #StopAsianHate
🇺🇸 living in 🇫🇮
🔗 https://karensoh.carrd.co/
Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social He/him. Lead Writer/Assoc. Narra Director @Ubisoft Bordeaux - Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ghost Recon, Beyond Good & Evil 2. Prev: Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes, Atlas Fallen, Under the Waves.
Vehemently anti-GenAI
George 🕊️ @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social Senior Writer @ Failbetter Games, working on Mandrake and Fallen London. Bird-botherer, arrow-flinger, and lifter of heavy things. he/him
Greg | Causeway Studios @gregwrogers.bsky.social Creative Director @causewaystudios.com Game Designer. Writer. Storyteller. (He/Him)
Pete Stewart 🏳️🌈 @petestewart.bsky.social Award-Nominated Senior Writer @ Respawn - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor | Formerly Creative Assembly | Your FFXIV Friend | Views Mine | He/Him 🏳️🌈
John Ebenger @johnebenger.bsky.social Cinematic Director. Formerly - Destiny 2, Jedi: Fallen Order, AC: Odyssey, 3 Mass Effects and 3 Dragon Ages, etc.
Léa Talbot @leatalbot.bsky.social Lead Narrative Designer on Dune Awakening by day. 𝔈𝔡𝔤𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 by night.
Funcom, ex-Ubisoft. 🇫🇷 in 🇳🇴.
claire barilla @ceebelsy.bsky.social Publishing Producer Prev: Astra Logical, Secret Mode, RiffRaff 🍃 She/her🌱
Cherie 🏖️ @cheriedavidson.bsky.social Nerd ♡ Lover ♡ Game Midwife
Co-founder, studio director & programmer @intarsia.studio
Prev: VicScreen, Media Molecule, Mountains, Goose Game & more.
🏝️✉️🫧🌱🌌☕️🪿🏠🕺⛴️🍔🤖🐈⬛️🫳🐾🪲
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Paul O’Rourke @8ighty6ix.bsky.social Audio Director @PunchPlanet
Formerly: Double Fine
Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social Associate Game Director @remedygames.com , ex @Quantic_Dream, scifi, architecture, existential crisis and french in Finland ! He/his.
Del @del.art // Lead Character Artist @ AbsurdVentures - BAFTA Committee // Previously NaughtyDog / Respawn / Rocksteady / SEGA / PlayStation //
del.art
Gregory Pellechi @onegamedad.bsky.social TBD
Matthew Rowland @conundrum.bsky.social Systems Designer @ riffraff.games
Switch 2: SW-6355-6662-7216
Wishlist Sleight of Hand :D
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2857810/Sleight_of_Hand/
Lauryn Ash @espressocat.bsky.social Writing, Systems, & All Things Narrative • Currently rebranding and playing with my cats Mugicha and Kupoccino ☕️ ✍🏼• Formerly State of Decay, Marvel’s Avengers, and NDAAAAs • ✨ • 🎙️ 1/2 of Furidashi Podcast • she/her
Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Rourke Bywater @rourke.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Hidden Door. lesbian. 💜 procedural systems, women, folk music + art with a touch of melancholy and bitterness. Organizer @ Roguelike Celebration
🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Highdive · Game Dev since 1997 · I swear a lot ·🧂🧂🧂
She | They · 🖤🤍💜 · 🏳️🌈 · BLM · Stop AAPI Hate · 💙 · Per aspera ad astra · Do not obey in advance · #ATINY
Co-author of The Game Narrative Toolbox: https://tinyurl.com/NarToolbox
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
shelley 💤 @shelleylowe.com 🍩 刘嘉莉 • she/her • 🥝 • melb, australia
🍞 programmer @ 2pt interactive • prev brimstone, bunnyhug, league of geeks
🥟 https://shelleylowe.com/
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social Narrative Director for videogames at discoglobe.ca. MFA Creative Non-Fic student at UKC. Luddite in the historical sense. She/They www.jillmurray.com
Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social Game and Comics Writer | Destiny 2, Black Ops 6, Transphoria, Spider-Man 2 | TGA Future Class, BAFTA Connect, Forbes 30u30 | ashleypoprik.com | 🏳️🌈🦻🏻
BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social A newsletter about the game industry, by consultant, writer and former Edge editor Nathan Brown.
Sign up for free: https://newsletter.hitpoints.co/
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
✨ Production-for-hire (Massive Monster, onepixel. dog & more)
💜 Co-Founder Girl Geek Academy
🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
https://linktr.ee/lisyk
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Vida Starčević @vidaisonline.bsky.social 🌼 senior community manager @remedygames.com
🌼 time zone hater, horror stan, weeping dipshit
🌼 she/her
Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social Writer/Twin w/ maxfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer at Insomniac Games • Past: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, We Lost Our Human, Massive Chalice • Also co-host @scriptlock.bsky.social