Nico Roblin @nicoroblin.bsky.social Freelance art director > board game graphic design, photography.
Undercover cultist of our lord and saviour Ktulu
Board games : www.behance.net/nicolasroblin1
Photo : www.instagram.com/nico.roblin
Mark Herman @markherman54.bsky.social Professional Game Designer
Mitchell Land @tkdland.bsky.social 
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | childrenโs books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Wil Alambre @wilalambre.bsky.social Unintentional loaf of bread, for scale.
https://wil.alambre.ca
70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social Buy my art book: https://linktr.ee/70sscifiart
Publishers Weekly says my "obvious love for the form animates the volume." And my second book is out Fall 2027! Sign up for my newsletter at the link.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social Reporter in Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ
https://caolan.report/
Hawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social Tabletop design, development, and publishing. Focused on historical and wargames.
https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/
Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social Dorky antitrust economist with an interest in sports economics, athletes' rights, and way too many boardgames.
W. Eric Martin | Board Game Beat @index.wericmartin.com.ap.brid.gy Board Game Beat post feed.
๐ bridged from โ https://www.wericmartin.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ignacy Trzewiczek @trzewik.bsky.social 
W. Eric Martin @wericmartin.bsky.social Publisher and founder of Board Game Beat: independent board game news, reviews, essays, interviews, and more. Visit the site at https://www.wericmartin.com
Rodney Smith @rodneysmith.bsky.social โCome on, just letโs goโ
James Buckley @jsbuckley.bsky.social Founder of Sapper Studio - a tabletop game design and development studio. https://www.sapperstudio.com/
Interested in all things wargamey - both professional and hobby fields.
Soren Johnson @sorenjohnson.bsky.social Founder of MohawkGames. Designer of Civ 3, Civ 4, Dragon Age Legends, Offworld Trading Company, and Old World. Still a Mouth Breather.
Milda Matilda Games @mildamatildagames.bsky.social She/her.
Amateur hour board game designer and publisher.
Turncoats, Pax Penning, and Hell-Raisers.
Dentist at times. 
LunCon/Swecon 2025 fantasy- och science fiction-kongress i Lund @luncon-sfkongress.bsky.social LunCon/Swecon 2025 fantasy- och science fiction-kongress/litteraturfestival 10-12 oktober pรฅ Stadshallen i Lund.
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from โKill Switchโ, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social Author of the Nexus trilogy. Climate tech investor, author, and activist. Optimistic about the future. 
Wharf Rat Games @wharfratgames.bsky.social Wharf Rat Games designs, markets, and produces high-quality, innovative games with engaging themes and exceptional components. www.wharfratgames.com
Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Published Game Designer, Developer, Educator.
MFA graduate from NYU Game Center.
Designed High Tide ๐, Dino Racer ๐ฆ, Wildberries ๐ซ, and more!
https://www.marcelineleiman.com/
Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), original Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
Nathan Forget @nathan.games I make games
Rachel Billingsley @rachellynnyo.bsky.social Director of Marketing at GMT Games. Nature enthusiast. Coffee lover. Human.
Martin Grider @grd.bsky.social Independent game designer and developer, doing iOS development since 2008. Game releases at http://abstractpuzzle.com, bibliography at http://martingrider.name, development blog at http://chesstris.com, follow me on https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grid
Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social Boardgame designer, blogger, teacher etc. Blocks are not endorsements
Im in here.
www.spielbar.com
Nick Bentley Makes Games @nickbentley.bsky.social Posts about game design. Director of Game Design at Taco Cat Games (Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza), former President of Underdog Games Studio (The Trekking Trilogy), former Neuroscientist.
Chaos-Goat @chaosgoat.bsky.social 1/4 designer of Vijayanagara, mod of a gajillion discords, roguelike enthusiast
Multi-Man Publishing @multimanpublishing.bsky.social Founded in 1995, producing Advanced Squad Leader and other historical board wargames. Comments do not necessarily represent the views of MMP.
Guy Warley @warls.bsky.social Illustration/concept design
Working on Kenshi 2
https://linktr.ee/guywarley
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
NUTS! PUBLISHING @nutspublishing.bsky.social A publisher of beautiful and innovative family and euro boardgames and wargames.
https://www.nutspublishing.com/eshop/wargames-en
Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social Posting human made Sci-Fi art
My band ๐ All India Radio https://linktr.ee/allindiaradioband
https://linktr.ee/Scifiart
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Shimmellema @shimmellema.bsky.social He/Him. Passing the time to pass the time. Go bills. Donโt put people on pedestals. My name is for my friends. Go Sabres.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Rob Turpin ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social Available for personal and commercial work.
Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays โ โ๏ธ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
beth @bethsobel.bsky.social sometimes I draw stuff
anti fascism, protect trans lives, pro vaccine, pro choice, pro expanded gun control, pro universal healthcare, and I have never and will never use Gen AI on purpose.
she/her
The Interactive Fiction Competition @ifcomp.org Since 1995, the IFComp is an annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
Part of the IF Tech Foundation.
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
Prehistorica (Christian M.) @prehistorica.bsky.social Invertebrate Palaeontologist and Palaeoartist from Ontario. Cambrian enthusiast. Worshipper of Omnidens. he/him.
Joe Dewhurst @joedewhurst.bsky.social Boardgame designer, developer, and occasional player. Carrying a new world in my heart.
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com The official Bluesky account for BoardGameGeek
Brooks Barber @rollplusfun.bsky.social Tabletop game designer - mostly historical but not always. Designer of Sykes-Picot from Hollandspiele. Forthcoming games Threed, Spindletop, and Painkillers. Co-founder of Hawk & Dove Games.
https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/
Fort Circle @fortcircle.bsky.social Publisher of historical board games.
Nils Johansson @zweigefuhle.bsky.social Artist ๐ France.
Nerdissimo for paper simulations, History gaming and all things maps. #boardwargames
Bio + Art samples:
https://armchairdragoons.com/nilsj/
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameartist/51906/nils-johansson/linkeditems/boardgameartist
Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io Game designer, musician, software engineer.
https://blinks.github.io/
Charles Vasey @charlesvasey.bsky.social Funkmaster C, bespoke designer of games to the gentry. Descended in the true line. Clubs: Old St Todgers and Junior Confidence Trickster
Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social Professor of Mathematics; Chemical & Biological Engineering, UW-Madison. I dig biological fluid dynamics, soft matter physics, and numerical methods. APS DSOFT Vice Chair. Vijayanagara (GMT Games).
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~spagnolie/
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Asmadi Games (Chris) @asmadigames.bsky.social We make cool games! One Deck Dungeon + Galaxy, We Didn't Playtest This, Innovation, and more. Playing games is fun, and we want everyone to be able to have fun.
Account managed by Chris.
Jason Carr @maudineormsby.bsky.social Director of Development at GMT Games
๐ฅง suzanne ๐ฅง @425suzanne.bsky.social tabletop games + app games + pie + AsAm Adoptee + She/Her = ruining games one skeet at a time. as seen on History's The Toys That Built America. hates puns - but in a fun way. @saltandsass.bsky.social. i keep 3 things: secrets, promises, and grudges.
Joel Eddy @drivethrugames.bsky.social Substack - https://drivethrugames.substack.com/
BGG username - eekamouse
Pierre Vagneur-Jones @pierrevj.bsky.social 
Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social he/him | Listening | Learning | BoardGameGeek Community Manager | Bills Fan | Whack-a-Mole Champion of the Universe | Coffee Please |
David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social Mental health awareness advocate. Down syndrome advocate. Game designer.
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Leder Games @leder.games We are a spunky indie board game publisher with asymmetric tendencies. Saint Paul, MN | Our games: Vast, Root, Fort, and Ahoy! www.ledergames.com
Scott Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social Game player, Loud talker, Wargame designer, JP>EN translator, Amateur linguist, Gundam head, Divorced father, Inert revolutionary, Program uncoordinator
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social Boardgame enthusiast, podcaster, books: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Universe Explained with a Cookie games: Versailles 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He/him
https://open.substack.com/pub/gametek
GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social GMT Games is celebrating 35+ years of creating and publishing a broad line of Wargames, Strategy games, Eurogames, and Family games.
mischa_u @mischau8.bsky.social OSINT, GameDev, Rally the Troops! module dev.
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.
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan ๐ชถ, Tussie Mussie ๐, Mariposas ๐ฆ, The Fox Experiment ๐ฆ, Picky Pixie ๐งโโ๏ธ, Undergrove ๐, and Sanibel ๐).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
Fred Serval @fredserval.bsky.social I make games.
ใใกใทในใใซใชใใใใ่ฑใฎๆนใใใทใ
https://youtube.com/@HomoLudens1871
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
The Spaceshipper ๐ @thespaceshipper.com "One of the great film nerd Twitter accounts" - Vanity Fair
99% space fiction (licenses) and its creation.
Here are all my accounts: http://linktr.ee/thespaceshipper
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Hollandspiele @hollandspiele.bsky.social Dinosaurs everybody. Posts by Mary, who along with @amabel.bsky.social runs Hollandspiele, a publisher of weird games for weird people.
https://hollandspiele.com
https://youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patrick Leder @patrickleder.bsky.social Owner and President of Leder Games. Spouse and father of 2 adorable humans. He/Him
Watch It Played @watchitplayed.bsky.social I make videos that help you discover, learn and play board games - find your next new favorite game here!
Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social History Nerd, political junky, Hill rat and historical board game designer. 
Heavy Cardboard @heavycardboard.bsky.social The podcast & YouTube channel dedicated to the discussion & enjoyment of medium & heavy strategy board games, wargames, & 18XX! Made possible by The Herd.
Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games Publishing beautiful history board games.
Pax Pamir โง John Company โง Molly House
linktr.ee/wehrlegig
Pijus Krลซminas @pijusk.bsky.social Associate professor at ISM, Lithuania. Wargaming, game theory, comparative politics, economics), blogs about wargaming at: https://pijus.substack.com/
SDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social The San Diego Historical Games Convention. Check out everything on our in-person and online conventions, our Conflicts of Interest Online articles, and our annual Summit Award at www.sdhist.com.
Volko @volko.bsky.social Historical boardgame designer. โegan.
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/
Alexander @playersaidalex.bsky.social co-founder, and shirt wearer of The Players' Aid
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgDa9S8nnVLxXPzjBX8WMg
Dan Bullock @danbullock.bsky.social Analog game maker (1979, In the Shadows, Bowie, Penitent & more) Game Design Deep Dive pod. Fmr Scarring Party bandleader. he/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Stuart Ellis-Gorman @drcrossbows.bsky.social Medieval historian, crossbows and the Hundred Years War. Author of The Medieval Crossbow (2022) and Castillon (2025).
Freelance writer/editor/proofreader, occasional game designer. Reviewer of books and games.
Website: www.stuartellisgorman.com
Kyle Ferrin ๐งโโ๏ธโ๏ธ @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social Illustrator, Game player, and friendly guy in general. he/him.
Eustace from OVER/UNDER
๐โจNot currently taking commissions, sorry!โจ๐ KyleFerrin.bigcartel.com
Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social She/her. "Widely considered one of todayโs most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker
Board games: https://hollandspiele.com
video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland
sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social ๐ฒ Board Game Designer
๐ Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire