Point-and-Click Showcase @pointclickshowcase.bsky.social A celebration of point-and-click adventures, past and future. ⭐ Organised by @amanita-design.net and @rustylake.com.
Apply now via the link below! 🖱️
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Adam Lomax @adamlomax.bsky.social they/them
i'm making games and things at my own pace
(no ai, minors dni)
Suzanne | Indiebard Trailers @indiebard.co Game Trailer Editor: Strange Antiquities, Citizen Sleeper 2, Wildermyth, Wavetale, Stray Gods, Strange Horticulture, Lakeburg Legacies, Somerville
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Email: suzanne@indiebard.co
Jaromír Plachý 💛💙 @jaromirplachy.bsky.social Games, cartoons and pictures | 🍄 @amanitadesign.bsky.social 🍄
🖤 Happy Game | 🧡 Chuchel | 💚 Botanicula |
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saint 🎠 @saintesoleil.bsky.social game dev, artist, & a mysterious third thing ✨ nonbinary ace ✨ any pronouns
human-made, always and forever
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social 📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
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Cam Collins @copperodyssey.bsky.social COPPER ODYSSEY & OTHER ARTWORKS
octobzou @boo-ris.bsky.social ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ https://www.twitch.tv/octobzou
Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social Building Flotter.io — narrative tool for story-driven game creators. Localization-first.
Pillars of Eternity / Witcher 3 / Disco Elysium / Divinity: OS | BG3 fan.
From Seoul. ESL — short posts, real talk.
→ app.flotter.io (super early build, landing soon)
Ondřej Paška @ondrejpaska.bsky.social Making impactful games with Charles Games
Based in Prague
Ben Sailer @bensailer.bsky.social Writer @unwinnable.com | Lifelong cheesehead | Bylines in New Noise Magazine, Killscreen, Noisey, Alternative Press, VMP, and other outlets | Ask about my pedalboard and I will never shut up.
Elsewhere: https://bio.site/sailerbe
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Gregory Pellechi @onegamedad.bsky.social TBD
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
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Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com The angry brown game critic who stole your girl & your PlayStation
Read my stuff!
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https://remapradio.com/author/dialacina/
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
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Digital Eclipse @digitaleclipse.bsky.social We give gaming's history the respect it deserves. Devs of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, Tetris Forever, Wizardry: PGMO, Atari 50, TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection, & more. Disney Afternoon Collection OUT NOW.
Visit us at digitaleclipse.com!
Limited Run Games @limitedrungames.com We publish physical games! Fans of indies, retro games, cult classics, and more.
https://linktr.ee/LimitedRunGames
Emilia @lazerwalker.com Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 @gcbaccaris.itch.io Game Developer | Writer | Editor 》Twine Grimoire | Harmony | TGA FC '23 | AIAS ANV '25 | @IFtechfoundation.org | Narrative Design, Localization, RPGs, CSS/HTML
🎮 gcbaccaris.itch.io
🪞 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
📚 http://ko-fi.com/grimdev/shop
Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com Great books on classic video games.
bossfightbooks.com
Latest:
● Dragon Age II by Charlotte Reber
● Life is Strange by Kaitlin Tremblay
● Legend of the River King by Alexander B. Joy
● DDR by Jessica Doyle & Jordan Ferguson
Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social • Principal Writer - Iron Man @ Motive Studio
• Comic Writer - Star Trek, Killtopia: Nano Jams, Hoax Hunters, ReincarNATE
• prev games: Jurassic Park Survival, 40K Space Marine 2, Gotham Knights
• 🏳️⚧️
• All views my own
www.ashleywritesgames.com
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Game Waifu @gamewaifu.bsky.social Anime 💟 Games 💟 Toys 💟
Corina@GameWaifu.com
AMA about my figure collection or how many detolfs I own.
ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ 🌟 ᕦ(ò ω óˇ)ᕤ
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
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💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
Corina Diaz @corecorina.bsky.social Anti-drama Queen fighting crime in a future time.
Video Games Community Builder & Marketing Strategist / Anime Aficionado / Content Creator 💫
Marketing @StudioImugi.bsky.social
Influencer & Events Mgr @SkystoneGames.bsky.social
corina@corinadiaz.com ✨
Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social Nonprofit empowering more women & other underrepresented genders in game development. Volunteer-run and based out of Montréal (Canada), we organize free career development opportunities — in-person and online.
ℹ️ http://pixelles.ca
✉️ info@pixelles.ca
Rebecca Renner @rebeccarenner.bsky.social Journalist, Novelist, Floridian 🐊 author of GATOR COUNTRY from Flatiron Books. 🐊 other words in
@NatGeo @OutsideMagazine @NYTimes etc; seeking new representation
Arman Aghbali @armanbazz.bsky.social Journalist | Producer at CBC's Understood | Reposts are a bit
RPG Site @rpgsite.net We are RPGSite.net. We're the #1 destination for role-playing video game fans & nerds. We love RPGs, so we report on them all day every day. Expect critique, news, reviews, guides, trivia & more! Operated by Double Black Ltd.
Danielle Rosen @daniellerosen.com Exhausted (former?) games journalist, writer, video producer, trans lesbian stereotype, fighting game lover, high femme disaster.
Formerly senior producer at theScore esports. Now doing Something Else.
Fix your hearts or die.
linktr.ee/daniellerosen
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
Alessandro Mascellino @amascellino.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇮🇹 British-Italian Narrative Designer 🎮 | Tech & Gaming Writer ✍️🕹️📰
👻 New game, All We Need, just released: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2490670/All_We_Need/
🌐 alessandromascellino.com
VG247 @vg247.bsky.social Eurogamer's red-headed stepbrother. Your maximum-nonsense destination for the biggest gaming news, guides, and features.
Van Dennis @vandennis.bsky.social He/his, early 30s, media writer, as seen on @unwinnable.com
Talks about movies, videogames, TV, and the Seattle mariners (and also anime, cars & lefty politics)
Paulo Kawanishi @alucarti.bsky.social ✒️ Writer @ Polygon (bylines: Eurogamer/Game Informer/Into the Spine/Nintendo Life +) 🇧🇷 📚PhD in Applied Linguistics 📧pkawanishi@gmail.com
Deirdre Coyle @deirdrekoala.bsky.social Writing, gaming, witchcraft, goth stuff. Columnist for @Unwinnable.com, editor for a fintech company. This is a Skyrim fan account.
deirdrecoyle.com
Ruth Cassidy @velcrocyborg.bsky.social games critic and journalist · excessive use of Emphatic Title Case · bylines including Unwinnable, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and more · they/them · linktr.ee/ruthvcassidy
✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social Award-winning narrative designer & writer🎮
Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games
Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱
Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex
https://brightwhitney.com
Baby Ghosts @babyghosts.org We are an educational charity supporting worker cooperatives in games and media arts across Canada. Cofounded in 2021 by eileen & jennie. 🤝👻 babyghosts.org
Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social Former Producer/Head of PR at MyDearest. Used to write about games at GamesBeat, Game Informer, Kinda Funny, Restart Dot Run, Fanbyte full time; IGN, Kotaku, Washington Post, basically everywhere freelance. Contact: imran@prosekhans.com. He/him.
Alyssa Wejebe @alyssawejebe.bsky.social Writer + Editor. Current/Previous clients: Unwinnable Monthly, Yen Press, Tapas, J-Novel Club, Ideas on Fire, Strange Horizons, ArtStation Magazine, SOLRAD Magazine + more. Tessera Editorial alum. Website: https://alyssawejebe.carrd.co/
Nix~🍉 @punklenix.bsky.social He/Him Community over profit. Streamer & kilted Himbo - I etch geekery onto glass. 47 cycles ~Trans-Rights~ Free Palestine ~
My work- linktr.ee/punklenix
JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, BAFTA, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. Originator of #WhatAGameDevLooksLike. She/they. I hope you like ferrets. 💜
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social chronic chaotic good alignment. gotta phd in english from somewhere. abolish the prisons, demolish the oil companies, wear big boots. he/him
none of my opinions are my own since you are also welcome to have them
Uppercut @uppercut.bsky.social An independent games media outlet focused on uplifting diverse voices. 
Hello, Cave Monster! @computechnosoft.com Explain to underground aliens how harmless you are, or they eat you.
🐬Please wishlist this game at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2085580/Hello_Cave_Monster/ 🦖
Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/
We’re a website about shooting games, among other things.
Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/bulletpoints
Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social Senior writer & editor for CBC News online. Won't stop talking about video games. One-time guest on the Giant Bomb @nite couch.
Bio & contact: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/author/jonathan-ore-1.3300194
Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social extremely hireable games journalist, co-host of @girlmodepod.bsky.social, @insequence.pictures, @dotzip.online and twitch.tv/parallelplayers!
🏳️⚧️she/her🏳️⚧️ | robinbombus@gmail.com | robinbea.carrd.co
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Michael Lee 🌿✨ @sab0tender.bsky.social Writer. Anime & Video Game Enjoyer.
Words at AnimeNewsNetwork, Kotaku, Polygon, Paste, Salon, Unwinnable.
🔗: https://linktr.ee/sab0tender
🖼️: @/udeta_ on Twitter!
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Press START @press-startpod.bsky.social Three Gen Z gamers and journalists break down the latest and their favorites in all things gaming. Hosted by Tori, Noah and Nathaniel.
linktr.ee/press_startpod
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com I write love letters to games you've never heard of at youtube.com/@alien_bob
He\they. 🇦🇼 in 🇳🇱
twitch.tv/alienbob
Admin of theunderscore.xyz
Makopowered Chris, PhD (he/him) @makopowered.bsky.social Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
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
Intelligame 🍉 @intelligame.us A #thoughtfulplay community where we learn about ourselves through the games we play.
Run by @wallstormer.bsky.social, posts are his.
Email: josh@intelligame.us
Live on Twitch M-Th at 9a PST: https://twitch.tv/intelligame
https://linktr.ee/intelligame
Wes Fenlon @ TGS @wes.readonlymemo.com Videogame emulation newsletter - readonlymemo.com
PC Gamer magazine
LackadaisyShow @lackadaisyshow.bsky.social The Lackadaisy Animated Film - 1920s gangster cats, updates and art!
LackadaisyShop.com
http://youtube.com/LackadaisyComic
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Charlie Wacholz 🔜 Tokyo Game Show @martinisupreme.bsky.social writer for hire traveling the world covering games, food, booze, travel, culture for IGN, CNN, Punch, Allrecipes, Gameinformer, Restart & more
READ MY FOOD BLOG: patreon.com/chas_mke
he/they | ✉️: charliewacholz@gmail.com
📍| Copenhagen, DK
RPGamer @rpgamer.com https://rpgamer.com/
Providing coverage of video game RPGs since 1998.
Rik Eberhardt @rikaru2000.bsky.social Making and playing games about complex systems. Helping students do likewise.
Games … history ... post punk … hip-hop … comix … birds ... cats ... bicycles
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
The Imaginary Engine Review @tier-review.com A journal of video games criticism co-edited by @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social and @gracemachine.bsky.social. We write from the margins to the margins.
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social freelance journalist | previously wired, axios, the verge | seen in nyt, 404 media | nyc | signal meganfarokhmanesh.76 | face god and walk backwards into hell
Wildwood Hearth & Horizon @wildwoodgame.bsky.social Former artist @ Unity. Working on Wildwood: Hearth & Horizon, an atmospheric survival game.
Wishlist on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2258490?utm_source=blsk
Nikhil Murthy @murthynikhil.bsky.social Experimental game designer currently working on Hoop Dungeon. Previous games: Syphilisation, The Quiet Sleep
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.
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
George Jijiashvili @giokinto.bsky.social Señor principal analyst covering games, AR & VR at Omdia. Chief sourdough whisperer at @fermentikitchen.bsky.social.
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
devil devito @devil.zone he/him
i post about video games and anime
game & level designer
devil devito in most games
FFXIV Nikola Aleontyna @ Omega
brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social writer | director, student affairs & success @vcfa | winner, pen/dau | tinkering on stories, tabletop games | avatar by @angrycomics.bsky.social | they/them
blog: brittlealmanac.com | words: BFS Journal, Split Lip Magazine, khōréō magazine
Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social News Contributor @ Polygon. Formerly: Associate Editor @ The A.V Club, Assistant Editor @ Paste Magazine. Bylines: GameSpot, Game Informer, Fanbyte, The Gamer, Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, But Why Tho?, etc. TCA member, Rotten Tomato-approved critic. he/him
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social Speaker. Storyteller. Director @MountSinaiNYC, Philosopher. Writer. Aspiring Iron Man. Guy trying to make the world better. Views my own.
IGDA @igda.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
Virtual Economy Podcast @virtualeconcast.com A podcast about the business of games... for the rest of us! Hosted by Mike Futter and Manda Farough. Available on all major podcasting platforms... and pocket sand.
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Alex Custodio @alexcustodio.com PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social critic / consultant / ??? @ ??? x2 ・ award nominated ・ ハーフ ・ he/him ・ 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ・ bylines: IGN, Polygon, GamesRadar+, MMORPG, Them, Inverse, Rolling Stone ・ CONTACT: kazuma.h.de@gmail.com ・ posts don't reflect employer
Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social Rowan. 30 year old Cuban-American writer. Lover of horror. Articles found on Signal Horizon and Unwinnable. Creator of Dark Intersections, the horror book review blog. (They/Them)
Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social Freelance Writer│Magazine Editor│VG & Anime Historian│🦈 fur │UK│Trans woman she/her│AuDHD │❤️ : @kitnibbles.bsky.social │Business Enq: curicuricreations@protonmail.com
More info in pinned
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Tabbeigh Cat 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tabbeigh.bsky.social Nerd thing in mom jeans. Indie game developer. Plastic brick enthusiast. Ok artist I guess. Liker of stuff. Ranter of rants. Processed in a facility that may contain puns.
🏳️⚧️ She/they
No minors, plz.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Pride month every month🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
👻🎃Everyday is Halloween🎃👻
Alex ✨ @alexbestie.com.au Probably on my phone // They/Them
👀🏳️🌈 I’m gay ahahaahahaha
✨Games Content, Game Dev & Tiktok
✨SMM+Comms Manager @theindiexp.bsky.social
✨NextPlay // Features + News @nextplayau.bsky.social
📌ANZ GAME DEV/Media List BELOW!
DMs open or heyalexbestie@gmail.com
🏳️⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social (Pronounced WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
Dave Jackson | Tales from the Backlog @realdavejackson.bsky.social He/him. Games critic and Tales from the Backlog podcast host- one game per episode, in depth, no spoilers until we warn you.
Podcast/YouTube- https://linktr.ee/talesfromthebacklog
Support- Patreon.com/realdavejackson
Lewis Davies @lewiswriting.bsky.social I write mostly about video games 😊
Blog: buttonprompt.com
Words: StartMenu, Unwinnable
Contact: thebuttonprompt@gmail.com
Astrophysicist & Weather scientist 🌤️
he/him 🏳️🌈😊 26, UK
Heather Jackson @hjacksonwrites.bsky.social Full-Time Game Writer / Part-Time Trampoline Coach / All-Weather Cyclist
Narrative Director @bloomdigital.bsky.social
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social Writer, editor, and journalist.
https://charliehallwriter.com/
Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk Award-losing freelance journalist, reporter, and consultant. Head of Community, Journo Resources
Words: Eurogamer, EDGE, GamesRadar+, The Guardian, IGN, NME, Kotaku, VICE, more ✍ he/him
Morgan Pinder @morganmushroom.bsky.social Professionally pretentious about video games, the gothic and the environment.
Not much fun at parties.
PhD Candidate at Deakin University
https://linktr.ee/mkpinder
Any pronouns.
Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social Developing 'gloriously unearthly' anticapitalist RPG @allwillrise.bsky.social. Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Games, mystery, transformative politics. Singer @terzijdehorde.bsky.social & @sunlightaltar.bsky.social