teenage engineering @teenageengineering.bsky.social teenage.engineering
Skye Chandler 🐉 @kyriel.bsky.social Game maker | storyteller | wildlife frand | Blizzard, Ex-WB, and Ex-other things
Manny “Luvs Farting” Hagopian @mannyhagopian.bsky.social Narrative Director & Writer: Titanfall 1 + 2, Star Wars JFO, Apex Legends. Co-Writer Off-Broadway Musicals: “Assistants” “The Christmas Carols”
Scott Strichart @triggerredd.bsky.social 15+ years and like 80 games in the Japanese side of the industry. Currently VO Manager at SEGA. Metaphor: ReFantazio, Yakuza, and Final Fantasy in the last decade.
Anna Cairistiona 🌺 @annacairistiona.bsky.social Singer, Illustrator & J-E Translator｜🏴→🇺🇸｜Tomoyo on YT
https://linktr.ee/annacairistiona
ProfNoctis @profnoctis.bsky.social I teach and play video games. I do both at the University of Alabama. | YOUTUBE | TWITCH | PROFESSOR
www.profnoctis.com
Business Inquiries: wade@profnoctis.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/profnoctis
SORAYA @sorayatokyo.bsky.social Writer. Artist. Former videogame creator.
Comics http://pixiv.net/users/2922449 Web http://sorayasaga.blogspot.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
Nina Penner @ninapenner.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Music, Brock University. Author of Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theatre (Indiana UP, 2020). Writer for @somanygames.co.uk. Currently thinking about the possibilities of games as a medium and how music shapes player experience.
A Winner is You Podcast @winnerisyou.bsky.social A video game podcast from the UK featuring games writers Alex Aldridge and David Smillie. We offer deep dives into the best games and yearly themes including Summer of Resi, MAYtroidvania, Spooktoberfest, March Movie Madness, and The Video Game Draft!
The Video Game Hall of Fame @vghof.bsky.social Four UK-based writers from @SegaManiaMagazine bring you a podcast that inducts the greatest video games into the Hall of Fame based on your votes!
Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social Video games & deals. I post deals which may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Epic Creator Code: Wario64
Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus @hryb.me The gamer formerly known as Xbox's Major Nelson (TGFKAXMN)
I WAS that Xbox guy from 2003-2023 (Major Nelson) - Not anymore though - I retired from Xbox in 2023.
Formerly at Unity.
Now: looking for the next challenge
🧊🍕🚽officiando
http://hryb.me
Vinny Mainolfi | FREEZE-ZX | ZX Spectrum @freeze-zx.bsky.social FREEZE-ZX™ - A Premier Gaming Zine for #ZXSpectrum Enthusiasts featuring interviews|reviews|cheats Buy @ https://freeze64.com/freeze-zx/ 🕹📺
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
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
Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social Games PR Manager and consultant for hire, co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast. Previously: Bethesda, Frontier, PC Gamer
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/
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
gril @funambulism.com Stories, games, philosophy. Jew.
Currently: Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius
Previously: PUBG: Black Budget, Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social Making online videos since 2010. Writer, presenter, editor. Find me talking games at @outsidextra.bsky.social, playing tabletop at @oxventure.bsky.social and being opinionated at youtube.com/@icklenellierose she/her, Londoner
Rhod @rhodjp.bsky.social Video games, Cycling, Kyoto, Cats.
Once built a real working Arwing.
Super Scram Kitty OUT NOW!
Katharine Neil @katharineneil.bsky.social Games writer, narrative designer, game design tool developer. Occasional waster of time on social media. @haikus_by_KN in the bad place. J'habite en région parisienne; parfois je m'exprime en français.
Ian Higton @ianhigton.bsky.social Video Producer for Insert Coin (youtube.com/insertcoinclothing), award winning streamer for Platform32 (YouTube.com/platform32). Ex Eurogamer video legend. https://linktr.ee/ianhigton
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Jon Bailes @jonbailes.bsky.social Deputy editor at Edge magazine
PhD from UCL. Author of Ideology and the Virtual City.
Freelance bylines: WaPo, Wired, Eurogamer, Guardian +
Margaret Robertson @ranarama.bsky.social Games, in Tokyo
Leo Tan @electricleo.bsky.social 20 years in the videogames industry has pushed out all real world knowledge. All that is left is Pokemon match-ups and Virtua Fighter frame data.
Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social CEO/Creative Director:
BLACK PONY IMMERSIVE
Deus Ex, Dishonored
🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Alan Wen @damisanthrope.bsky.social Still here in games print and online media
Email: alan@alanwen.co.uk
Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social Digital Editor
PhD in Medieval lit📚
Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻
Books Editor @ Exploits
Words @ Polygon, Post45, Digital Trends, Edge, etc.✏️
https://emily-price.neocities.org
inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
Liam E 🚲 🦝TGS @liambme.bsky.social Game designer in Kyoto 🗾 Co-Founder of Denkiworks. Directing & Designing TANUKI: Pon's Summer. Creator of Cursed to Golf. 🦝⚡
Kat Bailey @katbailey.bsky.social Larian Studios Storytelling Lead. Creator of Axe of the Blood God. Past: IGN News Director, USgamer Editor-in-Chief. #coyi #skol
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/
David Turner @davidturners.tcgs.co Host of The Computer Game Show
Kepler Interactive @kepler-interactive.bsky.social Kepler Interactive is a video game company and creative studio headquartered in London.
http://kepler-interactive.com
Tom Phillips @tomphillipseg.bsky.social News Editor, @IGN.com | Previously: EIC, Eurogamer.net | tom_phillips@ign.com for tips, DM for Signal
Josh Bailey @analoguenoise.bsky.social Retro hermit writing for and about video games. Making cool stuff at GamerGuides.com, and a fool of myself everywhere else.
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social Magazine killer, podcast maker.
Co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast.
The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast @backpagepod.bsky.social A video games podcast by @mrbasil_pesto and
@samuelwroberts. New episode every Friday.
Patreon.com/backpagepod if you'd like to support us. Email: backpagegames@gmail.com, Discord: http://discord.gg/nEdhNnZxXg.
CRASH magazine @crashonlineuk.bsky.social Celebrating the classic ZX Spectrum magazine CRASH, published by Newsfield. (No relation to the relaunched mag from Retro Fusion Books)
Rocket/Emmy @rocket15.bsky.social 20+, 🇨🇦, He/Him. Mostly here to follow artists and hopefully commission them when available.
Video Games as Literature @videogamesaslit.bsky.social Just a regular human writer, blogging about literary video games since 2012. Aka Ringwraith10 all over. 🏳️🌈♿ (she/her)
@videogamesaslit on most other socials.
www.videogamesaslit.com
📚 DM me to join the Literary Game Club
See also @ringwraith10.bsky.social
Mandy J Watson @mandyjwatson.bsky.social Tech-culture journalist. Copy editor. Game dev. Hire me!
World expert in South African comics (#sacomics) published after 2000.
Words: https://brainwavez.org/
Tiny games: https://mandyjwatson.itch.io/
Masked up in Cape Town, South Africa.
Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com Covering cancelled/unreleased video games and prototypes across a variety of consoles and home computers. Preserving unreleased video game history online since 1999, and longer offline.
Check out our archive and more at: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Jan Beta @janbeta.net I repair/hack/make/destroy stuff on YouTube/PeerTube.
Retrocomputing, VintageAudio, Tinkering. As unprofessional as it gets.
Chaotic good. Anti-fascist. C64 rules.
https://janbeta.net/
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
🇨🇦
No Small Games @ PAX West @nosmallgames.bsky.social 🎙️ Indie Game Recap and Review podcast
👾 Hosted by Emily @aspecificegg.bsky.social and Kate @katerblossom.bsky.social
💜 Find us wherever you get your podcasts
www.nosmallgames.com
📧 Business: nosmallgames@gmail.com
Sonic Cathedral @soniccathedral.bsky.social The label that celebrates itself
https://linktr.ee/soniccathedral
Emma Anderson @emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social Co-founder of Lush and Sing-Sing.
25th anniversary issue of The Joy Of Sing-Sing out on October 23 on Aerial Records & Kanine Records (the Americas).
innerstrings @innerstrings.bsky.social Lewes UK based video/visual artist for Overmono, James Holden, Sonic Cathedral, Sabres of Paradise, Working Men’s Club, Danalogue.
Miki Berenyi @mikiberenyi.bsky.social Bands: MB3/Lush/Piroshka
Book: Fingers Crossed
Website: mikistuff.com
Gigs: UK/EU: julia.wasielewska@roamartists.com
US/RoW: bowen@teamwass.com
PR: UK: duncan@bellaunion.com;
US: sarah.avrin@charmschoolmedia.com
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Natasha Handley @gongylusgames.bsky.social https://gongylus.co.uk/
Indie Game Developer. Awarded the Dean's Prize For Excellence In Game Art & Design from Leeds Beckett Uni.
🏳️⚧️ Trans game dev. She/her. Publish as Gongylus Games. Door enjoyer.
TCGS @tcgs.co Gaming podcasts, streams, videos and more by @davidturners.tcgs.co, @sean.tcgs.co, @mat.tcgs.co + @jcafarley.tcgs.co
patreon.com/tcgs | tcgs.co
Biz: business@tcgs.co
Jem Alexander @jemalexander.bsky.social Video games and TTRPG writer/narrative designer. BAFTA member. Improviser. Forever GM. UX writer. Immersive narratives. Neurospicy. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Currently working with Mojang and Sketchbook Games.
Portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/jemalexander
🍂 Natasha Evette 🍂 @cptnbeatrush.bsky.social ✏️ Lead Writer, Voice/Casting Director, CM Lead @ Firefly Studios
🦄Scottish
✨Develop, EGX, Indie IMPACT Speaker
💜BAFTA member
Murray Lewis @murraywrites.bsky.social Writer, narrative designer, old game enthusiast.
Previously at Vesper & Mediatonic / Epic.
Worked on Fall Guys, Murder By Numbers, PC Building Simulator + more!
ren alex-rose🌙 @archosaur.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer @ Fuse Games working on STAR WARS: Galactic Racer🌟 (prev Until Dawn 2🌴, Redwall🐭) // also writing a novel about love & loneliness || (she/they)+human
linktr.ee/archosaur_
Khan @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social Looking for my next opportunity ☆ GDC speaker 2025 & 2019 ☆ Dead Island 2, Gears: Tactics, LotRO, f2p games ☆ sasspot, ethnic mutt, tired, bi, adhd, she/her ☆ back on my Tumblr word nerditry as jetsetnarrative
Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social The UK trade union for writers in TV, film, theatre, audio, books, poetry, comedy, animation and videogames
Join us! www.writersguild.org.uk
Giles Armstrong @gilesarmstrong.bsky.social Award-nominated Game Writer; Principal Writer at Wushu Studios. Senior Writer (Co-Dev) on Helldivers 2.
Prev: 3x Assassin's Creed; Horizon Forbidden West; + *many* more.
BAFTA member, juror; ex-BAFTA Games Committee member. Views my own. He/him.
Rachel Noy 🌿 @abki.bsky.social Art Director & 3D Environment Artist for games @kaizengameworks.com. Also a Mandalorian.
🛻 PROMISE MASCOT AGENCY
『プロミス・マスコットエージェンシー』
💗 PARADISE KILLER
『パラダイスキラー』
📌 Guildford, UK | https://linktr.ee/rachelnoy
Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social creative director/writer of Crow Country, The Mermaid Mask, Tangle Tower, Snipperclips, Haunt the House. SFB Games w/@sfbtom.bsky.social
Adam@SFBGames.com
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
Pete Stewart 🏳️🌈 @petestewart.bsky.social Award-Nominated Senior Writer @ Respawn - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor | Formerly Creative Assembly | Your FFXIV Friend | Views Mine | He/Him 🏳️🌈
Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social Games Writer: Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora
Co-director @ 3-Fold Games: Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member.
Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books & films.
Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and more. Narrative Director on Battlefield. Previous Horizon Forbidden West/CalloftheMountain- Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own.
He/him. www.andrewwalsh.com
Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social Independent Game Developer – Made One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE, now working on Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart | IGF | Indie Cup | Previous EA Chillingo | Brit residing in Germany | Invisibly disabled | She/They 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.kinmoku.games
Nath @headwaregames.bsky.social Creator of Hollowbody, Chasing Static & Guard Duty.
www.headwaregames.com
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
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.
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social Making quirky little games with a lot of heart.
🖊 Senior Game Writer / Narrative Designer @ Frontier
🌟 Portfolio: https://gameswriting.coffee
🌎 https://rebeccam.carrd.co
🌟 Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics / Yooka-Replaylee
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
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social Award-winning reporter. News editor at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
Tips: chris.kerr@gamedeveloper.com / chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open / Signal: kerrblimey.43
Joshua Garrity @combinehunterjg.bsky.social Head Game Scout at Secret Mode. Formerly Team17, Fireshine. Opinions expressed here are my own. Core Keeper, Shadows of Doubt, Everything is Crab
The Greatest Story Ever Played @storyeverpod.bsky.social We are a book club style podcast focused on story driven video games. Each episode we do a deep dive into a different game.
https://linktr.ee/thegreateststoryeverplayed
Aoife Wilson @aoifelockhart.bsky.social Ee-fa. Host, writer, senior comms developer at Larian Studios. Professional nerd. Wile notions.
Lewis Speller @dysonism.lol Partner Development Manager @PlayStation - tell me about your game! 🎮
💙 Chelsea FC ⭐⭐
Posts my own opinion etc. He/him.
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
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 | Hugo, BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio sunsetvisitor.studio makes diverse narrative games through the lens of speculative fiction.
1000xRESIST | s.team/a/1675830/
Prove You're Human | s.team/a/4533950
DISCORD: discord.gg/sunsetvisitor
Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games Indie narrative games publisher. Host of #LudoNarraCon. On a journey to discover innovative story-driven games.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/fellowtravellergames
Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social news @ game developer. words @ new york times, vulture, rolling stone, the verge, wapo, npr, the guardian, vgc, pitchfork, edge, gamespot, av club, game informer, polygon, paste, fanbyte, & more
founder @ into the spine • diego6arguello6@gmail.com • he/him
Alpha Beta Gamer @alphabetagamer.bsky.social Indie games and all the latest video game Alpha and Beta tests, with new additions every day, AAA & Indie games (though mostly indie games!). Visit us at https://alphabetagamer.com and Discord: https://discord.gg/3Gtqp9BDeY
Game Makers Iceland @gamemakersiceland.bsky.social Grassroots gamedev community in Iceland. We are passionate about building a vibrant, diverse and inclusive gamedev scene 🫶
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf Independent video game developer. He/him, pretty gay 🏳️🌈
Most recently made “Sasquatchers” for the Playdate
Formerly at Telltale Games, Maxis, LucasArts, and projects for Walt Disney Imagineering
Personal blog at https://www.spectrecollie.com/
Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com Indie retro gaming book publisher. Video Game Maps series, Pixel Art Metroid, History of Rygar, + more.
Store: https://retrogamebooks.com
Contact: retrogamebooks@gmail.com
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/retrogamebooks
Discord: https://discord.gg/mY7JFNcWG6