Jaffles @jaffles-gaming.bsky.social Hey I'm Jaina! Board game enthusiast, aspiring designer, and occasional content creator.
https://linktr.ee/jaffles_gaming?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=6ed5e57b-0ca7-4105-9bfa-8c11e62e6f50
🏳️⚧️ she/her
Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social analog game maker and zine defiler (Lay On Hands, Thousand Empty Light, Cycles of the Eye, Brute Fort) - alfredvalley.itch.io
BoardGame Animal 🐕 @boardgameanimal.bsky.social Board Game Reviews, Lists, Comedy, Discussions & more! Me & my animal pals talk all sorts of board, tabletop, & card games~
https://youtube.com/@BoardGameAnimal
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social Board game designer
Nature, Evolution, Oceans, Wits & Wagers, Say Anything
Founder of NorthStar Studio
Father, plays soccer, has dogs. Interested in artistic endeavors and the long arc of history.
Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com Creative Director — Parliament
Board Games — @goodgoblet.com
Artist — SEASON
Ex-Gallerist — Carl & Sloan
Ex-Art Director — Invision
PDX 🌈
https://linktr.ee/calvinrosscarl
Matt Martens @mattmartens.bsky.social Telling stories and playing games alongside my friends at Buried Giant Studios
https://buriedgiant.com/
Chris Lawrence @chris.eternalstudios.com Board game designer and creator of Tricked Out. Avid fan of TTRPGs and indie video games. He/him
🔗 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/valormountain/super-collider-growing-groves-the-franciscan-diamond
🔗 https://chrislawrence.itch.io/propaganda
These Games Are Not For Sale @notforsalegames.bsky.social A festival celebrating tabletop games with high artistic merit and no commercial intent
Coming soon to a PAX Unplugged near you
🕯️faulkner’s buzzard🕯️ @faulknersbuzzard.bsky.social I like baseball, ancient/classical/medieval studies, monster movies, weird fiction, all kinds of games, and dialectical materialism. he/him
errand boy sent by grocery clerks
Black Pony Immersive @blackpony.com An indie studio founded by creatives from Deus Ex, Dishonored, Prey, and Just Cause. We love well-realized worlds, where your actions create memorable moments. Immersive sims forever!
James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social Game designer (co-created SE!ZE with Charles Leclerc), publisher, teacher, critic, writer, player. FRSA.
For my games, books, podcast, journalism, game design workshops, lectures, trade bodies &c., check my linktree https://linktr.ee/james.wallis
Steph Hodge! @boardgamersteph.bsky.social I like to play ALL THE GAMES!
Linktr.ee/boardgamersteph
#boardgames #boardgamegeek
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Isaac Childres @cephalofair.bsky.social Designer of board games. Father of the coolest toddler in the world. He/Him
Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games the night is for everyone
We endeavor to create beautiful, memorable tabletop games with a focus on goals and outcomes that match the complexity and curiosity of real life.
https://lunarpunk.games
https://discord.gg/RUKkAUEQ6g
CJEggett @cjeggett.co.uk The world’s most interested man // TTRPGS, Board Games, Words // Followed by all good newsagents // christopherjohneggett [at] gmail [dot] com
adapress.itch.io/
cjeggett.co.uk
City Hare Studio 🔜 Essen SPIEL 2026 @cityhare.studio The official bluesky account for my little tabletop game studio.
Only harebrained games!
Part-time game designer. Mainly specialising in print-and-play games. Publishers get in touch!
Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
https://cityhare.studio
Sandwich Tribunal @sandwichtribunal.com A kind of sandwich death panel
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Antoine Bauza @toinito.bsky.social 🎲I design boardgames (7 Wonders 🏛 Hanabi🎉Tokaido🗾Takenoko🐼Ghost Stories👻...) & publish some occasionally (@playpunk.bsky.social)✒️Sometime, I write stuff ⚔️Ttrpg enthusiast🥎Need to play padel more often… Also :🎮☕️🥋🌈🐱🐱
1 More Time Games @1moretimegames.bsky.social Abroad - SPIEL25 Release
Challengers! - Kennerspiel des Jahres 2023 & As D'Or Initié 2023
Riftforce - Kennerspiel des Jahres recommended 2021
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social Director and Writer. Recognised in #TheStage100 2021. Dad. Reviewer for @wyrdscience.bsky.social. Paints miniatures.
https://bio.site/iandgnicholson
🏴🚩zbytgorącopodwodny mirikuski @miriku.com Główny Urząd Kontroli Nieba Niebieskiego
Catacombian Games @catacombian.com Board game publisher in NYC
Colossi (card game): catacombian.com
Social Game (digital): thesocialgame.gg
Created by @johnrudolphdrexler.com
A Man Possessed is Kickstarting Rune Rite! 🔮 @amanpossessed.bsky.social The Kickstarterer of:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seahorse-hummingbird/rune-rite-flip-and-write-game
Sole Proprietor of:
https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com
Humble Custodian of:
The Cardboard Commons Discord
https://discord.gg/TjAjhjSYan
Tabletop Games Blog - board game reviews and discussions @tabletopgamesblog.com weekly board game reviews and thought pieces | German/English-English/German translations at makemygametravel.com
Blog: tabletopgamesblog.com/
Cast: tabletopgamesblog.com/podcast
Support: tabletopgamesblog.com/support
they/them
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). she/her. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
Pete @petewiss.bsky.social Midwesterner, teacher, gamer, and designer in St. Louis, MO.
Also a host on the Decision Space podcast!
Josh Wood @sirjoshwood.bsky.social Board game designer (Cat Lady, Santa Monica), game developer (Tiny Towns, Guild of Merchant Explorers), & Bluesky account holder.
Good Goblet Games @goodgoblet.com Artful tabletop games from Portland, OR.
Made by @calvinrosscarl.com, @wordblanket.com, and friends.
goodgoblet.com/witches
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Soph @sophvenus.bsky.social 29 | she/her 🌼
🎲 Lover of all things tabletop & games
🎮 @swiperightgg.bsky.social
🎤 @thetabletopnook.bsky.social
✨ Hollow Knight fan & greyhound mum
🌈 Opinions are my own!
📍 Devon
https://sophielizabeth.carrd.co/
The Tabletop Nook @thetabletopnook.bsky.social ✨ Brand-new tabletop games podcast from @sophvenus.bsky.social
🎲 Cosy chats with people in the industry
💌 Follow to be notified of new episodes, every other week!
https://bio.site/thetabletopnook
Rita🔎PostCurious @postcurious.bsky.social Designer & maker, founder of PostCurious tabletop puzzle adventures. Not great at keeping up with social media but here I am.
Mike Dunn @cozywizrd.gamingtrend.com Tabletop Editor-in-Chief for GamingTrend.com and lover of vinyl, comics, and Ween
The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social Publisher of board games that challenge the mind and lighten the heart.
https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/
You can follow Rune Rite on Kickstarter today!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seahorse-hummingbird/rune-rite-flip-and-write-game
Hawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social Tabletop design, development, and publishing. Focused on historical and wargames.
https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/
Don Eskridge @doneskridge.bsky.social Game designer, writer, editor, wanna-be coder
www.handgames21.com
Nomadotto @nomadotto.bsky.social Designer of Rex Regnat, Hench and other stuff too!
Portfolio - sites.google.com/view/damonicdesigns
Rex Regnat Print N Play - https://damonic-designs.itch.io/rex-regnat
Mighty Boards 🔜 SPIEL 3-M300 @mightyboards.bsky.social 🏆 Kennerspiel des Jahres winner 🏆
PRE-ORDER: For the Gods! ⚡️ & Yotei 🏔️
NOW AVAILABLE: 💎 Pinched! ⚔️ Red North 🛟 Tenby 🐉 Fateforge 🏰 Rebirth 🖼️ Art Society & more.
www.mighty-boards.com
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Tettix Games @tettix.bsky.social Official page for Tettix Games, creator of Deep Regrets. Personal Demons coming to KS in 2026! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tettix/personal-demons
NOTE: UK age restriction blocks my access to DMs. Email me.
tettixgames.com
Mollie Russell @spookysyntax.bsky.social Scream Queen at Wargamer. Autistic. South Wales poet and facilitator. Nerd for gaming, horror, music, and literature. She/Her.
Outlandish Games @outlandishgames.bsky.social Defenders of the Wild 2nd Edition & Critter Moon Expansion is coming this fall! 🍂 Preorder: https://www.allplay.com/board-games/defenders-of-the-wild
W. Eric Martin | Board Game Beat @index.wericmartin.com.ap.brid.gy Board Game Beat post feed.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.wericmartin.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social He/Him, lefty, boardgames, tabletop gamer, #terrain maker, 3d printing stuff, occasional #minis painter.
Luddite re: plagiarism machines
Coincidence @coincidence.games Coincidence is a cooperative game studio created by ex-Zachtronics developers. Zach Barth is no longer teaching high school and is making games again.
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@redravengames.bsky.social @redravengames.bsky.social 
Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social Official account of the Tabletop Game Designers Association. More information at ttgda.org
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social An academic publisher of scholarly and educational games | https://linktr.ee/clgs | Our Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning series is open for submissions: https://cmichpress.com/scholarshiplore/
Buried Giant Studios @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social Beautiful, interactive board games with expressive systems, emergent gameplay, and player-centered storytelling. 🎲 Oath: New Foundations 📜 Arcs: Beyond the Reach 🚀
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social world’s #1 cause and effect fan
i makea da board game video
youtube.com/@timfactorial
he/him
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Mr. Bistro @mrbistro.bsky.social I do writing and marketing stuff at Plaid Hat Games. Linoleum enthusiast. Amateur toast maker.
Brother Ming 🔜 ANYC Booth 1951 @brotherminggames.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/brotherminggames
| Board Game Designer and Publisher
| Made Genshin Tarot, Re;ACT & many more
| ACAB - BLM - ABOLISH ICE - FUCK AI ART
TableTapas Games @tabletapasgames.bsky.social I'm Nahv, half of TableTapas Games. We are a small, independent publishing company focused on games with shared incentives and high player interaction. Our games have bite!
https://linktr.ee/tabletapasgames
intertextual experience @intertextuality.bsky.social A slightly atypical interview-based podcast.
The show helps explore many of the interests I have, including board and all things creating. Listenable everywhere—Linktree attached: https://linktr.ee/vodpodprod
Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press Creator of the ENNIE-nominated Exclusion Zone Botanist. Writer at Skeleton Code Machine: https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com 💀 #MÖRKTOBER
🩻 Get TUMULUS: tumulus.exeunt.press
🎲 Buy printed games: shop.exeunt.press
👀 Behind the scenes: omnes.exeunt.press
Andrew Bucholtz @andrewbucholtz.bsky.social Editor, Bucholtz Sports Media, at andrewbucholtz.com. Editor, Conflicts of Interest Online, SDHistCon. Past work at Awful Announcing, Yahoo, and more. andrew@andrewbucholtz.com.
Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io Game designer, musician, software engineer.
https://blinks.github.io/
Philip duBarry @pdubarry.bsky.social Designer of board games: Revolution!, Black Orchestra, Citizens of the Spark, Snowcrest, and others. Anti-Fascist Christian (but I repeat myself).
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/
Artur Carvalho @arturnottheking.bsky.social Brazilian-French 🇧🇷🇫🇷 Game designer🃏
Ph.D in Modeling & Simulation.
I like to explore the frontier between modern board games and simulation games (wargames/conflict simulation), focusing on how to improve pedagogy instead of reducing complexity.
M. Ward @aveknots.bsky.social Making games if able.
https://linktr.ee/aveknots
Quinn Brander @quinnbrander.bsky.social Big into designing games and making music
Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social Co-owner of Rascal News. Tabletop and internet culture journalist. Avoiding unhealthy use this time around.
✉️: chase@rascal.news
https://www.rascal.news/
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
NUTS! PUBLISHING @nutspublishing.bsky.social A publisher of beautiful and innovative family and euro boardgames and wargames.
https://www.nutspublishing.com/eshop/wargames-en
jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
🫥 Mikey 🫥 @michaelmiles3.bsky.social ER doc 🚑. Board games 🎲. Pinball 🪩. Movies 🍿. 🏳️🌈 (He/Him)
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Rantasmo @rantasmo.bsky.social Important Homosexual. Host of Needs More Gay. He/Him
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rantasmo
My interactive novel: https://www.choiceofgames.com/hearts-choice/eternal-affairs/
Champions…of Digression! @titanupthedefense.bsky.social A social media account of the podcast Champions…of Digression! in which hosts Hub (he/him) and Cory (he/him) get loopy and talk about comics. Or other things.
Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
Rogue @rogue.site A video game website run by humans.- A @akarsb.bsky.social @akarsb.bsky.social
#Block Collective @blockcollectives.bsky.social #Block Collective is a volunteer-run community with the united goal of sharing resources, disrupting bigoted spaces, and serious engagement on the topic of trans rights.
Join us as we help shape the boardgame industry into a safer and inclusive space.
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Sidhant Chand @sidhantchand.bsky.social Game Designer from India | sidhantchand.com | zenwoodgames.com
cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social girl from internet
https://linktr.ee/casstherockwillson
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Kenna Alexander @kennaalexander.bsky.social She/her 🏳️⚧️, ᏣᎳᎩ⭐⚪️🟠, game designer, writer, super far left, nerd, goth/punk, futurist, SFWA member. I work daily to find a better me and to put a little good into the world. Company: coyoteandcrow.net
Sean Ross @seandavidross.bsky.social I make the card games I wish had always existed. (he/him)
https://www.patreon.com/seandavidross
@rcampbell04.bsky.social @rcampbell04.bsky.social Creator of Cards Unbarred, a YT channel about rules videos for card games. Co-host of Trick Talkers podcast. 1/4 of the Portland Game Collective. Designer of Compendiums.
Team Snafu & SDT @snafustore.bsky.social Club de wargames Team Snafu i editorial de jocs de simulació històrica Snafu Design Team. En actiu des de 1992.
Michael Yang @justgravyllc.com Game Dev 🃏 | Software Engineer 👾 | AOW Scuba Diver 🪼 | Designer of Compile | justgravyllc.com
Michael Barnes @displacermb.bsky.social Former board game writer, now musician trying to finish something like 150 absolute synthpunk/thrashpop/doomgaze bangers. Absolutely anti-fascist, anti-bigot, anti-capitalist 100% of the time.- N Non-Breaking Space @nbsp1618.bsky.social Defender of orphans and widows, defenestrator of conventions and harbinger of the post-grog.
https://nbsp1618.games
Max Davie @maxdavie.bsky.social ADHD in every sense. Trustee and co-founder at ADHDUK. Paediatrician.
Writing about games and books at https://playandwords.substack.com/
He/him
Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com Stonemaier Games is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier Games’ top brands include Viticulture, Scythe, Charterstone, Wingspan, and Apiary.