UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social 
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018
Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights”
Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/
Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
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/
Lady Queet @ladyqueet.bsky.social Lady Queet is a music producer, singer, songwriter and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. Owner of Picture Perfect Entertainment. #MusicSky #WhoIsYourFavoriteFemaleRapper
instagram.com/iamladyqueet
Rachel Heleva @hlywa.bsky.social games, systems, verse @ http://singlab.org
building the future of playable culture @ http://themade.org
scouting games & supporting teams @ https://tophat.studio/
curating convos & events @ gamesbeat.com
Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social Oakland's All-Playable Video Game Museum! Community powered. - 921 Washington St., Oakland, CA 94612. - https://www.themade.org
Matthew Cavener @matthewcavener.bsky.social I like graphs. And Borges. And narrative design. And bells, and bronze. And psychopomps, and Saints, and Crossroads, and Tricksters, and Towers.
I also occasionally make video games! and, rarely, even release them!
Bitpart AI @bitpartai.bsky.social The Bitpart AI Director & multi-agent planner power Archetypes, bringing game worlds to life.
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
Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social An artist on a bike in Minneapolis. Games at @noblerobot.bsky.social Co-host Nice Games Club.
📺 Blippo+ [IGF 2026 Grand Prize/Nuovo nominee]
🗣️ Glom
🟨 Noble Engine
🧦 Widget Satchel
🏬 [THINGS UPCOMING]
https://noblerobot.com
https://nicegames.club
@cabbibo.bsky.social @cabbibo.bsky.social 
Colleen Macklin @colleenmacklin.bsky.social Prof @ Parsons NYC, game designer, lapsed bagpipe player. Colleenmacklin.com
ArchaeoPlays @archaeoplays.bsky.social They/them. Disabled/chronically ill Minecraft YouTuber, & archaeologist (aka: Dr. Heather Christie). Early medieval Scotland specialist & glass bead nerd. Lead Researcher for Carved in Stone. https://linktr.ee/archaeoplays | email: archaeoplays@gmail.com
Lucas White @hokutolucas.bsky.social Writer/Co-Founder? - Managing Editor at @skyboxcritics.com, Freelancin’ at Shacknews, Kotaku, more? Formerly Prima Games and other stuff - inquiries can go to lucasw1989@gmail.com or lucas@skyboxcritics.com
System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social Jef & Jon. Hosts of the System Mastery podcast and more. Reviewing old TTRPGs, bad movies, Star Wars novels, and whatever else we get opinionated about.
Authors of Düngeonmeister and The Düngeonmeister Cookbook
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
violet "big nasty truck" bignastytruck @bignastytruck.bsky.social coding is shit graphic design is shit all i want is revenge
https://bignastytruck.neocities.org/
https://bignastytruck.itch.io/
https://dogtoothguppyfish.neocities.org/
he/she/they
making autobio & short fiction games, game poems, and zines
Z 💤 @alpineweather.bsky.social Game Design MFA @ DePaul. I make games and play them, love baseball too much, and also occasionally share pics of my cats 🐈
Fiona Shyne @fiabot.bsky.social I am a Ph.D Student at Northeastern University studying computational tools for Table Top Role Playing Games.
Richard Zhao @richardzhao.bsky.social Researcher, Educator, Citizen.
Associate Professor @UCalgary.bsky.social - Serious Games, AI. Posts are my own and do not represent organization.
http://richardzhao.com
Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social ☆ CS PhD student @ ualberta
☆ indie game dev + technical games researcher
☆ rhythm game fan, writer & composer
☆ infernal cape haver
☆ (she/her)
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social I run the Narrative Intelligence Lab at U Kentucky where I do research and teach about storytelling, old school symbolic AI, and game dev. http://cs.uky.edu/~sgware
M Charity @mastermilkx.bsky.social Just a they/them programmer | Assistant Professor at University of Richmond
Github: http://github.com/MasterMilkX
Itch: http://mastermilkx.itch.io
DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social Retired physics prof, forever lefty political nerd. Born at 315 ppm. In a relationship. Reform the Democratic Party! NO NO NO on the SAVE Act!
Reconstitute ICE - you can't make good ICE from polluted water!
Timothy Hines @timothy-hines.bsky.social Film Director - 10 Days in a Madhouse (Christopher Lambert) Tomorrow's Today, (Kelly LeBrock), War of the World's The True Story, The Wilde Girls (Cali Scolari, Lydia Pearl Pentz, Teddy Smith) in theaters 2025, Annie Oakley, If You Only Knew.
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social DOGE-displaced former civil servant technologist. Now does blood draws and physicals for a living.
they/she. 🚄🏳️🌈
https://lucenguyen.com
Nichelle Henderson @nshlh.bsky.social LA Community College Trustee | Teacher | LA County Quality & Productivity Commissioner | Cal State faculty & union organizer | Wife, mom & grandma
https://www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/nichellehenderson
Nolan Higdon @nolanhigdon.bsky.social https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/, author, lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz, & Project Censored National Judge
Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social - Director/Designer/Writer/Artist The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
- Museum & Curation Lead @ The Made
- Spoke @ GDC
- New Game SoonTM
Formerly:
- Co-Pres @ GDAC @ UCD
- Intern @ Magihack Games
- Writer/Artist Deitrus
Christian!
Anne Sullivan @annetropy.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Computational Arts, York University 🇨🇦
Jacob Garbe 💀 @logodaedalus.bsky.social Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer.
Views my own.
Arunpreet Sandhu @candhusandhu.bsky.social Just a dude trying to code and feed some cats.
Christina Fellina @christinafellina.bsky.social Librarian, history nerd, book lover, traveler, fella, #NAFO, Slow Response Brigade. Blue dot, red state. Xitter refugee. #Resister. #RussiaIsATerroristState
Please, no DMs unless you ask first.
Final Fantasy Union @ffunion.bsky.social Exploring Final Fantasy in our typical granular style on YouTube.
"You guys know a lot" - Naoki Yoshida
Our New Book Is 'Coming Soon' To Kickstarter: https://bit.ly/gotcyt
Catch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FinalFantasyUnion
Rodrick Landess @rodricklandess.bsky.social 
Eliza McCord @elizammccord.bsky.social iu ‘26
DAAD USA @daadusa.bsky.social Promoting "Change by Exchange" in North America for over 50 years. Follow us to learn more about opportunities to study, intern, and research in Germany!
Ella Poore 💙 @ella-poore.bsky.social 38 yr old, wife, catmom, artist, liberal, gamer, witchy, she/they
bikedmc @bikedmc.bsky.social Doxie Freak- is there really anything sweeter than a little doxie wiener?
@stevemccord.bsky.social @stevemccord.bsky.social 
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
Cirno @cirno.quest I have permission to post all Cirnos. Feel free to ask for source.
I have a website: https://cirno.quest/
Not sure what to do with it though
pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/59337025
Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social Unaffiliated researcher, retired software guy. Interested in computational models of natural complexity, especially collective motion and camouflage coevolution. Graphics, animation, evolutionary computation.
https://www.red3d.com/cwr/
Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social Assistant Professor IGM at RIT. AI for games and storytelling.
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
Mike Treanor @mike-treanor.bsky.social Games / Computational Media, Music. American University. Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
Benjamin Stokes @benjaminstokes.net Media professor and designer at American University. Scholar of play and community empowerment. Democratizing design for stronger places. Book: LOCALLY PLAYED.
Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com That Scottish AI and games guy...
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Founder of @aiandgames.com
Game AI Programmer & Consultant
Public speaker, educator, nuisance
BAFTA Connect
He-Him, PhD
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Weekly Newsletter: aiandgames.com
YouTube: youtube.com/@aiandgames
BlizzardENT @blizzardent.bsky.social 
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com Science mercenary and magical thinking rock enthusiast. I mostly talk about data, AI, and games.
Consulting inquiries: https://www.warpefelt.com/- Y Markus Eger @yawgmoth.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Teaching in Computational Media@UCSC
Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social 🔬 Lead Researcher, Overwatch | Blizzard
🎓 PhD human factors psych
🐝 Previous Amazon Games, Georgia Tech Research Scientist
👾 #GUR #HCI
🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list"
💬 my own thoughts/opinions
🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
Adam Summerville @autumnsburg.bsky.social He/Him. PCG Person -- @ CD Projekt Red, formerly a professor at Cal Poly Pomona
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social Official account of the AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
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