Might and Delight @mightanddelight.bsky.social Video game developers behind Twinkleby, Book of Travels, Shelter, and more.
Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social Technologist obsessed with complex adaptive systems. Co-founder and CEO of @commonfabric.com
komoroske.com
Common Fabric @commonfabric.com a social computing lab
Join the waitlist: https://commonfabric.com
sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social gamewitch @ sylvie.website 🐈
sylvieish half of love ❤ game @ https://love-game.net
Ihor Komnatskyy @komnatskyy.bsky.social Doctoral Fellow @ Warwick Psychology.
Present focus: player-avatar relations.
Broader interest: games/technology & wellbeing.
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
Nick Ballou @nballou.bsky.social Early career research fellow at Imperial College London - video games, trace data, adolescents, mental health, open research.
W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social Arthur (佢/he/they)
Neurodivergent game dev, photographer and crystallographer
Brighton-based Hong Konger 🇬🇧🇭🇰
Games: https://aryl-ether.itch.io
Carrd: https://wharthur.carrd.co
blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social I do a lot of stuff because my brain has too many chemicals. 1994 ⚧ it/its
I have 12 birthdays a year because of a medical mishap: https://youtu.be/OEirbqQjynU
https://suricrasia.online/
Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social In(ter)dependant researcher and toolmaker. Currently inventing programmable ink @inkandswitch.com
Living in Paris
https://www.marcelgoethals.com/
Eli Wallis @eliwallis.bsky.social eliwallis.mmm.page/
listener & noisemaker ● ardentepatience.bandcamp.com/ ● softboilgames.itch.io ● letterboxd.com/Dreadringer/ ● poems & games
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social www.awkwardsilence.co.uk/
Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social Awaiting faster-than-light travel
Website: https://tachyonart.neocities.org/
For commission info or to say hi, please email tachyonart@gmail.com
Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social Ⓐ angry skeleton in waiting.
Sounds on @flimsyrituals and games with @furtiveshambles.
actual dr, phd personal games.
trans, they/he, 34 🍞🌹
Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social Author, artist, interactive designer.
Hopes you are mostly happy.
She/they
https://www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/
https://ko-fi.com/vivschwarz
https://linktr.ee/vivschwarz
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social Angeline Era out NOW!! Stream Vhoebe - Amothers Lov EP! Blog with Zonelets! Anodyne, Even the Ocean, Sephonie dev w/ @hantani
Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social Indie game dev and design consultant. Prev. Lead Champ Designer on Riot's 2XKO, Spry Fox, Kongregate, SuperBot, UW CSE PhD. Cursed problems, player mythologies, immersive designer, game master, dad, a lot of sincerely giving a shit. alexjaffe.games
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
n3rdybirdy | Susi Bauer @n3rdybirdy.bsky.social Bilingual, bisexual chaotic good hobbit | ADHD & Games Industry | Loves D&D, tea, hikes, etymology, puns & cats (She/They)
Crab Fragment/Cheapass Games @crabfragment.bsky.social Tabletop game design studio of James Ernest (designer of Tak, and classic Cheapass Games such as Kill Doctor Lucky and Unexploded Cow).
Website: https://crabfragmentlabs.com/
Feed managed by co-owner Carol Monahan.🦀
grant @grantcuster.com Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at http://constraint.systems. He/him. grantcuster.com
Chloe Mashiter @chloemashiter.bsky.social game-designer / performer / creative technician. Agender (they/he/she). Sometime organiser of community funding dinners
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.social We are a written blog and YouTube Channel that discuss all kinds of great historical games and wargames. Visit the blog at theplayersaid.com and our YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/@theplayersaid?si=vRe0IU0jJ1142gnF
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.
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
Verbante @verbante.bsky.social play echo chaser: https://verbante.itch.io/echo
i like using pico8 / godot
https://verbante.itch.io/
he/him
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!
Serenade @serenade.games We put on alternative games events!
Next: ???
Prev: FORM, Tangents @ Sabby ALT: EX @ Powerhouse ALT: GAMES, #gameaweeksyd2025, Serenade Showcase @ #SXSW Sydney 2023, Games Spaces for Static Vision, Ink Jam Sabby https://serenade.games
Sally 🔜 AdventureX @sirin.bsky.social Co-founder @tarinoi.bsky.social - an upcoming narrative design platform for the full game lifecycle
software dev + ui/ux + game tools • lifts things • svenska med fel och allt
🔹prev: tools engineer @ za/um
🔸now: building cool things @ https://tarinoi.com
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch Designer making games and other playable things at @playables.net. Pocket Boss (out now! pocketboss.ch), KIDS, Plug & Play, Rakete, Drei and more: mariov.ch
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Buket Ozdemir @buketozdemirr.bsky.social phd student @rutgers bloustein school | political economy of urban development at the intersection of waste & housing | SOAS alum
Rook @boxen.bsky.social they/he, queer, white, 28. Kestrel in Baseline Drift.
Diana Jones 2025 Emerging Designer finalist.
Still masking and making stuff.
NO AI. FREE SUDAN, FREE CONGO, FREE PALESTINE. FUCK ICE.
https://rookfeld.com/
https://rookthegremlin.itch.io/
November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social podcastress. she/her but they/them if you’re mad at me. Trashfuture/Well There’s Your Problem/Kill James Bond/No Gods No Mayors/Be Gay Solve Crimes available wherever podcasts are sold
Lyla @lyla.bsky.social TTRPG designer | Cosmere RPG Director | go.jarofeyes.com/jukebox | jarofeyes.substack.com | ❤️🔥 co-op houses ceramics | RPCV | she/her
Katie Biittner @kbiittner.bsky.social Associate Professor (Anthropology) at MacEwan University. Tier 2 Chancellor's Research Chair. Archaeologist. Archaeogamer. Queer. Polyam/RA. Matriarch. She/They.
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)
Danny Hawk @dannyhawk.com making games, adjuncting in nyc, part of boshi’s place. dannyhawk.com
jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social Writer and game designer, former outdoor educator, multidisciplinary artist, mushroom forager in the wintertime. Winner of Diana Jones Emerging Designer Award and co-winner of Indiecade Best Live Game.
Support my work: patreon.com/jeeyonshim/membership
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingertips
and turn my flittery feelings into multimedia.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / hrt 🏳️⚧️
ab 🇨🇦
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
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/
tor-in-the-mud @toothandshore.bsky.social writer / collagist / ttrpg maker in london
https://tori-truslow.itch.io/
follow Kraldum on Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/tooth-and-shore/kraldum
Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recurse.com. azzajew. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first software, atproto, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae.
🌐 https://jakelazaroff.com
Recurse Center @recurse.com The retreat for curious programmers.
Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.
📝 Applications are open!
🔗 https://www.recurse.com/
📍NYC | Online
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Mimi Reyburn @mimi.computer Researcher @inkandswitch.com
all views are my own (she/her)
London, UK
chee rabbits @chee.party your biggest fan
https://chee.party
i'm your girlfriend
feeling of computing london @feelingof.london • https://feelingof.london
• https://luma.com/foclondon
• https://buymeacoffee.com/feelingofldn
pvh @pvh.ca just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Peregrine Coast Press @shop.peregrinecoast.press Roleplaying ephemera from the land of the paper-freaks.
Based in Leeds, UK. Run by Eryk, Jamila, and Laura.
https://peregrinecoast.press
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
YoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social Playing history. Filmmaker and Designer of “Chicago ‘68” and “The Nights of King Ludd”
davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com indie gamedev in japan • mixolumia • executive golf dx • core fault
wei ting chia @anothernoodle.bsky.social Illustrator and Game Designer
https://weiting-things.notion.site/portfolio
tapesclub @tapes.club making music, art, games, etc.
https://patrickhart.org
https://tapes.club
Callum @steelesound.bsky.social Game audio, procedural music, maker of strange sounds
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
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.
sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social Tabletop RPG writer, editor, graphic designer (for hire!). Corpselike academic. Brooklyn, NY. he/him
samsorensen.blot.im
wren @slimewitch.itch.io better than the best, worse than the awfullest | https://slimewitch.itch.io/ | 🇮🇪 in 🏴
Pronouns in BIOS @goosewho.games Goose (they/them)
former maker of tv-games
Profile picture: a selfie of my face done in a gameboy palette, except with one rainbow suspender strap visible. Made by @odvunir.bsky.social, commission him!
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
Banner by Lina Wu
Avi by realrollsweat
Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social Bitch 😎 lover 😽 child 👼 mother 🦾 sinner 👹 saint 🎅 sometimes feel ashamed 🧚♂️
Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social art villain • he/they • work/contact etc: http://www.sajanrai.co.uk/
• personal commissions/prints: https://ohhaiku.bigcartel.com
tyler robertson 👈 @tryagaintyler.com they/them • London, UK
Let me tell you about spreadsheets, and how fun it is to make things!
https://tryagaintyler.com
FUTURE RUINS @ruins.net.ve 🇻🇪. they/he/it. parchita navegado.
https://futureruins.itch.io/ || https://ruins.net.ve/enter
Hanna @forbhanna.bsky.social Digital Culture PhD @ University of Bergen | #algorithmicfolklore | artist | gamer | food lover | bay leaf believer | horror movie enthusiast
GaMaYo - next GaMaYo 26th November 2026 @gamayo.bsky.social FREE network for 1300+ game makers across The North and beyond Apply to join on https://discord.com/invite/y52sj4yMGn or on Facebook - managed by @gamerepublic.bsky.social
XR Stories @xrstories.bsky.social A University of York project supporting research, development and innovation in technology-led creative content, experiences and stories. Also leading XR Network+, providing funding and support to researchers working in virtual production technologies.
Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social Academic in Games and HCI. Mostly interested in love and death. Assistant Professor at University of Lincoln. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social maxy.world/
thehtml.review/
https://10kdrummachines.com/
Centre for Digital Culture @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
André Almo @andrealmo.bsky.social Scientist interested in communication, art, games and education. 👻👾 | He/Him. | Art account: @almoghost.bsky.social
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at Carnegie Mellon. Indie game designer -- Indie RPG Award (2006), IndieCade Night Games (2015), Ennie Judge's Spotlight (2026). Comments my own.
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social
🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜
✅ all work completely human made
bilge @bilgetbd.itch.io https://store.steampowered.com/developer/bilgekaan
Daniel Green @iamdanielgreen.itch.io 
susie @susepicious.bsky.social producer and social media menace for Bad Magpie with @milktooth.bsky.social 🦷 creative producer, curator, facilitator, performance artist 🤠 1/5 director of biome collective ✨
linktr.ee/susepicious
Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social Hello friends! Game-maker, writer, composer. Waterworld enthusiast. (they/them)
Kimera Royal @kimera.world musician, Bachelor in Video Game, currently studying a Masters (also in Video Game), Artiste, she who fails upwards. im so sweet ! she / her
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Chad @kitation.co.uk They/he. Queer (nonbinary/pan), autistic, disabled. User researcher, accessibility advocate. Talks about disability, gender, gaming.
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.
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
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
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
FinleyJinley (they/he) ╰( ･ ᗜ ･ )➝ AdventureX @finleyjinley.bsky.social 📜 finley-jinley.itch.io / finleyjinley.carrd.co
🏳️⚧️ they/he, solo rpg sicko
✨ TTRPG writer/designer
😔 UK Based (DMs ok but broken)
💌 finleyjinley@gmail.com
📝Aspiring Narrative Designer
🎲Dicemaker @shrimpfrieddice.bsky.social
🖼️ icon by @snavii.bsky.social