Alex McLean @slab.org Researcher + musician based in Sheffield UK https://slab.org/
Co founder of algorave, toplap, algomech, pattern club, strudel, tidalcycles
Part of Then Try This https://thentrythis.org/
Exploring algorithmic patterns https://algorithmicpattern.org/
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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Nell @pridecovenell.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Board Game Connoisseur. They/Them or Xe/Xem.
TJ Deacon @khaosrising.bsky.social Gamer, gambler, 38yo
The Dekker Dane @thedekkerdane.bsky.social It's the Bluesky abode for The Dekker Dane. Content creator. Podcaster. Kitacon organiser. International Race Car Driver....wait.
📺 twitch.tv/thedekkerdane | twitch.tv/bunkamaniaUK
Bunks @bunkyboy91.bsky.social A know it all bore and average painter ✌️
Please don't message trying to sell me things. Thank you.
NEIL, but in cursive @twominusthree.bsky.social Game developer, cheesecake enthusiast, supporter of dead formats.
Gibbo42 @gibbo42.bsky.social CEO (chief editing officer) of Helmet Championship Wrestling
2 time Poker Invitational Session of SHAGGYxLFDY champion
2021 Rainbow Blades fantasy football champion
Honorary Bostonian
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Darrell Ottery @grumblesmurf.bsky.social Boardgamer, role player, UK FLGS owner. Probably ought to put a photo here as well.
Andy Clark @andyclarkauthor.bsky.social Senior background writer for Warhammer 40,000 and Black Library Author, all opinions expressed are my own (chiefly, squigs are great)
Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social Work at the intersection of AI and Culture - BRAID Responsible AI Fellow at Arts Council England. Turing Fellow. Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths. www.oonaghmurphy.com
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
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
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
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Jon Aitken @jonaitken.bsky.social Writer + filmmaker. 🏳️🌈 he/him
Artspace Lifespace @artspaceuk.bsky.social We recycle vacant & under-used properties into thriving creative hubs. Projects: @theislandbristol @thevestibules @theartsmansion @sparksbristol
The Space @thespacearts.bsky.social Connecting artists and audiences online.
We help arts, cultural and heritage organisations reach audiences through digital technologies and platforms.
Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social A pioneering non-profit mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate, nature and justice crisis. https://juliesbicycle.org #CreativeClimateAction
Uninvited Guests @uguests.bsky.social Uninvited Guests create entertaining and provocative performances, alongside bespoke engagement and consultation activities. Bristol.
www.uninvited-guests.net
b-side @bsidefest.bsky.social 1000 ideas, 1 amazing island - Portland, Dorset, UK
We commission artists to make new work in visual art, live art, sound & film.
Hep Us Secure our Place on Portland https://localgiving.org/fundraising/bnb-side
jarkman @jarkman.bsky.social Roboticist, maker, software engineer. Making giant joyful soft robots with Air Giants (https://www.airgiants.co.uk/). Also @jarkman@chaos.social
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Polygon @polygon.com Covering video games, entertainment, and the culture around them. We find, share, and investigate the things you love and the people who make and enjoy them.
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social 📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Lateral with Tom Scott @lateralcast.com Comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, presented by @tomscott.com. Account maintained by producer @davidbodycombe.bsky.social.
Waag Futurelab @waag.org Making technology & society more open, fair & inclusive | mastodon: waag@waag.social
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
BOM @bomlab.bsky.social BOM is an immersive arts organisation. We engage and empower communities through immersive technology and inclusive learning programmes. 🎮💥
📍 Birmingham, UK
👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/bomlab
Kate Sicchio @sicchio.bsky.social Live coding people and robots and sounds
EPOCH @epoch.gallery EPOCH is an artist-run virtual exhibiton space. ➠
CURRENT: GENERATIVE MUSEUM
ICA Pittsburgh x KADIST x EPOCH
https://epoch.gallery
Robin Baumgarten 👨🏭✨ @robinwobbles.bsky.social Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Stella Wisdom @stellawisdom.bsky.social Curator interested in electronic literature, interactive narratives, comics, web archiving and digital preservation
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
⚡️Marina Díez is finishing a new game! @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
The BGI (National Videogame Museum) @thebgi.bsky.social Games charity with mission to transform lives with games, governs The National Videogame Museum (@nvmuk.bsky.social), GamesEd Summit, award-winning learning and vocational courses.
Wonderville 🕹 @wonderville.nyc An indie arcade and event space in Brooklyn NY
hello@wonderville.nyc for inquiries
Sam W @vr-sam.bsky.social Supporting game dev studio relations | 20+ years in games industry, 10+ years in #VR / #AR / #MR / #xR / #SpatialComputing + rando #beer #cats #boardgames #games #food https://linktr.ee/vrsam
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I make games. I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Playtopia Festival @playtopia.bsky.social An Indie Games and Immersive Arts Festival
Cape Town | South Africa
5-6 December 2025
www.playtopiafestival.com
#playtopia
By creatives For creatives
Empowering developers to reach the zenith of their creative ambitions!
We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social videogame-adjacent production // curation // hardware studio 💜 wethrowswitches.com
Simone Einfalt @simoneeinfalt.bsky.social Artist, Filmmaker and XR Producer based in Bristol, UK
Arts + Tech Producer for KWMC. MA Fine Art / Media at BSU. Technical Lead at Windrose Rural Media. Resident at Pervasive Media Studio and member of BEEF.
https://simoneeinfalt.com/
Ben Neal @psiconlab.bsky.social Arts-focused freelance Creative Technologist, Digital Artist, programmer, games/gadget builder, educator. Making technology-infused Immersive Art experiences.
www.displace.org.uk
www.psiconlab.co.uk
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
@tonybhajam.bsky.social @tonybhajam.bsky.social
Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net ♿️💻🎶🎨 Disabled, Programmer, Artist.
Disability to explore Digital. Digital to explore Disability.
He/Him. UK, Bath.
https://art.josephwilk.net
Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social London’s longest-running (de)centre for art and tech
#CultureStake #peoplesparkplinth #furtherfield
Danielle Rose @rosyd.bsky.social Autistic. Often banging on about arts & class. Network Producer Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed.
Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social Hello friends! Game-maker, writer, composer. Waterworld enthusiast. (they/them)
Sharon J Clark @esjayclark.bsky.social Sometimes I write for stage, sometimes I write for screen, sometimes I paddle around in immersive theatre and tech with Raucous. All of the time you can find me in Bristol.
Channel 4 alumni. Bruntwood Judge's Prize winner.
https://raucous.org.uk/
Gill Wildman @wildwoman.bsky.social Designer, Director of Stby and Plot
Martin O'Leary @mewo2.bsky.social Luddite. Head of @pmstudiouk.bsky.social
Marc Barto @marcbarto.bsky.social Senior Producer Digital at the
Victoria and Albert museum
Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social A brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. https://immersivearts.uk/
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
Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social creative things all the time. freelance exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london.
https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
@pmstudiouk.bsky.social @pmstudiouk.bsky.social
DCRC @dcrc-uwe.bsky.social The Digital Cultures Research Centre (UK) studies the meaning and uses of media technologies in everyday life. https://www.dcrc.org.uk/
VBS @sproutness.bsky.social Creative Producer etc. Studying psychotherapy. Advocating for non-predominant neurotype child. Dealing with motherhood. Direct and good-natured. MY VIEWS ONLY
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Blood on the Clocktower @bloodontheclocktower.com A captivating new bluffing game of deduction, deception, murder, & mystery. Watch us here! https://www.twitch.tv/thepandemoniuminstitute
linktr.ee/bloodontheclocktower
Watershed @wshed.bsky.social Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
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