AdventureX @adventurex.bsky.social AdventureX brings together devs & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling: Nov 7th & 8th 2026 in London
https://adventurexpo.org
Tickets are now available: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/adventurexconferencescic/2339289
Dr Andrew D. Buck @andrewdbuck.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. Beer enthusiast. The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
Biome Collective @biomecollective.bsky.social A creative studio and community for people to create, collaborate and explore new frontiers in games, digital art and technology.
Malath @maltron.bsky.social Designer, Creative Producer creating games/art @ Biome Collective / organise Arcadia Festival / serve on the board Creative Scotland / & dad
David Fox💙🫘🇺🇦 @davidbfox.com Lead game programmer: ThimbleweedPark2 ReturnToMonkeyIsland
Designer/Project Lead at LucasfilmGames/LucasArts: Fractalus Labyrinth ZakMcKracken Indy3
ManiacMansion
VR XR EV GameDev
Handpan newbie
❤️ @anniefox.com
@RubeWorks.com
https://linktr.ee/davidbfox
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Jared Rigby @jaredrigby.co.uk Co-founder of @seventhdisorder.com
Indie #godotengine game developer up north 🇬🇧
Currently building Mithra: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2705650/Mithra/
我会说一点中文。帮我练习!
Juan Carlos Pérez (Xür Vermilion) @xurvermilion.bsky.social Graduado en Historia (USC) y profesor de Ciencias Sociales. Amante del videojuego, el rol de mesa y las sociedades medievales asiáticas.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Martin Willis @profwillis.bsky.social Budding writer of crime fiction. Rep by Joanna at BKS. Cardiff-set historical crime out on sub. Academic day job. Books on Jack the Ripper & Victorian genre fiction. Scottish by birth and temperament.
Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Adjunct Professor at Georgetown. Former US Marine. Opinions own.
The Arab League of Misfits at Gamescom @arabmisfits.com 🃏 A satirical 1v1 deckbuilder fueled by Arab pop culture and historical satire.
👡 Expect flying footwear & chaotic cafe politics.
🖥️ In development by a loud pool of actual Arab misfits
🛒Wishlist on Steam go.arabmisfits.com/steam
🌐 https://arabmisfits.com/
1100GAMES @1100games.bsky.social GBC Homebrew Adventures!
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com I made Cult of the Lamb 🕹Accessibility Advocate 🤔Opinions are mine (and probably bad)
Senior Developer at SMG Studio
willmesilane.com
Francisco González @grundislav.games Indie adventure game developer.
I’ve made Rosewater (IndieCade nominated), Lamplight City, Shardlight, A Golden Wake & the Ben Jordan series.
Currently working on #ProjectLion
http://grundislav.games
After The Golden Age - CoolChicken @coolchicken82.bsky.social Indie dev - After The Golden Age. A point-and-click adventure about friendship, mystery, and saving the adventure genre itself.
https://coolchicken82.itch.io/afterthegoldenage
Tapocketa @tapocketa.bsky.social Creating feel good animated moments in our own unique and eccentric style.
Currently in the latter stages of development of Galdo's Gift, an interactive web storybook - where the storybook world comes to life galdosgift.com
Rob Crowther @robertcrowther.bsky.social Software Developer who likes retro games, non-retro games and American Football.
Filippo Beck Peccoz @fbeckpeccoz.bsky.social I make music for games I love, and also founded my own studio in 2025! https://linktr.ee/fbeckpeccoz
👁️🗨️ Wishlist Imprinted!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3980340/Imprinted/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen&utm_content=bio
Peter Taylor @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social 40, he/him 🧙
Narrative Designer for Sports Interactive on Football Manager 27 ⚽
IWGB & Lib Dem member ✊🔶
Views solely mine, etc. 😉
https://ctrl-the-narrative.com ✍️
Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Cloak and Dagger Games • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (BAFTA longlisted), Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, Football Game and more • Working on TBA
UK based/NZ born • Folk horror nut • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/cloakanddaggergames
Ysbryd Games | LOVE ETERNAL OUT NOW! @ysbryd.net We’re a boutique video game publisher working with game devs the world over to publish games that have spirit, like VA-11 HALL-A, WORLD OF HORROR and Demonschool!
campsite.bio/ysbrydgames
Rob 🟡 @fawnrelic.bsky.social Production Lead at Ysbryd Games @ysbryd.net (WORLD OF HORROR, LOVE ETERNAL, Demonschool, VA-11 Hall-A) ✣ Freelance artist (seen in Heartworm, Unwinnable) ✣ Fishing Hamlet gentrifier ✣ Bi ✣ He/Him
📍 London
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/fawnrelic/
Marcus Hansson - Game Writer │ Looking for Work @marcushansson.bsky.social Writer & Narrative Designer.
Award-winner: Elegant Literature │ Prev. Copywriter at Funcom and Focus Entertainment.
OneBitWonder @onebitwonder.bsky.social Game development team from north Germany,
developing the adventure game "2080: Operation Sunshield"
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4383110/2080__Operation_Sunshield/
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
Ian Regueiro Salcedo @arkeologian.bsky.social Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming
Romain Vincent @romainvincent.bsky.social Docteur en Sciences de l'éducation : La scolarisation du jeu vidéo par les enseignants (Laboratoire Experice / Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Prof d'Histoire-Géographie (Académie de Créteil)
Jeux video & Histoire sur YouTube : www.youtube.com/c/JVH
Arjan van Houwelingen @arjanvanh.bsky.social Tabletop game designer, psychologist, lecturer and more at Hanze Applied University. Founder of the Dutch Game Design Guild (Spellenmaakgilde.nl). Publisher of GRUNN and FRYSK, with collectible free museum expansions. arjanvanhouwelingen.com
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/
Ylva Grufstedt @ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social Finally (?) made it to Bluesky. Historian focused on on digital public history, historical game studies, game production and cultural heritage. PhD in shenanigans.
Fergus Doyle @mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social Brittunculus. A frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe. Something Yorkshire in the state of Denmark. I write games and sometimes I put them online.
Narrative Designer, Sea of Rifts: https://www.seaofrifts.com/
Website: https://mrfergusdoyle.com
deptofmeteors @deptofmeteors.bsky.social Editor & Narrative Consultant: Perfect Tides: Station to Station, NORCO
Editor & Designer: The Creation of Wonder
Designer: air light water moon shadow sky
https://bathers-library.square.site/product/air-light-water-moon-shadow-sky-by-matt-carney/
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Stephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social Writing | Games | Escape Rooms | Running | Family | Books | Education | Stoma
I run www.enigmailed.com
who3words:creative, inventive, original
dehypotheses @dehypotheses.bsky.social In den Wissenschaftsblogs bei de.hypotheses berichten Forschende in 450+ Blogs aus der aktuellen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.
🌏www.de.hypotheses.org
🏠https://bloghaus.hypotheses.org/credits
Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
Sign up to our newsletter ✉️ https://bit.ly/4eQVON5
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/ 
Sam Schelfhout @bearpilot.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ Sacred Heart University | Director @shuesports.gg | Ph.D./M.S. U Texas-Austin | B.A. University of Portland | Sport history/diplomacy; sociocultural aspects of esports
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.
Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app 37. NOLA. Sociology PhD Student interested the intersection of Nerd culture and Blackness. Also other stuff idk I stay talking on here.
https://linktr.ee/melaninatedmagician
Queens Familiar @queensfamiliar.bsky.social Tabletop game cafe centering local and small publishers with coworking during weekdays
🎲☕
Coming soon to Queens NYC
https://queensfamiliar.com/
RSGWU @rsgworkersunion.bsky.social 
James Baillie @jubalbarca.bsky.social Historian of the Medieval Caucasus, web community organiser, game developer, liberal activist, songwriter and storyteller. Somewhat hobbitish.
Also at https://exilian.co.uk/, https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca, and https://hcommons.org/members/jubalbarca/
Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.
Víctor Expolio Juárez @expoliojuarez.bsky.social Es mi nombre de verdad. Multi-Artist, lo mismo te diseño un logo que te hago un coctail que dejo un videojuego a medias.
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Alex Pavey @alexpavey.bsky.social Supporting inclusive research cultures for doctoral students and supervisors at King’s College London | Karaoke enthusiast | He / him
Mario Donick (Rostock & Magdeburg) @mariodonick.bsky.social Lifestyle-Teilzeit Call Center
ueberstrom.net Hrsg.
Game Studies: #Weltraumprojekt; Horrorerleben (mit @wiebkesr.bsky.social)
WS 2026/27 "Kommunikation mit Bildern" HS Magdeburg-Stendal
Bücher zu Technikvertrauen, Kommunikation und Flugsimulation.
Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social 🎓 Physicist turned software developer
🎻 Fiddle/violin · 📺 Teletext · 🖖Trekkie
🏴 Pontardawe, Wales
🌍 www.jamienemeth.co.uk
🔗 linktr.ee/jamienemeth
Teletext Labeler: @teletextlabeler.bsky.social
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social Medieval Historian and UCU branch officer. Senior lecturer at Winchester University. Research on popular protest, political culture, warfare, rumour/conspiracy theories in England and Scotland, c.1300-1600. Views also on union stuff and politics
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Joe @wordandtext.bsky.social Work in comms, immersed in boardgames about history, politics and conflict. Proud to live in Wales, land of my children, if not my fathers. Whgcollective.my.canva.site
Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social Futures historian & media archaeologist @ Uni Köln ~ @akgwds.bsky.social ~ er || they ~ writes in EN & DE ~ http://www.jacob-birken.de ~ GLHF (◔◡◔✿)
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
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/
Sam Osburn @samosburn.bsky.social games @ Fictions, previously @ Annapurna
samosburn94@gmail.com
Chicago | he/him
Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social Co-host of @omnigamers.bsky.social
Board games, video games and TTRPGs with a dash of amateur cooking. Ex-Australian and Ex-Archaeologist
Vancouver, BC
He/him
UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
Demetri Sofides @thelordofhands.bsky.social 3D artist, game designer, NYC native, one-time archaeologist.
Wishlist STRANGE FINDS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4278870/Strange_Finds/
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Jayne Robinson aka Jayne Kitsch @jaynekitsch.bsky.social 💪 Freelance Marketing and Brand Consultant
📊 Social Media, Influencer and Content Specialist
🖥️ Remote Worker and Team Leader
🎨Passionate about creative businesses
🎮 Gaming and Entertainment industry expert
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
Creatrix Cymraes @creatrixcymraes.bsky.social Artist, maker and mother from Caerdydd, Cymru ✨
Queer, disabled, siaradwyr 🏴♿️🏳️🌈
Join me for collage club events at Unstable Arts in Roath!
Following ≠ support; I’m doing social outreach at the moment x
YoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social Playing history. Filmmaker and Designer of “Chicago ‘68” and “The Nights of King Ludd”
Aiysha Jahan @aiyshajahan.bsky.social Writing, cats, cake. Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University
Emile Parchliniak @emilparchy.bsky.social Medievalism in Fantasy RPGs | Gacha Games | Sorbonne Paris Nord
Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social Historian of medicine, religion, and the supernatural. Joint editor, Irish Historical Studies. Senior Lecturer in History at Ulster University. Research profile: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-sneddon
Co PI Islandmagee Witch Project: w1711.org
Flippo @flippo9204.bsky.social Arts, Literature, Media @ Leiden University
Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social Writes a PhD thesis about Berlin in the 1920s in contemporary popular culture. Works @UniLeiden as Research Manager.
Likes pop & classical music, literature, (model) trains, Peanuts, Donald Duck, hiking, old musical films and much more
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social Language and keyboard stuff at Google.
I like computers and Korean and computers-and-Korean and high school CS education.
Georgia Tech → 연세대학교 → 東京工業大学.
Regrettably no longer based in Tokyo :/
https://theoreticallygoodwithcomputers.com/
Alex Darby // darbotron 🛹 @darbotron.bsky.social Programmer & Designer. Human, husband, parent, skateboarder. Gamedev since '96. Company founder. BAFTA member & winner. GameDevHeroes Programming Hero 2019. Co-creator DJ Hero. #UKGI Cthulhu fhtagn ;,;
www.darbotron.com
www.linkedin.com/in/darbotron
Andrew Jackson Lynch @whatsforlynch.bsky.social Composer, lyricist, and bookwright for musical theatre.
Reviewer of board games for Meeple Mountain.
The Sore Loser.
Blog: https://www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-a-basket-of-fish
he/him
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. Lecturer in American History at Cardiff University.
KDB @kdb-innit.bsky.social - TV/Film industry expat
- Photo/Video Pro
- Marketing Exec by day
- I talk nonsense on a few podcasts 🎙
I post about video games and movies. Enjoyer of retro things. Horror. Sci-Fi. Old tech.
👻Horror Game Awards juror
📍Dorset, UK
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk The largest union for game devs in the UK.
Work in game dev or TTRPG? Join the union: https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social CrAIC is an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Exeter, UK.
👤 @gildersleve.uk
👤 @andreamedrado.bsky.social
👤 Brett Zehner
🌐 https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/communications/research/centres/craic/
✉️ craic@exeter.ac.uk
Aditya Deshbandhu @adityadeshbandhu.bsky.social Gamer, Nerd, and seeker of Adventure 🔮✨
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
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
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
James Ryan @yasharyan.bsky.social Historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Reader (Associate Professor) in Modern European History,
Cardiff University.
Currently writing an intellectual history of inter-war Soviet state violence.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social Warhammer historian, content creator, and game designer
Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard. 
Ed Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social I am the features editor at Edge magazine and one of the co-founders and co-editors of Bullet Points Monthly.