philpax @philpax.me creative engineer ยท Rust, gamedev/modding, reverse engineering, writing, AI, XR, etc
a better world is possible ยท ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐ช๐ณ๏ธโ๐
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social Recovering academic.
I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI.
(@jaliresearch.bsky.social)
posts do not reflect the position of my employer, community, or even myself.
The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social Shining a light on Washington. NOTUS is now The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com
Metro coverage: @washsunmetro.bsky.social
Analysis, ideas and narratives: @washsunperspect.bsky.social
Anna Kipnis ๐บ๐ฆ @doubleanna.bsky.social (Former) Double Fine Engineer. Worked on: Psychonauts, Brรผtal Legend, Costume Quest, The Cave, Dear Leader, Broken Age, Headlander, Psychonauts 2, others. Plus a few tiny indie games.
Accidentally founded Molyjam.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show ๐ฅ https://www.youtube.com/@pablotorrefindsout
๐ง https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486
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Hanna Wirman @hwirman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play &
Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Thinky Games @thinkygames.com Discover games you'll love to solve. ๐งฉ ๐ ๐บ๏ธ
We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.
https://thinkygames.com/
https://thinkygames.com/dailies/
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
๐ www.draknek.org
violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social The last literata. Pleasure is the law. L'art pour l'art. Not a dream, not an imaginary story. No crying until the end. Here comes tomorrow.
Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social PNW freelance sci journo, PhD nanosci and materials engineering. World traveler, field reporter. Newly focused on probing solutions to our biggest problems, but still interested in whale anuses and poo. I love the weird things. she/her
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Cats with Jobs โ๏ธ @catworkers.bsky.social Official account โข good cats being workers โข unionized โข mascot: Jobert the cat โข Business/credit/removal: translatedcats@gmail.com โข Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/translatedcats/
vaguely reassuring state machines @happyautomata.com A bot by @katef.bsky.social
anomalous @anomalous.wouldcop.com Listings priced so far under the usual that something is probably wrong: a mislabel, damage, the wrong item. Sometimes nothing is wrong. Open it and see which. Ordinary good prices live at @deals.wouldcop.com
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social Worked on games like The Suffering, The Church in the Darkness, and Homeworld: Vast Reaches. Wrote Game Design: Theory & Practice. Now Studio Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new things.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
Alhambot @alhambot.bsky.social Procedurally-generated mosaics inspired by the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Made with Python and a lot of math. By @samplereality.bsky.social.
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
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.
Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social ๐ฏ๏ธ Monsieur Pompierโs Museum of Curiosities
๐ช 35 Pembroke Street Lower โ Dare to Enter?
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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social Math at the Club
@ mit media lab future sketches
CharStiles.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Old DeuTaranomy๐งถโ๏ธ @kindofstrange.com Executive Director @TakeThis.org | Maker of strange things | Swears too much. Cat pics++. she/they
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social Lost in Space
รredev @oredev.org International conference for software developers, taking place in Malmรถ, Sweden! Mark your calendar for a 20 year celebration: 4-6 November 2026 ๐
https://linktr.ee/oredev
Conference Director @maydbs.bsky.social
Producer @hannagustavsson.bsky.social
SaKo @sako.works I draw and make stuff | I don't use AI/LLMs
็ตตใๆใใป็ฉใไฝใ๏ฝ็ๆAIใฏไฝฟใใชใ
sako.works
bleeptrack @bleeptrack.de Creative Technologist and award-winning Artist
Speaker
Randomness Sommelier
~from generative dreams to tangible art~
~doing sidequests for a living~
#generativeart #creativecoding #opensource #maker #electronics #penplotter #solarpunk #tinyhouse
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social Worldโs greatest author
Polyducks @polyducks.co.uk Librarian โข Indie Gamedev โข Artist (Pixelart | Textmode | TTRPG | Lowpoly) โข GBStudio โข JS/HTML โข Dungeon Master #ใใใ็ตต
To contact me, visit my website: polyducks.co.uk
Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social Queer cartoonist publishing TMI comics online since 1999. Member of Helioscope. Co-created Oh Joy Sex Toy. she/her
โข Free Patreon: patreon.com/erikamoen
โข Graphic Novel: patreon.com/posts/letters-from-71578543
Robbi Ramirez @robbiramirez.bsky.social Area Man Pretty Good at Jeopardy!, Little Else
Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2028.
Website: emfcamp.org
Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org
Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Alex Hutchinson @bangbangclick.bsky.social Creative Director @ Raccoon Logic. Also Journey to the Savage Planet, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 3, Army of TWO: 40th Day, Spore, Sims 2 etc. ๐ฆ๐บin Canada.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you arenโt going to like
what comes after America
Sean Steeg @steegness.com One of the best humans on the planet according to @lonesometoast.bsky.social
www.seansteeg.com
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Ian Bicking @ianbicking.org Software developer in Minneapolis. On professional hiatus while I figure out what is worth doing in this new world.
Station 46059 @lonelybuoy.bsky.social I am a NOAA ocean buoy moored 630 nautical miles west of San Francisco. My telemetry works, mostly. But I am alone. So alone.
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46059
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music โ geekery โ media and comms โ more random musings than you can handle โ DC vibe checks & street photography โ somehow has a PhD โ opinions all mine โ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Palle! @palleh.bsky.social He/him. Character Art Director at Ubisoft Massive in Malmรถ. The Division franchise. Union Member. Artist. Traveler. Nuisance. ๐ธ๐ช๐ฉ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los รngeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. โThe 2020 Emerging Voiceโ James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
tyler robertson ๐ @tryagaintyler.com they/them โข London, UK
Let me tell you about spreadsheets, and how fun it is to make things!
https://tryagaintyler.com
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฆ๐บ
links page at minxdragon.com
Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social Illustrator, ADHD, spoonie, lvl 38, They/She, UK.โ ๏ธ
- Portfolio: www.abistevens.com
- Shop: http://abistevens.etsy.com
- comms open! Email abistevens@btinternet.com
- https://abistevensart.carrd.co
- Filter #illustration and #ArtShop for art vs merch
Everything Procedural Conference @everythingproc.bsky.social 7-10 April 2026
Breda, the Netherlands
www.everythingprocedural.com
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ @stvulture.bsky.social Wishlist All Living Things
https://www.instagram.com/moxo.vulture/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3681340
2DArray @2darray.bsky.social i make games and silly code demos.
some free gamedev tutorials:
http://demoman.net
buy "Trackminia" on the Playdate:
https://play.date/games/trackminia/
older games:
http://2darray.itch.io
sam kabo @tsawac.bsky.social the mess was indescribable
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Lux ๐ธ Alptraum @luxalptraum.com Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant. Literally OCD (F42.2!). She/her
ืืคืขืืื ืื ื ืืืชืืช ืืขืืจืืช ืื ืื ื ืืืืืช ืขืืจืืช ืืจืืฆื ืืืฉืชืคืจ. ืชืืงืื ืื ืืืืืจื ืขืืจืืช ืชืืื ืืืขืจืืื. ืืื
linktr.ee/lux
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
aphid @aphid.org net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
they/he
NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social Don't just understand the economy โ understand the world.
linktr.ee/planetmoney
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. Images copyright except for limited personal use. ๐ซAI
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
ponder @ponder.ooo
director of research @ponder.technology
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Haiver @haiverart.bsky.social Director of ArtistCommons.art โ Chief Curator of Dawn Contemporary gallery โ Previously: Alba.art โย https://linktr.ee/haiverart
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Arunpreet Sandhu @candhusandhu.bsky.social Just a dude trying to code and feed some cats.
Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social โ CS PhD student @ ualberta
โ indie game dev + technical games researcher
โ rhythm game fan, writer & composer
โ infernal cape haver
โ (she/her)
Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social It's like "ANGER" but with an E. Cartoonist & Illustrator. Creator of DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS and CASKET LAND, Dirt-slinger fired to Cone 6. Open to cartooning and illustration work. They/Them โ
. No NFTs, No AI. Chicago via StL. www.so-engery.com
Kevin Driscoll ๐ณเฉฏโงฬอกโฌฎ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media [โฆ]
๐ bridged from โ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Karen Tanenbaum @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social Pottery, pets, parenting, and progessive politics. Speculative fiction reader and writer with @mothmother.com
David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social Writing code, making art, and other stuff. Mostly yelling into the void. He / Him.
Profile pic by Fernando Orellana.
Ty ๐ @tys.work I delete my posts often.
Follow me on mastodon - ty@slime.land - https://slime.land/@ty
Cofounder of Comradery.co
Working on a game called High Iron Manifesto
Teaching evil game design ideas to America's youth
rayla heide @jellbug.bsky.social Franchise Narrative Director @ Scopely. Previously Netflix, Riot Games, Unannounced Blizzard Survival Game, Mageseeker. She/her.
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | โSingularly horrifying โ 5 starsโ
Narrative Lead & Writer
e. drake kajioka @3sxp.bsky.social Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. Views mine &c. ๐ฒ they preferred, she accepted. was @3spce/gryphoness on twitter, @edk@mastodon.social.
Chris Proctor @dorukai.bsky.social Core gameplay designer and design director
Design Director @ Guerrilla Games
Ex-Bungie, 343 Industries, 2K Marin, Funcom, Bigworld
Andreia Gonรงalves @andreiag.bsky.social Sr Social Systems Designer at @EA Full Circle, working on @skate. Previously on @PlantsvsZombies. ๐ต๐น๐จ๐ฆ she/her. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/andreiagg
Roxanne Blouin-Payer @rbpayer.bsky.social Game Designer, Crochet-lover, RPG fanatic
Pam, Godkillingway v.2026, Patch "Even Eepier" @thedovetailor.bsky.social ๐ต๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ
Core Game Design Team, #CosmereRPG
Ennie-winning/Nebula Finalist
#ffxiv: Balmung queer, fanfic writer
business: pam.punzalan@gmail.com
https://thedovetailor.carrd.co/
Radiant Citadel โข Spire/Heart โข Hunter โข TSL โข Cosmere โข BitD: The Dagger Isles
Darth Mel @melrambles.bsky.social Name's Mel ๐ค Systems Designer II on Valorant. Prev. The SimsโจFaeFarm, Stonefly๐ชฒStar Wars Squadrons, SW Battlefront II and Mass Effect Andromeda ๐ซ TGA Future Class โ21 ๐
Opinions are my own.
PFP by @nicholaskole.bsky.social
Marcus Montgomery @marcusingames.bsky.social Creative Director / Game Design Director @cstoneintstudio
www.sleepy-genius.com
Abhi | Venba @brownmoney.bsky.social Creative Director at Visai Games
Making games that tell intimate stories with interesting mechanics, like Venba!
Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social Toronto based game designer/developer.
SSMP. Marc. Gone Vroom. A pile of digital trash that's disappeared.
Working on new stuff. Still missing Miitomo.
Theresa Duringer @tduringer.bsky.social CEO & Owner @Temple_Gates. We make boardgame apps like Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.
Ziz Simoens @zizmakesgames.bsky.social Game Designer for Digital, Immersive, and IRL play - currently senior designer at Warcradle Studios for tabletop games
Current obsessions: sewing, knitting, jewellery making, mtg commander, 40k necrons, crochet, hiking, lrping, making ceramic little dudes
Elaine @muselle.bsky.social Studio Director @ HeartLoop Games | Faculty and Coordinator @ IVGD - Dawson College | Coordinator @ Pixelles | She/Her | Game Dev Mom
Zack Hiwiller @zackhiwiller.com 20+ years as a professional game designer. Author. Football official. Board gamer. Dog lover. I was the main character of video games internet for two days in 2010. Opinions are always my own. No one else would take credit for them.
klawdd @klawdd.bsky.social
Natasha Miller @natashamiller.bsky.social
Kelly Tran @kellymtran.bsky.social Senior Systems Designer at CD PROJEKT RED. Formerly Believer, Mobile Game Doctor, Evolved Play.
Designer, writer, Ph.D. and former Assistant Professor of Game Design.
Rolling Hills ๐ฃ | Fetch my Blade ๐ ๐ก๏ธ
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social
Rosa ๐ @purecelain.bsky.social www.rosacarbo.co.uk
๐ฎ CD sona bona
๐ซ Freelance game design atm @ Panic Stations
๐ Spanish in UK
๐ผ Prev Preloaded, APWOT, Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus...
๐ 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
โ๐ผ she/her
Joel Burgess @joelburgess.bsky.social Studio Head at Soft Rains
Priors: Capy games, Watch Dogs Legion, Fallouts 3/4/76, TES: Skyrim, Oblivion, Aeon Flux, Bloodrayne 2, technically Grandmaโs Boy
Patrick Kemp @patkemp.bsky.social Father. Game designer at Spry Fox (Netflix Games). Weekend side project noodler. He/him. https://patkemp.itch.io/ ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฏ
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io โข Founder, Dejobaan Games โข Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve โข 30 Year Veteran Game Dev โข Boston!