Francis Schurgot @schurgot.bsky.social
Suzanne Blier @suzanneblier.bsky.social Professor, Author & Civic Activist in Cambridge Ma. Art/Architectural History, African Studies, City Histories, Urban Planning, Museums). Native of Vt. Building communities. Find blogs and more at: suzanneprestonblier.com
City of Cambridge @cambridgemass.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account of the City of Cambridge, Mass.
Account not monitored 24/7
www.cambridgema.gov
City of Somerville @cityofsomerville.bsky.social Official feed for the City of Somerville, MA.
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov BPS mom, daughter of immigrants, and MBTA commuter working to make Boston a home for everyone.
linktr.ee/mayorwu
Follow the @boston.gov Bluesky Starterpack: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/boston.gov/3lcvbzv3ttb25
The Immersive Experience Institute @immersiveexperience.org Hosts of The Next Stage Immersive Summit & Co-Creators of The Immersive Invitationals.
Bringing together the performing arts, gaming, and XR immersive communities since 2020.
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space UK-based Museum Learning Consultant & Maths Communicator
📖 Author of The Mathematicians' Library: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16778/9781836004851
🌐 TeaKayB.mathsy.space
🕸️ @TeaKayB.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
#MathsInMuseums #MuseumEd #MathsJam
Pippa Smith @handlingthepast.bsky.social A specialist in heritage learning and engagement, knitter and cat servant
Amy Cotterill @akcotterill.bsky.social @kickasswomenof - coming Jan 2025!
Creative consultant specialising in community engagement, learning, evaluation and Museum Accreditation. Podcaster. Feminist. Trustee of Signals Media.
ND. She/Her.
Melissa Linsey @mkatelinsey.bsky.social Museums, archives, learning and supporting others
GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk GEM, we connect and learn together.
gem.org.uk
Rachel Moss @particip8tion.bsky.social Freelancer. 20 years working in Museums & galleries. Passionate about Arts Education, evaluation & progression routes into the sector. Pronouns: She/her
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
boxaroo! @boxaroobos.bsky.social the best escape room in boston 😋 come see for yourself!!
Andrew Vogel @vogelap.bsky.social Runs with knives.
Shae Rossi 🧜♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social Senior Quest Designer @ Blizzard on World of Warcraft, Tolkien scholar, mermaid, SCAdian, witch, belly dancer. Prev. Content Designer II Lord of the Rings Online. LGBTQ+ (she/her)
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Anne Lukeman @alukeman.bsky.social Escape room owner. Queen of Parcadia.
www.cuadventures.com
druzyphlox @druzyphlox.bsky.social Big nerd ✨
Rebecca @bexca.bsky.social Not a Janet. Textiles, cats, Shakespeare, Balboa/Lindy hop, perfume.
Mos Iceland Container Store @stephlbrock.bsky.social Birder. Dancer. Painter.
heckofabecca @heckofabecca.bsky.social Becca • she/they • artist, writer, enthusiast • commissions open
Grace Collins 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @mxcollins.bsky.social TTRPG Author ; Attorney ; Gamer ; Educator
Former Smithsonian | ED44
Founder @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social
#ttrpg #rpg #gbl #tabletop #boardgames
Evan Broder @ebroder.net Stereotypical nerd. Into distributed systems, cooking, cocktails, board games, escape rooms. Taking a break, previously at Stripe. https://ebroder.net
Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social Artist, maker, community builder, mover and shaker, former classroom music teacher. https://linktr.ee/hennainspired
Kat Arella @kat-arella.bsky.social Lindy-Hopper, Trickster Cleric, Psychic Detective
NovySan @novysan.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Analog Astronaut; Alum - MIT Media Lab; Emmy Award winning VFX Technical Supervisor; Instructor of SciFi & Magic; Immersive DataViz; Machine Learning tools; Deep-Ocean Exploration
@djphiliptan @djphiliptan.bsky.social Hailing from Singapore, @djphiliptan has taught students at MIT how to mix since 1998. He continues to showcase classic turntable techniques with a selection that spans decades. He livestreams on twitch.tv/djphiliptan every Friday at 3pm ET.
Scribblegrl (shuai) @scribblegrl.bsky.social puzzles, games, interactive theater, whimsy
Rita🔎PostCurious @postcurious.bsky.social Designer & maker, founder of PostCurious tabletop puzzle adventures. Not great at keeping up with social media but here I am.
Denise @dkuehner.bsky.social
The Experience Alchemists @the-exp-alchemists.bsky.social We are experience designers, facilitators, and strategic thinkers. We work with clients to create purposeful strategies, craft interpretive plans, and implement transformative moments. We are a Certified B Corp. https://theexperiencealchemists.com
Rachel Ropeik @theartropeik.bsky.social Educator • Adventurer • Facilitator • Experience Builder • Pirate🏴☠️
🫀🧠strategic, playful, progressive approaches to catalyze change in arts and culture🧠🫀
she/her | rachelropeik.com
Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences.
Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums
margaretmiddleton.com
Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social Museum exhibit developer & writer, playwright, essayist, comix scribbler, Jersey-born Jew. In emergency, revive with ice cream.
Ryan Canuel @ryancanuel.bsky.social CEO @ Petricore
Building XR Games & Experiences
Worcester, MA Based | He/Him 🏳️🌈
SodaDrinkerPro @sodadrinkerpro.com Hi My name is Will, I like to make fun things
SodaDrinkerPro.Com
Brett Jackson, Live Action Attractions @liveactattract.bsky.social Creative design for live games, interactive shows & playable places. For a good time call: https://www.LiveActionAttractions.com
President-for-life Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells http://www.ImagiNeerDoWells.com
@heyshaelyn.bsky.social @heyshaelyn.bsky.social
Jim Olson @bostonbeerman.bsky.social Museum nerd. Experience Designer. Music lover. Guitar player. Father of the best daughter in the world. Obsessed with golf, but I don't play enough.
Chris @thechrisclark.bsky.social Immersive experience maker/builder, inventor, explorer
Meghan Gardner @meghangardner.bsky.social Transformative Game Designer - creating games & experiences that inspire prolonged and sustained change of perspective.
Greg Toppo @gtoppo.bsky.social Senior Writer, The74; Co-author, RUNNING WITH ROBOTS: The American High School’s 3rd Century; author of THE GAME BELIEVES IN YOU
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Andy Hall @testtubegames.com Game Developer behind TestTubeGames.
Enjoy building, finding, and sharing cool science through games / toys / simulations. No AI.
My games: https://testtubegames.com
Other games I love: https://thescienceplayground.com/
he/him
Deb Fuller @bigpuffingames.bsky.social I'm an award-winning game-based learning designer for K-12 education. I also design solo TTRPGs and other analog cozy games for all ages to enjoy through Big Puffin Games. Find my games at:
https://stori-lundi.itch.io
Andrew Reynolds @asreynolds.bsky.social A teacher and an escape room enthusiast. Writer at RoomEscapeArtist.com.
Erica McCay @ericamccay.bsky.social Creative Director. Writer. Designer.
Creating and exploring interactive immersive experiences. Writing #SFF.
💖💜💙 (she/they)
@dianastarslove.bsky.social @dianastarslove.bsky.social Walks the Path of The Resistance while guided by The Force. Lover of Stars. Traveler on The Halcyon.
@phoenixtearspr.bsky.social @phoenixtearspr.bsky.social 🎭immersive theater company
✨on 💻/ in 🎧/on 📞
Creators of Posthumous, The Waiting Room & more
💕Bleeding Hearts Orlando FringeArtSpace 2/7-2/9
Matthew Wilding @matthewwilding.bsky.social Writes comics & prose, works in museums, eats too much.
https://linktr.ee/matthewwilding
Snag @sltco.bsky.social Arkham City College adjunct, Jack-of-all-Trades; Progressive Populist Bull Mooser; Former S2 NCO; Magician and Fool; Nazi Punching goon; former private investigator;
Caro Murphy @car0mur.bsky.social I'm serving you play as reality-changing realness. Game designer and educator from the stars. 🌠 Creative Dir - IncantrixProductions.com | Prof at WPI and Northeastern | Immersive Theater and Larp
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social #EscapeRoom, #Immersive, #UXdesign, and fixing things. I fight for the user.
✍️ Room Escape Artist | https://roomescapeartist.com/
🎙️ Reality Escape Pod | https://realityescapepod.podbean.com/
🎉 Reality Escape Convention | https://realityescapecon.com/
@trishzv.bsky.social @trishzv.bsky.social
Tim Monley @timmonley.bsky.social I make immersive and interactive experiences. Escape rooms for Project Immersive in Brisbane.
Theatre with Folly Games.
Projectimmersive.com
Follygames.com
Goose Chase Mysteries @goosechase.bsky.social Immersive and escape room fan; murder mystery writer.
Ed Rodley @erodley.bsky.social (he/him/his) Museum person. Experienced cultural producer & educator. Digital skeptimist. Co-Founder & Principal, The Experience Alchemists. https://theexperiencealchemists.com
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io • Founder, Dejobaan Games • Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve • 30 Year Veteran Game Dev • Boston!
Kajsa Hartig @kajsahartig.bsky.social Here to talk about museums, heritage, storytelling as a co-creative practice and about social sustainability. Based in Sweden.
David Stuart Platt, PhD, MLIS @spoilheap.bsky.social Archivist, archaeologist, librarian, historian. 20th century Brit, 21st century USAian. Manc. Was "SmallFind" on the Bird site. Former circuit digger. Roman & rescue archaeology, ruins, libraries & book history, archaeological archives. (GPA+VT)
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
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
Immersive Fiction @immersivefiction.com we create story-driven multimedia experiences that exist on the web and in the real world. always behind the curtain.
web
immersivefiction.com
currently working on
fieldstudiesinstitute.org
https://bsky.app/profile/fieldstudiesinstitute.org
@markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social - B Brett @bkuehner.bsky.social Fan of playing and creating puzzles and escape rooms. Lots of escape room design links here:
http://thatguywiththepuzzles.com/
Immersive Denver @immersivedenver.bsky.social Founded in 2018, we're an arts non-profit working to support the Denver & Front Range immersive industry through education, resource-building, networking & community, and arts advocacy.
Doug North Cook @dnorco.bsky.social Currently: Creative Director & CEO at @creaturedotpage.bsky.social .
Scholar is residence at NYU, running immersive Design Residency at the Fallingwater Institute.
Former: Robot Teddy, Chatham University + more
Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Account of the Defunctland YouTube Series. Posts by Kevin Perjurer.
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org
Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty.
Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos.
BlueskyUser #499 (Post count includes Twitter imports.)
Dave Cobb 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com Immersive Experience Design +30yrs -- theme parks, museum exhibits, attractions, MR/AR -- I connect people and stories in physical places.
Not the famous music producer.
GenX🤘
Queer & married 🇨🇦
Husky dad 🐶
Stay kind & curious ☮️
http://www.davecobb.com/
Brooke McDonald @brookegmcdonald.bsky.social Writer/editor covering Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal, theme parks, travel • she/her
Estella Tse @estellatse.com VR/AR Creative Director & Artist — among many other things. she/her.
🌲Oakland grown
🌸 Portland livin
Clients: Google, Oxford University, Adobe, AMD, Intel, Snapchat, Cartoon Network, Netherlands, more
https://estellatse.com/?utm_source=bsky
Joey Sims @joeysims.bsky.social he/him. writing about theater. https://joeysims.substack.com/
Nick Tierce @nicktierce.com Writer. Designer. Rabbithole cartographer. Immersive & interactive adventures.
nicktierce.com
Sara Thacher @thacher.bsky.social Experience Designer, Social Practitioner, Imagineer, Explainer of Jokes, Adventurer, erstwhile Jejune Institute Co-creator, and former Vacation Surrogate
Ddubya @ddubya.bsky.social CEO & Cofounder of Kinetic Energy Ent.
https://kineticenergyent.com/
PS: Been here for over a year. When are y'all coming over?
PPS: formerly @silkyd67 on the bluebird
Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social Stares at numbers at Simon and Schuster, runs ARGN.com - more ARGs, escape rooms, immersive theater, and puzzle stuff than you probably want to hear
No Proscenium @noproscenium.com Anything But The Usual. 🤯
Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014.
🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more.
👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Enterprising Fabulist
Scott Stein @scottstein.bsky.social CNET - future tech, VR/AR, wearables, games, immersive, existential dread/whimsy. Looking in weeds for little frogs. The Intertwixt is my free newsletter about strange overlaps https://intertwixt.beehiiv.com
Serenity Caldwell @settern.bsky.social Many-hat wearer, roller robot, and Apple design evangelist.
On social media these days mostly to help the Apple developer community, geek out about interactive storytelling and experience design, and say hi to friends.
And write. Writing’s good too.
Todd Martens @toddmartens.bsky.social Columnist for LA Times | I cover video games, immersive entertainment & theme parks. | I take a lot bad pics of Disneyland | I also like cats | Todd.martens@latimes.com
Cameo Wood @cameowood.com Work: @CharmingStranger.com
Buy: https://PointReyesMyriorama.com
Watch: https://RealArtists.Film
Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com Voices of VR Podcast host: Insatiably curious, XR oral historian, & aspiring philosopher.
Exploring Tech Ethics, AI, XR, & Emerging Tech.
Patreon at http://patreon.com/voicesofvr
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)
The Real Steve Peters @stevepeters.bsky.social Exploding Kittens Special Ops | Experience Designer | Puzzle Ninja | VR & Escape Room Tinkerer | OG ARG Maker | Professional Shenaniganizer | Ornamental Hermit | Los Angeles
stevepeters.org | explodingkittens.com
Troy Heard @troyheard.bsky.social Director - Immersive Creator - Las Vegas / Majestic Repertory Theatre / SCREAM'D / SCAD MFA
Anthony @antoniusrex.bsky.social Kind Guy, Dad, Survivor: Fiji Alum, Immersive Connoisseur, Interdimensional Swiss Army Knife, the other Black guy you know. To be clear: “I Ain’t Your Wookiee.”(He/Him)
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvel’s Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
Jessica Brillhart @brillhart.bsky.social Filmmaker and designer working in emerging tech. ECD at Hecho Studios | Founder and Director at Vrai Pictures (vrai.pictures)
Lance Weiler @culturehacker.bsky.social A storyteller/media artist working with code. Professor of Professional Practice Columbia University, founding member and director of the Columbia DSL
https://lanceweiler.com
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Ian @ianhamilton.net Chronicling VR makers and discoveries in virtual reality. https://www.goodvirtualreality.com
https://linktr.ee/hamiltonian
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Bryan Bishop @bcbishop.bsky.social Imagineer / Writer / Experience Maker.
Formerly: The Verge / ILM Immersive.
Kevin, as a robot @kevinasarobot.bsky.social Mixed reality artist: XR experience director @ Agile Lens, improvisation teacher @ Atlantic Theater Company and NYU Tisch, vegetarian. I wanna be a boat.