Rascal News @rascal.news Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social Advanced swearologist. ND for Monster Prom and Holovista. Author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, and Two Truths and a Lie. He/They
coryob.com
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social Producers of radical culture
Podcasts:
Live Like the World is Dying, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, The Spectacle
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/
https://www.patreon.com/c/strangersinatangledwilderness/
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference #QGCon established in 2013. QGCon is a registered nonprofit based in Montreal, Canada.
Stay tuned for news on presenting at or attending the next QGCon!
https://www.qgcon.org/
Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social We're creating a safer social media experience for marginalized people, powered by ATProto, and operating as a nonprofit worker-owned cooperative in Canada.
📧Join invite queue: https://www.northskysocial.ca/apply/
🆘Get support: https://tally.so/r/yPN6k6
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Revertices @revertices.com (revert-eh-sees) A 2D sidescrolling action combat game where you must choose one of three friends to save in a ruined world.
Releases Q4 2026! Wishlist now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3236560/Revertices/
Keely (Chicken Scratch) @keely-brown.bsky.social Game Dev from Canada working on a chicken game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2267230/Chicken_Scratch/
Silverstring Media 🌱💀🐝 @silverstringmedia.bsky.social 🏳🌈🍁 Queer-led indie narrative design and videogame studio.
🌱 GREENHEARTH NECROMANCER - available now! (Try our demo!)
🌙 GLITCHHIKERS: THE SPACES BETWEEN - available now!
https://silverstringmedia.com/
https://linktr.ee/slvrstrng
Snotwurm Studio @snotwurm.bsky.social SNOTWURM is a Canadian game dev collective, bringing you freaky little games about freaky little things. 🦠 https://snotwurm.website/
Ayunema @ayunema.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ She/Her; Formerly Virus610; Streamer; Game dev; Pixel artist; https://project610.com/heregoesmuffin
sunny ::::) evans | WISHLIST MY SHAPES @snot.bsky.social Media Magnate - narrative designer / producer / goblin and perpetrator of nastiness - sunnyevans.carrd.co
Inkus Alters @inkus.ca Multimedia artist, game dev, jack-of-all-trades
Trans, disabled, and tired
C-PTSD + ADHD
🇵🇱🇨🇦
🚫 Gen AI, will be blocked
https://inkus.ca
https://vekari.net - combination game and novel, but more accurately a portal
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
pkmutch @pkmutch.bsky.social Serial, activist entrepreneur, former C-suite corp exec, socialist feminist, university B-school educator, writer/journalist who creates content, courses and live spaces to be in relationship with and support radical change makers.
Adam Guzkowski @adamguzkowski.bsky.social Educator, activist, & helping professional. Lover of books, food, gaming, hiking in forests, & sitting by water. Proud geek, nerd, & social justice warrior. Inspired by dragons & dragonflies. They/Them.
Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Nicolas BK @nicolasbarrierek.bsky.social Senior Game Designer - Dead By Daylight / sorano.ca
Naomi @ndeszl.bsky.social 
imagefatale @imagefatale.bsky.social Digital dada-artist. Experience Designer. Design technologist. Educator. Consultant.
XR. Interactive exhibits. Games. Mobile Apps. Playful Art.
personal portfolio: https://www.tekaren.com/
boutique studio/art collective: https://www.krakxr.co/
Ashfaq Farabi @ashfaqfarabi.bsky.social 
Emma Westecott @emmawestecott.bsky.social 
@baileydunyo.bsky.social @baileydunyo.bsky.social 
OrbWitch @wildwoodgames.bsky.social Jupiter A. Wildwood (she/yours)
TTPRG Creator | Access Worker in Toronto
Friends wear masks 😷✨️
Editor @SummoningPress / Splat Magazine
https://orbwitch.com/
orbwitch@pm.me
j.u.n.e. @dykeayt.bsky.social lesbian hereness
ACM TEI Conference @tei-conf.bsky.social 21st ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction || January 24–27, 2027 in Lisbon, Portugal
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Luke Reeves @lukereeves.com 
Derek Quenneville @techknight.bsky.social Technical educator and maker who loves video game preservation and history
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Owen Williams @owen.bsky.social Design manager working on developer tools at Stripe. Kiwi in Victoria, British Columbia. @ow on Twitter.
SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social Mary Verhoeven
Artist for Illustration, Comics, TTRPGs and anything you can dream up.
Horror, Sci-fi and YA 🔪🛸🚲🌈
she/her
UTC -5 🇨🇦
email for work (avail on website)
https://sob-comix.com/
Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator
Risograph enthusiast
Working on a graphic novel memoir about generalized anxiety disorder and OCD
Editor of Pulping
Toronto
https://jennwoodall.format.com
Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social Soft Rains is a Toronto-based game studio focused on bringing world-class development experience to our work.
Ambrosia Sky 🪐 - out now on Steam & EGS!
https://linktr.ee/softrains
Ben Gelinas @bengelinas.bsky.social I tell characters in video games what to do! Senior Writer on Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. My weird indie Times & Galaxy is out now on all platforms! Other writing/editing credits include Dragon Ages, Mass Effects, Gotham Knights, and Controls.
Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
Jairus Khan @jairuskhan.bsky.social Noisemaker, adversary, internet blah blah blah, recovering goth. Formerly @ Mozilla, ISOC.
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing- J Jimmeh @jimmeh.bsky.social
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Sean Harkin @notarealshark.bsky.social Designer. Maker. Mostly nonsense.
JP Robichaud @jprobichaud.bsky.social He/him. D-Spectrum Capricorn Introvert & Relational Psychotherapist (RP). Enjoys games (table not screen) books (paper & e) and black clothing. Chocolate enthusiast & occasional cookie engineer. Also: Coffee. NSFW ish.
www.thecontrolenthusiast.com
Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social UX Director, Mighty Yell Studios. Accessibility Advocate. she/her
#tabbymakesart #tabbyjournals
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖
linktr.ee/koopmode
XOXO @xoxofest.com XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.
🌐 xoxofest.com
kezia @keziaa.bsky.social Game developer & generalist programmer (Cuphead, We Are OFK, and more) // Dirty Rectangles organizer // currently developing Revertices!!
they/them
https://revertices.com/
https://keziaa.carrd.co/
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
SANTO @santo.bsky.social evil | amo saint seiya y ser misterioso | hago cosplay | check out my freaking blog https://www.santoaveiro.com/ | Listen to Cosmo Champs!
seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social 🪙 ½ @goodluckpress.co // horror goon // writer & game designer // bookmaker // eerie queer cryptid // they/she/ze 🌙 looking for work!
https://themonstrous.me/ // https://goodluckpress.co/ // contact: asmolghost@gmail.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
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social 
Sagan, as in Carl @saganyee.bsky.social Animation (Lackadaisy, Goodbye Volcano High, Titmouse), games (Hand Eye Society), speculative fiction. UCLA Design Media Arts '26. He/they 🏳️⚧️
www.saganyee.com
Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of @softchaos.bsky.social. 🌈36. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
_nadine @nadinel.bsky.social Creative Tech Person and Media Artist: Text Generation. Depressed Bots. Alt-controllers. Collage. Terrible Furbies. Large TBR pile. Mostly forest and cat photos, and gaming screenshots. Sometimes projects. 
Ama Scriver @amascriver.bsky.social 💅Fat, loud & shouty (she/they)
🎙️ High Low Brow, the podcast
🍩 Director of Snacks
❤️ River + Ocean
📌 Toronto, Canada
Dustin Freeman 🧙♂️🇨🇦 @dustinfreeman.bsky.social Applied researcher with PhD in CS/Theatre. Working on something new {📸⏩🎞️} to cross the ML-HCI Chasm. Frequent digital/immersive theatre director. Bi 🌈.
dustinfreeman.org
Good Luck High Five @glhfmagic.bsky.social Videos + podcasts for Magical people. 🪄
Creators of Good Luck High Five & Commander Arcade.
Check out our stuff: https://beacons.ai/glhfmagic
Maria Bartholdi @missmariapants.bsky.social Comedian + Improviser + Podcaster + Writer + Host. I can do a perfect impression of R2D2 screaming. 🤖 🌈 Biz inquiries: mbartholdi@gmail.com
Meghan Wolff @meghanwolff.bsky.social Magic the Gathering podcaster with Good Luck High Five. Hamline MFAC grad. Improviser. Cat & mountain enthusiast.
Toronto Metropolitan University @torontomet.bsky.social Discover what it means to be metropolitan. Tag us at #torontomet
https://www.torontomu.ca/
Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social they/them; RPG zinester; hard introvert. Cohost of RTFM (an RPG book club podcast) and Nightcrawler is My Boyfriend (an X-Men read-along & game design podcast). Games at https://erinking.itch.io/. Minneapolis MN USA.
Audra Williams @audrawilliams.bsky.social Noted online emoter. Tea and sympathy and bread and roses. Running a little shop in Port Medway with my husband Haritha and our five cats. http://rosefinch.substack.com
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Lex Feathers 🍂 @lexfeathers.ca Composer / Sound Designer / Webdev in Toronto (she/her)
TaleKeep, Revertices, Solace State, Fire Tonight & more
Website: lexfeathers.ca/portfolio/
Band: @waxlimbs.com
Solo music: https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com
Mastodon: @lexfeathers@tenforward.social
Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
In the archives. Travelling Fifer.
She/her. Views own.
Dan eBoy @mandoqueer.itch.io game dev | hypnosis enthusiast | Ask for my trigger if you're cute
25 | minors dni | sometimes posts nsfw things at work
Diana Poulsen @dianapoulsen.bsky.social Artist, Filmmaker, Art historian, voice actor, machinist (etc) Indy game maker, theatre person, etc Canadian who plays a lot of Final Fantasy 
Dom2D 💜 @dom2d.bsky.social Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Dig Dig Dino, Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
Trident Booksellers & Cafe @tridenthalifax.bsky.social Cafe & Bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia
https://tridenthalifax.ca
Elle @salemskeeper.bsky.social 𝔖𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔫𝔬 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔴𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔢𝔰
Artistry•Film•Horror
Pastelarchive on Letterboxd
Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social Kind not nice | they / them | 21+
.
moderately tolerable but incredibly worthwhile
.
Queer Pornographic Artist & Author
https://www.laurenjanek.com/
Colin Cummings ✨🎷 @astroscout.ca game & graphic designer, community & marketing manager
community manager | ☔️ soft rains,🧵 silverstring media
marketing manager | 🦎 wdr studios, ⛄ snowman
board member | 👁️🗨️ hand eye society
✨ astroscout.ca | 🎷 boyproblems.ca
toronto | he/they
Gabby DaRienzo @gabbydarienzo.com game developer / artist
gabbydarienzo.com
Jonathan Levstein @jlevstein.bsky.social Game Designer 🥨 Food, games, neat little things 🐨 he/him
dungeon @dungeon.bsky.social Fantasy Synthesizer Music
https://desolationplains.bandcamp.com
dr lee cyborg @leeborg.bsky.social Chair of the Open Hardware Summit 🔧 + @oshwassociation board member + Radio Snack Executive Director 📻🥨 PhD in space stuff 🌌🚀
artist. cyborg. professional enthusiastic weirdo.
leecyb.org
they/he/iel + accords masculin 🏳️⚧️⚧️
En/Fr
🦯🦮
Dave Proctor @positivelaser.bsky.social Director at Mighty Yell. All Systems Dance, The Big Con, A Knight in the Attic. Singer in a nerdy punk band. Relentless optimist.
Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, and Trans Rights are Human Rights. (He/Him)
hubecube_ @hube.ca Hube to the cube working on Astronomics and Light Fingers at Numizmatic
◆ Numizmatic.com
◆ AstronomicsGame.com
◆ LightFingersGame.com
◆ bspace.app/profile/hube.ca
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Max Lander @snaxwell.bsky.social Game Designer + Professor. Angry queer.
Himbos of Myth & Mettle, OddFolk and Frame 352. https://maxwellander.itch.io/
Co-host of RTFM. Rtfmcast.com
Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social Author of HENCH and VILLAIN. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.