Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Nico Vergara @nicovergara.bsky.social Freelance games writer | Safe In Our World Ambassador 2025 | bylines @ IGN, Game Informer, Fanbyte, etc. | I think a lot about games, books, sports (sadly), music, and films
Email: nicobvergara [at] gmail [dot] com | 🇵🇭
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Condorito (David Turoff) @condorito.bsky.social Old veterinarian, frequent traveler to Latin America, last 25 yrs, to do volunteer vet work w/ horses in remote impoverished communities
( equitarianinitiative.org ) mostly to atone for US fuckery
Aspiring author of flash fiction
condorito on the WELL
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social Editorial director, @lostincult. Former Edge deputy editor. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). chris@lostincult.co.uk / letterboxd.com/downaboutit
Owen Davies @owendavies.bsky.social Game developer. Lead programmer @groundshatter. Bristol, UK
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
Flo DR @electric-brunette.bsky.social Player since 1991, storyteller in the entertainment industry since 2007. Freelance PR. Formerly at Blizzard Entertainment, Creative Assembly, Double Eleven and Ankama. Lover of indie games, tea and cheese. She/her. Opinions are my own.
Olivia @imoliviaaaaa.bsky.social What are you going to do if our opinion is not the same as yours.... let's find out.
Work with me https://interview-prep-class.getrewardful.com/signup
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Staff @AMF
Craig Yates @craigyates.bsky.social I make video games.
PurpleChair @purplechair.bsky.social No.
Will @will-dunleavy.bsky.social
@akritai89.bsky.social @akritai89.bsky.social
@rustyspoon80.bsky.social @rustyspoon80.bsky.social
@jeypuria.bsky.social @jeypuria.bsky.social
Marc L. Bernstein @marclesbernstein61.bsky.social Born 1961 - Lifelong Neutral observer of Politics & Current Affairs UK, USA & World. Love Audio Books, Podcasts, stand up Comedy, Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Message me if you want to be friends.
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
@Dampha @oloman-24.bsky.social I’m from the Gambia
West Africa
Incana @incana.bsky.social ServiceNow developer | She/They | Ask me anything. If I don't know the answer, I'll research the topic 'til I do. (Provided I'm interested, hah)
TTRPG fan, fledgling DM.
Olivia Mackender @livimack.bsky.social MA in Media & Politics | Looking for writing opportunities in film, board games, video games & culture
inkle @inkle.co Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink; home of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope podcast..
Games: TR-49, A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery, and Pendragon.
🔗 inkle.co
Harriet @esmamse.bsky.social regrettably sedentary with bursts of motion.
tentatively trying to avoid total context collapse. Interested in rivers, systems, people, stories <3
She/they
harriethatwell.carrd.co
@lonouri.bsky.social @lonouri.bsky.social
Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social Games Writer: Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora
Co-director @ 3-Fold Games: Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member.
Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books & films.
Kate or Death @emogeekface.bsky.social mum, web developer, game reviewer, tea drinker, bibliophile, technology fanatic, vegetarian, charity supporter, gamer, alto, SpecialEffect ambassador.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/emogeekface
Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social Award-winning reporter. Senior editor (news) at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
Tips: chris.kerr@gamedeveloper.com / chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open / Signal: kerrblimey.43
Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social 40 year veteran games developer. Working with Screen Agencies, Publishers, and Developers.
Production on (REDACTED) for (REDACTED)
Production on DREDGE, Moving Out 2, Before We Leave, Age of Darkness, CONSCRIPT for Team17.
www.gameconsulting.com.au
kεnde @qwaemor.bsky.social language activist, gamer-programmer, fabric refresher (he/him/his)
gril @funambulism.com Stories, games, philosophy. Jew.
Currently: PUBG: Black Budget, Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius
Previously: Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
chillas @chillas.bsky.social
@waynehart1.bsky.social @waynehart1.bsky.social
@nickperry47.bsky.social @nickperry47.bsky.social
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net Table games, murder acrobatics, emotional rhythms, water magicks
Play, magick, coins and graps
Solidarity, creativity, love and hope
Queer, trans, autistic, ADHD, fatigued
campsite.bio/avafoxfort
@evening2005.bsky.social @evening2005.bsky.social
Nick Whitney ➡️ UKGE @whitniverse.bsky.social
Gareth Gray @garethgray.bsky.social
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
Stuart Neill @littleblueheart.bsky.social Tired, but managing
Tom Wake @tangocow.bsky.social
Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social www.rosacarbo.co.uk
🎮 Creative Director sona bona
💫 Freelance game design
🍊 Spanish in UK
👗 Sewist
💼 Prev Preloaded, Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus, etc.
🏆 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
✌🏼 she/her
Marty @topdownpopes.bsky.social The tired boy. (he/him)
Mark Jones @justanothermark.bsky.social Reading, walking, gaming, film watching, music-making type person. they/them
https://justanothermark.co.uk
Arc Skew @arcskew.bsky.social
tuckiozi @tuckiozi.bsky.social horrid norwegian wizard man
Wil Cornish @wilcornish.bsky.social Self Deprecating Media Node
they/them
Andy Morwood @morwoo.bsky.social These days I mostly just sit down a lot 🦥 | He/Him
Mette Pødenphant @mettepoe.bsky.social Currently world designer on unannounced project at Funday Games.
GDC speaker (Hitman level design stuff) Game director on "Wild Indigo Ranch". I write and illustrate "Heltene fra Avadore" a danish ttrpg for kids (looking for US/UK distributor)
@maybeedreaming.bsky.social @maybeedreaming.bsky.social
@incandescense.bsky.social @incandescense.bsky.social
@liadhy.bsky.social @liadhy.bsky.social Illustrator living in Glasgow
☁️ Make video games with Dreamfeel
💌 Greeting cards
🎨 Illustration
🌟 Love to draw
https://liadhyoung.com/
Aikyam | Demo Out Now! @aikyamgame.bsky.social Dazzle the hearts of disgruntled villagers with extravagant turn-based battles and rally them against demons in this Bollywood-inspired fantasy RPG!
Website: https://aikyamgame.com/
Wishlist on Steam: https://s.team/a/2363840
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch https://matthewblo.ch/
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
Pip @philippawarr.bsky.social 🎮 Narrative designer: A Monster’s Expedition, Little Kitty Big City, Flock
🎨 Illustrator
📚 Former dep ed at PCGamer
🪲 Beetle enthusiast
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
drop me a line: jriverawrites@proton.me
Kevin Satizabal @kevinsatizabal.bsky.social Assistant Producer at BBC Radio 3. BBC Production trainee 2022-23. Composer and pianist. Trustee at Paraorchestra. Love radio and people's stories.
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾
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
Olivia Wood 🔜 Gamescom @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
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
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Teleku @teleku.bsky.social
Nelson Calvinho @ncalvinho.bsky.social Don't dream it, be it / views are my own.- C @chrisstorey.bsky.social @chrisstorey.bsky.social
Cash! @cashdecuir.bsky.social Freelance narrative designer & writer, director at Talespinners!
Credits include: Disco Elysium! Avowed! Metal: Hellsinger! Killer Frequency! Fallen London, Sunless Sea: Zubmariner, Sunless Skies! And many more yet to be released!
Val @msvaltah.bsky.social French-born-UK-resident movie buff, also interested in gaming, languages, the interwebs, science (in general), stuff (in particular) and most things from 대한민국. Rat mum.
UK Games Fund @ukgamesfund.bsky.social Working to support the UK’s early-stage games development community.
Io Brindle ⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com I never knew I had so many sisters. Lead Writer for Dread Delusion, out now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/ (she/her. not a cog)
Skye Nathaniel @internisus.bsky.social Non-profit worker; freelance and hobbyist video editor, podcaster, writer, and copyeditor.
Ignoring mortality and making endless lists of books, movies, and games. Low-key freaking out about covid and climate.
He/him.
Ben Redfern @0xbadf00d.bsky.social UK-Born, Swiss-based network nerd/YAML farmer/Grey beard.
Interested in cloud security, making things; music, art, circuits, beer & conversation
@lordnarvi.bsky.social @lordnarvi.bsky.social
GreatKnightJ @greatknightj.bsky.social British Democratic Socialist
Blairism delenda est!
Support 🇵🇸 & 🇺🇦!
@peterstevens.bsky.social @peterstevens.bsky.social
Jack Wentworth-Weedon @jwweedon.bsky.social He/Him
Producer for the Yorkshire Games Festival and Widescreen Weekend at the National Science and Media Museum. Classic film and games are my professional bag.
Twilight (2008) academic.
Nic Conroy @nicoleconroy.bsky.social Producer at Maverick Games • 30 under 30 2022 • cool accent • 🏳️🌈 • she/her • opinions are mine and fucking great
Spencer - Gravy Crew Games ▶️ Rules & Rodents OUT NOW @citrusdreams.bsky.social Programmer at Gravy Crew Games, worked on Rules & Rodents and is currently developing a new 3D game. He/Him
No access to DMs (🇬🇧)
https://gravycrewgames.co.uk/
AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me Data science, crime and AI in government person | he/him
https://andreasthinks.me/
Dave Pickett @davidmpickett.bsky.social Words, systems, games, etc.
davepickett.co
youtube.com/brick101
Adam @adamauckland.bsky.social Friendly musician and internet person.
Currently working in online and real-world games.
@adam@mastodon.social @adamauckland exiting planet Twitter
Akhil Dakinedi @akhil17.bsky.social Product Designer & aspiring human. Writes long Medium posts about design & video game UI. Talks about coffee, Pokémon, & existential dread. https://www.akhildakinedi.com/