Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
Haley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social Video game lawyer at Voyer Law, IP/tech/corporate
@minnmax.com Community Manager, Cohort and Bonus Pod host
@pewpewbang.bsky.social co-host
Email: haley@voyerlaw.com.
PP: @hugop_arts
She/her 🏳️🌈
Sarah Podzorski 🌸 @sarahpodz.bsky.social 🌼 Fields of Mistria Social Media & Marketing Manager
🌻 MinnMax Cohort
🌷 Twitch Partner
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
grace @gracemachine.bsky.social Writer, critic, co-editor @tier-review.com
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
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
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
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
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)
Matt Western MP 🌹 @mattwestern.bsky.social Labour MP for ‘Warwick & Leamington’, Whitnash & Villages. Arsenal fan.
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Janet Garcia @gameonysus.bsky.social Critic, Video Game Consultant, Host ✨ Words at @PenToPixels.com. Convos at @minnmax.com, @TheIndieCouncil.com, @pewpewbang.bsky.social, @remapradio.bsky.social, & @GamesAndNotGames.com. Streams on Twitch.tv/Gameonysus.
Email: janet@pentopixels.com
LA 📍
@liadhy.bsky.social @liadhy.bsky.social Illustrator living in Glasgow
☁️ Make video games with Dreamfeel
💌 Greeting cards
🎨 Illustration
🌟 Love to draw
https://liadhyoung.com/
Kitty Powers @mskittypowers.bsky.social Veteran Game Developer and occasional drag artist. Director of Kitty Powers’ games. Founder of Magic Notion. (She/Her) Aka Richard Franke (He/him)
https://magicnotion.com/links
Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social Communications Director at Failbetter Games. Lover of life's rich pageant.
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.
Hayden Scott-Baron @docky.games Game Designer.
Previously: Ustwo Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Frontier, Planet Coaster, Jurassic World Evo, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and more. He/they.
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
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.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.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
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
Katharine Neil @katharineneil.bsky.social Games writer, narrative designer, game design tool developer. Occasional waster of time on social media. @haikus_by_KN in the bad place. J'habite en région parisienne; parfois je m'exprime en français.
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
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 💽🌿💾
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Mink @mink.bsky.social Escape Room maker.
LLaura Aurealis @llauraaurealis.bsky.social personal account. 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️ making indie games since 2010 @ dreamfeel. writer, designer, director, artist. works w/ lots of nice people and sometimes just herself. anti-cool. a better world is screaming, it's impossibly close. all flourishing can be mutual.
Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social Author and journalist. Creator of the My Perfect Console podcast. www.simonparkin.com
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.
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
Stella Wisdom @stellawisdom.bsky.social Curator interested in electronic literature, interactive narratives, comics, web archiving and digital preservation 
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social ½ of indie game co SFB Games w/ brother Adam
MAKING: The Mermaid Mask
MADE: Crow Country, Tangle Tower, Snipperclips, Haunt the House, Detective Grimoire
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social game developer, yuri enthusiast, your beloved problematic girlfriend
Pip @philippawarr.bsky.social 🎮 Narrative designer: A Monster’s Expedition, Little Kitty Big City, Flock
🎨 Illustrator
📚 Former dep ed at PCGamer
🪲 Beetle enthusiast
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Olivia Wood 🔜 Gamescom @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
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
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
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)