Lauren Taylor @laurenmt1.bsky.social Co-Founder of Snappy Gurus.
Supporting entry level talent moving into games and relevent roles!
My email: lauren@snappygurus.com
MichaelWalshflute.bsky.social @michaelwalshflute.bsky.social Doctor Ethnomusicology/ Whistles Club Sheffield, Wooden flutes. Irish traditional music. Teacher. Specialist in Music of the Irish in Britain y La Música Asturiana. Gaeilge. Asturianu. www.michaelwalshmusic.com Sheffield dwelling Mancunian. Quarehawk
Barbellion @barbell-lion.bsky.social I slap the bacon out your mouth.
Dance upon your sarnie.
In/Frame/Out @inframeout.bsky.social I make video essays about movies, but I also have some good qualities...
https://www.youtube.com/@inframeout?themeRefresh=1
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Leah Dungay @leaheline.bsky.social Sheffield Based Human (English & Norsk)
Learning & Community Curator @nvmuk.bsky.social 🎮✨
She/Her
The Beautiful Games Club @beautifulgamesclub.bsky.social The Beautiful Games Club is a community for people who love games that move you - emotionally, visually or creatively. We play games like a book club, one beautiful game at a time.
https://linktr.ee/beautiful.games.club
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Lucie Paterson @luciepaterson.bsky.social
George Dunford @george-dunford.bsky.social Digital, writing, arts, books and travel. Co-author of Micronations and The Big Trip. Solo dad, kitten parent. Hoping for that old Twitter energy of collaboration and consideration.
Tomasz Wesołowski @twesolowski.bsky.social
Paola Antonelli @paolaantonelli.bsky.social Curator of contemporary architecture and design and Director of R&D at MoMA, co-founder of the IG platform and podcast Design Emergency.
Josh Mathews @vandalheart.bsky.social Office Manager @insertcoin.bsky.social 👾 | Gaming | Horror | Wrestling | Pop Punk | Metal | All views my own
https://linktr.ee/JoshMathews
French New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social the only good gimmick account?
Oui! 📽️
mostly does what it says on the label, with detours into other genres
IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk The largest union for game devs in the UK.
Work in game dev or TTRPG? Join the union: https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/
Europeana @europeana.bsky.social - Europe’s cultural heritage online http://europeana.eu
- European data space for cultural heritage https://dataspace-culturalheritage.eu
Funded by the European Union
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Scott Riley @scott.is designer for real humans / author / speaker / educator / acab / buy my fuckin book / take my fuckin course
Mindful Design video course:
https://piccalil.li/mindful-design
Other gaffs:
https://scott.is
https://mindfuldesign.xyz
Chris Brandrick @brandrick.bsky.social 🎮 Editor of the #Nintendo newsletter 🌸 hanafuda.report
Priceratops @rikkiprice.bsky.social A flibbertigibbet, a will-o‘-the-wisp, a clown
sean morley @seanmorl.com its just good stuff really
seanmorl.com
HappyMuseum Project @happymuseum.bsky.social Re-imagining museums for the wellbeing of people, place and planet.
Posts via @hilaryjennings
Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org Sharing expertise, skills and best practice on LGBTQ+ heritage 🌈 • UK-wide subject specialist network • Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England
Contact: qhcncomms@gmail.com
Website: queerhcn.org
Newsletter: mailchi.mp/46de0e53f704/qhcn
YRS TRULY @yrstruly.uk A very nice marketing agency for the games industry ☺︎
B Corp certified and a member of UKIE.
Email us at hello@yrstruly.uk 💌
🌐 yrstruly.uk
Martijn van der Meulen @yesdogman.bsky.social Studio Co-Founder & Development Director @ Snap Finger Click, creating ✨multiplayer party games✨ for PC & console: UNO, Awkward 2, and more.
Previously: Electronic Arts, PlayStation, Relentless Software. Also dad, immigrant, BAFTA member, and gamer. He/him
Video Games Industry Memo @vgim.bsky.social A newsletter about the business and politics behind video games.
Sign up: www.videogamesindustrymemo.com
Tips and press contact: george@videogamesindustrymemo.com
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Big Walk is out now: bigwalk.game
househouse.com
Fictions @fictions.com 🎮
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
henry ✷ @strange.website a website, betrayed by god.
queer vegan straightedge. free palestine. him.
https://stillness.digital && https://strange.website && https://henry.codes && https://strangersbyspring.com
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Emma Von Cooper @emvoncoop.bsky.social Previously a social media fan. See me about public funding for innovative creative industries businesses in the UK. Knitting and crocheting. And probably complaining about trains/the weather/aging.
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social A brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. https://immersivearts.uk/
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Johnny Cigarette @johnnycigarettex.bsky.social Irish Animator and Illustrator who, due to a selection box won in an art competition in junior infants, believes he was made to create
Henry Driver @henrydriver.bsky.social Artist, Game developer & farmer. Creating projects inspired by nature & powered by solar energy. Plants 100s of trees every year Suffolk, UK.
Making Treeplanter, & made Secrets of Soil for BBC Arts
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3531490/Treeplanter/
Will Todd @wonttodd.bsky.social writer and engineer at Coal Supper - made 'Thank Goodness You're Here!'
James Carbutt @jamescarbutt.bsky.social I drew the pictures, made the music and wrote any jokes that weren't funny in Thank Goodness You're Here!
New Game Plus @newgameplus.bsky.social New Game Plus at #LGF25 | 🎟️ tickets.games.london | Showcasing fresh indie games. 🚀 #NewGamePlus
AtomfallGame @atomfall.com OUT NOW on Xbox Game Pass Day One, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC and PC via Steam, Epic and PlayStation 4 & 5 from
@Rebellion⚡ 🏆 BAFTA Winner
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
Vicky Clarke @sonamb.bsky.social Sound Artist | Producer | Electronic Tinkerer | Educator
michelle @mickeypip.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, Artist, Narrative Designer (scripts, stories, games and other stuff)
👻 Lover of all things weird
📺 Channel 4 New Writers 24/25
📚 Trustee Manchester City of Literature
🎬 BAFTA Connect
✍️ WIP: spec fic collection
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mickeypip
Manchester Games Network @gameopolismcr.bsky.social Advocating, championing and excellent networking for the Greater Manchester video games industry. Newsletter sign-up here: http://eepurl.com/bAIUZf
YORE COMPUTER 🕹️ @yorecomputer.bsky.social Publishing pages selected at random from old British computer mags. A bot from Rob Manuel. Support https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
Limmy @limmy.com Shop: limmy.com | Streams: twitch.tv/Limmy & youtube.com/@DaftLimmy
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Artangel @artangelldn.bsky.social Extraordinary art, unexpected places
📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for priority updates on new exhibitions and events.
🔗 linkin.bio/ig-artangel_ldn
Sally Medlyn @sallymmm.bsky.social
Jen Southern @jensouthern.bsky.social Artist and researcher working with technology and ecology. Director of Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore), and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Lancaster University.
goatchurch.bsky.social @goatchurch.bsky.social https://github.com/goatchurchprime
David Kessen @dkessen.bsky.social Journalist at The Star, Sheffield. You can email me on david.kessen@nationalworld.com
Jim Jagger @jimjagger.bsky.social VP of Animation at Rockstar Games
Previously: Sony, Ubisoft, BioWare, Neversoft, Infogrames/Ocean
Views are my own
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
Lindsey Green @lindsey.franklygreenwebb.com Strategist and researcher for digital in museums, galleries and historic sites. Founder of Frankly, Green + Webb and Trustee at Sheffield Museums.
Sometimes cats, gardens and bread.
Alexander (TOTAL RELOAD game creator) @torshock.bsky.social 🎮 Dev of the puzzle indiegame TOTAL RELOAD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2412090/Total_Reload/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KzVB4YKvPu
📁 Newsletter / Press Kit:
https://torshock.kit.com/total_reload
Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaave 🏴🏁 @smithereenz.bsky.social Dad and data guy from Glasgow, Scotland.
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. 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
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Andy Abbott @andy-abbott.bsky.social Artist, writer, musician and arts organiser / ADRA Promotions gigs in Calderdale.
www.andyabbott.co.uk
Jay Moy @jaymoy.bsky.social sound / sculpture / immersive /
Not necessarily not in that order
https://jaymoy.co.uk
https://jaymoy.bandcamp.com/
https://fleete.bandcamp.com/
http://listenwithothers.co.uk/
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Ben Neal @psiconlab.bsky.social Arts-focused freelance Creative Technologist, Digital Artist, programmer, games/gadget builder, educator. Making technology-infused Immersive Art experiences.
www.displace.org.uk
www.psiconlab.co.uk
Zuri Maria @zurimaria.bsky.social
@callumdeery.bsky.social @callumdeery.bsky.social Games researcher, larper, occasional pixel artist
Currently studying video game crimes for a PhD at City University of Hong Kong
Develop:Brighton 2026 @developconference.com Develop:Brighton 2026 - 14-16 July | The UK's biggest game developer conference. Bringing together the European game dev community from global superstars to micro indies - since 2006
Claymatic @claymatic.games We’re Claymatic Games! Working on Platypus Reclayed and Knuckle Creek 🚀 Specialising in claymation art style, couch-coop, local and multiplayer games
🤖 claymatic.games
Tebi Rex @tebirex.bsky.social Two musicians currently in an enemies to lovers trope
Lucy Ashton @lutheblue.bsky.social Senior political reporter for BBC Sheffield, covering South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire
🎧 Radio Sheffield and BBC Sounds
🤳 BBC South Yorkshire online
📺 Look North and Politics North
Ann Wain @annwain.bsky.social Collections Officer for the National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK @nvmuk.bsky.social. Views my own. Header image by Alexalan.
Eu. Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects @efgamp.bsky.social Founded 2012 EFGAMP (European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects) represents more than 20 cultural heritage institutions and other organisations collecting and preserving digital games heritage
> www.efgamp.eu
Tom Glover @tomglover.bsky.social Global Communications at Niantic Spatial.
Indigo Pearl @indigopearl.bsky.social Award-Winning Video Games PR Agency. Sassy posts & digital treats. We are Beyoncé, always.
Get in touch: hello@indigopearl.com
@KeywordsStudios
Dave Bradley @boxdaveb.bsky.social All about games, tech, film, books, travel, sci-fi, cats. Mostly harmless. New book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mythmade-machines-9798216370666/
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Nic Conroy @nicoleconroy.bsky.social Producer at Maverick Games • 30 under 30 2022 • cool accent • 🏳️🌈 • she/her • opinions are mine and fucking great
Matthew Horsfall @horsfall3d.bsky.social 🕹️ Curator at National Science and Media Museum + Yorkshire Games Festival
🖼️ Former video games artist and lecturer
🎭 BAFTA Connect member
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social Managing director of the Institute for Energy Solutions and the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM) @ UMich. Still also posting about tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, & cats.
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Francis Hodgson @fhodgson.bsky.social Writing on Photography
Linktr.ee/francishodgson
Emily Brown @emilycbrown.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Earth Systems at National Museums Scotland. Secretary and Trustee, Scottish Geology Trust. Gemmologist. Rock person. She/Her. All views are my own.
HelpSheffield @helpsheffield.co.uk Doing what we have done, on the other place, for the last 14 years. Ask us a #Sheffield question & we (or our followers) will answer it.
Next Sheffield Socials at Portland House 24th of September from 6.30pm. Meet n chat. No agenda. Any Qs ask.
Watershed @wshed.bsky.social Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Zaron Mizmeras @zaronmiz.bsky.social Cyborgism🦾 Nu media💻 Post-humanism👽
✨NB, they/them✨
Professional Fucker-Upper of arts in Sheffield, UK.
Co-Founder of Interworld Media
Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social Actor. Voice-over artist. Occasional writer/director. Frequent procrastinator. He/Him.
Grand Theft Hamlet is available on Mubi now!
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Ukie @ukieofficial.bsky.social We are the trade body for the UK games and interactive entertainment industry. Our mission is to supercharge the future of the UK video games industry.
www.ukie.org.uk
Ilona Sagar @ilonasagar.bsky.social Artist | filmmaker resident at Somerset House
www.ilonasagar.com
Nikki Stearman @nikkistearman.bsky.social Creative Director / Game Designer / Producer/ Aspiring #PB Author
Love making interactive stuff for children
Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social He/him. Sr. Game Designer. Prev: Epic, Bungie, Turbine, more.
I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
Tamar Millen @tamarmillen.bsky.social Tired.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design at Sussex - Designing The Conditions for Hope.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social Wishing for a thing does not make it so.
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
Kylie Noble @ksen12.bsky.social Irish journalist living in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Interests: healthcare, sexual health, public health, gender, queerness, relationships, society...
Aunt, plays football and enjoys Star Trek. AuDHD.
Scott Trust and Washington Ireland alum.