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.
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
BCMCR Events @bcmcr.bsky.social We are the team behind the events at the Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research at Birmingham City University.
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
Regina Seiwald @reginaballerina.bsky.social 
Tom Parslow @almostobsolete.net Acceptable code typer. Sometimes-ok food cooker. Brighton liver-in. SaaS company haver. Staff member for two cats.
Was @almostobsolete on Twitter before all that stuff. Am currently @almostobsolete@mastodon.me.uk on Mastodon.
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
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
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
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.
Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social Engaging public in the #EarthCrisis with #Arts #Heritage #Museums Founded Climate Museum UK, Culture Declares & Flow Associates.
http://bridgetmckenzie.uk/ Mailing list https://bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065
(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social Turning caffeine into code, via questionable osmosis.
Founder of Ropixel, specialising in Gameplay, Tools, Optimisation &c programming within Unity & Unreal (& soon, Godot) .▫️Let's chat!
GamesAid & SpecialEffect Ambassador
Benjamin Green @republicof1.bsky.social 
Mike Elsmore @ukmadlz.bsky.social 
Feral Vector @feralvector.bsky.social Yorkshire-based festival about games, gamelike things, and making
Lara Ratnaraja @lararatnaraja.bsky.social Culture, cake , cats
Chris @pipedownmrbrown.bsky.social Gaymer || Crocheter and maker of chunky creatures || Metal || Tabletop Gaming || Dungeons and Dragons || Warhammer ||
James Grimster @orangeleaf.bsky.social Founded Orangeleaf Systems Ltd in 1998; museum, archive, HER software in Shrewsbury, Shropshire UK. www.orangeleaf.com
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
Tassos Stevens @tassosstevens.bsky.social Playmaking to spark change, formerly representing Coney
#BrumHour @brumhour.com #BrumHour shares about volunteering, theatre, arts, culture & small businesses in Birmingham.
https://brumhour.com
#Networking with #Birmingham.
Andrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social Gamedev and 1-person studio @ThunkdGames Past credits: The Magnificent Trufflepigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Amnesia: AMfP. Also run gamedev networking events.
https://linktr.ee/andrewcrawshaw
@blasttheory.bsky.social @blasttheory.bsky.social 
Marge Ainsley (she/her) @margeainsley.bsky.social Freelance cultural consultant since 2008 specialising in research, evaluation and communication. Mostly working with libraries, museums, galleries, archives and heritage sites. UK and beyond. margeainsley.co.uk
Vivid Projects @vividprojectsuk.bsky.social Vivid Projects is a media arts organisation in Birmingham UK. Curation/research/project space, media archive and artist support ✨
https://linktr.ee/vividprojects
Delia Garratt @deliagarratt.bsky.social CEO Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust.
Trustee at the Field Studies Council.
Views my own
Lunar☆ @lunarbiscuits.bsky.social bᎾᏒᏒᎾᎳᎬᎠ fᏒᎾm ᎪᏁᎾᏆhᎬᏒ ᎶᎪᏞᎪxᎽ
Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social Game-based learning & community-building
Educator, Author, Experience Designer
ARGs, LARPs, Escape Games
Convener of #GamesInEdu26 at #UKGamesExpo
CfP: https://bit.ly/UKGECFP
web: www.Linktr.ee/lizcable
Start here: https://bit.ly/GamesinEdu
@cybrum (cyber-Birmingham) @cybrum.bsky.social Birmingham (UK), culture, art, theatre, architecture, built environment, media, tech, Android, Civ6/7, Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, coffee, food, beer, promoting local independent businesses, LCFC, WCCC/Bears, SF49ers, GenX, he/him
Museums Computer Group @ukmcg.bsky.social The MCG is for technologists, curators, educators, marketers and more in and around museums #musetech
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
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does. 
Matt W @soupdragon2000.bsky.social #Museum, #Arts, #culture and #London enthusiast. Views my own. Formerly at lots of big culture places but that doesn't define me. Freelance designer for museums, theatres and other cultural orgs. Find me at catlips.co.uk
bsky.app/profile/catlips.co.uk
Laura Crossley @lfcrossley.bsky.social Arts & heritage consultant. Coach.
Indie disco-er & lover of sad bangers. Football fan. Dog enthusiast. Bright clothes & hoop earrings please. she/her 🌈❤️
Robin Baumgarten 👨🏭✨ @robinwobbles.bsky.social Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Laurence Saunders @mrlsaunders.bsky.social House of the Dragon Say Nothing Doctor Who Nominated Villain Of Year British Soap Awards Doctors Eastenders The Village Tramadol Nights The Archers The Snarling
Katie Piatt @katiepiatt.bsky.social Tech, Learning & Games
Head of Educational Enhancement
CoChair Playful Learning Association
LGBT+ Ally 🏳🌈
she/her
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p541621-katie-piatt
Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social Professor of Digital Learning and Play at Northumbria University. Likes video games, cryptic crosswords, and otters. All views my own. She/her.
Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.
Kirsty Fraser @kirstysays.bsky.social 🤓 Lead Programmer at Third Kind Games
💬 Co-organiser of @brumindies.bsky.social
⚔️ @igdafoundation.org Next Gen Leader cohort '20 '25
🏆 MCV/Develop Women in Games Tech Innovation Winner 2023
❤️💍 @meesh-codes.bsky.social
(She/her)
Pseudomorph81 @pseudomorph81.bsky.social (he/him) Music, Comics, Food, Drink. Views are mine (or I agree with you!). Sith. Mayo is evil. Dms open. UK based🏳️🌈☕️🎵🧁🏳️⚧🌶️
Dr Amy Hondsmerk @awildhistorian.bsky.social Works to upskill the heritage sector. Researches videogames as museum interpretation. Lover of games, singing, sci-fi, and cats. She/her.
Fast Familiar @fastfamiliar.bsky.social participatory, playful + political artworks by an interdisciplinary studio | powered by curiosity, coffee + misplaced idealism | finally left the hellsite
Martin Devereux @martydev.bsky.social ◣ ◢ Consulting Archivist, based in the UK, specialising in digitisation in the cultural heritage sector and beyond. 3D, digitisation workflows, metadata…
Justin Martin @justinmartindesign.bsky.social VP of Design- Lionsgate • Award Winning Art Director for Themed Entertainment• Blooloop Top 50 Theme Park Design Influencer • Formerly at Meow Wolf/Universal Creative/Thinkwell/SCAD • Mets Fan
Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography, Treeplanter ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Tim on two wheels @timon2wheels.bsky.social Working for safe cycling in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.
Cycling locally and further afield (often on my eBike).
Qualified cycling instructor.
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of The Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
The View From The Lane @vftlpodcast.bsky.social Award winning, twice-weekly Tottenham Hotspur podcast. Brought to you by The Athletic. Email: vftl@theathletic.com
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Jane Haynes @janerockhouse.bsky.social Journalist, Birmingham. Politics, social affairs, campaigns. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/authors/jane-haynes/ Also Substack https://insidebirmingham.substack.com/ 07471025568 jane.haynes@reachplc.com
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social Citadin & nuisance. West Midlands, Birmingham, urban vitality, town planning, placemaking & sustainable transport. Same as the rest of you, a Twitter refugee.
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
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.
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.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Thom Bartley @thombartley.bsky.social Photographer / Director
@thombartley everywhere.
www.thombartley.com
Robert Sharl @sharl.bsky.social Rated PG for occasional adult themes, and some mildly upsetting scenes. Director at Cine Excess. Designer at Futurilla. UX lecturer at BCU. Occasional composer.
Orange Works @orangeworks.bsky.social We are a new writing theatre company based in Kent, UK. We take new work to fringe festivals and intimate theatres around the UK and now internationally.
See www.orangeworks.org.uk for further info
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Friction @frictionarts.bsky.social Doing all the art for over thirty years with, and for, real people. Custodians of the Edge. Mostly found in Birmingham, UK, but often spotted around the world.
Rob Lindsay @robintheoffice.bsky.social Head of Programmes at The Space, helping the creative sector to use digital in whichever way works for you. Former BBC and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social Award winning UK theatre company // everything theatrical, digital, gig, immersive, and interactive // Staging 12 shows in 12 months
Linda Spurdle @lspurdle.bsky.social Freelance consultant and producer working in the creative, cultural and digital industries. Long career in museums leading on all things digital. Based in Birmingham UK, works everywhere. Loves collaborating on creative stuff!
Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social Co - Founder @CIVIC_SQUARE, prev aka Impact Hub Birmingham || @TEDxBrum 2012 - 2017 || Hon Doc. @AstonUniversity ||
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
Camille Baker @mythrakitty.bsky.social Purple and redhead, blue-eyed artist /immersive XR maker, focused on women’s health experiences. Worried about the state of the world and the future. https://camillebaker.me https://inter-her.art https://mammary-vr.art
The Space @thespacearts.bsky.social Connecting artists and audiences online.
We help arts, cultural and heritage organisations reach audiences through digital technologies and platforms.
BOM @bomlab.bsky.social BOM is an immersive arts organisation. We engage and empower communities through immersive technology and inclusive learning programmes. 🎮💥
📍 Birmingham, UK
👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/bomlab
The Other Way Works @otherwayworks.bsky.social Creates playful theatre that immerses audiences in the story. #ARainbowForAmala climate crisis storybook for 8-11yrs https://arainbowforamala.co.uk theotherwayworks.co.uk
Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk Multi-award-winning interactive theatre company.
Live shows and online games available now at https://hiddentrack.org.uk
Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com Exhibiting digital interactive artist for hire (scrollytelling + more)
New digital stories - old tech.
Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie.
Into> misusing tools, narratives, what is human, digital witchcraft
http://www.carolinebeavon.com
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
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