These Games Are Not For Sale @notforsalegames.bsky.social A festival celebrating tabletop games with high artistic merit and no commercial intent
Coming soon to a PAX Unplugged near you
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Bart de Jong @bartgamedesign.bsky.social Father. Primary school teacher. Game designer. Designer of Bable (2024) and L'Oaf (2025).
Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social Boardgame designer, blogger, teacher etc. Blocks are not endorsements
Im in here.
www.spielbar.com
Gil Hova @gil.hova.net He/him. JC/NYC.
• Tabletop games - now making games as Informal Ferret Games
• Robot fight facilitator at NHRL
• Fan of weird/noisy music
• Ferret nut
• Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency
All my links: https://gil.hova.net
Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social I make games that spark empathy and imagination. I also promote community among tabletop designers, players, retailers, and others.
He/他/any.
Check out Color Jam on Kickstarter!
🖍️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarpunkgames/colorjam
Erica @ericabouyouris.bsky.social Basement Dweller, Geek, Game Designer (Design Lead) at Spin Master Games, Co-host of the Ludology Podcast. I ❤️ board games and video games.
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
Tory Brown (she/her) @downtowntbrown.bsky.social 📍baltimore, md
💪public education
🎲✂️ www.votesforwomen.com
Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social Stay-at-home dad, reader, board gamer, GeekDad Senior Editor, Etch-a-Sketch artist.
https://geekdad.com/author/jonathanhliu/
https://www.instagram.com/jonathanhliu/
(he/him) Portland, Oregon
Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social English Prof. Editor at Analog Game Studies.
Agatha nominee. Writer, gamer, nature nerd. BLM
Author of Cozy, Nerdy Mysteries:
https://tulepublishing.com/series/a-wren-winters-mystery/
https://shellyjonesauthor.com/
@redravengames.bsky.social @redravengames.bsky.social 
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
W. Eric Martin | Board Game Beat @index.wericmartin.com.ap.brid.gy Board Game Beat post feed.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.wericmartin.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ella Ampongan @meampongan.bsky.social • Multi-Disciplinary Artist #vca #mca @vca_mca
• She/Her/Sya
• Queer, Feminist, Anti-Imperialist
Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com Board gamer, host, producer for Good Time Society, Rahdo Runs Through, and more. Taelor ambassador. Play to Z co-owner. Dodgers fan. Pug papa. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/ruelgaviola
OrcaCon @orcacon.bsky.social OrcaCon is an inclusive tabletop games convention in Sea-Tac, WA. Join us January 10-12, 2025 for games & community! #HonorNativeLand #BlackLivesMatter
https://www.orcacon.org
Connie @connievdc.bsky.social Board game designer & designer of Apiary & Wyrmspan. General nerd. Partner of @hexstardragon.bsky.social. Panders to cats. She/Her. Avatar from: https://paavilaisentaide.carrd.co/
Hollandspiele @hollandspiele.bsky.social Dinosaurs everybody. Posts by Mary, who along with @amabel.bsky.social runs Hollandspiele, a publisher of weird games for weird people.
https://hollandspiele.com
https://youtube.com/@hollandspiele
J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social Pakeha, Martian, Reviewer, (He/Him) Aotearoa! Award winning game designer(Sorry Travis): //www.youtube.com/c/3MinuteBoardGames
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Charlie Theel @charlietheel.bsky.social Board game critic. Bylines: Polygon, IGN, Ars Technica, Tabletop Gaming Magazine, Dicebreaker, Geek & Sundry, PC Gamer, Wargamer. Co-hosted the Ding & Dent podcast.
cdtheel@gmail.com
Most of my writing appears at my site, http://playerelimination.com
W. Eric Martin @wericmartin.bsky.social Publisher and founder of Board Game Beat: independent board game news, reviews, essays, interviews, and more. Visit the site at https://www.wericmartin.com
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social Australian game designer and former research chemist. One half of Postmark Games. Expect science and game based posts! He/him.
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MatthewDunstan
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
beth @bethsobel.bsky.social sometimes I draw stuff
anti fascism, protect trans lives, pro vaccine, pro choice, pro expanded gun control, pro universal healthcare, and I have never and will never use Gen AI on purpose.
she/her
Things Get Dicey @thingsgetdicey.bsky.social Board Game Sketch Comedy & Entertainment created by Paula Deming
Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social 🍐 SU&SD 🍐 / kinda on hiatus
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
#Block Collective @blockcollectives.bsky.social #Block Collective is a volunteer-run community with the united goal of sharing resources, disrupting bigoted spaces, and serious engagement on the topic of trans rights.
Join us as we help shape the boardgame industry into a safer and inclusive space.
Marceline Leiman @marcelineleiman.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️
Published Game Designer, Developer, Educator.
MFA graduate from NYU Game Center.
Designed High Tide 🌊, Dino Racer 🦖, Wildberries 🫐, and more!
https://www.marcelineleiman.com/
Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social Assistant professor, UB Media Study. Researching and making queer/trans games, narratives, and communities. Director, Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. Catch me 2025 at SCMS, CGSA, and more!
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com Stonemaier Games is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier Games’ top brands include Viticulture, Scythe, Charterstone, Wingspan, and Apiary.- N Non-Breaking Space @nbsp1618.bsky.social Defender of orphans and widows, defenestrator of conventions and harbinger of the post-grog.
https://nbsp1618.games
R. Eric Reuss @rericreuss.bsky.social Game Designer & Dad. Best known for Spirit Island.
He/him. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Also on ohai.social/@REricReuss (Mastodon), but here more.
My website: https://rericreuss.com/
Georgios @georgiosp.bsky.social he/him
writing about board games
blathering on podcasts
www.spielbar.com - reviews and essays about Games, in German
www.lestmyopinions.com - reviews and essays about Games, in English
University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
Yvette Nicole Brown @ynb.bsky.social Caregiver. 💖💚 Emmy nominated💫
Spoutible: @YNB
Post: @TheYNB
IG & Threads: @yvettenicolebrown
Roshan John @roshanjohn.com Roshan rhymes with ocean.
roshanjohn.com
Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social Advocating through science based education, validation, and empathy
Nicolefilipponeauthor.com/my-links
Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games Publishing beautiful history board games.
Pax Pamir ✧ John Company ✧ Molly House
linktr.ee/wehrlegig
Shelf Stable Podcast 🔜 Spiel Essen, PaxU @shelfstablecast.bsky.social We're a podcast celebrating board games that have stood the test of time (5 years old minimum). Join us in the cult of the old!
https://linktr.ee/shelfstablecast
Posts by Kenny. Except the bad ones. Bad posts by Tom.
Natalie 🔜 PAX UNPLUGGED @boardgaymergirl.bsky.social (She/Her) Queer, Canadian board game content creator
Logo: Moon Sharma, Banner: Made myself in Canva
https://youtube.com/@boardgaymergirl
linktr.ee/boardgaymergirl
The Cardboard Herald @cardboardherald.bsky.social Board game reviews, interviews and recommendations from the frosty North. Social butterfly. Also bikes, food, movies and positivity. https://youtube.com/TheCardboardHerald
The Stranger @thestranger.com Seattle's Only Newspaper 📣 TheStranger.com 👀
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
Board Gaymes James @boardgaymesjames.com Queer Autistic Board Game Content Creator and magical unicorn behind the scenes in the industry.
http://boardgaymesjames.com
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social Boardgame enthusiast, podcaster, books: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Universe Explained with a Cookie games: Versailles 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He/him
https://open.substack.com/pub/gametek
Emma Larkins @emmalarkins.bsky.social Board game designer - Starry Night Sky, Abandon All Artichokes, Squabblin Goblins, Epilogue, and more! she/her. PNW. Not free until we're all free. http://emmalarkins.com
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Mary Flanagan @criticalplay.bsky.social artist/player/gamedesigner/futurista/factotum/nemophilist making things
writer of books essays stories poems code
founder of the publishing house @Resonym | founder of Tiltfactor @Dartmouth College
Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social PhD. Northerner. Settler. Snoop. Maker of lists. Best friend to genius type guy. Mother to fierce daughter. She/They. #BLM #COVIDisNotOver #MaskUP
http://drtanyapobuda.substack.com/
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
PHD Comics @phdcomics.com Comics by Jorge Cham: Oliver's Great Big Universe, Elinor Wonders Why, ScienceStuff and PHD Comics
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social 
ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social Sharing our neurodivergent experiences helps us realize that we are not alone. Most memes are on ADHD, some are on Autism and others are just me being silly.
ADHDinos @adhdinos.bsky.social Distracted.
https://tinyview.com/adhdinos
Dani Donovan 👩🏻🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com ✨ ALL THE LINKS:
https://linktr.ee/danidonovan
🎨 ADHD comic artist + TikTok creator
https://adhddd.com
📚 Author of “The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It”
https://anti-planner.com
Bathrobe Gal @bathrobegal.bsky.social Hi, it's Bathrobe Gal! I draw comics about my adventures as an adult-diagnosed #autistic woman, writer, and chronic bathrobe-wearer. Mainly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bathrobe_gal
https://bathrobegal.com/
(My real name is Sarah Jane.)
AzulCrescent @azulcrescent.bsky.social Come enjoy some comics on life, suffering and joy! \('v')/
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Paul Booth @pbooth81.bsky.social Teacher, writer, dog-lover, reader, board gamer, tv watcher, Doctor Who enabler; annoyingly optimistic.
New Doctor Who Big Finish author: check out my Short Trips "Ahead of Time" coming out April 2025
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.
BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Semi Co-op @semicoop.com A webcomic about board games since 2015! https://semicoop.com | Want to commission a comic? Send us a message! | Support us @ http://patreon.com/semicoop
Monique / Before You Play @beforeyouplay.bsky.social Youtube.com/BeforeYouPlay
Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social Mother, wife, Nana, activist, Sunday School teacher, sister. Bird by Bird, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. Old quotes compiled by Dean Dauphinais.
Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social I learn. I create. I teach. He/Him.
Game Designer / Developer / Writer
https://linktr.ee/senfoonglim
Co-host of the Meeple Syrup Show and the Ludology Podcast
Bruno Faidutti @faidutti.com Boardgame designer, historian
Matt Leacock @mattleacock.bsky.social Game Designer known for cooperative games including Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Daybreak
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Watch It Played @watchitplayed.bsky.social I make videos that help you discover, learn and play board games - find your next new favorite game here!
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
ᡣ𐭩 Mandi ᡣ𐭩 @613mandi.bsky.social 🎲 🎮 Gamer
📹📸 Content Creator
📚 Teacher/Learning Advisor at GoC
🪡 Sewist
🌶 `⋆ 🎀 𝒩𝑒𝓊𝓇🌸𝓈𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓎 🎀 ⋆`
she/her
🇨🇦 Great English/Le français est passable.
🎮 🎲
www.twitch.tv/saltandsassgames
www.youtube.com/saltandsassgames
📧 saltandsassgames@gmail.com
🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social tabletop games + app games + pie + AsAm Adoptee + She/Her = ruining games one skeet at a time. as seen on History's The Toys That Built America. hates puns - but in a fun way. @saltandsass.bsky.social. i keep 3 things: secrets, promises, and grudges.
Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com The official Bluesky account for BoardGameGeek
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com Proudly independent board game reviewers.
https://youtube.com/nopunincluded
Playing Bridge on the sidewalk
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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