Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
alexis @alexiskaegi.com writer & narrative designer || stonecoast mfa || she/her || alexiskaegi.com
stories in flame tree, abyss & apex, deep magic, neopets, ashe cove, ??????
Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com Creator of TV shows INFINITY TRAIN and AMONG US.
Store: https://www.owendennis.com/store
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OwenDennis
Booking: @gunghobookings.bsky.social
Once a month I delete EVERYTHING on this website 'cause fuck it lol
Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social Maker of random things, co-maker of one person, Google Arts & Culture engineer. I like pixels. he/him.
Byte Binding @bytebinding.com Modern, accessible, and powerful EPUB editor for your next big story.
https://bytebinding.com
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). she/her. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Emma Kidwell @emmakidwell.bsky.social Award-nominated writer | Contracting @ Ruckus Games 💀| Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Civilization VII, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Hindsight | Opinions my own | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press Creator of the ENNIE-nominated Exclusion Zone Botanist. Writer at Skeleton Code Machine: https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com 💀 #MÖRKTOBER
🩻 Get TUMULUS: tumulus.exeunt.press
🎲 Buy printed games: shop.exeunt.press
👀 Behind the scenes: omnes.exeunt.press
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
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
Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social Award-winning TTRPG performer, unaward-winning game designer, writer, rogue archivist
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♾️ {they/she}
Star Trek account: https://bsky.app/profile/wheregnomeannegoes.bsky.social
I make so much stuff: linktr.ee/annethegnome
Email: annethegnome@gmail.com
Cassi Mothwin 🧟♀️ @cassi.mothwin.com Award Winning TTRPG designer • Illustrator • Twitch Affiliate • SFWA • Email for inquiries • Dancing in the moonlight
🏳️🌈 (she/any)
https://cassimothwin.com/cassi-mothwin-links-copy/
Robin Rendle @robinrendle.bsky.social robinrendle.com
Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social analog game maker and zine defiler (Lay On Hands, Thousand Empty Light, Cycles of the Eye, Brute Fort) - alfredvalley.itch.io
Brad Dowdy @penaddict.com Blogger // Podcaster // Maker
PenAddict.com
Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine.
Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social December! Trans (she/her) queer, writer, game designer. I made: Neon Black, A Torch in the Dark, RIG, and many more! Bitch loves stories and hates capitalism.
Support: https://www.patreon.com/notwriting
Games: notwriting.itch.io
Contact: notwriting.net
Postmark Games @postmarkgames.bsky.social Award winning board games playable straight from your printer. Voyages, Waypoints, 52 Realms: Adventures and others #printfun
www.postmarkgames.com
Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co Co-founder of @inkle.co, narrative game studio.
⛰️ A Highland Song
🤖 TR-49
🚢 Overboard! & Expelled!
🕌 Heaven’s Vault
🌍 80 Days
🖋️ ink
📱 Apps @ https://Selkie.Design 🦭
🏴🇩🇪
Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies.bsky.social Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light.
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/
Landon Noss @landon.wtf Innovation and Engineering leadership @ SIEA/PlayStation (HERE UNOFFICIALLY, NOT MY EMPLOYERS POSTS), former Obama.org Eng director, 24 years in the industry and counting. Rooting for you. Make magic, make art. AMA.
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
Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.
Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social Books, tea, omens, ink. KILL ALL WIZARDS is out now from Tordotcom. Coming soon: two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games).
thirdarchive.net | ninepinpress.com
Jesse Makkonen @jessemakkonen.com #Indiedev (Without a Dawn, Afterdream, DISTRAINT, Heal) making atmospheric games. Discord: https://discord.gg/Su7eQd8
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/jessemakkonen
Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic.com Designer for the web. Living each day like it’s Pizza Day. she/her
jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Nik Gadermann @nik.digital Web Developer
Writing at nik.digital
John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com Indie text game developer, creator of Seedship and Beyond the Chiron Gate. Now working on a pulp sci-fi adventure narrated by the villain!
Website: https://www.spacegoblingames.com/
Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/
Header and avatar by Tom Morley
Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4 awesome young adults. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
Goblins and Gardens @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social Artist and creator behind the Goblins and Gardens Tarot Deck.
ORDER Dungeon Wilds:
A cooperative card game about destroying dungeons. 👇
https://goblinsandgardens.com/shop/p/dungeon-wilds-deck-of-playing-cards-pre-order
Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social 48, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. Ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Gio :⁾ @im.giovanh.com cryptid • writer • legendary archivist • universal constant • edge case • cyber artisan
let's be fans of each other
https://im.giovanh.com
Tom Brinton @brin.town local inventor
paper apps™ notepad games → gladden.fun
my video games → beepyeah.games
etc → brin.town
momatoes @momatoes.com Diana Jones Emerging Designer, Ennie-nominated tabletop game designer and visual artist. Featured in Polygon, Rascal, Dicebreaker and more. She/her
👹 Games: ARC, The Magus, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri
📌 Learn more http://momatoes.com
#RPGSEA
Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games A multi-contest-winning board game designer in rural Manitoba. I designed Tides (Button Shy), #ExoBase, and #Crownfell which you can buy here:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/crownfell
More links:
https://weheartgames.kit.com/
Chris | Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social I make ttrpg's, often with friends, as Junk Food Games. Based in Maryland.
All of my games are human made.
(he/him)
junkfoodgames.itch.io
Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv video essay person and writer and what not, idk I mainly just post about my hyperfixations
http://youtube.com/ladyemilypresents
Frostwood Interactive | Shutter Story @frostwood.bsky.social Wishlist Shutter Story on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3798860/Shutter_Story/
Developer of Rainswept, Forgotten Fields and Unwording
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
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com Great books on classic video games.
bossfightbooks.com
Latest:
● Dragon Age II by Charlotte Reber
● Life is Strange by Kaitlin Tremblay
● Legend of the River King by Alexander B. Joy
● DDR by Jessica Doyle & Jordan Ferguson
Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com Doing things with web technologies and writing/talking about it. Author of Inclusive Components (https://book.inclusive-components.design/) and producer of Webbed Briefs (https://briefs.video/). Agender. (Avatar by Cole Henley)
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com Software engineer. Author of mswjs.io and @bytebinding.com. Teacher at http://EpicWeb.dev and egghead.io. Storyteller @zakarcher.com.
My debut book "LOGGERHEADS" is out 👇
https://zakarcher.com/books/loggerheads
Luke Humphris @lukehumphris.bsky.social Longboard Dracula
https://linktr.ee/lukehumphris
Anna Winterstein @awstein.bsky.social Game Designer & Writer - Burnt-out raccoon
☕ Coffee Talk 2 & Tokyo 🎮 Ex-Lively Studio
🖋️ Words in LITG, F1 Manager, Anchored Hearts, BCS Mag
🥖 Baguette in Porridgeland
Trans rights are human rights, I can't believe that needs to be said.
awstein.com
David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social Software and game designer (Six Ages, King of Dragon Pass, Opal). My new game, Thousand Hells: the Underworld Heists https://store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/Thousand_Hells_The_Underworld_Heists/ is out on 8 September!
Martin Sahlin @monkeybeach.bsky.social Creative director at Windup, working on a game called Hela
Made some games called Unravel that turned out pretty good
Eric Barone @ericbarone.bsky.social creator of Stardew Valley -- working on "Haunted Chocolatier"
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
🇨🇦
Anna Megill @annamegill.com Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social Narrative Director at Failbetter Games. He/him. Our titles include: Fallen London, Sunless Sea/Skies, and Mask of the Rose. Opinions are mine, so there.
Perfect Garbage 🌾🪦🔪 wishlist Grave Seasons @perfectgarbage.bsky.social An indie game studio genre-mashing cool stuff. 👩🌾🩸
Currently developing #graveseasons
Releasing this Fall on PC and consoles
Wishlist us on Steam below!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255110/Grave_Seasons/
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com I write about tech + humans + philosophy
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
Hollow Ponds @hollowponds.bsky.social A videogame studio currently working on secret things!
Wilmot Works It Out is out now on PC, Mac and Switch.
We also made Flock, I Am Dead, Wilmot's Warehouse and Loot Rascals.
For support queries support@hllwpnds.com
Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co Helping people fall in love with CSS
📺 https://YouTube.com/@kevinpowell
✉️ https://kevinpowell.co/newsletter
Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me Working on Playbit https://playb.it/ . Designer of Figma, Inter, Spotify. Software painter. https://rsms.me/
Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com Basic (ˈbeɪ.sɪk’; Adj): lover of all things mainstream, popular, & trending in the world of .
https://basicappleguy.com
Bruno de Figueiredo @dieubussy.bsky.social Former independent videogame journalist and researcher with a predilection for Japanese productions.
Find my scattered work at:
coregamers.substack.com
easternmind.tumblr.com
postplay.tumblr.com
cristóbal @arquipelago.org computers, architecture, and crônicas 🏴☠️
some at reduct.video, others at https://cristobal.arquipelago.org
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Andy Welfle 🛰️ @andy.wtf Co-author of “Writing is Designing”. Content design + product UX in San Francisco. Pencil podcaster, zine maker, cat petter and Star Trek watcher. Red hot like pizza supper. Black lives still matter. He/him. http://andy.wtf
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
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
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for
Digital Foundry and creator of DF Retro! Open to contract work!
日本語OK
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". http://stuffwithstuff.com/
Myke Hurley @myke.social Podcaster and Co-Founder at @Relay.fm, Creative Director and Co-Founder at @CortexBrand.com.
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
FRODE HEGLAND @hegland.bsky.social Working on The Future of Text, currently with a focus on XR.
https://futuretextlab.info
Tiziana Alocci @tiziana.bsky.social Data artist exploring absent data and invisible phenomena 📓 My first book out soon 📓 Explore my work, tools & talks: https://linktr.ee/tiz.alocci
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
Blake Watson @blakewatson.com Frontend Engineer at MRI Technologies / NASA. Web tinkerer, wheelchair user (SMA), font hoarder, INTJ, Christian.
https://blakewatson.com
Script Wizards @scriptwizards.org RPGs and software wizard stuff
https://scriptwizards.org/
Eliot Peper @eliotpeper.bsky.social Novelist: Foundry, Reap3r, Veil, Breach, Borderless, Bandwidth, Neon Fever Dream, Cumulus, Exit Strategy, Power Play, and Version 1.0.
www.eliotpeper.com
Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social Kobo CEO with zero chill. Chaotic good, anti-fascist, bi-coastal Canadian bookseller ereader-purveyor - unsupervised & unofficial
https://www.michaeltamblyn.com
Daniel Greene @danielgreene.bsky.social The Book Review Fantasy News Guy
Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social https://alexcox.omg.lol
Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social She/her. I'm a Canadian freelance illustrator.
☛ SOCIALS: linktr.ee/smalyon
☛ PRINTS: inprnt.com/gallery/serenamalyon
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
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
Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social Human art only
Game dev, Senior Artist, programmer | he/him
Handmade Plushy Commissions closed
Play my bug game!: https://ianzell.itch.io/bug-chain
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ian_zell/
Kinopio @kinopio.club Your thinking canvas for building ideas and solving problems.
☻ https://kinopio.club
☻ Discord: https://kinopio.club/discord
Codex OS @codexeditor.bsky.social Creating the knowledge worker's local-first, open source web OS, using standoff properties and hypergraphs.
#DH #TEI #DigitalHumanities #HumanitiesComputing
Code: https://github.com/argimenes/speedy-ts
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
Steve Ruiz @steveruizok.bsky.social Founder tldraw.com
tldraw @tldraw.com infinite canvas / http://tldraw.com / http://tldraw.dev / https://discord.tldraw.com/bsky
Shu @shud.in only raw thoughts here (like very raw, with typos)