Vivian Rosanthwyn @rosanthwyn.online girlgayfae fae/she 🇵🇱
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Alina Christenbury @alinawithaface.bsky.social she/her | Game Maker / Designer / Programmer | currently: Disbelief (NDA) 🤫
prev: Ruckus Games (The Holdouts), The Coalition (Gears of War: E-Day)
I don't suffer bigots.
A better world is possible or else 😘
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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
...
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Cly ✨ @clyclone.bsky.social Deaf, queer, and here for some accurate representation.
Founding member of @PointinProgress
Co-Host of Served Up Sundays
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VC Creative Endeavors @endeavors-vc.bsky.social Techincal Designer I @Owlchemy Labs| IGDA-F Alumni Coordinator | @wigj Ambassador
Ga-Yi @ TGS @roboticake.bsky.social she/her. 🏳️🌈. French! Posts in EN & FR. Senior Strategic Partner Manager @hoodedhorse.bsky.social 👁️👄👁️.
Prev > Ico Partners, Plug in Digital, Wargaming.
Games, cooking, drawings, shitposting.
Em Mitchell @emitch.bsky.social Game Dev - Lead Character Artist
Working on a Classical Studies MA at the OU
Also knitting, weaving, cooking, birding.
she / her 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
Portfolio at cara.app/emitch
Alanna Linayre @tybawai.bsky.social Founder @ ToadhouseGames 🍄
Creating "crunchy wholesome" visual novels about found family and walkable worlds, mostly because I want to live in them.
Katie @katie98.bsky.social Computers girl
she/her
Lynn Richter @lynntendowii.bsky.social NOLA ⚜ | Cursed Furby Art | Game Developer | Marketing & Community: @lunacystudios.bsky.social | she/her
Lars Bakken @larsbakken.bsky.social Retired Game Dev. Formerly Bungie, Digital Eclipse, & Eidos. Lover of video games, dogs, and horror films.
Jamie O @emmapeel007.bsky.social What, the curtains?
Susan Eisenberg @susaneisenberg1.bsky.social VO actor best known for
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SJ 💢 NerdOfPrey @sjnerdofprey.bsky.social Writer, Designer, Director
I had a Wonderful dream once.
Professional Nerd
The J is for Jarnathan
She/her
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Joe Blackburn @joegoroth.bsky.social Game Director. Surrounded by humans smarter than me. Voted back2back little league most improved player 2001-2002.
tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social sr. game producer @ scopely, soccer mom, minivan fan, bookworm, lover of all things cozy. I mostly talk about parenting my two boys and MNUFC.⚽️ Minnesotan in SoCal #AbolishIce #BlackLivesMatter 💙
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Brett Nuckles Art @brettnuckles.bsky.social Concept Artist & Illustrator | Currently Open to work!
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Lina @linacracy.bsky.social A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Grant Orban @grantorban.bsky.social Principal Game Designer on Fable at Playground Games. JRPG Enthusiast. Comedy Improviser. EFC. Fantasy/SciFi Books. Dad. He/Him. Views Own.
🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Highdive · Game Dev since 1997 · I swear a lot ·🧂🧂🧂
She | They · 🖤🤍💜 · 🏳️🌈 · BLM · Stop AAPI Hate · 💙 · Per aspera ad astra · Do not obey in advance · #ATINY
Co-author of The Game Narrative Toolbox: https://tinyurl.com/NarToolbox
Mila Pavlin - Accessibility Game Dev @missfire.bsky.social Director, UX Design at Wizards of the Coast #WotCStaff. Previous:Zenimax Online Studios - Design Director UX, and accessibility for Monolith Productions on Wonder Woman - UX Lead, God of War Ragnarok. Opinions expressed are my own.
Kareem @shadetooth.bsky.social Dialogue Lead @ Insomniac Games
he/him
Liz Le Mack @lizmack.bsky.social POS de résistance
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Katie Chrzanowski @minikitty.bsky.social Sonic Social Media Manager | Producer | #1 Chao Fan
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, BAFTA, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. Originator of #WhatAGameDevLooksLike. She/they. I hope you like ferrets. 💜
Raven. @rekitraven.bsky.social Content Creator • Tarot Reader • Neurospicy • 🌈✊🏾♿️•
Daniel Kelley @danieljkelley.bsky.social Gaming and tech advocate; Brooklyn native; Senior director, Center for Tech & Society, ADL
Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social Communication scholar and media psychologist. Exploring the abyss of digital communications and how to foster democratic resilience. || Associate Professor Digital Democracy Centre University of Southern Denmark / Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
Makenzie De Armas ✨🐉 @makenzielaneda.com Senior Game Designer, Dungeons & Dragons. Worldbuilder, #CriticalRole. #Forbes30Under30, 2024. Chaotic Disabled. #WotCStaff but opinions mine. She/her. 📸: Ash Adam.
sean s. n. murphy @seansnmurphy.ca (he/him) • editorial @ black press media
hello@seansnmurphy.ca • vancouver, bc
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Doctor B @theedoctorb.bsky.social R. Boccamazzo, PsyD (he/him)
- Psychologist
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- AuDHD AF
POSTS ARE NOT HEALTH ADVICE
https://linktr.ee/TheeDoctorB
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Matt aka Stormageddon @djstormageddon.com Podcaster. DJ. Writer. Jewish Non-binary Pansexual. Chappell Roan, Kesha, Ariana Grande, CRJ & TSwift Super Fan. Venom lover. Dog Pawrent.
My podcasts:
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Reignite
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Rosie T @rtparty.bsky.social 💚 Games Bundle Person
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🌿 Plant based
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Celia Hodent @celiahodent.com Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science • Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi • Phd psych • She/Her 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
celiahodent.com
Nazih Fares 🔜 Spawn! Angoulême @nazihfares.com 💼 Game Producer @Savoirludique.com
🃏 Making the game @ArabMisfits.com
📇 Vice Chair of @IGDA.org Game Credits SIG
🗿 @BAFTA.org Member and Jury
🏳️⚧️ Non-binary | He/They
🗣️ EN/FR/AR/ES/and more languages
📷 Olympus EM-1 and Pixel 7 Pro
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum).
Glen Henry - DUPPY DETECTIVE TASHIA OUT NOW🔍👻 @spritewrench.com 🏝 Founder/ Project Director Spritewrench Studios
🔊Loudest of Jamaica Game Developer Society (JGDS)
🎓IGDA - Foundation Velocity Cohort Coordinator
✌ (he/him)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/spritewrench
John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social Maximum Hearts host, Magitek Armor Pilot. Fitness/JRPGs/horror/whiskey. Your incredibly handsome, muscular dad. Former Marine/Counterintelligence Agent. I look angry in person, and I probably am.
Josh Boykin @wallstormer.blacksky.app Founder, @intelligame.us. Head of Curation, @gdocexpo.com. Narrative Director, Lancer Tactics. #ThoughtfulPlay
For work/opps: josh@intelligame.us
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
OMEGA “CB” JONES! @critbard.com | @Twitch / @LogitechG Partner • Jingle Artist @CriticalRole • He/They • 📧: critbardofficial@gmail.com
Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
https://linktr.ee/crecente
BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Derek Van Dyke @derekvandyke.bsky.social Queer neurodivergent dweeb. That super textured voice on Pixel Spectrum and Castle Bravo. Trying my best, despite all odds. Links: https://linktr.ee/derbycityderek
Kelli the Opera Geek @theoperageek.com Opera Singer • Aria-Slinging Mercenary • #TTRPG performer • Voice Actor • Technically Award-Winning Soprano • #ADHD • she/her • Ginger Menace • Streams: twitch.tv/theoperageek • wishlist: thronegifts.com/u/theoperageek
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
Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social Executive Editor at Game Informer. Host of the All Things Nintendo podcast.
📍 St. Paul, MN
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Producer, Strange Scaffold. Founder, F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@causewaystudios.com / mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
Jenny | Kimchica 🌻🔜 PAX West & Twitchcon @kimchica.bsky.social 🩷💙💜 Currently @ Wholesome Games, Soft Not Weak 🌱 Check out my game discussion club, @geeksandgrounds.bsky.social! Part of @theindiecouncil.com 🎮 loves to talk indie games, journaling, and dance.
💌 Personal Biz: jenny@kimchica.com
🫶🏼 She/her
Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com Socials @doublefine.com 🧡 President, RowdySkeleton 💀 Author #ArtofPsychonauts2 📖 Hype Desk Host, @theverge.com 🎙️ Bisexual Icon 🏳️🌈
Host/Expert Booking: george@intelligentartists.com
Media Coaching: ashley@rowdyskeleton.com
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
twitch.tv/dreamwispjen
linktr.ee/dreamwisp
Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Liana Ruppert @dirtyeffinhippy.lianaruppert.com Community, VA, Creators, Marketing, Accessibility in games, books & TV. Owlchemy Labs Sr Comm Manager. TV-side:
✨Fallout
✨Vox Machina/M9
✨The Mighty Nein
✨Secret Level
Prev➡️Multi-award winning D2 CM/Accessibility Co-Lead at @Bungie, Game Informer,+more
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
Greg Miller @gameovergreggy.bsky.social I was born to eat chicken wings and play video games. @kindafunnyvids. Epic Creator Code: KindaFunny. He/him. Biz Inquiries: greg at kindafunny dot com
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
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
Mxiety @mxiety.bsky.social Building bridges - Overthinking online safety for kids - On the road towards Child Advocacy+Policy MA | marie.mxiety[at]gmail|🏳️🌈she/her https://mxiety.com
Kate Edwards @geogrify.bsky.social 🎮33+ year Award-Winning Game Industry Veteran
🌍Geographer & Culturalization Innovator at Geogrify
🎬CXO & CoFounder at SetJetters
🌎Former Executive Director of the IGDA & the Global Game Jam
✈️Event/Keynote Speaker, Traveler, Cosplayer, Geek
Malek Teffaha (مالك) @malekawt.bsky.social Love to socialize, especially with cats.
Senior Manager - Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Games.
Game Awards Future Class '22.
عربي لبناني فلسطيني، مشارك آراء.
Lebanese Palestinian queer Arab.
🇱🇧🇵🇸🏳️🌈
He/Him/هو
Christopher Leech @chrislpsych.bsky.social He/Him
Lecturer of Psychology.
PhD Psych - video games & mental health.
Person with Albinism.
Friends with: Take This, Safe In Our World, Limit Break Mentorship, and Impact & Many Cats Studios.
Views mine.
https://linktr.ee/BlindPsyche
Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social Freelance reporter in Silicon Valley covering tech, politics, & LGBT. ISO 8601 stan; tabletop gamer; lowercase = shitposts. Formerly @the-independent.com
Signal: @iohazard.01
Email: laureniododds@gmail
Subscribe to IOSPHERE! https://iosphere.beehiiv.com
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Kelli Dunlap, PsyD @kellidunlap.bsky.social aka Dr Goose. Clinical psychologist. Game designer. Research Affiliate at AU Game Center. She/her.
Bri 💀 Williams @dazzlingcadaver.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Remedy Entertainment | Your Queer Goth Mom™ | She/Her or They | I write, I doodle, I'm glad you're here | Thoughts are my own | https://briwilliams.co/
Maximum Hearts @maximumhearts.bsky.social A gaming news and entertainment collective. Progressive, pro-labor, pro-inclusion. Square Enix/Capcom Creators. Live Thursdays at 9pm EST.
twitch.tv/officialsdgc
beacons.ai/officialsdgc
Liz Favtastic 🔜 PAXWest @lizfavtastic.bsky.social Events and Community Outreach Manager @ Take This || co-host of Take This Plays || ace as they come (they don’t) || teacher by day || games enthusiast by afternoon || opinions = own
Dr. Elizabeth Kilmer @PAX East @doctorkilmer.bsky.social Researcher with Take This. Clinical psychologist using games in therapy with Respec Psychological Services. Opinions are all mine. (she/they)
Sarah LeBoeuf @sarahthebeef.bsky.social I write about video games and other things. Seen @ IGN, Polygon, Ars Technica, NBC News, & more. Ask me about my cats.
Ryan Lange @langeryan.bsky.social Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.
Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social Accessibility specialist, helping studios avoid excluding disabled players. DMs are open, if you prefer email i_h@hotmail.com
Finn @ NOLAnerdcast aka Your Bestie @nolanerdcast.bsky.social Finn, orthopedic surgery marketing guy. Finnterview specialist. Sometimes I do games PR and Marketing! Socky Bless, y’all. Bylines: Temple of Geek/ But Why Tho NOLAnerdcast@gmail.com
Safe In Our World @safeinourworld.org The video games mental health charity supporting devs and players 🚀 [No. 1183344] 💚 Check out our linktree for support, helplines and where to find us! 🪐 http://linktr.ee/safeinourworld
🍂 aderyn 🪶 @aderyn.bsky.social [he/him] smol bird. accessibility design lead 4 cool team on big games (ubisoft) • game designer • artist. existentialist. curious. compassion+
welsh. autistic • 🌈
Gary @garywells.bsky.social PhD UC Irvine • University of Edinburgh • UC Santa Barbara • GameBoy.
NihonTiger @nihontiger.bsky.social Not actually a tiger. Likes racing, wrestling, platformers and adventure video games, and tacos.
@takethis.org Streaming Ambassador
@pawsyourgame.bsky.social Stream Team
Partner/Affiliate: Maconi Setup Shop, @dragonroast.coffee
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Steph Orme, Ph.D. @stephorme.bsky.social Ex-professor now working in UX. Games and games culture scholar. I love martial arts, gaming, Star Wars, and boba tea.
stephanieorme.com
For fandom chat, follow me on Threads @steph.orme
Aaron Tielemans @aarontielemans.bsky.social Dog dad to Maple. Curse of Strahd DM. Black Sails enthusiast. Center for Tech and Society at ADL.
Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com 🏳️🌈 | University Professor of Game Development | Writer and Game Designer @ YES! Inc. | she/her
Linktree: http://linktr.ee/jpperkin
caeshura @caeshura.bsky.social Banner and pfp by @bruneshah.bsky.social
#voiceactor, #writer, gamer, and #Vtuber
Check me out on #Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/caeshura
Check out my demos on https://caeshura.carrd.co/
[she/her]
breetoplay @nbrianna.bsky.social Bree Royce, Executive Editor of @MassivelyOP.bsky.social, MMORPG nerd, podcaster, "verbose troublemaker."
Platinum @platinumparagon.bsky.social PhD in Mental Health Research and creator of Psychology and Video Games. Video game lover and dog enthusiast. She/Her. contact@platinumparagon.info
Nicholas Andriani @nicholasandriani.bsky.social Storyteller, Poet, Worldbuilder. I’m a writer & narrative designer of educational multimedia including games, animation, & screenwriting. Story Doctor. 日本語OK.
Former archaeologist specializing in Story Theory, Folklore & Performance
Dr. Sarah Hays, PsyD @drhayspsyd.bsky.social Games Non-Profit Connoisseur, Queer & ADHD advocate | Therapist - Game to Grow | Clinical Contributor - Take This | “An effervescent disaster I’d protect with my life” - Dr. Jared Kilmer
Keith Burgun @keithburgun.bsky.social Game designer living in Brooklyn NY.
Brian Kunde @noworldfortmrrw.bsky.social Queer Geek. Private Practice Therapist/LCSW. Workshop Consultant for @takethis.org . DEI in Games. Previously Ops w/ GaymerX. Posts are all me, not them. He/Him.
Mary Beth Oliver @olivermb.bsky.social Bellisario Professor of Media Studies, Penn State University. Former President, International Communication Association. Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, Penn State.
Media Psychology, Media & Emotion, Media & Social Cognition
Saga Jenesis ♿️ Nothing about us without us! @sagajenesis.bsky.social Jenesis is the name! Just a disabled girl who enjoys cats, puns, cat puns, games and advocating for accessibility. Spoonie. Views are my own. She/Her(s).
Dr. Amelia @ PAX West @wanderingshrink.bsky.social PsyD | Connecting gaming and psychology through therapy, consulting, and education | VP of GGC | Your friendly goth psychologist
https://linktr.ee/wanderingshrink
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.