Ben Starr @benstarr.bsky.social Actor. Force of Nature. Ham.
PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social Art Director and CEO of Spooky Doorway Games. @spookydoorway.com, developers of The Darkside Detective and The Séance of Blake Manor
#GameDev #indieDev #IrishGameDev
Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
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Kelsey 🦈 @neitherworld.bsky.social she/they | 32 | Unreal Engine Technical Artist | Previs for Mandalorian & Grogu, Universal Studios, House of the Dragon, Skeleton Crew, and Celebration Key
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Hey It’s Alan @heylookitsalan.bsky.social 3rd Party Content Producer at Oculus Publishing. Chaotic Good. Dumb Eagles Fan, Iron Chef Beef. He/Him. Prev: funktroniclabs/KillerQueenGame/amplify/ibm
Christina Rose @christinarose.bsky.social Retro-gamer and collector, cosplayer, and lawyer by day. Twitch Partner streaming retro games sitting on the floor in front of a CRT TV like it’s the 80s and 90s 💜
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Natalie Marinho @nataronni.bsky.social Freelance Writer + Narrative Designer | Games + Extended Reality
Nick Crosgrove - Gameplay Engineer for Hire! @occultgamedev.bsky.social Looking for my next gig in games!
Creative & Gameplay Lead at FateBound
Former Senior Gameplay Engineer at Question Games
Husband, Dog Dad, He/Him
Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social 3D Artist @ Sunset Visitor
Previously 3D Environment Artist @: Giant Squid (Sword of the Sea) & Iridium Studios (People of Note)
Indie Game dev 🎮 | hEDS 🦓| Farming sim enjoyer 👩🌾🐮
Portfolio: https://nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com/
Giselle @bewarethesiren.bsky.social Award-winning Game Writer and Narrative Designer 🇵🇷 she/her gisellemakesgames.com
Anthony Rosbottom - a.k.a. Bliz @arosbottom.bsky.social Visual artist who draws and paints but also uses computers to create art for fun and profit.
Veteran pixel artist from the 8/16 bit video-game era.
www.anthonyrosbottom.com
My YouTube channel
https://youtube.com/@anthonyrosbottom
Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social 🧬 Co-Founder, Lore + Wiki Manager @ dnacreative.ca
🎮 Producer of video games
📜 Archivist + Caretaker of dnacreative.notion.site/codex
✨ Notion template creator
⚔️ Semi-retired #cosplay lady
🖤🩶🤍💜 she/her
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com)
Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@gamedeveloper.com)
📝: www.bryantfrancis.me
🎥: https://boxd.it/hp9UB- A Adventure Games Podcast @adventgamepod.bsky.social
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
QuestingOrc @questingorc.bsky.social Gamedev, Comics, Art
Working on a #VisualNovel with #RPG elements
Personal Account
DE/ENG/JAP okay-らしい
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
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Alec Meer @bonzrat.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/alecmeer
Games writer and consultant. Hairy little guy.
Now: lead writer on SAROS at Housemarque
Past: Returnal, Total Warhammer, Trek To Yomi, No Man's Sky, Humankind, more. Ex-journo, inc RockPaperShotgun.
Brighton, UK
Paul Salomon (GameHead) @paulsalomon27.bsky.social Game Designer
Creative Director
GameHead Games
Corey Brotherson (open for new contracts/work, drop me an email) @coreybrotherson.bsky.social Award-winning writer / editor / narrative designer: Windrush Tales; Clockwork Watch; Butterfly Books; Magic of Myths; Deadlier Than; PlayStation; Apple; Rewriting Earth; Tales of Kenzera Zau; BAFTA. Rep: Anna Dixon at YMU.
🌐 coreybrotherson.com
AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app Adanna (She/Her) Game Writer, Narrative Designer, Researcher, Dev, Speaker|🇹🇹🇺🇸|💌 AFNarratives@gmail.com
😺 Cat Mom 😺
afnarratives.carrd.co
MobyGames @handle.invalid Documenting video games and the people who make them.
mobygames.com
Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com I am involved in mankind. (he/him)
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
Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com video game dev. weird west, influx redux, much much more
buy influx redux: https://store.steampowered.com/app/867150/InFlux_Redux/
internet blog on the internet: https://www.joewintergreen.com/
friendly dev chat: http://discord.gg/TyexPhe
he/him
Janis Burklund @janiswns.bsky.social Child-free dog mom. Retired Dallas Film Commissioner & film/tv professional.
Dannnnn @amisma.bsky.social He/Him. Videogame journalist of 14 years | Three-time bestselling children’s author | Film fanatic | Hiphop head | Always got my nose in a book | Total Weeb | Mental health advocate
John @injohnue.bsky.social "acid tongued and serpent toothed" -laura marling or my mom
writer, indie dev (VESSELS - IGF winner)
Mike Varley @mmmmmvarley.bsky.social Artist | Cook | Ne'er-do-well | Failed Nerevarine 🟥🟪🟦
Cory Lanham @corylanham.bsky.social Award-winning video game writer, Oxford Comma enthusiast, and failed home theater salesman.
Past works: Lone Echo, Lone Echo II, World of Tanks, Dreadnought, and F.E.A.R. 3.
He/Him.
http://www.corylanham.com
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖆 𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 @sievish.bsky.social a real human bean. graphic designer & artist in games and comics.
𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖋𝖋 𝖆𝖙 : Image, Naughty Dog, 3W3M, Perfect Garbage, Dark Horse, Draknek, Manifold Garden, a coffee shop in Boston, ♪ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵃⁿʸ ᵐᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒʳᵉ ♪
𝖘𝖍𝖊/𝖍𝖊𝖗
Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social Former game journalist, current game podcaster. Also a very good marketer, but that’s not for games. I watch a lot of TV. Fix your hearts or die.
She/her
Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social he/him. Canadian SFF author: CATALYST (2022), CASTOFF (2025). Games writer: The Expanse RPG, ICONS. Vice chair of Can*Con. 2500-year-old Time Lord and snake parent. Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
linktr.ee/brandoncrilly
matt demon 🔜 SPX @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Bafta-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
Kubrick Zirconia @chuckspear.blacksky.app james f. wright | writes video games and comic books | knitter | favorite carb: rice | a garden and a porch
"let us see what new madness this realm drops at my doorstep."
- robert jackson bennett, 'a drop of corruption'
Ellen Jurik @ellenjurik.bsky.social Author and mother of two small children; previously Studio Narrative Director at Blowfish Studios, Senior Producer for live games at Blowfish/Gameloft, and Game Director of Storm Boy. Feat. POTS; she/her
Carmen Askerneese @caskerneese.substack.com BAFTA & Game Award Nominated Producer @lucasfilm.bsky.social #StarWarsOutlaws #StarWars in #Brawlhalla
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In Another Time Magazine @inanothertimemag.bsky.social Scifi/fan magazine for short stories, flash fiction, and poems. Issue 4 available as of 7/10! See pinned tab for more info.
Website: https://inanothertimemagaz.wixsite.com/in-another-time-maga/about
Ayla Derrick @bigealien.bsky.social Founder of Cave Bear Games
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• Girl | Gamer | Neopets | Tamagotchi | Webkinz | Bratz | Virtual Villagers | Gudetama | OSRS •
Ghostcrawler @ghostcrawler.bsky.social Greg Street, CEO of Fantastic Pixel Castle. We are fully funded and remote and making an MMO. Previously: League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Age of Empires. I only work on games with "of" in the middle.
Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social Writer. Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul. Rings of Power. Several pilots lost to the whims of a fickle system.
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.- C Mike Kidd @captnkidd.bsky.social
Hannah Filipski 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 @leftie.bsky.social vine historian | Narrative Lead @ Bungie | prev: Destiny 2, God of War Ragnarök & Afterparty | snake mom | personal account
Tori Schafer @torischafer.bsky.social Lead Narrative Designer @ Elsewhere Entertainment (Activision) ✧ Formerly World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Spellbreak ✧ Award Winning Designer ✧ Published Author ✧ torischafer.com
Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social madquills.com. Vegan against fascism. Lead Narrative Designer @ Lucid Games on [???] - 10+ years making stuff: Harold Halibut, Röki, Dying Light 2 + more
Subscribe to my Narrative Design substack: https://narrativedesignlife.substack.com
Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com a longtime industry vet, I make games and lead design teams, and am looking for my next opportunity. Check out my rarely updated blog at http://www.zenofdesign.com
I'm a white cis straight male (he/him), an ally albeit an occasionally imperfect one.
William Pugh @honestwilliam.bsky.social i make video games at crows crows crows - the stanley parable, dr langeskov, EAT, the club, accounting+, temple of no and MORE! (he/they)
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Chris Gallello @chrisg.bsky.social Head of Product @ Fable.co
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.
Jarory de Jesus @jrawry.bsky.social Founder of Coquito Games, Board President at Global Game Jam, Narrative Designer on Guild Wars 3, Verso apologist, Programmer, Musician, Writer, Anthropologist, Activist, Polymath, Adventurer, Dreamer. Opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/JarorydeJesus
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
Kelsey Beachum @vankelsing.bsky.social Writer and narrative designer
(Outer Wilds, Outer Worlds DLC, + more!)
ex-roller derby • dangerous space criminal
she/they
https://kelseybeachum.com
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
🌺 Kailani 🌺 @kocobo.bsky.social 🌺 32 (She/Her) 🩷💜💙 LFW! | Prev: Narrative Designer @Bungie ✏️ Twitch Affiliate 🖥️ #MotherOfMagicalCreatures🐣 Art: @sicklyprince.bsky.social 🎨 Opinions are always my own 📣 Anti Gen-AI 🚫 https://kocobo.carrd.co/ ✨
Juan Vaca @juancow.bsky.social Story Director, The Coalition.
Co-founder, Latinx-in-Gaming.
Jug Band Musician.
@juancow everywhere else.
Paweł Sasko @pawesasko.bsky.social Associate Game Director in CD PROJEKT RED on Cyberpunk 2!
Previously: #Cyberpunk2077 #PhantomLiberty #TheWitcher3
https://linktr.ee/pawesasko
ren alex-rose🌙 @archosaur.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer @ Fuse Games working on STAR WARS: Galactic Racer🌟 (prev Until Dawn 2🌴, Redwall🐭) // also writing a novel about love & loneliness || (she/they)+human
linktr.ee/archosaur_
Bonnie Jean Mah @bonniejeanmah.bsky.social Narrative Director @ Santa Monica Studio. Prev. Franchise Narrative Director, Gears of War; Narrative Lead, Age of Empires IV; writer, 40K: Space Marine. Posts mine own.
Anne Toole @amely.bsky.social Creator, ALLES LIEBE, ANNETTE; writer, Netflix's CANNON BUSTERS, WGA winner HORIZON ZERO DAWN, & Emmy-winner LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES. Former IGDA Board.
Joshua Rubin @subversiverse.bsky.social Emmy-Winning TV, game and comic writer: Destiny / Assassin’s Creed 2 / Outriders / Telltale's Walking Dead + Game of Thrones / Groundhog Day VR / Strange Land Comics / Dying Light / Exhausted Dad
TIME SENSITIVE #1-2: timesensitive2.strangelandcomics.com
Nik @nikfromearth.bsky.social Game writer, formerly Epic Games, Her Interactive
Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social Game writer and narrative designer
words @ Ms, Bust, Boston Hassle, Origins, Atticus Review, + elsewhere
Video games and comics and all around sapphic shenanigans
🏳️🌈📝🎮
She/her
Ellie Tsang 🔜 NEXUS Games Conference @fairemortal.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer | Monolith, OtherSide, Seismic Squirrel | ex-mortician, neurodivergent sage, feral altruist, mythology goblin | stay curious, be kind, make magic | my views = my own | they/she
@twitch.tv/FaireMortal
Alex Farnham @farnspam.bsky.social 🎮 🖊️ Game writer/screenwriter 🖊️ 🎮
WRITER: THE QUARRY etc
Currently Principal Writer at Supermassive Games, where I help tell scary stories.
Jaclyn Seto (Jackie) @jaccplays.bsky.social Senior Writer on Apex Legends at Respawn Entertainment
(she/her) 🇨🇦🇭🇰🇨🇳
IGDA-F Next Gen Leader 2024
Opinions my own
Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social Ope. Peabody and BAFTA awarding winning writer. Currently a Senior Writer @ Compulsion Games | Subnautica | Naughty Dog |Yet another social media platform.
David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social Degenerate freelancer. Narrative test pilot. Senior Narrative Designer on Clockwork Revolution at inXile. Provided interactive words for Wallace & Gromit, Sherlock, Need for Speed, Until Dawn 2, a bit of Star Wars and a lot of other games. 🔀davidvarela.com
Stephen Rhodes @rhodeswrites.bsky.social Writer of Games, TTRPGs, Comics, TV, & Films
Current: Senior Narrative Director - EA Motive Studio - Iron Man
Previous: CD Projekt, Activision, Ubisoft, Deep Silver, WB, & more
BAFTA Member
British Expat in California
He/Him/His
Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer for a popular demon-stabbing game. He/him. Unionized.
(Previous credits: Blade & Soul, MapleStory & MapleStory 2, WarHaven). Amateur gardener and foodie.
#Narrative
#GameDev
#Food
#Gardening
#Plants
nell @nellraban.com a woman with no common sense
Andy Heather @andyheather.bsky.social Narrative Director for AAA game studios. Wishlist my solo dev game Nostos on Steam now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4871240/Nostos/
Ashley Ruhl @ashleyruhl.bsky.social I make video games for work and costumes for fun. Narrative Director on Star Wars: The Old Republic. Previously Bioware, Telltale, and Gunfire Games. She/her
Sam Lake @samlakewrites.bsky.social Writer. Director. BAFTA nominated actor.
Max Payne. Alan Wake. Quantum Break. Control.
Eevi Korhonen @silliet.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer @Housemarque. CONTROL, Returnal, SAROS.
I like weird things. Bigots need not follow.
She/her
Nuha 🌙 نهى @nuhahaha.bsky.social Senior Narrative Designer at Respawn Entertainment on Star Wars Jedi ✨
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Far Cry 6, and more
TGA Future Class ‘23
She/her 🇸🇾 🇨🇦
Pete Stewart 🏳️🌈 @petestewart.bsky.social Award-Nominated Senior Writer @ Respawn - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor | Formerly Creative Assembly | Your FFXIV Friend | Views Mine | He/Him 🏳️🌈
Peter Fries @peterfries.bsky.social Game narrative and art since 1993. Husband & dad for about as long. It's pronounced "freeze."
Jordan Mychal Lockhart (Lemos) @extrajordanary.bsky.social Senior Writer at Gearbox on Borderlands 4. Previously: Knights of the Old Republic Remake (Aspyr), Ghost of Tsushima, and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Biggest red panda fan there is. Views = my own.
Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social Video game writer, narrative designer, educator | Cuphead, Star Wars: Battlefront, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, 40+ more | Author, Video Game Storytelling | Ex-Marvel | Lime Skittles and Macoun apples fanatic | He/him
evanskolnick.com
Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social Award-winning narrative expert for video games, writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of THE VIDEO GAME WRITER’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. Former Ubisoft/Crytek/Romero. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches, baseball, and cats.
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/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
soph mallinson @sophmallinson.bsky.social offline angel https://mallinson.neocities.org
Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social Narrative Designer by day (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Novelist by night (The Palace Job, Feeder). (they/them, views strictly mine, OC do not steal)
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
igor.sarzynski @srznsk.bsky.social creative director for cyberpunk 2 / necrocapitalism / the stories we tell ourselves / the cyberpunk we live in / all views are my own
https://www.instagram.com/srznsk/
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
Hannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social Senior Writer/Narrative Designer. Previously: State of Decay 3, Tomb Raider: Catalyst, Perfect Dark, Marvel's Avengers, Minecraft: Story Mode season 2.
I have a cat, his name is Booey. She/her.
www.linkedin.com/in/macleoh/