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Soren Johnson @sorenjohnson.bsky.social Founder of MohawkGames. Designer of Civ 3, Civ 4, Dragon Age Legends, Offworld Trading Company, and Old World. Still a Mouth Breather.
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God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
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The Soloist @the-soloist.itch.io Worked on games you played 20 years ago like The Sims 1&2, Mass Effect 2&3, Dragon Age. Now making and writing about tabletop RPGs.
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Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social Creative Director, TPCi. #PokemonEmployee. Author, Design Beyond Devices & Game Development Strategy Guide. Adjunct @ Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Riot Games, Scopely, MSFT, AMZN, EA, Disney. EDS 🥄. Owner of @ideaplatz.com. Ideas my own. 🏠 https://Cherylplatz.com
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Sinistar, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis, Neuroracer and many more
Former Chief Game Designer at Google
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
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Alisha Thayer @alishathayer.bsky.social Design Director and Technical Design Advocate- N Nate Harling @natexh.bsky.social
Katie Lloyd Williams @yayitskatie.com Games curator at 🍏. Show me your cool indie iOS games (or just send memes, either's cool). San Francisco. she/her. yayitskatie.com
Alex Hutchinson @bangbangclick.bsky.social Creative Director @ Raccoon Logic. Also Journey to the Savage Planet, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 3, Army of TWO: 40th Day, Spore, Sims 2 etc. 🇦🇺in Canada.
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Benjamin (BenStar) Kiefer @benstar.bsky.social Pixel non-bean-ary, get it?
They/Them, He/Him.
Made Revita, working on [???]
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Discord: discord.gg/revita
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Liza Lutzker @lizalutzker.bsky.social Safe Streets Researcher: @ucberkeleysafetrec.bsky.social
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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social Garden-loving photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a very loud Bengal cat.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Yesbox Studios @yesboxstudios.bsky.social Recreating childhood pixel by pixel.
Developing Metropolis 1998.
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Ben Goldhaber @itsfishstix.bsky.social Esports Product Manager, @2XKO • Gamer and esports fan since 2001 • Founding team @Twitch • amature urbanist with YIMBY LA
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DARKWATER @playdarkwater.bsky.social Darkwater is a co-op extraction horror game for 1-4 players.
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Tomo Moriwaki @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social Our shared fiction is our reality, so... let's take better care of it. Long time game designer. Most noteworthy impact: creative director of Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Terry Taplin @taplinterry.bsky.social Berkeley D2 Councilmember. Poet. Classicist. Cyclist. Urbanist. Go Gaels!
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Little Problems - A Cozy Detective Game @littleproblems.bsky.social Little Problems is a Cozy Detective game about solving mysteries around minor inconveniences, everyday misunderstandings, and of course, little problems.
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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social San Francisco Chronicle culture critic. Spends too much time in the archive. Total SF co-founder. S.F. 🌁 Oakland 🌳 Alameda ⚓️
Christopher Schmidt @seeschmidt.bsky.social Systems Designer, World Traveler, LEGO Enthusiast, General Nerd.
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Wout @thehashtagonist.bsky.social Communications Director at Playstack working on Raccoin, Balatro, Abiotic Factor, UNBEATABLE, The Rise of the Golden Idol, Mortal Shell 2 and VOID/BREAKER
The RISE of the Golden Idol @goldenidol.bsky.social The award-winning detective saga returns
🗡️ The RISE of the Golden Idol 🗡️
PC / PS / XB / NS
Play now! http://s.team/a/2716400
Ridima @rhythmicsheep.bsky.social interests: transformational game design, applied game studies, intrinsic motivations
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com Authoritative news about public safety and politics in Berkeley, California. Founder: Emilie Raguso, 2017 SPJ NorCal journalist of the year.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
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Don Hopkins @donhopkins.bsky.social Ground Up Software. Pie Menu Evangelist. Cellular Automatist. Childless Cat Daddy. Developed The Sims at Maxis/EA with Will Wright, Open Source SimCity / Micropolis. Stupid Fun Club. Factorio Freak. Machine Vision at Leela AI. he/him/self/this 🏳️🌈👾🤖😼
Tim Day @thetday.bsky.social Lead Software Engineer at Magic Fuel Games (Playstack). Co-Founder of Sweet Roll Studio. Drexel University Alumni. Cat dad/servant.
Patrick T Johnson @patricktjohnson.bsky.social Head of Discovery @ Playstack // he/him // Creator of http://gamerbeware.co.uk // Ambassador @SafeInOurWorld 24 // Opinions are my own // Currently based in Tokyo 🇯🇵
VertexNormal @vertexnormal.bsky.social I make big stompy mechs in my free time to compensate for living on a mountain and not having a social life.
I did a 15 year stint at Maxis as lead artist on SimCity and TheSims, now I work on actual robots - self driving cars.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.
"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.
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