Marie Jasmin @mariejasmin.bsky.social Lead UI-UX Designer at Bethesda in Montréal. Gamedev since Assassin's Creed 2, the one with the fun UI. Bisexual with ADHD and a love of ceramics and bird photography. Thoughts my own. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🌱
Taylor Swope @taylorswope.bsky.social Technical Designer at Obsidian Entertainment
Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk Glasgow based writer with credits across film, TV, audio drama, and theatre. www.grace-knight.co.uk. Current project for Choice of Games:https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/magic-at-the-masthead-by-grace-knight-wip-thread-60k-word-demo/178096
🏳️🌈🚲📺🪡🎮🏕🫖🚀🐀🥔
Max Yazz @maxyazz.bsky.social
The Steve @thesteveiam.bsky.social I make games
https://www.generationexilegame.com/
https://thesteveiam.itch.io/
Syd L. @yourmonstergf.bsky.social Scriptwriter @ Highdive (Netease) | sphynx dad + poet + goblin + monster lover | they/them
Works: I Am Your Beast, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Tears of Metal, and many more 💀
Gabe Graziani @gabegraziani.bsky.social I'm Gabe Graziani, former community management manager guy at some videogame companies. Opinions = mine, he/him
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
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
Sydney Goggins @sydneygoggins.bsky.social PhD student researching rhetoric, health crises (past and present) and public memory. #TeamRhetoric #histmed | interested in #STS, histories of tuberculosis patient advocacy, and emerging memory practices around COVID | Writing Center pedagogy
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
𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 @gcbaccaris.itch.io Game Developer | Writer | Editor 》Twine Grimoire | Harmony | TGA FC '23 | AIAS ANV '25 | @IFtechfoundation.org | Narrative Design, Localization, RPGs, CSS/HTML
🎮 gcbaccaris.itch.io
🪞 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
📚 http://ko-fi.com/grimdev/shop
Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com Cutscene Designer @ Riyo Games
Narrative + Game Designer, Writer, Visual Artist.
He/Him. Vancouver, BC. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Prev: Sky of Tides, Goodbye Volcano High, Hardspace: Shipbreaker
https://ryanmcdiarmid.com/
b lyin @hexcavator.bsky.social they/them, crazed & scrunched, qr gamedev writer fixbot soundthing, treaty 3 (hamilton), www.whosewoods.org ✊🇵🇸
Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social Narrative Director for videogames at discoglobe.ca. MFA Creative Non-Fic student at UKC. Luddite in the historical sense. She/They www.jillmurray.com
a / formyths @formyths.bsky.social a liang chan / andformyths@gmail.com
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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social Artist of science fiction and fantasy themed oil paintings and drawings - Robots, Astronauts, Narrative Art, and Middle-earth.
donatoarts.com
Ren M @remmukh.bsky.social Hi, Its Ren, I draw things. I'm 27 and speak rus/eng.
You can read my comics at https://remmukh.itch.io/
My art portfolio: remmukh.neocities.org
Kooks @coupleofkooks.bsky.social Kooks • they / them • PhD • illustrator
coupleofkooks.myportfolio.com
"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things"
Anguilla Noticer @myopicduck.bsky.social My job is literally just history
🇹🇹🇩🇰 PhD student on 1800s Caribbean political culture @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social An Ignyte and Shirley Jackson award-winning magazine and podcast of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors & artists. Issue 6.2 is out now!
https://linktr.ee/khoreomag
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
farah naz rishi 🐦⬛ @farahnazrishi.bsky.social philly-based author, audie & sovas nominated voice actor, miserable pile of secrets ✨
agent: hannah bowman
she/they 🏳️🌈🇵🇰🍉 https://linktr.ee/farahnazrishi
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social run around, draw thing ✦ PDX ✦ Senior Concept Artist @ Gardens🌳 ✦ Contact: benmce.art@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/benmce.art
Night Market: Fantasy Fiction Magazine @nightmarketmag.bsky.social Digital quarterly magazine of fantasy fiction edited by Ignyte and Hugo nominated editor Sonia Sulaiman.
Launch date TBA https://www.patreon.com/c/NightMarketMag
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Tasavvur Magazine @tasavvurnama.bsky.social We publish #SouthAsian #SciFi #Fantasy & #Horror short stories 👁🌌
🚀 Issue 016 is out!
👇🏻Submissions Open
https://linktr.ee/tasavvurnama
Alex Parry, Ph.D. @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social Historian of home injuries, public health, and product safety at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Former Ph.D. student and graduate worker organizer at Johns Hopkins. Still frustrated and/or over-caffeinated.
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
laurence @laurenceiseult.bsky.social Design @Paradox on CKIII
Prev:
Principal ND @LiquidSwords
Narrative Lead @ZOAN
Game Writer @shedbuildergame
🏳️⚧️they/them
Narrative Dep Alumni
IGDA 2023 Virtual Exchange
Stockholm
Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social Visual funkateer
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/luis_melo/
www.partyinthefront.com
https://www.behance.net/partyinthefront
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social She/her. I'm a Canadian freelance illustrator.
☛ SOCIALS: linktr.ee/smalyon
☛ PRINTS: inprnt.com/gallery/serenamalyon
Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social Narrative Director - iwot Games
She/They
Formerly: Crystal Dynamics, Blizzard, Aniplex, Carbine, Riot, BioWare
Co-author: The Definitive Game Narrative Guide
Opinions = my own
“I am the very model of a modern major general”
https://diandralasrado.com
𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social *Age of Empires II Barracks sound*
🔌✉️: gorangligovic@gmail.com
🕸️👁️: gorangligovic.com
🤲💰: patreon.com/gorangligovic
🖨️🖼️: inprnt.com/gallery/gorangligovic
Old Moon Quarterly @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social oldmoonpublishing.com
Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner.
Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social Stephanie Sterling. Writer for Vampire Survivors, Date Everything, & Quantum Witch. Transfem She/Them Polyantagonist. Also a pro wrestler. Currently accepting writing gigs for cool games by cool people.
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social 👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨
Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com
https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
Lin Codega @lincodega.com author, journalist, game writer—PASHA THE STORM out now | co-founder @rascal.news, editor @fansplaining.bsky.social | WRA TVL S3—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy—there's a hugo here somewhere
Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social Raw Dog Screaming Press publishes “fiction that foams at the mouth” specializing in dark and unclassifiable fiction and poetry.
Nick Robles @artofnickrobles.bsky.social 2023 GLAAD Award Winning Illustrator, Comic Artist, and occasional Pinup Artist!
Currently working on ABSOLUTE FLASH for DC
• http://NickRoblesArt.com •
• https://www.patreon.com/NickRoblesArt •
He/Him 🏳️🌈
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
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Sam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social ✨ New England Pigment Wizard ✨ Creator of the Blood Moon Tarot ✨ MTG Artist ✨ They/Them
✨ samguay.com/hello
Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social Filmmaker, 2x Oscar winning visual effects designer, Inception, Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy, various Harry Potters, Venom etc. Creative Director at beloFX. Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291518/
Tijana Rupcic @ferejatina.bsky.social Energy historian by profession ⚡️video game scholar by obsession 🎮 caffeinated cryptid by necessity 👾
Assistant Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences 🇵🇱
Ragnar Holm Fellow at KTH 🇸🇪
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social 🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 Ancient Office Hours podcast; 🇬🇷 Classics PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 studying transmedia adaptation & classical reception in The Last of Us; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; ☕️ tea connoisseur
Adriaan @adriaan.games Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com).
Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games).
Usability contributor for the Godot Engine.
Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland.
Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
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/
studio wtchcrft @wtchcrft.com A little worker-led and owned household studio in Montréal making games, music, and animations: wtchcrft.com
Wishlist our current project, Fatemender: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4177420/Fatemender/
Short Fiction Book Club @shortficbookclub.bsky.social https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1embc20/short_fiction_book_club_were_back_for_season/
Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social Speculative literature by and for queer people of color. We are now OPEN for submissions! 💜
www.anathemamag.com
https://anathemaspec.subfolios.com/submit
julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io writer, gamedev, video game consultant, homosexual. don't call me a solo dev. an example of the live mas mentality. Interstate 35, out now. making: UNANNOUNCED (TBD) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/Interstate_35/
Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social 🎭 theater kid turned
🎮 game dev turned
✝️ Jesuit priest
past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭)
present: pastoral ministry in Portland
https://shaneliesegang.com
Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social Archaeologist, educator, science communication. Also talk a lot about games and media, art, politics, and labor issues
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social Writer | UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) | Hugo, Nebula, Locus Winner | Philip K. Dick Special Citation, Finalist for other things | Best American SFF, Brave New Weird | Korean/Irish Dad o' 3. Rep: Michael Curry. thomashawrites.com
Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com Narrative Designer, Educator, Illustrator, DJ, Something or Other
chris@chriskindred.com
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.
OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. 🪐🗡️🌈
https://patreon.com/othersidespec · https://othersidespec.com
Victoria Rogers 🪴 @mimimerlot.bsky.social 💼 Marcomm Director in Video Games, used to be in tabletop
🧑🏻🍳 Culinary and Fermenting Enthusiast
📝 Writing a middle-grade fantasy series for femmes with ADHD
♿ ADHD, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cane User
👥 They/Them
🍁 Canadian
🖤🩶🤍💜
Views are my own.
Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
FightinCowboy @fightincowboy.com Content Creator, variety streamer, and professional weeb. I probably guided you through Elden Ring. Business Inquiries: fightincowboy@screenwavemedia.com
Betty Jiang @bettyjiang.bsky.social Thoughts and vibes purely my own
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social The VALUE Foundation brings out the untapped potential of knowledge at play. We work in the crossroads of gaming, academia, and the past. #archaeogaming
Website: https://value-foundation.org/
Blog: https://interactivepasts.com/
Dr Aris Politopoulos @apolitopoulos.bsky.social Assistant professor Archaeology and Cultural Politics at Leiden University. Archaeology, play, video games, and politics.
Angus 'Doc Random' Mol @docrandom.bsky.social Research and other fun things at the intersection of past and play | Co-founder of the VALUE Foundation | Director at Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities | Seeking the bubble reputation.
kass!! 🪲 shop open ! @beetlebards.bsky.social 💫 illustrator and art historian, big fan of bugs and men with swords, posts mature content sometimes 💫
he/him • 26 • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
open for freelance work!
beetlebard.net
Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social critic / consultant / ??? @ ??? x2 ・ award nominated ・ ハーフ ・ he/him ・ 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ・ bylines: IGN, Polygon, GamesRadar+, MMORPG, Them, Inverse, Rolling Stone ・ CONTACT: kazuma.h.de@gmail.com ・ posts don't reflect employer
Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social We are a non-profit dedicated to celebrating the best in Canadian speculative fiction. Run by a volunteer board, CSFFA facilitates the annual Prix Aurora Awards & administers the Canadian SF Hall of Fame: www.csffa.ca
Managed by @kalinstacey.bsky.social
Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social Online SFF magazine featuring stories and poetry for the 21st century! We publish numerous issues a year, two of which are focused on the climate crisis. Editor: Leon Perniciaro.
HavenSpec.com
nell @nellraban.com a woman with no common sense
@chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social
pbbeta (comms open) @pbbeta.bsky.social she/they, artist
🌿Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/kattapulka
🌿INPRNT: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kattapulka
Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
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
Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/cypayseur
Locus and Ignyte Award winning co-editor of We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Hugo and Ignyte Award finalist critic/fan writer. Destroyer of Science Fiction. Bisexual all day. He/Him They/Them
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Haematinon @haematinon.bsky.social Creator of Fragments of the Past and Ergo Cosmos. Deep dive into my Worldbuilding books and artworks: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Haematinon
Valentine Powell @valentineirl.bsky.social Queer nerd who makes stuff for video games (they/them). Current: Wizards of the Coast. Formerly: Crop Circle Games, Playable Worlds, Blizzard.
Opinions posted here do not reflect the opinions of my employers either present or past.
World Anvil Worldbuilding @worldanvil.com Worldbuilding software, campaign manager and novel writing software. Created by two nerds, run with love & passion, supported by the friendliest community on the internet 🥰🥳 Learn more at www.worldanvil.com
Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social ✏ Writing Warren Spector’s next game
✏️ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
🏆 BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
⭐ Marketing: SCMedia
🎤 Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
✉ shao.karrie@gmail.com
🧐 karries.carrd.co
Emmett Furey @emmettfurey.bsky.social Writer and narrative designer for Silent Hill, Ingress, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Immersive designer of Larps, TTRPGs, and ARGs.
Player of Magic the Gathering and Marvel Snap.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettfurey
Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social Taking a break. Email me to get in touch.
Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made