Grifdail (Julien) @grifdail.fr Hi ! I'm julien and I make Games !
Also: very gay.
Julia aka mizzelle @mizzelle.bsky.social Fantasy writer, reader, fan. Sometime genealogist and history geek. She/her/hers.
https://gofund.me/6dfb97116
Chant Evans @exstasisgames.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴 Strange TTRPGs for strange people.
https://exstasisgames.com
Also the producer for DIE, Hollows, and Voidheart Symphony at Rowan Rook and Decard. All views are my own unhinged ideas, and are not RRD's fault.
Playdate @play.date A brand new handheld video game system from Panic.
➡️ Available at https://play.date
💬 Need help? Go to https://help.play.date
Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social "The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty."
I'm a huge problem to a sane world
she/her
🌱Elaine Lithgow🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social Scottish TTRPG Producer at Rowan Rook & Decard. Usurper to the throne of Spire and Heart. Designer, Writer, and RRD Workers Union Rep. She/her 🏳️🌈
We're all just telling each other stories as the lights go out.
https://linktr.ee/elainelithgow
These Games Are Not For Sale @notforsalegames.bsky.social A festival celebrating tabletop games with high artistic merit and no commercial intent
Coming soon to a PAX Unplugged near you
Alice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com Mad Scientist and Necromancer, she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
AuADHD creature of elemental internet
collector of keysmashes
used to be called Foone, before the war
Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social Illustrator // they/them
katherinelam.com
Gila RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social Game designer | RUNE, LUMEN, NOVA, WYRM, Slayers | IGDN award winner | cognitive psychologist | He/Him
gilarpgs.com
Buddy Toledo @jessefuchs.bsky.social the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface
Vix, Betrothed to Winter @vixenvvitch.bsky.social Witch of the Emerald Wood, Princess of the Hidden Throne, Heir to the Verdant Dominion, She Who Rescues The Enchanted Dreamers, and the Lady of Dancing Waters
James York | ちーぷ @york.bsky.social Games, play, & language @ Meiji University | Editor of Ludic Language Pedagogy | Founder - York Game Lab | #和太鼓 | #PETSCII | #日本語 (N1合格) | #スマブラ | #chiptune | DMs open
Catlilli Games @catlilli.bsky.social 
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
eric @ericd.site Writing and rhetoric prof, food cooker, dog haver.
Wrote a book called Responsible Pedagogy: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09343-7.html
Got a website too: http://ericd.site
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social Co-owner of Rascal News. Tabletop and internet culture journalist. Avoiding unhealthy use this time around.
✉️: chase@rascal.news
https://www.rascal.news/
Rascal News @rascal.news Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
Burning Wheel HQ @burningwheelrpg.bsky.social We are a small award-winning RPG publisher, creating 9 RPG systems since 2002.
the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social games writer, designer, and critic. co-founder of Crit Build. formerly: kotaku & waypoint.
find my work at critbuild.org
email me at ren@critbuild.org
Mrs.Platypus @mrsplatypus.bsky.social (she/her) TTRPG player and designer, artist, world-class procrastinator, AI hater. My cats seem to like me
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
David @ddavidd.bsky.social I mostly post about board game design and parenting my 3 awesome kids. Co-founder of Grumpy Spider Games.
www.grumpyspider.com
Romans 5:7-8
ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com Nathan D. Paoletta | he/him | Game designer, independent publisher and graphic artist. I make World Wide Wrestling 💪 Imp of the Perverse 😈 Annalise 🥀 and more good games for interesting people.
he/him | ndpdesign.com | unwrittenearths.com
Just Kaylee @deer.stream 🏳️⚧️ clumsy, quirky, deer coded character who ran Baseline Drift once
https://playerdeer.itch.io/
she/her/doe 29yo
https://deer.stream/
cannibal princess @yyakamo.bsky.social yakamo (she/her)
ttrpgs and cannibalism and state sanctioned spyware in the walls of your home. i ran Baseline Drift
https://yyakamo.itch.io/
https://yakamo.blot.im/
Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
@alebrelle.bsky.social @alebrelle.bsky.social Pro Gamemaster, Twitch Partner, and all around just weird little guy. Queer trans autistic leftist. They/them alebrelle@gmail.com
Glaiza ✈️ Philippines 09/[REDACTED]-10/[REDACTED] @classicalglaiza.com GLY-zuh CHampēən (siya)
IT Guy| 🏆DJA EDP '26 Guy | Notion Guy: Find Out Productions | Co-Working Stream Guy | Power Ranger Podcast Guy (soon) | Writer Guy: Fantastical Geographic
🇵🇭 | 🇧🇳
Email: classicalglaiza@gmail.com
Web: classicaladventuresfor.one
j strautman @yesnogoodbye.ca Touring bass player. Audio editing, music, and co-GM for Planet Arcana. Sound design and stuff at Many Sided Media. Tabletop game designer. Supernatural horror fan. Non binary TTRPG nerd (they/them)
https://yesnogoodbye.ca/
Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social Hi y’all! I’m a creative writer, professional editor, ttrpg designer, and actual play performer. I like cats, black tea, trinkets, stories about super kids, and being whatever gender is currently funniest. They/them! 🚫AI 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦✊🏿 www.kodigonzaga.com
Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social Comics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of unique, engaging TTRPGs.
www.possibleworldsgames.com
garden variety lesbian @comradesunny.bsky.social hi i'm Katie! gothic americana chanteuse, children's librarian, communist, emo girl, plant witch, 🏳️🌈 married to @kbslvr, world languages lover, ttrpg player (and novice maker). socmed at #qgcon. she/her.
📍new england, usa
ktdquakingaspens.bandcamp.com
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social He/him. Designing indie ttrpgs
Newest Project:
SPINE - A dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book
https://backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine
https://www.backwardstabletop.com/
Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social Award-winning author, analog game designer, filmmaker, graphic designer, and video game developer. Anarchist. Unapologetically radical.
@diplomacyhood.bsky.social @diplomacyhood.bsky.social 
user_null @user-nu11.bsky.social 21, 🏳️🌈
TTRPG nerd and artist
DM for commissions or https://ko-fi.com/ineedcoffeeart
Artfight: https://artfight.net/~user_null
DMs are always open cause I don't have a life 🙂↕️
Sam Robson @dungeonofthedragon.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
🖤 🩶 🤍 💜
She/any
Pākehā game designer based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Purveyor of the bittersweet and heartfelt, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
Itch: https://samrobsondmg.itch.io/
Banner by Vagelio Kaliva.
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
Make a Scene! Scenario Festival @makeascenemn.bsky.social North America’s European-style larp festival returns 2027 in Minneapolis. Make a Scene is the only stand-alone festival this side of the Atlantic that premieres brand new larps organized around a bespoke theme. www.makeascenemn.org
jess @jessfrom.online jess. award-winning TTRPG designer as @jumpgategames.itch.io. jewish lesbian. marxist. scifi author, stories in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. she/her ☭
This Should Be A Game! @thisshouldbeaga.me A podcast about adaptive media & filtering 90% of your life experiences through tabletop role-playing games.
🎙 Hosted by @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online & @jessfrom.online
🖼 Logo by @crislv.bsky.social
🎶 Theme song by @nickyflowers.com
Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social Not writing nearly as much about RPGs or Agile as I would like to be.
Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social Works as a Board Game Designer (Whirling Witchcraft, Hungry Monkey, The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville, and Where is That?) and an Applied Nuclear Physicist.
OMEGA @omega-megagames.bsky.social We're an online community that produces and runs megagames and play-by-email megagames - come join us!
https://omega-mega.games/
The American Tabletop Awards @theattas.bsky.social The American Tabletop Awards is a yearly juried award celebrating the best board games has to offer. Usually announced in April.
Play great games!
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Hendrik is writing an ashcan about nuns @napel.itch.io I design tabletop games from my apartment in the Netherlands. (he/they)
Subscribe to my newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hendriktennapel
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Enterprising Fabulist
Alex @x13n.com 
Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com Fiction first storygaming metagaming #TTRPG immersion-denier. Lead designer for Tribes in the Dark. Senior database administrator by day. Tired GenXer all the time. https://linktr.ee/rivetgeek Banner by @juanochoa.bsky.social; PfP by @d20monkey.bsky.social
David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social Mental health awareness advocate. Down syndrome advocate. Game designer.
J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at Carnegie Mellon. Indie game designer -- Indie RPG Award (2006), IndieCade Night Games (2015), Ennie Judge's Spotlight (2026). Comments my own.
Lena Falkenhagen @lenafalkenhagen.bsky.social Novelist, game narrative designer, storyteller, world builder. Prof @HBK Essen.
Chair woman German Writer's Association Verband deutscher Schriftsteller*innen.
Pics: Catrin G. Ponciano
Stefan Köhler @fnwdhs.bsky.social Working at/bridging the intersections of #culturalscience, #gamestudies (expert on game #modding), #gamedevelopment (#narrativedesign) and #playfullearning in #education (as a #teacher and #lecturer)
Daniel Martin Feige @danielmartinfeige.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. I work on topics in philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology.
Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
Vera Piontkowitz @vpiontkowitz.bsky.social Digital Humanities / Game Studies @UniLeipzig
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Books http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM and https://bit.ly/4yA52aj. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
Dîlan Canan Çakir @dilan-c.bsky.social literary scholar @ Cambridge • current main project: activism & literature • 🌱VEGAN • https://dilancakir.github.io/ • The Original Einakter Girl© sie/she
uncle leyla ✨ @leylses.bsky.social game dev, office goth, yapper supreme.
🧿 she/they, ENG/RUS
personal acct, posts like a stepdad.
Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
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
cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social Emily F Allen.
Indie RPGs. Horror & Whimsy. Owner of one Ennie Award. She/Her. Sapphic trans girl, Quaker, hard left, spider-lover.
Alex Hague @alex.cmyk.games Making games at cmyk.games
CMYK @cmyk.games The game studio behind Wavelength, Monikers, Hot Streak, Magical Athlete, and more!
Find us at cmyk.games
Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com Stonemaier Games is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier Games’ top brands include Viticulture, Scythe, Charterstone, Wingspan, and Apiary.
Leder Games @leder.games We are a spunky indie board game publisher with asymmetric tendencies. Saint Paul, MN | Our games: Vast, Root, Fort, and Ahoy! www.ledergames.com
Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social Board game designer
Nature, Evolution, Oceans, Wits & Wagers, Say Anything
Founder of NorthStar Studio
Father, plays soccer, has dogs. Interested in artistic endeavors and the long arc of history.
Ian O’Toole @ianotoole.bsky.social Board game graphic designer and illustrator. Lisboa, The Gallerist, On Mars, Galactic Cruise, Nemo’s War, Voidfall, Carnegie and more. www.ianotoole.com for prints. He/Him.
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/
Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social History Nerd, political junky, Hill rat and historical board game designer. 
Phil Walker-Harding @philwh.bsky.social Board and card game designer (Sushi Go!, Tetris, Gizmos, Imhotep, Bärenpark, Silver & Gold, Planted) on Gadigal land (Sydney).
www.philwalkerharding.com
Co-founder of Joey Games.
www.joeygames.com.au
Scott Nicholson @scottnicholson.bsky.social Professor of Game Design, Potter, Garden Gnome, Board Game and Escape Room Designer, Green Man Main. I play video games on Easy mode; I'm too old to get gud.
Tom Egan @tomjmegan.bsky.social Historical and Modern Wargaming, Warhammer, Army Infantry Officer. Irish.
Dooley @dooleymurphy.bsky.social Virtual experience designer and researcher. Tinkerer, artist, cyclist, knave, fool.
https://dooleymurphy.com/
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir) @minahoneybat.bsky.social Layout artist, graphic artist, RPG writer, fan of communities and evolution.
See my work in SPIRE, HEART, LANCER or VOIDHEART SYMPHONY; Want your game made beautiful? https://minahoneybat.carrd.co
30s | wlwlwlwlw | trans
🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social Award-winning Educational-Games Designer, Toy Inventor, Alt.Ctrl Maker. Chicagoan. Former Bit Bash person. Apologetically Me. https://bobbylox.com
Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social Professional grump. Award winning RPG writer of The Wretched, Treasures Of The Troll King, A Dungeon Game. Co-designed Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age. Words in Pathfinder 2, Fallout, Discworld, etc.
loottheroom.itch.io
Email: chris @ loot the room .uk
Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social Eclectic game designer, making games that bring people together since 2010. Game Design Lead at Redcatpig
Neurodivergent | He/Him
https://gamesbymanuel.com/
Tony Boydell @tonyboydell.bsky.social Father, Grandfather, Husband and Independent UK Game Designer; Curator at The Museum of Board Games in the Forest of Dean (Instagram.com/themuseumofboardgames) and long-time BGG blogger: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/344
Brennen Reece @brennenreece.bsky.social Award-winning illustrator, jazz guitarist for The Secret Sounds, tarot reader, book goblin, part-time van life.
Brian Liberge/Freddie (she/he) 🔜 NotAConCon @brianliberge.bsky.social Trans Genderqueer. She/he pronouns. Disabled.
TTRPG designer, Games on Demand show runner, Boston Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.
Current Project: The Death of Super-Hyphen-Man
https://linktr.ee/freddieannewilling
🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.
Most of my things are at: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/
brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev I am a blast-processed skeleton.
lead mission design on STAR WARS: Zero Company.
ttrpgs: sulcata.itch.io
blog: brendanmcleod.dev
game design pod: http://paperlabyrinths.com
avatar by @feralroyal.bsky.social
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
Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social TTRPG designer, cat servant, regency romance enjoyer, talks about movies too much
my website is here owlknight.games
Matt Leacock @mattleacock.bsky.social Game Designer known for cooperative games including Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Daybreak
BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Nick Bentley Makes Games @nickbentley.bsky.social Posts about game design. Director of Game Design at Taco Cat Games (Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza), former President of Underdog Games Studio (The Trekking Trilogy), former Neuroscientist.
Tristan Zimmerman - Molten Sulfur Press @moltensulfur.bsky.social Ennie award-winning TTRPG designer. Shanty Hunters, Ballad Hunters, Nations & Cannons. Historically grounded RPG content at http://MoltenSulfur.com.
U.S. Navy veteran. Minneapolis (ICE out!). He/him.
Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com TTRPG designer, podcaster, screenwriter. Be your own algorithm.
https://www.diceexploder.com/
https://sdunnewold.itch.io/