Steph G @whatsessydid.bsky.social Mostly food. Some knitting.
Escape Quest @escapequest.bsky.social Escape Room facility in the heart of Downtown St. John’s, NL! Escapequest.ca
perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social poetry magazine responding to a call for “deliberate, obstinate, unreasonable or unacceptable poems, contrary to the expected practice” ed.
@chrissywilliams.bsky.social Sign up free for https://perverse.substack.com/ Archive at perversepoetry.tumblr.com
The Distant Silence Radio Hour @thedsrh.bsky.social A full cast Lovecraftian anthology series expanding and exploring a growing mythos with each new show. Releases every other year. Next Show: October 10th 2025
Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social Created comics for UN, Penguin Random House, Guardian, Times. Creative Director @posnegorg. Gender Swapped Fairy Tales/Greek Myths (Faber & Faber). Member of The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC). https://linktr.ee/karriefransman
Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social nothing is always an erasure. the layers are a monolith. every default bleeds.
Trevor Klein @trevorklein.bsky.social Inventive storytelling for TV, immersive and games. Sometimes puns.
trevorklein.co.uk
Yorkshire / London / Northern Ireland
Nick Holliday @nickholl.bsky.social London based 3D/UI Artist (& avid 3D Printer)
(he/him)
Portfolio: https://nickholliday.artstation.com
Personal work https://www.artstation.com/nickknacks
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NickknacksToyShop
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
Sara Thacher @thacher.bsky.social Experience Designer, Social Practitioner, Imagineer, Explainer of Jokes, Adventurer, erstwhile Jejune Institute Co-creator, and former Vacation Surrogate
Shawn @shawnpierre.com Doing some things - http://jimjastajay.itch.io - PhillyGameMechs - NYUGameCenter - IGF Chairperson (he/him) https://cohost.org/shawnpierre
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Pip @philippawarr.bsky.social 🎮 Narrative designer: A Monster’s Expedition, Little Kitty Big City, Flock
🎨 Illustrator
📚 Former dep ed at PCGamer
🪲 Beetle enthusiast
Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social Pale. Curious. Game-maker. Writer. (de-)Archivist.
Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her.
Current things:
- Darkened Hill & Dale 🎲💀🏞️
- TERMINUS 🎲💀🚇
- Trick or Retreat 🎃🎲☕☺️
links.patchworkfez.co.uk
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him
Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social Hello friends! Game-maker, writer, composer. Waterworld enthusiast. (they/them)
Martha Henson @marthasadie.bsky.social Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight Biosphere. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
Daniel Nye Griffiths @d-nye-griffiths.bsky.social Technology, media, communications. Ex-journalist. Opinions are mine and not representative of my employer. He/him.
Josh @aosher.bsky.social Games and politics. He/they.
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands • made a really big video game once but is doing something else now • tha Gàidhlig agam • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they • e/iad 🏳️⚧️
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social Game designer (co-created SE!ZE with Charles Leclerc), publisher, teacher, critic, writer, player. FRSA.
For my games, books, podcast, journalism, game design workshops, lectures, trade bodies &c., check my linktree https://linktr.ee/james.wallis
Emilia @lazerwalker.com Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social Artist, drawing tutor, digital producer. Not entirely sure who she is any more.
Jo Roach @joroach.bsky.social C-Level operations, tech and data. Emergent wild thing.
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social Games Writer: Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora
Co-director @ 3-Fold Games: Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member.
Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books & films.
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social Playful.
elizabethsampat.com
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
zoewi @zoewi.bsky.social Zo-ii | Playful Arts & Playful Culture
✨Playful Arts Curation
🦩Program Curator A MAZE. / Berlin
🦄Curator Sickhouse / The Overkill
🫶Co-founder Playful Arts Festival
https://zo-ii.com
Robin Baumgarten 👨🏭✨ @robinwobbles.bsky.social Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Alice @asponge.bsky.social https://readmedottxt.tumblr.com/
Michael McMaster @mjmcmaster.bsky.social I make video game at @househouse.com
michaeljmcmaster.com
he/him
Fede 🪶 @kurainisei.bsky.social Defying gravity. Curiouser and curiouser. Game designer, creative coder and lecturer. Currently leading the Games and Playful Design MA at Goldsmiths. He/they.
Hollow Ponds @hollowponds.bsky.social A videogame studio currently working on secret things!
Wilmot Works It Out is out now on PC, Mac and Switch.
We also made Flock, I Am Dead, Wilmot's Warehouse and Loot Rascals.
For support queries support@hllwpnds.com
Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧 @stuffbybez.bsky.social Loves games, dancing, people. Makes games. Improvises music. Tries to be a decent human. Sometimes refers to herself in the 3rd person. https://linktr.ee/stuffByBez
Designer, developer, illustrator, rules writer/editor. Available for hire.
Learning Thai.
Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com Creative Lead at Panic, working on Playdate, dev software, and helping publish games • Maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand • One of the good ones • Portland, OR • he/him
Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social Developer and publisher of lovingly crafted puzzle games.
🔗 www.draknek.org
Harry Lee 尚倫 @leeshanglun.com antidisciplinary artist
saoirse @naceallabug.bsky.social leath phríobháideach. semi private. me at my crankiest. off the cuff comments from me here really do not represent my genuine thoughts and feelings.
Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social Author, artist, interactive designer.
Hopes you are mostly happy.
She/they
https://www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/
https://ko-fi.com/vivschwarz
https://linktr.ee/vivschwarz
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
Nico Disseldorp @ndisseldorp.bsky.social One time we made a goose game. After that Big Walk.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
- L @lkriefman.bsky.social @lkriefman.bsky.social
- A Annette Mees @annettemees.bsky.social Artist, curator and theatre director - specialising in equitable futures, climate, innovation & technology
Working on the Future of Arts & Culture.
Lynsey_s @lynseys.bsky.social Product, BA & Transformation @ Made tech
🏳️🌈 | nature | tech | science | health | design |
Sam Howey Nunn @samhoweynunn.bsky.social One half of Free Ice Cream. Mum of 2. East Londoner.
@freeicecream.bsky.social
George Oates @ukglo.bsky.social Computress since the last millenium. Culture nerd. Epicurean magpie. Not here much. #hugs #crone-maxxing
David King @d-king.bsky.social Course leader MA Games Design UAL
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
Rachael Stott @rachaelstott.bsky.social Comicbook artist. (She/Her)
I CAN'T READ DM'S!
https://linktr.ee/rachaelstott
Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social Watches a lot of anime. Reads a lot of comics, manga, and manhwa.
Editor for comics and books.
She/her
katiewestedits.com
#stay#atiny#coer#evol#engene#p1ece#moa
Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social Atomic Blonde, Can You Solve the Murder, The Dog Sitter Detective, The Exphoria Code, The Organised Writer, Resident Evil Village, etc. I write all the things. Reps: http://antonyjohnston.com/contact
Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.
https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social Troubled Snooker Genius
My art book ARTOBOT available for digital download here: ko-fi.com/nickrocheart...
Work Enquires: Nicksbiscuits@gmail.com
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Emma Price @tinymaster.bsky.social Graphic Design | Illustration
A MISCHIEF OF MAGPIES, BARNSTORMERS, THROUGH THE BOUGHS, LOVE EVERLASTING
tinymaster.co.uk
Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier @sispurrier.bsky.social <<Contravening Human Writes.>>
(US Rep: Jim Ehrich at RBEL; UK Rep: Matt Dench at Dench Arnold)
Greg Tito @gregtito.com Author, playwright, screenwriter, and podcaster.
gregtito.com
Dan Watters @danpgwatters.bsky.social Eisner-winning writer. Now:- Nightwing. Batman: Dark Patterns. M.A.S.K. Shredder. Soon:- Mad Science Division, Spider-Woman.
Updates at thedeadairchannel.ghost.io
Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com Comic artist and illustrator
Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
Newsletter: tomhumberstone.com/newsletter
Links: tomhumberstone.com/links
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Abigail Brady @morwen.net software engineer • musician (guitar and vocals in @bcosrsns.com) • writer • post-punk and cider enthusiast
see morwen.net
Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker. UK Comics Laureate for a while. Peaked too soon. (She/her)
E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet" https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives"
https://tinyurl.com/saxeyshorts
They/them
Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social Comedian/award-winning game maker/writer/voice artist #AuDHD (he/him)
Photos: http://hyperfocus.photography
Stream: http://Twitch.tv/brainmage
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/guy
VO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UiLVl6n0I
https://www.guykelly.co.uk
Cameron “Inevitability Enjoyer” Suey @cameronsuey.com Creator of @observableradio.com
Freelance Writer and Narrative Designer
fmr: Avengers, Tomb Raiders, Star Warses
pod: observableradio.com
biz: cameronsuey.com
fic: thejosefkstories.com
(he/him)
Observable Radio @observableradio.com a found footage anthology podcast of retro sci-fi and analog horror by @cameronsuey.com, Phil van Hest, and @purpurinastitch.bsky.social
Now on the @Spreaker.com Prime Network
ObservableRadio.com
patreon.com/ObservableRadio
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Bromelain Games @bromelain.mobi Creator of 🗝️The Secret of Langton Manor.
Join 10,000+ players exploring this haunting, episodic print-and-play escape-room series. First episode free at https://bromelain.mobi
Sarah Peploe @sarahpeploe.bsky.social writing and drawing
https://linktr.ee/sarahpeploe
Header from THE BERG, by @bobgoblynn.bsky.social!
Douglas Noble @douglasnoble.bsky.social Half of Dark & Golden Books, the heart of A Pocket Chiller, and all of Strip For Me. Comics of unfriendly romance and geographic terror.
More here: https://stripforme.bigcartel.com/products
Public Universal Fiend @acgodliman.bsky.social She/Her
Games educator and designer.
On the 'gram where I post my arts and crafts:
https://instagram.com/amygodliman?igshid=MzMyNGUyNmU2YQ==
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Rossaluss @rossaluss.bsky.social I work in tech. I live in London. I'm waiting patiently for Bluesky to let me use an animated gif as my avatar.
Rob Burton, once and future non-existent entity. @robertsburton.bsky.social Occasional writer. Always a reader. Sometime musician and voice actor, more often sound engineer. Cement-punk overtones with a philosophical subtext, served amidst the aroma of the world's end.
He/Him/His.
David H @nachimir.bsky.social 
sofie dodgson @sofiedodgson.bsky.social teenage manic mutant pixie ninja dream turtle girl
comic colourist - bitter root, golden rage, damn them all, tmnt x stranger things, tank girl
theatre and events maker for tootles+nibs
they/them 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🇬🇧✌️
Dan! @dapperdanh.bsky.social Comics, films, games (Tabletop & Console), some sport.
Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi
Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net Probably lettered that one comic you really like. And that other one.
Writer of IN YOUR SKIN, all 4 issues out now!
Jim Zub @jimzub.com Storyteller: Avengers, Conan the Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, Invader Zim, Rick and Morty VS D&D, Samurai Jack, Skullkickers, Street Fighter, Wayward, and more!
www.jimzub.com
Read or die with @stacyking.com
Post Malört @adlaim.bsky.social Highly sought after dinner guest
He/him
Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social Comic Artist/Writer (UK) • BARKING | SHELTER | BLACK HAMMER short | The Thing With Feathers [2025] | DOT Wild Fictions | Razorblades & more
Rep’d by James at The BKS
Coming soon- MOTHERS RUIN (Avery Hill)
https://bio.site/LucySullivan
Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social 50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. Robots, Time Lords. He/him.
Erika Price @erikapriceart.bsky.social Uk based indie cartoonist. 🏳️⚧️ she/her.
Links and stuff: https://linktr.ee/erikapriceart
Enquiries to erikapriceart@hotmail.com
Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Really good tipper.
Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social Artist, writes + draws comics in London UK. Image, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW/PRH, Oni, Boom, AWA, DSTLRY, Mad Cave, Tiny Onion & more. Open 4 writing, covers
Multiple Eisner nominee on team books
Contact alissamp at gmail
Portfolio: www.alisonsampson.com