Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
Alex Camilleri @alexkalopsia.bsky.social Sicilian in ๐ธ๐ช
designing at Poncle, while making a small game where things go *beep boop*
videogames, playful things, animal liberation, data privacy
Design Lead @ Embark Studios, Amnesia: Rebirth, Memoir En Code, 1977 Radio Aut, SOMA, RIGS, Alaloth...
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (โ๏ธ๐ผ book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ || ๐ canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently โ๏ธ๐ผ sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Rebecca Jones @greenlady17.bsky.social Games journalist for my sins. Co-host of @indieventurepodcast.co.uk, contributor for @respec.net, plus general freelancer. Formerly VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun, IGN, etc. Avatar by @simonwl.bsky.social ๐ฉท Bisexual thirtysomething born-again weeb (she/her)
Rachel Watts @rachelwatts.bsky.social ๐งฉ Marketing @draknek.bsky.social
๐ Co-host @indieventurepodcast.co.uk
๐ Author of COCOON: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
๐ Bylines @ RPS, GamesRadar+, PLAY, PCGamer, Edge etc
๐ง rachelwatts150[a]gmail.com
she/her/ace
Indieventure: A Podcast About Indie Games @indieventurepodcast.co.uk Join three friends as they embark on an adventure to discover the best indie games โ๏ธ ๐ซ Hosted by @greenlady17.bsky.social, @rachelwatts.bsky.social, and @sevenoutoften.co.uk โจ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Episodes released fortnightly!
Liam Richardson @sevenoutoften.co.uk UX Goblin at Greggs โข Co-host of @indieventurepodcast.co.uk โข Former video boy at RPS + Push Square โข A barely functioning pile of human shaped piss โข He / Him
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
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Dan DiIorio @trampolinetales.com I have ADHD and make video games like Luck be a Landlord!
Latest release: What's the Password?
He/They. Black Lives Matter. Free Palestine.
The 3rd letter of my last name is a capital "i" not a lowercase "L."
TrampolineTales.com
Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social iโm thinking about cars
David Masnato ๐ PAX U @davidmasnato.com ๐ฒ Game Designer
๐จ Art/Graphic Design
๐ I try my best - He/Him
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard.
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Public Historian & #StarWars author. Rep'd Justin Nash of @katenashagent.bsky.social. Visiting Senior Research Fellow @warstudieskcl.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Historian @blackmillgames.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social youtube.com/bigjoel
๐ฅง suzanne ๐ฅง @425suzanne.bsky.social tabletop games + app games + pie + AsAm Adoptee + She/Her = ruining games one skeet at a time. as seen on History's The Toys That Built America. hates puns - but in a fun way. @saltandsass.bsky.social. i keep 3 things: secrets, promises, and grudges.
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids
https://www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vids
https://www.patreon.com/shaunfromyoutube
Katie Biittner @kbiittner.bsky.social Associate Professor (Anthropology) at MacEwan University. Tier 2 Chancellor's Research Chair. Archaeologist. Archaeogamer. Queer. Polyam/RA. Matriarch. She/They.
Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. โ๏ธ @travisdhill.bsky.social Tabletop Game Design | Educational Psychologist | Equity & Justice through Education | Coffee, Zines, Cats | he/him
Games: presspot.games
Research: travisdhill.com
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan ๐ชถ, Tussie Mussie ๐, Mariposas ๐ฆ, The Fox Experiment ๐ฆ, Picky Pixie ๐งโโ๏ธ, Undergrove ๐, and Sanibel ๐).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
ใใใญ๐ Letourneau๐ซ(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social There is research that suggests that playing Clover Pit after experiencing a traumatic event can help reduce intrusive memories and thoughts.
https://nlquotes.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/northernlion
https://www.youtube.com/@Northernlion
jorbs @jorbs.bsky.social he/him | i bought a house from people paying to watch me play videogames how cool is that | author: before we go live | twitch/yt partner
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social English teaching, pop culture, comics, politics, and plants. FL โก๏ธ ROC. He, him, his.
Robin Ward @eviltrout.com "The Incident at Galley House" is out now on Steam! You might also enjoy our previous game, โThe Roottrees are Deadโ.
Previously: co-founder of Discourse
https://galley.house
https://roottrees.com
https://eviltrout.com
Star Tribune Guild @startribuneguild.bsky.social We represent union members at the Minnesota Star Tribune. Support our laid-off journalists at bit.ly/stribworkers
Caitlin Nothhard @nothhart.bsky.social Senior Artist at a tiny game studio you've never heard of ๐ฎ
Video game, animation, themed entertainment, and rock collecting enthusiast.
SummoningSalt @summoningsalt.bsky.social Speedrun World Record Histories
Emma Kidwell ใใพ @emmakidwell.bsky.social Award-nominated writer | Contracting @ Ruckus Games ๐| 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/ |๐บ๐ธ/๐ฏ๐ต
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Childrenโs Relief Fund โ> https://www.pcrf.net
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe @quakefultales.bsky.social They/Them
Technical Narrative Designer at Fenris Creations (formerly known as CCP Games) | PhD in Computational Media from UCSC | MFA in Digital Art and New Media | Playwright | Indie Dev of Experimental AI Behavior Tools
https://njunius.github.io/
Nathan Altice @altice.bsky.social Game designer, researcher, and archivist. Synth destroyer. Makes old things new. Teaching Professor of Computational Media at UCSC. Wrote I AM ERROR.
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm)
Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social Game designer, writer, and all around nerd. (She/Her)
mattie @mattiebrice.bsky.social live artist and ritual designerโจ
Director of the Speculative Intimacies Lab @ UCSCโs Performance, Play, & Design department
dani >:3 @handle.invalid she/they | 28 | queer gothic scholar | game designer
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซ game design lecturer @ UCSC
๐ BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC
๐ MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC
๐ scareoset.com
โ๏ธ scareoset@gmail.com
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social - Activist, artist, gamer โก
- please support my survival at
patreon.com/leftistgamermemes
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Zoรซ Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com @mothership.blog co-founder/managing editor โจ i like books, games, feminism, and my dog. DM or reply for email!
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism ๐ต๏ธ, politics ๐ณ๏ธ, chart-tastic ๐, and sometimes sarcastic ๐๐๐คช
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Noah Webster's Dictionary Online - 1806, 1828 @nwdictionary.bsky.social Vocabulary and observations from the team working to create Websterโs Dictionary Online. RT does not imply endorsement.
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Barrett R Anderson @barrettrees.com https://barrettrees.com/
HCI & UX Researcher, PhD in Computational Media
he/him, they/them
ITYSL memes ๐ฆ๐ฅฉ @ityslmemes.com I Think You Should Leave & anything Tim Robinson.
Welcome to the Dangerous Nights Crew
@ITYSL_memes on other apps | ityslmemes.com
Thatโs A Chunky: An ITYSL Podcast @thatsachunky.bsky.social
Also me: @subjimminal.bsky.social, @phantomtollbot.bsky.social
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Joost van Dreunen @superjoost.bsky.social Subscribe: superjoost.substack.com (over 14,000 subs!)
Academic and entrepreneur with expertise in video games โข Author of ONE UP โข Advisor @ Makers Fund โข Teaches @NYUStern โข Hosts @UNBOXINGpod
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. ๐ค๐โค๏ธ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social Historian, PhD. Coordinator of the Digital Exploration Center at UCF. American & Japanese history, pop culture, tech, digital history. Sorcerer Supreme, EVA pilot, Future Gadget lab mem. "I've studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Mike Piero ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. ๐ฉท๐๐
jenny @qdork.bsky.social posting (at least) 1 video a day until my video game, CONSUME ME, sells one million copies.
buy now! ๐๐๐๐๐
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/consume-me/id6769877287
steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me/
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) ๆๆช็ด็พ @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social ๐ Stream Jeopardy! on Peacock & Hulu
โ๏ธ Jeopardy! Masters is now on Hulu
๐ ESPN Jeopardy! now on Disney+, Hulu and the ESPN App
๐ฟ Watch Pop Culture Jeopardy! on Netflix
Paul โ๐ป Dean @paullicino.bsky.social Nebula-nominated writer/games designer in Vancouver, BC - Pacific Drive, Paranoia, Magical Kitties, Zafir, Feng Shui, Maia etc. Did acres of crit/journalism. NDP volunteer.
He/him.๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐I don't regularly check notifs, email in Linktree!
linktr.ee/paullicino
will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social interactive biofreak. ยฝ of @goodluckpress.co. award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher. going to make one of each game.
pgh
(they/them)
๐ท
goodluckpress.co
willjobst.itch.io
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.
๐ inkle.co
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Laine Nooney @ ๐ฅ๐๏ธ๐ฅ @lainenooney.bsky.social ๐พ associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
๐น๏ธ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
๐ The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
deka @dekadeka.bsky.social getting phd in videogames + influencers @ uchicago
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
@slausondesigns.bsky.social @slausondesigns.bsky.social
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
Younรจs โ
@pyrofoux.itch.io โด ๐ฌ๐ง: they/them ๐ซ๐ท: iel, accord inclusifs
โด Game design, Research, TTRPGs and Improv Theater
โด amab arab acab
Find some of my work here:
๐ฎ pyrofoux.itch.io
๐ฌ knivesandpaintbrushes.org/younes
๐ง neurocracy.site
Cassi Mothwin ๐งโโ๏ธ @cassi.mothwin.com Award Winning TTRPG designer โข Illustrator โข Twitch Affiliate โข SFWA โข Email for inquiries โข Dancing in the moonlight
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ (she/any)
https://cassimothwin.com/cassi-mothwin-links-copy/
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social Portfolio and contacts at aavoigt.com
TTRPG Videos: https://youtube.com/@aavoigt
Co-host: https://www.youtube.com/@mortifiedpod
Games: http://aaronsxl.itch.io
He/him
Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social State Representative out of Missoula, Montana. Fighting for housing, health care, & human rights.
Wife of @erininthemorning.com
Bi๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Trans๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ she/herโ๏ธ
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social Perpetrator of Youtube video crimes. Still at large https://youtube.com/@BacklogReviewer || Email me at: thebacklogreviewer@gmail.com || Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/the_backlog
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too
Juno Morrow @junomorrow.itch.io โฆ Media artist, designer & photographer
โฆ Assoc. Prof. of Game Design at Hostos CC/CUNY
โฆ I tweet cute/dark art, leftist & game dev content
โฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ด
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
๐ง: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
๐Northeast Ohio
๐ per aspera, ad astra ๐
She/her
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Lily Alexandre ๐ฐ๏ธ @lily-is.online I write about art, gender, and the tech industry. Video essays on @nebula.tv, Twin Peaks podcast @tstv.show ๐ฒ๐ซ๏ธ
All that is solid melts into air
youtube.com/@lily_lxndr
Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org Yes Ha Ha Ha Yesโฆ weโre on bluesky!! A Committee made up of depraved College Football Fans!! All our links here!!
https://linktr.ee/sickoscommittee?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=53fc82b0-d684-4959-a049-cf7703037317
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆผ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐จ
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/
Kofie @kofie.bsky.social Substack: https://kofie.substack.com/
Nebula go.nebula.tv/kofie
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/kofie
Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/kofiewhy
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kofiewhy
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@KofieWhy
inquiries: KofieWhy@gmail.com
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username๐)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
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
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.socialโฌ.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (pixel art)
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.socialโฌ . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social Out now https://outerloopgames.com/dosa
Director on Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, narrative, art, biz, UI/UX, production, photos. Uplifting marginalized devs.
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator โ Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants๐น๐น
he/him
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @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.
Lauren Scott @laurenscott.bsky.social Game designer, writer, piano player, sister, human.
Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social