Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
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
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
jenn schiffer 🍦 @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
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
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
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
katherine @kayserifserif.place soft tech & poetic tools • https://kayserifserif.place/ • she/her/伊
Marlowe Dobbe @marlowedobbe.com She/Her | Art Director at Mega Crit | PIGSquad Organizer | Prev Dicey Dungeons + Floppy Knights | Black Lives Matter! Trans rights are human rights!
⋆༺𓆩☠︎︎𓆪༻⋆
https://marlowedobbe.itch.io/
https://marlowedobbe.com/
https://marlowedobbe.com/newsletter
✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social Video Game Composer・Sound Engineer・Gameboy Musician・Producer・Performer・
Best known for Super Hexagon, Spectra, Dicey Dungeons, JSAB, Cadence of Hyrule DLC
🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸
🌐 https://linktr.ee/chipzel
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
Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social 📚🎨✍️ Curator, writer, salaryman 🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏻
• BA, MA, M.Phil: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. (Film, videogames, MVs, art.)
• The Lester Bangs of BL.
• Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
Josh @aosher.bsky.social Games and politics. He/they.
Kerry @kerrypolka.bsky.social known to one and all as a guy who is just around.
she/her, us/uk, london n19. movies, theatre, books, civitas. previous lives: the bay, pdx, pōneke, naarm melbourne. cities are good! 🚆🕎
Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social 🎏 Narrative Designer & Producer
✨ IndieCade Winner, A MAZE Finalist
🌺 Cofounder of Matajuegos Co-op
🦑 1/3rd of Atuel
💀 English, Spanish, Italian
🐍 Queer, They/He
🛸 pfquarta@gmail.com
🌱 eli rainsberry 🌱 @elirainsberry.com composer -- sound artist -- audio + music designer -- they/them
elirainsberry@gmail.com -- elirainsberry.com
currently: Signet City + Bad Magpie + Surf Club
previously: Wilmot Works It Out, Flock, Saltsea Chronicles, No Longer Home, A Monster’s Expedition
Amy Goodchild @amygoodchild.bsky.social Generative Artist • Triangle enthusiast • Writing about art, tech & science • Exhibited internationally • Londoner but wish it was sunnier • She / Her • www.amygoodchild.com
Cat Graffam @catgraffam.bsky.social artist
linktr.ee/catgraffam
Last Words Bot @lastwordsbot.bsky.social Chat messages sent by players shortly before dying in World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore.
CW: our content is *somewhat* filtered for profanity, but please let @mtrc know if something needs deleting.
Data via Deathlog.
Grace Bruxner @gracebruxner.bsky.social ive decided to post……. gracebruxner.com for work stuff
LZ @lzine.bsky.social 🤫UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT🤫
Catherine Unger @catherineunger.bsky.social Art Director making games ✦ Making Bad Magpie ✦ Art for The Mermaid Mask ✦ BAFTA Breakthrough ✦ She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/Catherineunger
cécile @haraiva.bsky.social 🌞 working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
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==
adam le doux @adamledoux.net videogames, game engines, odds & ends | i make https://bitsy.org | he/him
https://adamledoux.net
Halima @halomedes.bsky.social she/her
writer etc
https://halomedes.neocities.org
Emma Theresa @emmatheresa.bsky.social Daytime geologist, nighttime artist. New parent.
🎮 / 🎨 / 🧶 / 🪡
she/her 🦻
Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography, Treeplanter ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social
jamie💕pearl @jamiejankovic.bsky.social artist/filmmaker/gamer @ vimeo.com/jamiejankovic
devilish transfemme game designer💕(they/them)
flaming homosexual type b: the arseonist
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Tom Black @tomblack.uk We are all in the gutter, but some of us are screaming directly into the gutter
he/him
Jenni @pixiejenni.bsky.social Editor and writer. Academically interested in alchemy + magic. Asexual, ADHD and OCD-having nerd.
Lorenzo Pilia @lorenzopilia.bsky.social Berlin-based event producer & curator. I organise #TalkAndPlay @berlingamescene.bsky.social + run @saftladen.bsky.social co-working space for indie devs + drums @splitmilkband.bsky.social. Prev: A MAZE. / Berlin, Maschinen-Mensch. He/Him
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
Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch Designer making games and other playable things at @playables.net. Pocket Boss (out now! pocketboss.ch), KIDS, Plug & Play, Rakete, Drei and more: mariov.ch
Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io Makes games and animated films with his finger
https://michaelfrei.io
Made a video game called Time Flies https://timeflies.buzz
thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social Ⓐ angry skeleton in waiting.
Sounds on @flimsyrituals and games with @furtiveshambles.
actual dr, phd personal games.
trans, they/he, 34 🍞🌹
Harry Lee 尚倫 @leeshanglun.com antidisciplinary artist
Kalonica @kalonica.bsky.social 3D Artist + Game Developer . she/her 🌿
Currently:
Mars First Logistics with Shape Shop
Big Walk with House House
kalonica.com
Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Game Arts @ Pratt Institute
Founder of Essay Games (he/him)
https://essay-games.com/
Bundle of Joy (Narrative Wario Ware Dad-Simulator):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3138370/Bundle_of_Joy/
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
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
Kirsty Keatch @kirstykeatch.bsky.social Designer • playful design + dynamism
Previously: ustwo games - Alba: a Wildlife Adventure
kirstykeatch.com
San Francisco
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
David King @d-king.bsky.social Course leader MA Games Design UAL
Sagan, as in Carl @saganyee.bsky.social Animation (Lackadaisy, Goodbye Volcano High, Titmouse), games (Hand Eye Society), speculative fiction. UCLA Design Media Arts '26. He/they 🏳️⚧️
www.saganyee.com
Mink @mink.bsky.social Escape Room maker.
worry @worrrrry.bsky.social video fart
linktr.ee/worrrrry
Elle Osili-Wood @elleosiliwood.bsky.social TV presenter talking film, arts, & games. Named a BAFTA Breakthrough in TV, called “one of the most influential women in games” by Google. Rep: ITG
phoebe @phoebenightingale.bsky.social creative something-or-other
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
ClareRed @clarered.bsky.social CEO of Watershed, a home for culture, technology and society. Also Chair of Wise Children. 🏳️🌈 Queer, nature loving, values driven. Will block hate
tom ◈ @thomasbowker.com • makes videogames • lyne : split signal : frog detective : surf club •
https://thomasbowker.com/
Mariana Marangoni @mmarangoni.bsky.social Artist and researcher
Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts
Sophie Sampson @sophiesampson.bsky.social London games/clothes/gardens.
George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social co-founder of @milktooth.bsky.social making bad magpie
also to blame for bird alone & far from noise & hot date
georgebatchelor.com | he/him
Martin O'Leary @mewo2.bsky.social Luddite. Head of @pmstudiouk.bsky.social
Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social creative things all the time. freelance exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london.
https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin- T Lynn @toadrick.bsky.social Mrs Parker & Dr Love. Mum of 2, game designer, community & social play researcher, PT senior lecturer @ Abertay & chalky antics @ #oneplaything Views are my own
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
susie @susepicious.bsky.social producer and social media menace for Bad Magpie with @milktooth.bsky.social 🦷 creative producer, curator, facilitator, performance artist 🤠 1/5 director of biome collective ✨
linktr.ee/susepicious
Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Big Walk is out now: bigwalk.game
househouse.com
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
PL Arango @plarango.com Screenwriter (Watch EXTRACURRICULAR on Tubi, Amazon, etc. Or don't. Either way is fine with me, honestly)
Creator of consumie.com
General weird movie and music enthusiast
He/him
Signal: pla.51
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
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Pip @philippawarr.bsky.social 🎮 Narrative designer: A Monster’s Expedition, Little Kitty Big City, Flock
🎨 Illustrator
📚 Former dep ed at PCGamer
🪲 Beetle enthusiast
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
Gabby DaRienzo @gabbydarienzo.com game developer / artist
gabbydarienzo.com
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
Til Nomi @thenomi.bsky.social an idiot. vids, illos & games events?? 2/3D art (or 6D). founder of @gaemz.bsky.social. been making flamingos for @amazefest.bsky.social. worked on 2 or 3 camera games. co-producer for a video game dog musician. music fan.
https://www.thenomi.com
No Proscenium @noproscenium.com Anything But The Usual. 🤯
Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014.
🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more.
👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
⚡️Marina Díez is finishing a new game! @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Stella Wisdom @stellawisdom.bsky.social Curator interested in electronic literature, interactive narratives, comics, web archiving and digital preservation
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Gabrielle de la Puente @gdlp.bsky.social writer in liverpool / half responsible for thewhitepube.com / fully responsible for gdlp.co.uk + artdates.co.uk
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
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
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
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.
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @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!
Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com mostly cat pictures
He/him