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.
Kyle Beasley (he/him) @mrbeabo.bsky.social Staff User Researcher at 2K Games (My tweets are mine)
Tim Denee @olddog.games Game designer, graphic designer and illustrator from Aotearoa. Blades '68, Deathmatch Island, Odyssey Aquatica.
🐕 http://olddog.games
📫 olddoggames.substack.com
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com Sail across a fantasy world in your own pirate ship. Master soulslike combat and powerful magic to hunt deadly bosses. (1-6 Players) Wishlist now on Steam!
David Goldfarb @davidgoldfarb.bsky.social SFF fan, player of board games and bridge and chess, comic book reader for over half a century. He/him.
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Sarah Shaw @moonbeamsaez2.bsky.social I have a BA in History and Classics. I love reading, art and dancing. I am involved in SCA.
Dr Thom @thomaslinley.com Researching #deepsea #fish. Co-host of The Deep-Sea #Podcast @deepseapod.com. #TeamFish, Curator at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. #tech and #SciComm. Views are my own. #dyslexic, he/him
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
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
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/
Acceptable Risk Studios @acceptablerisk.bsky.social 
@viricapnity.bsky.social @viricapnity.bsky.social 
MSayana @msayana.bsky.social Cats, yarn craft, nail art and sarcasm. 
Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social Dad, Veteran Lead Game Systems Designer, I make Player-Centric Systems about Progression and Investment.
Brawl Stars @ Supercell in 🇫🇮, Formerly Fortnite Systems, VALORANT Competitive, Destiny 2 Systems, Magic R&D
Portfolio at https://robertmakesgam.es/
David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social I like collating data,
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
Kailash Kiwi @kailash-kiwi.bsky.social I’m a Kiwi in Aotearoa who watches US politics as a hobby. Kind of concerned right now to be fair. 💣🚀🍊☢️
🌻🇺🇦🌻
@aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social Making really big computers, won’t go to Mars until it’s unionised. He/Him
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Stanwixbuster @stanwixbuster.co.uk Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Award-winning narrative game dev
NWCDTP-funded PhD on non-commercial game communities + sustainability, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games
https://stanwixbuster.co.uk/
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social Disgruntled anarcho-geologist. Hyperfocused on rocks since age 3. PhD: Patagonian Jurassic-Cretaceous silicic igneous provinces. I do geochronology, geo-exploration, eng. seismology, slope stability or identify your cool rock, for food/cash. Fuck AI Fash
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Tumeke Studio @tumekestudio.bsky.social Tumeke Studio is a Māori owned, independent R&D-driven game and systems studio building the tools and stories of tomorrow.
https://www.tumekestudio.com
Jasmine Damani @webdevour.bsky.social Software nerd, cat enthusiast, pixel art noob, gamedev, playing with LLMs
G Wilde @stackwild.bsky.social Software, AI, Infosec, Gamedev
NZ Game Developers Association @nzgda.bsky.social Supporting & developing the Aotearoa video games industry since 2001.
https://www.nzgdc.com/tickets-timeline
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
David Masnato 🔜 PAX U @davidmasnato.com 🎲 Game Designer
🎨 Art/Graphic Design
💛 I try my best - He/Him
Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be Generative geometrist, medical radiation physicist, pronouns: he/him
Sometimes at night, I find myself behind the computer. When I finally blink, a mess of code is drawing random structures on the screen. I spend the rest of the night staring.
Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social Portfolio : https://www.mjwills.com/
Webcomic : https://swordscomic.com/
Card Game : https://swords.game/cut-the-deck
Support : https://www.patreon.com/swordscomic
It’s that JSR @jsr.com Generic Gen-X Nerd.
I do post here, but it's very much a subset of my posts to Mastodon, as I have zero confidence in VC-backed corporate social media.
Various links at https://jsr.com
mastodon: jsr@social.jsr.com
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Bookhouse Institute @bookhouse.uk We hide treasure hunts in books.
If you find the treasure first, it's yours.
https://bookhouse.uk
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social voice actor | represented by CAA | prozdkp@gmail.com
Richard Atkin @codechump.bsky.social Green, left, progressive nerd.
Purveyor of bespoke opinions.
Ōtautahi, Aotearoa
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.
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
@lerczero.bsky.social @lerczero.bsky.social 
@kar1abunny.bsky.social @kar1abunny.bsky.social 
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Gil Hova @gil.hova.net He/him. JC/NYC.
• Tabletop games - now making games as Informal Ferret Games
• Robot fight facilitator at NHRL
• Fan of weird/noisy music
• Ferret nut
• Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency
All my links: https://gil.hova.net
Shawn Tomkin @shawntomkin.bsky.social Creator of the Ironsworn family of TTRPGs. Contributor to other cool games. Banner art by Joshua Meehan.
Games & Downloads: tomkinpress.com
Discord: discord.gg/8bRuZwK
DriveThruRPG: tomkinpress.com/drivethrurpg
Itch: tomkinpress.com/itch
Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker
Board games: https://hollandspiele.com
video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland
sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
Jennifer Pixi Low @jenniferpixi.bsky.social Chaotic artistic type 
Kenneth Hite @kennethhite.bsky.social Game designer and writer in the Greatest ✶ City ✶ in ✶ the ✶ World.
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Karen Dransfield @missmenolly.bsky.social A gamer, a movie fan, a Browncoat, part of the Scooby gang, avid collector of dragons, a nature lover, a helper of kids, a jack-of-all-trades!
Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social I work on Rhystic Studies • team @BASILISK.gg • rhysticstudies.com
Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social Gamedev Priestess. Making stuff at Neon Giant. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
Alix @stater.bsky.social Kiwi public servant seeing what this platform is about 
Babs-Merel @babs-merel.bsky.social ĂûDHD adult Live in Cheviot Hurunui NZ.
Passionate about Bridge, Education, Chooks, Plants, and Crafts.
Steve Barr @barrsteve.bsky.social Writer / producer / procrasturbator
https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2003750
Shut Up & Sit Down @shutupshow.bsky.social board game videos and podcasts with heart!
https://beacons.ai/shutupshow
The Five By @fivebygames.bsky.social Quatriweekly podcast of rapid fire board game reviews. https://thefiveby.fireside.fm
Good Time Society @goodtimesociety.com Video Production Company around all things tabletop and gaming. Business Inquiries: info@goodtimesociety.com
The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast @thesecretcabal.bsky.social Weekly audio podcasts about tabletop gaming of all kinds. Board games, card games, miniatures games, and role playing games. Posts are by Jamie.
Links to everything: https://linktr.ee/thesecretcabal
GamingTrend @gamingtrend.com One of the longest running independent gaming sites on the web. You won’t find AI generated content at gamingtrend.com -we are by humans, for humans
Be sure to visit our Discord -- join in the conversation: https://discord.gg/CeEWA4m
Gaming Rules! @gamingrules.bsky.social Gaming Rules! is a channel providing you with How-to-Play videos, Playthroughs, and other content.
Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gamingrules
Boardgamegeek guild: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/2258
BramBeard Gaming @brambeardgaming.bsky.social Richmond (he/him) & TJ “Firebeard” (he/him) playing silly co-op video games and board games on Twitch | Contact: brambeardgaming@gmail.com
twitch.tv/brambeardgaming
linktr.ee/brambeardgaming
Kareem the board game minimalist @gameminimalist.bsky.social British 🇬🇧 Libyan 🇱🇾 board gamer attempting and miserably failing to buy fewer board games.
Board Game Blitz @boardgameblitz.bsky.social Concise board game content by @ambierona.bsky.social and @crystaldax.bsky.social. https://portaly.cc/boardgameblitz
BJ from Board Game Gumbo @boardgamegumbo.bsky.social Hey board gamers, it’s BJ from Board Game Gumbo (that’s me to the far left at ChuckCon 2023). I’m a board game player, reviewer, content creator and interviewer. Wait, did you just say that you designed a game about a historical city? Tell me more...
Board Game Hot Takes Podcast @boardgamehottakes.bsky.social We tell you how a board game experience felt - just minutes after we finish playing. 3 points of view. Posts by Tim. #boardgames #podcast
Board Game Quest @boardgamequest.bsky.social A site dedicated to board game reviews, news and more. Everything you need to find the next great game to play on your tabletop. All posts made by Tony.
Ruel Gaviola 🇺🇸🇵🇭🀄🎲 @ruelgaviola.com Board gamer, host, producer for Good Time Society, Rahdo Runs Through, and more. Taelor ambassador. Play to Z co-owner. Dodgers fan. Pug papa. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/ruelgaviola
Just Aaron @gameenthus.com 🎲 #BoardGames Reviewer/Previewer
🎮 #VideoGames Talker Overer While Playing(er)
Youtube.com/GameEnthus
https://linktr.ee/GameEnthus
Podcast Contributor @ https://bsky.app/profile/fivebygames.bsky.social
Our Family Plays Games @ourfamplaysgames.bsky.social We're a family on a journey in the world of modern board games! In addition, we highlight the importance of diversity, inclusion, and family fun in this growing hobby!
https://linktr.ee/ourfamilyplaysgames
https://ourfamilyplaysgames.com
Boards Alive @boardsalive.bsky.social The podcast that brings board games to life!
Aaron (he/him) and a guest host talk board games, role playing games, & video games.
He also hosts Cult Classic Callback
https://linktr.ee/boardsalive
Woosung.Boardgames 🎲 @woosungboardgames.bsky.social 🎲 Board game reviews & content
🎲 New games, classics & hidden gems
👾 Certified GEEK | ❄️ Minnesota
Salt and Sass Games @saltandsass.bsky.social The board game podcast and streaming channel hosted by @425suzanne and @613mandi.
📚 Solo RPG coverage done by @819steph.
Podcast: https://sites.libsyn.com/436716
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/saltandsassgames
YT: www.youtube.com/saltandsassgame
ᡣ𐭩 Mandi ᡣ𐭩 @613mandi.bsky.social 🎲 🎮 Gamer
📹📸 Content Creator
📚 Teacher/Learning Advisor at GoC
🪡 Sewist
🌶 `⋆ 🎀 𝒩𝑒𝓊𝓇🌸𝓈𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓎 🎀 ⋆`
she/her
🇨🇦 Great English/Le français est passable.
🎮 🎲
www.twitch.tv/saltandsassgames
www.youtube.com/saltandsassgames
📧 saltandsassgames@gmail.com
Chaz Marler @gamenightpicks.com Making videos on Game Night Picks to help you find board, card, & tabletop games (new & old) that are worth a 2nd look! 👀
He/Him
Brain in a Jar @braininajar.bsky.social I’m Kasey (She/Her) a Mexican-American Neuroscientist 🧠 that loves board games! I’m a Postdoc in the Bruchas Lab at the University of Washington and I make short form board game content in my free time! #latinxgamer #womeninstem
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
Beneeta Kaur @beneetakaur.bsky.social Punjabi ✨
Streamer: http://twitch.tv/beneeta_k
Board Game Content: https://www.instagram.com/beneeta_k/
She/Her
https://beacons.ai/beneeta_k
Monique / Before You Play @beforeyouplay.bsky.social Youtube.com/BeforeYouPlay
Meeple Syrup Show @meeplesyrupshow.bsky.social Join Cat and Sen live on Wednesdays at 9pm EST to discuss tabletop game design with tabletop game designers.
YouTube.com/MeepleSyrup 
Foster the Meeple @fosterthemeeple.bsky.social Board Games & Board Gamey Things. http://youtube.com/fosterthemeeple fosterthemeeple@gmail.com http://youtube.com/everydaymagicftm
Meeple Lady @meeplelady.bsky.social Phoenix-based game writer. Rulebook editor. Podcasting on @fivebygames.bsky.social.
❤️s euros, historical games, giant tweezers & all things adorable. http://instagram.com/meeplelady/. She/her 🇵🇭 🌵 💃🏽
https://www.boardgamemeeplelady.com/
Ludology Podcast @ludologypod.bsky.social The podcast about the "whys" of gaming - hosted by Sen-Foong Lim and Erica Bouyouris. New episodes every other week!
www.ludology.net
Semi Co-op @semicoop.com A webcomic about board games since 2015! https://semicoop.com | Want to commission a comic? Send us a message! | Support us @ http://patreon.com/semicoop
Dan Arndt @danarndtwrites.bsky.social Tabletop and Culture Writer, Managing Editor at @TheFandomentals. Editor at The Kismet. Comics, Writing, and Goth Stuff. dan@thefandomentals.com
He/Him
We're Not Wizards Board Game Podcast @werenotwizards.com Tabletop Entertainers. Podcaster. Blogger. Reviewer.
Guest and Review Coverage Questions?
Email magic@werenotwizards.com
https://linktr.ee/werenotwizards
Its our tenth year doing this..
Sarah Ovenall @ovenall.bsky.social Podcaster with The Five By, https://thefiveby.fireside.fm/ Host of Divaville Lounge, Sundays 2-4 PM ET at WXDU Durham 88.7fm or wxdu.org Tabletop games, swing dj, gardening, cooking, quilting, civics nerd. She/her. I’m giving mussels the wib.
John Gonzalez @bookofnerds.bsky.social Chicano. Writer. Tabletop gaming enthusiast. Host on The Five By podcast. Twitch Streamer.
https://linktr.ee/johngonzalez
He/him. Live Stream/review inquiries cribbageandmore@gmail
Martina Fuchs🔜 SPIEL Essen @missbaybee.bsky.social Boardgame Podcast The Fux from Fux und Bär (yellowgeekbear.bsky.social) Köln
Jury Member of Spiel des Jahres, Educator (she/her)
"Welcome to the magical realm of a board game enthusiast, where every post feels like an invitation to a party you never knew.
The Omnigamers' Club Podcast @omnigamers.bsky.social ♟️🎲🎮 The podcast for games of all platforms. Reviewing board games, video games, TTRPGs and everything between.
Hosted by Mark (@markyuasa.bsky.social) and
Daniel (@boardgamefeast.bsky.social)
✉️ Omnigamersclub@gmail.com
🔗 Omnigamers.club
Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social Co-host of @omnigamers.bsky.social
Board games, video games and TTRPGs with a dash of amateur cooking. Ex-Australian and Ex-Archaeologist
Vancouver, BC
He/him
Rolling Dice & Taking Names Podcast @rolldicetakenames.com 12 year old podcast from two long time friends who love talking about games and life events that we all experience
https://rolldicetakenames.com/
BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com The official Bluesky account for BoardGameGeek
Roll for Crit @rollforcrit.bsky.social Here for all your tabletop needs! News, Reviews, How to Plays, and so much more! Subscribe to our channel at YouTube.com/RollForCrit
@grand-vizier.bsky.social @grand-vizier.bsky.social 
John LeBoeuf-Little @worldnamer.bsky.social Game developer, Programmer, Nerd. I helped write Scum and Villainy, Band of Blades, and I'm working on Project Perseus.
Check out my new venture Vertex Rim at https://vertexrim.com and https://vertexrim.itch.io!
Tea Vampire @stras.bsky.social Game designer | RPG nerd | Scum and Villainy | Band of Blades | Spell and Blade | Illuminated Worlds | he/him
Restoration Games @restorationgames.bsky.social We take out-of-print games from the '60s through the '00s, fix them up, and bring them back for the modern gamer. Posts by Justin aka the Board Game Necromancer unless otherwise noted.
Arcane Wonders @arcanewonders.bsky.social www.arcanewonders.com