Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social First in line to dance on the crypto industry's grave.
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Johnny Dale @johnnydale.com Executive Director of Leder Games. Saint Paul, MN.
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DC Ward 4.
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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social Lawyer. Not your lawyer. Mother. Not your mother.
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Hawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social Tabletop design, development, and publishing. Focused on historical and wargames.
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David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social Mental health awareness advocate. Down syndrome advocate. Game designer.
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
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Tom Bridge @tombridge.com Bluesky for Chaos. Current CTO, Former Non-Profit Founder. Music is rad, do lots of it. Go see the show.
Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social History Nerd, political junky, Hill rat and historical board game designer. 
Dan Bullock @danbullock.bsky.social Analog game maker (1979, In the Shadows, Bowie, Penitent & more) Game Design Deep Dive pod. Fmr Scarring Party bandleader. he/him 🏳️🌈
Keith Baker - GenCon Booth 465! @keith-baker.com Game Designer and Writer! Illimat, Gloom, and Eberron. Co-owner of @TwogetherStudios.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com Strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Metropolitan Wargamers @metrowargamers.bsky.social New York City's premier gaming community, promoting the board game, tabletop, miniature wargaming and RPG hobbies since 1984.
Crazy Optical Illusions @crazyopticalillusions.net Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook releases this October.
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Hollandspiele @hollandspiele.bsky.social Dinosaurs everybody. Posts by Mary, who along with @amabel.bsky.social runs Hollandspiele, a publisher of weird games for weird people.
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https://youtube.com/@hollandspiele
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@tompetgames.bsky.social @tompetgames.bsky.social We make board games! So far we have made HALLS OF HEGRA and DONNING THE PURPLE! Now we are making CROWN & COURAGE! Check our web page below for more details!
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Rodger B. MacGowan @rodgerbmacgowan.bsky.social President RBM Studio LLC • Publisher of C3i Magazine • Senior Vice President & Art Director of GMT Games • Founder of Fire & Movement Magazine https://c3iopscenter.com/
Morgane Gouyon-Rety @morganegr.bsky.social French woman, player and designer of historical conflict simulations, living in Paris with my wife and two children
Ryan Heilman @ryanheilman.bsky.social Charles S. Roberts Award winning designer, developer, and graphic designer. Co-owner of Wharf Rat Games.
Nils Johansson @zweigefuhle.bsky.social Artist 🠚 France.
Nerdissimo for paper simulations, History gaming and all things maps. #boardwargames
Bio + Art samples:
https://armchairdragoons.com/nilsj/
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Jason Carr @maudineormsby.bsky.social Director of Development at GMT Games
History on the Table @historytable.bsky.social Finland's 5th most popular wargame podcast. Home of Every Wargamer Ever. Not based in Finland.
Wargames. Hockey. Whatever else.
RPGs as Black Lodge Trivia Night
Patrick Mullen @navaronegun.bsky.social History. TTRPGs (non-D&D). Processing GURPS Blog at: https://processinggurps.com/ Co-Host of GURPStalk podcast at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gurpstalk/id1829451054
VPJ Arponen @vpjarponen.bsky.social Interdisciplinary philosophy in the academia by day, tabletop game design by night
SDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social The San Diego Historical Games Convention. Check out everything on our in-person and online conventions, our Conflicts of Interest Online articles, and our annual Summit Award at www.sdhist.com.
The Boardgames Chronicle @thebrdgmschronicle.bsky.social War and political games enthusiast, history buff, content creator.
Robert DeLeskie @rdeleskie.bsky.social games stories film tv. Horror fiction: "Until Then, We Watch" on Creepy Corner Podcast. Various history-themed boardgames. Various spooky paranormal TV shows and history docs.
Alexander @playersaidalex.bsky.social co-founder, and shirt wearer of The Players' Aid
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgDa9S8nnVLxXPzjBX8WMg
Zilla Blitz @zillablitz.bsky.social Content Creator | Tabletop/PC Wargames & Crunchy Euros | YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/ZillaBlitz
Clio's Board Games @cliosboardgames.bsky.social Musings about history, board games and history in board games. Blog: http://cliosboardgames.wordpress.com
Ardwulf the Traveller @ardwulf.bsky.social Writer, 3D Modeler and Printer. Gamer: wargames, TTRPGs and the occasional digital game. Maybe some day a designer. Has Opinions. He/him. linktr.ee/ardwulf
Fred Serval @fredserval.bsky.social I make games.
ファシストになるより、豚の方がマシさ
https://youtube.com/@HomoLudens1871
The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.social We are a written blog and YouTube Channel that discuss all kinds of great historical games and wargames. Visit the blog at theplayersaid.com and our YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/@theplayersaid?si=vRe0IU0jJ1142gnF
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
Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Designer of the "Littoral Commander" wargame series. Former US Marine. Opinions own.
Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker
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video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
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sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
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💪public education
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Jason Paterson @nakedcardboard.com I'm Jason. Boardgamer, history enthusiast, writer!
🏴+🇩🇪=🇨🇦
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby 
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social This is our most moderately priced receptacle.
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Amanda Fischer @amandalfischer.bsky.social Current: @bettermarkets.bsky.social
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https://nbsp1618.games
Jim Ray @jimray.net I used to be good at this.
Emily J @emilyinthesea.bsky.social If I'm not in the sea then I wanna be
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
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aleha_84 @aleha84.bsky.social in love with creating cozy pixel animations
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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social Tabletop RPG writer, editor, graphic designer (for hire!). Corpselike academic. Brooklyn, NY. he/him
samsorensen.blot.im
DVC Games 🔜 PAXU @dvcgames.bsky.social games that come alive at dvc.games | queer fem + enby led game design collective & publisher | tabletop, rpg, digital, immersive, intersectional, accessible | account co-run by jono & sometimes ben and jess
Caesar Ink - Doomsong 🔜 Spru Con @caesar-ink.bsky.social Chris + Tamsin Cæsar + Morgan Finley || Game designers || Creators of Doomsong
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Dwiz @knightattheopera.bsky.social He/him
Serious Llama @seriousllama.bsky.social Once Murder Muppet and always @benharris1.bsky.social’s Person, fan of camelids, & etc. DC will always be home, but my heart also belongs to CA, CO, and NM.
False Machine @falsemachine.bsky.social reviews, weird fiction and rpg content
https://linktr.ee/pjamesstuart
Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
kiliandraws@gmail.com
www.tkillustration.com
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
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
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Chris @cfarrell317.bsky.social Boardgame blogger and writer since 1991, classical clarinetist, and software developer.
David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social Artist/painter in Canada
he/him
Commissions welcome
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Splotter Con @splottercon.bsky.social Splotter Con 2026 will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA between September 4-7, 2026. www.splottercon.com
Kimber VanRy @brooklynwargaming.bsky.social Friend, Dad, Backpacker, Historian, Sales Leader, Game Player, Miniatures Painter, President Metropolitan Wargamers in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Paul Watson @ghostlycola.com Games industry cryptid. Warrior jar.
✨ Indie game marketing & creative director at @giya.bsky.social
✨ Art & design bits for Quinns Quest
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Deranged BUM. Legionnaire of the AntiChrist. Does it yank or does it stank?
Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
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.
Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
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Paul ✍🏻 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.🏳️🌈🍉I don't regularly check notifs, email in Linktree!
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
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