GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social GMT Games is celebrating 35+ years of creating and publishing a broad line of Wargames, Strategy games, Eurogames, and Family games.
Brickly Games @bricklygames.com https://bricklygames.com
Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social Game designer, writer, teacher in NYC. Co-founder Scryptid Games & Unquiet Games. They/them 🤖 natmesnard.com
Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social
@morgan-mclean.bsky.social @morgan-mclean.bsky.social Just an ordinary Alternative Nerdy British Guy. Whatever that means
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social The game designer behind Star Crossed, For the Queen, Precious Little Animal, POP!, Hero Dog Saves Town, Our Time on Earth, Rat Trash Party, and more. helloalexroberts.carrd.co please send inquiries to helloalexroberts at gmail
Dave Eng @davengdesign.bsky.social An intellectual and creative educator, designer, and researcher focusing on games, theory, and technology. Games @universityxp.bsky.social Teaching @nyu.edu Non-profit work @banditosgaming.bsky.social
https://www.davengdesign.com/
SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk We make spooky and sad games for nice folks
https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/
JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social Zach. They/Them. Scarf-covered creature in a wizard hat. Makes RPGs as @SoulMuppet.co.uk. Thinking about Vampires, Moons, Greeks and Cowboys. Non-Binary Skeleton Creature. B. PP by @oddsbod.bsky.social.
Buy games at https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
rrdgames.com
Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social Podcast production company and network
My First Dungeon, Talk of the Table, Project ECCO, and Bitcherton
Affiliates: Dice Exploder, Tales Yet Told, Dorkspawn, Maia’s Game Room, Mage Hand High Fige
https://linktr.ee/manysidedmedia
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Tabletop SPIRIT Magazine @tsmag.bsky.social www.tabletopspirit.com
A FREE quarterly PDF magazine full of boardgaming goodness, powered by passion! Packed with features, interviews and reviews, we cover boardgames and RPGs!
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
devoted homo 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
That Eppy @epidiah.bsky.social Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell.
Suddenly, also a Clojure developer!
(he/him)
https://unwrittenearths.com
https://dig1000holes.com
💀
ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com Nathan D. Paoletta | he/him | Game designer, independent publisher and graphic artist. I make World Wide Wrestling 💪 Imp of the Perverse 😈 Annalise 🥀 and more good games for interesting people.
he/him | ndpdesign.com | unwrittenearths.com
Garphill Games @garphillgames.bsky.social New Zealand board game publisher known for the North Sea, West Kingdom, and South Tigris trilogies, and Ancient Anthology. Founded by Shem Phillips in 2009, the team includes Sam Macdonald, Sam Phillips, and Zach Smith.
Simeous Business Game Dev @simeousbusiness.bsky.social Developer of videogames and tabletop games.
Follow Gibbon Take:
https://gibbontake.simeousbusiness.com
Get Fortune and Famine now on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1836980/Fortune__Famine/
JK @miniver.bsky.social user experience strategist ✦ hermeticist ✦ flâneur ✦ recovering natural philosopher ✦ nerdy & geeky ✦ he/they
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games the night is for everyone
We endeavor to create beautiful, memorable tabletop games with a focus on goals and outcomes that match the complexity and curiosity of real life.
https://lunarpunk.games
https://discord.gg/RUKkAUEQ6g
Earthborne Games @earthbornegames.bsky.social Refreshing worlds. Transformative stories. Groundbreaking production.
Creators of #EarthborneRangers and #HubworldAidalon
Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social Podcaster and writer. I focus mostly on tabletop RPGs, and obscure electronic music. Host of Role Playing Public Radio, Ludonarrative Dissidents, and Night Clerk Radio.
(he/him) - linktree http://linktr.ee/rosspayton
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
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Sam D @diceexploder.com TTRPG designer, podcaster, screenwriter. Be your own algorithm.
https://www.diceexploder.com/
https://sdunnewold.itch.io/
🍉 @rmbananas.bsky.social 🇵🇭 Tagalog illustrator, writer and game designer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa New Zealand.
💀 developing #bonesofbatala
🌻 closed for commissions
📧 rmbananas@gmail.com
Dave does RPG Stuff 🔜 Edinburgh Fringe @uncannydice.bsky.social Goblin, game designer, performer of various things.
Currently working on a process for adapting esoterica, folklore, and similar sources into games.
Will probably forget I am on here for long periods of time.
[they/them]
lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social D. Vincent Baker, longtime indie ttrpg creator. Co-creator of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, and many more. Disarm, defund, abolish. He/him. https://lumpley.games
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Sticky Doodler @ vacation @stickydoodler.bsky.social I make games that spark imagination and empathy. I also promote tabletop game designers based in the DMV ♦️🎲 (DC-MD-VA).
爸爸 to Big Sticky and Li'l Doodler. He/他/any.
https://stickydoodler.itch.io/
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
@jennifer-mary.bsky.social @jennifer-mary.bsky.social
Off the Page Games @offthepagegames.bsky.social Publisher of high quality games based off of indie comics. Contact us at jay@offthepagegames.com. Visit us at https://offthepagegames.com/
Tom Lehmann @tomlehmann.bsky.social Freelance board, dice, and card game designer.
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Akashinai @akashinai.bsky.social Boardgame designer. Comics, Cinema and videogames lover.
Antoine Bauza @toinito.bsky.social 🎲I design boardgames (7 Wonders 🏛 Hanabi🎉Tokaido🗾Takenoko🐼Ghost Stories👻...) & publish some occasionally (@playpunk.bsky.social)✒️Sometime, I write stuff ⚔️Ttrpg enthusiast🥎Need to play padel more often… Also :🎮☕️🥋🌈🐱🐱
Matty the Bush Kangaroo @mt-90210.bsky.social Tabletop game designer. Trilingual in English, Golang and C. 20th place MSXdev22
Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social Official account of the Tabletop Game Designers Association. More information at ttgda.org
Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social He/him. Makes tabletop games http://ehronlime.itch.io. Shouts about tabletop playtesting (Playtest Zero!) every other week. World's 2nd foremost expert in being Aaron Lim.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Steve Barr @barrsteve.bsky.social Writer / producer / procrasturbator
https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2003750
jbuergel @fiverandomsongs.com Board game designer (Fox in the Forest, Hocus, Foresight) and terrible music blogger (fiverandomsongs.com). (He/him)
jay Dragon is sleepy @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
@pauldarvasi.bsky.social @pauldarvasi.bsky.social Gold Bug Interactive * CEO | Serious Play Conference * Executive Director | University of Toronto * Lecturer | Leveraging the power of play and games for a better world 🌎 👾
Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing you the best of small press tabletop roleplaying and storytelling games since 2004.
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
Scary Biscuits Studios @sbstudios.bsky.social Theoretical purveyors of fine rules, scenarios, and vessel information, fit for your American Civil War, Victorian, or Great War tabletop naval crisis.
Mike Haught @mikehaught.bsky.social Dad. Airplane enthusiast. Historian. CCG collector. Game designer & producer. Civil War-era steamboat nerd.
Sergio Cornaga @corneaga.bsky.social Current operator of STAFFcirc/IiIypad records. Librarian. I also make games and comics (rarely)!
Fox Tale Games @foxtalegames.bsky.social Board game design studio based in Australia -- Thematic stories told through games! www.foxtalegames.com
John du Bois (He/Him) @johndubois.bsky.social Brain injured game designer who pays bills as an SLP.
Avatar of Cheese Masculinity.
Board games, sewing, LEGO, books.
This Machine Helps People Use Their Voice.
I'd like a hard boiled egg.
https://sites.google.com/view/johndubois/home?authuser=0
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT @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
David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social Mental health awareness advocate. Down syndrome advocate. Game designer.
Looking Glass - Kirsten @lookingglassws.bsky.social she/her
Board game designer and publisher including Ovation.
Wife, mum, grandma, ally and friend.
BoardgamingParent @boardgamingparent.bsky.social Parent who writes reviews and articles to help families reclaim quality time together through boardgames. Linktree https://linktr.ee/boardgamingparent
Kenny Roy @kennyroy.bsky.social Creator of Echelon:
Pure growth on Twitch for Streamers, Games & BRANDS
https://echelon.novembergames.com
#Twitch Partner
"I, Hope" Dev - http://bit.ly/IHopeMS
Steven Dashiell PhD @dashiellsteven.bsky.social Research Asst Prof at Morgan State University - social scientist who studies discourse, masculinity, and disparities, specifically in male-dominated subcultures (like game communities and social media). Army veteran. UMBC grad.
Steven Tu @tuism.bsky.social VR, game dev, illustrator. Sticker collector. Makegamessa. Burner. Karaokeist. Seamstress. Animal magnet. He/him. With 24bitgames🕹️ linktr.ee/tuism
Mahoney @mahoneyy.bsky.social Film-Raccoon | 22 | He/Him
Isaac Shalev @isaacshalev.bsky.social I design boardgames and write about game design. Also here for cooking, the NYJ, comedy, and being neurodivergent.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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
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
Graeme Edgeler @graemeedgeler.bsky.social Annoyingly fair
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Dylan Richardson @dibby.bsky.social 🦕 senior game designer @ dinopoloclub
🌈 disney nerd | lego lover | child at heart
🚂 he/him in welly, aotearoa new zealand
Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social A handful of humans creating games with relatable simplicity.
We make Mini Metro, Mini Motorways, and 🕵️ secret other stuff
Proudly based in Aotearoa/New Zealand!
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.
Chevee Dodd @cheveedodd.bsky.social Gamer. Maker. Bassist. Dad.
I do stuff for Portal Games
Check out my daily YouTube show: http://bit.ly/thedailyshed
Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com Board game design and tips for board game makers. cardboardedison.com
Bruno Faidutti @faidutti.com Boardgame designer, historian
bobby aherne @sirbobby.bsky.social 🎶 Sir Bobby Jukebox / No Monster Club
📻 Nero's Class
📖 D'You Remember Yer Man / The Story of Tayto
www.bobbyswebsite.com
Andy Phelps @andymphelps.bsky.social Professor at @GT_LMC, President at @theHEVGA. Personal acct.
Andrew Trevillian @tresvillain.bsky.social Making cool things for beautiful people like you at Robot Circus (A Keywords Studio). Woodworker. Cat Dad. He/him. andytrevillian@gmail.com
Andrew Parks @nickelcityreview.bsky.social Pastor. Logistics guy. Big fan of loving your neighbor. Bills Mafia. Woodworker. 3D printing enthusiast. Aspiring fit person.
Pro-Democracy, anti-MAGA
#BillsMafia #StarTrek #MMPR
Amber Cook @100gamesproject.bsky.social murderbot | brand marketer | mother of 🦖 | sailor ⛵️| she/her
Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games Publishing beautiful history board games.
Pax Pamir ✧ John Company ✧ Molly House
linktr.ee/wehrlegig
UniversalHead @eogamers.bsky.social The Esoteric Order of Gamers - the best rules summaries and videos for people who love immersive, thematic tabletop games.- T @timmakesgames.bsky.social @timmakesgames.bsky.social
Thomas - HANZ @historyaotearoa.bsky.social Host of the award winning podcast, The History of Aotearoa New Zealand! Join us for a fun and interesting adventure into the Land of the Long White Cloud!
historyaotearoa.com
Sandy Pug Games Forever @sandypuggames.bsky.social Solve the world, one game at a time.
Nem (She/Her)
Scott Berkun @berkun.bsky.social Author and speaker. Books include: How Design Makes The World, The Myths of Innovation, Making Things Happen & The Year Without Pants.
Seattle, WA
scottberkun.com/about/
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/
Rob Davies @robsmast.bsky.social Sustainable. Just. Vibrant. The first is guaranteed… the others require intent.
Age: 106 ppm
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
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
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
Jonathan Chaffer @unclejonbob.bsky.social Board game and puzzle designer. Probably watching Taskmaster right now.
He/him
Kenney @kenney.nl ✨ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social phd @ uoa: phenomenology and videogames
maxwcoombes.neocities.org
https://rateyourmusic.com/~nostalghia
https://letterboxd.com/sisterlisa666/
Mark @maetl.bsky.social Lecturer in Product Design at UCNZ. Narrative systems, graph computing and geoscience research. Tech industry dropout. Old school web sectary. Frankenbike curator. Waste stream wrangler.