James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Balatro @playbalatro.com Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder.
Mobile: http://playbalatro.com/mobile
Steam, PS, Switch & Xbox:
http://linktr.ee/balatrogame
🇨🇦
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
MsDemeaner @mrchrisb.bsky.social Triple A - Autistic, Awkward, Awesome
Video Games, Horror Movies, Motorcycles.
Neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, Lefty. Vile Troll
River Kenna @riverkenna.com All I want is a simple life of love & valor •
& to be a renowned scholar-poet of mythodynamics •
Who is wealthy •
& jacked •
Like a hot Jung •
http://RiverKenna.com
rob hardy @ungated.life writer of manifestos, petter of cats.
Anna Gát @annagat.bsky.social Girl with books. I lead Interintellect.
Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Kit Cascadia ✨🌱💿 @kitcascadia.bsky.social its ya gxrl. 🕯️cyberwitch 🗺️ artist ⚔️ sword appreciator 🕸️ creator of the first performance artwork native to the at protocol
Amit Gupta @amit.bsky.social Writer making writerly AI tools at Sudowrite.com
Previously started Photojojo, Jelly, and other stuff.
amitgupta.com 🤙
Dylan Field @zoink.bsky.social CEO at Figma
Will @williamfrances.bsky.social I just want to embody agenda-less benevolence with my friends. ME/CFS (from COVID). DMs welcome.
https://linktr.ee/inventivewellness
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social developmental psychologist | complexity science | poetry | tech4mental health | Director, Games for Emotional & Mental Health: https://gemhlab.com/ | @McMasterU |
Co-founder, Liminal Learning https://liminal-learning.com/
https://linktr.ee/isabela_granic
Nastasia @gryphire.bsky.social researcher | creative | excitement is my motivator | www.nastasiagriffioen.com
Oscar Godson Ⓥ @godson.org I don't talk about work on here. I'm here for the skeets.
Vegan btw
Follow my wife who skeets @ciarra.bsky.social
I'm hella based (in PDX)
̰̠̝̲͔̻̣̯͈̤͙͓͉̬͍̏̈́͛͑ͫ ͎̲̗̼͔̱̎̅͛̂͐̇̅̎ͣ̒ͧͥ̽͌̿ͮͤ̿ͩͅ
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Bay Area Times @bayareatimes.bsky.social 🗞️ The visual daily newsletter on business and tech.
📈 Analyzing the news with 1 visual per story.
Join our 60,000+ subscribers here.👇
Kevin VanOrd 🏳️🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Game designer and writer: Divinity, Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2 | Your gay dad: partnered to Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social | Doing my best
Steam / PlayStation / Xbox Live: fiddlecub
Signal: fiddlecub.85
Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social He/Him
1/2 of Patattie Games (art/design/writing)
Made Wax Heads (out now on Steam / Switch / PS5 / Xbox)
Now working on: 👀👀👀👀
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/?beta=1
Father of Twins
https://murraysomerwolff.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
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
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.
Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
Creature Cheeseman @psychicteeth.bsky.social upholsterer / sourdough / handyman / cough gamedev cough
butlerian jihad in bio
some games:
psychicteeth.itch.io
https://store.steampowered.com/app/221180/Eufloria_HD/
Elbi @elbi.bsky.social "Michael" · game dev since '12 · June's Journey, SelfCare, Ghost Detective, others · freelance design/code · 💜 purple, boardgames, cats · @derElbi elsewhere
he/him or they/them
Berlin 🇩🇪 & Vienna 🇦🇹
EoinBT @eoinbt.bsky.social he/him
https://boxd.it/8pRZf
Reader, Writer, Games Coordinator at Ardán.
Published in Púca Magazine, Elegant Literature and The Ogham Stone.
Repped at Kate Nash Literary Agency.
JD Hassel (He/Him) @jandavidhassel.bsky.social Private account, mostly Warhammer;
Senior Game Designer for EA DICE;
Worked on games you know and on games precious few played.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jandavidhassel
Demian Linn @demian-linn.bsky.social Game writer LFJ. Formerly Ubisoft and XDefiant (rip), South Park: TFBW, ex-EGM/1UP/Bitmob.
Jessica @deliahwilson.bsky.social 50% 🦘 🇦🇺50% American 🦅🇺🇲 spreading the gospel of Tim Tam's one biscuit at a time | Unofficial 90 Day Fiance influencer | purpose, chef
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
Axel حسن Taiari @shevek.bsky.social Writer.
ZERO PARADES. Neurocracy. weird fiction. narrative design. game studies. (He/they)
Wavioli @wavioli.bsky.social Better living through silliness.
📍 Dublin
I make XR things
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. Resident Bisexual. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social Phd in Procedural Content Generation in games. Ex game engine developer. Level design mad scientist.🤘🏳️⚧️🇫🇷
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
ruby0x1 @ruby0x1.ca narrative designer / tech witch / game designer / writer / art / audio •👩💻Mossfield Origins/Archives • co-founder https://anypercent.studio • creator https://createwith.luxe • http://wren.io • mov ax,13h • she/her 💾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Michael G. Rose @michael-g-rose.bsky.social Pianist, composer / musical sound design for games and film.
Often seen with fiddlers, singers, and game devs.
Music at michaelgrose.net
lizzywanders @lizzywanders.bsky.social Illustrator & character designer
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
˖⋆ lizzywanders.dunked.com ⋆˖
♡ fungi ⚘ lichen ⚘ moss ♡
⟢ All photos are mine ⟣
zoewi @zoewi.bsky.social Zo-ii | Playful Arts & Playful Culture
✨Playful Arts Curation
🦩Program Curator A MAZE. / Berlin
🦄Curator Sickhouse / The Overkill
🫶Co-founder Playful Arts Festival
https://zo-ii.com
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
Sílvia Fornós @fornoss.bsky.social Just like Super Bandage Girl without the "Super"
Lilith Isa (Soup) @lilithisa.bsky.social Play my games! http://lilithisa.itch.io
Game Sound & Interactive Sound | Lecturer Media Design | Previously working on unionisation in games 🌱🌴
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social Actor/Comic/Writer/Hot Dad
Tendency to show up for stuff. Put me in your thing.
Doctor Who:
http://bit.ly/3XeATtL
Rep:
@bccreativelondon.bsky.social
Spotlight:
https://app.spotlight.com/9111-5610-9256
Daniel Nye Griffiths @d-nye-griffiths.bsky.social Technology, media, communications. Ex-journalist. Opinions are mine and not representative of my employer. He/him.
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
saoirse @naceallabug.bsky.social leath phríobháideach. semi private. me at my crankiest. off the cuff comments from me here really do not represent my genuine thoughts and feelings.
Haley 🖤 @absintheuse.bsky.social Head of Marketing @ CRITICAL REFLEX | prev Sonic Rumble @ Rovio, Fall Guys @ Epic\Mediatonic ⭐️ BAFTA member ⭐️ MCV WIG Comms Impact 2020 ⭐️ #30under30 2018 ⭐️ Game Dev Heroes 2018. Often dressed as an evil queen 👑 My own views. She/her
Katrin-Anna Zibuschka (she/they) @colorfulkati.bsky.social lead programmer @gutefabrik.bsky.social
parent of two littles
always up for a chat about board games and food
Die Gute Fabrik @gutefabrik.bsky.social An award-winning 🇩🇰 indie game studio, we made ⛵ Saltsea Chronicles, ☄️ Mutazione, 🤼♀️ Sportsfriends, & more. Handcrafted games made by human beings. linktr.ee/gutefabrik
Oskar Stålberg @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Game dev. Made Bad North and Townscaper. 
max turnbull @max.please.rest game developer working on young suns @ko-op.com
i like capybaras and sports and public transit
portfolio @ cara.app/oats
Pat The Head | I'm Pat @pat-the-head.itch.io I'm a video game developer making mindful mobile games in Cozy Game Studio and also horror TTRPG adventures as Pat The Head. Those two things are not related 😁
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Roxanne van Dam @ravendam.bsky.social Game Programmer @autoscopia.bsky.social, currently working on As Long As You're Here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3309750/As_Long_As_Youre_Here/
Previously worked on Saltsea Chronicles @gutefabrik.bsky.social
they/them
SUBOTRON @subotron.bsky.social platform for digital game culture in vienna est. 2004. interdisciplinary conductor & connector.
https://subotron.com/
david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social founder and studio creative director at The Outsiders. New Yorker. Made some games, wrote some games. Battlefield Bad Company 1/2, BF3, Killzone 2, Mirror’s Edge, Payday 2, Metal Hellsinger, others. Making (redacted) : a new game.
EveleenMc @eveleenm.bsky.social Interested in the environment, botany, history, architecture, opera, classical music, the EU, and lots more. Please don't follow me if you're already following thousands! 
Pascal Wagner @indieflock.bsky.social Gaming Linguist, Games Industry Journalist | makes @gamesmarket.global | pascal.wagner@gamesmarket.global | Signal: pascalw.47
GER/ENG, er/he/him
#GameStudies: languageatplay.de
Bylines: IGN Germany, GAIN, Unwinnable, Superlevel, bpb, Polyneux & more
@berzerkraccoon.bsky.social @berzerkraccoon.bsky.social Game dev, immigrant, mostly harmless
If I follow you, we probably know each other from that dead social space. 
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
McKinley Valentine @mckinleaf.bsky.social Writer/Researcher 🔶 ABC's Hard Quiz 🔶 The Whippet, a newsletter of science, history, language & weirdness: https://thewhippet.org 🔶 she/her
Pàdraig @terracorrupt.bsky.social Pronounced paw-drig (he/him)
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Anna Megill @annamegill.com Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
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.
M Charity @mastermilkx.bsky.social Just a they/them programmer | Assistant Professor at University of Richmond
Github: http://github.com/MasterMilkX
Itch: http://mastermilkx.itch.io
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Lars Bindslev @larsss.com Art Director at Game Swing
🎮 Currently working on the online co-op doomsday shooter GUNTOUCHABLES!
🕹️ Previously Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure, SpotRacers & OddBallers
🏠 http://larsss.com
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com Gamedev from Ireland. Made Guild of Dungeoneering, Cardpocalypse, and Eyes of Hellfire
Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
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
zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social a real good person in a real bad place
http://zaratustra.itch.io
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
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
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
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
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
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
AoifeG @aoifeglee.bsky.social I make video games & I’m tired of the internet | Narrative Designer @ INTERIOR/NIGHT | She/Her | Irish | 🇵🇸
Drathe @drathe.bsky.social Slav squatter
Adult, she/they, pl/en
Talks about #CallofCthulhu #dnd #ttrpg
commission info - https://drathe.carrd.co/
Jan Christian Heigl @confusus.bsky.social 🇳🇴/🇩🇪 Working as Lead Development Tester on Anno 117 Pax Romana at Ubisoft Mainz (he/him)
Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org Posting galaxies classified by the public on Galaxy Zoo, @galaxyzoo.org
Created and maintained by @davidoryan.bsky.social with backup support from @vrooje.net and @emily.space
Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social @godotengine.org project maintainer & @w4games.com co-founder (he/him).
Free and #opensource software advocate. #indiedev and #Linux gaming. Frenchman in Copenhagen.
Also on: @akien@mastodon.gamedev.place.
Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social Made Mythmatch, an anti-capitalist merge game. Previously worked on Knights and Bikes, LittleBigPlanet, and Ratchet & Clank.
Mythmatch on Steam: s.team/a/1778050
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
Mads Johansen @pyjamads.bsky.social Copenhagen based, previously co-founder of indie studio gltichnap, PhD in Game Design and AI, Working on AI Engine @ modl.ai
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
General Partner @mana.inc
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