Ben Allen @benal.itch.io game maker.
technical designer at Uplift Games
he/him
Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social nothing is always an erasure. the layers are a monolith. every default bleeds.
Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com Backward-looking, forward-thinking.
www.metanetsoftware.com
N, N+, N++ and announcing, N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO!
We are @maresheppard.bsky.social and @raiganburns.bsky.social
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social 👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨
Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com
https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social my hearts as full as a baked potatah
i post sci-fi/fantasy/retro/weird art and images mostly
cashapp: $thatsgoodweb if you wanna help me pay bills
🚨this is a no AI zone🚨
holly heckmaybe @heckmaybe.bsky.social streamer/drawer/maker of stuff and things also as well
18+ no babies
twitch.tv/heckmaybe
Toby Alden @brlka.com game dev & DJ
they/them
LOVE ETERNAL OUT NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3010610/LOVE_ETERNAL/
📝 blog: brlka.com
🎲 games: brlka.itch.io
🎹 music: brlka.bandcamp.com
💿 mixes: mixcloud.com/brlka
Bluquark @bluquark.bsky.social Programmer, and translator of SF and philosophy. Français/日本語 OK. Blog: http://bluquark.net/
Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com The worlds largest online #GameJam, established in 2002. Join us every April & October. #LDJam
Playdate @play.date A brand new handheld video game system from Panic.
➡️ Available at https://play.date
💬 Need help? Go to https://help.play.date
danbo @danboland.net video game programmer, lua and love2d. blue revolver (+double action). scrandle.
https://danboland.net
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
gate @gate.itch.io i make games and music and other things!
buy my game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/
https://gate.itch.io/
Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com Indie games since 2014 (Sektori / Day Repeat Day / Barbearian / Drift'n'Drive / etc.), and 13 years at Housemarque before that (Resogun / Outland / Dead Nation / etc.)
https://www.gimblll.com/
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social 
sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social gamewitch @ sylvie.website 🐈
sylvieish half of love ❤ game @ https://love-game.net
Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social Watch your noggins, everyone.
Further Reading @furtherreading.bsky.social I do youtube things and twitch things.
www.twitch.tv/furtherreading
www.YouTube.com/@furtherreadingtv
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social We Make Crowdfunded Video Game Documentaries. Watch our docs at http://YouTube.com/noclipvideo. We also do underground games coverage at https://www.youtube.com/@Noclip2.
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Asterism Books @asterismbooks.bsky.social Trade distributor and online bookstore representing more than 160 independent literary publishers from around the world!
Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Sublunary Editions @sublunary.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Seattle, WA, devoted to small books of unmissable writing.
༺ 𐂂 ༻ @touch.bsky.social all furcoat no knickers | densely-connected subgraph node
System Erasure @system-erasure.bsky.social Devs behind Zeroranger & Void Stranger
https://se-made.com/
Dan Adelman @dan-adelman.bsky.social Ex-Xbox, ex-Nintendo. Now @Animal_Well, @AxiomVerge, @Chasmgame, @Mystralia, #SaviorGame
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
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
RAMONA SLICK 🍒 @ramonaslick.bsky.social Red hot femme fantasy ❤️🔥 Draglesque artist ❤️🔥 Chicago’s cult classic
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Coincidence @coincidence.games Coincidence is a cooperative game studio created by ex-Zachtronics developers. Zach Barth is no longer teaching high school and is making games again.
Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social I am kin to all life, living a walking pace life with donkeys in full public view.
The faster you go the more you miss.
Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social Newsletters on classic video games and sports labor, regular at Baseball Prospectus, ex-Paste, A.V. Club, etc. Editor at FOX Sports. he/him
https://retroxp.beehiiv.com
https://marcnormandin.com
https://www.avclub.com/author/marc-normandin
gil lawson @gil-lawson.bsky.social Computer work. I made ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER. now I’m making goblinAmerica.
https://linktr.ee/gewl
Sorath @sorath.dev sorath.dev
Robin Poe @robinpoedev.bsky.social Game dev. Making a REALLY GOOD Zelda 1-like
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. Making an isometric shooter called B.U.G.B.I.T.E
http://szymanski.games
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social Indie gamedev who made Axiom Verge. Special needs dad. Curious about everything. Likes too much stuff and tries to do it all.
axiomverge.com
axiomverge2.com
thomashapp.com
Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Lead staff writer at SteamHype.com - PC gaming demystified - Veteran games crit, news & curation. Hyped for games of all shapes & sizes. Formerly RPS, PC Gamer & PCGamesN. He/Him
Find my other work, Steam Curator page & emails at dominictarason.com
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com Caves of Qud is a science fantasy RPG & roguelike epic, built on deep simulation, set in an intricately etched, far-future world.
🚀 2025 Hugo Award for Best Game
🖥️ PC Gamer Top 100 games of 2019, 2020, and 2024.
🍄 by Freehold Games & Kitfox Games 🍄
Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com 🔸 Making intriguing worlds with heart
🔸 Streets of Fortuna, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Thousand Hells
🔸 Join: http://discord.gg/kitfoxgames
Mikjaer @mikjaer.com YouTuber, Security consultant, musician, comedian, data archeologist, open source, hacker and digital freedom fighter.
🌈 Polyamorous
Tweets in DA and EN.
https://youtube.com/retrocomputingwithmike
Hard Drive @hard-drive.net We are Hard Drive. Bum ba dum bum bum bum bum
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Matt Cipolla @cipollamatt.bsky.social Was a film critic for seven-ish years (Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Spool, Ebert Voices, The Film Stage, so on). Now I guess I’m just critical. Tail-end millennial trash. Music, motorcycles, etc.
#MeToo
Mostly on Instagram @Cipolla.Matt
cipollam926@gmail
CRIT @handle.invalid independent writing class in brooklyn
shitposts and "advice" by @tonytula.com
crit.works
Friendly Gayborhood Daddyman @biddlebrian.bsky.social Just Me, Hubs & Our Fuzzy Boy Wally living life in Chicago.
He|Him
Movie Lover
All Things Horror
Kitchen Fan
Letterboxd 🟠🟢🔵: https://boxd.it/DiKv
matt @mgis.bsky.social Local Oaf
Tim Rogers minus context @108minuscontext.bsky.social Tim Rogers quotes, out of context. 
Emmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson 🌿 she/her
Gerhard Richter (Lake, 1997) #sober
don't post the monster's image
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
pc2000s @pc2000s.bsky.social He/him. Captures of games from 1995 - 2006ish. Posts about whatever.
All clips posted captured by me unless credited otherwise.
youtube https://youtube.com/@pc2000s
aesthetics discord http://discord.gg/Ycs9XA5NeH
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/pc2000s
DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social NOT JORDAN, IM STEVE
HE/HIM
CHICAGO
CATHODE RAYS FOR DAYS
Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog a man who unfortunately enjoys video games
Better Read than Dead Podcast @betterreadpod.bsky.social Three jerky socialists talk about books you’ve probably heard of. With @tuslersaurus.bsky.social, @tjschweiger.bsky.social, and Katie Krywokulski
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/better-read7
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Megan Tusler @tuslersaurus.bsky.social Osage/Kiyaksa Oglala. Contingent academic. Just a regular momrade with a dream of a better world.
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
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social MANDY▫️GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES▫️motorcycle & bicycle wrench
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
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
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; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Dan White @atdanwhite.bsky.social Blue Sky litter.
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
Cameron Bradford @cameronbradford.bsky.social 
A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social Writer/editor. Past lives: The A.V. Club, Chron, Time Out Chicago. He/him/his. https://letterboxd.com/AADowd/
https://authory.com/AADowd
April Clark @autogynefiles.bsky.social Beautiful TS princess Age 18 🏳️⚧️💗
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste.bsky.social Guy who reads (and is finally writing) | Co-host, VOLLMANNIA | Words in StatORec
https://linktr.ee/TheRepublicofBadTaste?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=ced578b1-5f5a-4450-afc0-33649232dc12
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Patrick @ronk.bsky.social Would that it were so simple
david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social indiewire film critic. 
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social C18th studies. Academic worker. Instructional professor of English/Humanities. SEIU Local 73 steward. He/him. Cohost, @betterreadpod.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-read-than-dead-literature-from-a-left-perspective/id1472577259
Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/
Gianmarco @heresgianny.bsky.social I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men’s room walls