Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social Official account of the Tabletop Game Designers Association. More information at ttgda.org
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social New ideas daily.
https://linktr.ee/soreniverson
Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
LycanthrEppy @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
💀
Usual June @usualjune.bsky.social Fight monsters, talk to ghosts, and get to the bottom of a mystery threatening to obliterate an entire city in this action-adventure game by @finjico.bsky.social
👻 OUT OCTOBER 28, 2026!
Wishlist ➡️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2702430/Usual_June/
Finji @finjico.bsky.social Collaborative game studio by Rebekah and Adam Saltsman. 👑 We publish a bunch of cool video games. We make some ourselves too! linktree.finji.co
We're working on @usualjune.bsky.social right now! 👻 Out October 28th!
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social Now shamelessly employed but more a Child Safety guy than a lawyer these days.No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
beth @bethsobel.bsky.social sometimes I draw stuff
anti fascism, protect trans lives, pro vaccine, pro choice, pro expanded gun control, pro universal healthcare, and I have never and will never use Gen AI on purpose.
she/her
Erica @ericabouyouris.bsky.social Basement Dweller, Geek, Game Designer (Design Lead) at Spin Master Games, Co-host of the Ludology Podcast. I ❤️ board games and video games.
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
Danielle Reynolds 🏳️🌈 🔜 UNPUB Festival & GAMA Expo @tokengaymer.bsky.social Posts about tabletop game design, development and the hobby as a whole! Lesbian Game Designer | Host of Game Design Unboxed Podcast | Director @TabletopGaymers
Fertessa @fertessa.bsky.social (She/Her) Board Game Designer, Dog-lover, Trekkie.
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Kimberly she/her @kjrevia.bsky.social I co-found/ run board game conventions in New England.
Butthusiast who burns wood for fun.
I read a LOT.
Yes, I do want to see photos of your pet.
100% here so I can say I'm skeeting.
Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social Boardgame enthusiast, podcaster, books: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Universe Explained with a Cookie games: Versailles 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He/him
https://open.substack.com/pub/gametek
Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries @dnlnwmn.bsky.social I design and publish games (my own and others) via New Mill Industries (http://www.newmillindustries.com)
I've been going to the movies like it's my job (https://letterboxd.com/dnlnwmn/films/diary/)
PFP by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Amanda Panda 🔜 BGG Con, PaxU @panda8ngel.bsky.social Geeky Panda Lover, crafter, reader, watch TV/Movies, papercrafter, tabletop games, Pandominion :) She/Her 🌈BLM "Push up Sports Bra for the Board Game Twitch community" per Alonechark LOL https://lnk.bio/Panda8ngel
Mando @mando.org
Catherine Stippell @catstip.bsky.social Super awkward board game designer. Nyctophobia! It’s All Connected? Back to the Present? I like hats. Earthbender. (playnyctophobia on Twitter)
(she/her)
Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social I learn. I create. I teach. He/Him.
Game Designer / Developer / Writer
https://linktr.ee/senfoonglim
Co-host of the Meeple Syrup Show and the Ludology Podcast
Connie @connievdc.bsky.social Board game designer & designer of Apiary & Wyrmspan. General nerd. Partner of @hexstardragon.bsky.social. Panders to cats. She/Her. Avatar from: https://paavilaisentaide.carrd.co/
Patrick Leder @patrickleder.bsky.social Owner and President of Leder Games. Spouse and father of 2 adorable humans. He/Him
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Randy Flynn @rf-seattle.bsky.social Board Game Designer: Cascadia + Landmarks & Rolling & Alpine Lakes & Junior, Tabriz, Frenzy Falls, Malarkey!, Quiver & Quake, Wicked, and Mykonos.
he/him
🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social tabletop games + app games + pie + AsAm Adoptee + She/Her = ruining games one skeet at a time. as seen on History's The Toys That Built America. hates puns - but in a fun way. @saltandsass.bsky.social. i keep 3 things: secrets, promises, and grudges.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
Pratyush Nalam @pratyushnalam.com Creating intuitive experiences for people
www.pratyushnalam.com
Justin Bird @playgamesspreadjoy.weirdgiraffegames.com Weird Giraffe Games general manager
Design Engineer in the DMV
Play Games, Spread Joy
He/him
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Hunter Johnson @hejhog7.bsky.social Herald of silly things
Board game designer
Ice cream appreciator extraordinaire
Lover of little guys and knickknacks
Team Horse in all movies
Unpub board of directors
(he/him)
Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social I make tabletop games that encourage creativity, evoke empathy, and celebrate humanity. I also promote vibrant game communities.
He/他/any.
Check out Color Jam on Kickstarter!
🖍️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarpunkgames/colorjam
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
Ben Acker @saddletrousers.bsky.social Birds r great n so r u.
Josh Goldberg @joshuakgoldberg.com Frontend @ Sentry
👪 SquiggleConf
✍ Learning TypeScript (O'Reilly)
🌟 Microsoft MVP
https://joshuakgoldberg.com
Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social Cofounder at Freeman & Forrest, author, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Ex-Google. Here to help.
Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy I make tv for developers at @codetv.dev
jason.energy/links
he/him
Joshua Brindle (he/him) @brindle.bsky.social Infosec, SELinux guy, now cloud security
Black Lives Matter
Trans Rights are Human Rights
I speak for no one at all.
Tavisto @bsky.tavisto.net Interested in all things Kubernetes, Overlanding and combining the two!
Jess 🔜 PAXU 🔜 UnPub @jschoon.bsky.social
Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chocoholic. Baseball. Cats. Technology. Not always in that order.
She/her. Let's be kind to one another.
Gaze upon my LinkedIn profile and admire: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherschindler/
Josh Finnie @joshfinnie.dev https://links.jfin.us
🏠 Charlotte, NC
☀️ Software Engineer @ PDL
🌙 Building PicSkyApp.com
Lover of data, cycling, fountain pens, writing, and photograph
Ben Torell @bentorell.com Tabletop enthusiast and general giga-nerd. Also known as "dodgepong" around the internets.
TTRPG blog: https://gordianblade.com/
Itch Store: https://gordianblade.itch.io/
Grue @bengrue.bsky.social Just a man, not a brand
Dungeons of Dredmor @dredmor.com A Traditional Roguelike for you to enjoy!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/98800/Dungeons_of_Dredmor/
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Producer, Strange Scaffold. Founder, F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@causewaystudios.com / mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
potch @potch.me web safe 🦒 it’s not a good idea, it’s just what’s happening
games, websites, things of that nature
connect with me OnLine https://potch.me/
makin games as @twentyminutemile.bsky.social
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Stephen Belanger @stephenbelanger.com ✨ Node.js core contributor
🤝 Node.js diagnostics working group founder
🛠️ V8 contributor
📄 Compiler and language design nerd
❤️ Powered by kindness
👨🏻💻 Principal Software Engineer at Platformatic
🇨🇦 Living in Vancouver/Manila/Valencia
Jed Watson @jedwatson.bsky.social Co-founder of Thinkmill in Sydney. Long term front-end nerd and open source enthusiast.
Currently building content management for your codebase (Keystatic)
James Steinbach @jdsteinbach.com Sr Front-End Engineer at Delinea (@strongdm.com). Formerly @slack.engineering & @auth0byokta.bsky.social. Speaker & writer. Pretty good at CSS/Sass, web animation, RWD, Vue, React. Married to @audreyjo. PhD.
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
Eric Portney (Lackey) 🔜 PAX East @lackey.bsky.social Board gamer. Aspiring designer. Events Coordinator for Alexandria RPG Library. PAX Enforcer. Everything else is negotiable. (he/him)
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
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
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Crab Fragment/Cheapass Games @crabfragment.bsky.social Tabletop game design studio of James Ernest (designer of Tak, and classic Cheapass Games such as Kill Doctor Lucky and Unexploded Cow).
Website: https://crabfragmentlabs.com/
Feed managed by co-owner Carol Monahan.🦀
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
John Riviello @johnriv.bsky.social Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social 🍐 SU&SD 🍐 / kinda on hiatus
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
Terrible Posture Games @terribleposture.bsky.social An indie studio with a penchant for ideas that are fresh and wacky.
Wishlist Good Boy NOW! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3670740/Good_Boy/
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Andy Nortrup @nortrup.dev Director of Product Management at #Cribl formerly #Tanium, #Splunk, and U.S. Army #veteran. Husband and Father. I make #bonsai in my spare time
Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski Principal data engineer at PayIt in KCMO. Data engineering, platform engineering, devops, bicycles, Lego, DIY, KC. Husband. Pop to 2. He/him. Opinions mine. Don't park in bike lanes.
https://linktr.ee/menzenski
rands @rands.bsky.social Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t tweet about my current gig. https://randsinrepose.com
Val Trullinger @valtrull.bsky.social I lift things. Also make websites and art.
Adam Fields @spoilersinthread.com Chief Engineer for Scaling & Infrastructure http://graphika.com Follow me for posts about tolerance and kindness, pithy and sometimes insightful tech commentary, blistering puns, and a lot of reposts of interesting things I find. https://counter.kitchen
Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social Staff engineer at Figma, driving innovation into new ways to round corners.
I wrote a book on RxJS! https://pragprog.com/titles/rkrxjs/build-reactive-websites-with-rxjs/
Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social Startup engineering leader, Infrastructure engineer-type, psych-noise guitarist & experimental musician. https://www.charnel.com/mason (he/him)
brett g porter @bgporter.net Music Software Developer/Trombonist/Composer
Sr. Software Engineer @ https://paceap.com.
Exec board @ MIDI Manufacturers Association http://midi.org.
he/him.
Brewerytown, Philadelphia, USA
Also @bgporter@hachyderm.io & https://bgporter.net
Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him.
also hachyderm.io/@mendel.
formerly @mendel on twitter.
www.lafferty.ca
Nadyne Richmond @nadyne.bsky.social
Paul Siegel @paulmsiegel.com Indie game dev, 25 yrs in the industry. Building Hexcrawl, a solo hex-crawl RPG that uses AI thoughtfully - real art first. Co-host of Wandering DMs (TTRPG podcast). Old-school D&D, solo play.
John Davison @jwhdavison.bsky.social Publisher, IGN. Longtime games media grey beard
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Alexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social "The adult in the room."™️
Current: Vampirium: 1997 // Director: Siegecaster 🏰☄️ Executive Producer: Disney's TRON: Catalyst / Identity, Amberspire, The Banished Vault, Fights in Tight Spaces, Solitaire Conspiracy, John Wick Hex, Subsurface Circular
Rich Gallup @richgallup.bsky.social Director of Production at Jackbox Games, cheesemonger of Survey Scramble, Pack Lead of The Jackbox Party Pack 11
Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social Character Designer & Illustrator, Jesus-follower, married to Erkshnrt
🎨: Spyro Reignited, Crash Bandicoot 4, Disney Lorcana, My Little Pony G6, Cuphead 2!
www.nicholaskole.art
Joe Mirabello @blankslatejoe.bsky.social Founder, @terribleposture.bsky.social. Creative Director: Battle Train, Tower of Guns, Mothergunship, 3 out of 10, Mothergunship: Forge, Burgle Supply Company, more. social(at)terribleposture.com
Ashwin 🔜 PaxUnplugged ! @boardgameghee.bsky.social Board Game Designer - Community Builder - Architect - Basketball Enthusiast - Dota2 Enjoyer
Dave Chalker @davethegame.bsky.social Game Designer:
🏎️ Thunder Road: Vendetta
🦈 Get Bit!
👑 Talisman: Alliances
🏠 Betrayal at House on the Hill 3e
💎 Thief's Market
👊 Sentinels Comics RPG
🔥 Heat
🎲 and more.
💍@qthecocker.bsky.social
VP of @unpub.org
he/him
Peter McPherson ⏭️ PAX U @peterlmcpherson.bsky.social Board game designer: Tiny Towns, Wormholes, and Fit to Print. Rulebook writer.
He/him - Upstate NY
Upcoming releases:
Lodge
Antiquarians
Mortar & Hustle
petermcpherson.com
Discord playtest server: https://discord.gg/hvSuTk3XJF
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Tuesday Badell @americanoonline.com she/e, thriving in the lou
http://americanoonline.com
emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Freeman & Forrest.
Bestselling author of DevOps for Dummies and international keynote speaker. I’ve led Community, DevRel and Product Marketing at AWS, MSFT, and startups.
I was editingemily on Twitter.
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I make games. I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Unpub @unpub.org Unpub.org
The Unpublished Games Network
Posts by Blüdle, Grüdle, and Mac
Legacy of Play 🔜 PAXU 🔜 UnPub @legacyofplay.bsky.social Elegant games and thoughtful technology.
The Play Valet is available on the App and Play stores.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.