These Games Are Not For Sale @notforsalegames.bsky.social A festival celebrating tabletop games with high artistic merit and no commercial intent
Coming soon to a PAX Unplugged near you
Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social 
JC @jcw.gay Video Producer, Photographer, General Stuff Maker (or, in corporate speak, "creative services freelancer")
Portfolio: https://jcw.gay/portfolio
Host of @HowToTeach.bsky.social
He/Him, Very Gay 🌈
Melissa B-🔜PAX Unplugged @honeybeast.bsky.social Core Board Gamer Stonemaier Ambassador. Malden Board Gaming leader. Nana to 3. Ally. I believe in science and human rights. Indy born, living in Massachusetts. Redsox, Bruins & Colts. Boston - giving tyranny the finger since 1773!
Carol Rapp @carolrapp.bsky.social SPIELen, ich will doch nur spielen.
NGU HANH GAMES @nguhanhgames.bsky.social Plum & Crane | Vietnamese Boardgames Designer Counterspy, Trader of Old City, Restoration, Dream Diary, Delicious Tet.
Heidi Miller Mielke @hydranomicon.bsky.social 🍃Founder of Vala Marketing
🐈⬛Owner of CuddleCore Toys
🧿Never Trump
Grant Mielke @quasigrant.bsky.social I am
🎲 the DM of The Homebrew
🐴 CEO of QuasiReal Publishing, creators of MythCraft TTRPG
🍃 Owner of Vala Marketing
Links at https://linktr.ee/grantm
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social Board game designer (Shinjuku). Seattle(-ish). he/him
RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social A podcast that digs deep into analog role-playing games and their cultures. Coming in Fall 2026!
Part of Ludology podcast group.
Hosted by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @czamboni.bsky.social
Logo by @feralcharlie.bsky.social
Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
Z @dxdydz.northsky.social I make tabletop games. I live in BC.
I post whatever I want to, I’m sorry.
she/her
Tabletop Merchant @tabletopmerchant.bsky.social Retailer of Board Games, Card Games, Miniatures, Family Games and Gaming Accessories! Check out the store at tabletopmerchant.com
Zilla Blitz @zillablitz.bsky.social Content Creator | Tabletop/PC Wargames & Crunchy Euros | YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/ZillaBlitz
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
The Yogscast @yogscast.com Hello and welcome to the Yogscast! Watch us here and here: http://youtube.com/yogscast & http://twitch.tv/yogscast
jesse @tiddypills.bsky.social head writer @tolariancommunitycollege.com
regular writer @ my house
PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social Ancient webcomic dark arts by Nick G, often written with friends
pbfcomics.com/links
Ryan Hartman @ryanhartman.bsky.social Penny Arcade VP.
I run PAX, play D&D, and love Philly sports.
Opinions are my own and they are terrible.
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
millenomi ✾ @millenomi.name She/her. 🏳️⚧️. 🩷💛🩵. Making @witches-revel.games. Also: Deputy Lead Narrative @ Null Signal Games, on Netrunner.
https://sigilgreen.house/ — Business: hello@sigilgreen.house
Aabria Iyengar @aabria.bsky.social she/her | @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social | your story friend on Dimension 20 // Critical Role // The Adventure Zone and more! |
Wayward Nys @waywardnys.bsky.social queer & (board) games & cats || she/her || 30+ || anti-genAI
Streaming board&video games on twitch: https://twitch.tv/waywardnys. VODs on YouTube!
The Misplay @themisplay.com A podcast about making a company making a board game.
themisplay.com
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
W. Eric Martin | Board Game Beat @index.wericmartin.com.ap.brid.gy Board Game Beat post feed.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.wericmartin.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social English Prof. Editor at Analog Game Studies.
Agatha nominee. Writer, gamer, nature nerd. BLM
Author of Cozy, Nerdy Mysteries:
https://tulepublishing.com/series/a-wren-winters-mystery/
https://shellyjonesauthor.com/
Board Game Addict UK @boardgameaddictuk.bsky.social Daniel Fullard - Board Game reviewer, content creator and fanatic from Sunderland, UK
This months sponsor is ‘Trilogy of 2k48’ - a card shedder coming to Kickstarter soon!
NewVenture Games @newventuregames.bsky.social newventuregames.com is a Michigan-based manufacturer of tabletop card / board games, featuring 120+ of the best, time-tested games from the last 5000 years.
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
Joel Eddy @drivethrugames.bsky.social Substack - https://drivethrugames.substack.com/
BGG username - eekamouse
Dire Wolf @direwolfdigital.com Independent developer and publisher of award-winning digital and tabletop games.
🐺 https://discord.gg/direwolfdigital
🐺 http://www.direwolfdigital.com
InkVoltage @inkvoltage.bsky.social We are a design studio specializing in board and role-playing games since 2005. Looking for electrifying visuals for your new project? Let's work together!
Unexpected Games ⚡ Chaosium⚡Fantasy Flight
https://inkvoltage.com
Mollie Russell @spookysyntax.bsky.social Scream Queen at Wargamer. Autistic. South Wales poet and facilitator. Nerd for gaming, horror, music, and literature. She/Her.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com 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 (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Emily Vincent 🔜 BostonFIG @emilykeepskitties.bsky.social Cat loving, circus performing, game designer, game publisher, she/her
Check out Good Kitties and Super Chonk!
https://get.pinkhawkgames.com/
https://www.pinkhawkgames.com/
Johnny Dale @johnnydale.com Executive Director of Leder Games. Saint Paul, MN.
danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social they/them ✶ disabled self-taught ✶ linktr.ee/treelet
Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone Founded Sonderlust, helped design Firewatch, lead designer on Mark of the Ninja, and the only Canadian game developer born & raised in Wyoming.
https://sonderlust.horse/
Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social Writer and game dev. Golden Geek award winner. Fantasy Flight Games. Open Owl Studios. Wild Plum Games. Available for Freelance. He/him.
🅳🅴🅰🅳🅻🆈 🅵🆁🅴🅳🅻🆈 @deadlyfredly.bsky.social President of Evil Hat (I publish Fate, Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, &c). Liberal in politics, reposting, & use of the block button. Be advised, I limit parasociality when I can. Permanently in AMA mode (so ask).
Jeroen Doumen @jeroendoumen.bsky.social 
Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com Game designer (Mothership, Two Rooms and a Boom) at Tuesday Knight Games.
Ben Goldman 💚Moonshine LIVE ON KICKSTARTER💚 @bengoldman.bsky.social https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonshinerpg/moonshine-a-1920s-noir-ttrpg
www.MoonshineRPG.com
Game Designer/Illustrator/Nerd
-Paint the Roses
-Oceans
-Moonshine (TTRPG)
Ryan Spangler @prismofeverything.bsky.social game design / compositional biology / modular synthesis / temple of the universe
owner of Elephant Laboratories
creator of Sol: Last Days of a Star
Luke Williams @luke6080.bsky.social Ohana means family and family means you’ll never take me alive
he/him
Pete @petewiss.bsky.social Midwesterner, teacher, gamer, and designer in St. Louis, MO.
Also a host on the Decision Space podcast!
Tom Lehmann @tomlehmann.bsky.social Freelance board, dice, and card game designer.
Mike @ Planet Smasher Games @planetsmashergames.bsky.social Designer of tabletop games, including Gaslands, Hobgoblin and A Billion Suns.
https://planetsmashergames.com/
https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/
Stringer🙏🏻✨ @stringerplz.bsky.social aka Laura from Work. I work for Penny Arcade on PAX but don't speak for them. She/her ((AND)) he/him. 🐠
Vancouver Playtest Group @vancouverplaytest.bsky.social We are a tabletop playtesting group based in Vancouver, BC. Founded in 2018. Join us on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-playtest/
Arjan van Houwelingen @arjanvanh.bsky.social Tabletop game designer, psychologist, lecturer and more at Hanze Applied University. Founder of the Dutch Game Design Guild (Spellenmaakgilde.nl). Publisher of GRUNN and FRYSK, with collectible free museum expansions. arjanvanhouwelingen.com
Dani Standring @danistandring.bsky.social I like board games and milk 🥛
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Natasha Tara Petrović @ NYCC @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social Illustrator + Comic Artist
🦇 Portfolio: www.1000deaddraculas.com
✉️ Email: 1000deaddraculas@gmail.com
🩸 Webcomic: severandpierce.com
⚰️ Patreon: patreon.com/1000DeadDraculas
🛒 Shop: theyetee.com/1000DD
Caelyn @caelyn.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Huge fan of tiny giant robots. Freelance video and tabletop games journalist/critic, Bylines at Eurogamer, RPS, EDGE, Polygon, Rascal and others. Disabled and fat. Also a furry (ask me about my fursona!) Leftie. She/They.
Georgetown University Wargaming Society @guws.bsky.social The Georgetown University Wargaming Society (GUWS) provides a venue for current and aspiring wargamers to learn more about wargaming and build their professional networks. 🔗 www.guwargaming.org
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.
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
Aura @aurahack.ca artist + gamedev
she/her・💍 @lena.fyi
Vancouver, BC
EN/FR/JP
Art ➡ #myart
Join my Sticker Club!! ➡ https://www.patreon.com/c/aurahack/membership
🎨 ➛ patreon.com/aurahack
👚 ➛ shop.aurahack.ca
📧 ➛ hello (at) aurahack.ca
Board Game Circus @boardgamecircus.bsky.social Board Game Publishing House & International Translation Studio from Germany. Shop: Brettspielkiosk.de — Skeets by Daniel & Johannes. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☮️❤️🌿🎲
Links: https://lnk.bio/boardgamecircus
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/
Hawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social Tabletop design, development, and publishing. Focused on historical and wargames.
https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/
Matt Montgomery @matthew-montgomery.com Writing about board games and soccer. Building atproto-powered apps for fun.
https://www.donteatthemeeples.com
https://www.wasatch.soccer
https://www.mattmontgomery.dev
https://www.dailygame.space
https://www.dailyreads.space
Brother Ming 🔜 ANYC Booth 1951 @brotherminggames.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/brotherminggames
| Board Game Designer and Publisher
| Made Genshin Tarot, Re;ACT & many more
| ACAB - BLM - ABOLISH ICE - FUCK AI ART
Board With Each Other Podcast @boardwitheachother.bsky.social A podcast that looks at Board Games / Tabletop Gaming through the lens of playing as a couple or with a regular gaming partner. We review a game each episode in a deep dive format: Full library of content here: https://linktr.ee/boardwitheachother
Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com Indie video game, music, and board game nerd. AuDHD. Dedicated rulebook hater. Author of Every Board Game Rulebook is Awful.
www.youtube.com/@BoardGameTextbook
boardgametextbook.com/EBGRIA.pdf
City Hare Studio 🔜 Essen SPIEL 2026 @cityhare.studio The official bluesky account for my little tabletop game studio.
Only harebrained games!
Part-time game designer. Mainly specialising in print-and-play games. Publishers get in touch!
Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
https://cityhare.studio
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Blackwell Games - Maker of fine titterpigs @annablackwell.bsky.social Creator of DELVE, Apothecaria, and other popular solo role-playing games. Find my games at https://www.blackwellwriter.com/
Jackie Fox @jackiefox.bsky.social Designer of Rock Hard: 1977 board game. 4-time Jeopardy! champion. Former bassist of The Runaways. Cat owned and operated.
Alice (Roc Nest Games) @rocnestgames.bsky.social Husband and wife boardgame design team 🎲 Inclusive Design champion 💜 Coming soon to Kickstarter: https://chromaarcana.rocnest.uk/
Haiduc Studio @haiduc.co We are a smol female & queer run game studio founded by @marygeorgescu.com that specializes in game design tools, games, and he he ha has.
Join us for a good time!
https://haiduc.itch.io/
Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social Game designer and writer based in Austin and LA. They/she/he.
Brenna Noonan @brennanoonan.bsky.social tabletop game developer, producer & writer (Everdell, Dog Park, Roll Player Adventures, etc). errant composer. horse girl. cool mom.
jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social Writer and game designer, former outdoor educator, multidisciplinary artist, mushroom forager in the wintertime. Winner of Diana Jones Emerging Designer Award and co-winner of Indiecade Best Live Game.
Support my work: patreon.com/jeeyonshim/membership
Steph @settleroftheboards.bsky.social settleroftheboards.com
Board game blogger playing games, writing reviews, and living my best board game life 🥰
Lydia-Rae Wehmeyer 🔜 PAX U! @boardgameedu007.bsky.social 2023 Educational Council for GLSEN 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
➡️Board gaming/Cultural Sensitivity/EDU Consultant etc…
Foodie, Speaker, Artsty Educator bundle of fun 🖤
Anya Combs (she/her) @anyacombsherhair.bsky.social Games Freelancer - Musician - Crowdfunding Expert - Fitness Fanatic - Spooky Punk - She/Her - former Kickstarter, AddictingGames/Nickelodeon - Hapa
Annoyed by @mattbreuermusic.bsky.social
anya.combs@gmail.com
Sophie Lagacé @evilanemone.bsky.social She/her. Engineer, tabletop gamer, avid reader; woke social justice DEI treehugger. Digital Content Manager for Evil Hat Productions.
I block bots, spammers, phishers, and trolls.
Ayla Derrick @bigealien.bsky.social Founder of Cave Bear Games
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• Girl | Gamer | Neopets | Tamagotchi | Webkinz | Bratz | Virtual Villagers | Gudetama | OSRS •
Mary Georgescu 🎠 @marygeorgescu.com Designing digital and physical games that delight, inspire, and make you feel seen. ✨
Founder & Senior Game Designer @haiduc.co in NYC
Pro Wrestler @beetlewrestles.bsky.social & @bowsettewrestles.bsky.social
Portfolio| MaryGeorgescu.com
Annabel Lee Journey 🏳️⚧️🎲👗 @annlee14.bsky.social Proud trans woman. Skirt lover! Board game designer and enthusiast. Prof of Game Design at UNO. Zenobia II Finalist. Diana Jones Emerging Designer Finalist. Origins Award Finalist. My game, Cretaceous Rails, is on Gamefound with Late Pledge open now!
Jess Cassady @boardgamegirl.bsky.social International Marketing consultant for APE Games / Ion Game Design / Looney Labs Host: Dino Stampede, Game Dev, Rules Writer, https://linktr.ee/boardgamegirl
CMYK @cmyk.games The game studio behind Wavelength, Monikers, Hot Streak, Magical Athlete, and more!
Find us at cmyk.games
ナナワリ @nanawari.bsky.social ボードゲームを作ったりする
7割笑って生きたい
https://nanawari.myportfolio.com
Calliope Games @calliopegames.bsky.social Bringing people together through board games since 2009! Making fan faves such as…
🐉 Tsuro
🎲 Roll For It!
💭 Hive Mind
🏴☠️ ShipShape
🔗 linktr.ee/calliopegames
Ami Baio ♥️ @pinktigergames.com I make games https://pinktigergames.com
Jellyfish Game Studios @jellyfishgames.bsky.social Account ran by Cody Thompson, founder of Jellyfish Game Studios
Just a small indie tabletop publisher in the Seattle area trying to bring fun to people’s tables
Light N Games (South Korean Board Game Studio) @lightngames.bsky.social We make board games, we sell board games, we play board games, we talk about board games, etc. This is Troy specifically but Ethan reads these too sometimes.
XOtoXO Games @xotoxogames.bsky.social Games from India, one story at a time. Stories from India, one game at a time.
Indie boardgame publisher based in Chennai, India.
Our games: Athangudi, Masala Lab.
www.xotoxo.com
Suzan @suzieofsanne.bsky.social Co-creator of Board Game Stats (@BGStatsApp.bsky.social)
Board gamer;
Cat lover: 😻 Paddy (15), 😻 Roos (14), 😻 Finn (5);
Cactus hoarder 🌵;
Cross stitcher 🪡;
Nail polish lover 💅🏻;
From: Enschede, NL
💚
Homepage: bgstatsapp.com 
(she/her)
Steph Hodge! @boardgamersteph.bsky.social I like to play ALL THE GAMES!
Linktr.ee/boardgamersteph
#boardgames #boardgamegeek
Kwanchai Moriya @kwanchai.bsky.social Illustrator//Painter//Maker
Scott Nicholson @scottnicholson.bsky.social Professor of Game Design, Potter, Garden Gnome, Board Game and Escape Room Designer, Green Man Main. I play video games on Easy mode; I'm too old to get gud.
biggirlgames.bsky.social @biggirlgames.bsky.social Game designer, board game enthusiast, weirdo masquerading as an adult. PhD in Water Economics and Policy, real world work in habitat restoration, and designing games mostly in environmental themes (although I also like scifi, so I may be pivoting).
She/her
Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social Having folks enjoy board games is our glorious purpose. He/Him in the Mid-western United States. Post beautiful boardgames to #ThirstyCardboard.
Pro: FLGS, small publishers, great boardgames, rock climbing, disc golf
Con: shelving vertically, gatekeeping.