"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Colin Cummings ✨🎷 @astroscout.ca game & graphic designer, community & marketing manager | prev. riftweaver, studio camelia, threshold games
community manager | 🧵 silverstring media & ☔️ soft rains
board member | 👁️🗨️ hand eye society
✨ astroscout.ca | 🎷 boyproblems.ca
toronto | he/they
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie Professor in Sustainable Energy, UCC 🇮🇪
I write a monthly column for the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hannah-daly/
Born 351ppm, daughters born 408 & 410, now >420ppm 🚨 ‼️
Former @IEA and @UCL
Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social Author of VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR
Principal Apps and Games Writer at PCMag
Union guy, Black guy, fake Street Sharks guy
https://www.jordanwminor.com/
Anjin Anhut / available for freelance @anjinanhut.bsky.social http://www.anjinanhut.com he/him, Game Director. Art Director. Artist. Part-time anarchist. Art and Animation Obsessive. 18+ only. Lives in Germany. NO AI / FREE PALESTINE / TRANS RIGHTS / REFUGEES WELCOME /FCKAFD
Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection.
You can see our past events here: https://asymptotes.au/
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
All Will Rise by Speculative Agency @allwillrise.bsky.social Game dev collective making All Will Rise, a wild, mysterious & strategic rpg about taking the powerful to court for destroying the planet, set in an alternate reality Kerala, India. Wishlist on Kickstarter/Steam!
https://linktr.ee/speculativeagency
ELEKTRA Montréal @elektramontreal.ca ⚡ Art & nouvelles technologies
Festival • Biennale • Galerie • Musée virtuel
🎭 Expositions, performances & rencontres
📍 Montréal | 🌍 International
—
🔗 https://linktr.ee/elektramontreal
Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ AnimeNYC @pizzapranks.bsky.social Top (& only) Guy at Indiepocalypse | Home for the Unmarketable | indie games' most widely known person of zero importance
http://indiepocalypse.com
Starter Guide http://indiepocalypse.com/starter
http://indiepocalypse.com/patreon
indiepocalypse@gmail.com
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://mutanttheory.com/
metal flesh express @oma-metal-flesh.bsky.social artist/writer/gamedev. creator of The Terminator. they/she ☭
https://meal-ticket-games.itch.io/ (@mealticketgames.bsky.social) - making 'Fine, Whatever!' & 10+ yrs of experimental games + zines
adult games + zines: https://metalflesh.neocities.org/
Queer Communist Game Jam ☭ @queercomgames.bsky.social International Game Jam organized from Cuba 🇨🇺
“Let’s start a queer, communist, game industry revolution.”
🎮 itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026
📝 instagram.com/queercomgames
👾 https://discord.gg/sZkfS9NtG
cécile @haraiva.bsky.social graphic designer, game maker, sports enjoyer, lithgow panther truther, domino clubber. ☀ working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (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
Tamara Duplantis @tambalaya.bsky.social Tamara "Tammy" Duplantis
🎶Game Boy sound artist since 2014🎵
👾Digital media educator extraordinaire👾
JH cet/pdf/xyz @jhpdf.bsky.social can’t; teach/critique
Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io • Founder, Dejobaan Games • Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve • 30 Year Veteran Game Dev • Boston!
[untitled games event] Amsterdam @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social A space for experimental games and playable arts. A monthly Amsterdam-based 'book club' for games and conversation on play.
https://untitledgamesevent.nl
NEXT EDITION: Sun 23 August
Gæmz Meetup @gaemz.bsky.social Community for people who are into art/experimental games & playful media founded by @thenomi.bsky.social.
#gaemzmu. Let’s meet irl in Tokyo, London, & Taipei
https://gaemz.carrd.co/
Discord: https://discord.gg/Fjhjjk9HSc
We got a starter pack btw!
WeAreMuesli @wearemuesli.bsky.social We are an arthouse game studio. Our new narrative game In Their Shoes is out now on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/In_Their_Shoes/
Biome Collective @biomecollective.bsky.social A creative studio and community for people to create, collaborate and explore new frontiers in games, digital art and technology.
Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com Indie Game developer ゲーム開発者 & Dr pepper addict
https://linktr.ee/aerial_knight
Maker of games, taker of naps
Dragon Wasabi Potato ドラゴンワサビポテト @dragonwasabipotato.bsky.social writer, streamer | creating TELE @telegame.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/dragonwasabipotato
contributor @warpdoor.com
ambassador @safeinourworld.org
operator at Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β
https://dawn2021.orylab.com
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast (he/they)
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Game Studies at ICCIT, U Toronto Mississauga. Researches games, systems, AI/ML, and digital media. www.samuelpizelo.com
winter @winterk.bsky.social she/they
@telodendron.bsky.social
games, comics, posts
thank you for visiting my homepage
Vancouver Game Garden @vangamegarden.bsky.social https://vangamegarden.com/
Official account for Vancouver Game Garden, a public event showcasing local games and art in Vancouver, BC!
June 13 & 14, 2026 | Roundhouse Community Centre
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net Indie game studio based in Prague, Czechia. Phonopolis (out now!), Happy Game, Creaks, Pilgrims, Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula, CHUCHEL http://bit.ly/PhonopolisSteam
Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com Narrative + Game Designer, Writer, Visual Artist.
He/Him. Vancouver, BC. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Prev: Sky of Tides, Goodbye Volcano High, Hardspace: Shipbreaker
https://ryanmcdiarmid.com/
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social Formerly of PC Powerplay and various other places. Freelance game reviewer. Connecting with game devs, but not having a lot of time for social media ... Tell me about your game. (PS. I am not Peter Morgan. 😂)
Serenade @serenade.games We put on alternative games events!
Next: ???
Prev: FORM, Tangents @ Sabby ALT: EX @ Powerhouse ALT: GAMES, #gameaweeksyd2025, Serenade Showcase @ #SXSW Sydney 2023, Games Spaces for Static Vision, Ink Jam Sabby https://serenade.games
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social Books: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | SURVIVING THE LONG WARS | Writing: BREATHING IN COMMON | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟. Personal account.
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Alberta University of the Arts @albertauarts.bsky.social Alberta's only university dedicated to art, craft and design. Email communications@auarts.ca with requests or to share community news.
📍Calgary, AB
Panflip Studio | Wishlist Stack Order ! @panflipstudio.bsky.social French indie game studio of two - Currently Working on Stack Order, a hand drawn narrative deckbuilder made in Godot in which you stack cards to defeat bosses!
Wishlist our game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4338750/Stack_Order/
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Jairus Khan @jairuskhan.bsky.social Noisemaker, adversary, internet blah blah blah, recovering goth. Formerly @ Mozilla, ISOC.
Killscreen @index.killscreen.com.ap.brid.gy Exploring the future of interdisciplinary play
🌉 bridged from https://www.killscreen.com/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com Gamedevs. We make Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess
Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias but this account is run by Tony
Discord community: discord.gg/blacktabbygames
Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org Bringing the best indie games to Glasgow ⋆｡°✩
. ݁₊⊹ July 11-12 2026 ⊹₊ ݁.
📍BAaD
https://glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/
Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social 🔸Irish 𝒥𝒶𝓂ℯ𝓈 dev / Glasgow Indie Games Fest / PizzaJam 🔸
Making indie 𝒥𝒶𝓂ℯ𝓈 : ComputerJames.itch.io
(Stealth Crossword, Dogman95)
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Citizen archivist of Nova Scotia video game development history. Sometimes hobby game dev. - He/Him
https://hgcarchive.wixsite.com/hgc-archive
https://linktr.ee/XenosNS
https://xenosns.itch.io
XP Gaming @xpgaminginc.bsky.social Connecting the business of video games.
Andreas Inderwildi @mashxtomuse.bsky.social Writer, medievalist & game critic, seen @ Eurogamer, RPS, KotakuUK, Edge, Wireframe &c. Author of the upcoming book Mundaun: Design Works www.lostincult.co.uk/mundaun. Writes stuff at www.mashxtomuse.com. he/him
Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social writer, editor. ✍️ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
https://www.nicoleaclark.com/
Moo Yu (Mythmatch Out Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social Making Mythmatch, an anti-capitalist merge game. Previously worked on Knights and Bikes, LittleBigPlanet, and Ratchet & Clank.
Mythmatch Out Now and 20% Off: s.team/a/1778050
No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com We are a group of game workers, activists, union organisers, and journalists that care about the games industry, Palestine and all people living under the violence of colonialism and imperialism.
https://nogamesforgenocide.com/
@jamesedsmith.bsky.social @jamesedsmith.bsky.social 1 ton of fun
Dirty Rectangles @dirty-rectangles.com Hosting monthly game dev meetups in Ottawa, Toronto, and Kitchener/Waterloo.
Streaming games on twitch.tv/dirtyrectangles
VODs on youtube.com/@dirtyrectangles
https://dirty-rectangles.com/
https://dirty-rectangles.com/discord
A small group of nobodies.
/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.
Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social Online May 22-23, 2026! A new game industry event by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed.
M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social eisner award winning cartoonist 💬 Nancy, PeePeePooPoo, Adventure Time, Etc
shafer brown @shaferbrown.com flat fantasy and rpg illustration by some queer in the hills of western NC
commissions open - shaferbrownillus@gmail.com
shaferbrown.com
patreon.com/shaferbrown
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Anna Posbergh @annaposbergh.bsky.social PhD, Kinesiology | assistant professor at Illinois (UIUC) | research in gender, sport, policy, media | cohost of @endofsportpod.bsky.social | intersectional feminist | Track & Field | she/her
kheehoon chan Needs Work @crapstacular.bsky.social freelance writer //
author of Mouthwashing: Design Works, contributor @rascal.news @funland.itch.io, Wand Report //
NYVGCC award, TGA Future Class '21 //
https://linktr.ee/kheehoonchan //
#freepalestine #milkteaalliance #六月四号 //
they/them
Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com Writer, editor, publisher behind @bossfightbooks.com, a series of nonfiction, documentary-style books about video games. Author of MAJORA'S MASK, BIBLE ADVENTURES, and FUN CAMP.
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Toronto Games Week @torontogamesweek.com A celebration of playful arts and culture in the city of Toronto!
Toronto Games Week ran from June 11th-17th, 2026. Subscribe to our newsletter for info about #TGW27!
🎮🕹👾🎨🎲
Posts by @metroidcrime.com + staff.
Toronto, Canada
🇨🇦 torontogamesweek.com
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Stanwixbuster @stanwixbuster.co.uk Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Award-winning narrative game dev
NWCDTP-funded PhD on non-commercial game communities + sustainability, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games
https://stanwixbuster.co.uk/
Joost Vervoort breaking the 4th wall @joostvervoort.bsky.social Developing 'gloriously unearthly' anticapitalist RPG @allwillrise.bsky.social. Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Games, mystery, transformative politics. Singer @terzijdehorde.bsky.social & @sunlightaltar.bsky.social
freya @spdrcstl.bsky.social ⚧ indie gamedev, writer, occasional musician. She/Her. Senior Designer at [horror game company]. Proud member of Domino Club. Made Videotome.
also found on masto: https://timetheft.social/@spdrcstl
games: communistsister.itch.io
Chloē @comrad-chloe.bsky.social Game dev learning about Marxism and getting her hands dirty with SFF. Game producer/designer, begrudging artist. Friend to all birds. 🦜 DC 🌸
Making an activity zine for nerds: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chloegamedev/nerdtivities
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
UMAW @umaw.bsky.social UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.
Krish Raghav @krishraghav.bsky.social Bullshit comic book artist. Chaoyang Trap stagehand // krishcat.com
Co-organizing [Untitled Games Event], a monthly space for experimental games in Amsterdam // untitledgamesevent.nl
Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social extremely hireable games journalist, co-host of @girlmodepod.bsky.social, @insequence.pictures, @dotzip.online and twitch.tv/parallelplayers!
🏳️⚧️she/her🏳️⚧️ | robinbombus@gmail.com | robinbea.carrd.co
Indie Games Developer Magazine @igdmag.com The Original Indie Games Developer Magazine - showcasing and sharing great indie games to play, with coverage of games in development, assets, and more.
Our website: www.indiegamesdeveloper.com
#indiegames #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegame #magazine
Devolution🌱 @devolutionbln.bsky.social Devolution is an online & physical exhibition / event series about the evolutionary process of game development.
✨⛰️LMD timeline is here:
http://devolution.online/lmd/
ELLEN OF GENEROUS @funnyposts.online POET ⁂ GAME DEV ⁂ PROUD SNOBBYIST ⁂ FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD PERSON
THEY/THEM ⁂ ICON BY @maximumgraves.bsky.social
Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social Game Critic - NPR Contributor
Debug Mag Columnist
Member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle - DiGRA
Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
aguaspoints.com
A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027 - 16th edition - May 5-8
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - open on Wed-Thu 15:00-18:00, Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social A new kind of game studio. Creators of I Am Your Beast / El Paso, Elsewhere / and more.
🐶 Come hang with us in the Discord!
https://discord.com/invite/dog-airport-game
The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg The IGAs is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the indie scene where developers take center stage.
🗓️ December 2026
🔗 www.indiegameawards.gg
🎬 Production & Organization by @SixOneIndie.com
🌎 Curated & Voted on by Showcases, Media, Creators, & more.
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
Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social 📚🎨✍️ Curator, writer, salaryman 🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏻
• BA, MA, M.Phil: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. (Film, videogames, MVs, art.)
• The Lester Bangs of BL.
• Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social A quarterly publication for critical analysis of video games and their place in culture.
https://www.deletedsaves.com/
Contact us at deletedsaves at gmail dot com
pfp by toddrichter.photo
Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com)
Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@gamedeveloper.com)
📝: www.bryantfrancis.me
🎥: https://boxd.it/hp9UB
Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer and director who works on game-like things and other things.
Author of the novel Process and the visual novel Eliza.
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/process-a-novel
Studio Folly — DOGPILE!!! @folly.studio WISHLIST DOGPILE ON STEAM! 🐩🐕🦴 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3839300/Dogpile/
GUBBINS (it's a word game) OUT NOW on iOS & Android ✏️ 🥦 🌈
realbirdfakebird dot com PLAY NOW in ya browser 🐓🔍
Katya Ryabova 🔜 Gamescom @katyar.bsky.social Video games freelance writer & journalist. Gaming, motherhood, drinks. She/her.
Substack: playingthisweek.substack.com
Coffee and games fund: https://ko-fi.com/katyar
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.