🌙 Shivam Astier @shivamastier.bsky.social 🌙 Queer Amazigh designer writing on media & video games and finding resonance in Kashmir Shaivism while navigating disability.
⛵ Paris, France
⚓ instagram.com/shivamastier
⭐ medium.com/@shivamastier
@gekkgjt1.bsky.social @gekkgjt1.bsky.social 
Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social editor/writer. games, travel, theme parks, music, movies, etc. recently at Kotaku. writing the Moon College Football Weekends guide (2028), and writing about theme parks at https://easily-amused.beehiiv.com. ex-Paste, ex-AV Club, could be ex-your site too.
Like My Anime | Podcast @likemyanime.bsky.social A Podcast and YouTube channel dedicated to helping you find more of the anime, manga, and other Japanese media you’ll love
Podcast: https://likemyanime.buzzsprout.com/
YouTube:
youtube.com/@likemyanime
Ludolio - The platform helping libraries lend games @ludolio.com 🚀 Games belong in libraries.
🎮 We support digital game lending for university and school libraries.
📚 Supporting teaching, research & student engagement through play
✨ Building the future of game access
👋 account run by @marcuscarter.com
Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social Your new fav fag.
Professional dilettante
Art — RPGs — Design — Sex
magnolienne.carrd.co
Raluca Fratiloiu @raluca.bsky.social College Prof. || Media Studies teacher || Experimental game designer
Lauren Taylor @laurenmt1.bsky.social Co-Founder of Snappy Gurus.
Supporting entry level talent moving into games and relevent roles!
My email: lauren@snappygurus.com
MrAlexBethke @mralexbethke.bsky.social I make games for fun. I make games for profit. I've made 130+ games over the last 20 years. When I'm not making games I'm living that sweet parent life.
Maggie @mc-acme.bsky.social ✈️ Traveler | Coffee lover | Sunset chaser
Collecting memories, not things ☕
Javier Ponce @rolfo012345.bsky.social 
Reginald T. Gardner, back in NYC @higheredgaming.bsky.social Independent academic in and around Game Studies, digital culture & media. Researcher, educator, and player writing about games, communities, and the cultures we build around play.
Now Playing: ZZZ, NTE, Big Walk, Tokon, Palworld, Forza6 & Valheim
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📚🎮✍🏻
PORTFOLIO: http://jisaacgadient.com
LINKS: https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social GAMERella is the world’s longest running annual game jam and workshop series focusing on supporting marginalized game creators and aspiring game makers.
https://linktr.ee/GAMERella
Argent @warden-010.bsky.social #base44 #deepai #chromebook
https://www.epa.gov/
nida.nih.gov/ bop.gov/contact/
livecodes.io/
https://www.pacificdrivegame.com/
https://one.one.one.one/
https://www.earthevolution.com/
Corey Wesley @coreyforyourloss.bsky.social 
Dyllistan @dyllistan.bsky.social Ruffling some feathers
Aromantic
Filmmaker & Video Essayist
friendOWO🏳️⚧️ || GET ME SPIDERS OF PICTURE MAN @friend0w0.bsky.social Trans Enby
Comedian, Conversationalist, and Youtuber (soon)
Comic, Former Wrassler, Currently probably dating your dad.
Non-Binary Broque Bitch
Minors will be blocked
KOFI https://ko-fi.com/friend0w0 🙏💕🏳️⚧️💸 Any Tips appreciated- T @travis-finley.bsky.social @travis-finley.bsky.social
Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com Founder + EIC: non-trivial.games
YouTube: TheCrossoverAppeal.
thecrossoverappeal.com for recs + essays
Games writing, music writing. Formerly games studies.
Bylines: Pixelbyte Gaming, JetsonPlaysGames, Exploits, Uppercut, Barely Textual.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Keyang Zheng @albsun.bsky.social VAP for Data Science @ Gettysburg College | PhD | HCI | I love playing games and studying how people play games. | SciFi Fan
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
Krista Elliott @kristaelliott.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Not famous, just opinionated. Serial dabbler in hobbies and music genres. Will eat all your potato chips. Carried a Nobel Peace Prize medallion in my purse for a month. Writes about quantum. Personal account, not at ALL representative of my employer.
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
Ryan Richard Overbey @overbey.bsky.social Buddhology, &c.
𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 @gcbaccaris.itch.io Game Developer | Writer | Editor 》Twine Grimoire | Harmony | TGA FC '23 | AIAS ANV '25 | @IFtechfoundation.org | Narrative Design, Localization, RPGs, CSS/HTML
🎮 gcbaccaris.itch.io
🪞 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
📚 http://ko-fi.com/grimdev/shop
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!
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
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
Snappy Gurus @snappygurus.bsky.social We support graduates and entry level talent moving into games and related roles, through courses, advice and support, and career driven events! 🫰
Email: enquiries@snappygurus.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/vAvNv36yNy
Website: https://snappygurus.com/
Kate Sánchez ➡️ Gamescom @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social EIC & Co-Owner @butwhytho.net
Bylines: MMORPG, MtGSalvation, IGN
9-5: BizOps @ Owlchemy Labs
5-9: Film/TV/Video Game Critic
24/7 Chingona
Sports Girlie
Freelance games consulting (mock reviews, sensitivity reading, etc)
📍Austin, TX
💌 kate@butwhytho.net
chilton 👁 @chiltonm.bsky.social Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist, Exploits books editor. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
Mids Meinberg @meinberg.bsky.social thon or they
https://goat-song-publishing.itch.io/
nonbinary, white, disabled
Code-codec @codecodec.bsky.social | CODE - CODEC | agence de communication |Enseignante vacataire UL
💡 Experts en #WebDesign & créativité exceptionnelle ✨ Transformons vos idées en communication #SansCoquille 🥚
#AgenceOeufOrique #CreateurDePixels
substack.com/@elodesignercodecodec
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Charlie / imaginary hallways @imaginaryhallways.bsky.social Cisgender white he/him doing rpg things, worshipping da Moon, circling within circles. Made some games here: https://charvus.itch.io
Love games, only have done solo things for a while now. Abolish ICE, break bars, free Palestine.
Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social 30% academic discourse; 15% games; 3% misc; 52% skeets I wrote but deleted immediately.
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Potion Rouge @potionrouge.bsky.social 🩸 RPG, City Builder & Dungeon Crawler, Narrative
🔥 10 people, 3 years, 1 game
🌱 Early Access on Steam by 2027
🎮 Jazz Dev, French indie studio
https://potionrouge.com/index.html
Enric Granzotto Llagostera @marxistpokemon.bsky.social [he/il/ele] 👁️ Educator, researcher and game maker. 🎮🔨 PhD on alternative controllers, experimental and critical games. 🌐 https://enric.llagostera.com.br
Play What You mean @playwhatyoumean.bsky.social A place dedicated to exploring games & play as personal expression
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.
WobbuPalooza @wobbupalooza.bsky.social Parlor game history, especially focused on early collaborative storytelling / roleplaying / Surrealist games but also forfeits and pre-1800 games in general:
https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org
Researcher & Kindle Writer @diagarchbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHY17TQL
Dornath. @dornath.bsky.social No.
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social Writer, editor, and journalist.
https://charliehallwriter.com/
Charles Meyer @metaperi.bsky.social MCF en Nouvelles Écritures Audiovisuelles - Université Côte d'Azur
Membre du LIRCES (UPR 3159) et Membre Associé de MARGE (EA3712)
Président de l'Observatoire des Mondes Numériques en Sciences Humaines (OMNSH)
Docteur en Art & Sciences de l'Art - Arts PhD
Matt @millertone.bsky.social Game Audio Sound Designer | Composer
Matt Knutson @mattknutson.bsky.social Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports.
Pronouns: he/him
Kyle 🇨🇦 @planetkyle.bsky.social Educated Canadian egalitarian, environmental steward and activist. Unhesitatingly vulgar without remorse. #FuckinEH #Flames #Resist
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Laia @laiavelasco.bsky.social fent @resis-videoludica.bsky.social i organitzant la @santjordijam.bsky.social <3
(ella)
https://videojoc-fanziner-fanzin-juganer.aixeta.cat/
Sinéad McDevitt @neadiegirl.bsky.social Freelance journalist, JRPG expert, fully time info-dumper.
You can see my latest work at https://lnk.bio/somcdevitt
Niema Moshiri @niema.net Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, consulting for PlayStation and Blizzard, Bioinformatician by training, SD-raised. https://niema.net
One standard Dave @onestandarddave.bsky.social A normal guy.
Demons & Dungeoneers @demonsdungeons.bsky.social I am a gamebook writer as of fantasy enthusiast. You can find my work at https://demonsdungeoneers.com/
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien