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.
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
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Pascal @pascaliensis.bsky.social Bayesian librarian & attribution historian
Boolean engineering since 1995
P&RP my own : about citation, information literacy & tabletop role-playing games
«Citez-vous les uns les autres»
Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social Author of the DESIGNERS & DRAGONS series of RPG histories, including THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF: A SYSTEM HISTORY OF TRAVELLER. Science-fiction, fantasy, comic, and RPG fan. Currently working on Traveller and Call of Cthulhu history projects.
Chris P. Wolf 🛸 Mostly Offline @chrispwolf.bsky.social Nice to meet you!
I made a roleplaying game called Offworlders. Now I am working on one called Night Tripper. They are both space adventure games.
https://www.night-tripper.fun
I pour sake for a living.
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HiskiH @hiskih.fi Designing TTRPGs and other games to solve and cause multidisciplinary problems.
See my games at https://games.hiskih.fi
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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content.
Previous handle @atprotocol.dev, now actually dev focused!
#AtmosphereConf is a wrap! See https://atmosphereconf.org for talks & videos
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Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social A quarterly publication for critical analysis of video games and their place in culture.
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Contact us at deletedsaves at gmail dot com
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Rain City Games @raincity.games Purveyor of fine cardboards.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
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ambedo studios @ambedostudios.bsky.social Indie studio telling quietly human stories. Remaining Grace, an intimate non-linear ghost story.
🍃 Wishlist #RemainingGrace on Steam: https://s.team/a/4954540
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
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Eerie Idol Games @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social Back the second printing of The Old King's Crown + Songs of Home expansion on Gamefound now!
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Buried Giant Studios @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social Beautiful, interactive board games with expressive systems, emergent gameplay, and player-centered storytelling. 🎲 Oath: New Foundations 📜 Arcs: Beyond the Reach 🚀
Standard.site @standard.site Open standards for long-form & site lexicons. We build reusable schemas so the ecosystem can grow together.
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social 🎮 Game UI/UX Designer (Freelance)
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📘 Author of The Game UI Bible with Lost in Cult!
🎭 BAFTA Member
🏆 Future Class 23, GDH Design Hero 21, Guinness World Record Holder
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social Promoting Cognitive Science as a discipline and fostering scientific interchange among researchers in various areas.
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Saturn & Scarab Press @saturnscarabpress.bsky.social Saturn & Scarab is a new micro-press publishing anthologies, zines, and more.
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Made in Saskatchewan, Canada. 🌾
Made without AI. 🚫
North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social Canadian Video Game Developers
Murder, Mayhem and Maple Syrup
Cinematic R.P.G. makers.
xBioWare, xMicrosoft, xActivision
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, non-partisan newsroom dedicated to covering climate, energy and the environment. Our newsletters: http://bit.ly/3mcVORO
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
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social Buy Mashina: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/Mashina/
Buy Judero: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1960900/Judero/
Buy Dujanah: https://store.steampowered.com/app/681240/Dujanah/
Other works: https://jackspinoza.itch.io/
Southeast Asian Games Showcase (SEAGS) @seagshowcase.bsky.social Premium online showcase for exclusive announcements & updates from Southeast Asian based developers and Southeast Asian led teams!
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Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org Founded by Double Fine and iam8bit. indie games are good.
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social Alex... ✍🏽 | London | He / Him | Documenting zines, zinesters, zine culture + zine fests for the last 20 years.
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Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
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Colin Le Sueur @byodinsbeardrpg.com He/him. ENNIE-nominated and best-selling TTRPG designer of #Runecairn, #WeDealInLead, and #MidnightOfTheCentury.
From Canada (Treaty 6 land), now the UK.
📩 colin@byodinsbeardrpg.com
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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online i host a low key video game show called into the aether, write and make videos at wavelengths, manage overworld, and take photos! wow!
https://wavelengths.online
https://overworld.vg
Overworld @overworld.vg Overworld: A wider view of video game news.
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social playtestmaterial.org
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Develop:Brighton 2026 @developconference.com Develop:Brighton 2026 - 14-16 July | The UK's biggest game developer conference. Bringing together the European game dev community from global superstars to micro indies - since 2006
the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social games writer, designer, and critic. co-founder of Crit Build. formerly: kotaku & waypoint.
find my work at critbuild.org
email me at ren@critbuild.org
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
sean @smurphygames.bsky.social stupid stupid idiot and wise sage.
itch: smurphy-games.itch.io
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Memoria @memoriamatters.bsky.social YOU TUBE !!!!!!!!!!!!! 👹 DOT COM !!!!!!! 🔥
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the voidspace @voidspacezine.bsky.social mind you don't bump your head
/ interactive writing & performance / EIC @voidskrawl.bsky.social
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Pandasaurus Games @pandasaurusgames.com Hobby Tabletop Game Publisher from Asheville, NC
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social autistic author-illustrator 🌿 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/vanessagillings
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/
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL, Los Angeles. Curiosity Rover ECAM PUL. Saturn native, commutes to Jupiter. USMC vet. Opinions are mine https://apoapsys.com
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
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.
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
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social He/him. Sr. Game Designer. Prev: Epic, Bungie, Turbine, more.
I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
Marathon Development Team @marathonteam.bungie.net News, updates, and insights from the developers on @MarathonTheGame.bungie.net
#notGDC 2026 @notgdc.io A game development non-conference, for everyone!
All of March, 2026!
http://notgdc.io/
Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com she/her. YEG. Firepit Press. Stew Princess. I like TTRPGs and horror movies. Tell your pets I say hi!
https://sprigsandkindling.com/
a "very well-adjusted and balanced individual" - Wes Franks
a "strange creature of I don't know what!" - Gabe McCormick
MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com Christian Sorrell - ENNIE Award-Winning TTRPG Writer & Editor
http://meatcastlegameware.com/
He/They
Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social i make art and games and stuff.
call me chao! ("chow" like in "chowin down")
https://chaoclypse.carrd.co/
Danika Harrod @danika.bsky.social she/they
pfp by @feralroyal.bsky.social
✨ twitch.tv/danikaharrod ✨
Emilia @lazerwalker.com Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
Eol @eol4242.bsky.social Comms closed unless stated otherwise.
Art of realistic arms&armours informed by historical research. Concept art & military for #ManorLords.
HEMA. DMs open.
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
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
Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student
"bibliomancer" when wearing my gamer pants
https://bibliomancer.itch.io/
https://brendan-allen.com/
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (pixel art)
Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social consumed by 1d6 normal rats; thinking adventures thought leader; lead writer at Tuesday Knight Games (mothership etc); vernacular rpg enthusiast; email at lukegearing.games@gmail.com; 4⁄3
lukegearing.blot.im
Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com @mothership.blog co-founder/managing editor ✨ i like books, games, feminism, and my dog. DM or reply for email!
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
Matthew Nisinson @mnisinson.bsky.social (He/him) poet/bureaucrat with poems out in Bullshit Lit, en*gendered lit, Los Angeles Review, Novus Literary, Southern Humanities Review, and others. Currently working on a deep dive project focused on Catullus 85.
On Instagram as lepidum_novum_libellum
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
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/
SDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social The San Diego Historical Games Convention. Check out everything on our in-person and online conventions, our Conflicts of Interest Online articles, and our annual Summit Award at www.sdhist.com.
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
HODAG RPG @hodagrpg.bsky.social Y2k meets B/x!
:Sheboygan's Favorite Son:
Illustrator. Game Maker.
Phantom Menace Defender.
Someone's Nu-Metal Older Brother.
-He/Him-
Ennies:🥇🥈🥈🥈⚖️
Cairnies: 1
"Everybody's got their limits/
Nobody's found mine."
No AI, No Nazis, No Jabronis
Comms ✅️
boshi's place @boshis.place boshi’s place is a space in brooklyn, ny that celebrates game making as a craft and *something related to play/experience*
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Blippo+ @blippo.plus Channel Surf ✺ New Wave ⚡︎ Television
🎬 Out Now on Nintendo Switch, Steam, & Mac
📡 Broadcasting Weekly on Playdate
🏆 Apple Design Awards 2026 Finalist
🏆 Best Writing in a Game NYGA 2026
🏆 4x IGF 2026 Nominee
https://blippo.plus
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
PlaySoulframe @soulframe.com It began as song, pitched sweet and solemn...
Join us, won't you?
soulframe.com
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org Independent nonprofit fighting for a fairer, safer, healthier world since 1936.
Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social Building an economy that works for all of us. #WeAreTheEconomy
Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social fmr. community at Double Fine Productions | ex journalist (kotaku) | blue rogue | they/she | I write freelance stuff when the mood strikes
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
Banana Chan 🔜 PAX West @bananachangames.bsky.social 🔪 Horror Screenwriter, Game Designer
👁️ Owner of Read/Write Memory
🩸 Podcaster on Spooky Asian Club
Lit Rep: Allen Eckhouse, Logical Talent MGMT
🇭🇰🇨🇦 she/they ♑️♋️♐️
Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Aalborg University
(prev Bristol, ITU Copenhagen, Aalto)
Human autonomy & agency. Humanistic Quant. Complexity methods. Behavioural Science.
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi