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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com Indie software developer • math witch • ML builder • 48 • 🏳️⚧️ she/her
Here to make friends and have fun (not argue).
Currently working on new transformer architectures.
h̃ₜ = tanh(Wₕ xₜ + Uₕ(rₜ ⊙ hₜ₋₁) + bₕ)
James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social Game designer (co-created SE!ZE with Charles Leclerc), publisher, teacher, critic, writer, player. FRSA.
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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
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
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Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social West Houston's favorite bookshop. Can we say that? Opinionated service and fantastic author events since 1996.
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
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social We publish critical writing on roleplaying games, in a quarterly magazine with a new guest editor every issue.
October 1: Issue 1, An RPG Is Like...
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Celia @celia-14.bsky.social 💜 Hobbyist gamedev at https://celia14.itch.io
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🏷️ She/her
jamwitch @jamwitch.com We make small, cute games for game jams. ✨ Play our games at jamwitch.itch.io
🎨 @rosekeller.bsky.social
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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io Hyper-focusing on RPG design, Cleave (out now!), PBTA, Pathfinder 2e, etc.
he/they, free Palestine, blocks AI slop
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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
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Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social Assistant Professor @University of Hawaii at Manoa | PhD @Syracuse University | Environmental Demographer and Medical Sociologist | Health, Environment, and Geography
https://sites.google.com/view/ysun27/home
Institute for Manufactured Futures @ifmf.bsky.social manufactured-futures.com
A storytelling enterprise. Announcements posted here, all info on the website.
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
twitch.tv/dreamwispjen
linktr.ee/dreamwisp
Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE
momatoes @momatoes.com Diana Jones Emerging Designer, Ennie-nominated tabletop game designer and visual artist. Featured in Polygon, Rascal, Dicebreaker and more. She/her
👹 Games: ARC, The Magus, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri
📌 Learn more http://momatoes.com
#RPGSEA 
Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
Ela Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social Trans Author of transgressive fiction.
Creator of NEXUS ALPHA and TEETH.
Incomprehensible but the vibes are there.
I like women a normal amount
She/they
pfp from original drawing by wryote
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elajo.itch.io
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Matthijs Holter (Hyperfictive) @matthijs1000.bsky.social Game designer and writer. Creator of Draug, Archipelago, and Society of Dreamers. Organizer of Den Nye Våren, a festival for new and experimental tabletop RPGs. https://hyperfictive.substack.com/
bree 🇨🇦 @goose.ski you can’t kill me faster than i can
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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social Hugo-nominated Editor of @tachyonpub, PhD Comp Lit UC Riverside '17, Clarion UCSD '16, Malaysian Writers Society Prez
Devi Goblins @devigoblins.bsky.social Devi | she/her/it/its | 38 | genderqueer transfemme | bi dyke
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
@sarahlubyburke.bsky.social @sarahlubyburke.bsky.social 
W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social Arthur (佢/he/they)
Neurodivergent game dev, photographer and crystallographer
Brighton-based Hong Konger 🇬🇧🇭🇰
Games: https://aryl-ether.itch.io
Carrd: https://wharthur.carrd.co
snow @snowttrpg.itch.io she/her. writer. I'm backwards compatible.
snowttrpg.itch.io
youtube.com/@snowttrpg
Adira Slattery @adira.bsky.social she/her, game menace 🏳️⚧️ 🪬
award winning ttrpg and larp designer
icon: @angryartist.bsky.social
adira.itch.io
Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin.bsky.social Interdisciplinary law & society scholar of prisons & punishment. Co-Editor, Law & Society Review. Prof @ University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Books: #TheDeviantPrison #RockingQualSocSci
riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social i like ttrpgs & postmodern neomarxism | she/her
dani >:3 @handle.invalid she/they | 28 | queer gothic scholar | game designer
👩🏻🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC
🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC
🎓 MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC
🔗 scareoset.com
✉️ scareoset@gmail.com
Maria Mison✨🌊🌱🌞🤲🏼🫶🏼👏🏼🎄🎋🤣🫨🥺🤸 @mariabumby.bsky.social here for compassion 🇵🇭 ttrpg, pedagogy, lyricgame, magick, transdisplinary art imma be real w you rn (also a nerd about layout)
📩 mariabumby@yahoo.com
http://patreon.com/mariamison mariabumby.itch.io
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
3skullsmatt @3skulls.bsky.social Brexit escapee. Socialist. He/him.
I make TTRPG stuff, current projects:
- #TwilightSword solo rules
- 2e of #YearZeroMini
Previous work:
- #ForbiddenLands solo rules
- #TheWalkingDeadRPG solo rules
- #Outgunned Assistant Director expansion
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/
🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social 🖤🌑and us two, not the same people that our old friends knew🌕🖤 🔞 it/she/ey 28
discord: nonblnary
tomorrow-today.itch.io
luvstargrl.itch.io
nonblnary.straw.page
colin feral @sal.gay pronouns in bio
Philly based writer and award winning editor of journalisms and ttrpgs // editorial director @cloudcurio.bsky.social
Fe (he/him) ~ Sleepy Badger Games @sleepybadgergames.bsky.social https://sleepy-badger-games.itch.io/
Illustrator and designer of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs). I publish EN+ES versions. I make games about the things that interest me: Other-than-human animals & nature, LeGuinian science-fiction & fantasy.
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social Game Designer. Classicist, (Ancient) Historian, Historical Games Studier. Pākehā. He/him/his.
@TheSprawl_RPG, @ardensludere, @peregrinekiwi@dice.camp & Twitter.
Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science・Political sociology of class, morality, political divides・🔗 linuswestheuser.com
Just out: "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization" (BUP) 🔗 tinyurl.com/yn42x79t
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Wolf_Hoi @wolfhoi.bsky.social Game Studies || Psychology || Digital Play Enthusiast
Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering, Writer & Mental Health Advocate. Accessibility matters. "Retro can be fun!"
jess @jessfrom.online jess. award-winning TTRPG designer as @jumpgategames.itch.io. jewish lesbian. marxist. scifi author, stories in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. she/her ☭
Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Playable and Participatory Media in Creative Technologies and Performance, Play & Design:Games @ UCSC. Award winning Game Designer/Artist. Afrofuturist. Opinions are my own.
jonayakemper.com
ændra. @aendra.com Creator of 📰 News feeds, @xblock.aendra.dev, @moji.blue, founder of @shoots.green, @atproto.london.
Opinions my own. Not a journalist or an engineer, but a secret third thing (trying).
she/her/ze/hir 🏳️⚧️
🌐 aendra.com
🗞️ ft.com/æ
Nicholas Orvis @nsorvis.bsky.social Dramaturg, director, critic, and scholar working at the intersection of theater and games.
Co-creator @dndramanerds.bsky.social. Opinions my own.
Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com she/her • Writer, Designer, Dev Editor • Upcoming host of Dice Exploder • trans queer woman of color • Judge for the 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards and The Awards 2026 • blog at https://seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog
Sam Araya @arayaart.bsky.social Award winning illustration.
Paraguay.
Beyond is where I learn.
Clients: Tor, Callidor Editions, Simon & Schuster, WoTC, Orbit Books, Suntup Editions.
https://linktr.ee/samaray
Veronica Gregory @plumteacup.bsky.social Coordinator of Outreach for the CMU Center for Learning through Games and Simulations. Following game design, education, museums/historic site research, and immersive experience convergence research.
The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social Father, Army Husband (Ret.), lawyer. KUSK alum; public servant. Litigation disaster tour guide. Odd Fellow (and odd fellow). Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him
JuniperTheory @paxwest come say hi @bimbo.city A perfect 30-something angelic butterfly who always wants to tell you about games you haven't heard of. Media team lead at Null Signal Games. Streaming games you haven't heard of at twitch.tv/junipertheory . Find me online at butterflytheory.site .
Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor, Steam. Repped by Brent Taylor.
https://www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
ODB @obitron.blacksky.app 36 Black queer (they/them)
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social Author of the NYT bestseller The Deficit Myth. Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University. Writer of newsletter https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/
🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io Pfp: @wifeclipse
He/Him. ENNIE nom’d ttrpg designer Guy. 25. Disabled. Queer. Writer @ Fandomentals. Made 25 ttrpgs in 1 year.
Contact:
jellyfishlines@proton.me
https://jellyfishlines.com/
https://jellyfishlines.itch.io
https://jellyfishlines.carrd.co/
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/
THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social Pop™. Writer. Various & sundry. Genderqueer game show host: Dare to Karaoke @daretokaraoke.bsky.social. Film, books, board games, horror. She/They. NYC. 🏳️⚧️ https://mxtiffanyleigh.bio.link/
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
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
Casaubon @zas.bsky.social 24 he/him
Noble Bureaucrat
Topher Gerkey @topherg.bsky.social Gaming, witchery, queerness, parenting, pop music, mental health, disability, whatever. He/him/his. 
Lin Codega @lincodega.com author, journalist, game writer—PASHA THE STORM out now | co-founder @rascal.news, editor @fansplaining.bsky.social | WRA TVL S3—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy—there's a hugo here somewhere
Rascal News @rascal.news Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social 🛠 Owner: heartofthedeernicorn.com
📜 Designer: #fallofmagic ❤️ #bffrpg ❄️ #cityofwinter 👑 #lichlords
📣 President: Tabletop Game Alliance of Washington State
📷: Barham Lashley w/ Emma Juncosa
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
BESW @besw.bsky.social 
Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social Award winning tabletop game company focusing on raising Native creative voices and representation. http://coyoteandcrow.net Posts by owner/designer Kenna Alexander #IndigneousFuturism
Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com Queer Entertainer and Podcaster
Streaming only the coolest games
@twloha.bsky.social Streamer Ambassador
Host of @whatchadoingpod.bsky.social podcast
🔗 https://mattcaulder.carrd.co/
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Hail Eris A Cab @draugmith.bsky.social also Ryubbert or graeyWolf in other places
Rik Eberhardt @rikaru2000.bsky.social Making and playing games about complex systems. Helping students do likewise.
Games … history ... post punk … hip-hop … comix … birds ... cats ... bicycles
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
That's Eppy, to you. @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
💀
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
Gaming Research and Investigation Laboratory (GRAIL) @grailresearch.bsky.social We are a psychology research lab and community gaming space focusing on analogue/tabletop gaming and what we can learn from it here in Aotearoa. If you have any questions please visit our website for more info at: https://grailgamingresearch.wordpress.com/
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk Dreams & Goats & Sorcery
Occult RPG Smallpress 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Italian & Glasgwegian
https://shop.lostpages.co.uk
Seedling Games @seedlinggames.bsky.social I make tabletop RPG stuff. The most popular thing I've made has been Procedures to Discover the Path Ahead.
mastodon: https://dice.camp/@seedling
mailing list: https://buttondown.email/seedling
website: https://seedlinggames.com
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Andrew D. Devenney @adevenney.bsky.social historian, associate director: CMich Center for Learning through Games & Simulations (class.cmich.edu/clgs & cmichpress.com), publisher: Superhero Necromancer Press (superheronecromancer.com), 💖💜💙
Jon Truitt @jgtruitt.bsky.social Games, History, Travel, Camping, Family, Friends, and probably some other random stuff.
The RPG Gazette @therpggazette.bsky.social ALL THINGS TTRPG- Reviews,News,Essays & Events in Romania
https://lnk.bio/the_rpg_gazette
Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social RPG Designer, Publisher, Bureaucrat, Canadian, Acadian, Bi, Podcaster and coffee-lover.
Ridima @rhythmicsheep.bsky.social interests: transformational game design, applied game studies, intrinsic motivations
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too