Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.
Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.
Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.
paulrissen.com
buttondown.com/r4isstatic
Ruby Twitchett @rubytwitchett.bsky.social Narrative Designer | Game Writer | Creative Writer | Playwright
Portfolio site here ๐
https://rubytwitchett.carrd.co/
Sagar Beroshi @sagarberoshi.bsky.social Storytelling in Games.
โ Narrative Designer / Writer for more unannounced things at The Chinese Room
โ Writer for Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest
โ Deputy Game Director for Helldivers 2
โ Producer for As Dusk Falls
Aydan ๐ - Looking for work! @lichipudding.bsky.social Narrative designer & writer. Tongue-in-cheek-core. Scratch the surface and find out ๐ | ๐ Sweden
| https://aydankanani.com/ |
Editor Meagan @gmmoonwolf.bsky.social Editor and Rules Manager at White Wolf | Former Senior Game Developer at Kobold Press | She/Her | Opinions My Own
laurence @laurenceiseult.bsky.social Design @Paradox on CKIII
Prev:
Principal ND @LiquidSwords
Narrative Lead @ZOAN
Game Writer @shedbuildergame
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธthey/them
Narrative Dep Alumni
IGDA 2023 Virtual Exchange
Stockholm
Jost L. Hansen @jostlhansen.bsky.social I'm completely new to Bluesky.
But some interests are cats, board games, film, rolepalying games, tv-shows, photography, podcast, craft beers and Indiana Jones.
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
outstar ๐ง "professional vampire simp" @outstar.bsky.social ๐ฆ actual vampire, probably
i work with art, doodle a lot, roleplay vampires, make small indie games, and make music from time to time
cryptid rarely seen on youtube & twitch
poland / sweden / silent hill
work: associate creative director @ white wolf
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Acke @ackehallgren.bsky.social โข Lead Quest Designer
โข Star Wars Outlaws @ Massive Entertainment
www.ackehallgren.com
โข Solo dev of What Never Was
โข Creative Director of Chapter II
www.whatneverwas.se
โข Formerly: The Division, Rage 2, Ravenbound and more
He/him.
Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social 48, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. Ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)
Film Crit Hulk @filmcrithulk.bsky.social Doing the criticism. All essay stuff free over on https://www.patreon.com/filmcrithulk
Avatar by Yannick Belzil @yannickbelzil.bsky.social
Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social Writer. Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul. Rings of Power. Several pilots lost to the whims of a fickle system.
Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
rrdgames.com
Jason Carl @vampiresnvino.bsky.social TTRPGs, Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: The Masquerade, TTRPGs, vampires, wine. #vamily #critter 50% coffee 50% Cabernet | Los Angeles |Words & views here solely mine.
Cash! @cashdecuir.bsky.social Freelance narrative designer & writer, director at Talespinners!
Credits include: Disco Elysium! Avowed! Metal: Hellsinger! Killer Frequency! Fallen London, Sunless Sea: Zubmariner, Sunless Skies! And many more yet to be released!
Cardboard Sword @cardboardsword.bsky.social Developers of 'The Siege and the Sandfox' WISHLIST NOW! http://siegeandsandfox.com 
Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social Writer of Nova Jones (CBBC), Deep Heat (ITV2) and AfterDeath (film). Script editor of far more famous things. Neurodivergent and widowed. A typo in every tweet, guaranteed.
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Stephane Rappeneau @stephanerappeneau.bsky.social Game Industry Finance ๐ฎ https://bsky.app/profile/weirdloop.bsky.social indie studio & indie-plaza.eu cofounder. Teacher of game economics at La Sorbonne university. French Excel Artist. MtG nerd. He/Him.
Mitch Sabbagh @mitchformer.bsky.social Former Writer at Zugalu & Frogwares + Past Bethesda QA; Stoic; SEGA/Capcom Fan; INTJ; Northern American; Neoclassical Liberal; Maverick; Freedom, Hard Work, Integrity; Praise the Unknown; Views Mine.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
@peskydryad.bsky.social @peskydryad.bsky.social 
Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social โ Writing Warren Spectorโs next game
โ๏ธ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
๐ BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
โญ Marketing: SCMedia
๐ค Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
โ shao.karrie@gmail.com
๐ง karries.carrd.co
@swecue.bsky.social @swecue.bsky.social 
Rob McLachlan @robmc.bsky.social Lead Technical Level Designer at Half Mermaid on PROJECT D - Prev Lead Designer STILL WAKES THE DEEP at The Chinese Room
Inger Lernevall @ingerlernevall.bsky.social 
Alice Camp @acampwriting.com Senior Narrative Designer @ Microfun
Writer @ Pistol Shrimp
Translator @ J-Novel Club
Prev. Deck Nine Games, White Owls, ProbablyMonsters, Netmarble.
https://acampwriting.com/
EN/ๆฅๆฌ่ช/ไธญๆ โญ
(I mass block, it's not personal)
JP Bichard (They/Them) @johnpaulbichard.bsky.social Gender queer artist, filmmaker and producer.
Also write (and occasionally perform) poetry
Feminist - anti-colonialist - activist
Co-producer of Stockholm Burlesque Festival
Check out https://johnpaulbichard.com/film
Fraulein Frauke @frauleinfrauke.bsky.social Artist. Working with performance, se*uality, burlesque, costumes, spectacle and singing. Stockholm based. Producer of Stockholm Burlesque Festival & Frรคulein Frauke Presents
Tim Probert @timprobert.bsky.social Illustrator and Author.
Lightfall 1, 2 and 3, published by HarperAlley
timprobert.com
Nathan Vokal @nadescape.bsky.social Writer, game designer, musician.
Senior Mission Designer @ Absurd Ventures. Views are my own.
โ๏ธ TMNT: Tactical Takedown, Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, Flotsam
๐ฎ Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Modern Warfare โ19 and โ22
https://nadescape.itch.io
John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social Game designer and graphic artist in Seattle, WA. Blades in the Dark, AGON, Lasers & Feelings, Lady Blackbird. johnharper.itch.io
Jules @foxpiratebard.bsky.social Writer, pagan, midwife, songwriter/guitarist, Larper. Catmum of 4 maniacs. Kevin's aunt. All Hozier all the time. Can't play B. Alter ego of Rain Lyesmith, though she has enough ego for both of us and certainly doesn't need her own altar.
@kneeshooter.bsky.social @kneeshooter.bsky.social - C @carnaaki.bsky.social @carnaaki.bsky.social
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social Worldโs greatest author
Al (thatโs my name, Iโm not a machine) @north5.bsky.social 
Snowy @mgjevans.bsky.social Expect mainly cat pictures, food, optical illusions and vague ramblings about rpgs, boardgames and occasionally engineering, data and sustainability.
Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, I Walk With Monsters, Lychford.) Editor-in-Chief: Cosmic Lighthouse Comics. https://www.cosmiclighthouse.co.uk/ He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social Wildly swerving between cozy pictures of sewing projects and cats, and what some people call 'politics'. I write weird because doing a PhD messed up my writing.
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Prof. Nick Turner @dr-mip.bsky.social Bioanalytical Chem - Uni Sheffield & EPSRC Established Career Fellow.
MIPs, Sensing, Aptamers, Chaperones.
LARP, TTRPG, MTB. Blood Bowl.
All views very much my own.
Gavin Bodill @gavbod.bsky.social Yorkshire man living in Ireland.
Trying to be a little better every day.
Lolli @lolli-thei.bsky.social Neuroscience, geekery, crafting and cats. Oh and the occasional hard done by partner
David, PIRATE Captain @bestpiratecaptain.bsky.social Gamer, pretend scientist, PIRATECaptain ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social Curated collection of 10,000+ public domain images, free for users to explore and reuse, even commercially. A project of @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Website: https://pdimagearchive.org/
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays โ โ๏ธ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social 
Sagalinn (she/they) @sagalinn.bsky.social project manager // larp designer // witch // bisexual disaster
Halfdan @justhalfdan.bsky.social https://justhalfdan.com
LizzieStark ๐ BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social Writer, game designer, mutant, future crone.
Author of BIG CRONE ENERGY (W.W. Norton, 2027), EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES (W.W. Norton, 2023) and other books.
#ovatures #brca #larp #bigcroneenergy
lizziestark.com
sixofhounds.itch.io
pic: Adrianne Mathiowetz
Kol Ford @kolford.bsky.social Beltane born word wrangler & trouble maker. Creative type at Omen Star.
[ttrpg, larp, immersive events, nerdy shit, rave, alt, goth, lgbtqa+, boardgames and videogames]
[He/Him]
๐น๐๐น
Jo P @rainjodash.bsky.social Safety Weasel & Professional Fun Spoiler by day. Amateur Fun enabler & Enthusiastic Moth by night!
JLBarrett @jlbarrett.bsky.social I write sometimes.
I laugh a lot.
I like hats.
@talking-dog.bsky.social @talking-dog.bsky.social - R Will S @ruskeydoo.bsky.social
Alex Camilleri @alexkalopsia.bsky.social Sicilian in ๐ธ๐ช
designing at Poncle, while making a small game where things go *beep boop*
videogames, playful things, animal liberation, data privacy
Design Lead @ Embark Studios, Amnesia: Rebirth, Memoir En Code, 1977 Radio Aut, SOMA, RIGS, Alaloth...
Conan Daly @hex-heart.bsky.social Game runner of Orion Sphere LRP, a UK sci-fi fest Larp! Freelance TTRPG Editor, Escape Room Designer & general Game Systems & Incentives nerd. Formerly a museum curator / geologist! (He/Him)
OSLRP - www.orionspherelrp.co.uk
Games - www.hexheartgames.co.uk
James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social Eco-zealot, cyclist, cat called Gideon, bushcraft, activism, that sort of stuff.
Kev @the-kevster.bsky.social 
Erin @oldgreymane.bsky.social Neurodiverse, queer, and filled with equal amounts of mischief and rage ;-)
Larper, gamer, parent
Thorsten S. @thesiteabout.me I'm a history nerd and wannabe explorer of cold places. I also love the mountains, taking photos, playing and making video games, doing ancient Greek reenactment and occasionally Larp.
he/him
Vienna ๐ฆ๐น.
#IndieWeb: https://thesiteabout.me
Harry Harrold @harryharrold.bsky.social Medium-sized fat bloke. #ukcharitycamp Helps build web stuff @neontribe. Tries to be agile and user-centered. Proud resident of the Fine City of Norwich. Has never been a TV producer. (He/they)
Amelia Tyler @ameliatyler.bsky.social BAFTA nominated voice actress. Roleplayer. Big fan of condiments.
๐ Narrator (BALDUR'S GATE 3)
๐ Hecate (HADES 2)
๐ Wenduag/Nyrissa (PATHFINDER)
๐ Malady (DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN 2)
๐ Eleanor/Nyx (WARFRAME)
๐ Shadwyn (SOLASTA 2)
๐ ??? ๐
Philip Harris @solitarymindset.com Design Director and writer. By day, I develop video games. By night, I write urban fantasy and horror novels and screenplays. He/him. Co-chair of Greater Vancouver Chapter of HWA. All opinions my own. http://www.solitarymindset.com
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
Stephane Bura @stephanebura.com Game design consultant and theorist.
Stories, worldbuilding, puzzles.
he/him
Sophie Short @sophieswriting.bsky.social game writer and narrative designer by day, dice-rolling gamer gremlin by night
(she/her)
based in south-west UK ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฟโจ
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvelโs Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social Lead Narrative Designer @ Eidos-Montreal
PreviouslyโAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Crusader Kings 3, Crush Crush, Club Penguin, and more.
www.alexnewcombe.com
Unsurprisingly a bisexual TTRPG nerd as well. Happy to talk shop! He/Him
Jeff Sparks โจ @misterjsparkles.bsky.social Just doing dirty rotten no good videogame design all day and all night for years and years.
Currently:
โ๏ธ Design Director at Mythwright
๐ธ Design Lead on Out of Words
๐ Design Consultant for Remedy
Terry Goodwin @terrygoodwin.bsky.social Studio Director & Game Director at Lab42 Games, a Sumo Digital Studio. Worked on Yakuza/Sonic/HFF/Tales of the Shire/lots. Non-binary ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ They/Them - A Storied Life: Tabitha out now!
Gerben Grave || Multiverse Narratives @multiverse.bsky.social Freelance Narrative Designer + Game Writer. Making Eloquence! Age of Wonders 4 | We Were Here Forever & Together | Game Bakery
Jack Goddard @actuallygoddard.bsky.social Game Developer and Actor.
QA to Level Designer @thechineseroom.co.uk
Play my personal games!
Steam: http://tinyurl.com/JackGoddard
IMDB: http://imdb.com/name/nm4037257
Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Firesprite โข Prev Splash Damage, Ubisoft, etc โข Writer of theatre and science fiction ๐ญ๐ฝ โข Pagan ๐ฟ โข she/her โข NE England โข amyflorence.co.uk
James Batchelor @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social Comms Manager at @digitalbandidos.bsky.social. Runs Non-Violent Game of the Day (@nvgotd.bsky.social). Former journalist
Author (The Best Non-Violent Video Games, Wandless, Blow The House Down) www.jamesbatchelor.me
Father. Gamer. Soundtrack Nerd
Rachael Eyre @craftyfurzepig.bsky.social Not the author.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from โKill Switchโ, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Iain Lowson @embraagain.bsky.social Writer what done 26 years of Star Wars. Still writing for videogames. Working on more of my own stories too, not just playing with other people's toys.
He/him, LG*B*QT+, ADHD, hazel eyes, and no AI.
www.linkedin.com/in/iainlowson
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
๐พ florencesmithnicholls.com
Kev Moss @kevmoss.bsky.social Founder / Creative Director of www.ImportantSmallThings.com Building
human-centred technology. Alzheimer's Society Launchpad.
. Winner of Music Allyโs best music innovation. about to launch www.catmosonic.com
Jim Thompson @jimt77.bsky.social Designer of objects & games, maker, lecturer, larper.
Matt Savigear @anatosuchus.bsky.social Ageing martial artist.
Charlotte Barratt (Luggage) @uberluggage.bsky.social More degrees than A-levels
More letters than name
she/her
Nicholas Slaven @nickslaven.bsky.social 
The Chinese Room @thechineseroom.co.uk Critically-acclaimed games studio in Brighton UK.
Creators of Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Still Wakes the Deep, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
Working on new unannounced projects. โจ
Nora @god-empress.bsky.social Creative, visual and immersive events expert. Neon knitwear enthusiast. Filter coffee, please.
Aaron Linde @aaronlinde.bsky.social narrative lead on Guild Wars 3, prev Halo Infinite, Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2, Battleborn, Gears of War 3. checks this thing like twice a year