Leo Herrera @herreraimages.bsky.social Cruising Manual + Sex/Tech/Culture Newsletter: https://linktr.ee/herreraimages
Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social This time, we win✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊🏻
Magick is real, but it's not supernatural✨️
They/them
Linktr.ee/FoILG
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
〽️ax krieger enters phase 2 @maxkriegervg.bsky.social Max! He/him. Game dev. Loves design, culture, cooking. Aromantic/enm. Games: CROSSNIQ+, Among Us VR. Runs @aqualounge.tv. Next: more games!
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social I write about things for a living. Currently for a game dev and my personal newsletter, Stuff Worth Knowing (https://stuffworthknowing.substack.com/).
Linsey Raymaekers @linseyray.bsky.social 🌱 #SoloDev working on a cozy nature restoration game 🌷✨
🏛️ #Houdini procedural modelling
💼 Prev: Unity dev at wooga
🏳🌈 she/they
📍 Berlin | linseyray.github.io
Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social Actions Speak Louder Than Words
✍️ Systemic Narrative Designer
🧭 Quest designer and world builder
🧠 Psychology and Sociology in #GameDesign
Currently @ Highdive Games
"Quest Giving" from CRC Press AVAILABLE NOW!
jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social fringe gamedev. code/art/direction at @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social. paratopic: overdub and roman sands re:build coming <soon> with @serenityforge.bsky.social
views my own
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Johnny Oh @johnnyoh.bsky.social 
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, 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
Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social 2025 World Fantasy Award Best Artist
Woodcut printmaker at www.xylographilia.com
https://xylographilia.etsy.com
https://www.patreon.com/LivRaineySmith
https://ko-fi.com/livraineysmith
#woodcut #art
Enjoyer of weird fiction and horror.
She/her
h @halehroshan.bsky.social 
Jared Rosen @neoncircus.bsky.social Multi-award-winning author & cool animal skull. Senior Narrative Director @ Turtle Rock. Prev Riot, Blackbirds, Dream Daddy, BFF, many others.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social game dev, mom, tired. made elsinore by night. by day, principal game designer working on a frog-type game at teamLFG (sony). previously riot, xbox, oculus, EA
ian @ismathers.bsky.social he/him
mathers
totonto
Mandy Benanav @mandybwriting.bsky.social she/her. Skeleton enthusiast. Narrative Designer + Writer
IF author: https://mandybwriting.itch.io/enchanted-house
Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social UX Lead @ Rift | ⏳Prev: The Outsiders, Funcom, EA, King
Time Person of the Year 2006 | Keynote Speaker | IGDA Next Gen Leader | Eyeroller in Chief | 🌍TCK 🧠ADHD 🩻EDS 🌈bi 🤘metalhead 🤓LoL dork 🔪Feminazgûl
Views are mine & you can't have them
she/her
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social Award-winning Game Designer. Lead Narrative Designer - @shinyshoegames.bsky.social. Tall Bermudian 🇧🇲. Tiki-drink enjoyer. Prev: Cyan (Myst, Riven), Blizzard (Diablo IV), Telltale (TWD, TFTBL), 2K (Mafia III) - www.harrisonpink.com - NO AI NO NFTs
💉🔪🩸kelly 'arekay' yeo🩸💉🔪 @kellyarekayyeo.com Union Organiser & Game Producer on Diablo IV. Opinions my own. Previous 2D art lead at Immersed Games. pfp by @emmettcomix.bsky.social 🇸🇬 they/ₛₕₑ
#DailyMoch #OoTDev
juggs reinhold @anais.bsky.social i’m my own duck 🦆🥖 she/her
toto @jellolin.bsky.social 2d+3d artist, writer, poet
shop: jellolin.site
toto-lin.carrd.co
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social I am at least a decade older than you think.
#1 Sung Hyunjae fan
My life is a set of Special Circumstances.
Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social ❧ Interactive narrative innovation & research
❧ Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2
❧ Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit
❧ Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade
❧ Opinions mine
❧ More: staceymason.info
Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social Game designer at Blizzard. He/him. Fan of: comics, music, archery, my cats. Personal account, all opinions are just mine.
formerly @jeffahamilton on Twitter
https://jhamilton.bearblog.dev/blog/ for blog-shaped thoughts
Joe Fielder @joefielder.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer at Obsidian / comic writer (The Outer Worlds 2, Deathloop, Ghost of Tsushima DC, Star Wars Battlefront II, Flame in the Flood, some BioShocks)
Ken @kaesve.bsky.social I trick computers into doing stuff 
Sara Jane @saradelyani.bsky.social Seattle movie hockey girl yes 🏳️⚧️ she/her
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
Jolie Menzel @jolie.bsky.social Professional Video Games Person and art hobbyist | Design Director @ Probably Monsters | Past: Night School, CDPR, The Coalition, Ubisoft SF/Osaka, Telltale | they/them | たまに日本語でもポストする
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social Playful.
elizabethsampat.com
Brook Jensen @brwarner.bsky.social Game designer and tenant organizer with the New West Tenants Union. Writing a game about how you can't blame your poor boundary setting on your cybernetic superpowers. 
Tony @tony.coculuzzi.social • Programmer @innersloth.com
• Prev: Cuphead lead dev + Florence lead prog + other things
• Making cool things as @wilder.games
• Married to @farah.coculuzzi.social
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada
https://tonycoculuzzi.com
૮⍝• ᴥ •⍝ა @eggsfordogs.com professional schemer, like a fever. showruiner at @1of200.bsky.social
an em dash that predates AI @emdash.party language mechanic. mullet substrate. creature. (they/she/sir) 🏳️🌈
Nick "Meat Stylus" Woll @yourdmnick.bsky.social he/him | vancouver game dev | drink haver | ttrpg enjoyer
a vessel for meat and whiskey
gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social | adam/eve | himbo chef @ http://tiny.cc/himbochef | fitness coach/blogger @ gains.af | game designer | skeets in 🇺🇸🇩🇰🇫🇷 | https://bio.site/gains |
eileen elizabeth 🦋 @eileendotnet.bsky.social poet & professor about town • writing about death & nature • cofounder of Boshemia Magazine and StoryBloom • carrying the bones: rituals for a dying world (2026) 🕊️
boshemiamagazine.com
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social Game and Comics Writer | Destiny 2, Black Ops 6, Transphoria, Spider-Man 2 | TGA Future Class, BAFTA Connect, Forbes 30u30 | ashleypoprik.com | 🏳️🌈🦻🏻
Sam @samloveskirby.bsky.social narrative designer @ Bad Robot Games🍓prev:
Neon White, ROM: Neurodiver, Cartomancy Anthology, etc.🍓 she/her💗💜💙 icon by Jolie Menzel
samanthaivonne.com
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // Date Everything, King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/he // hpowellsmith.com
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
Bobby Stein @bobbystein.bsky.social Studio Narrative Director at ArenaNet. Dad, husband, musician, mentor, foodie, retro gaming enjoyer, and a few other things. I post about the games I'm playing, the food I'm eating, and occasionally the games we're making. Follows =/= endorsements.
tom is looking for work! blm. @tomabernathy.bsky.social Storyteller in games, film, theater; musician/songwriter. Dad, progressive, empathy evangelist, Braves/Seahawks/Kraken/Torrent/Storm/Sonics/GT/UW/USWNT fañ, smartass. Opines mine; facts not in dispute. He/him. 💙 #DarkWoke #NoDemUnder30k
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social freelance game writer/narrative designer (Borderlands 4’s Loveless, Endoparasitic/Endoparasitic 2, Star Trucker, a bunch of other stuff) open to new work!! ✨ #1 Ratatouille Fan ✨ she/her
my website has pictures of my dog: https://www.nessacannon.com/
Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social Dad, Veteran Lead Game Systems Designer, I make Player-Centric Systems about Progression and Investment.
Brawl Stars @ Supercell in 🇫🇮, Formerly Fortnite Systems, VALORANT Competitive, Destiny 2 Systems, Magic R&D
Portfolio at https://robertmakesgam.es/
Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social • Principal Writer - Iron Man @ Motive Studio
• Comic Writer - Star Trek, Killtopia: Nano Jams, Hoax Hunters, ReincarNATE
• prev games: Jurassic Park Survival, 40K Space Marine 2, Gotham Knights
• 🏳️⚧️
• All views my own
www.ashleywritesgames.com- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Samantha Wren @samwren.bsky.social Narrative Director of a certain video game | prev BioWare, ArenaNet, Monolith | SFF writer | 🩷💛💙
www.samantha-wren.com
Erika (they/she) @meowriko.bsky.social games production & publishing advisor | hapa | 4 cats | ex- Riot, Google, Humble, Xbox | Seattle
Greg V. @exceptionalpotato.bsky.social UE graphics engineer at Firaxis, occasional photographer, sometimes cosplayer. Previously at Schell Games. He/him. Born in the USSR, now in west PA. Made a WonderSwan demo once. 🌈❔
♥ @smolcano.bsky.social
Kyle McKernan @spacetreasured.bsky.social Award-winning game director, designer
@ko-op.com
Co-director, Goodbye Volcano High
Lead UI/UX designer, Young Suns
Director, ********
Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | NOW: Kinali Works & Stupendium Softworks | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️ 💜🤍🖤💚 | she/her | annacwebster.com
Books Schwartz 📚 @sunshineduk.bsky.social Sr Narrative Designer at Microfun ✨ Prev: Drydock, Sony Santa Monica, Possibility Space, Molasses Flood/CDPR, Ubisoft, Lifeline, Wayfinder ✨ larprunner, YA writer, ADHD, queer as heck ✨ they/them
nell @nellraban.com a woman with no common sense
Milo 🦷 @computertooth.bsky.social they/them 🦷 horror writer & collage artist 💾
Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/toothcuts/
e.g. Alice Lastname @spelpscorp.bsky.social sometimes I make comics
Sean MacLean @macslain.bsky.social He/him || nerd person, ambient noise girlfriend, photography, glitch art, and mechs
Axel حسن Taiari @shevek.bsky.social Writer.
ZERO PARADES. Neurocracy. weird fiction. narrative design. game studies. (He/they)
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Rourke Bywater @rourke.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Hidden Door. lesbian. 💜 procedural systems, women, folk music + art with a touch of melancholy and bitterness. Organizer @ Roguelike Celebration
Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social Writer of video games, books, short stories etc.
A SPELL FOR MIDWINTER'S HEART out now
Rep: Aurora Fernandez @ Trident Media
Games: GW2, Tell Me Why, Halo, Rift, and more
http://www.lockhartwrites.com
christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv writer of New Astoria, a sapphic cyberpunk thriller
https://newastoria.tv
ex-lolesports, call of duty, twitch, dauntless, ambrosia sky, et al
dm fee $25 https://ko-fi.com/chhopsky
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Drew Levin @drewlevin.bsky.social I make games. Personal account.
Alison Lührs @alisontheperson.bsky.social Writer, Seattleite, outside kid, narrative game dev. Personal account.
alisonluhrs.com
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social Creative Director @heartloopgames.bsky.social . Prev: Blizzard, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc... One of the Habibis. Professor at Dawson College. GDC Advisor. TEDx Speaker.
doc @docseuss.bsky.social ADIOS. HARDSPACE. PARATOPIC. Narrative Designer. Creative Director. Game design consultant.
http://patreon.com/docgames
http://medium.com/@docseuss
http://paypal.me/stompsite
Juan Vaca @juancow.bsky.social Story Director, The Coalition.
Co-founder, Latinx-in-Gaming.
Jug Band Musician.
@juancow everywhere else.