Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 @hoppingfun.bsky.social One of those creative types: Word-y, geek-y, game-y (oh wait).
I've been making games, stories, media, books, jazzy content for oodles of clients for decades. Come see: hoppingfun.com
Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social Writer, narrative designer and UI artist. Tea-Powered Games (Elemental Flow - demo on Steam!, Dialogue: A Writer's Story) | Freelance | WGGB Games Co-Chair | Interactive Fiction meetup host (She/her)
Portfolio: https://teawithflo.com/portfolio/
Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made
anjchang @anjchang.bsky.social Passionate about storytelling and bringing characters to life on stage and screen. Crafting media art in spare time. Always seeking new adventures and inspirations. Taperzine founding editor, MIT, Media Lab, Recurse Center, MITverses, and Motorola alumni
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
That Tom Hall @thattomhall.bsky.social Pro Game Designer for 37 Yrs! Co-founded id, ION Storm. Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Anachronox, DASH, VR. Current:-REDACTED-. Photography/Pico-8/Meditation/Movies/Hifi.
ENTRY-LVL @entrylvldev.bsky.social A friendly community supporting junior game devs. Helping you navigate the industry with resources, events, networking, and everything in between! 🐲💖
🔗 https://entrylvl.ca
꒰ #gamedev I #indiedev I #gamedevresources I #indiegames ꒱
Olivier Lussier @olussier.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative director at Lowbirth Games 🏳️🌈 He/Him 🏳️🌈 #ThisBedWeMade is out on PC, Playstation and Xbox NOW!
Trying Errors @tryingerrors.com Making weird story-driven games with creative game mechanics.
CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
Marie Šilhová @marie-22.bsky.social Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
Kev makes games @kevthunderofthesky.bsky.social I'm a Montreal 🇨🇦 developer making Indie games.
https://linktr.ee/kevthunder
In my current project, history is flipped ! The Maya descendants will be the first to cross the Atlantic
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4520640/TechnoMayan
Caltrops @caltrops.bsky.social https://www.caltrops.com
We exist to identify and enjoy all manner of video and computer games.
Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social Nonprofit empowering more women & other underrepresented genders in game development. Volunteer-run and based out of Montréal (Canada), we organize free career development opportunities — in-person and online.
ℹ️ http://pixelles.ca
✉️ info@pixelles.ca
baezil @baezil.bsky.social Crafting, IF, plants, critters, etc.
B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social Radio ghost, game designer and developer, interactive fiction writer, poetry generator.
@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
Keltena @keltena.bsky.social Spacy nerd and chronic lurker ∙ 30s ∙ English & (少し)日本語 OK ∙ icon from Clockwork by @chikuto.bsky.social
Mandy Benanav @mandybwriting.bsky.social she/her. Skeleton enthusiast. Narrative Designer + Writer
IF author: https://mandybwriting.itch.io/enchanted-house
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
Naarel ("everything in their hands" OUT NOW) @ednaarel.itch.io (NAH-rel, /nɑː rel/)
He/they/it, 26 🏳️⚧️🇵🇱
The guy behind Passerine Hills, "i won't finish this game", Lights series, and Oneironverse
Discord - ednaarel
itch - https://ednaarel.itch.io
ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/ednaarel
kastelpls (かすっち) @highimpactsex.bsky.social high impact they/them subculture media blogger and yuri vn writer (@proflilyvn.bsky.social) behind Spring Gothic and 31st March, Midnight.
blogs: mimidoshima.neocities.org
itch: kastelpls.itch.io
bylines: Germinate, Mothership, TIER Review
Aaron A. Reed @aaronareed.bsky.social Maker of books, games, games about books, and books about games. Social media content syndicated to multiple platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronareed
Jim Nelson @j-nelson.net Novelist and pedestrian. Author of CHANDLER & WEST: A STORY OF LOS ANGELES, A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE (MX Publishing), ACCORDING TO CAIN, and more. I blog about books, film & writing.
https://j-nelson.net
https://viewauthor.at/JimNelson
#Writing #BookSky💙📚
@mathbrush.bsky.social @mathbrush.bsky.social 
Manon (manonamora) @manonamora.bsky.social IF experimenter
Games here: https://manonamora.itch.io/
THIS ACCOUNT IS STILL ALIVE I'm just restructuring stuff xD
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Brett Witty @brett-witty.bsky.social Ever-learning mathematician trying to do work in maths, AI, game dev, writing and digital art. 🇦🇺
🌐 Site | https://www.brettwitty.net
🦣 Mastodon | https://mstdn.social/@brettwitty
📰 Newsletter | https://the-creative-process.ghost.io
Justin Bortnick @lordhuffnpuff.allfatherproductions.com Working academic and video game maker. President, @iftechfoundation.org. Founder, @allfatherprod.bsky.social. Writer/Designer/Producer/Whatever, Frog Fractions 2; Static Sky; Reality Games; Hiveswap; other projects. Host, Red Pages Podcast.
Miss Cirone: Christmas at Donner Pass @lancecirone.bsky.social Just last week I read about the Baader-Meinhof effect, and now I'm seeing it everywhere!
Dee Cooke @deecooke.bsky.social Editor of other people's writing. Writer of fiction, poetry, text adventure games and now-occasional blog posts. Formerly slow runner, now a bit faster. Red phone box appreciator. Duranie. Still preoccupied with 1985.
Phil Riley @rileypb.com Computer Science guy. I like coding, text adventures, cats, and coding.
I wrote Galaxy Jones and Bureau of Strange Happenings.
Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social Text adventure / CRPG creator.
🕹️ WISHLIST Cyberganked on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@icecreamjonsey
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Akzidenz @akzidenz.bsky.social Akz Fraktur, award-winning amateur game developer, game jam host, jack of several, master of few.
https://akzidenz.itch.io
Hanon Ondricek @hanonondricek.bsky.social hermit, recovering theater geek, interactive fiction enthusiast
moderator at https://intfiction.org
itch | https://pyramidif.itch.io/
ifdb | https://ifdb.org/showuser?id=81wuum5lfioisqk3
MoyTW @muffituffiwuffi.bsky.social Anodyne yet alive.
https://muffituffiwuffi.itch.io/
Andrew @anandrewschultz.bsky.social Text adventure author. Purdue sports fan. Former GameFAQs guide writer. No crypto/MAGA/DMs from ppl I dunno outside here.
itch https://andrewschultz.itch.io/
Youtube retro playthrus https://www.youtube.com/@andrewschultz6608
Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist, cat haver, bicycle centaur
Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Spring Thing, Xyzzys
versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid still exists
nazis bad, trans rights good
he/him
Pseudavid @pseudavid.bsky.social I write games instead of giving opinions. Interactive fiction and experimental text games independent author.
[Spanish & English]
https://pseudavid.itch.io
Tabitha 🐀 @tabithawrites.itch.io Writer & editor, architectural historian, animal lover, queer fiction fan | Ace & agender | 🚫 genAI | ey/em or they/them
Books: tabithaoconnell.com
Interactive fiction: alyshkalia.itch.io
Autumn Chen @red-autumn.itch.io interactive fiction writer - https://red-autumn.itch.io/
she/her ↙↙↙
Charm! @overthinkings.bsky.social IFDB Award-winning game dev, composer, writer, teacher. Horror, weird fiction, sci-fi.
📍Atlanta, GA
✏️ “Sundown” “Gestures Towards Divinity” The RGB Cycle, “Retool Looter” “1 4 the $”.
27, queer, auDHD, disabled they/he 🏳️🌈
Justin (he/him) @heyjustinkim.bsky.social Designer, Developer, Writer. I dig #InteractiveFiction and retro games. Check out my Interactive Fiction Authors starter pack!
Currently: A writer at thefinalarc.com. UX Generalist at diadesign.io.
Portfolio: heyjustinkim.com
itch: bruhstin.itch.io
Olaf Nowacki @drnow.bsky.social Sociocyberneticist, writer of interactive fiction, et al.
Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social Text games, cats. This they writes and writes about parser games.
Baton Rouge.
@strandgames.bsky.social @strandgames.bsky.social Making graphic, interactive fiction. Currently working on a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery. Amongst others!
Lionstooth (posting disliker) @lionstooth.bsky.social words, music, spinning in circles on the threshold (they/she)
https://lionstooth.space
linktr.ee/itslionstooth
latest: https://lionstooth.itch.io/hideous-fabulous
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
Marco Innocenti @babbolatto.bsky.social Storyteller, graphic designer, IF lover and creator. Author of the Andromeda and A1RL0CK series.
jpking.itch.io
andromedalegacy.com
Mini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social 💚 A mother daughter team providing a forever home & specialist care at our sanctuary for animals saved from slaughter & traumatic beginnings
🌱 Not-for-profit CIC
✨ YouTube, Patreon & Fundraising: https://linktr.ee/MiniMotleySanctuary
Austin Auclair @patientrock.bsky.social Quest and narrative designer. Location-based game expert and geocacher. I have too many hobbies. He/him.
www.PatientRock.com
Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social We are a GFAS-accredited farm sanctuary & donor supported 501c3 nonprofit located in Charlotte, Vermont. We provide healthy, happy, permanent homes and lifelong care to 100+ rescue farm animals & humane education programs. https://linktr.ee/merrymacfarm
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
Stormi (Oremus, the game) @stormi-v2.bsky.social Technical product manager le jour sur le logiciel libre XCP-ng (hyperviseur), développeur de fictions interactives quand je peux. Wannabe pas-trop-irresponsable.
Mes jeux : https://samuel-v2.itch.io
Saône et Loire, à la campagne.
Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social Pronouns: they/them
Assistant Professor of Game Design
📗Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language
📗Twine Cookbook
🌐: https://dancox.me/
📺: https://www.youtube.com/@DanCox
✍🏼: https://videlais.com
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
@godkarp.bsky.social @godkarp.bsky.social 
Noah K Leiter (He/Him) @noah-k.bsky.social Welcome to the frantic, desperate ramblings of a PhD student approaching a deadline.
https://www.noahkleiter.com/
Eleanor (Ellie) Young @aretaloga.bsky.social I write stuff, play stuff, and research software preservation, especially emulation for preservation.
MA/MLIS at UofA
Texan refugee
(she/her)
Adeline K. Piercy (she/them) @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social Writer, scholar, game maker. Researching feminist gameplay, queer play, and digital culture.
Digital Humanities MA @ University of Alberta
Instructor @ MacEwan University
Proud dev of https://bsky.app/profile/chickensinmyhead.bsky.social
Raluca Fratiloiu @raluca.bsky.social College Prof. || Media Studies teacher || Experimental game designer
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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