🎲 Co-owner of Many Sided Media
Award-winning Sound Designer
My First Dungeon, Bitcherton, Talk of the Table
narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference by ACM SICHI for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and HCI.
📍 November 2-5, 2026, York, UK
UK academic researching games and the environment. Writing book on Blood Bowl. Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.
www.blazgracar.com/letibus
Herd out now!
Game designer of LOK, LOK Digital, Abdec, Workworkwork, Herd, All Is Bomb // Making music for theatre, keyboardist, electronic producer as Blaž // Some other stuff as well // he/him
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 (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
An ESRC Funded Project Researching the Effectiveness of Playful Learning in Higher Education
Professor of Digital Learning and Play at Northumbria University. Likes video games, cryptic crosswords, and otters. All views my own. She/her.
tabletop game designer - grasping nettles, my brain is a stick of butter, no stone unturned, legend has it
he/him
adambell.games
newsletter: http://newsletter.adambell.games
itch: http://adamebell.itch.io
comradery: http://comradery.co/adamebell
Bundle of Joy is OUT NOW:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3138370/Bundle_of_Joy/
Founder of Essay Games (he/him)
https://essay-games.com/
https://essaygames.itch.io
slowest gaming youtuber of all time, hobbyist 3d artist, female replyguy
30, she/her
www.youtube.com/@alexandcrackers
bio-less because my bf roasted me
she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Experimental game designer currently working on Hoop Dungeon. Previous games: Syphilisation, The Quiet Sleep
tabletop games by Adam Vass (they/he). Mostly horror stories & scumbag RPGs.
www.Worldchamp.io
Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
ENnie-Winning Writer of the Wildsea and PICO, weird fiction enthusiast. Writes in the rain. Available for interviews, because my community is urging me to socialize more. He/Him.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythworks/pico-tiny-bugs-big-world
Podcast production company and network
My First Dungeon, Talk of the Table, and Bitcherton
Affiliates: Dice Exploder, Tales Yet Told, Dorkspawn, Maia’s Game Room, Mage Hand High Fige
https://linktr.ee/manysidedmedia
Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
llaura, @liadhy & lots more folks.
cool things like curtain, if found, contact, bog bodies
follow for news and gifs, but probably in the opposite order
personal account. makes games & art with lots of cool people and sometimes just herself (if found, curtain, etc). @dreamfeel.bsky.social anti-cool, aunty-cool. often wrong, but self-correcting and self-improving
game? designer??
Amberspire ~ s.team/a/3350750
The Banished Vault ~ s.team/a/2341070
design diaries, newsletter ~ lunardivision.net/
blogs ~ blog.enceledean.com
analog games ~ enceledean.itch.io
design chats ~ paperlabyrinths.com
a they in Chicago
(they/them) I'm passionate about explosions and skeletons. Header image by Simon Sweetman.
Buy Virtue's Heaven on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/Virtues_Heaven/
Subscribe to my Newsletter:
https://buttondown.com/MOKKOGRAD
Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker
Board games: https://hollandspiele.com
video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland
sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
boy from maryland, making art, games, apps and creative ephemera, big-time dad, in carrboro nc
starfriends is out now!
https://starfriends.online/
make art with moss
https://moss.town
co-founder, @brainfruit.bsky.social
utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
av by @garrett.bsky.social
banner by john hwang
game studio of @robdubbin.bsky.social and @garrett.bsky.social, your pal
buy our wares:
https://brainfruit.studio
we've made:
✨ https://starfriends.online
🎰 https://brainfruit.studio/games/jackpot
🌱 https://moss.town
…and more!
Games+comics writer+coder+artist. Wrote Still There, drew Football Drama, illustrated some Risk of Rain LPs and stuff, made DOTween, Goscurry, etc. Any/Any
Website: demigiant.com
Insta: instagram.com/demigiant
Egyptian Game Designer | AI Researcher @ UM | He/They
🎮: amidos2006.itch.io
📚: scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ
He/him. Makes tabletop games http://ehronlime.itch.io. Shouts about tabletop playtesting (Playtest Zero!) every other week. World's 2nd foremost expert in being Aaron Lim.
video games okay? https://mealticketgames.com/
making "Fine, Whatever!" - coming 2026
contact@mealticketgames.com
The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
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.
✦ Illustration, comics and concept art ✦ (She/her) ✦ En/Es/Eus, learning Jp ✦ lurnoise.com ✦
Pronunciation: "Klay-tun Note-Styne" Designer. Writer. Educator. Tabletop games. Explorers Design. Pro-union and cooperatives. He/Him.
28 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
gay artist, game dev in nz // my website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about rugby https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
He/him. I make digital toys at http://vectorpark.com
Funi Raccoon Game is OUT NOW!!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3599690/Funi_Raccoon_Game/
gamedev, currently working on Funi Raccoon Game with @crayondev.ie
my other social media: https://linktr.ee/kitworldz
Maker and enjoyer of little TTRPGs.
He/They
https://armstronggames.carrd.co/
PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member.
manchestergamecentre.org
Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy.
Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
https://eryk.zone
head bookseller at peregrine coast press • director of the uk tabletop industry network • pierogi-core graphic designer • iwgb game workers • kras mazov stan
leeds
Brazilian cartoonist. Autistic. He/him. https://linktr.ee/prosaiko
interactive biofreak. ½ of @goodluckpress.co. award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher. going to make one of each game.
pgh
(they/them)
😷
goodluckpress.co
willjobst.itch.io
Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Dedicated to discovering and sharing hyper specific curated game lists. All human curated.
Created by @farfama.bsky.social
exhibitplay.com
Critic. Tabletop columnist at The AV Club and Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
7-10 April 2026
Breda, the Netherlands
www.everythingprocedural.com
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.
coding is shit graphic design is shit all i want is revenge
https://bignastytruck.neocities.org/
https://bignastytruck.itch.io/
https://dogtoothguppyfish.neocities.org/
he/she/they
poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student
"bibliomancer" when wearing my gamer pants
https://bibliomancer.itch.io/
https://brendan-allen.com/
Maker of Games and Sounds.
Better in person. He/Him
📚 - Graduating MA Games Design @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social
🔜 - Square Zero Games
🕹️ - cdiffin.itch.io
art villain • he/they • work/contact etc: http://www.sajanrai.co.uk/
• personal commissions/prints: https://ohhaiku.bigcartel.com
Makes games and animated films with his finger
https://michaelfrei.io
Made a video game called Time Flies https://timeflies.buzz
Bringing the best indie games to Glasgow ⋆｡°✩
. ݁₊⊹ July 11-12 2026 ⊹₊ ݁.
https://glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/
Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
He/him, Painter and Illustrator from Scotland
For commissions and work: Email olliemnjones@gmail.com, or DM me
Prints: https://linktr.ee/olliemnjones
Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com
Writer of small fictions. Creator of "Creature of Near Kingdoms", "Lorn Song of the Bachelor", and other SEAsian fevers.
Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/
Out now: Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play (MIT)
Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
https://www.microethology.net
Living with motor neurone disease #mnd #als
she/they
@telodendron.bsky.social
games, comics, posts
thank you for visiting my homepage
game developer || machine learning + video games researcher || siphonophorae fan club member
website: https://www.howthefrondsfold.com/
bit wrangler ~ poet ~ film/noisemaker ~ mask enthusiast ~ they/them
webassembly @fastly
📍🏴 edinburgh
here to post and interact / seattle
Tabletop RPG writer, editor, graphic designer (for hire!). Corpselike academic. he/him
samsorensen.blot.im
I’m the guy @ https://modegone.net | blog @ https://falions.net/blog | translation @ https://falions.net/translation
design researcher. he/him
researching through making games, zines and critical tea towels about climate futures, tech, and systems.
Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
https://fractals.coop/ and research fellow @ lancaster uni
Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Artist, game developer, bass guitar player
Try the Yuha’s Nightmares demo: store.steampowered.com/app/1457940
streamer/drawer/maker of stuff and things also as well
18+ no babies
twitch.tv/heckmaybe
A storytelling co-op based in the UK. Creator of No Longer Home 🍃 Support us @ patreon.com/humblegrove
Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
Games + Performances
Part of Fantasia Malware
Making The House Before and The Abyssal Diplomat
-------------------------------------------------------
https://gabrielhelfenstein.mmm.page/
https://gabriel-helfenstein.itch.io/
https://fantasia-malware.net/
The largest union for game devs in the UK.
Work in game dev or TTRPG? Join the union: https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/
The home of game development and design in Sheffield 🟢🔵
Find out more: https://playsheffield.carrd.co/
A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2024.
Website: emfcamp.org
Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org
Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
researching knowledge, creativity, & gaming at OII Oxford & UTokyo 🎮 / JSPS research fellow 🇯🇵 / Women in Games ambassador 🤍 / matcha latte enthusiast 🍵
🏳️🌈 Midlands4Cities PhD Student at BCU. Studying queer game-making via playable monsters 🧟🧛🏻♂️🐺
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Writer, Director, making short films and developing feature films.
Videography, photography and post-prod at mcnallyfilms@gmail.com
Writing for Johnson², Transmission for Them and other TTRPG bits.
He/ Him
Habitual horror film watcher, writer and TTRPG dabbler
the only good gimmick account?
Oui! 📽️
does what it says on the label, with occasional detours into other genres
obscene low follower count boy
https://youtube.com/@danieldouglas
I write code to help people (and computers) connect! 🎮 | they/any | chicagoooo
backend engineer at Gardens 🌳 previously Singularity 6, Jackbox Games | IGDA-F Next Gen Leader
Doing a Phd in Zines, Comics, and Mental Health.
Writer and Artist behind a bunch of comics.
Arts educator and zine historian.
Redefining niche.
