I'm a former academic, semi-professional magician, and partially-trained clown who used to work on the railway and now gives historical walking tours.
But I have interesting hobbies!
...
Get tickets for my various shows at https://robteszka.ctcin.bio/
host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
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.
HIC HABITAT MINOTAUROS
Coming soon ➡️ The White Cat's Dark Affair ➡️ WISHLIST IT AT STEAM!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882940/The_White_Cats_Dark_Affair/
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
NarraScope is a hybrid conference on interactive narrative by @iftechfoundation.org. Join us in 2026 at the University at Albany, June 12-14. https://narrascope.org/
narrative designer @sloclap and teacher (sometimes) | exploring desirable futures in games 💬 worked on Red Sails ⛵ former dontnod and asmodee digital (opinions are my own)
Spanish & French teacher, amateur crossword constructor & speedrunner, passable bassist, pretend programmer, escape room enthusiast.
Puzzles - https://crosshare.org/reibello
Charity - https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Timothy-Giannetti-2025
Puzzle game designer, creator, enthusiast.
Has been referred to as the “bad boy” of puzzle design… one time… earlier in this sentence… that he wrote.
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
Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Radio ghost, game designer and developer, interactive fiction writer, poetry generator.
and then there's this
https://linktr.ee/openmikeeagle
Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement.
I would probably like you.
Comedian, writer, singer.
I once died on Celebrity Ghost Stories.
Horror and game liker.
No cavities!
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes • Sayonara Wild Hearts • SPL-T • The Sailor’s Dream • DEVICE 6 • Year Walk • Beat Sneak Bandit • Bumpy Road • Kosmo Spin
simogo.com
Still not a literary agent…
The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
One of the posters of all time.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Makes tiny games. Currently in grad school to be a librarian. Helps organize local game dev stuff near Detroit. they/them
https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/
https://virtualmoose.org/
(NAH-rel, /nɑː rel/)
He/they, 25 🏳️⚧️🇵🇱
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
Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
EnigMarch is a daily puzzle creation challenge that began in 2022. Every day in March, we'll share a prompt to be used as inspiration to create a puzzle. Designers of all skill levels are welcome. Use #EnigMarch to share your puzzles!
Grilled Cheese Award Winning, Fully Automated, Luxury Anarchist Syndicate
Posts written in a kind of obsolete vernacular.
🔀⚧️
Shared Brain - they/she/he/I/my/we/our in a constant superposition
Commissions & Shop: https://moxiest.art
The Official Account of Choose Your Own Adventure
https://linktr.ee/choose.your.own.adventure
I like stories and user interface design and nonlinearity and code. I created Twine (https://twinery.org) and continue to work on it.
A writer in NYC. https://jmac.org
I post links to stuff I make here!
I post everything else to Mastodon: https://masto.nyc/@jmac
Some content is syndicated from https://fogknife.com, https://venthuffer.com, or https://jmac.org/notes.
I read things, I write things, I play and design games
sickleburg.com
Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News. "FOIA terrorist." Subscribe to my newsletter, FOIA Files and my FOIA podcast, Disclosure.
Signal: JasonLeopold.666
http://swap.fm/l/O8A3zzBKsGWpqLtjzLSF
https://www.bloomberg.com/foiafiles
he/him
Inclusive education consultant & coach
Interested in strengths-based approaches, differentiation & UDL, visual supports, executive functioning, neurodiversity-affirming practice
Also jump roping, pancakes, and relational databases
aaronlanou.com
i make things (allegedly)
website 𓆟 https://sweetfish.site/
games 𓆟 https://sweetfish.itch.io/
art account 𓆟 @sweetfishes.bsky.social
Reporter telling stories at This American Life. Used to host Reply All and once upon a time, Serial.
Spacy nerd and chronic lurker ∙ 30s ∙ English & (少し)日本語 OK ∙ icon from Clockwork by @chikuto.bsky.social
I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social I used to make Reply All. One day I will be in the ground hopefully flowers will grow out of me
Music:
Slowfawns.bandcamp.com
Western kabuki (the official podcast of Bluesky):
patreon.com/weste
Language and AI by day. Escape rooms and immersive gaming by night.
✍️ Room Escape Artist | roomescapeartist.com
🎤 Reality Escape Convention | realityescapecon.com
🎙️Reality Escape Pod | https://realityescapepod.podbean.com
✈️ Escape Immerse Explore
Computer science professor, board game enthusiast, audio escape room creator.
#EscapeRoom, #Immersive, #UXdesign, and fixing things. I fight for the user.
✍️ Room Escape Artist | https://roomescapeartist.com/
🎙️ Reality Escape Pod | https://realityescapepod.podbean.com/
🎉 Reality Escape Convention | https://realityescapecon.com/
Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Puzzle design freak | Totoro fan.
Crafty Christian Jill of all Trades ™️
Too many ideas, not enough time.
Infinite Imagination. https://www.wordigirl.com
A bi-weekly zine all about IF, from events to releases, interviews, highlights and more!
https://linktr.ee/ifwhatsnew
There’s a good chance I taught your improv class at UCB.
Portfolio and stuff at http://www.arivoukydis.com
☘️ 🏆 🏀
“NBA CELTICS BEST TEAM MOST TITLES”
Comedy & TV Animation Writer, Cake From Outer Space, and this one time I won on UM ACTUALLY
IF experimenter
Games here: https://manonamora.itch.io/
THIS ACCOUNT IS STILL ALIVE I'm just restructuring stuff xD
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
Text games, cats. This they writes and writes about parser games.
Baton Rouge, they.
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 they/he 🏳️🌈
interactive fiction writer - https://red-autumn.itch.io/
she/her ↙↙↙
Writer & editor, animal lover, local history & architecture nerd, queer fiction fan | Ace & agender | 🚫 genAI
Books: tabithaoconnell.com
Interactive fiction: alyshkalia.itch.io
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/tabithaoconnell
ey/em or they/them
I write games instead of giving opinions. Interactive fiction and experimental text games independent author.
[Spanish & English]
https://pseudavid.itch.io
words, music, spinning in circles on the threshold (they/she)
https://lionstooth.space
linktr.ee/itslionstooth
latest: https://lionstooth.itch.io/hideous-fabulous
Quest and narrative designer. Location-based game expert and geocacher. I have too many hobbies. He/him.
www.PatientRock.com
Moved here from Twitter. Still resisting.
Text adventure author. Purdue sports fan. Former GameFAQs guide writer. Reads too much. Plays too much chess. No crypto, MAGA, or DMs from ppl I don't know outside here.
gcbaccaris.com 📜 Writer & Game Developer 🪄 Twine Grimoire | 🔮Harmony | 🪞Resurrection Gate | TGA FC '23 | Volunteer @IFtechfoundation.org | narrative design, localization, CSS, & more
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
🕯 http://ko-fi.com/grimdev
🦷 gcbaccaris.itch.io
My site, asterfialla.com, is where I'll be posting art, games, and blogposts from now on. It has comments and an rss feed. Check it out.
Anodyne yet alive.
https://muffituffiwuffi.itch.io/
he/him | web: jsnlxndrlv.neocities.org | cohost: @jsnlv | masto: @jsnlxndrlv@gamemaking.social | kf: ko-fi.com/jsnlv | Avatar by @bachelorsoft.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
Sociocyberneticist, writer of interactive fiction, et al.
Metal / Dark Wave artist and producer
CAUTION: NOT ACTIVE HERE. GET IN TOUCH ON MASTODON OR X!
Akz Fraktur, award-winning amateur game developer, game jam host, jack of several, master of few.
https://akzidenz.itch.io
Text adventure / CRPG creator.
🕹️ WISHLIST Cyberganked on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@icecreamjonsey
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.
‘00. Enthusiast of indie TTRPGs, the Gothic, portraiture, Sanrio, pink, and oodles of kittens. Mikey/Mikie, if we're close!
(They/Them)(💖💜💙 / 🏳️⚧️ / 🇻🇳 )
https://mikeybehr.neocities.org/about
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.
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
Currently thinking about how money and information intersect in social media @whattofix.tech. Reflecting on knowledge, truths and how best to get there since oh my gosh probably 2003.
📍Brussels
Doctoral Researcher, Loughborough University
Previously journalist. Bylines in The Citizens, The Observer, Byline Times, VICE World News, Tech Policy Press, The Lead, New Internationalist.
Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Listen as Chris and Matt Yule slowly lose their minds reading every single page of an interactive fiction book one week at a time. apple podcasts, spotify, etc.
Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Molly Ker Hawn at David Higham and Uwe Stender at TriadaUS
Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you in July 2026. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha email: romancingrunoff @ gmail
She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com