Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
Video game writer and and narrative designer.
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Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
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Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
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2025 was the fifth Queer Games Bundle, an annual queer art and survival project. Socials and mailing lists here: queergamesbundle.carrd.co
@superjoost.bsky.socialโฌ crunches data. @lainenooney.bsky.socialโฌ rummages in archives. Together on the UNBOXING podcast, they explore how and why games matter in today's economy.
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Since 1995, the IFComp is an annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
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over-explainer for fame & fortune, 9-5 academic, 24/7 analog enthusiast.
PhD of computer/networking/net histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS, critical HIV/AIDS studies. you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
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Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
designer, researcher, and educator. founder of SWEAT, a loose collaborative creating socially conscious games. co-curator of Dizzy Spell, an artist run project to exhibit artists' games. faculty at the University of Denver in Emergent Digital Practices. ๐จ๐ด
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Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at a small liberal arts college.
Digital skulduggery and more
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Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Assist. Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Dog person. Rose person. Cake person.
Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish
https://elikaortega.net
Java Champion, Developer Productivity Advocate, Author
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An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Quest and narrative designer. Location-based game expert and geocacher. I have too many hobbies. He/him.
www.PatientRock.com
Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardoโs Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
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Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
The friendly tool for game dialogue! Plugins for Unity, Godot (C#, GDScript), Unreal + more! Made by best mates from way down under who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool ๐๐๐ฑ
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Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic โย and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
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
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Lecturer in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania researching and publishing on queer game studies, embodied rhetorics, and the โpost-digital.โ Wife and parent, proud queer woman, leftist Christian.
chloeannamilligan.com
Illustrator โข She/They โข Woubbleโs Dad โข Lead Character Artist/Ennie Award winner - TalDorei Reborn โข WotC โข Critical Role โข Lorcana โข LaurenWalshArt@gmail.com
https://www.laurenwalshart.com/links
Ope. Midwest writer and narrative designer. Currently a Senior Writer @ Compulsion Games | Subnautica | Naughty Dog |Yet another social media platform.
Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | โ๏ธ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ | she/her | annacwebster.com
Summer Game Fest Edition: June 7 10am PT https://youtube.com/@Women-LedGames | Highlighting women in the games industry, sharing their projects, and their experiences.
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We tell stories of a delightful, intriguing, and gorgeous nature with a dedication to super inclusivity across the spectrums of sexuality, gender and race.
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Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
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Writer | Editor | Pseudo-Academic | Geek Schnoodle Media, LLC
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/toiya (working on a VN)
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Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
ebr is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. Digital futures of literature, theory, criticism and the arts.
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/
Associate Professor teaching Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
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Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time
Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter
Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
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Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
He/him. I make worlds that you want to explore. Sr. Game Designer at <AAA studio>. Prev: Bungie, Turbine, more. I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
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Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
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Writer, game designer, artist | Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | BAFTA, IGF, DICE + Game Awards nominee | Poetics PhD | they/them |
Jumpovertheage.com
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
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Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence.
A place - www.electrondance.com
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Educator - Middle School Social Studies - Playful Learning -
Game Clubs - Esports -
Thomas Metcalf Laboratory School at Illinois State University -
EdGamer Podcast (2011-2016)
The official Bluesky account for The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play at CSU, Long Beach (criticalplay.org) also @criticalplayorg@mstdn.social
poet/writer electronic literature
CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research.
UiB, Bergen, Norway.
i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
creative head at freehold games
co-creator โ Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants๐น๐น
he/him
artist-researcher https://zoyander.cc
creator https://intrapology.com
posting via micro.blog, details here: https://zoyander.cc/follow
Running @StrangeScaffold. Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. โ๐ฆ๐ he/him
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Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
Game designer and graphic artist. Blades in the Dark, AGON, Lasers & Feelings, Lady Blackbird. johnharper.itch.io
Writing and Narrative Design. previously: Wizards of the Coast, Wildstar, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars. now: secret quests at System Era
@culturalgeek on twitter
Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Maker of books, games, games about books, and books about games. Social media content syndicated to multiple platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronareed
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made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS), edited by Evelyn Gius, Peer Trilcke and Christof Schรถch.
This international journal is published in diamond open access, peer-reviewed, international, and also organizing an annual conference (CCLS).
Formerly @InkpenNcendiary. If I followed you on Twitter, Iโm re-following you here! She/her. Sometimes discusses stuff and things. Animation. Video games. Writing. Music. Horror. Vague nature rambling. ๐ฟโจ
An OG digital artist/writer: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
I write and code and draw and crochet and stitch and lift and ride and swim and bike. No, I don't have a neurodivergence diagnosis, why do you ask? http://lyleskains.com
Director, Immersive Storytelling Lab and Professor of Cinema and Media Arts @York University Toronto. President, Electronic Literature Organization. I write and collect weird things. XR/AI/poetry, future cinema, interdisciplinary, vintage, optimism.
A lover of born-digital art, literature, and games spending an inordinate amount of time in her lab keeping it all accessible to the public.
Canadian Studies UofT. ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฆ
Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; DH; Artificial intimacy; digital & geolocative storytelling; game studies.
How did I end up with ALL the cats?
T'karanto, Treaty 13
Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer.
Views my own.
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Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink.
Games: A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery! and Pendragon. Latest: TR-49
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Ars Technica's science editor. Various other things that are far less interesting.
Check my author profile on Ars for my email. jtimmer.95 on Signal.
Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
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Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
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Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
Science writer, mostly puttering about the garden.
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