Melanie Dickinson
technical narrative designer specializing in procedural narrative, storyworld simulation, and authoring tools \o/
@hobostewball.bsky.social
Something very weird was happening. And if something very weird was happening, he wanted it to be happening to him. https://www.splintergame.com/
@n-w-f.bsky.social
UC Santa Cruz professor; Expressive Intelligence Studio co-director; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming Fall 2025, in the U Chicago Press Replay series
@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
@galaxykate.bsky.social
Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
@jfg.land
creative head at freehold games co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹 he/him
@mike-treanor.bsky.social
Games / Computational Media, Music. American University. Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
@robdubbin.bsky.social
utility clown writer & game developer & he/they games @brainfruit.bsky.social proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com cohost @eggplantshow.bsky.social tools @ https://scripto.live previously @ colbert av by @garrett.bsky.social banner by john hwang
@johnaustin.bsky.social
Founder of Pontoco and Project Lead for The Last Clockwinder. Engineer, Game Designer, Tea Lover; in no specific order. Previously: Lead XR Eng at Funomena | Research at Google Brain @kleptine on the Hellbirdsite
@arnicas.bsky.social
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.
@winterk.bsky.social
she/they 🔹games at @hotbrain.bsky.social (previously: goblet grotto) 🔹comics (current: devil world // past: monster killers) 🔹posts (words and pictures) thank you for visiting my homepage
@jon.inkle.co
Narrative @inkle.co he/him Writer: EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator. “Life doesn't always work out like it's s'posed t' / Like bread doesn't pop when you watch the toaster"
@janelleshane.com
I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com Also a research scientist in optics. She/her. Colorado, USA
@derkderkderk.bsky.social
lead gameplay designer for wwe2k games. Formerly @derkderkderk on Twitter. Statements/opinions are my own.
@bjarkeal.bsky.social
Computational Media PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz. Researching how online live games tell stories (Yes, Destiny 2 is mythology and wrestling) He/him.
@barrettrees.com
https://barrettrees.com/ HCI & UX Researcher, PhD in Computational Media he/him, they/them
@catacalypto.bsky.social
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
@lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox, currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Organizer, Roguelike Celebration (and formerly !!con). Disabled (ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent. https://lazerwalker.com she/her
@stcymsn.bsky.social
❧ Interactive narrative research & innovation ❧ Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2 ❧ Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit ❧ PhD: Responsive Narrative Systems ❧ Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade ❧ Opinions mine ❧ More: staceymason.info
@uel.bsky.social
uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. I run a business of repute, I am the mayor of this town. You can read most of my fiction at northofreality.com Banner by carpetbenzo.bsky.social