Now Play This
A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
@hollynielsen.bsky.social
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her
@vivschwarz.bsky.social
Author, artist, interactive stuff. Runs betonmond card games. Hopes you are mostly happy. She/they
@kirstykeatch.bsky.social
Designer • playful design + dynamism Previously: ustwo games - Alba: a Wildlife Adventure kirstykeatch.com San Francisco
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@saganyee.bsky.social
Media arts, animation, games, speculative fiction. UCLA Design Media Arts MFA '26. He/they. www.saganyee.com
@shimmerglitch.bsky.social
✨Asterism, an interactive music video game, out now!✨ Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450 Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com 3-Fold Games co-founder @biomecollective.bsky.social member shimmerwitch.space
@elleosiliwood.bsky.social
TV presenter talking film, arts, & games. Named a BAFTA Breakthrough in TV, called “one of the most influential women in games” by Google. Rep: ITG
@adrianhon.bsky.social
Founder and former CEO of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote "You've Been Played" and "A History of the Future in 100 Objects". Currently Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art. Blog: mssv.net
@clarered.bsky.social
CEO of Watershed, a home for culture, technology and society. Also Chair of Wise Children and trustee of RSC. 🏳️🌈 Queer, nature loving, anti racist.
@thomasbowker.com
• makes videogames • lyne : split signal : frog detective : surf club • https://thomasbowker.com/
@mmarangoni.bsky.social
Artist and researcher Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts
@georgebatch.bsky.social
I am to blame for Bird Alone & Far from Noise & Hot Date. Soon to blame for several new ones. georgebatchelor.com | he/him
@verybrinteresting.bsky.social
creative things all the time. exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london. https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
@toadrick.bsky.social
Mrs Parker & Dr Love. Mum of 2, game designer, community & social play researcher, PT senior lecturer @ Abertay & chalky antics @ #oneplaything Views are my own
@susepicious.bsky.social
creative producer 🤠 irregular streamer 📺 1/6 director of biome collective ✨ http://twitch.tv/susepicious linktr.ee/susepicious
@chadtoprak.bsky.social
experimental game designer, independent curator he/him Games Investment Manager @ Screen Australia https://mr-chad.com
@jrcarpenter.bsky.social
artist, performance writer, poet, practice-led researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
@househouse.bsky.social
We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Next is Big Walk: bigwalk.game househouse.com
@alt254.bsky.social
Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
@plarango.com
Screenwriter (Watch EXTRACURRICULAR on Tubi, Amazon, etc. Or don't. Either way is fine with me, honestly) Creator of consumie.com General weird movie and music enthusiast He/him Signal: pla.51
@lauraehall.bsky.social
Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games & escape rooms, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books) ✨ lauraehall.com 🔎 cfia.org 🎙️ eggplant.show
@molleindustria.org
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. he/him
@philippawarr.bsky.social
🎮 Narrative designer: A Monster’s Expedition, Little Kitty Big City, Flock 🎨 Illustrator 📚 Former dep ed at PCGamer 🪲 Beetle enthusiast
@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
@gabbydarienzo.com
game developer + artist ✦ current: @DrinkboxStudios.com + SeasonalaCemetery.com ✧ prev: Nobody Saves the World, Super Crush KO, Celeste, A Mortician's Tale, Parkitect + more gabbydarienzo.com
@cityloop.bsky.social
Melbourne/Naarm based artist, educator and award winning gamedev. She/her/they Prev: ghosttowngoldie
@thenomi.bsky.social
an idiot. vids, illos & games events?? 1, 2, 3Dreams. founder of @gaemz.bsky.social. been making flamingos for @amazefest.bsky.social. did the ggj 2025 video. worked on 2 or 3 camera games. making another dog game. ahahah https://www.thenomi.com
@noproscenium.com
Anything But The Usual. 🤯 Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014. 🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more. 👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
@ninfadp.bsky.social
Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director at @btfgames ❀ Game Designer Adv. Take Us North prev: Lead Game Designer Dordogne ❀ @official_gdc Advisor ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/they
@leighalexander.bsky.social
Story, games, procgen, bad futurism, spooky AI. Everything is narrative design. she/her https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
@tigershungry.co.uk
Creative director and playful curator. Rethinking exhibitions & experiential design. Studio lead at http://goodafternoon.uk you might also recognise me from W/Mild Rumpus, the V&A, a party in a shared google doc & the grannies
@stellawisdom.bsky.social
Curator interested in electronic literature, interactive narratives, comics, web archiving and digital preservation
@astroblob.bsky.social
Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@gdlp.bsky.social
writer in liverpool / half responsible for thewhitepube.com / fully responsible for gdlp.co.uk
@ndkane.bsky.social
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability, opening June 2025. she/they ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
@everest.bsky.social
Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Assistant Professor at Pratt Game Arts - Shepherd in the summers https://everest-pipkin.com
@v21.bsky.social
hello again made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use also i have a website: v21.io
@radiatoryang.bsky.social
artist, game dev // https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand (nz) making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about an underdog rugby club; "wishlist on steam now" https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
@hannahnicklin.bsky.social
Writing, game & narrative design. Used to be a performance maker. Race bikes on occasion. Currently contract: story person at Night School. Previously Creative Director at gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti capitalist practice.
@halfrobot.com
Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others) Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ ) Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, Brooklyn Queer Country drummer, strap-on.org etc. https://metasynthie.itch.io/