Ben Templeton
Playful design for positive change :: Writer, facilitator and creative director :: Founder of design studio Thought Den & Critical Action Lab :: News juice! thoughtben.substack.com
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Games with purpose
The games-makers and game thinkers, focussed on doing good
Smart and caring arts/culture/tech people
They were my bedrock on Twitter and here they are on Bluesky. Themed around society, culture, climate, play and technology.
@erodley.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Museum person. Experienced cultural producer & educator. Digital skeptimist. Co-Founder & Principal, The Experience Alchemists. https://theexperiencealchemists.com
@preloaded-studio.bsky.social
LATEST: 🚀 LEGO® Smoothie Odyssey #UEFN | A BAFTA-winning games studio inventing new ways to play for everyone. We make Play with Purpose®.
@andrewhinton.bsky.social
“Lacks self control” - Mrs Duncan (2nd grade) Product Design + IA + UX etc etc Love your neighbor as you want to be loved. Everyone is your neighbor. Web: andrewhinton.com Book: contextbook.com Mastodon: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton #ND #ADHD
@myddelton.bsky.social
Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
@michaelspicer.bsky.social
Please listen to my radio show. It's called No Room. Thank you. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yrzs
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social
THE Decentralized General Strike Network ✊ Uniting 3.5% (11 million Americans!) to actively participate in a STRIKE for economic & political reconstruction. JOIN US: www.GeneralStrikeUS.com LEARN MORE: https://linktr.ee/generalstrikeus
@hitpoints.bsky.social
A newsletter about the game industry, by consultant, writer and former Edge editor Nathan Brown. Sign up for free: https://newsletter.hitpoints.co/
@extinctionrebellion.uk
Demanding fair, transparent change to secure the future of all life on Earth → JOIN US ➤Act Now ➤Tell The Truth ➤Decide Together #XRUK #RebelForLife https://linktr.ee/xrebellionuk
@404media.co
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
@fastfamiliar.bsky.social
participatory, playful + political artworks by an interdisciplinary studio | powered by curiosity, coffee + misplaced idealism | finally left the hellsite
@sproutness.bsky.social
Creative Producer etc. Studying psychotherapy. Advocating for non-predominant neurotype child. Dealing with motherhood. Direct and good-natured. MY VIEWS ONLY
@bookbusbird.bsky.social
Scottish widow: currently rebuilding my house, garden and life after losing my husband to cancer. https://bookbusbird.com/
@noahjnelson.com
Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty. Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos. BlueskyUser #499
@artsemergency.bsky.social
We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture. https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
@louise-cole.bsky.social
Production Director at Cogapp @cogapp.bsky.social Agency for digital projects, building a better online world. www.cogapp.com
@tomscott.name
Chief Digital Officer @PLOS.org. Previously responsible for Wellcome Collection’s digital transformation, Director of Product at Springer Nature, BBC /nature, /programmes /music &c. Oenophile and Type 1 Diabetic. https://tomscott.name
@alywebb.bsky.social
Digital and content strategy and research for cultural organisations.
@richardleeming.bsky.social
Innovation consultant, working on digital and data transformation for the public good, mainly in culture, heritage and voluntary sectors. Labour & Co-op councillor representing Dulwich Village Ward, focused on active travel. Dad, Gooner, sailor, cyclist.
@melissaterras.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including CoSTAR network activities, Creative Informatics, and Transkribus. MBE FREng.
@spadgy.bsky.social
Head fulla noise, toys, & hobbies. 🕹️🪀🛹 Freelance game journalist, copywriter, events, mock reviewer, etc. Edge, The Guardian, Eurogamer, BAFTA, PC Gamer, GI, Bitmap Books, etc. Arcade/shmup/retro player. Yo-yoer. https://linktr.ee/willfreeman_spadgy
@ewebber.bsky.social
People first, organisation consultant. Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice and creator of the Team Onion. Londoner in Merseyside. Blog at emilywebber.co.uk Biz at hellotacit.com Other websites and projects at ewebber.co.uk
@thediyora.bsky.social
journalist, writer, progressive comms🌿 hothouse bookclub co-organiser email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com website: diyorashadijanova.xyz she/they
@giagia.co.uk
Thinking mainly about the Digital/Real World divide and the Human part of Being. You’ll think I’m an arsehole eventually. 👍 Newsletter: https://giagia.substack.com/ Podcast: https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/
@ianbetteridge.com
Anecdontalist. He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people.
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@molly.wiki
independent writer of citationneeded.news and @web3isgoinggreat.com • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian support my work: citationneeded.news/signup links: mollywhite.net/linktree
@whatleydude.com
Strategy Lead, GAME @ The LEGO Group (freelance, opinions own, etc). Co-creator of The DICE Charter. Occasional sender of fivethingsonfriday.com. I got ❤️ for writing, gaming, and figuring stuff out. He/Him.
@neilperkin.bsky.social
Founder of Only Dead Fish. Author of 'Building the Agile Business', 'Agile Transformation' and 'Agile Marketing'. Curator of Google Firestarters.
@luca.run
🗑️ Delete your Tweets/Favs github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer 💳 buymeacoffee.com/lucahammer Fediverse: social.luca.run/@luca He/Him. Autist. ADHD
@clairebaileyross.bsky.social
Associate Dean Academic @uniportcci | Associate Professor Digital Heritage | Museums Tech, Co-design & Audience Experience | Geordie in the South (she/her)
@josephbell.xyz
Bristol-based human. Basically Sesame Street's Bert in human form. https://www.josephbell.xyz 🐈☕
@mhermans.net
Sociologist, researcher, member @denktankminerva.be & @brispo-vub.bsky.social: labour relations, quality of work & open source data analysis.
@janefinnis.bsky.social
Consultant Director with The Audience Agency. Champion for our Let’s Get Real programme of action research and positive change in the cultural sector.
@davecpatten.bsky.social
Retired museum technologist and story teller. Guitarist with Special Branch and GlamBam and occasional member of the Spiders from Sidcup. I am curious about everything.
@lsutherland.bsky.social
📍Lives in The North. 💼 Head of Engagement, North @ The National Lottery Heritage Fund. ❤️Likes Bowie, Gin, Museums, Heritage, Culture, Nail Polish & PokemonGO. Unapologetically Gen X. 👉Follows/reposts not endorsements. 📝Views & skeets very much mine.
@tonybutler1.bsky.social
Director, Derby Museums Banner “Lo Winter is Past” 1963. Marion Adnams (1898-1995). Derby Museum and Art Gallery
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@monomoon.bsky.social
game/music/sound designer. Lover of films, games, ttrpg, everything audio. Worked on Shadows of Doubt, Silt, Cosmic Express, The Colonists + others. https://linktr.ee/monomoon_sound
@jallsopp.bsky.social
Creative Technology Director @PRELOADED. Future Play #SpecialProjects #R&D | #BAFTA #BIMA | #gamedev
@dukope.bsky.social
Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
@wethrowswitches.bsky.social
videogame-adjacent production // curation // design studio ~ special projects, alt. hardware + fantastic, raucous, beautiful things 💜 wethrowswitches.com