I design games, especially tabletop roleplaying games (Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark). I also write books on storytelling (Play Unsafe) and drift into interactive fiction (39 Steps) and LARP (Will That Be All).
And I love theatre, art and history.
PhD Candidate. Prisons, Punishment, and Policy.
editor of your favourite ttrpgs. she is an unlicensed hottie, a pest, a scoundrel and a menace.
living on kaurna land (never ceded)
Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum).
A friendly annual games contest that explores the boundaries of freeform larp.
Check out this year's contest and all past submissions here: https://goldencobra.org
Formerly: King. Smuggler. Mercenary. Pirate. Buccaneer. Soldier.
Currently: Corporate Drone.
By the Black Throne of Erlik, wear a blasted mask!
https://linktr.ee/conansalaryman
Librarian, larp writer/runner/designer/player, queer anarchist type. Special interests include: indie ttrpgs, iron age archeology, the anthropology of ritual. Also my cats, who are perfect.
interactive biofreak. ½ of @goodluckpress.co. award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher. going to make one of each game.
pgh
(they/them)
😷
goodluckpress.co
willjobst.itch.io
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writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
https://www.rifftrax.com
instagram @billcorbett
Deus Pascit Corvos
D. Vincent Baker, longtime indie ttrpg creator. Co-creator of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, and many more. Disarm, defund, abolish. He/him. https://lumpley.games
Writer, tabletop game designer, occasional artist. Maybe: future friend?
He/him.
My games: http://a-smouldering-lighthouse.itch.io
I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
The Larp Census is an exciting project to discover how many larpers there are in the world, and to explore the different ways in which people larp.
larpcensus.org
🎲 Boardgamer, 🐉 Dungeon Master
📷 Photographer, 🥩 Foodie
🚀 SciFi, 🎺Music, 🎬 Film, Vinyl Nerd,
📚Book Nerd,🏺Ancient Historian
🩰 Dance Dad
⚣ Gay Rights Advocate
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
🔪 Horror Screenwriter, Game Designer
👁️ Owner of Read/Write Memory
🩸 Podcaster on Spooky Asian Club
Lit Rep: Allen Eckhouse, Logical Talent MGMT
she/they: a Capricorn
28 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Desperation.
Philly migrant | Corporate drone / struggling TTRPG creator | Monsterhearts fan | Netrunner player | pixel art lover | 🏳️⚧ rights | fuck AI 🚫
she / her / it / its.
I make music as Domesticatrix.
Larp aficionado. Person who calls himself aficionado. Occasional event producer. He/him.
Nuisance to friends, family, and strangers.
Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Boardgames. Magic the Gathering. Microbiology.
Miniature painter, YouTuber, artist-in-training.
Tabletop gamer, nature lover, cat thrall
Sarah Doom (she/her) is a tabletop role-playing game designer, writer, layout artist, and visual artist.
www.scorcha.net
https://www.patreon.com/sarahdoom
Brennan Taylor (he/him) is a game designer and creator of Bulldogs! and Mortal Coil, and co-founder of IPR.
Good Mormon boy turned radical queer trans witch girl / Queer liberationist / Free Palestine
You may know me by a different name. And a different handle. Or maybe you don't know me at all. It doesn't matter.
More tiger than your average bee. Lazy queerness, abortion activism, doula stuff, weird cooking, dress-up. Always, always, grounded in love.
Quick-witted romanceable party member with a terrible curse (but it's multiple sclerosis) | Contra & fusion dancer, ttrpg & larp game designer, theatre-goer | Washington, DC | they/he
Protect trans kids
ACAB
#actuallyautistic
Durm, NC
My fourth-quarter pipedreams are seeming more and more worth fighting for.
Startups & Game Design
http://leveragedplay.com (foresight games)
http://diegeticgames.com (consumer games)
http://storysynth.org (online games platform)
Friend, Dad, Scouting America Troop 187B Brooklyn Scoutmaster, Backpacker, Historian, Sales Leader, Game Player, Miniatures Painter, President Metropolitan Wargamers in Park Slope, Brooklyn
He/They, SI92, D96, Iranian half-breed, LGBTQIA+ rights, if my praxis ain’t intersectional it’s bullshit, flawed but working on it. Really tired of this shit. Really. Tired.
Los Angeleno, Immersive Designer, Con Organizer, jack of most trades. Queerdo.
Nursing student by day; larper, HEMA practitioner, and west coast swing dancer by night. Former theatre technician, current cat parent in Maryland.
they/them| ♿️|🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️|✡️
I am a lawyer, mother of 1 boy, and an avid board and video gamer. Mostly just trying to be a decent human being and have some fun along the way.
Nerd, dancer, gamer, UX dev, pragmatic leftie, neurodiverse, writer, secular humanist
I’m a tech worker living in NYC. Occasionally I write a silly little larp.
Standard human issue. Nothing to see here.
Professional code monkey, amateur cook, hobbyist TTRPG dev of player-empowering, positive action-forward games. Find my work at vagentzero.itch.io!
Applied researcher with PhD in CS/Theatre. Working on something new {📸⏩🎞️} to cross the ML-HCI Chasm. Frequent digital/immersive theatre director. Bi 🌈.
dustinfreeman.org
he/him | Listening | Learning | BoardGameGeek Community Manager | Bills Fan | Whack-a-Mole Champion of the Universe | Coffee Please |
I write games, sometimes.
https://feelings-wave.itch.io/
Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Not the queen of heaven, but still the refuge of sinners. Mad writer, friend of #NukeSky, zinester, and verb-er of analog games. Your favorite cis girl's favorite cis girl. Polyam queer. she/they.
Find all my work/socials at https://linktr.ee/rufflejax
DEXCON, DREAMATION, METATOPIA, and the First Exposure Playtest Hall at Gen Con. *Double Exposure, Inc.*
Operations Manager for the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University
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