Pirra @pirra.bsky.social she/her - adult
Sometimes "artist", always addicted to Dota2.
A romantic first, a pervert second.
(Banner is by @thisisuru.bsky.social)
I repost 🔞 be warned
tumblr: https://lasanha-do-lidl.tumblr.com/
super cool website: https://megative.neocities.org/
Josh Bothun @joshbothun.bsky.social Programmer, game developer, bad musician
@PDX
Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends (@draknek.bsky.social). He/him.
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/
doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social the statues are bleeding green
iggi phd student @ uni of york
researching game design & player creativity
sound toys & playful tools
[website] fuzul.bearblog.dev
[games & zines] fuzul.itch.io
Jake Weidner @jakeweidner.bsky.social #Gamedev Jake of All Trades!
Admin & Industry Liaison at NYU Game Center
Advisor for Experimental Game Workshop team at GDC
Formerly a Producer at: Pontoco, Pixelberry, Funomena
phyrex @phyrex.bsky.social i think about heuristics a lot : )
make something bad then recycle it!
phyrex.itch.io
Alexander King @literallyaking.com Game Designer, Economy/System Design. Adjunct Professor at NYU Game Center & Parsons DT. Staff Data Analyst for ACT-UAW Local 7902. Spreadsheet aficionado.
(He/Him)
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
⊏𝗡⊐ @nullsleep.bsky.social 𝙇𝙊-𝙏𝙀𝙆 𝙃𝙄-𝙉𝙍𝙂 🫠 𝖥𝖴𝖫𝖫-𝖲𝖯𝖤𝖢𝖳𝖱𝖴𝖬 𝖱𝖠𝖵𝖤 𝖶𝖤𝖠𝖯𝖮𝖭𝖲
@8bitpeoples.bsky.social • @outtaspec.bsky.social
📍 Tucson AZ
🔗 nullsleep.bandcamp.com
Aevee Bee @mammonmachine.bsky.social I am a bee and I use all six of my delicate insect limbs and fat fuzzy ass to work on video games such as WE KNOW THE DEVIL, HEAVEN WILL BE MINE, NEON WHITE and some other stuff. 
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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Editors:
@lainenooney.bsky.social
@daveparisi.bsky.social
@liebenwalde.bsky.social
Soraya Murray
violet "big nasty truck" bignastytruck @bignastytruck.bsky.social coding is shit graphic design is shit all i want is revenge
https://bignastytruck.neocities.org/
https://bignastytruck.itch.io/
https://dogtoothguppyfish.neocities.org/
he/she/they
making autobio & short fiction games, game poems, and zines
ben @zipit.bsky.social nyc
>> zipit.games
Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social that very spirit of negation | writer/researcher | MORE BUGS a novel out now with Knight Errant | videogames/sci-fi/art history | simcopter is my GOTY
emreed.net | I'm in Glasgow B)
Krish Raghav @krishraghav.bsky.social Bullshit comic book artist. Chaoyang Trap stagehand // krishcat.com
Co-organizing [Untitled Games Event], a monthly space for experimental games in Amsterdam // untitledgamesevent.nl
Pepijn Willekens 🌸 Plum Road Tea Dream releasing now! @pepijnwillekens.bsky.social Game dev // Punk of the digital age // REVEAL game studio // Different Perspectives Festival
Now making Plum Road Tea Dream: a game about rest, personal discovery, identity, and connection
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3206340/Plum_Road_Tea_Dream/
Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Game Studies at ICCIT, U Toronto Mississauga. Researches games, systems, AI/ML, and digital media. www.samuelpizelo.com
Mark Kleeb @kleeb.bsky.social Head janitor at @wonderville.nyc
Adjunct faculty at NYU
I build arcade cabinets
Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social Additional obscure Mario content for http://suppermariobroth.com.
Now on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/suppermariobroth
hatim @hatimb00.itch.io 🍉🎮🇲🇦💭
https://hatim.tips
@cabbibo.bsky.social @cabbibo.bsky.social 
rémi @okremiok.bsky.social 
Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social fmr. community at Double Fine Productions | ex journalist (kotaku) | blue rogue | they/she | I write freelance stuff when the mood strikes
sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social gamewitch @ sylvie.website 🐈
sylvieish half of love ❤ game @ https://love-game.net
Blechy @blechy.bsky.social 
jwest @follysoft.bsky.social Dad, photographer, gamemaker
follysoft.github.io
jwest.itch.io
mal of colm @ma.lloc.ca 
We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social videogame-adjacent production // curation // hardware studio 💜 wethrowswitches.com
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
Wonderville 🕹 @wonderville.nyc An indie arcade and event space in Brooklyn NY
hello@wonderville.nyc for inquiries
boshi's place @boshis.place boshi’s place is a space in brooklyn, ny that celebrates game making as a craft and *something related to play/experience*
website --> https://boshis.place <--
Ryan C. Wright @ryancwright.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Autoscopia Interactive | PhD Candidate at UC Davis
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social 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.
sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
av by @garrett.bsky.social
banner by john hwang
Claire Kwong @clairekwong.bsky.social I connect art and technology to make people move.
Arden Ripley @arden.rip 2x IGF Award-winning editor and localizer for games & comics • 🔞⚠️ NSFW, adults only!
❥ credits: Pathologic 3, HORSES, Mediterranea Inferno, The Author Immortal, Wanderstop, & more
❥ website: arden.rip
❥ The Vow (🔞): https://arden.itch.io/the-vow
@galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social 
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
mut / moochi @mut.media 
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Nathan Altice @altice.bsky.social Game designer, researcher, and archivist. Synth destroyer. Makes old things new. Teaching Professor of Computational Media at UCSC. Wrote I AM ERROR.
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, genre cinema enjoyer, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
Peter Sachs Collopy @collopy.net they/he | collopy.net
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן.
Immanentize the eschaton.
Another world is possible.
kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social “Compact and laser-focused” - The New Yorker.
Video game history enthusiast and Wonderswan evangelist. LFGM⚾️
Co-Owner: @pinkgorillagames.com
Also at @minnmax.com and @pewpewbang.bsky.social
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
william partin @partin.bsky.social phd | policy @youtube | esports grouch. all opinions my own!
Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social Software and content person. Writer only when there's a deadline. Video game and ttrpg nerd. Design history obsessed.
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Katherine Buse @kbuse.bsky.social I study science fiction, cultures of science and technology, environmental & digital media. Assistant Prof. at University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies and CEGU. Speculative Planetology! 🪐🌍🌔
Josef Nguyen @mojojojosef.bsky.social he/him/his
Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan
into baking, biceps, and boba
Jon Peterson @increment.bsky.social Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc. 
Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of @softchaos.bsky.social. 🌈36. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
James A. Hodges @jameshodges.net human scholar with phd (digital archives) • www.jameshodges.net
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social 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). 
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Catt Small @catt.design Designer with too many hobbies in Brooklyn. I run @gdocexpo.com in my spare time. People go "ooh" when I say I make video games.
Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social ❧ Interactive narrative innovation & research
❧ Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2
❧ Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit
❧ Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade
❧ Opinions mine
❧ More: staceymason.info
Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social I make games (and music), and play games (and music).
One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social Best of the Web. Minnesotan New Yorker in Oakland, CA. Game Designer. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
Em @emaudible.bsky.social Hello! 🏳️🌈
Workin with A Shell in the Pit making noises on indie games. Big Walk, Untitled Goose Game, Night in the Woods, Chicory, Pacific Drive, Tchia etc
Adriel Wallick @msminotaur.bsky.social I make games
she/her
Gwen Foster @ifnotnowgwen.bsky.social sad owl studios / viewfinder ✨ sokpop ✨ sfbgames ✨ bunnyhug
self publishing support && bizdev
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social artist working with code kylemcdonald.net
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social
🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜
✅ all work completely human made
Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
Stargirl @thea.codes Aka Thea Flowers
Creative technologist, open source advocate
Weirdest engineer @opulo.io
Board @oshwa.org
PSF fellow
Weasel enthusiast
Also:
@theacodes
@stargirl@hachyderm.io
@theavalkyrie
ATLien
Maxo @maxo.bsky.social Maxo / Max Coburn ~ they/any 🎶 Music for Battle Kitty, games & more co-founder of pluswav.com
http://maxo.audio 🎶
https://linktr.ee/maxotunes
m gewehr // MILLION SUNDAY @mwgewehr.bsky.social composer, sound designer, music teacher
working on scramble heart city, lackadaisy
millionsunday.bandcamp.com
mgewehr.bandcamp.com
she/they
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Dom2D 💜 @dom2d.bsky.social Art, game design, doodles.
Here for nice/cute/weird board games, video games, illustrations, and pals. Worked on Dig Dig Dino, Bomb Busters, Flinthook, Dig! Dig! Dino!, Geek Mind, BioGems, Where's Waldo, and so on!
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com.
www.jwaaaap.com
Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games @spookysquid.bsky.social Game dev @ Spooky Squid Games.
linktr.ee/spookysquidgames
Russian Subway Dogs: Steam, Xbox, Playstation, PS Vita!
They Bleed Pixels: Steam and Switch!
Currently working on unnamed "Goblin Girl Game"
WIP feed: tinyurl.com/goblingg
(He/Him) 🚫AI
Regular Monster 👹 @saladmonster.bsky.social 🔆LA forever🌴
Game dev & art mercenary!
Frog Fractions 1, 2, 3, & 4
@supermeatboy
@dreamdaddygame
@dimbulbgames
and more!
rachelsala.com
https://www.instagram.com/atinymonster/
rachel@rachelsala.com
pfp by @nareganoart.bsky.social
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social Director @nuchallenger.com
Fan of Hip Hop & sneakers
Writing, design, production, art, trailers + more
Beatdown City Survivors, Treachery in Beatdown City + more
Ex-Rockstar Games/MLB
25+ years in games
#blackgamedev ✊🏽 they/them 💛🤍💜🖤
beatdowncity.com
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
JJSignal is still! Open!! For work!!! @jjsignal.bsky.social Pixel pusher, retro game enthusiast, and lead artist/animator/director for 2064: Read Only Memories and Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER. Header by @soaps.bsky.social
Portfolio ☞ https://jjsignal.com/
OPEN FOR WORK.
Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on Verminsteel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com 🎬 Game trailer editor who made trailers for:
Half-Life Alyx, Among Us, Psychonauts 2, Riven, Spelunky 2, Firewatch, Dead Cells, Viewfinder, Stray Gods, and more!
He/him
https://dereklieu.carrd.com