Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social Serial pursuer of insurmountable hardware and software problems, armed primarily with unwarranted optimism.
https://github.com/solderlocks
Blair Matthews @blairteacher.bsky.social Digital Education | TESOL | International Education | Teacher Education | Everton
About me: linktr.ee/blairteacher
Bohemian Football Club @bfcdublin.bsky.social 100% fan-owned since 1890. Find us at Dalymount Park, the Home of Irish Football. Proud main partner - Des Kelly Interiors.
FC St. Pauli @fcstpauli.com Offizieller Account des FC St. Pauli 🏴☠️
🔗 https://www.fcstpauli.com/
Follow our English account ➡️ @en.fcstpauli.com
dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social Doctor/Strategic Innovator
⚕️XLII® Medicine/Psychol🧠ParaOncology®
BSc MBBS PhD MSc MBA CMgr
Genomics Immuno Microbiol Path Psych
Med Director Kids Cancer Charity, Person
Medicine/This Alarming Mess/Human Stuff
Rebuild from X
(anti-data-grab freq post cull)
Lulu | A menina do Solaria @luluzinha.bsky.social Ela | Lv 25 | Letras - Português UFSC | Mestranda em Educação UFSC | RPG de Mesa | Criadora de Conteúdo, Escritora e Revisora | Autora de Solaria | Parceira na Editora Caleidoscópio e na Tria Editora | aluluzinhacontato@gmail.com
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on being an Apocalyptic Optimist : go.ted.com/danarfisher
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com Dublin's independent local newspaper, since 2015. Reader-funded through subscriptions. Wednesdays and Fridays online, monthly in print.
Firma Gamedev 👔 @firmagamedev.bsky.social Trazendo o lado social dos jogos e outras formas de arte para game devs
Festival Jogatório • Firmeza Fest • Blablablá com Jogos • Dev Migs+
https://discord.gg/x95V99B2am
Yichao @michaelyichao.com Narrative director and creative consultant for games, making secret new things. 👀 Previously Phoenix Labs, Riot Games, Wizards of the Coast, ArenaNet, Imagineering.
Founder of Take 5 Improv. Cofounded Jam & Tea Studios. Most often found in Seattle. ✨
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Will @will.bearwaves.com 🇮🇪☪️🇵🇸
🐻👋 bearwaves.com
Dave's Word Game: playdwg.com
Opinions are mine, you can't have em
Josh McGiff @joshtheoptimist.bsky.social PhD researcher, Gaeilgeoir, Gamer, Software engineer, Wannabe-Swede☀️😎✨🏳️🌈 https://joshmcgiff.github.io/
The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social Annual Asynchronous Conference, other events and publications. Sponsored by CMRR Winchester, Intellect Books, and Slitherine Games. middleagesinmoderngames.net
ARISE (Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas) @archarise.bsky.social Página do laboratório de pesquisa ARISE, sediado na FURG e vinculado ao MAE-USP | ⛏️ Archaeogaming | 🎲 Historical Game Studies | 🎮 Métodos digitais
TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath @wearetudublin.bsky.social Technological University Dublin. #WeAreTUDublin #GoBeyondLearning. TU Dublin is a registered charity RCN 20204754
TU Dublin @tudublin.bsky.social Technological University Dublin. #WeAreTUDublin #GoBeyondLearning. TU Dublin is a registered charity RCN 20204754
University of Melbourne @unimelb.edu.au We're a public-spirited institution making distinctive contributions to society in research, learning, teaching and engagement.
CRICOS code: 00116K
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
oddgoo @oddgoo.bsky.social Play. People. Places.
www.oddgoo.com
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social Active travel advocate. Founder Fusion Media, co-host Streets Ahead Podcast. Was West Midlands Cycling & Walking Commissioner. Views all mine. Substack: https://www.bikeis.best/
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social Born 317ppm | Love London | Hate Racists
The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation — Bertrand Russell
Kevin Pauliks @pauliks.bsky.social Postdoc in the project "Capturing Movable Images" | interested in games, memes, and other digital media | meme investigator | Dr. phil.
@letusclingtogether.bsky.social @letusclingtogether.bsky.social 
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
@rhianeddcollins.bsky.social @rhianeddcollins.bsky.social 
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
Dr Charlotte Gislam @cgislam.bsky.social Researcher for GAMEHEARTS at The University of Salford. Book lover, knitter, terrible Magic: the Gathering player. (She/her)
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
hanine @fishinggames.bsky.social here we go again!
anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł
communication PhD student at Concordia
game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social
arabic localisation at WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Cavalier Ash @lonelyashtree.bsky.social She/Her 🏳️⚧️🇧🇷
Designer, scholar, iconoclast, a bit cringe honestly
Trophy wife and She-EO
Estudante dê jogos é retórica. Só única baby!
Aasa T 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social PHD Researcher @ Tampere University Game Research Lab. Freelance writer. Feminist. Antifascist. AoS Worlds '26 Team Finland. Warhammer researcher. Lesbian. Part-time Mancunian. She/Her 🏳️⚧️ 34
https://medium.com/@warhammerscholar
Profile pic: teafordragon
Vee Kennedy @veekennedy.bsky.social Scholar of Texts & Technology at UCF
Instructor of Writing & Rhetoric
ENDGAME project @endgame-project.bsky.social Project at @gameresearchlab.bsky.social funded by the RCF. We investigate game cultural participation and agency in specific local and cultural contexts. https://projects.tuni.fi/endgame
Logo: @piisamisiili.bsky.social
Banner photo: SEUL ry/Katja Tähja
Usva Friman @usvaf.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow & Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Tampere University (Finland). She/her or they/them.
Akatemiatutkija ja pelitutkimuksen apulaisprofessori Tampereen yliopistossa.
Thomas West @thomasthewest.itch.io Game designer | 🇮🇪
Developer for BattleClaws.com and SplitChance.com.
If you're looking for my games or other socials, all of my links can be found on my website here:
https://thomasthewest.neocities.org/
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Um dos pedros da uff @pedrowajs.bsky.social Falando nada com nada desde que me entendo por gente. As vezes pode fazer algum sentido.
Ocasionalmente 🔞
@klaakso.bsky.social @klaakso.bsky.social 
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
@amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
M.Brückner @mellowne.bsky.social Game spaces & production environments, DEI, players of games, media anthropology.
Game Scholar & Instructional Designer
From: 🇩🇪 - Currently: 🇫🇮
matildastahl.bsky.social @matildastahl.bsky.social University Lecturer in Education at Åbo Akademi University, also affiliated with the Game Research Lab, Tampere University.
The banner is for the SURVIVE-project (by Ludwig Sandbacka) where we explore intersections between survival games and survivalism.
Daniele Monaco @danielemonaco.bsky.social PhD in philosophy—widely proven to be a highly questionable life choice. Divided between the UK and Italy.
Sarah Trottier @trotties.bsky.social Human person. PhD researcher & lecturer @ Utrecht Uni. Video games, digital culture, anti-colonial/decolonial/settler colonial studies & more 💫
🇵🇸Free Palestine🇵🇸
cécile @haraiva.bsky.social 🌞 working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social Writing and fighting for a world without prisons, borders, clearcuts, or strip mines, a world of care, imagination, and mutual aid. he/they
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/
Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social Conservationist, activist, writer and researcher, rebelling against extinction
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Phillip Brandes @litgamestudies.bsky.social cat dad
Literary- (&) Game Studies
PhD: retelling in digital games
https://phillipbrandes.de
Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia) @chludens.bsky.social SNF-Sinergia-Project "Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000." (HKB /UNIBE/UNIL/ZHDK) Posts by Eugen Pfister
chludens.hypotheses.org
chludens.ch
Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social All things #GameStudies @ HKB Bern
Podcasts:
„Design. Macht. Gesellschaft.“ (https://podcast337600.podigee.io)
"Kritische Controller" (https://kritische-controller.letscast.fm/)
Krach bei DER ATOMAT. (https://deratomat.bandcamp.com/)
Aurelia Brandenburg @hekabeohnename.bsky.social Historian somewhere between Game Studies, Gender Studies and Digital Humanities. | Doing a PhD about German Games Journalism 1980-2000 @chludens.bsky.social | Board Member @akgwds.bsky.social | http://aureliabrandenburg.de/links | she/her
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
rat dad ==> GATEway Fate @splinterhamato.bsky.social hey im rat dad I love cosplay & animating/editing but I mostly tweet anime bullshit. Asuka amv guy. Masters degree in Sephiroth (seriously). Leftist.
Largely ffxiv & giant robots. Also trigun
💖 @eepysleepy.bsky.social
kaenan|31|they/he|transmasc lesbian
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Casual Academic and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Kübra @mostlyindie.com Games/media/American Studies scholar, lecturer @uni-freiburg.de. PhD on books in games. Currently studying video game remakes, reboots, and adaptations.
Read my blog (new posts approx. every two years): https://mostlyindie.com/
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Leon Xiao @handle.invalid Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
Fanny Barnabé @ypsenn.bsky.social Full time associate professor at the CRIDS/NADI, University of Namur
Member of the Liège Game Lab, the OMNSH and the LPCM
Research topics: video game narration, détournement, video game tutorials, humor and toxicity on Twitch
🦣 : @ypsenn@ludosphere.fr
Niva Kay @nivakay.bsky.social Sustainable Futures x Video Games. Co-Chair IGDA Climate SIG. Author, filmmaker & farmer amongst other things. PhD candidate UoA
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Laura Goudet Jamoussi @theschwatterer.bsky.social MCF en linguistique anglaise à URouen-Normandie • IUF 2023-28 sur les dictionnaires (linguiste binguiste) • Experte trad/interprète en Normandie • Rigolote à chien et chats sur son temps libre • Nerderies, jeux et gender studies
saoirse @naceallabug.bsky.social leath phríobháideach. semi private. me at my crankiest. off the cuff comments from me here really do not represent my genuine thoughts and feelings.
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Beatriz Blanco @b3ablanco.bsky.social Pesquiso plataformas digitais, influenciadores, cultura gamer e ativismo online, ensino design de games e mídias digitais, faço piadinhas.
Researching games, digital platforms, influencers, and activism on social media.
James O’Connor @jickle.net Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social Assistant Professor Game Design, Iowa State University Gamer, scholar, author, hobbyist dev. Research interests include game cultures, video game history, and archeogaming. Gen AI is theft. 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️⚧️
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
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
DIGAREC - Digital Games Research Center @digarec.bsky.social Digital Games Research Center / Zentrum für Computerspielforschung
@unipotsdam.bsky.social // Streams on Twitch http://twitch.tv/digarec // Website: https://digarec.philfak.uni-potsdam.de
DiGRA España @digraspain.bsky.social Capítulo español de DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association), la asociación académica de investigadores en estudios del juego. Sobre #DiGRAES25: https://digraes2025.wordpress.com/
DiGRA Belgium @digrabelgium.bsky.social DiGRA Belgium is the Belgian chapter of the international association for academics (and professionals) who research digital games and associated phenomena.
Posts by @alexvandewalle.bsky.social
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
Meu romance: https://tinyurl.com/349wdeud
Blog: https://finisgeekis.com.br/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3F9RVGD
Caleb Levy @cbeh-official.bsky.social He/she
Undergraduate at NYU studying folklore, mythology, and game design
Oriol Viu i Duran @oriolgami.bsky.social Interactive Storyteller & Games Researcher
https://linktr.ee/oriolgami 🐦⬛ he/him
MU LIbrary Cat @mulibrarycat.bsky.social Purring my way through life outside
MU Library. Unofficial account, kinda. 
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair