GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social GAMERella is the world’s longest running annual game jam and workshop series focusing on supporting marginalized game creators and aspiring game makers.
https://linktr.ee/GAMERella
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
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
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
Niema Moshiri @niema.net Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, consulting for PlayStation and Blizzard, Bioinformatician by training, SD-raised. https://niema.net
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social Writer, editor, and journalist.
https://charliehallwriter.com/
Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
Enric Granzotto Llagostera @marxistpokemon.bsky.social [he/il/ele] 👁️ Educator, researcher and game maker. 🎮🔨 PhD on alternative controllers, experimental and critical games. 🌐 https://enric.llagostera.com.br
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism i just can't anymore
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Nataliya Gorbina @nattgoo.bsky.social paddington stan account | writing books & making games
cracks (2024): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216596625
Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social (they/them)
queer game maker, games are bodies
phd in media studies. teaching game design.
https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
Nicole K. Stewart @nicolestewart.bsky.social Views are my own. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
Researches: platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
Tom Streeter @tom-streeter.bsky.social Prof. at Western in London Ontario. Wrote some books and articles about technology, culture, and politics. https://streeter.fims.uwo.ca/blog/
Ben Scholl @ben-scholl.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication.
Game Studies and Esports Researcher
🖥️ benscholl.com 
Adeline K. Piercy (she/them) @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social Writer, scholar, game maker. Researching feminist gameplay, queer play, and digital culture.
Digital Humanities MA @ University of Alberta
Instructor @ MacEwan University
Proud dev of https://bsky.app/profile/chickensinmyhead.bsky.social
Joel White (he/him) @joelalwhite.bsky.social MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Dr. Ben Mitchell @drlibraryben.bsky.social (he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference #QGCon established in 2013. QGCon is a registered nonprofit based in Montreal, Canada.
Stay tuned for news on presenting at or attending the next QGCon!
https://www.qgcon.org/
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Rosie Toes @yeetpreylove.bsky.social She/They
Tio'tia:ke
Video Games and School
Thomas Kline @steepinkline.bsky.social Writer, actor, (over)thinker. Media Study/English MA student at the University at Buffalo. Specialties include Japanese games that may or may not be of the role-playing variety, transmedia narratology, and ludonarratology. Enthusiasm enthusiast.
The Gaming Librarian @thelibgamer.bsky.social A Sage Mage of ALA’s GameRT. Librarian with diverse experience in public and academic libraries. I am now working for the Indiana State Library and living in Southern IN.
Henry Driver @henrydriver.bsky.social Artist, Game developer & farmer. Creating projects inspired by nature & powered by solar energy. Plants 100s of trees every year Suffolk, UK.
Making Treeplanter, & made Secrets of Soil for BBC Arts
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3531490/Treeplanter/
Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
@morgannorwich.bsky.social @morgannorwich.bsky.social 
Marie Šilhová @marie-22.bsky.social Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
Sara Humphreys @saraventure.bsky.social I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social Serial iterator. Musical orchestrator. Library game collector / services promulgator.
Streaming the Game Studies Guild at twitch.tv/gsgmsu
Noah K Leiter (He/Him) @noah-k.bsky.social Welcome to the frantic, desperate ramblings of a PhD student approaching a deadline.
https://www.noahkleiter.com/
Cody @prettycody.bsky.social I make videos about videogames, and I'm not pretty
https://www.youtube.com/@prettycody
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Abby Kirby @abbykirby.bsky.social Middle school ELA// MA in Media Studies// Fandom Researcher// Gravity Falls & Psych Fan// Fanfic Enthusiast
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com posts every 4 hours
built and managed by @gang-fight.com
FAQ: https://gang-fight.com/projects/98faq/
Nadia Di Leo @nadiadileo.bsky.social Currently grinding through my first year as a PhD student in Educational Sciences. There are no restrictive character creation limits. I've got a legendary skill tree in wordplay and a critical hit rate against inequalities in digital spaces.
Yiwen @yiwenw.bsky.social PhD candidate @USyd ||how Douyin destroy/reanimate films?
Add a bit of journalism, a bit of film and more of platform studies and creative industries...
Proud Shenzhener
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
@michaeldvee.bsky.social @michaeldvee.bsky.social Ph.D student; cynicism enthusiast; big dumb nerd
Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made
Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca 3D illustrator & animator | OCAD Illustration 2024 | (Fill request form on http://Crisppyboat.ca for commission inquiries)
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Chris McKenzie @mckc1.bsky.social Coordinator of Educational Technology. Risk Manager. Learner. Teacher. Other things.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social Queer film historian, programmer, distributor |
@muscledistribution.bsky.social | elizabethpurchell.com
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: https://www.um.edu.mt/digitalgames/ | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
bijan @bijan.bsky.social
writer. music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social, making @dearannagame.bsky.social | prev. @compulsiongames.bsky.social @valvesoftware.com
got writing work? inquire within:
bijanstephen.blog/about
Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com Covering cancelled/unreleased video games and prototypes across a variety of consoles and home computers. Preserving unreleased video game history online since 1999, and longer offline.
Check out our archive and more at: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
LaumeB @laumeb.bsky.social 2D artist and animation noob birthing grotesque yet delicate figures
No n*fts nor AI stuff
https://guillaumeberrut.com/
patrick edell @patrickedell.bsky.social tattoos, paintings, drawings
gamedev for Wild Chorus
nyc
links.patrickedell.com
LEGENDS OF ADVENTURE @gamelegendsdoc.bsky.social Legends of Adventure is a new feature documentary about the rise of Sierra On-Line and the adventure game genre.
Learn more: https://thelegendsofadventure.com
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
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
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. 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️⚧️
Old School Gaming History @gaminghistory.bsky.social Relieve gaming olden days, from the beginnings to the mid 2000s!
3 posts each day: one video game history fact, and two retro game box art, arcade flyers or print ads.
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)
gamevironments @gamevironments.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal on games/gaming related to culture and society*
Official journal of IASGAR
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments
Applied Game Studies @appliedgames.bsky.social Verein für Angewandte Spieleforschung | Association for Applied Game Studies
👾🎮❤️
Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social Media/Games Critic/Journalist.
Sensitivity Consultant.
Video Game Map Editor.
Streamer. Card Lord. Enigma.
Dapper Sikh with NFT. (Nice F**kin' Turban).
Toronto Documentary Star.
@Veeren_Jubbal.
muckrack.com/veerender-jubbal
veerender.jubbal@gmail.com
Célia Housset @celiahousset.bsky.social Illustrator living in Strasbourg.
I have a passion for monsters, folklore, patterns and historical cooking
https://celiahousset.com/
https://www.instagram.com/celiahousset/
https://ko-fi.com/celiahousset
Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social Articles, pictures and ads from old game magazines.
Scans sourced from http://RetroMags.com and http://Archive.org
Tumblr - https://found-in-retro-game-mags.tumblr.com/
Sabby @sabbygallery.bsky.social A place that belongs to everyone, where everyone can belong.
Sabby is gathering place for artists, game makers, crafters and zinesters in Narrm (Melbourne). Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/5uRbFg2QXa
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 <--
Rik Eberhardt @rikaru2000.bsky.social Making and playing games about complex systems. Helping students do likewise.
Games … history ... post punk … hip-hop … comix … birds ... cats ... bicycles
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Mark Hines @markshines.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Kentucky
Fulbright Taiwan
Race and representation in fantasy games, toxic fan studies, popular culture
markhines.me
Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Citizen archivist of Nova Scotia video game development history. Sometimes hobby game dev. - He/Him
https://hgcarchive.wixsite.com/hgc-archive
https://linktr.ee/XenosNS
https://xenosns.itch.io
Koji Yoshimura @kojiyoshimura.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). My teaching and research examines the psychology of media entertainment with a focus on ambiguous narratives, meaningful experiences, and interactivity.
Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social game developer, yuri enthusiast, your beloved problematic girlfriend
ArtEgg @artegg.bsky.social 3D, 2D illustration, pixel, voxel artist. DM for inquiries/questions.
Anti N-FT/AI.
26 He/Him,
Data Erase @dataerase.bsky.social digital multimedia artist, glitching things since 2012.
krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net PC-98 enthusiast, a.k.a. otaku 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
駿河屋最速 ♡ 国宝泥棒 ♡ 共産 ♡ 菜食
💾 Dumps & Scans: https://archive.org/details/@krugman
💾 Archival Guide: https://krugman.net/dumping
💾 Blog: https://dirtyfloppies.com
💾 Patreon: https://patreon.com/krugman
CW: 🇯🇵 dad jokes
a. g. radley @ag-radley.bsky.social 
Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social Editorial director, @lostincult. Former Edge deputy editor. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). chris@lostincult.co.uk / letterboxd.com/downaboutit
Kelly B @kellyblack.ca Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Opinions mine etc. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com — 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 — she/her
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Editorial Collective advancing Democratic Public Finance, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
Bossy ⛓️Muffles' Life Sentence @bossypino.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/BossyPino
Inmate of the Maddox Prison System.
Bossy is making the RPG Muffles' Life Sentence: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3145370/Muffles_Life_Sentence/
Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
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🦕👾💀
investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value 👾
🌐 http://investigate.games
✉️ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
📍 York St John University, UK
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com they/m | brimwats.com | PhD., etc. | UWOFA strong
professing @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
🔗 Homosaurus.org HistSex.org CritCat.org NCPWG.org QMDC & TMDC
Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social making maps about video games
maps: https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/gallery
maps (alt): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uKdhIsnLedeHJ65ZApFO8UooplBcrUC
videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKb0fgAJTw12acNBJqYzrOg
John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social Founder, Creative Director and CEO at Die Gute Fabrik. Making games, drawing more again.