Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
suyu @suyu.bsky.social Research & Tech | University of Bonn | researching emotions in Japanese earthquake literature | language & culture
https://linktr.ee/su.yu
Ashley vs Evil Dead @ashleyslashley.roxpost.ing Insane transfem | 25 years old | lesbian | 💕 @roxpost.ing | 🔞reposts! | Hatsune Miku’s strongest soldier | I post good sometimes
Kyoko Takeuchi @kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social Sociologist/ History of nonbinary identity categories in Japan/ Asst. Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University/ https://researchmap.jp/take_kyo
Akito INOUE @hiyokoya6.bsky.social Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto / Game Studies
ゲーム研究,京都在住
PLANETS連載「中心をもたない、現象としてのゲームについて」
https://slowinternet.jp/article-category/game-asobi/
Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social 🍐 SU&SD 🍐 / kinda on hiatus
dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social She/her. I like games and things. Mum of khazrak the cat. Malaysian.
Jason Anarchy 🔜 Fan Expo Canada Booth 338 @jasonanarchy.bsky.social Comedy Writer / Board Game Designer, lead designer of the Drinking Quest series, Your Friend Is Sad, Trombone Champ (Card Game), REAP, Cheese Factory, Self Careless, Pretending to Grownup, Cat Vs Human + Others! Big Biceps. https://www.drinkingquest.com
Nathaniel M. Smith @nathanielmsmith.bsky.social Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Jan-Christoph Müller @jcmtranslate.bsky.social Translator (JP & EN to DE) /
Film & TV, Games, Literature, Manga, Anime
日独翻訳 映画、ゲーム、文学、漫画、アニメ
(he/him)
Meine Übersetzungen bei Autorenwelt:
https://kurzlinks.de/autorenwelt-jcmtranslate
Kévin Bernier @kevinbernier.com ‣ Translator & Game Loc Specialist
‣ English to French
‣ 11+ years and counting
‣ Baldur's Gate III; Avowed; Sherlock Holmes; Against the Storm…
‣ kevinbernier.com
Terra 🌱 @beyondskyfall.bsky.social they/them 🏳️🌈 | this account will be a mess of everything I love and nothing I don't | mostly IDOLiSH7 (esp. 5, 7, 10) & HeliosR (🌱💥) | 日本語もOK! | icon by hinaginagii 🌼
cameronsz 🔜 youmacon @cameronsz.bsky.social he/him • Oakland University alumnus • 25 • on the spectrum • excessive vtuber enthusiast • excessive rhythm game enthusiast • frequent Round1 patron
Dr. Robert J. Proverb, Jr. @robertproverb.bsky.social Sociologist
Digital Research/Analysis
(Disability in Society)
https://linktr.ee/robertproverb
🦅Be Prepared🗽
🇺🇸Brooklyn🏙️
🏳️🌈Ally🏳️⚧️
🇺🇦Слава Україні!🌻
🔬Science 🏞️Nature 🐈Cats
♻️Conservation 📚Literature
🎼Music 🎥Film 🎮Games
🗾日本 ✝️Love
BB @briandavidberry.bsky.social Researcher on Japanese Higher Ed and Internationalization of universities. Posting on Japan, HE, Internationalization and random nerdy stuff.
Videogame Beaches🏳️⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social I try to post a videogame beach with the name of the game everyday, and underwater ones sometimes. And also Fridays are Pool Days!
If you want more info about a game ask! Everybody is welcome here!
Lene She/Her 🏳️⚧️
ねことプラモデル @catandplamo.bsky.social プラモデルを壊さないやさしいねこです。2011年生まれ♂。ねこなのでお返事はできません。もちろんAIじゃないよ。
Amuri Studio @amuristudio.bsky.social https://facebook.com/Amuristudio
A board game retailer and small publisher based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Currently, we offer a catalogue of over 600 board games, and have published 5 of our own little games! 不定期オープンします！
Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social Academic in Games and HCI. Mostly interested in love and death. Assistant Professor at University of Lincoln. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
takuma @noroadhome.itch.io ⚔️
transsexual game design creature
volleyball dyke
noroadhome.itch.io
header: arai sumiko
Andy K @diamondsutra.bsky.social i love life, play, work, praxis, and Acts that reduce Suffering.
英語／日本語
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic educator, writer, bibliophile who already loves your dog(s). Opinions are mine. Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online Linguist, anthropologist, writer re: dating, marriage, population + the internet
📍ORD
2nd generation Etsy witch
3rd generation socialist
Friendly internet matchmaker for hire
https://erikas.online
🦝4🦝
English/日本語/Русский/יידיש
they/she • あの奴 • она • זי
WobbuPalooza @wobbupalooza.bsky.social Parlor game history, especially focused on early collaborative storytelling / roleplaying / Surrealist games but also forfeits and pre-1800 games in general:
https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org
Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com Director of publishing, editor, translator. Manga, democracy, civil rights, foster kittens, sci-fi, beer. Another world is possible. He/him. Portfolio etc.: benapplegate.com (pfp: Marume Goshika)
Ashley Remminga @ashleyremminga.bsky.social 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️ She/Her Graduate Researcher based at the University of Tasmania exploring Transgender identity in Gender-Bending Anime/Manga
Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈 @emiliahoarfrost.bsky.social 📖 Student
🖌️ Art
🌍 EN/FR/JP/ES
✊ Activism @emiliapermafrost.bksy.social
💘 Empress @linav87.bsky.social
James "Pigeon" Fielder @drpigeon.bsky.social PhD Pol Sci | studying politics of game worlds at CSU | retired USAF | TEDx speaker | Mobius Worlds Publishing birb | Pagan & synth fan | pigeons rock!
https:\\www.jdfielder.com
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Orion @oriondblack.blacksky.app 36 Black queer (they/them)
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com Proudly independent board game reviewers.
https://youtube.com/nopunincluded
Playing Bridge on the sidewalk
Jonathan Tweet @jonathantweet.bsky.social Grandmother Fish (Macmillan 2016), the first book to teach #evolution to preschoolers, plus science games for kids (www.grandmotherfish.com). Over the Edge, #TTRPG of surreal urban danger (atlas-games.com/overtheedge). D&D 3E, Ars Magica, Everway, etc.
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social Author of the DESIGNERS & DRAGONS series of RPG histories, including THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF: A SYSTEM HISTORY OF TRAVELLER. Science-fiction, fantasy, comic, and RPG fan. Currently working on Traveller and Call of Cthulhu history projects.
Dyson Logos @dysonlogos.bsky.social Has been known to draw the occasional map
Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. | stay wavy
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social Writer, observer, educator, anthropologist, sourdough baker, gardener, linguistic anthropologist. Obsessive about the planet, politics, justice, health. Fascinated by humans.
Photo by jan_huber on unsplash
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). she/her. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Colin/CoMoo - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social (he/him) TTRPG designer, music obsessive, tragically a sports fan.
Check out my stuff - https://sociable-turtle-games.carrd.co/
Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social We are an innovative tabletop gaming publisher. We make Fiasco, Star Crossed, Ghost Court, The Warren, Night Witches, Desperation, Zhenya's Wonder Tales, and Nine Space Games!
Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com Editor in Tokyo posting Japan-related stuff, articles, essays, photos, and fiction.
記事やフィクション、気になる映画の解説など投稿しています。
Web: https://www.danielwarriner.com/
大童澄瞳 Owara Sumito @dennou319.bsky.social オオワラスミトです。庭を野生動物の住処にしています。漫画家:月刊！スピリッツ連載中『映像研には手を出すな！』最新10集は2026年01月09日発売：別名デンノー忍者
:サークル【科学少女隊】 :全コンテンツ転載・使用不可 仕事専用連絡先→oowara_s@yahoo.co.jp
Amazonのアソシエイトとして、適格販売により収入を得ています。
James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social Game designer (co-created SE!ZE with Charles Leclerc), publisher, teacher, critic, writer, player. FRSA.
For my games, books, podcast, journalism, game design workshops, lectures, trade bodies &c., check my linktree https://linktr.ee/james.wallis
BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Marceline Leiman @marcelineleiman.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️
Published Game Designer, Developer, Educator.
MFA graduate from NYU Game Center.
Designed High Tide 🌊, Dino Racer 🦖, Wildberries 🫐, and more!
https://www.marcelineleiman.com/
Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social #TTRPG game designer. Have written for WotC, Paizo, and many more.
Founder of Thoughtcrime Games. https://thoughtcrimegames.net
Emberwick (Play Tales from Myriad!) @emberwickart.bsky.social Carson Daniel | Game Designer | made the ttrpg Tales from Myriad | BLM, no AI, no NFT | emberwickart@gmail.com
My game: https://metalweavegames.com/collections/tales-from-myriad
patreon.com/EmberwickArt
Portfolio: https://cara.app/emberwick
Maria Mison✨🌊🌱🌞🤲🏼🫶🏼👏🏼🎄🎋🤣🫨🥺🤸 @mariabumby.bsky.social here for compassion 🇵🇭 ttrpg, pedagogy, lyricgame, magick, transdisplinary art imma be real w you rn (also a nerd about layout)
📩 mariabumby@yahoo.com
http://patreon.com/mariamison mariabumby.itch.io
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Danielle Radford @danielleradford.bsky.social writer/actor/comedian/markiest non Walhberg mark Dropout|Honest Trailers|@tightsfights|D20|Oni Press|Nerdist|Adult Swim|SyFy|Cracked|WBD|Several GIFs (She/her)
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
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
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl Your favorite poster's favorite poster. I curate memes so you don't have to. Parkinson's and Long Covid, always tired. paypal.me/StandplaatsKRK linktr.ee/standplaatskrk ¡No Pasaran! old enough to be your dad, he/him
Sonja Petrovic @sonjapetrovicc.bsky.social Lecturer / Researcher (Media & Comms)
The University of Melbourne
drsonjapetrovic.com
Ukiuki @ukiuki-atobor.bsky.social 
Rogue @rogue.site A video game website run by humans.
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social 👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨
Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com
https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
marimo @purpleriot.bsky.social she/her
translator and PhD student in 🏴 liker of media and arts, doer of hobbies
日本語でも可
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
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
A. Cathy Nguyen @anhthu.bsky.social Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de
https://kaydenuen.com/
かずみ@デルタゲームズ @bpfishingclub.bsky.social ボドゲ関連のつぶやき多め。
ボードゲーム制作サークル 【デルタゲームズ】代表。制作物:KARMA、PanicTaking&カーテンコール、しのぶれど X:@deltagames_bg Instagram:deltagames.jp
Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love I'm chiitan Japanese crazy mascot
🏳️⚧️Chiitan is a transgender ally🏳️🌈
BL,furry,YURI,Yume LOVE🤍
X https://x.com/chiitan7407/
IG http://instagram.com/chiitan7407/
TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@love2chiitan
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov Your U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Product safety info, data, and recalls. Standing for safety since 1972. Official account of the USCPSC. HQ: Bethesda, MD.
Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov.
Report unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov
Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
Hiroko Yoda @hirokoyoda.bsky.social Tokyo based author of Eight Million Ways to Happiness. Certified kimono fitter. 着物着付け師範 https://linktr.ee/hirokoyoda
tokyo chainsaw @roxpost.ing rancid DDR-playing "vibes only" cunt | SEGA nerd, music collector, arcadehead, comics+cartoons enthusiast, exhausted most of the time | 🔞 (re)posts NSFW | <3 @ashleyslashley.roxpost.ing
psychhound games │luka brave @psychhound.bsky.social Luka Brave. he/they. #indiettrpg designer and academic studying therapeutic applications for analog games
working on #spiritkeepttrpg - a multiplayer campaign #ttrpg designed to help players heal from complex trauma
https://psychhound.com/
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Hiromi @ GenCon 1729 @hiromicota.bsky.social She/they
Indigenous Okinawan & Yaeyaman, occupier 🇲🇽-🇸🇪-🇺🇸ian.
Creative worker doing a bit of everything, esp. TTRPGs & queer genre fiction.
Helping revitalize their peoples’ Indigenous languages (Uchinaaguchi & Yaimamuni).
Ryomasa 🔜 PAX U @ryomasa.bsky.social 🇵🇭/🇺🇸 Post-grad therapist, freelance TTRPG designer, director, LARPer, performer, media maker.
PFP by M.G. Norris Photography, Hartford CA
Banner by Keith Reilly Photography, Lancaster PA
I refuse to use this responsibly.
ryomasa.carrd.co
K4TCH @katch.bsky.social Professional Translator & Editor (mostly games)
Posting on Japan, food, and localization.
Currently, Tokyo. Still a bit of a US Midwesterner.
I mostly want to share goofy stuff & chat ^_^
Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social Japanese literature and cosplay studies scholar University of Tasmania
Award winning 🇦🇺cosplayer she/zir
日本文学とコスプレの博士 (タスマニア大学)
WCS Australia rep 2024
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com Stonemaier Games is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier Games’ top brands include Viticulture, Scythe, Charterstone, Wingspan, and Apiary.
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Matthew Cooper @mcooperk.bsky.social PhD student in the UK, researching gender, monstrosity and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan.
Irish, Queer, Hopeful.
Kind is cool!
EN/ES/日本語 OK
@rvichot.bsky.social @rvichot.bsky.social Instructor, Commnicatiobn Studies
Researcher in Media Studies, Online Communities, Japanese Popular Culture and Queer Media
ORCID: 0000-0001-7732-0553
K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Michael Toole @mtoole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies. He/Him. All Views/Likes are my own. 
Jaewoong Jeon @jjeon.bsky.social Assistant Professor at NYU, working on the history of capitalism in East Asia.
https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/jaewoong-jeon.html
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Alanna Yeo @thornandkey.com i write ttrpgs and immersive puzzle games. thornandkey.com
eng • 简/繁 • 日本語勉強中
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
Nina Farizova @ninafarizova.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow, Nichibunken
Kyoto, Japan
Misha Mihailova @mihailova.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. President of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research: animated media, AI, vfx, video games. Latest: https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/67/2/111/8719517