๐ Taylor Twins ๐ @thirstytwins.satan.social ๐ฆTaylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS๐ฆ
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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!
ใณใผใใซๅคงๅญฆใฎๆฅๆฌๆๅญฆใจใกใใฃใขใฎๅๆๆใ่ฉฉใจใใใฒใผใ ใ้ๅฎณๅญฆใ่ฉฉไบบใจ็ฟป่จณ่
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Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (โ๏ธ๐ผ book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ || ๐ canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently โ๏ธ๐ผ sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Aaron Langille (๐น๏ธ)โข๏ธ @aaronlangille.bsky.social he/him | Game design prof๐
| Game Designer ๐น๏ธ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon)
linktr.ee/aaronlangille
Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com Online course developer, writer and speaker. My company, Technology and Society, sponsors Atletico London FC (Tier 5, Eastern Region Women's Football League). techsoc.com.
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Matthew ์ ์ Howard, Ph.D. (he/him/his) @drgyopophd.bsky.social Green-Cheeked Conure and (former) Pug Dad; Begrudgingly-Tolerated Cat Step Dad | Asian/American Media Histories of Race and Empire via Hallyu | Asst. Prof., Loyola University Chicago School of Communication
Opinions are my own and not my institution's.
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/
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social ๐ฎAssistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
๐"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine ๐
Nick Montebello @nickmontebello.bsky.social 
Chris Hugelmann, PhD @chugelmann.bsky.social games user researcher | communication & culture PhD interested in the design of identity and community in games | .flac, not .mp3 | he/him | chugelmann.com
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
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 ๐พ
๐ http://investigate.games
โ๏ธ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
๐ York St John University, UK
Vanessa @penandpurl.bsky.social 
University of Waterloo Writing and Communication Centre @uwaterloowcc.bsky.social A hub of communication and writing practice, support, and research. From brainstorming to revision, we are here to support you in any discipline, at any stage of the communication process.
uwaterloo.ca/wcc
Devyn Rorem Colquhoun @devynrc.bsky.social she/her | ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฎ
Graduate student in School and Clinical Child Psychology interested in strength-based approaches to supporting structurally marginalized youth.
โจ Kaelan โจ @kaelandm.bsky.social Game & Narrative Designer.
Lead narrative designer & game writer for Capy Castaway https://store.steampowered.com/app/2890240/Capy_Castaway/
PhD Candidate at UChicago researching weird worldbuilding.
Lead organizer, QGCon.
they/he
Steffi @doc-steffi.bsky.social 
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Adam Crowley @dradamcrowley.bsky.social DM for Podcast guest and/or public speaking info.
Playing to Save the World: Videogames and Environmental Humanities (2024)
The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (2017)
Representations of Poverty in Videogames (2022)
Vera Eris Delfavero @handle.invalid Doctor Queen, World Traveler, Astrophysicist, Pisces
Drew Warlock ๐ ๐จ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ท ๐ป๐ช @drew.rw ๐ถ These are our demands:
We want control of our bodies.
Decisions will now be ours.
You can carry out your noble actions,
We will carry our noble scars. ๐ถ
SSSpectral @ssspectral.bsky.social Lofi artist ๐จ๐ฆ
Listen to my music hereโค๏ธ: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/41yLP5hCmhVMvL7fsGZi6i?si=kks8GMAOQiiQ-9AOBc1BLA
criticalplayorg @criticalplayorg.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play at CSU, Long Beach (criticalplay.org) also @criticalplayorg@mstdn.social
Jo Carter @angelsk.bsky.social Senior Staff Engineer โ Autistic/ADHD/AroAce/Agender, she/they โ Streaming on http://twitch.tv/angelsk_jo, Art by @stephoodle โ https://angelsk.games
Sarah Christina Ganzon @otomedoctor.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
Jonathan M. Hollister @hollisterjm.bsky.social Associate Professor in Library, Archive & Information Studies @ Pusan National University (South Korea) | PhD+MSLIS FSU iSchool; BS Bio Sciences WMU | digital/info literacy, social info theory, QUAL, education, games, XR, graphic novels, music, cats
Carly @caryaticcar.bsky.social Hobbyist dilettante | Detective fiction | Catcalling cats like nature intended
Support your local library!
Ron88keys ๐ซถ๐๐๐น๐ต @ron88keys.bsky.social I'm a DM for Severed Studios AP podcasts, pianist & music director. ๐ Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, and video game music! He/they & happy neurospicy greygender hopepunk AF
Science is real!
https://youtube.com/@ron88keys
https://substack.com/@ron88keys
Moto @motorespawns.bsky.social Gaming Content Creator | Survival Games, Zombies, Post-Apocalyptic Adventures, Looter Shooters & FPS games | PC & XBOX.
Content: https://profile.google.com/@motorespawns
Partnered: YouTube, Logitech G & GPORTAL.
Business Inquiries: MotoRespawns@outlook.com
Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary โง๏ธ๐ฆ @enbykaiju.itch.io Queer Monster - TransEnby (They\Them)
Occasionally NSFW | Queer & Disabled Game Dev
Adventure Game, Giant Monster & Film Noir nerd
http://ko-fi.com/enbykaiju | http://enbykaiju.com (Digital Diversity Project)
Joe M. Owens (FPotN) @joemowens.bsky.social Author of Shenanigans! (http://amzn.to/1vnN1r4); Co-host of the Fantasy Pod of the Nine; Work appears at PANK, The Rumpus, InDigest, Entropy, and The Lit Pub; Proofreader @BossFightBooks, he/him, BLM
Francesco Teopini @drfingerstyle.bsky.social Classical guitarist, recording artist, music educator, musicologist (PhD), Classical/Pop Int. Examiner ๐ธ๐ฟ๐๐ถ
Follow me on ๐
YouTube: youtube.com/@FrancescoTeopini
IG: instagram.com/francesco_teopini
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mOYZ1urMzWb
Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com Neurospicy disabled trans girl, Ph.Dyke
Writes with @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, @catblackard.bsky.social, & @jessicamudd.bsky.social
EggPrimeDirective.com
MusicโBooksโGamesโPoetry MothMother.com
InkโArt CauldronFireStudios.com
Theory TessTanen.com
Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time
Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter
Pikachu Mariachi @pikachumariachi.bsky.social Writer & Narrative Designer @WaifuTacticalForce.bsky.social Formerly @HyperBeard. Gentleman in the streets, freak in the (Google) Sheets. He/Himbo
Jewel Pellerin @jewelpellerin.bsky.social Meme lover
France ๐ซ๐ท ๐ผโค๏ธ
Rett @rettisawesome.com Writer and musician from the PNW
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media ๐พ๐งโ๐ซ
Northeastern University Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ
Critical Games + Tech Researcher ๐ฅ๏ธโ๏ธ
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Lin Joyce, PhD @gollyoodelally.bsky.social Managing Director of Narrative @GearboxOfficial. Jack of some trades, Master of Rhetoric, and Doctor of Narrative System Design. Opinions expressed are mine and mine alone. She/her
Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
krachstelze @krachstelze.bsky.social writer in progress (fantasy with a bit of steampunk) | nature, books & videogames | posts in English & German. #nonazis
<3 wombats, whales, FCSP and @hinnretti
Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Henry Meyers @mojoceratops.bsky.social Senior Technical Game Designer @ Naughty Dog / Manager @ Urvogel Games
Amateur folk/punk musician, interested in video game narrative, dinosaurs, dogs
MARC @marcbdn.bsky.social Dad, Catalan expat, Product Manager, frequent traveler, games enthusiast. I tweet about games and politics (he/him) โ๏ธ
dr. hazel ๐ธ๏ธ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer ๐ฎ๐
presently: Gunfire Games โค๏ธ๐ฅ
previously: Meow Wolf ๐ฉท๐งฉ Blizzard ๐โ๏ธ Bungie ๐๐ซ Arkane ๐งก๐
contributions: Fallen London ๐๐ฏ๏ธ
english lit phd ๐๐ก personal account ๐๐น she/her ๐โจ
nyc ๐๐ to atx ๐ป๐ฆ
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social โง Interactive narrative innovation & research
โง Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2
โง Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit
โง Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade
โง Opinions mine
โง More: staceymason.info
Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: โThe Event Horizon of Honeyโ in Augur 8.2 ๐ he/him
Bart Simon @bartsimon.bsky.social Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Katja Aller / Walking Sims & Spooky Stuff ๐ป๐ฎ๐ @katjaaller.bsky.social Working @ Cologne Game Lab/ PhD Candidate in #mediastudies and #gamestudies / Research Focus: Walking Simulators / Download my work: https://th-koeln.academia.edu/KatjaAller
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.
the illustrated embodiment of the day @dunestars.bsky.social
they/them
Dr. Bridget Blodgett @siveambrai.bsky.social Professor Bridget "Why wouldn't I open the Ark of the Covenant and look directly into it?" Blodgett, personal Tumblr curator. Games, Feminism, and Design Scholar. 
Michael Hancock @personofcon.bsky.social Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social 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.
Makopowered Chris, PhD (he/him) @makopowered.bsky.social Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)๐ซ
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Joel @phoenixup.bsky.social Time Bandit, IGF23 Nuovo Finalist, Part 1 out now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/
Marxist, she/her
https://phoenixup.itch.io/
thinking of giving up gamedev for the dance ๐
Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social English Prof. @GrandViewUniv Researching games, writing, and rhetoric. There will be food. Sweary Prof. He/Him. Lawful Good. Views are my own.
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
๐งต: sushilovinfun
๐: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
๐ฆ: maxwellfoxman
Adrian Hermann @anitchang.bsky.social Professor Univ. of Bonn. Director at FIW ๐๐๐ and Study of Religion (he/him). Religion/cultural studies/documentary film/Southeast Asia/TTRPGs.
(A)va (F)rancesca Battocchio @afbat.bsky.social Info & Media PhD Candidate @ MSUComArtSci โข Rural/Frontier/Remote Communities โข Civic Infrastructure โข Qual+CSS methods โข probably on a back road or trying to escape a social situation โข https://afbat.co
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
Alex Custodio @alexcustodio.com PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boyโs afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ in ๐บ๐ธ. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
รงa que c'tait.
2nd gen pog @jels.bsky.social lvl 28 | bi | she/they | ๐จ๐ฆ | can't & won't stfu about d&d, star wars, assassin's creed or bad door design | opinions are my own
Ashley Jones @apjones428.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication with an emphasis on digital gaming and feminist theory. Lover of books, cats and dogs, coloring, and sunshine.
scary again, naturally ๐ @renandpen.bsky.social Gary Numan in the streets, David Bowie in the sheets. Robert Smith in the skeets.
mind-wandering bendy abolitionist nerd still soapboxing about the isms. aspiring bog witch. rambling about frogs, music, games & horror in all forms. she/they ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐ง ๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐ซ ๐ฏ๏ธโจ
Andy VZ @andyvz.bsky.social Tabletop game dev/project manager for over a decade, currently with Trick or Treat Studios. Opinions my own.
Fantasy, sci-fi, comic, & video game enthusiast. He/him.
Caitlin Veal ๐พ @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social ๐งก
Casual Academic and PhD researcher at York St John ๐ interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side๐ฆ๐พ๐
Calamity Andrew @calamityandrew.bsky.social Academic. Game Studies, medievalism, and fantasy. Generally tired. "Vell, he's just zis guy, you know?" he/him
alex @alexcj.bsky.social Aspiring amateur: lots of words (fiction, criticism, and โotherโ), dabbler in art and game design, web site haver
https://thehinterlands.neocities.org/
allie @littleninja.bsky.social Psychologist | Human Rights Activist
we rise by lifting others
Telegram : @alliettleninja
the rook ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @rooktacular.bsky.social your not-so-friendly neighbourhood corvid | trans-neptonian object | they/them
#cosplay
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.
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
Banner by Lina Wu
Avi by realrollsweat
Bryn @feelthebryn.bsky.social He/Him - Associate Commerce Editor @ Esquire
Video games. Labor.
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
J (they/zir) @voidmydarling.bsky.social โข Bread Cryptid โข
Nonbinary, Queer, Neurodivergent (Technically also a queer & fandom studies PhD candidate in sociology)
"Buckle in as we tokyo drift between genres"
Nickey (they/she) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @bestorb.bsky.social Academic advisor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Recovering academic. PhD in Media Studies.
They/she
Adrianna โจ @adriiadventures.com she/they ๐ธ๐ป studying and writing rpgs ๐ฎ all but dissertation defense ๐ตโ๐ซ