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
Borut Pfeifer @borut.bsky.social Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/Neighborhoods/
Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...
Feather’s Edge by Clockwork Acorn @clockworkacorn.com We make timeless games with chunky designs
http://clockworkacorn.com
Wishlist Feather's Edge on Steam: https://feathers-edge.com/
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | Hugo, BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
Kay Lousberg @kaylousberg.bsky.social 3D artist - Makes fun things
🎮 Itch : kaylousberg.itch.io
💻 Unity : assetstore.unity.com/publishers/88507
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Nathan Fouts, ChainStaff is Out Now @mommysbestgames.bsky.social #GameDev since 1994. I do action mechanics with a twist!
Made "ChainStaff" https://tinyurl.com/chainstaff
Made Shoot 1UP, Serious Sam DD, Pig Eat Ball, Bumpy Grumpy. Worked on POSTAL, Resistance Fall of Man, Ratchet n Clank.
http://www.mommysbestgames.com
⚡️Marina Díez 🔜 Gamescom @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
Guillaume Pierre @legulm.bsky.social Senior Producer at Magic Fuel Games/Playstack on Star Trek: Outposts Unknown
Formerly at Maxis (SimCity, Spore, The Sims…)
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Necrosoft Games @necrosoftgames.com Necrosoft Games makes tiny entertainments for your fun receptacles. Demonschool, Hyper Gunsport, Gunhouse - all available, and all pretty good!
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
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Rodvik @rodvik.bsky.social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Humble
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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.
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
Michael Garfield @michaelgarfield.bsky.social Author, artist, father, scholar, Global Weirding tour guide. Once a paleontologist and still a songwriter + experimental guitarist. Former SFI, Long Now, Mozilla. Writing on bio, psych, tech, and wisdom @ HumansOnTheLoop.com
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social • Homesick for a world that never existed. 🌿
• creating my fantasy island world world "Argenta" 🍃
• Art prints and original watercolors available 🌱
https://linktr.ee/Aurumek
Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social Making games for longer than seems advisable.
Recently, AI lead at Take-Two; earlier at SomaSim, Zynga, EA etc.
Doctor of AI, under the hippocratic oath bound to help all game AIs.
Author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/
Hello from Chicago!
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
Lee Vermeulen @alientrap.bsky.social Game dev @ Alientrap.
Blog: https://www.3delement.com/
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
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social Owner of Flippfly (Race The Sun), and CEO of Player Galaxy, a new web games platform for UGC games.
Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social Game scholar, professor, & director of Interactive Games and Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
masz @maszg.bsky.social @ flow-control.io / restless overthinker, occasional product designer
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social Maker/teacher/student/stumbler, author of Trillions, thriving in the information ecology. http://trillions.civium.net
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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social ventrella.com
MIT Media Lab, artificial life, fractal art, virtual body language, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, visual math
The Soloist @the-soloist.itch.io Worked on games you played 20 years ago like The Sims 1&2, Mass Effect 2&3, Dragon Age. Now making and writing about tabletop RPGs.
soloist.substack.com | SOLO BORG Kickstarter
Ryan Alexander @ryan.onecm.com 🎏 Visual Artist https://onecm.com
✂️ Making https://cuttle.xyz
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🦇 Drone Pilot https://youtube.com/@lioku
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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social I like shiny things and software. Childrens book author at http://helloruby.com. Relentless restlessness.
Paris | Helsinki
Sha Xin Wei @shaxinwei.bsky.social Professor, School of Arts, Media + Engineering | School of Complex Adaptive Systems | Director, Synthesis | Arizona State University. synthesiscenter.net | asu.academia.edu/ShaXinWei | topologicalmedialab.net
Shawn Douglas @douglaslab.org bionano.ucsf.edu
Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org Science Communicator, Video Game Historian, author of Atari Archive, old school FGCer, occasional Retronaut host, and chicken owner. He/him
Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social Co-host of Retronauts and Talking Simpsons, acclaimed author of Skeleton Car Wash
Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social A podcast about old video games. 10 years = retro, we don't make the rules. Support us on Patreon for exclusive episodes, Discord access, and more!
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Logan Davis @doing-fine-thanks.bsky.social Programmer, potter, and object maker.
Current PhD student at RPI studying games.
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Erin Quealy @erinquealy.bsky.social 
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Evan Balster 🍂 @art.imitates.life they/them. 🪗 game dev, audio software, harmony and decay, swords into ploughshares. Free Palestine.
worked on: imitone, Cave Story, SoundSelf, MIDI 2.0 standard.
currently: HYPERCITY VERMIN, a co-op game
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
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🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com 🔸 Making intriguing worlds with heart
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Luke Iannini @lukexi.bsky.social https://dynamicland.org
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dynamicland.org
jetbrains.com
Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social Unaffiliated researcher, retired software guy. Interested in computational models of natural complexity, especially collective motion and camouflage coevolution. Graphics, animation, evolutionary computation.
https://www.red3d.com/cwr/
Andrea Roberts @andrearoberts.bsky.social Game Designer of Wonderbelly Games, Mother of Imps, Champion of Forgotten Side Quests. Cooking up Arcane Eats, a fantasy cooking deckbuilder. Made Roundguard, a bouncy pegglelike roguelike. We all need joy
https://www.wonderbellygames.com/
aka TanookiFruit
Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social Character Designer & Illustrator, Jesus-follower, married to Erkshnrt
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kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social “Compact and laser-focused” - The New Yorker.
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Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com Great books on classic video games.
bossfightbooks.com
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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social used to be @mayli in the old place.
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queer interdisciplinary immigrant designer writer artist musician dancer inventor educator. former vp of design and dj. mfa candidate
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
Tanya Kan 🌸🏳️🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social Vivid Foundry's Founder. She/They; BiDemi. Dev since 2012. 2D+3D art, game design, game writing, production, teaching. We made the award-winning Solace State: Embolden activists, take back power from big corp!
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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
E McNeill @emcneill.bsky.social Indie game designer. Mostly VR. Maker of Ironstrike, Ironlights, Darknet, Tactera, Astraeus, Skylight, and Auralux.
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
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