Nelly Chadour @nellychadour.bsky.social Romancière déplumée et ratée, Hélène Currywurst de son (presque) vrai nom, salariée secouée de la pulpe, jeune mère en âge d'être grand-mère. Je dessine aussi, des fois, rarement.
PP : mon portrait par Sanrankune. Bannière : prochaines sorties d'Askabak
Les éditions Askabak @askabak.eurosky.social Askabak est une maison d’édition spécialisée dans l'imaginaire et l'inquiétant, sans salariés et sans commerciaux, fondée par Melchior Ascaride et Mérédith Debaque.
www.askabak.com
Nouvelles Éditions Actusf @leseditionsactusf.bsky.social Arpenteur d'imaginaire 🌙 Maison d'édition SFF adulte et young adult
editions-actusf.fr
naBan Éditions @naban-editions.com Editeur de manga - Presse : presse@naban.fr
🍁🍁🍁
⭐️ Sorties du 19/06 : « Snip, Snail & Dog Tail » / « Rose Bertin » T5
https://www.naban-editions.com
Éditions Grevis @editionsgrevis.bsky.social Maison d’édition indépendante basée à Caen
Publication d’essais de critique sociale, d’enquêtes et de littérature
editionsgrevis@gmail.com
Komics Initiative @komics-initiative.bsky.social Maison d’édition comics, bd & mangas
www.komics-initiative.com
Éditions çà et là @editionscaetla.bsky.social Créées en 2005, les Éditions çà et là sont spécialisées dans l’édition en langue française de bandes dessinées d’auteurs et autrices de pays étrangers.
https://www.caetla.fr
exemplaire_editions @exemplaire.bsky.social Maison d’édition alternative spécialisée BD. Objectif : remettre l'artiste au centre de sa production.
La Loutre Rôliste - Editeur Jeux de Rôle Libre et Indépendant @laloutreroliste.bsky.social Maison d'édition de jeux de rôle au pwal avec des loutres dedans !
RPG publishing house with otters inside !
éditions lapin @editionslapin.bsky.social Depuis 2005 : maison d’édition indépendante de livres d'humour et d'ouvrages engagés 📚
https://linktr.ee/editions.lapin
Leslie Astier @lesli-e.bsky.social Thinking about weird arty games all the times. 💞🤸🏻♀️🎮
Also 🕹 Pang Pang Club @clubpang.bsky.social 🖊 Teaching and 🖊 writing research creation crippy gamez.
They / them ☂️ 📒❕
https://leslieastier.xyz
Fanny Rebillard @cactuceratops.bsky.social 🎓PhD student @LiegeGameLab.bsky.social (ULiège) / IreMus (Sorbonne Université) - Bourse FRESH (FNRS)
🗞️ Journalist (CPC HW, Pix’n Love)
📚 Author "La musique dans la série Zelda", "Golden Sun" @Thirdeditions.bsky.social
🎮 Ex-LQA ProCo
Maxime Verbesselt @mverbesselt.bsky.social Assistant en Information - Communication @ EMPC UNamur // Professeur invité IHECS // Professeur invité HEPL // Liège Game Lab
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
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
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!
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
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
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
Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social 📖Research: planetary boundaries, apples, orchards, sustainable food systems
🌍Interests: European heatwaves, deep ecology, biodiversity loss, GCR and ER, ecological economics
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, semla, tosca
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
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
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
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/)
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Tomás Grau de Pablos @tomgaar.bsky.social Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://diariodejuegos.blog
Annakaisa Kultima @aakoo.bsky.social Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Book: http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM. Website: http://sebastianmoering.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
Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
Author of strange literary fictions ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
Rutxi García @rutxigarcia.bsky.social Profesora en la UCLM. Investigadora en videojuegos, arte, historia y educación. Integrante de @antifaeduca
Lecturer at the UCLM. Video game, Art, History and Education Scholar. Memeber of @antifaeduca
#gamestudies
Hartmut Koenitz @hkoenitz.bsky.social Scholar, designer, artist. Working on interactive digital narrative and how to understand our complex world. Professor and student in the subject of life
President of ARDIN.
book: Understanding
Interactive Digital Narrative (2023): https://amzn.to/3OUEj32
Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
Thiago Falcão @falc4o.bsky.social Entertainment Media and (Critical) Game Studies Researcher @ UFPB, Brazil
Coordinator @lens_ufpb and Researcher @nppd_ufpb | @inctparticipa
camila freitas @xcafreitasx.bsky.social •Assistant Professor
•PhD
•Media and Game Studies researcher
Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social Associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Research: Human-Computer Interaction, design, AI, art, museum experience design and more. I mostly post in English, occasionally in Norwegian or Danish. He/him.
Politics: Member of @voltdanmark.org
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
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.
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
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
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
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/
Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social PhD • Multi-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan
Bea Pérez @bpz.bsky.social 
Alberto Porta @aporta.bsky.social Communication Sciences PhD at @uji.es. I'm interested in #GameStudies: ludonarratives, ludomusicology, childhood and moral dilemmas. https://linktr.ee/albertoporta
Johnathan Harrington @johnh18.bsky.social Based in HK, sometimes in MT / CN // asst prof @HKBaptistU on player-based design and board games, I make stuff sometimes too.
Mostly EN || Some MT / 中文
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
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
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal @federicoalvarez.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
Björn-Olav Dozo @bjornolav.bsky.social Liège Game Lab
University of Liège, Belgium
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
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.
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
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Applied Game Studies @appliedgames.bsky.social Verein für Angewandte Spieleforschung | Association for Applied Game Studies
👾🎮❤️
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland. 
Game Studies FR @gamestudiesfr.bsky.social Veille et curation sur les #JeuxVidéo et #GameStudies 🎮
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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/
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/
A. Cathy Nguyen @anhthu.bsky.social Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de
https://kaydenuen.com/
dennis jansen 🟥 @dennisjansen.bsky.social PhD researcher on play, technology and militarization @ Utrecht University
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Social Sciences AA 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🦕👾💀
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
James Sweeting @crazyblue.bsky.social Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Michael Iantorno♨️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚[Incoming] Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🎮[Currently] Mitacs Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
🇵🇸 aline job - rebel scum @alinejob.bsky.social Independent Researcher. Game Studies/ Decoloniality/Narrative. Non-binary. ela/elu/she/they
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Matt Knutson @mattknutson.bsky.social Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports.
Pronouns: he/him
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Nonadecimal @nonadecimal.com Making social impact games like:
🪐 episodic systemic narrative Jovian Nights
💾 cyberPUNK open world RPG Black Ice
♟️ Forbidden Chess
🦠 cellular automata RTS about feedback loops
nonadecimal.com
Language at Play @languageatplay.de #GameStudies durch die Linse der Sprach-, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften. Since 2017. #ludolinguistics
https://languageatplay.de/
GER and ENG articles.
Gründer: @indieflock.bsky.social
Pouchmouse @pouchmouse.com Indie gamedev and Moby Dick stan account.
Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, and more recently Edmus - the world’s largest one-finger MMO.
#gamedev #indie
Agata Waszkiewicz @agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social Game scholar, therapist in training, mental health advocate. Makes art on the side.
Juan F. Belmonte Ávila @juanbeaumont.bsky.social Cultural, Queer & Game Studies. PhD. Associate Professor (Prof. Contratado Doctor).
Webpage: https://t.co/CecoZJEsAZ
Recent publications: https://shorturl.at/TKFAB ; https://shorturl.at/Gqj6i ; https://shorturl.at/laRGx ; https://shorturl.at/ZGrl9
Sonomio Games @sonomiogames.bsky.social Games. Carefully crafted.
Creators of Lone McLonegan.
Sonomio Games are #IndieGameDev Verónica Rodríguez and Antonio Carlón.
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
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
Antonio César Moreno Cantano @bonzos1979.bsky.social Doctor en Historia Contemporánea. Investigador sobre propaganda, GCE, SGM, cultura digital, política internacional, videojuegos. Profesor de CCSS en Secundaria desde 2006. Antiguo docente en la UCM. Acreditación ANECA a la figura de Profesor Titular.