mkozyra.bsky.social @mkozyra.bsky.social m | kraków
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Għar Gremxul @ghargremxul.mt /ɐːr grɛmʃʊl/
🇲🇹 Logħob b'xejra Maltija
🇬🇧 Games with a Maltese twist
I make tabletop RPGs
Hu/Huwa/Tiegħu, He/Him/His
ghargremxul.mt
Sam Eng @bysameng.com solo game developer
SKATE STORY @skatestory.com
published by @devolverdigital.com
slowly making "pigeon's untitled screenplay"
Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games Indie narrative games publisher. Host of #LudoNarraCon. On a journey to discover innovative story-driven games.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/fellowtravellergames
The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social 電子音楽家 parked illegally at the intersection of art & technology 🎛🔊🎶🔻✌️🫠
💌 SUPPORT MY WORK: https://ko-fi.com/janusrose
🔗 http://janusrose.com
📸 https://instagram.com/janus.rose
👤 by @cara.city
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Peow2 SPX W61 @peow.bsky.social Peow2 is a new open-world immersive AAAAA comic pub from the creators of Peow(1). Working w/ the best artists ever. https://peow.studio
Christina E. Stimson @cestimson.bsky.social Writer | Muser | gamer | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | she/her | 🏳️🌈
Arrow Video @arrowvideo.bsky.social Distributor of classic, world, cult, horror cinema on Blu-ray & UHD.
💿: bit.ly/3oFfoXK
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Jim Wickson (oudler) @generalsnafu.bsky.social Game designer, skeptic, secular progressive, consumer advocate, iconoclast. He/him ⚛️
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/60185/jim-wickson
nico @nicodelort.bsky.social illustration - xfiles
https://shop.nicolasdelort.com/
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social mayor of drawing lesbians
she/her | concept artist @UbisoftParis | comic artist (working with Oni Press, Titan, Lifeline Comics) | IG : @chlo_wski
no AI 🚫
Aphrodite Andreou @aphrodite-a.bsky.social Coordinator of EU Projects & Cultural Assets at Heritage Malta - Technology and Experience Development Unit
visual artist / designing playful experiences for museums / researching interspecies interactions / ACI / (and some other stuff)
transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social Independent Academic Publishing | #WissenschaftStattFakeNews
https://linktr.ee/transcript_verlag
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social art; yet again. SORRY ABOUT THE EMAILS it's a lot & I'm v tired
buy things/other socials: https://linktr.ee/turndecassette
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io We publish TTRPGs like TROIKA!, Swyvers, and Stay Frosty. https://linktr.ee/Melsonia
Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/
Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social DELICIOUS TTRPGS FOR DISCERNING FREAKS
Honey Heist • Eat the Reich • DIE • Heart & Spire • Hollows •
And more at rowanrookanddecard.com
(posts by social media wretch @naomithinksit)
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
Emile Parchliniak @emilparchy.bsky.social Medievalism in Fantasy RPGs | Gacha Games | Sorbonne Paris Nord
Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social Turning Passion into Great Games! Publisher of Fate, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and other games. www.evilhat.com
Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).
News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts.
www.animemangastudies.com
- featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/justindecloux, Podcasts: THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB, THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST, Feature Film Director: IMPOSSIBLE HORROR, Book Writer: RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN
Elina Roinioti @elroin.bsky.social Game Scholar, narrative designer, consultant.
Assistant Professor at University of Peloponnese | Games Outreach for Kickstarter |Vice President of DiGRA.
Usva Friman @usvaf.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow & Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Tampere University (Finland). She/her or they/them.
Akatemiatutkija ja pelitutkimuksen apulaisprofessori Tampereen yliopistossa.
Pierre-Yves Hurel @pyhurel.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
History of Games Conference @historyofgames.bsky.social 2026 conference taking place at City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media, from June 25-27. https://www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-kong/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ryan C. Wright @ryancwright.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Autoscopia Interactive | PhD Candidate at UC Davis
Jeffrey @geoffwhill.bsky.social Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
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).
Kübra @mostlyindie.com Games/media/American Studies scholar, lecturer @uni-freiburg.de. PhD on books in games. Currently studying video game remakes, reboots, and adaptations.
Read my blog (new posts approx. every two years): https://mostlyindie.com/
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018
Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights”
Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/
Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk digital editor @ Little White Lies. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
author of books on sofia coppola + wes anderson, MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS out Nov 2026, Jackass book Oct 2027!
https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong
Alba Calvo @albacalvo.bsky.social Traductora de videojuegos, docente y doctoranda. | Autora de Maniac Mansion y Sailor Moon | Madre de petisos ♥
linktr.ee/albacalvoporrua
Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
məľø pedro @predror.bsky.social Cansado
Pesquisador na área de estudos literários, literatura digital, adaptação e game studies na UFPE
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Andrei Nae @andrei-nae.bsky.social ✔️ andrei-nae.com
✔️ Lecturer in game studies and English literature
✔️ Author of 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴
Alan Hook @dreadpiratehook.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at Ulster University - aspiring Generalist with a PhD in Speculative Design. Living on the North Coast, by the sea, making engaging oddities and thoughtful experiences for Human and Non-Human Animals.
Honza Švelch @svelch-honza.bsky.social video game production scholar at https://gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/ / guitarist at restinhaste.com / profile picture by https://www.luisblackaller.com/
Michel Maksimova @michelmaks.bsky.social phd student at uic. they/them. queer game studies, crip theory, digital media, decoloniality, intersectionality & interdisciplinarity.
avatar ID: a mirror selfie of a vaguely masc person in a floral shirt
banner ID: hand-holding photos (also paws)
insert credit @insertcredit.com The only show about video games. W/ @frankcifaldi.bsky.social
@adashtra.bsky.social
@brandon.insertcredit.com
host @alexjaffe.bsky.social
editor @esper.bsky.social
https://patreon.com/insertcredit
https://forums.insertcredit.com
https://insertcredit.com
Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
Hannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social Senior Writer/Narrative Designer. Previously: State of Decay 3, Tomb Raider: Catalyst, Perfect Dark, Marvel's Avengers, Minecraft: Story Mode season 2.
I have a cat, his name is Booey. She/her.
www.linkedin.com/in/macleoh/
Shogun Supreme @timessqkungfu.bsky.social Action Film Critic/Film Archivist & Writer. Work:
Spectrum Films, Arrow Video, Third Window Films, 88 Films, Umbrella, Vinegar Syndrome & Error4444
Ali Motisi @alimotisi.bsky.social Italian/British Game Developer - Founder of @outofthebit.com and @handrockstudio.bsky.social - Loves the Commodore Amiga and #PixelArt
Produced: Full Void - Nanuka | BAFTA Member
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
Garry Crawford @cultsociologist.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Salford. FAcSS, PFHEA.
Born in Wolverhampton 🐺. Lives in Sale.
Co-lead of #GAMEHEARTS project.
Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social 🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 Ancient Office Hours podcast; 🇬🇷 Classics PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 studying transmedia adaptation & classical reception in The Last of Us; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; ☕️ tea connoisseur
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.
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
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
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
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
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
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 ☜
Thomas Spies @digital-stranger.bsky.social Critical Game Studies (Ph.D.) | Co-Editor of 'Spiel*Kritik: Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus' | Organizer of 'Let's Play Critical' | Part of the media artist formation K.o.Z. | Virtual Photography
https://thomspies.net/
Lily/Paper 🌈♿️🍉 @paperstainedink.bsky.social UK | queer + disabled | accessibility nerd | writer | streamer
| creator of the Disabled Streamer Database | MSc Medieval Lit | links: http://bio.link/lilycalder | calder.lily@hotmail.com
https://www.twitch.tv/paperstainedink
A. Markov @abigailmarkov.com Pen Maker, Artist, Artificer, Director of Shenanigans.
Don't let the approachable oversharing fool you - my actual work has been featured in Pen World magazine repeatedly, with collectors around the world.
Personal account.
www.abigailmarkov.com
Niva Kay @nivakay.bsky.social Sustainable Futures x Video Games. Co-Chair IGDA Climate SIG. Author, filmmaker & farmer amongst other things. PhD candidate UoA
David Melhart @davidmelhart.bsky.social 🎓 PhD in Games and Affective Computing | 🎮 Assistant Professor @ SDU Metaverse Lab [https://gdlt.sdu.dk/staff/] | 🎲 game goblin [http://goblingoulash.com] | 🌈 he/they
Karin Wenz @karinwenz.bsky.social Working in the field of Digital Cultures at Maastricht University, The Netherlands
@digital literature
@algorithmic art
@digital games: death in games, metagaming, game art
@VR
Andy Phelps @andymphelps.bsky.social Professor at @GT_LMC, President at @theHEVGA. Personal acct.
Joy Sun @joysun.bsky.social game scholar
Teresa de la Hera @teresadelahera.bsky.social Associate Professor of Persuasive Gaming at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tomasz Z. Majkowski @tzmajkowski.bsky.social Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Iro V @irovy.bsky.social game based learning, game studies, digital storytelling, digital literacy, AI in education, ICTs in education
researcher, educator
Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social
🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜
✅ all work completely human made
Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin @gabrielletj.bsky.social Professor and researcher in game studies
School of media, Université du Québec à Montréal
@signifyingwolf.bsky.social @signifyingwolf.bsky.social 
@emilie-ava.bsky.social @emilie-ava.bsky.social 
Mark Scicluna @mscicluna.bsky.social Comic Book x Video Game Mashups + other doodles. Former illustrator at Rockstar Games💥RDR2, GTA V, GTA VI🦩✏️ markscicluna.com
Jessica Nieder @justalingwist.bsky.social #linguist and lecturer @ Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology at University of Malta working on (computational) approaches to language processing | Habilitation at the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics @ University of Passau
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Aszka @glaitglait.bsky.social Polish larper & gamedev
Ludohistory @ludohistory.bsky.social Historian, librarian, creator, ally. Exploring how modern media adapts the past. Website: https://ludohistory.com Livestreams: https://twitch.tv/ludohistory
Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art.
www.lynnrhuber.com
Dr. Anya H-vdL @anyahvdl.bsky.social Lecturer in Eng Lit; 📚 'Monstrous Textualities', 'Posthuman Gothic', 'Writing Romantic Climate Change'. Probably on a train right now. Still masking. She/they/whatever.
Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research: Posthumanism / New Materialism / Cultural Studies / Aesthetics / 18th & 19th C. (World) Literature/ Anthropocene discourses. Visiting Scholar @ Centre for Feminist Research @York University, Toronto, Canada.
Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures" @videogamecultures.bsky.social 2024's conference website: https://videogamecultures.org/
Website from 2023: https://vgc2023.itec.aau.at/
Cai Tuomivaara @ctmrv.bsky.social Artist(digital corpus),Pedagogical Researcher(fugitive worlds by racialised people and their non-human kins) Budding Mathematician (Stats and Mech). Lecturing work at CSM, LCC, RCA, Uni. of Cambridge
www.cai.gallery
Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🎓 School of Media and Communication | We cannot fully understand modern societies without understanding media and communication | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media | linkedin.com/company/school-of-media-and-communication🎓
Sarah Christina Ganzon @otomedoctor.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
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