Aasa T 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social PHD Researcher @ Tampere University Game Research Lab. Freelance writer. Feminist. Antifascist. AoS Worlds '26 Team Finland. Warhammer researcher. Lesbian. Part-time Mancunian. She/Her 🏳️⚧️ 34
https://medium.com/@warhammerscholar
Profile pic: teafordragon
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
sseJ @jessmakesthings.bsky.social Academic, University XR Specialist and Facilitator, Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer + Small Game Dev
Rose/Roselion/Lion in web spaces
she/they
on general hiatus excluding promotion, charity and mutual aid, dm if you’d like to connect
Mestarivaraani @mestarivaraani.bsky.social Jack of all trades, master of science. Veteran game master. Fake engineer boy. Not a doctor; don’t let the white coat fool you.
_irrealis mood_ @irrealismood.bsky.social anti-imperialist | geographer | film-maker | radio maker at éist.radio
Jan Lietz @zteilnaj.bsky.social PostDoc, Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Freie Universität Berlin) / Fall 2026: Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Narrative (Bergen) – www.jan-lietz.de
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, IE, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
@mareinna.bsky.social @mareinna.bsky.social ■ interdisciplinary hybrid ■ digital culture, gender studies, fandom and monsters ■ postdoc @ University of Bergen, Norway ■
Ludolio - The platform helping libraries lend games @ludolio.com 🚀 Games belong in libraries.
🎮 We support digital game lending for university and school libraries.
📚 Supporting teaching, research & student engagement through play
✨ Building the future of game access
👋 account run by @marcuscarter.com
Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social (she/her) Postdoc on EPIC and @uobphenomenal.bsky.social, Uni of Birmingham
Main quest: investigating epistemic injustice among young people with psychosis
Side quest: roleplaying games and mental health!
jodie-russell.co.uk
Argent @warden-010.bsky.social #base44 #deepai #chromebook
https://www.epa.gov/
nida.nih.gov/ bop.gov/contact/
livecodes.io/
https://www.pacificdrivegame.com/
https://one.one.one.one/
https://www.earthevolution.com/
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Cristina Ogando @ultimacronista.bsky.social Cronista. Historiadora del arte. Doctoranda 🎮. Autora de #Munajil y en varias antologías.
✉️ cristinaogandogonzalez@gmail.com
BlueOrbit @blueorbit.app Grow your bluesky audience with analytics. Learn mote at: https://blueorbit.app. Public beta is now open: https://app.blueorbit.app
Made with ♥️ in Finland
Lucas "D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E." @ramadaprieto.bsky.social El de la ficción digital infantil y juvenil. Blue Scholar ☭ Leo solo. Juego con gente. 🐾Mumin🐾 https://linktr.ee/ramadaprieto
📸 de Elena Navarro Escudero @hateiana (siempre)
🎨 de @manuelmarsol.bsky.social de "El tiempo del Gigante"
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341
かんきせん @prop-airduct.bsky.social
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
Daniele Monaco @danielemonaco.bsky.social PhD in philosophy—widely proven to be a highly questionable life choice. Divided between the UK and Italy.
Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social The Dem Voice of Missouri with her 262 Substack https://jesspiper.substack.com/ / @piperformissouri.bsky.social / @reichard4rep.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social DMs ok 📚
Ryan C. Wright @ryancwright.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Autoscopia Interactive | PhD Candidate at UC Davis
Repost! Repost! @repostrepost.bsky.social Frederick Post: Amateur, Dabbler and Dilettante. Mostly Reposts + Images + Occasional AI Slop.
matildastahl.bsky.social @matildastahl.bsky.social University Lecturer in Education at Åbo Akademi University, also affiliated with the Game Research Lab, Tampere University.
The banner is for the SURVIVE-project (by Ludwig Sandbacka) where we explore intersections between survival games and survivalism.
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
Code-codec @codecodec.bsky.social | CODE - CODEC | agence de communication |Enseignante vacataire UL
💡 Experts en #WebDesign & créativité exceptionnelle ✨ Transformons vos idées en communication #SansCoquille 🥚
#AgenceOeufOrique #CreateurDePixels
substack.com/@elodesignercodecodec
Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
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
M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Susanne Binder @susannebinder.bsky.social Aficionada of architecture, art, books, cake, coffee, dance, games, linguistics, music, saxophones, science, shoes, typewriters, zeitgeist.
Manager of iGGi - Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence @ Queen Mary Uni of London
iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social Based at Uni of York, Queen Mary Uni of London, Goldsmiths, and Essex, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (iGGi) is the world's largest PhD programme for research in games.
More info: https://www.iggi-phd.org/
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/
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Gigi @franchxni.bsky.social Just another working class lady.
Designer de narrativa de dia, streamer à noite. Mas sempre mudando o cabelo.
twitch.tv/franchxni
Seva Khusid @sevakhusid.bsky.social οἴμοι
From Classics & Philosophy into making indie games.
Currently working on: https://bsky.app/profile/harvest-of-names.bsky.social
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Lu Gossian @lugossian.bsky.social Game dev & miscellaneous creative
PhD: Seriously casual games
https://lugossian.com/
Scott Rettberg @srettberg.bsky.social Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, leader of the Extending Digital Narrative project, professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. Author of electronic literature and other curious things.
Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social Lettore Modello
Darren Pullman @darrenpullman.bsky.social Pro EU, Solar powered EV driver.
Play What You mean @playwhatyoumean.bsky.social A place dedicated to exploring games & play as personal expression
Gunther Martens @gumarten.bsky.social Professor @ Ghent University, Belgium
https://twitter.com/gumarten
https://mastodon.social/@gumarten
@cathbby.bsky.social @cathbby.bsky.social
@szprycek.bsky.social @szprycek.bsky.social
Ida Jahr @idajahr.bsky.social Associate professor of English (lit and cult) at University of Inland Norway. Head of MA in Digital Communication and Culture. Deputy director of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org Author of Naval Fiction, Freelance Defence Journalist – Naval & Aeronautical History
ELBRUS COMMITTEE my second novel is out !
A thriller on another Cold War.
Grey ships, black boats
https://www.midshipnews.org/
@gaari.no @gaari.no
Dooley @dooleymurphy.bsky.social Virtual experience designer and researcher. Tinkerer, artist, cyclist, knave, fool.
https://dooleymurphy.com/
Angry Homunculus @hasmeister.bsky.social I paint minis cos I can't draw
Laia @laiavelasco.bsky.social fent @resis-videoludica.bsky.social i organitzant la @santjordijam.bsky.social <3
(ella)
https://videojoc-fanziner-fanzin-juganer.aixeta.cat/
Sian Tomkinson @siantomkinson.bsky.social Media/Communication scholar specialising in games, gender, and misogyny. I like philosophy (especially D&G) and esotericism. 少し日本語を話せます。https://linktr.ee/siantomkinson
Very Complete Digital Product Marketplace @verycomplete.bsky.social Your download is complete! do you have a digital product? a pdf of a story you wrote, a guide to how to do something in pdf form, a beautiful image you painted or made with AI? Then, list it on verycomplete - a complete digital market place
Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social Fagkåt på folk og fortellinger & postdoc at AI STORIES, Center for Digital Narrative, UiB.
Insta: @folkogfortellinger.
Trondheim MDG 💚
Hun/henne.
Profilbilde: Eivind Senneset / UiB
boat sail machine @boatsailmachine.bsky.social sailboat
Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social Professor, University of Agder
Pål Csaszni Halvorsen @paalhal.bsky.social Associate prof, Library and information science, OsloMet. New book out in May: «Litterært landssvik». Interested in social theory, digital media and culture, taste, sociology of literature and WW2. Former chair of the Norwegian Sociological Association
Lene Angelskår @lenange.bsky.social Forskningsrådgiver. Frafallen sykkelpendler. Liker dårlige ordspill, mathaller og hobbyprosjekter.
Ingar 📎 @ingsme.bsky.social linux sysadmin, gamer, dad.
Antifascist
Mark, the Oni @markmaletska.bsky.social Hi, I’m Mark Maletska (he/him), game studies scholar working in queer/trans game studies!
ALTAAR PRESS @altaarpress.bsky.social An interdisciplinary project on Lovecraft's influence on music and its cultural intersections. The project explores how Lovecraft has shaped not only soundscapes but also artistic identities and narratives.
Publisher of weird mysticism, occult literature.
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
Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social Irish publisher of fine books. 💙📚
Projects: You Died, Soul Arts, Abyssal Archive, Blood Echoes, Demonic Archive, Grace Given, Grant Us Eyes, Process, Gods & Monsters, Lore Bound, Scholar's Codex and more.
https://tuneandfairweather.com/pages/portfolio
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)
Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research.
UiB, Bergen, Norway.
basgroes @basgroes.bsky.social 🤓 Writer, Prof. of English Literature https://researchers.wlv.ac.uk/s.groes
📗🧠✍🏼 Right in the Head https://bit.ly/3QGM2CE
📗🇺🇦✍🏼🇬🇧 Writing under Fire https://bit.ly/3Odzyly
🧠✍🏼 Creative writing for brain injury https://writeinthehead.co.uk
Jonathan Lessard @glandeurlessard.bsky.social Chaire de recherche en design de jeu (Concordia)
Créateur-Chercheur-Glandeur
jonathanlessard.net
lablablab.net
www.game-design.ca
Zoheb AKA Klow @zohebmashiur.bsky.social Academic. TTRPG designer. Actual Plays.
'Midnight in a Perfect World' now out at Plus One Exp!
Researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Game design: https://klowspeaking.itch.io/
Actual Play: https://desperateattune.podbean.com/
Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social Game director of "The Abbess Garden", a cozy & historical gardening game🌿
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/The_Abbess_Garden/
Newsletter https://mdstudiogames.com/newsletter/
Dr and researcher CHCSC lab, Univ of Versailles 📚
No GenAI 🚫
(she/her)
Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer English and American Lit @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. Co-host Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
Markus Elvig @vongnome.bsky.social They/them. PhD Student, cooking enjoyer, haunted by affordance theory and generally interested in the history of game studies, queer theory and other chthonic topics.
r/DeepGames @deepgames.bsky.social A new subreddit community for discussing and discovering thought-provoking games
reddit.com/r/DeepGames/
Macha @machanotmatcha.bsky.social 🎮 worker. Multimedia writer with a PoliSci kink. Microfic, nonfiction, radical poetry. BAFTA member.
Disability justice & Community care 😷
Tio'tia:ke 📌 50% hair, 50% anxiety.
Opinions=my own | www.machalopez.com
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/
David Porter @davidjporter.bsky.social
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
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/
Wolf_Hoi @wolfhoi.bsky.social Game Studies || Psychology || Digital Play Enthusiast
Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering, Writer & Mental Health Advocate. Accessibility matters. "Retro can be fun!"
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social
Victor Breum (REVIEW MIND DIVER) @breum.bsky.social Game director of Mind Diver: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/Mind_Diver/
And other stuff: https://www.victorbreum.com/
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.
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
@isadora-smaadal.bsky.social @isadora-smaadal.bsky.social
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social the statues are bleeding green
iggi phd student @ uni of york
researching game design & player creativity
sound toys & playful tools
[website] fuzul.bearblog.dev
[games & zines] fuzul.itch.io
Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
Photo by Chiara Cappiello.
Carolin Puckhaber @caroleinx.bsky.social She/Her
Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie, Irgendwas mit (Nicht-)Religion, Gaming & Populärkultur | Gründungsmitglied der @ludobande.bsky.social
Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
Julián Gutiérrez Carrera @gutierrezcarrera.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at Tampere University's Game Research lab, writing on representations of suicide in computer games.
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
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social Artist
Researcher, University of Porto
i2ADS/Faculty of Fine Arts
+Multimedia/Engineering
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
@letusclingtogether.bsky.social @letusclingtogether.bsky.social