Oriol Viu i Duran @oriolgami.bsky.social Interactive Storyteller & Games Researcher
https://linktr.ee/oriolgami 🐦⬛ he/him
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
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app 37. NOLA. Sociology PhD Student interested the intersection of Nerd culture and Blackness. Also other stuff idk I stay talking on here.
https://linktr.ee/melaninatedmagician
@mitchcerda.bsky.social @mitchcerda.bsky.social 
Johan Kristian Milde @johkmil.bsky.social Alleged historian. Mostly archivist. Occasional goatherd.
Poster en del på norsk.
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social An academic publisher of scholarly and educational games | https://linktr.ee/clgs | Our Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning series is open for submissions: https://cmichpress.com/scholarshiplore/
Donal Lucey @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist and nerd. Public engagement, social value and immersive approaches. Loves Early Medieval stuff! Member of award-winning Dig The Castle project & @archsengage.bsky.social
Mod of r/AskArchaeology
Kenna @kennalindsay.bsky.social www.kennamlindsay.com
Interdisciplinary Artist
Game Dev
Brian McDonald @bigbearscot.bsky.social Head of Games at Falmouth University. Teach Game Prototyping and Production. Boardgame and cake aficionado. Scot living in Cornwall.
Angus 'Doc Random' Mol @docrandom.bsky.social Research and other fun things at the intersection of past and play | Co-founder of the VALUE Foundation | Director at Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities | Seeking the bubble reputation.
Mus @sgtmus.bsky.social Greetings! I'm a #3Dart and #2Dartist, #gameart, #gamedev, #vectorart, #illustrations, love films and with a cup of coffee, I share references images.
Open for work.
No AI please.
#reference
#referenceimages
https://muscetiner.artstation.com/
Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltd Game Dev from Scotland - THE CORRIDOR and It Takes a War - @ghost.camp on the side - He/Him - https://thecool.zone - @freezeposts on Twitter - I sometimes go by freeze
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.
Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social Academic, (outer) Space Governance. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Writing a book on space mining and how we think about natural resources. He/him.
Carleuf @carleuf.bsky.social 
STARVINITY @starvinity.bsky.social #Starvinity is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy universe, inspired by Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, and so much more. Seek truth, defy tyranny, find freedom.
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology 
Damien Accoulon @daccoulon.bsky.social #Historian of #Aviation #WW1 #interwar #veterans #France #Germany
Maître de conférences (Associate Prof.), Université de Tours
Membre du CA @asso-h2c.bsky.social
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
frsrs @frsrs.bsky.social Game Design Lecturer at Abertay. Game Designer.
Music, Photos, Video Games, Books, Bicycles, Family and that.
(he/him)
https://www.frasersimpson.net/
Mikey Love @mikeylove22.bsky.social Sci Fi Geek, Gamer, Game Dev hobbyist and Football daft.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Martin Lynagh @martinlynagh.bsky.social Game Maker, Lecturer in Game Production at Abertay University (Professional Projects Module Lead). Glasgow. Former Molecule. This is not a place of honour.
Timea Tabori @timeatabori.bsky.social Lead Programmer at Third Kind Games. Based in Edinburgh. She/her.
Previously Tech Director at Netspeak, Engine Code at Rockstar North, and Chair of SGDA.
Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social Recovering sound designer for games.
Video games, (metal) music, film photography, workers' rights
@iwgbunion.bsky.social Treasurer
Scottish. No DMs!
Work: https://speedyjx.com/
Noise:
@manmadeorigin.bsky.social
https://thecabinetnoir.bandcamp.com/
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
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.
jenn sutcliffe 🔜 Serious Play Conference @jennsutcliffe.bsky.social Ed Psych/Tech Ph.D. student, MSU | Instructional Designer | TTRPG writer/designer, @ImmaterialPlane | Georgia (US) Wikimedia affiliate rep | Research: Game studies, social learning, learning communities, digital literacies ~ she/her
Video Games as Literature @videogamesaslit.bsky.social Just a regular human writer, blogging about literary video games since 2012. Aka Ringwraith10 all over. 🏳️🌈♿ (she/her)
@videogamesaslit on most other socials.
www.videogamesaslit.com
📚 DM me to join the Literary Game Club
See also @ringwraith10.bsky.social
Ethiopia Beyond @talksmart.bsky.social Exploring the untold beauty, culture, history, innovation, and spirit of Ethiopia.
Sharing authentic stories, breathtaking places, people, traditions, and the new face of Africa’s rising destination.
From ancient civilizations to modern transformation — E
Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social Stevan Anastasoff, former White Dwarf writer, and video game designer: Warhammer Online, For Honor, Assassin's Creed, and many more. Now working on Tales from the Mabinogion, a game about Welsh mythology using Welsh as its principal language.
Dr Ian Sturrock @sturrock.bsky.social Researcher into game studies, game histories, motivation for play, ethics of game design, creativity and world-building. Capoeirista, HEMA practitioner, larper, TTRPG designer/publisher. HE teacher and UCU activist but my views represent only me.
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts @comicsandai.org A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. 4 September 2025, City St George's, University of London. https://comicsandai.org/. Reposts are not endorsements.
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Lulu ✨☕🎮 @lulushugamedev.bsky.social 🕹️ Unreal dev
🎨 Hobbyist artist / art account @aurumsolarian.bsky.social
she/her
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Stephanie Bazeley @stephersjf.bsky.social Lead programmer @ TeamJunkfish making video games 🕹🐻
She/her ✨️
Özgür Toprak @ozgurtoprak8303.bsky.social Kurdischer Politiker und Aktivist
Soziologie der Universität Eskisehir, Abteilung für Lederbekleidung der Universität Usak.
ZÜRICH🇨🇭
X Mein Konto &: @komunalistx
Fiona Fritz @fionafree.bsky.social 
Dr Aris Politopoulos @apolitopoulos.bsky.social Assistant professor Archaeology and Cultural Politics at Leiden University. Archaeology, play, video games, and politics.
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Material Culture Studios @mcshistory.bsky.social Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social Sacramento, CA
Just raging against he dying of the light over here.
fervently anti-GOP
she/her
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
CASI 🍐🍋 @gatdesoia.es [making] 13🌹 @achtungautobahn.com
a n t i f a . c r e e p y p a s t a
praxis with theory, theory with praxis
[textures only in power of 2]
organizer 💚🎮 @femdevsmeetup.com
CA/DE/EN/ES ! f u c k _ a i
https://gatdesoia.es
School of Innovation & Technology @sit-gsa.bsky.social The School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social they | phd @ leiden | hacker-bard |
forever gm, habitual gamer, biweekly artiste
keerthisridharan.com
Richard Cole @richardcole.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures at the University of Bristol (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) and co-director of the #BristolDigitalGameLab
James Manning @jimaroonie.bsky.social Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Co-Chair, Freeplay.net.au. Board member, DiGRAA. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.
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).
Landecker Digital Memory Lab @ldml.bsky.social Research lab dedicated to the sustainability of Holocaust memory in the digital age.
We explore all things XR, AI, social media, computer games and digital heritage in the context of memory and education of this past.
www.digitalmemorylab.com
Kirsty Fraser @kirstysays.bsky.social 🤓 Lead Programmer at Third Kind Games
💬 Co-organiser of @brumindies.bsky.social
⚔️ @igdafoundation.org Next Gen Leader cohort '20 '25
🏆 MCV/Develop Women in Games Tech Innovation Winner 2023
❤️💍 @meesh-codes.bsky.social
(She/her)
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social Game director of "The Abbess Garden", a cozy & historical gardening game🌿
Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/The_Abbess_Garden/
Newsletter https://mdstudiogames.com/newsletter/
Dr and researcher CHCSC lab, Univ of Versailles 📚
(she/her)
Daniel Livingstone @d-livingstone.bsky.social games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.
Ed Vollans @edvollans.bsky.social University Lecturer, media paratexts, promotional materials, trailers & advertising. (Views my own). 🏴/ Midlands (UK).
Pablo López @yopablotv.bsky.social #Rol: "La desbandá 1937" (Ganador de The Awards 2024) y "El hombre del saco"
#Android: Comic Time
https://yopablo.itch.io/
Andrew Bell @andrewbell.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Midlands4Cities PhD Candidate at BCU. Studying queer game-making via playable monsters 🧟🧛🏻♂️🐺
Harri Charles @harriresearches.bsky.social He/Him | 🏳️🌈 | Gaymer nerd.
Now a Doctor. Thesis funded by Midlands4Cities. Works at BCU.
Studies (gay) sex in video games, literally.
harricharles.wordpress.com
Stef @stef.sh I live in the UK and watch films and work on software at a music company and I used to work on software at a magazine company · No trauma dumping · Any pronouns · https://stef.sh
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
Protein and Veg and Fasting @mccheapo.bsky.social Old straight white aspie male
1. Buy British, eg 70% PRUK 30% GILS
2. HODL
3. Profit!
(maybe 50/50 just now)
One party for the 5% (aristocracy, oligarchs, elite), and one for the 95%, choose wisely!
#diet #lcl6 #fifo #paleo #keto #politics #BrainEnergy
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
Meu romance: https://tinyurl.com/349wdeud
Blog: https://finisgeekis.com.br/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3F9RVGD
dennis jansen 🟥 @dennisjansen.bsky.social PhD researcher on play, technology and militarization @ Utrecht University
Skully Brookes @skullyb.bsky.social 🎮🛰️
https://www.twitch.tv/skully_b
https://www.youtube.com/channel/@Skully_B
IDDAINKFA @illindsay.bsky.social Game Designer. Cannot be killed by conventional methods.
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Rü @rbrandis.eu 🌹 poetic realist
🎮 game producer
✍️ historian
🛠 working on 13 Rosas @achtungautobahn.com
✍️ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
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
Peter Edmond @lordlindor.bsky.social 
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.
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/)
Stella Wisdom @stellawisdom.bsky.social Curator interested in electronic literature, interactive narratives, comics, web archiving and digital preservation 
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
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Digital Heritage Innovation Lab @dhilab.bsky.social Michigan State University Digital Heritage Innovation Lab. We're focused on the application of digital methods in heritage for documentation, preservation, access, and public and community engagement. Director, @ethanwatrall.bsky.social
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
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair 
Doctoe @doctoe.bsky.social CEO of the BPI. Former CEO of Ukie. Scottish. 
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands • made a really big video game once but is doing something else now • tha Gàidhlig agam • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they • e/iad 🏳️⚧️
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Public Historian & #StarWars author. Rep'd Justin Nash of @katenashagent.bsky.social. Visiting Senior Research Fellow @warstudieskcl.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Historian @blackmillgames.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.