Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social Award-winning reporter. News editor at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
Tips: chris.kerr@gamedeveloper.com / chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open / Signal: kerrblimey.43
Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com I made Cult of the Lamb 🕹Accessibility Advocate 🤔Opinions are mine (and probably bad)
Senior Developer at SMG Studio
willmesilane.com
Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she
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)
rachel @nershly.bsky.social graceful failure. game programmer, designer, doodler, etc. likes tea. is a she. paints and plays with minis. personal site: https://rachelnertia.github.io/ also: https://linktr.ee/rockstargamesworkers
Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social Indie dev making games & chatting about the games industry. ex Rockstar & Activision, now MD of https://bsky.app/profile/ant-workshop.com
Our latest game: https://bsky.app/profile/tonygowland.bsky.social/post/3lp7gpkckgc24
Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social Historian of ancient Egypt & papyrologist | games researcher (analogue + digital) | Manchester Met Uni | Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre | Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society | Les Mills instructor | Blood Bowl enthusiast
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
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/
Tim Peacock @drtimpeacock.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History & War Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social
& Director @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Space, Nuclear, Games, AI, Politics. Helping to make ideas fly like bicycles! Views mine. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/timothypeacock
The Game Accessibility Conference @gaconf.bsky.social Two days of talks and networking exploring accessibility for disabled players, hosted by the IGDA'S accessibility SIG. #GAconf
VG247 @vg247.bsky.social Eurogamer's red-headed stepbrother. Your maximum-nonsense destination for the biggest gaming news, guides, and features.
Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social Bad puns and video games since 1999.
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Polygon @polygon.com Covering video games, entertainment, and the culture around them. We find, share, and investigate the things you love and the people who make and enjoy them.
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
MIT Game Lab @mitgamelab.bsky.social Exploring the Potential of Play -- http://gamelab.mit.edu/
IGDA Foundation @igdafoundation.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Foundation is a global charitable organization serving underrepresented and marginalized developers, and individuals interested in a career within the gaming industry.
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/
The Royal Society of Edinburgh @royalsoced.bsky.social Contributing to the social, cultural, and economic wellbeing of Scotland through the advancement of learning and useful knowledge. 💡
🔗 https://rse.org.uk/
Games and Gaming Lab (UofGGamesLab) @uofggameslab.bsky.social An ArtsLab Research Lab promoting cross-disciplinary research & education from tabletop to video games. We explore innovative uses of #games & #gaming to help people make ideas fly like bicycles, @uofglasgow.bsky.social & beyond! Follow/Like ≠ endorsement.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Ashley @professorashley.bsky.social 
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social Archaeologist. Ancient Games. Syracuse Basketball. Cheese. Sneakers. Gay stuff. he/him
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.
Idle Researcher - Familiar Findings out now! @idleresearcher.bsky.social Indie dev and producer for idle game Familiar Findings
👾 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3914780?utm_source=irbsky
Former Dev at Jagex
Full-time cat bed (and react native engineer)
🇮🇪 Living in 🏴
#IrishGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev
(They/Them)
Brian McDonald @bigbearscot.bsky.social Head of Games at Falmouth University. Teach Game Prototyping and Production. Boardgame and cake aficionado. Scot living in Cornwall.
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
Michael Barclay @michaelbarclay.bsky.social World Design Director on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet at Naughty Dog fae Dundee, Scotland.
linktr.ee/michaelbarclay
Celia Hodent @celiahodent.com Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science • Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi • Phd psych • She/Her 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
celiahodent.com
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com Award-winning game developer. Animated Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, The Last of Us series and more. Wrote GAME ANIM: Video Game Animation Explained. Shipped Apple Vision Pro.
gameanim.com
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
The Football Collective @footballcollective.bsky.social The academic voice of football
The Football Collective is a network of people who wish to bring critical debate to football.
https://www.thefootballcollective.com/
Stephanie Bazeley @stephersjf.bsky.social Lead programmer @ TeamJunkfish making video games 🕹🐻
She/her ✨️
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.
Corine "TimesNewRoman" Gerritsen @times-new-roman.bsky.social PhD Leiden | Game Studies | Historian Roman Antiquity | soft spot for Crusader Kings 3 and Sims | Still processing INDIKA
@tesswatty.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social 
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.
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
Carleuf @carleuf.bsky.social 
Spooky Doorway @spookydoorway.com Multi award winning indie game developers. Makers of darksidedetective.bsky.social and @BlakeManorGame.bsky.social, tellers of spooky tales 👻 Discord - http://discord.gg/spookydoorwaygames
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
PunchesBears ㅎ㉨ㅎ @punchesbears.bsky.social Robots, ML, Animation, VR, & vidya games. Working on a Space Game & Wreckoons (a game about stealing trash & being an asshole). Profile doodle by Pendleton Ward
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
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/
Eliot @edogz.bsky.social Level Designer at Jagex || Prev Ubisoft || Abertay || He/Him
@EliotHynd
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.
Lee Gillespie @keliber.bsky.social Senior Level Designer at No Brakes Games. Working on Human Fall Flat 2
Alexander (Sandy) Tarvet @alexandertarvet.bsky.social Programme Lead & Lecturer for BA (Hons) Game Design and Production at Abertay University | Director at Somewhat Unsettling | He/Him | https://www.alexanderjamestarvet.com/
SMY @philsmy.bsky.social No. 1 Paddington Stan on Bluesky
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/
Cari 🍉 🔜 Develop / GA11y Gathering / GAConf @cariwatterton.bsky.social Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her
Worked on ⚛️ Atomfall, 🔫 Sniper Elite and 🐉 Skye Tales.
Witch who crafts, owns an unhealthy amount of board games and has a black cat called Toothless.
Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social Playful & Game-based learning specialist. Interdisciplinary researcher. Serious games for research skills and researcher development. SFHEA, CeLP, PhD.
Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk Head of Education & Practice, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Co-director, Games & Gaming Lab. Director, Ada Scotland Festival.
GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social Edinburgh based game studio working at the intersection of gaming and science 🧠
glitchers.com
Sign up to the waitlist ⚓
seaheroquest.com
Timea Tabori @timeatabori.bsky.social Technical Director at Netspeak Games. Based in Edinburgh. She/her.
Previously at Rockstar North, and Chair of SGDA.
Aphra Kerr @aphrak.bsky.social Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
Bettina Bódi🌿🎮 @bettibo.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK
✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature
🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu
🌐 https://cozymedia.net/
Regina Seiwald @reginaballerina.bsky.social 
John Wills @drjohnwills.bsky.social Prof in Film&Media, University of Kent. Recent Books: Gamer Nation, Disney Culture.
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.
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
School of Innovation & Technology @sit-gsa.bsky.social The School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
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
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
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
AKGWDS @akgwds.bsky.social Arbeitskreis Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele | https://akgwds.de | CI by Alina Menten
Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
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
Nikhil Murthy @murthynikhil.bsky.social Experimental game designer currently working on Hoop Dungeon. Previous games: Syphilisation, The Quiet Sleep
Die Gute Fabrik @gutefabrik.bsky.social An award-winning 🇩🇰 indie game studio, we made ⛵ Saltsea Chronicles, ☄️ Mutazione, 🤼♀️ Sportsfriends, & more. Handcrafted games made by human beings. linktr.ee/gutefabrik
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social Pale. Curious. Game-maker. Writer. (de-)Archivist.
Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her.
Current things:
- Darkened Hill & Dale 🎲💀🏞️
- TERMINUS 🎲💀🚇
- Trick or Retreat 🎃🎲☕☺️
links.patchworkfez.co.uk
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
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)
Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social She/her. Dr of digiarch, ethics, archaeology, and archaeogaming. I restore old houses, write for games, and talk a lot about my dogs and about tacos. On the job market!
ORCiD: 0000-0002-3109-4555
FKA: Gingerygamer
Web: meghandennis.com
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
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)
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Felix Fuhg @felixfuhg.bsky.social Historian working in different fields and with different formats of history-telling since many years. My goal: pushing the disneyfication of cultural institutions and the way we tell history
🏰🐭🪄
Running eCommemoration programme at Koerber-Stiftung
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
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
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
Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social 📚🎨✍️ Curator, writer, salaryman 🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏻
• BA, MA, M.Phil: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. (Film, videogames, MVs, art.)
• The Lester Bangs of BL.
• Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
Felix Zimmermann @felixfelixson.bsky.social Program Manager for Games Culture, Civic Education & Extremism @bpb (Federal Agency for Civic Education) | Dr. phil. | Member @AKGWDS | Public Historian
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
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).
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.