Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social Comic/Cult Leader/THE DARK ROOM 🍍
London. Work: Lee@gagreflex.co.uk UK Tour Sept - December PLUS Oct 10th PAXAUS, Nov 18-21 NYC, Nov 22nd London and SO MANY MORE
Nick Button-Brown @nickbuttonbrown.bsky.social Games Industry veteran trying to improve financing for games companies, founder of The Games Angels, Chair at Outright Games, UKIE board member, Chair at coherence, Trustee at OKRE and helping some really great startups.
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
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Ross Thomas Everson @moonscattle.bsky.social I move thing
Cornish Senior Animator @Rebellion
Prev: @LimitBreak @FrontierDev @Firesprite
views do not represent my employer
https://www.artstation.com/rosseverson
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)- A @andysmith.bsky.social @andysmith.bsky.social
Brian McDonald @bigbearscot.bsky.social Head of Games at Falmouth University. Teach Game Prototyping and Production. Boardgame and cake aficionado. Scot living in Cornwall.
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
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
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
Oliver Withington @owithington.bsky.social Game AI Research, Game Dev & Videos about games. he/they
🌐 owithington.co.uk
📹 youtube.com/@Bard_Hard
@callumdeery.bsky.social @callumdeery.bsky.social Games researcher, larper, occasional pixel artist
Currently studying video game crimes for a PhD at City University of Hong Kong
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
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
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.
Sarah: Wishlist Moth Terra on Steam 🦋 🌙 🌱 @sarah.games Wishlist Moth Terra: https://msha.ke/floragames
Join the Discord: Share Moth Pics/Art/ Vote for Exclusive Moth Terra Dev Updates (like Moths to feature) in the Discord: https://msha.ke/floragames
🌸 Micro Studio Owner
📚Games Researcher
she/her/they/them
Luke @citesandsounds.com Making accessible audio navigation tools for video games!
Weird and wonderful PhD Researcher with ADHD. Nerdfighter. Proud West Midlander lost in Bristol. Mon the Biff. St Helens RFC and McLaren 🔴⚪🟠
Neighbour to all ♥️
citesandsounds.com
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
Harún Ali @retroali93.bsky.social Part Time Game Design Lecturer at Calderdale College, prev worked at: No Brakes Games, Cloud Imperium, Bradford College, TT Games (all views my own)
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
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
Game Assist 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @gameassistyt.bsky.social We are a collective standing for transformative justice & liberation through game writing, research & development. Find us on YouTube for video essays making political analysis of games accessible 💜
Art by knellbelles + @fionacreates.bsky.social
George Farmer @cybergamepsych1.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster
Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects.
LinkedIn - https://tinyurl.com/3bkcuud7
Lennart Nacke, PhD @lennartnacke.com 🧠 Tenured brain, fresh daily takes. Maximum citations but sanity questionable. The prof your prof follows for daily advice. University Research Chair & Tenured Full Professor.
The read that returns your rigour ➜ https://go.lennartnacke.com/newsletter
Ross Fifield @rossfifield.bsky.social Game Designer. Lecturer. User Researcher. PhD Researcher iGGi York.
https://linktr.ee/rossfifield
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Seth Giddings @sethgiddings.bsky.social Out now: Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play (MIT)
Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
https://www.microethology.net
Living with motor neurone disease #mnd #als
Dr. Adam Procter @adamprocter.bsky.social AFC Wimbledon fan and owner, creator and founder of nodenogg.in and the Strange Tool Store, maker of satire games about climate collapse and public services full time Practitioner-Researcher at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.
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.
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.
Lisbeth Klastrup @klast.bsky.social External lecturer at Uni of Cph, Copenhagen Business School & Roskilde University. Digital media scholar, part-time nerd, full-time mum, born again catlover and impatient IPhone-photographer. Trying to update a book (in Danish) on social media.
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
Adam Richards - Punchboard @punchboard.co.uk ✍ Written board game reviews and editorial. Lover of worker-placement, rondels, and well-written rule books. Be kind to one another. He/him
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
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
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/
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).
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
Tranzfuser @tranzfuser.bsky.social Tranzfuser is an annual programme supporting UK graduates to build successful video game development studios. Part of UK Games Talent and Finance Community Interest Company
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.- L Lars de Wildt @larsdewildt.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media & Cultural Industries @ University of Groningen. he/him.
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Books http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM and https://bit.ly/4yA52aj. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher. Smells books. Maybe we can build a new thing here 🌱
The Upside Down: https://twitter.com/manjusrii
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
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things- M Matthew Barr @mbarr.net
Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social Professor of Game Design & Culture, Abertay University | Own views & musings on being a : researcher👨🔬 maker 🎨 teacher 👨🏫 gamer 🧑💻 sports fan 🏉 Scot 🏴 dad 👨👧👦 
Alec Faulkner @faulkner.bsky.social game designer at yacht club games
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)
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
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; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Steven Yau @yaustar.bsky.social 🕹️ Game Maker Geek and UK Games Angel investor
👔 @gather_town (prev @playcanvas / @snap, @King_Games, @Playfish and @EA)
☕️ http://ko-fi.com/yaustar
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party AAPI Caucus & CA Dem Renters Council Board, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement.
art: http://alfredtwu.com
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
Nia 'Wormella' Wearn @wormella.bsky.social Game Dev Producer @ Dambuster Studios, post academic, "Project Nerd", collector of books, Zombie wrangler, drinker of wine - happy to be here.
https://linktr.ee/wormella
Esther MacCallum-Stewart @neveahfs.bsky.social 
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Kenobisexual @katzuh.bsky.social My name's Kat (she/they)
🏳️🌈 Nerd
Find me on Tome! https://tomebooks.com/user/katzuh-reads
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
Mabel Slattery @slatteroo.bsky.social Cousin Jack of all trades, master of dungeons and medieval dick jokes. She/they.
Liam Gregory 🐺 @liamgregory.bsky.social Lv 26 | Game Dev: Writing Graduate Falmouth Games | Community Manager for @WeAreSecretMode.com | Prev Kwalee Gaming, RichCast | He/Him | Opinions 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
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
Lizziebeth @lizziegolucky.bsky.social