Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
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.
Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of @softchaos.bsky.social. 🌈36. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social if D&D has no haters then i'm 💀 • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Comms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Gender, Sexualities and Social Justice at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal/pornography/games studies scholar working on sex in video games ⚖️💦🎮 The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com 🅿️
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Alex Custodio @alexcustodio.com PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
hanine @fishinggames.bsky.social here we go again!
anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł
communication PhD student at Concordia
game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social
arabic localisation at WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Makopowered Chris, PhD (he/him) @makopowered.bsky.social Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
Matt Wells - working on Frenzy @mattjwells.bsky.social • Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
• Post-PhD, self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective
• Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Marc Lajeunesse @marclaj.bsky.social Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though!
krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who...
connectingtogame.ca
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Game Studies. Director, GAME Program. Brock University, Department of Digital Humanities.
Kalervo @kalervideo.bsky.social bang bang 🤠I’m a cowboy
andrea braithwaite @ahbraithwaite.bsky.social Nancy Drew nerd, pop culture prof, bookaholic.
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
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
Prof Matthew @profmatthew.bsky.social Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Courtney Blamey @courtneyblamey.bsky.social professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
Andrew Bailey @andrewrbailey.bsky.social SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him.
📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
Justin Roberts ✨ @justinrobs.bsky.social MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto
Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Kenzie Gordon 🍉 @kenzitronic.bsky.social Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her
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
rowenac @rohuinac.bsky.social ✨ Milieux ✨ AI/Aesthetics/Play 🤖 HUMA PhD, Concordia ✨ writer ✨ kludge queen ✨ WvW addict 🎮 MTL/NYC 🍕🐀🗽 Lucky Charms 🍀 Enjoyer 💅 Neurodiversity 🌻 www.rowenac.com ✨ 
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Andy Lee @unsurprisinglee.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.- M Michael Nixon @mnixon.bsky.social Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Michael Hancock @personofcon.bsky.social Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social he/him | Game design prof🏅 | Game Designer 🕹️ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon)
linktr.ee/aaronlangille
Find the Strawberry @findthestrawberry.com Indie games are a delight, and I want the world to know it! Sharing awesome finds with the world, one game at a time.
Contact: sarah@findthestrawberry.com
Casual reviews: https://findthestrawberry.com/
Newsletter: https://newsletter.findthestrawberry.com/
Jennifer - Everything MUST Fit! | Love, Ghostie @janbehchanbeh.bsky.social Indie game dev (she/her). Wishlist "Everything MUST Fit!" on Steam and play "Love, Ghostie" on Steam and Nintendo Switch! info@janbehgames.com
https://janbehgames.com/
Yukim - Garden Trills out on Steam! @gardentrills.bsky.social solo dev working on a cute gardening adventure game 🪴 - (he/him)
wishlist Garden Trills on steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2669500/Garden_Trills/
linktree:
https://t.co/TTyOp36i3v
Two Point Museum 🦕 @twopointstudios.bsky.social 🦕 Curate & design
🎨 Build with creative freedom
🔧 Enhanced management
Play now: twopointmuseum.com
Join our Discord: discord.gg/twopointstudios
On Your Tail @onyourtail.games Open world 🏖️slice of life + 🔎detective game set in Italy🇮🇹 made by @memorable.games! Out now on Steam & Nintendo Switch! Play the demo on Switch & Steam! Discord: https://discord.gg/OnYourTail
Tiny Bookshop ✨ @tinybookshopgame.com 📚 Indie studio that developed Tiny Bookshop! out for Switch, Steam, PS5, Xbox and Xbox Game Pass and Mobile!
🌿 Free demo on Steam!
🔗 https://tinybookshopgame.com
🔗 https://neoludic.games
Non-Violent Game Of The Day @nvgotd.bsky.social Because there is more to video games than guns and gore. A new recommendation (almost) every day. Compiled by @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social
Book available now: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Best-Non-Violent-Video-Games-Hardback/p/23674
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions @spiritcitylofi.bsky.social Begin your productivity journey in Spirit City.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy some lofi tunes.
🕹️Available now on PC on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2113850/Spirit_City_Lofi_Sessions/?utm_source=bluesky
Golembert | Studio Firlefanz @studiofirlefanz.bsky.social Upcoming Cozy Gardening Story Game 🌿📜
Plant colorful crops, meet adorable friends, and deal with the bureaucracy of landownership!!! ⭐
Made by two beings from Berlin 🥰
Andrew 🌲 Alpine Lake @mossygrovegames.bsky.social Tokyo based indie dev working on Alpine Lake, an Innkeeper / Life-Sim
Wishlist + Demo on Steam - https://s.team/a/2341620
Daily live dev - http://twitch.tv/booyagrandmma
mossygrovegames@gmail.com
Little Sim World @littlesimworld.bsky.social Hen-lo ~ I am a cozy London-based Life Sim Game coming for Steam
~ 🍎
https://littlesim.world
Critter Cove @crittercove.bsky.social Welcome to Critter Cove, a deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Check out our demo or grab the full game, available now in early access!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631470/Critter_Cove/
Moonfrost - Demo LIVE NOW on Steam!💜 @moonfrostgame.bsky.social 👩🌾 Farm 🔨Build 🐮 Nurture 🗺️ Explore
A premium cosy life-sim, farming RPG, coming to Steam & Epic Games
Wishlist Now on Steam!👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2561630/Moonfrost/
Paralives @paralives.com Paralives is a new life simulation game for PC and Mac on Steam. Early Access release is out now!
🏡 Support us:
linktr.ee/paralives
Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games Indie narrative games publisher. Host of #LudoNarraCon. On a journey to discover innovative story-driven games.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/fellowtravellergames
Housefolk | Making 🐾MonsterCare💖 @housefolk.games ✨ Tiny family-run game studio, making cozy games
👀 Wishlist our first game MonsterCare! http://bit.ly/WishlistMonsterCare
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Run by @mediochrea.bsky.social and @taniasham.bsky.social
Hollow Ponds @hollowponds.bsky.social A videogame studio currently working on secret things!
Wilmot Works It Out is out now on PC, Mac and Switch.
We also made Flock, I Am Dead, Wilmot's Warehouse and Loot Rascals.
For support queries support@hllwpnds.com
Sleepy Rocket | Cone Sweet Cone✨ @sleepyrocket.bsky.social Making a wholesome ice cream truck game!
⭐Wishlist Cone Sweet Cone on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4632310
Ambertail Games 🔶 Amber Isle OUT NOW! @ambertailgames.bsky.social N. Irish indie games studio 🦖 Creators of Amber Isle, a cute shop/village sim set in a world of friendly dinosaurs! 🛒🧡🦕 50% OFF NOW on Steam + Switch!
Tempopo 🌷🎶 is OUT NOW @tempopogame.com OUT NOW! ✨ An upbeat musical puzzle game from @witchbeam.com.au the studio behind @unpackinggame.com 🌷
Available for PC, Mac, Xbox, and Switch: linktr.ee/witchbeam
Art Shop Simulator @artshopgame.bsky.social Official account for the game where you can buy and sell art, manage employees, and grow your very own art shop.
🎨 Wishlist on Steam: https://t.ly/T6aTP
Making Soggy Beans 🐋 | Out Soon! @ratmode.games The game where fish visit you.
🐳 Meet friends
📸 Take photos
🌻 Decorate
And then relax and watch your friends swim by in this calming side-idler. 💙
Play our demo! ✨ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2636430/Soggy_Beans/ ✨
Mooneye Studios @mooneyestudios.com Indie Game Developer & Publisher
#LostEmber | #SmushiComeHome | #FarewellNorth | #HavenPark
#ColorsOfIndie
https://www.mooneyestudios.com/
🏳️🌈
A Bakery In The Hallway 🐸 @petgolemgames.bsky.social 🐸 be a frog plushie but also an adventurer but also a baker and a bakery manager!
🪄 go on a magical adventure & bewitch your plushie in The Cauldron Kids: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2598120/
Kitten Cup Studio @kittencupstudio.bsky.social We're a small Toronto-based indie studio making games full of heart!
😻PEKOE early access!
🍊Play now @capycastaway.com
🎮Wishlist: http://bit.ly/3ENdmL7
🍵https://discord.gg/zQgfEsG
👋social@kittencupstudio.com
Discounty ✨ FREE EXPANSION OUT NOW! ✨ @discountygame.bsky.social Discounty is a supermarket management life sim 🛒
Make friends (and enemies) as you grow your shop!
🍎 Buy on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274620/Discounty/
💌 Devlogs & Updates: https://crinklecutgames.com/newsletter
Caravan Sandwitch ✨ OUT NOW! @sandwitchdev.bsky.social Drive your van across Provence-punk landscapes in a narrative-driven exploration game! https://s.team/a/1582650/
Winter Whiskers ✨❄️ WISHLIST NOW!! 🥭🍂 @mangoleafgames.bsky.social A couple of indie game dev nerds trying to make games together.
Wishlist Winter Whiskers! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4484810/Winter_Whiskers
The Edge of Water / Wishlist now! @bigmoodgames.bsky.social Indie studio working on our first game: 🌊The Edge of Water! 🌊
store.steampowered.com/app/2591630/The_Edge_of_Water/
Ao Norte @aonorte.com 🎲WISHLIST DIE OR DIE 🎲
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3842190/Die_or_Die/
🌳Facendo videoxogos
🌈LGTBIQ+ Friendly Studio
✉️hello@aonorte.com
Sugardew Island @sugardewisland.bsky.social In this farming game, you have to run your own cozy farm shop 🥕 |
By rokaplay | Wishlist on PS5/Steam: https://linktr.ee/sugardew_Island
Ondra & Alenka - Broccoli Games @broccoligames.bsky.social A couple that makes cute and fun games together. Developing Coffee Caravan ☕ We love: co-op games 🎮, coffee ☕, sci-fi movies and series 🚀
MELLOW Games @gamesmellow.bsky.social Indie studio from Cologne, Germany. Making Blueberry, a game about a woman's life from birth to death where you help her deal with trauma by playing her memories.
Wishlist: http://bit.ly/3uzARym
hello@mellow-games.com
The Witch's Bakery - Sunny Lab @sunnylabgames.bsky.social 🎮 #indiegame studio telling the story of a joyful witch opening a bakery in modern day Paris.
👉Wishlist The Witch's Bakery on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2967950/The_Witchs_Bakery/
✨We light sparks of hope in every play!✨
#indiedev
Humble Reeds 🐐 Heidi's Legacy & Kamaeru @humblereeds.bsky.social We're Meli & Bloo, French indie devs doing cozy games 🐸🐐
Previously Kamaeru now Heidi's Legacy!
https://www.heidi.game
@thebloodev.bsky.social & @Melibellule.bsky.social
Ivy Road @ivyroadgames.bsky.social Made Wanderstop, a cozy narrative-centric game about tea and change. Out now on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox! 🫖 http://wanderstopgame.com
Broken Shell 🐚🦀 Wishlist On Steam! @foggystudio.bsky.social 🦀 Creating Broken Shell, a wholesome game about love, hope, and caring for the world we share!
Wishlist now on Steam💚➡️ https://t.co/hq19bWPqRk
Paper House @paperhousegames.com videogames + culture shop + other stuff 🏚
WISHLIST Wood & Weather on Steam! ⛈️
Paperbark | BKPC
paperhousegames.com
Pinbleton Park @pinbletonpark.bsky.social Wishlist now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3323970/Pinbleton_Park/
Solo-developed cosy pinball adventure game
Locomoto | Out now! @handle.invalid Locomoto releasing April 8th on Steam and on Switch later this year!🚂
Play Locomoto on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2328650?utm_source=BlueSky
Capy Castaway 🍊 Available NOW! @capycastaway.com Capy Castaway is an endearing adventure of unexpected friendship as a capybara pup and a clever crow find themselves working together after a devastating flood.
🎮Wishlist on Steam: s.team/a/2890240
🍊Learn more: https://linktr.ee/CapyCastaway
Tiny Roar Games @tinyroargames.bsky.social We're Tiny Roar, developing 🛩️Lou's Lagoon and 🌱 Verdant.
We stand against racism, sexism and hate!
Lou's Lagoon is OUT NOW on Steam, PS5, XBOX Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and Switch!
https://linktr.ee/TinyRoar
The Garden Path 🍃 out now!!! @fromcarrotcake.bsky.social Indie games from @louisdurrant.art | The Garden Path, a cozy slice-of-life gardening sim, is out now for PC & Switch 🌱 Steam: http://bit.ly/3mTpYrc 🍃
A Waddleful Life @awaddlefullife.bsky.social A sweet little game where you play as a duck and raise ducklings.
In development by @robotgrapefruit.bsky.social
Wishlist now! 🦆
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238520/A_Waddleful_Life/
Efilheim @efilheim.bsky.social 🇫🇷 🏳️🌈 He/Him
Your new favorite game dev, musician and more.
Godot enthusiast.
https://efilheim.itch.io/
mshrmgirl @mshrmgirl.bsky.social Indie dev
In love with clunky janky games
Godot, Mecha, Retro games
Chironyx @chironyx.bsky.social Pixel artist & game developer
Isometric goodness, working towards my own game project.
TacticsReturners @tacticsreturners.com 🎮 Tactics Returners is a IndieDev TRPG passion project!
SteamPage: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2127730/Tactics_Returners/
Discord: https://discord.gg/PBXbp23UKN
#indiedev | #gamedev | #art