Trax @wirehawk.bsky.social https://wirehawk.pages.dev
Game History Association @hernihistorie.cz Nonprofit organization Herní historie, z.s.
🌐 We bring you old games & We care for Czech and Slovak videogame history.
💸 herohero.co/hernihistorie
🎮 retroherna.org
📦 herniarchiv.cz
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Oğuz Can Ayverdi @oguzcanayverdi.bsky.social Digital humanities student, software engineer
Prof. Dr. Maksym Yarema @maksymyarema.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich | Head of the Chemistry and Materials Design Group
https://cmd.ethz.ch/ https://yarema.global/
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social REMEMBER TO HIT THE BELL (🔔+ ) 👆
Niko Bussey @niko2057.bsky.social E Pluribus Unum, y’all!
Tech Enthusiast/Bemoaner
Thoughts, observations, and implicit beliefs
Saundra Norton @saundratheeditor.bsky.social Academic editor & rhetoric teacher to STEM students. I write in em dashes — Dickinson did too. Norton Academic Press™ — The Norton Academic Planner & The Norton Book of Hours. Kayaking Madison's lakes. nortonacademicediting.com
The Skybox is Falling! @theskyboxisfalling.bsky.social Feed me industry chatter, rumblings, and clickbait titles of crashes, -pocalypses, catastrophes, collapses and related hyperbolitries around games and other stupid products!
Tomáš K. @tokom.bsky.social - M md-phil.bsky.social @md-phil.bsky.social
Jakub Šindelář @sindeja-kuba.bsky.social PhD Researcher in historical game studies at IMS FSV UK and LUCAS Leiden University
Czech National DOI Centre Coordinator at the National Library of Technology (NTK)
Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social My blog, Where Were They Now? Tracking down the offices of Britain's pioneering video games houses https://whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/
Khaker @vim57.bsky.social
Arturo Serrano @carturo222.bsky.social Ignyte-winning, Hugo-winning reviewer at Nerds of a Feather.
Member of Strange Horizons and Galactic Journey.
Judge at the Sidewise and Crawford Awards.
Black belt in 積ん読.
Alignment: 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇬🇱🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇺🇳☮️♾️
mybook.to/ToClimatesUnknown
arturoserrano.site
violetarra. @viojpg.bsky.social angry kids, unite. denantes mortas que escravas. | anarcosindicalista, doutoranda e creadora de videoxogos. 🌱 @resis-videoludica.bsky.social | https://resistenciavideoludica.neocities.org/ | a coruña, barcelona
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
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)
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
My book THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS (Ignyte finalist) is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
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!"
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).
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Ivana 🧿 @ivana.bsky.social I’ve been international athlete 🏀, management consultant 🫣, founder & award winning innovator💡
I’m mum 🤯, decent coffee brewer ☕️, kind people seeker 🔎, ethical AI fan👏, data scientist 📊 & educator 📚
📍North West
Don’t know yet what I can become 👀
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
Richard Sherriff @richardsherriff.bsky.social Lecturer in Games Design at the University of the Arts London - London College of Communication
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Moyeah @moyeah503.bsky.social
Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
Ed Vollans @edvollans.bsky.social University Lecturer, media paratexts, promotional materials, trailers & advertising. (Views my own). 🏴/ Midlands (UK).
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
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.
Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Anastasios(Tasos) Theodoropoulos @anatheodor.bsky.social Games Scholar
@liesvr.bsky.social @liesvr.bsky.social
Michal Vokoun @nafoukanejmarketer.bsky.social 🇨🇿
✹ Keeping up with all the latest bullsh*t with Michal. ™️
✹ Digital Marketing💡
✹ VML agency
✹ KVIFF
Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social science, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
deka @dekadeka.bsky.social getting phd in videogames + influencers @ uchicago
pettka @pettka.bsky.social Petr Kolář - Warhorse Studios
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/
@jonathasazevedo.bsky.social @jonathasazevedo.bsky.social
Kao @kaofelix.dev Not an actual clay pot (sorry)
Software engineer. Aspiring gamedev and artist that doesn’t art enough. Talks about video games, music, programming, posts random pics. Learning 日本語 and Català
🔗 kaofelix.dev
🐘 @kaofelix@mastodon.online
@saguisagu.bsky.social @saguisagu.bsky.social
SEN.千 @sen-1k.bsky.social A real human bean. I post a video to my YouTube every blue moon or so.
https://youtube.com/@zsen.?si=ejt4rgiCj8kMoOM5
@azcurra.bsky.social @azcurra.bsky.social Edito https://Vectores.news
Escribo sobre RRII y Videojuegos.
Banco a Freud, a Lacan y a Zizek.
https://linktr.ee/vectores.news
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal @federicoalvarez.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
Leni Krsová 🐺⚔️ @lenikrsova.bsky.social living world designer • formerly a gamedev & voice over director on KCDII • game design lecturer • sharing bits from video games industry & pop culture
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Kapitán Jack @kapitanjack.bsky.social Retro gaming hipster. I emulated consoles before it was cool.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Elina Roinioti @elroin.bsky.social Game Scholar, narrative designer, consultant.
Assistant Professor at University of Peloponnese | Games Outreach for Kickstarter |Vice President of DiGRA.
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
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT • Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) • Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) • Toronto/Amsterdam
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
Pierre-Yves Hurel @pyhurel.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
Nad Horou @nadhorou.bsky.social We are a family hobby farm near Pilsen, Czech Republic, aimed to protect biodiversity and promote sustainable living.
Christina E. Stimson @cestimson.bsky.social Writer | Muser | gamer | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | she/her | 🏳️🌈
KUBI Games @kubigames.bsky.social Indie game developer. Author of the medieval adventure 1428: Shadows over Silesia and the small cozy puzzle game Kubikon 3D.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Martin Kouba @martunek.bsky.social
AvantBeetle @avantbeetle.bsky.social Atlanta based gallery for experimental/alternative/weird games. Bridging the gap between local arts and videogame scenes
Protest Games Jam: https://itch.io/jam/avantbeetles-protest-games-jam
Discord: https://discord.gg/NuXh64rQS7
Ondřej Purchart @ondrejpurchart.bsky.social Senior QA Engineer at Flying Rat Studio
Aspiring Narrative Designer
Hobby developer (Mountain Mist on itch.io)
@rackfive.bsky.social @rackfive.bsky.social
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Solip Park @solippark.bsky.social Game researcher (Doctor of Arts) at Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä. Researching migrants in the game industry and gamer & game dev culture in Korea and Finland :)
Vaclav Walach @vwalach.bsky.social Criminologist: critical, cultural, narrative / based in Prague, Czechia
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
perulainen @perulainen.bsky.social Mauricio Castro Valdez.
My stuff:
https://perulainen.com
https://castrovaldez.com
https://mastodon.social/@perulainen
https://pixelfed.social/perulainen- M @marleso.bsky.social @marleso.bsky.social
Tomáš Jirsa @tomasjirsa.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Palacký University Olomouc
Music Video Studies | Media Theory | Affect Theory
Working in and on East-Central Europe
Author of Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (2021)
https://upol.academia.edu/TomasJirsa
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".
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/
Filip Hauer @filiphauer.bsky.social (alienated-)game artist and researcher www.filiphauer.com
Emanule @emanule.bsky.social
Michal Čudrnák @michalcudrnak.bsky.social Museums, architecture, digital, music, politics (in no particular order)
David Šemík @davidsemik.bsky.social Game developer: Mafia | Mafia2 | Monzo | Happy Game
Designer | Programmer | Artist
Member of Amanita Design
Cullan James @cullanjames.bsky.social Yaps about history, memory, politics, digital media, film/television, the works
🇺🇸 in 🇨🇿
Doctoral researcher in media studies | MA Slavic Studies | MGPS Global Governance and International Law
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- J @julanimtic.bsky.social @julanimtic.bsky.social
kafi @kafona.bsky.social fsv uk
funza @funza15.bsky.social In search of leveling up
Andrei Nae @andrei-nae.bsky.social ✔️ andrei-nae.com
✔️ Lecturer in game studies and English literature
✔️ Author of 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴
m leal causton @mlealcauston.bsky.social [researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Charles Meyer @metaperi.bsky.social MCF en Nouvelles Écritures Audiovisuelles - Université Côte d'Azur
Membre du LIRCES (UPR 3159) et Membre Associé de MARGE (EA3712)
Président de l'Observatoire des Mondes Numériques en Sciences Humaines (OMNSH)
Docteur en Art & Sciences de l'Art - Arts PhD
Lewis Packwood @lewispackwood.bsky.social Features Editor for GamesIndustry.biz. Author of Curious Video Game Machines and The Art of Still Wakes the Deep. Previously freelancer for The Guardian, Edge, Retro Gamer, etc. Portfolio: https://lewispackwood.com
@ladislavvavra.bsky.social @ladislavvavra.bsky.social
Vittorio @kapuak.bsky.social Flâneur in anthropology & ethnology, technology, ai, nature, traveling, media and culture, Sci-Fi, books, films, series, Pastafarian. ZCU, UK.
Just behind Mars turn righ.
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
Agnieszka Szulińska @aszulinska.bsky.social Trying to convience literary researchers they produce data too | (no longer) TEI Panorama | (but still) Polish Academy of Sciences
jake o'reilly🧋| Starshot Idle👾 @jakeoreilly.itch.io i know a double aunt andre.
🇮🇪 game developer | linguist | musician | artist
🌐: 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇪
📠: https://jakedaspud.github.io/JakeDaSpud/
Tomas_Lunak @tomas2lunak.bsky.social
Jan Modrák @bludr.bsky.social HRY! 20 let ve Score, pak Re-Play a Vortex, teď Modrák & Friends. Podcast http://modrak.podbean.com. Podpořit (s benefity) můžete na https://herohero.co/modrak.
Karin Wenz @karinwenz.bsky.social Working in the field of Digital Cultures at Maastricht University, The Netherlands
@digital literature
@algorithmic art
@digital games: death in games, metagaming, game art
@VR
Martin Tremčinský @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social Economic anthropologist focusing on digital economies. He/Him
Helena Zdráhalová @hzdrahalova.bsky.social Redaktorka magazínu Univerzity Karlovy Forum
https://www.ukforum.cz/
@ukforum.cuni.cz
@unikarlova.cuni.cz
Absolventka Fakulty sociálních věd UK
Čtenářka
Společenské a humanitní vědy jsou taky vědy!
Tomasz Z. Majkowski @tzmajkowski.bsky.social Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Ailliacus @ailliacus.bsky.social »Tout ce qu'on rapporte de grand en parlant des Hommes, doit nous être bien plus suspect que ce qu'on en rapporte de grotesque & d'extravagant.« - Marivaux