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
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT @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
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
✨ Production-for-hire (Massive Monster, onepixel. dog & more)
💜 Co-Founder Girl Geek Academy
🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
https://linktr.ee/lisyk
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Grace Bruxner @gracebruxner.bsky.social ive decided to post……. gracebruxner.com for work stuff
Cherie 🏖️ @cheriedavidson.bsky.social Nerd ♡ Lover ♡ Game Midwife
Co-founder, studio director & programmer @intarsia.studio
Prev: VicScreen, Media Molecule, Goose Game & more.
🏝️✉️🫧🌱🌌☕️🪿🏠🕺⛴️🍔🤖🐈⬛️🫳🐾🪲
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
Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social it’s me
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
Abe Stein @abestein.bsky.social A Geek in Sports Clothing. Founder of Look | Think | Move. MIT, Haverford. (He/Him). Go read The LTM Zine lookthinkmove.com/zine
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Michael McMaster @mjmcmaster.bsky.social I make video game at @househouse.com
michaeljmcmaster.com
he/him
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer
Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
joon @joonturbo.bsky.social game developer, Q-UP, NUTS, Phantom Spark - joon.be
Harry Lee 尚倫 @leeshanglun.com antidisciplinary artist
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
Kalonica @kalonica.bsky.social 3D Artist + Game Developer . she/her 🌿
Currently:
Mars First Logistics with Shape Shop
Big Walk with House House
kalonica.com
Max but on the other website @mjm.itch.io 'love and cherish me... from a distance' | small game maker | rmit games tutor | white water kayaking | he/they | bi | Email @ mjmyers00@gmail.com
Nico Disseldorp @ndisseldorp.bsky.social One time we made a goose game
Kelsey Gamble @kindofsquishy.bsky.social Studio Momager for @newblood.games. Executive Producer for Oddlark. Publishing Producer for hire. For legal reasons I am a joke and so is everything I say
Morgz @morbidly-morgan.bsky.social She/Her - ADHD - Melbourne/Hobart
Producer @ Infinity Plus 2 on Puzzle Quest 3 & Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition
Speednoodle Owner
I cry at all the things
Mask still up 😷
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
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
Amani Naseem @amaani.bsky.social
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Bart Simon @bartsimon.bsky.social Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Alexander Muscat @alexandermuscat.bsky.social Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast ● Making & researching ● Working on multi-perceptual puzzler SITE UNSEEN 🔴 siteunseengame.com ● Mech head ● he/him
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
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
Mickey Krekelberg @mickey.ghoulish.com.au Director of:
@ghoulish.com.au
Technical artist & generalist
Prev:
Letters to Arralla, Wood & Weather, Moving Out 1 & 2, My Arms Are Longer Now, Risk, No Way Home, other stuff.
in Naarm / Melbourne
(they/them)
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com Videogame developer currently working on Mars First Logistics: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/Mars_First_Logistics/
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions.
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
Was @afterclimate on Twitter
Alexander Perrin @alexanderperrin.bsky.social Codirector at 2pt Interactive
Creators of Heavenly Bodies 🛰️
You can get Short Trip on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3187700/Short_Trip/
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
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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