Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social The Wreck, now available anywhere you play! https://linktr.ee/thepixelhunt
Wednesdays, 99.3% positive on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/Wednesdays/
Daniele Monaco @danielemonaco.bsky.social PhD in philosophy—widely proven to be a highly questionable life choice. Divided between the UK and Italy.
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
Elena Petrovskaya @elepetrovs.bsky.social Research Associate @ Uni of Cambridge. Ethical tech.
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Luca Costa @existentiali-st.bsky.social PhD student in Italian and continental philosophy at Oxford University
žBla @zblabc.bsky.social Psychologist by day, game developer by night, philosopher by heart. Founder, game designer and art director at @badcog.bsky.social .
Play a free game I made with a friend! https://zbla.itch.io/barbaric-bugbarians-circular-conquest
Alan @alanteachesthings.bsky.social Educator & Game Designer with crippling ADHD.
Follow me for insightful takes, terrible jokes and occasional rants into the aether.
Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social (Sometimes Tucović)
Comics:
The 7 Deadly Sins/First Knife/Slavic Nihilism/SHARP EYE
Games:
Cantata/Dread Delusion/ENTROPY
bio.site/ohotnig
OR
patreon.com/ohotnig
ohotnig.itch.io / ohotnig.gumroad.com
inprnt.com/gallery/ohotnig
buymeacoffee.com/ohotnig
WeAreMuesli @wearemuesli.bsky.social We are an arthouse game studio. Our new narrative game In Their Shoes is out now on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/In_Their_Shoes/
John 望 @johnrsa.bsky.social Freelance academic. Living in the Bergen-area in Norway with frequent trips to Berlin. I work as a writer, organizer and editor within the philosophy of games. Into electronic music.
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Dooley @dooleymurphy.bsky.social Virtual experience designer and researcher. Tinkerer, artist, cyclist, knave, fool.
https://dooleymurphy.com/
Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @gronlp.bsky.social
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social Irish publisher of fine books. 💙📚
Projects: You Died, Soul Arts, Abyssal Archive, Blood Echoes, Demonic Archive, Grace Given, Grant Us Eyes, Process, Gods & Monsters, Lore Bound, Scholar's Codex and more.
https://tuneandfairweather.com/pages/portfolio
Aphrodite Andreou @aphrodite-a.bsky.social Coordinator of EU Projects & Cultural Assets at Heritage Malta - Technology and Experience Development Unit
visual artist / designing playful experiences for museums / researching interspecies interactions / ACI / (and some other stuff)
Júlia Vilasís-Pamos @jvilasispamos.bsky.social PhD in Communication
Game Studies | Digital Divide | Youth Studies | Social Class | Gender
Tomás Grau de Pablos @tomgaar.bsky.social Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://diariodejuegos.blog
Dario Marchetti @dariomarchetti.bsky.social Italian tech journalist @ RaiNews24
Julián Gutiérrez Carrera @gutierrezcarrera.bsky.social Doctoral student researching representations of suicide in videogames.
Emile Parchliniak @emilparchy.bsky.social Medievalism in Fantasy RPGs | Gacha Games | Sorbonne Paris Nord
Kathrin Trattner @kathrintrattner.bsky.social postdoctoral researcher University of Zürich
studying social media, video gaming, nation(alism), and religion
ILFU Boeken etc. @ilfu.com All things literature. Festival, Academy, Online magazine. Boeken, verhalen, ideeën. #nachtvandepoezie #boekfest #yalfu #exploringstories • https://ilfu.com/
Julio @xnmcx.bsky.social Colaborador en Game Over. A veces escribo... pero solo a veces.
https://bsky.app/profile/xnmcx.bsky.social/post/3l372ofkigg2u
https://www.instagram.com/letrasaleste/profilecard/?igsh=MXFicDcwOHprbWQ3dQ==
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Nigel Ball @nigelball.co.uk designer, educator, writer • Ipswich, UK
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nigelball.co.uk
gril @funambulism.com Stories, games, philosophy. Jew.
Currently: PUBG: Black Budget, Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius
Previously: Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
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
[games & zines] fuzul.itch.io
[other links] linktr.ee/dorukb
oliver @oliverbates.co.uk design researcher. he/him
researching through making games, zines and critical tea towels about climate futures, tech, and systems.
Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
https://fractals.coop/ and research fellow @ lancaster uni
Elina Roinioti @elroin.bsky.social Game Scholar, narrative designer, consultant.
Assistant Professor at University of Peloponnese | Games Outreach for Kickstarter |Vice President of DiGRA.
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Pop books about speech errors & disfluencies (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: A collection, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
Ryan C. Wright @ryancwright.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Autoscopia Interactive | PhD Candidate at UC Davis
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
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
Christopher Bartel @cjbartel.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy || I specialize in aesthetics, video games, and technology stuff. || Author of *Aesthetics and Video Games* https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/aesthetics-and-video-games-9781350104822/ || I also play bass when no one is looking.
Brandon Polite @politephilosopher.bsky.social Philosopher at Knox College | Host of YouTube series "Polite Conversations: Philosophers Discussing Art" http://tinyurl.com/2efdaxrn | editor of *Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording* (Bloomsbury 2025) https://tinyurl.com/2dswn6d8 | he/him
Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org Taiwan enthusiast. Philosophy professor. Intellectual omnivore. Humean supertaster. https://liao.shen-yi.org/
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
dennis jansen 🟥 @dennisjansen.bsky.social PhD researcher on play, technology and militarization @ Utrecht University
Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social Game Designer | Narrative Design Professor at NAD-UQAC
Research-creation, inclusive games, and cultural citizenship. 🎮🧁
🔗 laulgame.itch.io
🔗 https://cltrs.start.page
☕ support me: https://ko-fi.com/laurelinemhc
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
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.
Kevin Marín Rubio @kevmarin.bsky.social Predoctoral fellow at @educacioub.bsky.social
Critical pedagogy, video games, utopianism, ecocriticism, action research
https://linktr.ee/k.marin
https://linktr.ee/k.marinrubio (ES)
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
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Eva Grosemans @evagrosemans.bsky.social Eva | Postdoc @Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven. Working on video games and monetary/simulated gambling (advertising) at
the Gam(e)(a)ble project 🎮 DiGRA Belgium representative.
Brenden @brendengibbons.bsky.social Senior Game & Narrative Designer (Lucky Punk, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, Say No! More, Minute of Islands, Last Day of June, etc) - He/Him - Avatar by Viv Schwarz
Portfolio: brendengibbons.me
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social Wandering scholar at Open University. Digital Humanities, Book History, Comics and Thomas Moore. Irish/Italian. She/her. Views my own.
Anthony Longo @anthonylongo.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher & lecturer @Tilburg University
Somewhere in-between political theory and philosophy of technology • Managing Editor Journal of Human-Technology Relations
Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social 💼 IxD Professor, Aalto University
🧪 UX, HCI, spirituality researcher
🎙️ ACM distinguished speaker
🛠️ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips
🎓 Alum TUe, UTEM
📣 Views my own
Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social Asst prof @northumbriauni.bsky.social contemporary lit & culture | Essays New Humanist, The Week, Review31...| 📖 Sleep and Its Meanings @mitpress.bsky.social; The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel @bloomsburylit.bsky.social | dilettadecristofaro.com
Dr Liam J. L. Knight @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE.
Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social.
Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
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/
Laura D'Olimpio @lauradol4.bsky.social Philosopher interested in aesthetics, ethics and education.
John C. Duff @nullphilosopher.bsky.social Wannabe social philosopher and aspiring organizational development scholar (PhD student).
https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-c-duff
Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.
Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com
Set Margins’ Publications (Freek Lomme) @freeklomme.bsky.social As a support structure, a platform for production, a network and publisher, Set Margins’ frames current impulses with particular focus for communication, forms of cooperation, and involved politics.
setmargins.press
Alan Hook @dreadpiratehook.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at Ulster University - aspiring Generalist with a PhD in Speculative Design. Living on the North Coast, by the sea, making engaging oddities and thoughtful experiences for Human and Non-Human Animals.
Gero @eragal.bsky.social Narrative Dev Director for @battlefield at @ea, Member of @bafta 🎬, TV journalist 📺, booklover 📚, musician 🎸, sommelier, DN🌍
🇮🇹
🏡 London
Sébastien Genvo @sebgenvo.bsky.social Professeur à univ-lorraine / Game Designer indé / Responsable Expressive Gamelab http://www.expressivegame.com / Chaine youtube Théories des jeux vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/@SebastienGenvo / #sciencesdujeu / #gamestudies
Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
Meu romance: https://tinyurl.com/349wdeud
Blog: https://finisgeekis.com.br/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3F9RVGD
J.S. Carre @reluctantpixel.bsky.social Once upon a time J.S. won 3rd place for an essay on the importance of algebra. He hasn't used algebra since.
wannabee artist
My pet bot: @ggj-games.bsky.social
TTRPG Stuff: @goblingoulash.bsky.social
https://goblingoulash.itch.io/
Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb 🏫 | Game Studies Scholar 🎮 | Deputy Director of MAGPIE 🐦⬛| DiGRAA Board Member 🌏 | Checkpoint Critic & Writer ✍️ | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/cbarkman
Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social English Prof. Editor at Analog Game Studies.
Agatha nominee. Writer, gamer, nature nerd. BLM
Author of Cozy, Nerdy Mysteries:
https://tulepublishing.com/series/a-wren-winters-mystery/
https://shellyjonesauthor.com/
Dr Mirry @asmirry.bsky.social Artist, Researcher, Interdisciplinary Forager, She/Her, Many Cats.
Francesco D'Isa @francescodisa.bsky.social Philosopher, artist, and writer trying to endure and transcend existence. I don’t often succeed. I work with AI, more at gizart.com
Gavin @grichdesign.bsky.social I make games n stuff
David Melhart @davidmelhart.bsky.social 🎓 PhD in Games and Affective Computing | 🎮 Assistant Professor @ SDU Metaverse Lab [https://gdlt.sdu.dk/staff/] | 🎲 game goblin [http://goblingoulash.com] | 🌈 he/they
Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
Currently working on some #ttrpg research to better emergency management workforce development in #wargames and #seriousgames
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator @ University of San Francisco.
Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD, Computational Media).
UX: jazztap.github.io | Games: jatazak.itch.io
Maria Ruotsalainen @mariaruotsalainen.bsky.social I am cultural studies scholar from Jyväskylä, Finland. 
Tomasz Z. Majkowski @tzmajkowski.bsky.social Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin @gabrielletj.bsky.social Professor and researcher in game studies
School of media, Université du Québec à Montréal
Alex / catileptic @catileptic.bsky.social Move slow and fix things. Digital Rights Cat @ apti.ro. Senior Dev @ darc.li. Open-Source Dev, Human Rights Advocacy.
Queer, RA 🏳️🌈
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Tijana Rupcic @ferejatina.bsky.social Energy historian by profession ⚡️video game scholar by obsession 🎮 caffeinated cryptid by necessity 👾
Assistant Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences 🇵🇱
Ragnar Holm Fellow at KTH 🇸🇪
Lu Gossian @lugossian.bsky.social Game dev & miscellaneous creative
PhD: Seriously casual games
https://lugossian.com/
Lorenzo 🦄Mordry🦄 Biagini @lorenzobiagini.bsky.social Italian senior game designer and game development teacher. Also a professional weirdo.
Worked for Stormind Games and Gamera Interactive.
My games on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995279319/
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
David Ketelby @ketelby.bsky.social science fiction, urban fantasy, (para)politics, (counter)culture * bsfa member * anarchosyndicalist * christ-follower * pronouns: he/him * more content & details at ketelby.blogspot.com
Ciro Continisio @ciro.continis.io Game designer/coder, lecturer at times, full-time meme.
In the past: coherence, Unity (making Gigaya, Open Projects, Unity Playground). Also been making games (UFHO2, Slybots: Frantic Zone... ?) and Unity tools.
He/him/lui/'iss 🇮🇹
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
Bob De Schutter @bobdeschutter.be Professor at Northeastern University • award-winning indie game dev • PhD in game design, aging, motivation & learning • helps game devs to be mindful of older players
Jeffrey @geoffwhill.bsky.social Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social Fulltime academic (TU Dublin, media/technology). Sometime musician (M Stevens & The Ghasts, learning jazz, gimme indie rock). Oddtime artist (weird and not-so-weird photography). It seems I now have a PhD.
bene_pierf @bene-pierf.bsky.social Vediamo se questo social impara i verbi italiani.
Blu.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Joost Vervoort is going to Gamescom @joostvervoort.bsky.social Developing 'gloriously unearthly' anticapitalist RPG @allwillrise.bsky.social. Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Games, mystery, transformative politics. Singer @terzijdehorde.bsky.social & @sunlightaltar.bsky.social
Joseph Boisvere @jboisvere.bsky.social Science fiction lit., film, and games scholar. PhD CUNY Graduate Center CompLit, teaching at NYU Liberal Studies. Ecocriticism, (New) Materialism, Narratology, Affect Theory.
Postanthropoceneposting.com
Jordi Sánchez-Navarro @jordisancheznav.bsky.social Researcher on Film and Screen Media Cultures | Full professor @ UOC | Cinema around the World • Cult TV • Animation • Popular Music • Comic • Illustration • Design | Curator of the animation section (Anima't) @ Sitges Film Festival
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
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
⚡️Marina Díez 🔜 Gamescom @ninfadp.bsky.social Spanish Award-Winning Emotional Game Designer ❀ Game Director for Oh Apollo! @ Blue Backpack ❀ Take Us North // The Berlin Apartment // Dordogne ❀ Consultant ❀ @Forbesunder30 2021 ❀ 🌈 she/her
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018
Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights”
Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/
Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Silvio Lorusso @silviolorusso.bsky.social Hi! I'm a designer witouth qualities, an artst without a gallery and a writer without spell cheker.
Paolo Ruffino @paoloruffino.bsky.social http://paoloruffino.com
Senior Lecturer at Dept. Digital Humanities - King's College London / Artist at IOCOSE / Current project: Videogames for the Post-Anthropocene