Djordje Grbic @djolodjolo.bsky.social Artificial life, reinforcement learning and (artificial) evolution fan. Currently ass.prof. at ITU Cph
David Watson @itswatson.bsky.social Educational Developer at University of Liverpool, Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE, Certified member of ALT & Shareholder of Real Oviedo.
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
IT-Universitetet i København @itu.dk IT-Universitetet i København er Danmarks førende universitet med fokus på den digitale verden.
Nele Van de Mosselaer @nelevdm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Tilburg University • working on (interactive) fiction, imagination, and virtual reality
Lindsay Grace @professorgrace.bsky.social Knight Chair and professor, artist, author, speaker, designer…lover of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Comments are my own, not employers. ProfessorGrace.com
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
Zach Wood @zachnwood.bsky.social 
WINGS @wingsfund.me Investing in the best PC indie games from studios led by women & gender marginalized devs.
Everything good comes with a side of WINGS. 🔥⚡️
📨 www.wingsfund.me/pitch 😎
Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social ✨Things and Stuff✨
anitasarkeesian.com
M - making games @sharkbombs.bsky.social hi! :) I'm making things to figure out who I am.
Currently working on http://www.crownbreakersgame.com. You can find all the games I made at http://sharkbombs.com and you can follow along at https://waylost.beehiiv.com/
A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027 - 16th edition - May 5-8
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - Summer break - Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
❗📢 You can use your itchio URL as your Bluesky username, check here: https://itch.io/user/settings/bluesky
Jakob Engel-Schmidt @engelschmidt.bsky.social Danmarks Kulturminister (Danish Minister for Culture, Media and Sports) og MF (M). Profilen føres privat. Officielle henvendelser til min@kum.dk
Det Danske Filminstitut @filminstituttet.bsky.social Ikke en aktiv profil – endnu.
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
Yasuhiro Kaneda @ykstructure.bsky.social Director of yasuhirokaneda STRUCTURE.
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
Garry Crawford @cultsociologist.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Salford. FAcSS, PFHEA.
Born in Wolverhampton 🐺. Lives in Sale.
Co-lead of #GAMEHEARTS project.
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Fanny Barnabé @ypsenn.bsky.social Full time associate professor at the CRIDS/NADI, University of Namur
Member of the Liège Game Lab, the OMNSH and the LPCM
Research topics: video game narration, détournement, video game tutorials, humor and toxicity on Twitch
🦣 : @ypsenn@ludosphere.fr
Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social Game scholar, professor, & director of Interactive Games and Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
Godot Engine @godotengine.org Your free, open-source game engine 🎮🛠️
Develop your 2D & 3D games, cross-platform projects, or even XR ideas!
🔗 https://links.godotengine.org/
Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social Your local towel-wearing game preservationist librarian. Autisticly obsess over #dkgame, terrible horror movies, adventure games and weeb shit. He/They. Banner and avatar by @vati.bsky.social.
@rroihankorpi.bsky.social @rroihankorpi.bsky.social 
Outi Kaarina Laiti @outi.bsky.social Senior research fellow at University of Helsinki Indigenous studies. Samigamejammer and Ethnoprogrammer.
Riikka Aurava @riikkaaurava.bsky.social Game culture researcher, teacher, mother, neurodivergent, she/her. Academic interests: game jams, learning and games, co-creativity, ttrpgs, actual play, streaming, game communities, board game design. Other: coffee, chocolate, fantasy, silence, politics.
Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social (Anthropologist/Researcher of)Game Developer(s)
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
Kati Alha @katialha.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi The Finnish society for game research. Posts FIN/ENG.
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura on monitieteinen pelitutkimusta edistävä yhdistys. Tältä tililtä jaamme ajankohtaista tietoa pelitutkimukseen ja pelikulttuureihin liittyen.
www.pelitutkimus.fi
taina myöhänen @tainam.bsky.social Researching diversity in the game industry for work and learning traditional renovation techniques for fun. Chopping wood when thinking is too much.
Work:
https://projects.tuni.fi/pegasus-fi/
https://coe-gamecult.org/
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
Hanne Grasmo @hannegg.bsky.social Norwegian game researcher, sociologist and larp designer. Larper. Queer. Podcaster. Lefty. Role-play & Sexuality. Doing my PhD at Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at Tampere University, Finland.
Thomas Volden @tvolden.programmers.dk Developer at Raw Power Labs. BEng of Software from DTU, MSc in Games (Tech) and PhD in Game Experience from ITU of Copenhagen.
Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
Photo by Chiara Cappiello.
Elina Koskinen @elinako.bsky.social Game studies scholar 👾
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4082-6582
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YjdTawkAAAAJ
Haron Walliander @haronwalliander.bsky.social PhD student studying Finnishness in digital games and side hustling graphics designer. Games and nerds ftw! And peace on Earth. That too.
Per Bruun Brockhoff @perbb.bsky.social Rector of IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
@mmarksp.bsky.social @mmarksp.bsky.social 
Tim Garbos @timgarbos.bsky.social Awkwardly trying to make people laugh through video games. WHAT THE GAMES?
Brian @brianmn.bsky.social #dkgame advocate, gamedev veteran and advisor. Chief advisor at Kaiju Creation, former Senior Project Manager at 3DRealms.
Angela Manna @volapyk.bsky.social Producer @halfpastyellow.bsky.social - prev @SeriousGamesInt. 
Anders Tankred Holm @atholm.bsky.social Making games at the LEGO Group 🧱🕹️
Pilot ✈️ | Gamer 🎮
LEGO.com/games
FlatPonies - 🐱Wishlist Scratch The Cat Now! @flatponies.bsky.social Independent game studio in Copenhagen. Wishlist Scratch The Cat on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X/S. Makers of #AkiRobots & Rebots. linktr.ee/FlatPonies
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
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
Sílvia Fornós @fornoss.bsky.social Just like Super Bandage Girl without the "Super"
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Pat The Head | I'm Pat @pat-the-head.itch.io I'm a video game developer making mindful mobile games in Cozy Game Studio and also horror TTRPG adventures as Pat The Head. Those two things are not related 😁
Mads Johansen @pyjamads.bsky.social Copenhagen based, previously co-founder of indie studio gltichnap, PhD in Game Design and AI, Working on AI Engine @ modl.ai
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Lau Korsgaard @laukorsgaard.bsky.social Lead Game Designer @ Massive Entertainment. 3Cs and systems in Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Previously doing weird stuff with controllers in NAPNOK and Copenhagen Game Collective
Charlotte Madelon @charlottemadelon.bsky.social Making art games | Biophobia | Inferno 13 | Rosa’s Garden | also UI/UX designer e.g. Mindset Go
Wislist Inferno 13: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4592320/Inferno_13/
https://www.charlottemadelon.com
Ciro Continisio @ciro.continis.io Game designer/coder, lecturer at times, full-time meme.
In the past: coherence, Unity (on Gigaya, Open Projects, Unity Playground). Also been making games (UFHO2, Slybots: Frantic Zone) and Unity tools.
He/him/lui/'iss 🇮🇹
Brin @beingbrin.bsky.social they/them
game designer of ONE BTN BOSSSS, gardener, occasional teacher at ALUO, anarchist, sellout
brin.neocities.org
AstridMie @astridmrefstrup.bsky.social CEO @wingsfundme Parttime law student. Dyslexic ✌️She/her.
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Amani Naseem @amaani.bsky.social 
Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
REAL @real.itu.dk Robotics, Evolution & Artificial Life Laboratory
🌐 real.itu.dk
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
Anne Jerichau Clausen @djscoretrick.bsky.social Game Director at Triband
WHAT THE GOLF?
….and lots of other cool things too ✨
Søren Lundgaard @sorenlundgaard.bsky.social Playing games. Creating games.
CEO at Ghost Ship Games & Publishing
Chair of Games Denmark
Rock and Stone!
Char @alphachar.bsky.social making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social Computational Social Science researcher interested in Human Coordination and emergence of new phenomena in human-AI societies. Professor of Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Network Science | NLP | AI agents
http://www.lajello.com
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Johnathan Harrington @johnh18.bsky.social Based in HK, sometimes in MT / CN // asst prof @HKBaptistU on player-based design and board games, I make stuff sometimes too.
Mostly EN || Some MT / 中文
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social Associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Research: Human-Computer Interaction, design, AI, art, museum experience design and more. I mostly post in English, occasionally in Norwegian or Danish. He/him.
Politics: Member of @voltdanmark.org
Almut Schwacke @muuutsch.bsky.social foley artist | sound designer | composer ✨
I nibble the carrots & bend the pitch. she/her
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
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)
Joy Sun @joysun.bsky.social game scholar
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/
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
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
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
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
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)
Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.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
Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
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!
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.
Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social science, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
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
Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social Academic in Games and HCI. Mostly interested in love and death. Assistant Professor at University of Lincoln. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/