the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social games writer, designer, and critic. co-founder of Crit Build. formerly: kotaku & waypoint.
find my work at critbuild.org
email me at ren@critbuild.org
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
Red @hauntedmachine.dev cheesepak.itch.io
Portland, OR based game dev, artist, and design wizard. Slowly making a first person dungeon crawler for the Playdate.
Personal bsky: @sircheese.bsky.social
Kael de Vem, Exu • Wishlist na Steam @tejoestudio.bsky.social an interactive story from brazil
raiva, fantasia e uma arraia perdida
experimente a demo ↓
tim 🐢 @objelisks.space they/them ~ socialism/games/story's
portland
https://objelisks.space
hol @thnewlands.bsky.social Game developer! Tech Artist!
https://www.thnewlands.com/
Recently released a short VR experience called Diatribes with @mostancient.bsky.social !
https://www.mostancient.com/projects/diatribes
Chuck @chuckdries.com Software engineer & photographer in Portland, OR
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of unique, engaging TTRPGs.
www.possibleworldsgames.com
Alexander King @literallyaking.com Game Designer, Economy/System Design. Adjunct Professor at NYU Game Center & Parsons DT. Staff Data Analyst for ACT-UAW Local 7902. Spreadsheet aficionado.
(He/Him)
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social Daily PlayStation GIFs & Artwork. 100% Unofficial. Run by @ryan.makesvideogames.com
Brent- Orlando Soccer Show @falconfirebg.bsky.social MLS and NWSL Soccer Sicko
https://youtube.com/@theorlandosoccershow?si=WX5lHfh7HydLGOvk
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
Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social Game dev. Maker of UNFAIR FLIPS; FISH FEAR ME; SNAKE FARM; MEATPUNKS series. Lead at @deadbodygames.bsky.social. Enemy of posting. (she/her)
Avatar by @maximumgraves.bsky.social
Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co creating videogames | made bernband, grunn, and more | part of @sokpop.co
Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social Digital Editor
PhD in Medieval lit📚
Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻
Books Editor @ Exploits
Words @ Polygon, Post45, Digital Trends, Edge, etc.✏️
https://emily-price.neocities.org
inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
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
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Lex Feathers 🍂 @lexfeathers.ca Composer / Sound Designer / Webdev in Toronto (she/her)
TaleKeep, Revertices, Solace State, Fire Tonight & more
Website: lexfeathers.ca/portfolio/
Band: @waxlimbs.com
Solo music: https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com
Mastodon: @lexfeathers@tenforward.social
Alex Zandra @zandravandra.com light novel author, streamer, artist, game designer, public speaker • turning people into catgirls • I miss cohost a lot
she/her 🏳️⚧️
zandravandra.com
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
✨ Kaelan ✨ @kaelandm.bsky.social Game & Narrative Designer.
Lead narrative designer & game writer for Capy Castaway https://store.steampowered.com/app/2890240/Capy_Castaway/
PhD Candidate at UChicago researching weird worldbuilding.
Lead organizer, QGCon.
they/he
Max Lander @snaxwell.bsky.social Game Designer + Professor. Angry queer.
Himbos of Myth & Mettle, OddFolk and Frame 352. https://maxwellander.itch.io/
Co-host of RTFM. Rtfmcast.com
Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social Your new fav fag.
Professional dilettante
Art — RPGs — Design — Sex
magnolienne.carrd.co
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
LGBTQ Game Archive @lgbtqgamearchive.bsky.social A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present. Our profile icon was designed by Adrienne Shaw (2024)adapting an icon created by zidney from the Noun Project. https://lgbtqgamearchive.wordpress.com/
M Dodd (Modd) 💖💜💙 @moddisms.bsky.social In my restless dreams I see that town
She/they
29
Dog mom, cat staff
Workin' on her Dogtorate (studying Virtual Pets!) at Waipapa Taumata Rau
Hugues Merle made the painting in my icon
noé @celechii.itch.io (no-AY) genderfluid dumbass, programmer at @ko-op.com working on young suns, overflowing with love, stops to pet the alley cats :) (they/she)
knivesforcats.online
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.
Toronto Games Week @torontogamesweek.com A celebration of playful arts and culture in the city of Toronto!
Toronto Games Week ran from June 11th-17th, 2026. Subscribe to our newsletter for info about #TGW27!
🎮🕹👾🎨🎲
Posts by @metroidcrime.com + staff.
Toronto, Canada
🇨🇦 torontogamesweek.com
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
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
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social I research labour and media. Books: New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age | culturalworkersorganize.org
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Feminist media activism, tech-facilitated violence, & memory @UAlberta
🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information + Advisory board to ECP Canada / Pornhub (2023-2026) | #1 Animorphs Fan
www.internetmaggie.com
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
MMU UCU committee
I'm a political economist of the internet
www.danieljamesjoseph.net
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
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).
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Environmental Media Lab (EML) @envmedialab.bsky.social Based at Queen’s University (2024); University of Calgary (2019-2023).
Director: melhogan.bsky.social
environmentalmedialab.com heliotropejournal.net
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 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Sarah Smith @smithsarah.bsky.social CRC in Art, Culture & Global Relations @westernufims.bsky.social @westernu.ca | Co-founder @nacdi.bsky.social | New open access book 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 https://www.ubcpress.ca/asset/103563/1/9780774868938_OA.pdf
saraheksmith.com
linktr.ee/saraheksmith
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
cms @camillemarys.bsky.social Researching museums & extraction
cmsharp.ca
kelly @kmb.bsky.social Doctor of videogames (but now I research true crime), herder of cats, collector of weird Furby art, Nic Cage superfan. She/her.
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
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 🅿️
jake @jakeadampitre.bsky.social i teach film studies. a very sensitive piece of horse flesh. http://unwantedutopias.substack.com. http://boxd.it/20r7.
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
Cansu Ekmekcioglu @cansuekmekcioglu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Information Systems, McMaster University
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
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
CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
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.
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
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
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
Arun Jacob @arungapatchka.bsky.social 
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
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social Assistant prof at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, information & Technology
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
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
PK @pklawton.bsky.social Rock and Roll Sociologist
@djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social Associate Professor
Dept of Communication, School of Info Studies (ESIS), & Institute for Science, Society & Policy (ISSP), University of Ottawa.
Personal Acct (Not uOttawa)
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social Rhet of Sci&Tech + STS + media theory
University of Toronto Mississauga
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Lowell Gasoi @lowellgasoi.bsky.social Communication and media studies prof at Carleton and University of Ottawa. Theatre maker and cultural policy person. Performance studies and sci-fi geek. 
Armond Towns @townsarmond.bsky.social Williams College
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
nika 🪷 @petalledheart.bsky.social 🇰🇭🇨🇳 PhD candidate in cinema + sexual diversity studies at U of T | staff director of Sundress Publications
📝 on surveillance, aesthetics, ethics, race, queer theory, trans studies
Claudia S @claudsicon.bsky.social ✨PhD cinema & studies✨ Assistant Prof / UTSC / Arts & Media ✨mom in academia, web gleaner, cinephile, feminist, reader, eater, walker ✨I like watching pictures move ✨Treaty 13, Tkaronto, she/her
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Ishita Tiwary @analoguefutures.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University. Director, Raah Lab. Author: Video Culture in India : The Analog Era, OUP Press. past; 80's media history; present; SVOD platforms, migration. Good scrambled eggs maker
Jessica Ringrose @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Prof University College London, UK. Canadian Feminist Sociologist studying youth, social media, digital activism, tech facilitated harms and educational interventions
New books: Teens, Social Media, & Image Based Abuse; and Postdigital Intimacies
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social Métis Research Chair @PowleyInstitute | Communication & Culture, PhD @yorkuniversity
| Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies |
Métis Studies, Media, Surveillance
The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social Academic, trouble maker. Digital, platform, and AI intimacies; non/monogamy and privilege.
Intersectional Automations: https://tinyurl.com/bdehyvcz
Hashtag Publics: https://tinyurl.com/32m5dm6a
Fraught Intimacies: https://tinyurl.com/3a7tb22p
Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social Postdoc @asc.upenn.edu @miccenter.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social | SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | 🇨🇦
https://www.sydneyforde.com/
Nicholas Greco @itjustsaysm.bsky.social Prof & Provost, @ProvManitoba. Scholar: media, music, Barthes, Bowie, Morrissey & U2. Views are my own.
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
(Mary) Grace Lao (she/her) @gracelao.bsky.social Sociology lecturer U of Guelph-Humber. PhD candidate at York University. Studying media(Ted) rape culture discourse. Communications director @wgsj.bsky.social. Travel photographer and guac aficionado.