Lektorat medo @lektorat-medo.bsky.social Freie Lektorin und irgendwie Journalistin
#Spielkultur #Filmkultur #Nerdkultur
https://www.lektorat-medo.de/
https://linktr.ee/medo.gg
GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global The Games Industry B2B Magazine for Europe, from Germany.
Worker-owned, independent medium.
Subscribe to our daily news overview for free: https://www.gamesmarket.global/#/portal/signup
Imprint: https://www.gamesmarket.global/imprint
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft @dgswev.bsky.social Willkommen auf dem offiziellen Bluesky-Account der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft DGSW (gegründet 2025)!
Redaktion: Rudolf Thomas Inderst // @gamestudies
Keinen Pixel dem Faschismus! @keinenpixel.bsky.social Zusammenschluss von Medienschaffenden aus der Videospielkultur gegen Sexismus, Rassismus, Antisemitismus, LGBTQIA+-Feindlichkeit. #KeinenPixel.
Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social Horse Game Consultant. Game Designer, Producer, Writer. Creator of @themanequest.com and doing marketing at @okomotive.ch and @thoglistudios.com
Based in Zurich, Switzerland http://aliceruppert.ch/ (she/her)
ComputerSpielAkademie 【ツ】 @computerspielakademie.de Wir feiern #Videospielkultur: #GamesFestival26 und #GamesPreis 【ツ】
https://linktr.ee/gamesfestival
Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com I review cardboard and cardboard accessories.
"Magic: The Gathering's #1 Most Tolerated Content Creator"
He/him
Über/Strom @ueberstrom.bsky.social ueberstrom.net
Online-Magazin und Website zur Buchreihe, herausgegeben von Mario Donick @mariodonick.bsky.social und Uta Buttkewitz
Wege durchs digitale Zeitalter .:. ISSN 2629-6640
(Profilbild: Pixabay / TranThangNhat)
Isabelle Jouinot @ijouinot.bsky.social Researching and teaching Applied Linguistics, Additional language growth, Language learning varieties and French varieties worldwide
Dr. Marten van der Meulen @martenvandermeulen.bsky.social Linguist/taalkundige | SciComm | reading | trucker modulations | writes in Dutch & English | works as policy advisor | thinking about my new scicomm project
martenvandermeulen.com
Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language (@ University of Liverpool). Corpus/culinary/queer linguist. Runner, feminist, food enthusiast, coffee lover. Views are my own. she/her
Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social Linguist @Uni Rostock & CRC 1646 Bielefeld. Young ZiF fellow. Ex-LUH Hannover, Ex-FWO Vlaanderen fellow @UGent. I like grammatical categories, CxG, teaching, and coffee. she/her; sie/ihr #linguistics #gamification #Syntagma #Tristaben - ['poːlɪt]
Lisa Dücker @ladidalisa.bsky.social Linguistics, cross stitching, and other fun stuff maybe? (She/her)
I <3 inscriptions
Toby @tobiaskloes.bsky.social 
Behind the Screens @behindthescreens.bsky.social Psychologie & Games. Mental Health in Games und ein psychologischer Blick auf Spielverhalten. Alle 14 Tage neuer Podcast. https://behind-the-screens.de
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/
Cryptmaster @thecryptmaster.bsky.social Award-winning necromancer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/Cryptmaster/
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Anthea Alberto @antheajeanne.bsky.social Research Navigator for RISE at the University of Basel
Reading & Gaming | Ships & Water & Birds | Text as Data | RStats | PoliSci
She/her
The Mane Quest 🐴🎮 Horses in Video Games 🎮🐴 @themanequest.com The Mane Quest is a website dedicated to "horse games" and the portrayal of horses in video games. Always happy to learn about and give feedback to upcoming games with horses! 💖
themanequest.com
created by Alice Ruppert malicedafirenze.bsky.social
Dali Dimovski, Your Friend! @dalidimovski.com Artist, Car Designer, Video Games, Writing and Videos. I have an insatiable desire to create.
I ❤️ #Detroit, sports, Uno & Mario Kart.
Industrial Designer/CCS Alum
EIC at SideQuesting.com
E: dali@sidequesting.com
Signal: dalibor.01
DaliDimovski.com
Things Too Ugly 💾 @professorspacegames.com Kevin, he/him 🤖
#GameDev 😱 Asst. Professor, Digital Media Arts
Things Too Ugly ⏰ #indiegame
Midwestern, psychological horror, corporate labor, science-fiction, 1986, story-rich, puzzle game
Play on Steam: https://tinyurl.com/ThingsTooUgly
Lee Williams @wiwyums.bsky.social Games developer, writer and all-purpose enthusiast. IGF winner! Credits include Cryptmaster, Valheim, Spirits of Xanadu, Ironheart, Fall Guys and Return of the Obra Dinn.
2 Old 4 Gaming @2old4gaming.bsky.social Author: “Vita Means Life.” Founder of “RPM - The Unofficial Retro PlayStation Magazine.”
Check out my youtube channel for #PSVita gaming videos. YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/2old4gaming E: sandeeprai@2old4gaming.com
Etsy: https://2old4gaming.etsy.com
erik @snoopykoira.bsky.social In the serious business of pleasure. Posts in German and English. My wife 🖤 @loserasa.bsky.social
Marie Mönkemeyer @schreibfantastisch.bsky.social Autorin, Lektorin, Übersetzerin (EN-DE), (Ex)Archäologin
schreibt was mit Spielen und Fantasy
Liebt Kekse und Drachen
sie/ihr bzw she/her
Katja Aller / Walking Sims & Spooky Stuff 👻🎮📚 @katjaaller.bsky.social Working @ Cologne Game Lab/ PhD Candidate in #mediastudies and #gamestudies / Research Focus: Walking Simulators / Download my work: https://th-koeln.academia.edu/KatjaAller
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
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
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
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 Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social 📖Research: planetary boundaries, apples, orchards, sustainable food systems
🌍Interests: European heatwaves, deep ecology, biodiversity loss, GCR and ER, ecological economics
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, semla, tosca
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
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
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
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Tomás Grau de Pablos @tomgaar.bsky.social Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://diariodejuegos.blog
Annakaisa Kultima @aakoo.bsky.social Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
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
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Book: http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
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
Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
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)
Rutxi García @rutxigarcia.bsky.social Profesora en la UCLM. Investigadora en videojuegos, arte, historia y educación. Integrante de @antifaeduca
Lecturer at the UCLM. Video game, Art, History and Education Scholar. Memeber of @antifaeduca
#gamestudies
Hartmut Koenitz @hkoenitz.bsky.social Scholar, designer, artist. Working on interactive digital narrative and how to understand our complex world. Professor and student in the subject of life
President of ARDIN.
book: Understanding
Interactive Digital Narrative (2023): https://amzn.to/3OUEj32
Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
Thiago Falcão @falc4o.bsky.social Entertainment Media and (Critical) Game Studies Researcher @ UFPB, Brazil
Coordinator @lens_ufpb and Researcher @nppd_ufpb | @inctparticipa
camila freitas @xcafreitasx.bsky.social •Assistant Professor
•PhD
•Media and Game Studies researcher
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
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
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.
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.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
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. 
DiGRA España @digraspain.bsky.social Capítulo español de DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association), la asociación académica de investigadores en estudios del juego. Sobre #DiGRAES25: https://digraes2025.wordpress.com/
Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social PhD • Multi-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan
Bea Pérez @bpz.bsky.social 
Alberto Porta @aporta.bsky.social Communication Sciences PhD at @uji.es. I'm interested in #GameStudies: ludonarratives, ludomusicology, childhood and moral dilemmas. https://linktr.ee/albertoporta
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
DiGRA Belgium @digrabelgium.bsky.social DiGRA Belgium is the Belgian chapter of the international association for academics (and professionals) who research digital games and associated phenomena.
Posts by @alexvandewalle.bsky.social
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
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
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
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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@lainenooney.bsky.social
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Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
Björn-Olav Dozo @bjornolav.bsky.social Liège Game Lab
University of Liège, Belgium
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
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.
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
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
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.
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland. 
Game Studies FR @gamestudiesfr.bsky.social Veille et curation sur les #JeuxVidéo et #GameStudies 🎮
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.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/
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/
A. Cathy Nguyen @anhthu.bsky.social Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de
https://kaydenuen.com/
dennis jansen 🟥 @dennisjansen.bsky.social PhD researcher on play, technology and militarization @ Utrecht University
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Social Sciences AA and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports.