Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social Oh No! Oh Dear! Oh My!
Games...person?
Would love you to play Key Fairy: keyfairy.com.au
Other games/art/blog-posts?
yes: neighbourhoodsnake.com
she/they
Information Age @information-age.bsky.social Authoritative and trusted news on the Australian and international technology sectors. 💻
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Play What You mean @playwhatyoumean.bsky.social A place dedicated to exploring games & play as personal expression
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
CONTINUE? Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
www.continuemagazine.com
Andreas Inderwildi @mashxtomuse.bsky.social Writer, medievalist & game critic, seen @ Eurogamer, RPS, KotakuUK, Edge, Wireframe &c. Author of the upcoming book Mundaun: Design Works www.lostincult.co.uk/mundaun. Writes stuff at www.mashxtomuse.com. he/him
Nathanael T. Booth (he/him) @nathanaeltbooth.bsky.social Pretty damn queer.
nathanaeltbooth.com
Author, GOD AND THE GREAT DETECTIVE: ELLERY QUEEN’S STRUGGLE WITH THE DIVINE, 1945-1965 (McFarland 2023)
Co-host, THE PROJECTIONIST’S LENDING LIBRARY
Academic 
Ely @fon318.bsky.social product designer into edtech & public interest tech | lover of learning and dancing🌈 | sports wise, bay fc all the way bby
Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton | #HCI #AR #VR #SpatialComputing
parastooabtahi.com
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
@professorbodker.bsky.social @professorbodker.bsky.social 
26,930 words (I'm back writing!) @legalminimum.bsky.social Now shamelessly employed but not telling you where (yet).No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Kauweloa, Ph.D. @kauweloa.bsky.social The University of Hawaii 🌈 -- interdisciplinary Studies/Island Researcher-- Digital Cultures, Video Games(esports),Games Infrastructures, and Disability
#academicsky #indigenousresearch #gamestudies #STS #Disability
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kauweloa
GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global The Games Industry B2B Magazine for Europe, from Germany.
Worker-owned, independent medium.
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MASS @mass.co From the team behind Cult of the Lamb Massive Monster comes MASS - our take on a sanctuary for game developers. A new coworking space designed by devs, for devs
Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org Founded by Double Fine and iam8bit. indie games are good.
BarmE @barmearme.bsky.social Wiradjuri Wizard
Award Winning Advocate
Creative Director, Senior Producer and Narrative for @buruthegame.bsky.social
Ouss Ouss 👊🏼👊🏼
Buru and The Old People @buruthegame.bsky.social An upcoming, short narrative game about a retired thief, the whispers around town, and a growing concern in the darkness of the mountains…
📫 buruthegame@gmail.com
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🔗 https://linktr.ee/buruthegame
Benjamin Gattet @ragekit.bsky.social Videogame Art and Dev • Tech Art / Graphic prog @ Hinterland, ex Trebuchet, Sauropod • Graphics, modeling, drawing, procgen, shaders • too many hats • phd dropout • https://www.benek.fr
Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
IGDA Sydney @igdasydney.bsky.social A Sydney game development community. We run #BeerAndPixels every second Tuesday of the month!
Click here for all our channels: https://linktr.ee/igda_sydney
ALA Games & Gaming Round Table @alagamert.bsky.social A round table of the American Library Association
GameRT provides resources and community for library workers interested in bringing games into library spaces.
https://linktr.ee/alagamert
Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social Games Research @ 2K | Making games since 2008 | Amazon, Bethesda, and Volition alum | Midwest is Best | Opinions expressed are my own | She/Her
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Tom Byers @tom-byers.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Assistant @UniMelb
Yedong Sh-Chen @ydsc.bsky.social Ph.D.ing at Harvard on games, digital media, AI, and modern China.
SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social SSRN’s mission is to rapidly share early-stage research and empower global scholarship to help shape a better future. You can submit your research to SSRN online at www.ssrn.com.
Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT • Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) • Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) • Toronto/Amsterdam
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.
J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at Carnegie Mellon. Indie game designer -- Indie RPG Award (2006), IndieCade Night Games (2015), Ennie Judge's Spotlight (2026). Comments my own.
@marysavigar.bsky.social @marysavigar.bsky.social 
Professor Sally Gainsbury @drsalgainsbury.bsky.social Academic psychology researcher at the University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre.
My goal is to conduct research, share findings, & collaborate across diverse stakeholders to inform & evaluate policies & practices to minimise gambling harm.
Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social 📍Sydney, NSW
Naomi Jackson ⚪️ She/Him (gender fluid)
⚪️ ABC News, IGN, Superjump Magazine, SIFTER, Nom's Games Corner
⚪️Opinions are my own
Emailz: naomijacksonmedia@gmail.com
Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social Awards-nominated freelance writer (ScreenHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, CheckPoint, SUPERJUMP, Qualbert, NG+, LT3, JPG). Highly opinionated on games, miniatures, & wrasslin'.
They/Them.
https://muckrack.com/jam-walker
Cynabun @cynabunart.bsky.social Programmer for Star Garden
3D Artist, Game Designer, VR Enthusiast, Lead Software Developer making educational cybersecurity games.
I love cooking, cake decorating, and enjoy a good coffee!
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
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Qiushi Zhou @qiushiz.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor @ HKUST(GZ). Postdoc @ Aarhus University https://qiushi-zhou.github.io/
Jeffrey @geoffwhill.bsky.social Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
Markel Vigo @markelvigo.bsky.social Usable decision-making on data-intensive user interfaces: physical activity tracking and interactive dashboards.
HCI, AI, digital health and accessibility.
Reader in Computer Science @ The University of Manchester (UK)
http://www.markelvigo.info
Chris Hugelmann, PhD @chugelmann.bsky.social games user researcher | communication & culture PhD interested in the design of identity and community in games | .flac, not .mp3 | he/him | chugelmann.com
SIGCHI Sydney Chapter @sydchi.bsky.social Connecting Sydney’s HCI community through talks, workshops, lab introductions, and event radars!!
Website: https://sydchi.hosting.acm.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sigchi-sydney/
Jessica Balanzategui @jkbalanzategui.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media and Cinema
@RMIT University
Editor, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures @amsterdamupress
Australian Research Council Industry Fellow
@adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social Lecturer and writer in games and interactive media.
Perth, WA.
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Elena Petrovskaya @elepetrovs.bsky.social Research Associate @ Uni of Cambridge. Ethical tech.
Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social Researcher studying harms of emerging technologies at Max Planck Institute for Security and privacy
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
XR Stories @xrstories.bsky.social A University of York project supporting research, development and innovation in technology-led creative content, experiences and stories. Also leading XR Network+, providing funding and support to researchers working in virtual production technologies.
Bettina Bódi🌿🎮 @bettibo.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK
✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature
🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu
🌐 https://cozymedia.net/
Justin (J. M. L.) Whittington @jmlwhittington.com PhD candidate, Texts and Technology, University of Central Florida
Scholar (and lover) of games and theme parks, yapper of politics
Reach me here: https://jmlwhittington.com/
Unwise views are my own; wiser ones are communal
Mad Mullah Hastur @madmullah.bsky.social I used to be funny. Really funny. Now I just work and actively pursue being anti-social online. Also I am an associate professor in Digital Culture as well ass journalism and communication. Also games. I do a lot of games.
Prof. Sarah Mills @sarah-mills.bsky.social Human Geographer at Loughborough University, UK | profsarahmills.com | researching childhood, youth, citizenship, volunteering, gambling, gaming, prediction markets
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
The Sizzle - Australia's favourite tech newsletter @handle.invalid An Australian daily technology newsletter written by @cameronwilson.bsky.social
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Linas Gabrielaitis @gablinas.bsky.social GeoPhilosophy, EcoGames, Toy Models, Earth Engines. PhD/Gamification Group/Tampere Uni 🇫🇮
Blair @blairmacintyre.me Husband, father, gamer, professor, researcher, tinkerer.
AR/VR researcher since 1991. Bad at Overwatch and Valorant.
rux @ruxruxrux.bsky.social Creative Technology + Spatial Computing + NUI • Magic Windows & Mixed-Up Realities @ITP_NYU
01@ humanos.xyz
kids, food, bicycles
past: @Google @IDEO @Havas @EyeWriter •
https://linktr.ee/ruxruxrux
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Ziran Zhao (Brandon) @zhaoziran258.bsky.social PhD student at @Monash_Arts👨🏻💻focusing on digital culture & game platform
Unruh @unruh.bsky.social ꮐlᎥtcħ
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
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/
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Khan is Creating @kxi-system.bsky.social I'm Khan-ali Ibrahim, call me Khan!
☕ Game Designer & Developer
☕ https://www.khan-ali.com/card
Nick Stringer @nickstringer.bsky.social Non-Executive Director (NED) & Board Adviser | Global Digital Policy, AI Governance & Data Protection / Privacy | Charity Trustee | Former Chair, EDAA www.linkedin.com/in/nickstringer
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Rory Manning Graham @publicfacingrory.bsky.social PhD candidate @ USYD - researching how we make sense of scale in videogames
Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱
https://yarnspinner.dev • http://discord.gg/yarnspinner • Human-Made
Secret Lab @secretlab.games Secret Lab builds games. We're best known for Night in the Woods, and the Australian ABC Play School games, as well as @YarnSpinner.dev. We're currently building I Feel Fine, written by Ryan North, and Leonardo's Moon Ship. No GenAI, please.
Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Ailea Merriam-Pigg @ailea.bsky.social The greeneyedtrombonist (she/they)
PhD Candidate, ABD and looking
Research themes: Game Studies, digital studies, disability, marginalized identity, rhetoric, communication
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College. Editor-in-Chief, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social Prof at Syracuse U's iSchool. Robots, social AI, videogames, dogs, wine, travel ...
Kathrin Gerling @kathringerling.bsky.social Professor at KIT, Germany (http://hci.iar.kit.edu). Research on human-computer interaction, accessibility, VR, and games (preferably Quake 3). ERC StG AccessVR and Real-World Lab Accessibility (http://accessibility.kit.edu). she/her
Team Rieger LMU @teamrieger.bsky.social Department of Media and Communication @ifkw.bsky.social LMU_Muenchen
Media Psychology | Extremism | (Online) Radicalization | Entertainment
Jimmy Ivory @jivory.bsky.social Professor of Technical and Scientific Communication, Virginia Tech.
Leonard Reinecke @leonardreinecke.bsky.social Professor for Media Effects and Media Psychology, @ifpmainz.bsky.social, University of Mainz, Germany // Greek at Heart
Max L Wilson @drmaxlwilson.bsky.social Consumer Neurotechnology and Brain-Computer Interfaces - #mentalworkload #HCI #cogPI #fNIRS
IJHCS Deputy Editor.
CHI Conf Steering Committee.
Keynote speaker. Neurotech Consultant.
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/
https://brain-data-uon.gitlab.io/
Nancy Jennings @nancyjennings.bsky.social Professor, University of Cincinnati
Director, Children's Education and Entertainment Research (CHEER) Lab
william partin @partin.bsky.social phd | policy @youtube | esports grouch. all opinions my own!
Felix Reer @ree-flx.bsky.social Researcher at University of Muenster
Chair of the ECREA Digital Games Research Section
Communication Science, Media Psychology, Online Communication, Virtual Reality, Digital Games
Nick Ballou @nballou.bsky.social Early career research fellow at Imperial College London - video games, trace data, adolescents, mental health, open research.
ICAGames.bsky.social @icagames.bsky.social Official account of the International Communication Association's Game Studies Division. #videogames #avatars #VR #boardgames
https://icagames.org/
DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the Media Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society (@dgps.bsky.social).
Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social "Scarlet & Gray" Associate Professor in the School of Communication at OSU. I study narratives, characters, and moral judgment processes as they relate to the consumption of media. My opinions are my own.
Professor Steve @profsteve.bsky.social PhD Rhetoric and Politics, Professor, Writer, Gamer. Interested in institutional speech, political campaigns, and how idiosyncratic choices inform our future. Lifelong fan of the power to do things with words.
Ulrike Schwertberger @uschwertberger.bsky.social 🔍Communication scientist at Team Rieger
📍LMU Munich
Researching demanding media use | media multitasking | entertainment | online radicalization.
Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist |Professor at Ohio State