Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games Game designer at @sbug.games
Buy Wirm! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/Wirm/
@amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
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
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.
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
Essi Taino @essitai.bsky.social PhD student & researcher, project ENDGAME @ Tampere University | Digital youth work specialist | Avid gamer and cat enthusiast | posts in 🇫🇮 🇬🇧 | she/they
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/
Usva Friman @usvaf.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow & Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Tampere University (Finland). She/her or they/them.
Akatemiatutkija ja pelitutkimuksen apulaisprofessori Tampereen yliopistossa.
Aasa T 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social PHD Researcher @ Tampere University Game Research Lab. Freelance writer. Feminist. Antifascist. AoS Worlds '26 Team Finland. Warhammer researcher. Lesbian. Part-time Mancunian. She/Her 🏳️⚧️ 34
https://medium.com/@warhammerscholar
Profile pic: teafordragon
Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social professional good boy // democracy, cities and tech
// travisjordan.work // these are my own opinions and not those of my employer
he/him // living in Meanjin Brisbane
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Don’t Stop, Girlypop! - ✩𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026✩ @girlypop.net Spread the Love!
Just. Don't. Stop. Moving. ♥
girlypop.net
✦⁺₊✩☽⋆𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026 ⋆☾✩⁺₊✦
https://linktr.ee/girlypopgame
Paige Macintosh @cornflakerabbit.bsky.social Trans media scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. Radicalised by Animorphs. They/them/Dr.
Debating Authenticity now available for order, launch discount NEW30: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-debating-authenticity.html
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/
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.
demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social they / them
supposedly in possession of pretty handwriting
award-winning toy maker ✦ digital humanist
luddite
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands • made a really big video game once but is doing something else now • tha Gàidhlig agam • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they • e/iad 🏳️⚧️
Sim @simorico.bsky.social Hey, I'm Sim, a small (literally) Brisbane dev enjoying the little things in life & doing my best to create big things.
Developing "The Lone Lantern" - he/him - 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally - http://simorico.itch.io
MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social MAGPIE (Melbourne Academic Games, Play and Interactive Entertainment) is an interdisciplinary games research initiative at The University of Melbourne, launched in 2024.
www.linktree.com/magpiegamesresearch
@lucyamsparrow.bsky.social @lucyamsparrow.bsky.social 
@iaintheindie.itch.io @iaintheindie.itch.io Game developer and independent educator.
Antranig Sarian @antharmo.bsky.social Creator of Courtroom Mysteries: a board game based on my Game Studies Research.
Courtroom Mysteries is LIVE NOW on Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/biggerworldsgames/courtroom-mysteries-an-investigate-and-debate-card-game/description
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Matt "Game Dad" Dyet @handle.invalid Writer, Producer, Games Lecturer, Man of Many Hats. Working with EverySecond Studio on Omi Oh My AI, author of Great Games Need Great Leaders. He/They. Dad only in title.
Find me at https://linktr.ee/gamedadmatt
Geoffrey Lee @geoffreylee.bsky.social PhD @ USYD | dissecting the frog that is Twitch livestream humour | he/him | updates at https://geofflearnstobefunny.wordpress.com/
Zoe Li @zoeriies.bsky.social phd student (usyd) ☆ that vtuber researcher™ ☆ she/her
[ENG | 日本語 | 한국어 | 中文]
Tianyi ZhangShao @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social PhD at USYD | Researching Chinese game monetisation | Nintendo fans and Whales in Arknights
Kate Clark @kateeuph.bsky.social Researcher on new media and immersive reality technologies 👩💻🎮 exploring the relationship between gender, inclusion, and new media
Founding member of the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research network (cavrn.org)
she/her
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions.
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
Was @afterclimate on Twitter
Ben Egliston @benegliston.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney // Political economy of media and technology
Sian Tomkinson @siantomkinson.bsky.social Media/Communication scholar specialising in games, gender, and misogyny. I like philosophy (especially D&G) and esotericism. 少し日本語を話せます。https://linktr.ee/siantomkinson
Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social Formerly of PC Powerplay and various other places. Freelance game reviewer. Connecting with game devs, but not having a lot of time for social media ... Tell me about your game. (PS. I am not Peter Morgan. 😂)
Poppy Hong @flower.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate & Casual Academic at USYD / KR•JP•EN•FR•ES / 출간 『마법소녀는 왜 세상을 구하지 못했을까?』 & 『비포 제인 오스틴』 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/soomin-h-1b29baab
Phoebe Matich @phoebesophist.bsky.social ADM+S research fellow, genAI and authenticity in media | journalism and misinformation | metalhead and pasta enthusiast | plant mum and cat aunt | Pākeha on Turrbal/Yugara country | she/her
Kate FitzGerald @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Analyst @ Digital Media Research Centre, QUT.
Research information disorder, conspiracy theories, and knowledge production practices.
Read Them Sideways podcast co-host and producer.
(she/her)
@duncancorrigan.bsky.social @duncancorrigan.bsky.social 
James Manning @jimaroonie.bsky.social Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Co-Chair, Freeplay.net.au. Board member, DiGRAA. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.
Alexander Muscat @alexandermuscat.bsky.social Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast ● Making & researching ● Working on multi-perceptual puzzler SITE UNSEEN 🔴 siteunseengame.com ● Mech head ● he/him
Sabby @sabbygallery.bsky.social A place that belongs to everyone, where everyone can belong.
Sabby is gathering place for artists, game makers, crafters and zinesters in Narrm (Melbourne). Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/5uRbFg2QXa
Drăculești 🦇 @fine-fiends.bsky.social A mischievous flock of game developers, currently working on Drâculeşti
Wishlist / try our demo 🦇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2537980/Draculesti/
common-or-garden Mads 🦆 @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social Mads Mackenzie 💀 narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer 💀 they/them, icon by Penta 💀 director @fine-fiends.bsky.social
Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social experimental game designer, independent curator
he/him. views are my own.
https://mr-chad.com
Kyle Moore @kylejmoore.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media at Swinburne University
Researching mobile media and technology (games, AR, maps)
Overwhelmed and under caffeinated
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
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/
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social pretty artist designer, and technologist with red hair, I make gay art and write code for @acmilabs.bsky.social,🏳️⚧️ girl, (she/her) https://rubyquail.design (also @rubyquaildesign elsewhere)
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Mark R Johnson @mrjgames.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney | Researching Twitch game streaming, esports, game monetisation | Ultima Ratio Regum dev
(Placeholder, for now, while we wait to see how things play out...)
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
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Larry May @handle.invalid Lecturer at the University of Auckland – game studies, digital cultures. Author of Digital Zombies, Undead Stories (http://bit.ly/3yTTpvJ)
website: http://larrymay.me
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Sav Wolfe @transwitcher.bsky.social Triple Award Winning game developer, Manager of Events, Content and Communication at IGEA, Content and Admin on GCAP, horror freak, crafts, thanatology and cryptozoology. Trans and queer!
Was previously TimesNTroubles on the other sites.
Natasha @natarasee.bsky.social 
Siolfor @siolfor.bsky.social Guitarist | Game Developer | Gremlin
I post a lot of video game cover music here:
https://www.youtube.com/@SiolfortheJackal
andy @gleeson.dev a melbourne gamedev
> gleeson.itch.io
Spaxe Austral ⚡ @spaxe.space researcher & singer from australia!
telegram t.me/spaxe_space
banner @blueroo.bsky.social
fursuit @kigurumikagetsu.bsky.social
stickers @spikhyenna.bsky.social
next @infurnity.bsky.social
cécile @haraiva.bsky.social ☀ working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
Paper House @paperhousegames.com videogames + culture shop + other stuff 🏚
WISHLIST Wood & Weather on Steam! ⛈️
Paperbark | BKPC
paperhousegames.com
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
Mei-Li Coolan @dashurie.bsky.social 🦦 Freelance Games Producer 🧙🐑👻
🐕 IGDA-F Next Gen Leaders Cohort Coordinator & NGL Alum '24
🐦⬛ Volunteer Org. and Art for brIGDA
🦭 Hobby Artist, Cosplayer, and Zinester @UncannyTitans
♏ She/Her • 🩷💜💙 • 媽媽
🗺️ Meeanjin 🖤💛❤️ (Brisbane, Australia) • AEST
Luis Van Slageren @luisvsm.bsky.social All of the Indie Multiplayer hats / Technically Games / Spies & Soldiers / Naarm & Bulleke-bek based 🏳️🌈
Piers 💫🏳️🌈 @piers.zip Solo dev cat person
📍 Brisbane 🇦🇺
💫 Working on Freeline! - a frenetic, kinetic, parkour speedrunning platformer.
✨ https://parkourcat.com/ - Wishlist Now!
🌐 https://piers.zip/
20 | They/Any
Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
Chris Yearn @chrisyearn.bsky.social Senior Animator @sledgehammergames.com • Prev: Lecturer, worked on some old games • Dad x 3 • ✝️ 🥁 🏹 • Opinions are my own
📍 Brisbane, Australia
🔗 https://linktr.ee/chrisyearn
Hien Pham 🐻 @hiencomics.com.au 🌈 Pronounced like Ian with an H (he/him)
🌺 Award-winning comic artist: It Will Be Hard, Amarantus.
✨ OJST writer: ohjoysextoy.com/category/comic/hienpham/
💖 Patreon: patreon.com/hiencomics
✏ Portfolio: hiencomics.com.au
✉️ wavingcomics@gmail.com
☀Hyde Angelus☀ @hydeangelus.bsky.social Illustrator / I genuinely hate Oscar Wilde
https://linktr.ee/Hydeangelus for all my socials, shop and Patreon!
Nathan Hoad 🐱 Bravest Coconut out NOW @nathanhoad.net Check out Bravest Coconut, a silly game about solving story-driven puzzles, meeting a cast of quirky characters, and exploring a world full of secrets... and you're a cat: https://bravestcoconut.com
Junebug ⚧️ @junebugrocks.bsky.social It/She
The one behind the camera
Co-developer of Webbed
Part of the team for Isopod: a webbed spin-off
Artist in many ways
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
pixienop @pixienop.bsky.social he/they, bi, 31 excruciating years old.
artist, programmer, writer
https://hi.pixienop.net/
Caroline Difficult Gardam @cazuarina.bsky.social Writes, studies, gets muddy on stolen Jagera and Turrbal land.
QUT DMRC PhD student researching multimodality and climate denial. Occasional ceramicist.
Rose Parker Audio @roseparkeraudio.bsky.social - Sound Designer @ Cutting Edge Post
- Studio Assistant & Audio Engineer @ Joff Bush Music
- Audio Engineer @ everywhere else
Hansard.wtf @hansardwtf.bsky.social Interesting things found in the Proceedings of the Australian Federal Parliament. Account run by Naomi Barnes and Sam Hames as part of a Hansard accessibility project. Submit enquiries to: hansardwtf@gmail.com. Find more at: https://hansard.wtf/.