Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social immortal bisexual
universal health care and trans rights
rub software together and make fire
he
Dr. Kamilah Majied, MSW, PhD @kamilahmajied.bsky.social Professor of Social Work | Contemplative Inclusion & Equity consultant | Mental health therapist | Researcher | Author of “Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living” 🪷 https://www.kamilahmajied.com
N. Fadeke Castor @spiritcitizen.bsky.social Black feminist ethnographer, African diaspora religions scholar, 💜 Ifá, Egbe & Orisa, Trini, author of award-winning Spiritual Citizenship (Duke 2017), YNWA
https://www.fadekecastor.com/
Anderson Moss-Weaver @edgyprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor of American Religions @ Bates College
Lifelong TTRPG-nerd
Black Haiku obsessed
What does liberation feel like? Sound like? Smell and taste like? I want to know these things
Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University @princetonccsr.bsky.social Princeton University Center for Culture, Society & Religion is an academic initiative promoting scholarly research, teaching & public discussion about religion
Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social www.bettinajoydeguzman.com PhD Classics candidate, Uni of Reading. Multi-instrumentalist. Composer. President of CCA South. Classics MA. Educator. Poet. BA English, Music, Psychology. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
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.
Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of @softchaos.bsky.social. 🌈36. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
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 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
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
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.
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 🅿️
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.
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.
hanine @fishinggames.bsky.social here we go again!
anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł
communication PhD student at Concordia
game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social
arabic localisation at WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
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/
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Makopowered Chris, PhD (he/him) @makopowered.bsky.social Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
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
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
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
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Game Studies. Director, GAME Program. Brock University, Department of Digital Humanities.
andrea braithwaite @ahbraithwaite.bsky.social Nancy Drew nerd, pop culture prof, bookaholic.
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
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
Eric Stein (he/him) @steinea.bsky.social Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
melian dialogue tree @vogontheater.bsky.social Wordsman, gameswright. || Narrative Designer [Intern] @ Behaviour || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || stephenfriedrich.com || He/er/il || Views are yours
Prof Matthew @profmatthew.bsky.social Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Courtney Blamey @courtneyblamey.bsky.social professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
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
Justin Roberts ✨ @justinrobs.bsky.social MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto
Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
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
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
rowenac @rohuinac.bsky.social ✨ Milieux ✨ AI/Aesthetics/Play 🤖 HUMA PhD, Concordia ✨ writer ✨ kludge queen ✨ WvW addict 🎮 MTL/NYC 🍕🐀🗽 Lucky Charms 🍀 Enjoyer 💅 Neurodiversity 🌻 www.rowenac.com ✨ 
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 Christina Ganzon @otomedoctor.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
Andy Lee @unsurprisinglee.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.- M Michael Nixon @mnixon.bsky.social Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Michael Hancock @personofcon.bsky.social Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social he/him | Game design prof🏅 | Game Designer 🕹️ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon)
linktr.ee/aaronlangille
Adam Crowley @dradamcrowley.bsky.social DM for Podcast guest and/or public speaking info.
Playing to Save the World: Videogames and Environmental Humanities (2024)
The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (2017)
Representations of Poverty in Videogames (2022)
Dr Kyle McPhail @drkylemcphail.bsky.social they/them
Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University
Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art
I'm bad at social media
Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net Humanités numériques, game studies, études japonaises | Professeur @Université de l'Ontario français | Co-editor (English) @Journal of Replaying Japan | 日本語でOK!
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Marie Šilhová @marie-22.bsky.social Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Evan K @evkuzn.bsky.social PhD student at University of Alberta, combining Critical ADHD Studies and Game Production research; Grad Rep for the Canadian Game Studies Association
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
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.
Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social Canadian writer and geek of many passions. RPG Editor @cgmagonline, Features Editor @ffunion. Random opinions are my own. (He/him)
Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
litotic (elise) @litotic.bsky.social She/They. Vietnamese descent, multilingual, multidisciplinary. Game dev, lecturer, narrative designer & writer (Ubisoft, ZA/UM) etc.
Humanities PhD, games research-creation
I ❤️ intersectionality, crafting things humanely (no GenAI)
pic/banner done by me
Enric Granzotto Llagostera @marxistpokemon.bsky.social [he/il/ele] 👁️ Educator, researcher and game maker. 🎮🔨 PhD on alternative controllers, experimental and critical games. 🌐 https://enric.llagostera.com.br
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […]
[bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social (she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable
Pfp by Birdee Blake
Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social Broke Project Archaeologist with Alpine Archaeological Consultants. Music (cyphernaut.bandcamp.com/follow_me), author (ORCID: 0000-0001-7987-8227), photography (andrewreinhard.com). Based in Chicagoland.
Dr. Kira Jones @flaviansophist.bsky.social Classicist. Gamer. Art historian. Actual Dr. Jones. she/her, stick around for antiquity in videogames and general nonsense.
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair 
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
Romain Vincent @romainvincent.bsky.social Docteur en Sciences de l'éducation : La scolarisation du jeu vidéo par les enseignants (Laboratoire Experice / Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Prof d'Histoire-Géographie (Académie de Créteil)
Jeux video & Histoire sur YouTube : www.youtube.com/c/JVH
Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO
Opinions are my own ¬ the views of my employer
Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games
James Sweeting @crazyblue.bsky.social Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social Historian of ancient Egypt & papyrologist | games researcher (analogue + digital) | Manchester Met Uni | Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre | Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society | Les Mills instructor | Blood Bowl enthusiast
Ian Regueiro Salcedo @arkeologian.bsky.social Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming