Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social A podcast that digs deep into analog role-playing games and their cultures. Coming in Fall 2026!
Part of Ludology podcast group.
Hosted by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @czamboni.bsky.social
Logo by @feralcharlie.bsky.social
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of ๐The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and ๐Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Deb Fuller @bigpuffingames.bsky.social I'm an award-winning game-based learning designer for K-12 education. I also design solo TTRPGs and other analog cozy games for all ages to enjoy through Big Puffin Games. Find my games at:
https://stori-lundi.itch.io
Liz Cable ๐ฒ ๐พ ๐ UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social Game-based learning & community-building
Educator, Author, Experience Designer
ARGs, LARPs, Escape Games
Convener of #GamesInEdu26 at #UKGamesExpo
CfP: https://bit.ly/UKGECFP
web: www.Linktr.ee/lizcable
Start here: https://bit.ly/GamesinEdu
Dr. Josรฉ 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
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social ๐ฎAssistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
๐"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine ๐
Andrew D. Devenney @adevenney.bsky.social historian, associate director: CMich Center for Learning through Games & Simulations (class.cmich.edu/clgs & cmichpress.com), publisher: Superhero Necromancer Press (superheronecromancer.com), ๐๐๐
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
Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. โ๏ธ @travisdhill.bsky.social Tabletop Game Design | Educational Psychologist | Equity & Justice through Education | Coffee, Zines, Cats | he/him
Games: presspot.games
Research: travisdhill.com
Susan Haarman @suzphdm.bsky.social Queer Nerd PhD of Educational Philosophy. Perma (& often paid) GM. Improviser. The games we play & the stories we tell will save us & democracy. TTRPGs are what the world needs.
Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social He/him. Journalist at Rascal News. Interested in the art, history, and science of games. Makes the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indied Podcast. notrueindian@outlook.com
Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social PhD @ UW studying meaningful game experiences | prev. SWE @ Twitch. MIT '21, game credit on God of War: Ragnarok | https://ndevasia.github.io
Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social Digital Learning Consultant. KY Educator since 2005. Pop culture nerd. Posts & opinions are my own. My book is now in print! For more, visit adamwatson.org & my blog at watsonedtech.blogspot.com. #edtechelixirs #KYDLC #AllinKY #EduSky he/him
Gaming the System(s) Educational Collaborative @gaming-the-systems.bsky.social Gaming the System(s) is a 501c(3) charitable organization dedicated to promoting the use of games in educational & therapeutic settings. We also organize the Game-Based Education & Therapy Conference embedded in Origins Game Fair.
The Gaming Librarian @thelibgamer.bsky.social A Sage Mage of ALAโs GameRT. Librarian with diverse experience in public and academic libraries. I am now working for the Indiana State Library and living in Southern IN.
MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,โช๏ธ,๐, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
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
Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/ใใใค. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. ๐ซAI ๆฅๆฌSFใ่จ่ชฌใไธปไฝๆงใ็ ็ฉถใใฆใใๆๅธซใTTRPGใใใผใใฒใผใ ๅฅฝใใๆ็จฟใฏใปใผ่ฑ่ชใงใ
Mackenzie (he/his/him) @catmetamackenzie.bsky.social Cataloguing librarian & games enthusiast. Ever learning & growing, views are mine but sometimes I'm wrong.
WobbuPalooza @wobbupalooza.bsky.social Parlor game history, especially focused on early collaborative storytelling / roleplaying / Surrealist games but also forfeits and pre-1800 games in general:
https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org
J. Rey Lee @jreylee.bsky.social Boardgamer, writer, teacher, girl dad, recovering academic.
Unsettling Catan: lookingglance.com/unsettling-catan/
The Looking Glance: lookingglance.com
Calvin Apodaca @nalvic.bsky.social Researcher, Educator, Game Designer in Seattle, Washington
https://www.calvinapodaca.com/
Trans Gamer Prof. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @transgamer.prof Phoebe Toups Dugas (she/her)
(An actual) professor researching inclusivity in game design and game history. Romhacker, ancient D&D nerd, and metalhead.
https://transgamer.prof
Alt: @snapdragoness.itch.io
Opinions are my own.
Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, enjoyer of things. Always learning.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. In the midst of job search. carolinerpitt.phd
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Dr. Elizabeth Kilmer @PAX East @doctorkilmer.bsky.social Researcher with Take This. Clinical psychologist using games in therapy with Respec Psychological Services. Opinions are all mine. (she/they)
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.
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Adrian Hermann @anitchang.bsky.social Professor Univ. of Bonn. Director at FIW ๐๐๐ and Study of Religion (he/him). Religion/cultural studies/documentary film/Southeast Asia/TTRPGs.
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (โ๏ธ๐ผ book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ || ๐ canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently โ๏ธ๐ผ sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester โก๏ธ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social if D&D has no haters then i'm ๐ โข coined 'D&D industrial complex' โข STS/Comms โข recovering larp burnout โข i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all ๐จ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฎ๐
Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social She/her. Researcher/Lecturer at UCI. Editor-at-large @AnalogGameJrnl. Writing a book on ASMR. Occasional posts on tv, film, theater, & games. (opinions my own)
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
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
Adrianna โจ @adriiadventures.com she/they ๐ธ๐ป writing and studying rpgs ๐ฎ finally a phd candidate ๐ตโ๐ซ
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
Jamie Madigan @jamiemadigan.bsky.social My book about the psychology of Dungeons & Dragons is out! See www.psychologyofdnd.com. I'm also the author of Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games. I write and podcast at www.psychologyofgames.com
John Bultena๐งโโ๏ธ๐ฎ โก๏ธMordheim @onlyplaywizards.com ๐UC Merced writing professor & TTRPG Educator
๐งMore Than Metal podcast
๐ @AbraxasPrecipic.bsky.social #TheExpanse #RPG
๐ @CauldronNTower.bsky.social
๐Academic Librarian
๐ผVinyl collector
๐Dysgraphic
linktr.ee/onlyplaywizards
Steven Dashiell PhD @dashiellsteven.bsky.social Research Asst Prof at Morgan State University - social scientist who studies discourse, masculinity, and disparities, specifically in male-dominated subcultures (like game communities and social media). Army veteran. UMBC grad.
Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social English Prof. Editor at Analog Game Studies.
Agatha nominee. Writer, gamer, nature nerd. BLM
Author of Cozy, Nerdy Mysteries:
https://tulepublishing.com/series/a-wren-winters-mystery/
https://shellyjonesauthor.com/
Eliza Alexander Wilcox @easays.bsky.social Itโs a double first name!
genderqueerfemme
crip
they/she
studiatrix of all things disability, queer/trans, 18th and 19th century, and TTRPG. 
Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
Currently working on some #ttrpg research to better emergency management workforce development in #wargames and #seriousgames
Antero Garcia @anterobot.bsky.social Associate Professor at Stanford University. NCTE President Elect. Education. Speculative Imagination. Healing. Dad of twins. he/him/his
lacuenta.substack.com
Dr. Emily MN Kugler @emnk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
Iโve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
Paul Wake @pfwgames.bsky.social UK academic researching games and the environment. Writing book on Blood Bowl. Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.
jenn sutcliffe ๐ Serious Play Conference @jennsutcliffe.bsky.social Ed Psych/Tech Ph.D. student, MSU | Instructional Designer | TTRPG writer/designer, @ImmaterialPlane | Georgia (US) Wikimedia affiliate rep | Research: Game studies, social learning, learning communities, digital literacies ~ she/her
Aasa T ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ต๐ธ @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 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ 34
https://medium.com/@warhammerscholar
Profile pic: teafordragon
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
Michael Freudenthal @playingresearch.bsky.social ๐ PhD student on informal learning & fiction in board games
๐ Experice lab (Sorbonne Paris Nord university)
๐ข Ex research fellow at Game in Lab
๐ฌ they/them
Own opinions in ๐ฌ๐ง & ๐ซ๐ท
PB Berge ๐ @persephone.blue ๐ฅ ludoarsonist
๐น๏ธ media scholar
๐ฎ game breaker
๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. ๐ trans play ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ TTRPGs ๐ฒ extremism ๐ & the โจunplayableโจ
๐ https://persephone.blue ๐ฒ https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Chloรฉ Germaine @illmare.bsky.social UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member.
manchestergamecentre.org
Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy.
Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
Jon Peterson @increment.bsky.social Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroesโ Feast, etc. 
Dr. Megan Connell she/her @meganpsyd.bsky.social Psychologist, cofounder of both Health Quest Innovative Therapeutics and Geeks Like Us. Author of Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy the Guide for the Clinician Game Master. I talk psychology and TTRPGs. Opinions are my own.
Lucas Maxwell @lucasjmaxwell.bsky.social Lucas is a former slaughterhouse employee from Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Not really here anymore. https://lucasjmaxwell.squarespace.com
Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social Author of the DESIGNERS & DRAGONS series of RPG histories, including THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF: A SYSTEM HISTORY OF TRAVELLER. Science-fiction, fantasy, comic, and RPG fan. Currently working on Traveller and Call of Cthulhu history projects.
Phoebe Toups Dugas ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @snapdragoness.itch.io She/her.
๐ A/Prof of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University
๐ฎ Anti-AI; researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly)
๐ STA Superstar of STEM
๐ Ancient D&D nerd
๐ถ Metalhead
I like dragons. Opinions are my own.
Zottie @zoevt.bsky.social Nerd and trainee clinical psychologist (she/her) โจ
Peter/Roll for Kindness (Autism advocacy TTRPG GM, M.Ed.) @rollforkindness.bsky.social Autistic self advocate and advocacy/outreach specialist in the Seattle area. International speaker, published author on autistic socialization. Running advocacy focused TTRPG groups for autistics for 12 years. He/Him. Bi/pan. Rollforkindness.com
Adam J @adamjohns.bsky.social Founder of Game to Grow. Marriage and Family therapist specializing in seeing geeks and gamers in therapy. Co-Host of The Next Session Podcast.
Adam Davis @sparksforsharks.bsky.social 
Thomas | MagesandMentors @magesandmentors.bsky.social Cube! MTG and SWU are my main games at the moment.
Dr. Amelia @ PAX West @wanderingshrink.bsky.social PsyD | Connecting gaming and psychology through therapy, consulting, and education | VP of GGC | Your friendly goth psychologist
https://linktr.ee/wanderingshrink
Culliope @culliope.bsky.social PhD, Middle school teacher, ttrpg researcher and academic. Cat, rabbit and teen wrangler. Living that rural NH life. Tabletopedu.org or culliopescauldron.com.
kieran cutting @kierancutting.bsky.social Writer of queer horror and weird fiction. Service designer, researcher, and games designer. Former indie publisher at EXIT Press. they/them
https://kierancutting.substack.com
Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social Views are mine, unless retweets. Posts about wpalife, ttrpgs, trans rights, cats & random observations.
Dr. Michelle McMullin Or Hawk. @chellemcmullin.bsky.social Academic, games, rhetoric, tech comm, Ghostbusters and Real Genius Quotes
Lee Hibbard @dochib.bsky.social PhD in rhetoric. He/they and transmasc. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech. Writing, TTRPGs, Archiving, Fiber Arts, Podcasts, and Cats. 
Jess @kleenestar.bsky.social It's Jess Hammer!
Twitty is AFK @twittysuch.bsky.social Game Dev | Occasional Twitch Streamer | Cosplay Weirdo | Historian studing the intersection of girlhood and video games | Sometimes I write about nerd culture and communal spaces | Frmr: Nintendo, UW
Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social clinical psychologist | research faculty at RIT | research: building DTx games to for mental health skills, esp self-regulation, cognitive, & communication skills | advocate & educator on games research, DTx, and mental health in all games
Raph @raphdee.bsky.social Been a Gamedev for 10 years, now full time streamer! I do first playthroughs of older games I never had the chance to play.
๐ค Twitch streams at 1PM EST weekdays ๐ค
For more: http://linktr.ee/raphdeslandes
CHI PLAY 2026 @chiplay.bsky.social CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference by ACM SICHI for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and HCI.
๐ November 2-5, 2026, York, UK
Hรผseyin รZBEKAR @huseyinozbekar.bsky.social #blog #dergi #tasarฤฑm
Okumanฤฑz gerekenlerโ๏ธ
www.huseyinozbekar.com
Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social ๐ปComputer Scientist๐ผArt Historian๐จโ๐ซProf in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com Neurospicy disabled trans girl, Ph.Dyke
Writes with @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, @catblackard.bsky.social, & @jessicamudd.bsky.social
EggPrimeDirective.com
MusicโBooksโGamesโPoetry MothMother.com
InkโArt CauldronFireStudios.com
Theory TessTanen.com
Thor Magnusson @thormagnusson.bsky.social A worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music, mind and technology.
** Intelligent Instruments Lab (www.iil.is) **
** Experimental Music Technologies Lab (www.emutelab.org) **
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Andrรฉs Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social ๐ผ IxD Professor, Aalto University
๐งช UX, HCI, spirituality researcher
๐๏ธ ACM distinguished speaker
๐ ๏ธ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips
๐ Alum TUe, UTEM
๐ฃ Views my own
ACM CHI @chi.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain ๐จ April 13 -17.
Content managed by Social Media Chairs.
Iuliia Avgustis @avgustis.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher / Tampere University & University of Oulu.
#EMCA, #HCI, #ADHD
Oyungezer @oyungezer.com.tr Oyungezer dergisinin resmi Bluesky profili
oyungezer.com.tr
patreon.com/c/oyungezerdergi
Freya Holmรฉr @freya.bsky.social ๐ฎ tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
๐ acegikmo.com
๐ฅ youtube.com/@acegikmo
๐๏ธ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
๐ก ex-founder of Neat Corp
๐ชก neoluddite
my kids:
๐ฅช @toast.acegikmo.com
๐ฅ @salad.acegikmo.com
๐โโฌ @thor.acegikmo.com
Comediocracy @comediocracy.bsky.social ๐ธSeriously Funny COMEDIOCRACY: Bigger than Democracy๐ธ comedy/satire+ for the New Normal. BDE- Big Democracy Energy. Comediocracy.com
โ๏ฝกหแข๐ญฉ Shinigamigurl . โหโก @shinigamigurl.bsky.social ๐ 26
๐AZ
๐ธ model & content creator
โซ๏ธ avid gamer & anime lover
๐ฏ๏ธ favorite kind of people are the geeks & the freaks
๐ฐ cashapp: shinigamigurl
Instagram: shinigamigurl โป
Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social I am relatively nice here.
Currently squatting on Muwinina land
Point to pinnacle stroll for medical research https://pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-institute-for-medical-research/jon-kudelka-captain-quoll
https://www.kudelkashop.com
carpe diem
Feral Women's Society of America @fwsa.bsky.social Old, feral woman with a smart mouth. Be careful, I bite.
ZBexx @zbexx.art MTG & Disney Lorcana Creator ๐ Oregon
Official Disney Lorcana Broadcaster โจ
Partnered with @teamgirudo @abgameseugene
Cosplay โข Dance โข Sustainability
๐ zbexxbooking@gmail.com
Lennart Nacke, PhD @lennartnacke.com ๐ง Tenured brain, fresh daily takes. Maximum citations but sanity questionable. The prof your prof follows for daily advice. University Research Chair & Tenured Full Professor.
The read that returns your rigour โ https://go.lennartnacke.com/newsletter
Philip Chambers @philipchambers.bsky.social Forestry, ecology, trees and people. University of Eastern Finland. Forest planning, digitalisation, gamification, AR/XR/MR/VR, social forestry, landscapes. Yadda yaddaโฆ
Ange @handle.invalid Shitposter|Gamer|No minors|Taken โค๏ธ
|24 years old|they/them|
Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social This page contains moon pics.DM for credit removal. Some Photoshop image posted .
Sarah. ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ธ๏ธ @vampireghuleh.bsky.social horror lover ๐ช dreamer โ๏ธ writer โ๏ธ neurodivergent ๐ง https://linktr.ee/vampireghuleh
Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social Welcome,this account is devoted high-quality image of space,sharing quality astrophotography science &Technology
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm)