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Logan Davis @doing-fine-thanks.bsky.social Programmer, potter, and object maker.
Current PhD student at RPI studying games.
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; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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 🅿️
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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
Jim Malazita @jmalazita.bsky.social Associate Prof of Games & Experiential Media at RPI. STS scholar. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" from the MIT Press. DiGRA Board Member.
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
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Benny Sperling - Roll and Write Revolution @benny275.bsky.social Game designer/publisher, author, doer of things, dad, husband.
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Josh Wade @joshwade.xyz Working on Coven of the Chicken Foot!
Programmer & Tools Engineer w/ Wildflower Interactive.
Previously at Iron Galaxy and Big Huge Games.
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Michelle Olson 🌟 @duplighosts.bsky.social Game designer who likes games with strong values, the weird and wonderful natural world, and magic sparkles 🌿✨
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"Yde and Olive", Medieval Feminist Forum, 2018
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William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
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Seth Giddings @sethgiddings.bsky.social Out now: Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play (MIT)
Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
https://www.microethology.net
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Director of Intended Experience: https://intendedexperience.nz/
Formerly Epic Games, Player Research, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Te Manatū Waka, & Hamilton Zoo.
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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
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
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🏒 Kraken, Firebirds, Torrent, Vålerenga
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Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
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