Indie Innovators @indieinnovators.bsky.social Join Spencer as we dive into the world of Game Development. Indie Innovators is here to demystify the process, inspire creativity, and guide those eager to join the industry.
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 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
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 🅿️
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.
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
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
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social Award winning Director of Marketing & Communications for video games.
IGDA, BAFTA, Canadian Game Awards Judge.
Speaker, Educator, Advocate, Snacker & Flâneur!
Reach out if you want to work together or need help.
✉️raj@ohmpage.ca
🍁Toronto, Canada
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social 
Queer Communist Game Jam ☭ @queercomgames.bsky.social International Game Jam organized from Cuba 🇨🇺
“Let’s start a queer, communist, game industry revolution.”
🎮 itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026
📝 instagram.com/queercomgames
👾 https://discord.gg/sZkfS9NtG
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Games Transformed @gamestransformed.bsky.social Games Transformed is a volunteer-run organisation celebrating games and radical politics 👾
We run a yearly festival and game jam, bi-weekly board game nights, and a year round programme of events.
linktr.ee/gamestransformed
@washbearstudio.com @washbearstudio.com Two tinkerers making Railborn - train survival madness. Piece by piece building. Intersections galore! We also made Parkasaurus
Discord: http://discord.gg/7u9d6f9
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Croteam | The Talos Principle: Reawakened @croteam.com More than a Remaster | The Talos Principle: Reawakened is coming Early 2025 to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social Leader of the @bcgreens.bsky.social ⚡
Authorized by Farrukh Chishtie, financial agent, 1-888-473-3686
linktr.ee/EmilyLowanBCGreens
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Allyson Gray @zophobas.bsky.social 💚 EN/FR translator
💙 Interactive Fiction author
💜 Passionate about art (especially games!), the natural world, and ethics
🎮 https://zophobas-morio.itch.io/ 🤍
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
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.
Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
🇨🇦
Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
The Bog Witch 🇨🇦 @wickedwitchofpnw.bsky.social Consummate eye-roller. Social justice, affordable/accessible housing advocate. Purveyor of snark & sarcasm. Foodie. Hatched in Northern BC, newly minted Okanagan denizen. No tankers. No pipelines. No problems.
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/White House Staff.
Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social Political-economist eyes on more humane economies & how they might just be built.
Writer-at-large @UoE_EFI
#WellbeingEconomy
Allegedly dubious music taste
katherinetrebeck.com
linkedin.com/in/ktrebeck123
Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social Political philosopher and inequality economist. Prof @ Utrecht University | Public values (social justice, democracy, sustainability, quality of life). Fair economies, caring societies. #limitarianism
Jessica Stites Mor @stitesmor.bsky.social Professor of History @ UBC Okanagan / Author of South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left / Visualidades series editor UTP
Trudene @trudene.bsky.social Live in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
retired prof
worked at CBC for 20 years
Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 || Journalism, AI, Tech & innovation 👨💻 || Fellow Digital Democracy Centre 🇩🇰 & Marie Curie Scholar 🇪🇺 || Occasional Photographer || #FirstGen
🌐 https://hannescools.com/
Astri @astrij.bsky.social 
Natasha Skult, PhD @natashaskult.bsky.social Game Developer - Entrepreneur - Academic & Teacher
https://linktr.ee/natashaskult
✨CEO at MiTale
✨Teacher at University of Turku (Finland) and Ashesi Univeristy (Ghana)
✨Chairperson of W Love Games
✨Board member of IGDA and IGDA Foundation
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social Commentary • Satirical Emeritus