Sam Shields @smshieldsy.bsky.social Game Design Research Lead @ IDEO. PhD in procedural game design. Hoping one day to be the frontman of a ska-punk band.
Kenney @kenney.nl โจ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Nataliya Gorbina @nattgoo.bsky.social paddington stan account | writing books & making games
cracks (2024): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216596625
Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk Making game assets, fonts & tutorials. ๐จ๐๏ธ
Creator of Gyro Boss ๐ธ 3-time winner & former host of the GMC Jam.
https://chequered.ink/
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
David Koster @oteresk.bsky.social Hong Kong based Game Dev | Game Producer/Indie Dev
Prev: Ronday, IndieMEGABOOTH, Jim Gray Productions, @plutoniumpowered.bsky.social, @wickedfoxgames.com
http://davidkoster.net
๐บ๐ธ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฒ๐พ๐ฒ๐ด๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ช๐ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ซ๐ท
BRYANTHABOI @bryanthaboi.live ๐พ Boiโs Club Games
๐ https://boisclub.games
๐ฅ Game Dev YouTube
๐ https://youtube.com/@BOISCLUBGAMES
๐ฅ YouTube
๐ https://youtube.com/@bryanthaboi
Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social Out now https://outerloopgames.com/dosa
Director on Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, narrative, art, biz, UI/UX, production. Uplifting marginalized devs.
Dan Olson ๐ Saskatchewan @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Cirthador1453 @cirthador1453.bsky.social Aspiring historian and board game designer with leftist politics and a strong penchant for various nerdy things (fantasy books, history books, sci-fi shows, etc). (he/him, pan)
Free Palestine! Slava Ukraini! Trans Rights! BLM! No AI! Workers Unite! ACAB!
Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social Fantasy webcomics. NSFW
Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com Tech, cats, cat-tech & being catty about tech. Basically I'm a tech writer who also runs a cat rescue. Well, I do have a lot of mice.
Steve โStoveโ Esposito @common-loot.com (He/Him) Creative Computer and Lead Consumer Tech + Computer Writer by trade | Narrative Designer | Bylines: @SeasonedGaming @mmorpgcom @playGLHFgg | email: Sesposito@seasonedgaming.com or Steveesposito@common-loot.com
uncle thor @thor.acegikmo.com ๐ american in stockholm
โค๏ธโ๐ฉน hepatic lipidosis survivor
๐ข yelling enthusiast
๐ฆ deep sea creature
๐ชต tree-like (creaks, likes bright lights)
๐ฃ son of @khyperia.bsky.social & @freya.bsky.social
๐ธ tolerates @toast.acegikmo.com & @salad.acegikmo.com
detective toast @toast.acegikmo.com ๐ conducts investigatinos
โ๏ธโ๐ฅ will lose hinges on occasion
๐ฟ๏ธ part-time squirrel
๐ฅ brother of @salad.acegikmo.com
๐โโฌ friend of uncle @thor.acegikmo.com
๐ son of @freya.bsky.social
salad (the cat) @salad.acegikmo.com ๐ง forms two thoughts per day (at most)
๐ง doorstop
โ๏ธ cloud manager
๐ tunnel expert
๐ฅช brother of @toast.acegikmo.com
๐โโฌ friend of uncle @thor.acegikmo.com (aspirational)
๐ son of @freya.bsky.social
EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social Dad. Making Game Boy games: Roguecraft GB, OutRun GB, Cave Dave, Hero GP, Starseed, Block Droppin, Word Forward + more.
I will pet your dog!
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UKโs national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Ailea Merriam-Pigg @ailea.bsky.social The greeneyedtrombonist (she/they)
PhD in Communication Arts
Research themes: Game/Play Studies, digital studies, disability, marginalized identity, rhetoric, communication
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social โจRetired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
โจTenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
โจResearcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
โจPhD U of Toronto iSchool
โจ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Joshua Foust ๐ช๐ฎ @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily ๐ณ๏ธโ๐.
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
๐งต: sushilovinfun
๐: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
๐ฆ: maxwellfoxman
Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social Prof at Syracuse U's iSchool. Robots, social AI, videogames, dogs, wine, travel ...
Team Rieger LMU @teamrieger.bsky.social Department of Media and Communication @ifkw.bsky.social LMU_Muenchen
Media Psychology | Extremism | (Online) Radicalization | Entertainment
Jimmy Ivory @jivory.bsky.social Professor of Technical and Scientific Communication, Virginia Tech.
Nancy Jennings @nancyjennings.bsky.social Professor, University of Cincinnati
Director, Children's Education and Entertainment Research (CHEER) Lab
william partin @partin.bsky.social phd | policy @youtube | esports grouch. all opinions my own!
Felix Reer @ree-flx.bsky.social Researcher at University of Muenster
Chair of the ECREA Digital Games Research Section
Communication Science, Media Psychology, Online Communication, Virtual Reality, Digital Games
ICAGames.bsky.social @icagames.bsky.social Official account of the International Communication Association's Game Studies Division. #videogames #avatars #VR #boardgames
https://icagames.org/
DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the Media Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society (@dgps.bsky.social).
Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social "Scarlet & Gray" Associate Professor in the School of Communication at OSU. I study narratives, characters, and moral judgment processes as they relate to the consumption of media. My opinions are my own.
Professor Steve @profsteve.bsky.social PhD Rhetoric and Politics, Professor, Writer, Gamer. Interested in institutional speech, political campaigns, and how idiosyncratic choices inform our future. Lifelong fan of the power to do things with words.
Ulrike Schwertberger @uschwertberger.bsky.social ๐Communication scientist at Team Rieger
๐LMU Munich
Researching demanding media use | media multitasking | entertainment | online radicalization.
Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist |Professor at Ohio State
Rowan Daneels @rowandaneels.bsky.social PhD in Communication Studies
Affiliated researcher @UAntwerp
Studying eudaimonia, games and more
DiGRA Belgium board member
gamevironments @gamevironments.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal on games/gaming related to culture and society*
Official journal of IASGAR
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments
Markus Appel @markusappel.bsky.social Psychology of Communication, Media Psychology, Professor at the University of Wรผrzburg, Germany. Father and former table tennis player.
Joshua Baldwin Ph.D. @baldwin-j-a.bsky.social Assistant Professor - Division of Emerging Media Studies / Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & PR, Boston University
Positive Media Psychology, Entertainment Processing & Effect, Media & Morality, AI & Machine Learning, Experiments
Renske van Enschot ๐ฅ @renskevanenschot.bsky.social Assistant prof digital strategic storytelling - interactive narratives - narrative interventions - narrative persuasion - visual metaphor - text analysis - @tilburg-university.bsky.social ๐ณ๐ฑ | r.vanenschot@tilburguniversity.edu | she/her
Brendan Rooney @brenrooney.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. @ UCD Psychology Dublin
Director of Media Entertainment Psychology Lab
Research: entertainment ~ executive function ~ social cognition ~ emotion
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
Jordan King @jordanking.bsky.social PhD candidate at Bournemouth University in the psychology department.
Video games, nostalgia, and well-being.
He/Him
Erika Solis, PhD (they/them) @erikasolis.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Alfred State College | PhD @ Penn State
erikasolis.com
Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam (๐ณ๐ฑ) researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods
๐ฅ๏ธ https://dougaparry.com
๐ฟ๐ฆ From South Africa
@crestsaga.bsky.social @crestsaga.bsky.social 
Daniel Possler @dpossler.bsky.social Postdoc at Department of Journalism & Communication Research @hmtmh.bsky.social // Interested in Digital Media Uses and Effects, esp. Entertainment & Video Games, Environmental Communication & Computational Methods // ECR representative @mepsy.bsky.social
Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social UConn Associate Professor in Communication, mom to 3, martial artist, pet mom to two dogs and a cat! X Files, Outlander, 49ers, SFGiants, WNBA, Lego, ๐ฅ๐ฅ
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
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Ashley Jones @apjones428.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication with an emphasis on digital gaming and feminist theory. Lover of books, cats and dogs, coloring, and sunshine.
Matt Erxleben @matterxleben.bsky.social PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University
Maxime Scholte Albers @maximescholte.bsky.social Teacher at University of Utrecht ||Graduate from Tilburg University || Interested in the affective and relational dynamics between humans and narrative entities ๐๐ฎ
Annie @annieannie.bsky.social Consistently trying to add more letters to my name
Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social Communication science, media psychology, and game studies at the University of Twente. He/him
Elizabeth Newbury @enewb.bsky.social Dogs. Coffee. Games. All views are my own. Engagement=/=endorsement. #seriousgames #esports #edtech #scicomm #womenintech She/her
Valerie Yu @valerieyu.bsky.social I'm a PhD candidate doing game research at NTU Singapore.
These days, I play most ARPGs I can get my paws on.
Also a lifelong suffering Spurs fan (COYS) that can't get enough of astrophotography. 
Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social Aspiring Academic || Eternal Idiot
Lecturer - Gaming and Society @ UNSW
PhD @ University of Sydney
Bad puns and worse jokes
Mostly Lurking
He/Him
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism i just can't anymore
Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD ๐ @nicolafh.bsky.social She/her. Cyberpsychology at IADT. Researches online communication & dating
Hosts a cyberpsychology podcast - โIn Bitsโ with @drliam.bsky.social
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R1n04owVEAH4k8OaajcyZ?si=evh1YzIJSX6XhNubur-A8A
Www.nicolafoxhamilton.com
Bob De Schutter @bobdeschutter.be Professor at Northeastern University โข award-winning indie game dev โข PhD in game design, aging, motivation & learning โข helps game devs to be mindful of older players
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Arienne Ferchaud @aferchaud.bsky.social Associate Professor. Craft queen. Owner of 2 felonious felines. Writer of fine fantasy works.
Shane Tilton, Ph.D. @silnan.bsky.social Former Irene Casteel Endowed Chair at Ohio Northern University
Studies journalism, memes, and gaming
Parliamentarian-at-large
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social ๐ Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
๐ Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
๐ https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Frรฉdรฉric Tordo, PhD @frederictordo.bsky.social As a clinical psychologist (PhD) and researcher (Paris, France), I explore human-technology interactions, cyberpsychology and contemporary psychopathology. Author of "Le Moi-Cyborg" (The Cyborg-Self), I am a speaker on mental health in the digital age.
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social biocultural, cognitive, & psychological anthropology; ethnographic methods, qual-quant, causality; ritual & play, affect & emotion
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion & Video Games
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-avatar-faculty/paper
Kevin Koban @kevinkoban.bsky.social Postdoc @adme-uvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at researching digital well-being | digital hate | social machines
Posting professionally about academia, media psych, & comm science, less seriously about various things considered niche
Gregor Samosa @watwa.re putting the yikes in Dijkstra
Building: floma.io & mietencheck.de
Before: MDN & commonvoice.mozilla.org
Blog: https://watwa.re
I'm on Germ DM ๐
https://ger.mx/A7-MU0u2kNOoKLoRUO1PH_m7V0EVTamQmquKWtsrlh7W#did:plc:c764uyv2vgzswy5gpc4jgknf
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
๐@jack@jackrusher.com
๐ฆ@jackrusher
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
๐ London
๐ฑ maggieappleton.com
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingertips
and turn my flittery feelings into multimedia.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion ฮ masto
@inkandswitch.com ฮ research
feelingof.com ฮ podcast
ivy.boo ฮ myself
she / hrt ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
ab ๐จ๐ฆ
Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name Programmer building programs that are useful, easy to install, easy to run, easy to modify, easy to share. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social Dissident computer scientist 
Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org ๐ง๐ฝโ๐ป Co-founder of Gloodata & Instadeq
๐ Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com/
๐ฐ Feeling of Computing Newsletter: https://newsletter.futureofcoding.org/join/
๐ Public Projects: https://marianoguerra.github.io/
Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com Programmer & researcher, co-creator of https://ohmjs.org. ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ช๐บ
Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com โ learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.
Prev: CDG/HARC, Google, BumpTop
Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social Compiler engineer and co-host of the feeling of computing podcast
https://jimmyhmiller.com
https://feelingof.com/episodes/
andrew blinn @disconcision.com https://andrewblinn.com
abstractJuiceFactory
Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com CEO feenk.com
We modernize legacy systems.
Through Moldable Development.
Stefan Lesser @stefanlesser.bsky.social stefanlesser.substack.com
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics
He/Him
Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social https://forresto.com/ (projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com 
J. Ryan Stinnett @jryans.bsky.social Exploring how to make programs more malleable and computing more humane | My communities: Malleable Systems, Matrix, Mozilla | He/him
Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social In(ter)dependant researcher and toolmaker. Currently inventing programmable ink @inkandswitch.com
Living in Paris
http://wolkenmachine.nl
Philippa Markovics @unkai.bsky.social work: clerk.vision
site: trimmings.wtf
trace: the final frontier
tent: poled 
Szymon Kaliski @szymonkaliski.com independent consultant, designing and developing computational interfaces; currently prototyping at Google Research and Google Creative Lab
https://szymonkaliski.com
Martin Kavalar @mkvlr.bsky.social Making science reproducible
@usenextjournal, starting over with https://clerk.vision. Dealing cards
@sauspiel + @boldpoker. he/him
Mary Rose Cook @maryrosecook.bsky.social Staff-level engineer at Notion. Previously at the Recurse Center, Airtable and Ableton.
Paul Biggar ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ช @paulbiggar.com Founder Tech For Palestine, Darklang, and CircleCI. Currently running Tech for Palestine https://techforpalestine.org
๐ฎ @chrisshank.com seeding discontent in present-day computing and radical patience in how we reimagining it
libcomp.org โข @folkjs.org
foraging the web: https://semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com