CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social Writer, game designer, welsh, queer
they/them
https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/
Mai Linh Au 🌼 @aumaiiee.bsky.social she/her📍Birmingham, UK
Stylised 3D Environment Artist ᯽ 3D Games Art & Design graduate
Stanwixbuster @stanwixbuster.co.uk Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Award-winning narrative game dev
NWCDTP-funded PhD on non-commercial game communities + sustainability, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games
https://stanwixbuster.co.uk/
Lithuasil @ohthehumanities.bsky.social Novelist, narrative designer, scholar. Forever queer.
She/Her.
I make TTRPGs: https://lithuasil.itch.io
I write novels: https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/246889/lithuasil/
You can support me!: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Lithuasil
Elina Roinioti @elroin.bsky.social Game Scholar, narrative designer, consultant.
Assistant Professor at University of Peloponnese | Games Outreach for Kickstarter |Vice President of DiGRA.
Kübra @mostlyindie.com Games/media/American Studies scholar, lecturer @uni-freiburg.de. PhD on books in games. Currently studying video game remakes, reboots, and adaptations.
Read my blog (new posts approx. every two years): https://mostlyindie.com/
Usva Friman @usvaf.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow & Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Tampere University (Finland). She/her or they/them.
Akatemiatutkija ja pelitutkimuksen apulaisprofessori Tampereen yliopistossa.
Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social Opinion haver. Writer. Filmmaker. Video Essayist. Among other things. Not a geologist.
Cultural Studies • Class Theory • Genre Theory • Fantasy and Sci-Fi • Practice-Based Research
https://linktr.ee/jdhdoveton
http://jdhdoveton.wordpress.com
She/her
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
J.S. Carre @reluctantpixel.bsky.social Once upon a time J.S. won 3rd place for an essay on the importance of algebra. He hasn't used algebra since.
wannabee artist
My pet bot: @ggj-games.bsky.social
TTRPG Stuff: @goblingoulash.bsky.social
https://goblingoulash.itch.io/
Mauro Colarieti (he/him) @maurocolarieti.bsky.social 28 yo queer crossover writer somewhere in northern Italy.
tw: glorifying fat bodies; tumblr era; obscure pop culture references; bad sex; gory stuff; dad jokes; rage against men.
Jailyn (they/them) @jailynz.bsky.social Part-Time Clown Full-Time PhD Researcher
Studying Queer People and Games
Aasa T 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @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 🏳️⚧️ 34
https://medium.com/@warhammerscholar
Profile pic: teafordragon
Dr Ian Sturrock @sturrock.bsky.social Researcher into game studies, game histories, motivation for play, ethics of game design, creativity and world-building. Capoeirista, HEMA practitioner, larper, TTRPG designer/publisher. HE teacher and UCU activist but my views represent only me.
Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
Charlie Hargood @drchargood.bsky.social Associate Professor in Games Technology
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
Dr Charlotte Gislam @cgislam.bsky.social Researcher for GAMEHEARTS at The University of Salford. Book lover, knitter, terrible Magic: the Gathering player. (She/her)
Agata Waszkiewicz @agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social Game scholar, therapist in training, mental health advocate. Makes art on the side.
Bart Simon @bartsimon.bsky.social Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Ian Larson, PhD @socialvideogame.bsky.social PhD in Informatics @ UC Irvine. Lecturer in Game Studies and Sociology. Researching video games, social dynamics, video game history, and other nonsense. I post mostly retrogaming junk.
Jef Bryan @jsbryan1.bsky.social Digital Arts and Media Studies Teacher, Games Researcher, Play Theorist, and Karaoke Enthusiast.
Adjunct Professor @ USC & Saddleback
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
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
MultiPlay Network @multiplaynetwork.bsky.social A multidisciplinary network supporting research in video games and digital play.
https://multiplaynetwork.org/
https://discord.gg/YaXkTxHj
Nele Van de Mosselaer @nelevdm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Tilburg University • working on (interactive) fiction, imagination, and virtual reality
Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social 🔬 Games User Researcher, Blizzard
🎓 PhD human factors psych
🐝 Previous Amazon Games, Georgia Tech Research Scientist
👾 #GUR #HCI
🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list"
💬 my own thoughts/opinions
🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
Mick Cook @mickcook.bsky.social Australian digital producer, #writer and PhD Candidate #GameDesign. Producer and host of The Dead Prussian #podcast, producer of Generals podcast.
All My Links: https://linktr.ee/MickCook
Baha Tan Oral @bahatan.bsky.social Game Studies - Researcher
Cinematic & Game Designer
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3707150/
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3668110/
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3866230/
Website: https://www.bahatanoral.com
Tomasz Z. Majkowski @tzmajkowski.bsky.social Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Daniel Muriel @danimuriel.bsky.social Sociologist, PhD. Lecturer and Researcher at the University of the Basque Country
Jeffrey @geoffwhill.bsky.social Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
Andrew Bell @andrewbell.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Midlands4Cities PhD Candidate at BCU. Studying queer game-making via playable monsters 🧟🧛🏻♂️🐺
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Dan Gardner @dangphd.bsky.social Lecturer at Robert Gordon Uni. I study inequitable interactions, interfaces, and infrastructures, often through co-design. "Boring Things" scholar. My book, Thresholds of Digital Gameplay, open access @ MIT Press. See more at my https://dang.page
Andra 🔜Develop Conference @andradroid.bsky.social 
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
BCMCR Events @bcmcr.bsky.social We are the team behind the events at the Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research at Birmingham City University.
Daniel Livingstone @d-livingstone.bsky.social games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.
Sébastien Savard @savord.bsky.social Professeur invité en design de jeux - UQAT MTL
🦕🏵️Mary Anne @laargonauta.bsky.social Español ll English
🔸Ella/She
📌Chile
🎓Antropóloga Sociocultural /Anthropologist
🎮Phd student BCU
🦖Investigo #TRPG en Chile, #GameStudies y Patrimonio Cultural
🤖 Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital
👾Consedcity
maryanneargochavez.wordpress.com
Toto @profetoto.bsky.social Tabaxi Wizard (Divination school) lvl 34.
PhD in Sociology student. Lecturer at Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Chile.
Game Studies/Estudios Lúdicos | CTS/STS | Psychology | Gamer/Ñoña
ProfNoctis @profnoctis.bsky.social I teach and play video games. I do both at the University of Alabama. | YOUTUBE | TWITCH | PROFESSOR
www.profnoctis.com
Business Inquiries: wade@profnoctis.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/profnoctis
Bettina Bódi🌿🎮 @bettibo.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK
✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature
🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu
🌐 https://cozymedia.net/
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: https://www.um.edu.mt/digitalgames/ | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
River Vondi @rivondi.bsky.social they/them
Game Design student at Lindenwood University
previously worked on Transmogrify
James Manning @jimaroonie.bsky.social Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Co-Chair, Freeplay.net.au. Board member, DiGRAA. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.
Harri Charles @harriresearches.bsky.social He/Him | 🏳️🌈 | Gaymer nerd.
Now a Doctor. Thesis funded by Midlands4Cities. Works at BCU.
Studies (gay) sex in video games, literally.
harricharles.wordpress.com
Dr.(?!) Timothy "Don't Stop Masking" Smith @timothyjwsmith.bsky.social Currently: Appalachian State
Recently: PhD at UNC-CH
Researching: Japanese religions, history, NRMs, games, memes.
He/him but gendermeh. Queer nerdy anarchist.
"Professionalism" is a scam, embrace absurdity. Opinions are my own, blah blah
Jurate @raguocius.bsky.social Game designer from Lithuania
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Kati Alha @katialha.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
@inmapm.bsky.social @inmapm.bsky.social PhD researcher (Universidad de Murcia) Sci-Fi & New Media 🤖🧟👽👾🌲💃🧗⛰️
HSD_SK_Games @hsd-sk-games.bsky.social TBD
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Patrick Davis @patdavis.games Pin Puck is out now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1375860/Pin_Puck/
#gamdev #indiedev #steam
GeeZus 🎮 @geezusgg.xyz Gaming news through the lens of where we came from. I connect today's headlines to the gaming we grew up with — so nothing gets lost. 🕹️ Then ➜ 🎮 Now
🎬 youtube.com/@GeeZusGG
ENG/SPA | Opinions are 100% mine
kasu @kasukp.bsky.social 
pinheiro @mbp1225.bsky.social Multitasker Gamedev
Senior Tech Artist na Dumativa trabalhando no Ordem Paranormal: Enigma do Medo
https://www.artstation.com/mbp1225
Andrew Kemp-Wilcox @akemp-wilcox.bsky.social PhD in killing time. Narrative design, game design, game communities. I probably loved your favorite movie.
THitup Gaming @thitupgaming.bsky.social Irish Creators looking to make you giggle at least once (We'll take a chuckle if need be).
We also deliver news regarding the THitup Championship.
https://thitupgaming.bio.link/
Sydney @kitsune.garden Lover of foxes.
TTRPG nerd, to the point I do infrastructure work in the TTRPG industry.
Look, my interests are all over the place, I just do whatever strikes me. Sometimes that's creative.
Mego Tan @tannal.github.io 💻 Programming 💿 Free software 🎹Music
RATØ | Game Dev | Dungeon Rat @ratonline.bsky.social 🕹 Artisan of games | Making games using #GameMaker and #Aseprite on a #SteamDeck.
Posts in English and Brasilian.
I see the world thru RAT EYES.
Oscar Villalobos @ovillalobos.es Co-founder & 3D Artist at Dust Games
Currently working on 🎈Roombattle🎈
Roombattle is OUT NOW🎈 @dustgames.es 🎮 Game Creators obsessed with vacuum cleaners
🔪 🎈 Working on our crazy party game #Roombattle
Contact us: hello@dustgames.es
linktr.ee/dustgames
LittleFryHouse @littlefryhouse.com 1/3rd of the Scream Signal podcast, video games and horror movies, table top RPGs. He/Him
Cloudy Boxscape @cloudyboxscape.bsky.social 3D Artist ⌨️ Game developer 💻 Gamer 🖱️ Streamer 🖥️
Ruca Souza @rucasouza.bsky.social Redatora publicitária. Vocalista e guitarrista. Gamer colecionadora de portáteis. ✏️🎮🎸
Francesco Berton @fberton.bsky.social He/Him 🎲 Game Designer 🧑🏫 Teacher 🌊Game Director for @safeplacestudio.bsky.social of Venice 2089🌈 Queer 🇮🇹 Italian 🧭Explorer
https://francescoberton.carrd.co/ 
@clairepaulson.bsky.social @clairepaulson.bsky.social 
Ursa Doom Art 🏳️🌈 @ursadoomart.bsky.social I'm a fantasy/horror artist from Sweden. I enjoy mythology and folklore as inspiration for a lot of my art. I mainly like do water color/ink paintings.
AuDHD
They/them.
https://cara.app/ursadoom
Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social ESO NM8R
Antifascist | Econo-class iconoclast
“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
Davit Masia - GameDev & PixelArt @davitmasia.bsky.social ℹ️ PixelArt & Gamedev / Indiedev account
⚙️ Engines :: Construct 3 & Unreal Engine 5
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📦 GameDev Bundle :: https://itch.io/s/86346/
🖼️ 8bit conversion tool :: http://kronbits.itch.io/pixatool
🕹️ Unreal Racing :: http://kronbits.itch.io/unreal-racing
Language at Play @languageatplay.de #GameStudies durch die Linse der Sprach-, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften. Since 2017. #ludolinguistics
https://languageatplay.de/
GER and ENG articles.
Gründer: @indieflock.bsky.social
Yisong Han @yisonghan.bsky.social 🎓 PhD / 📚 Postdoctoral Fellow / 🏫 City University of Hong Kong / 🎮 Game & Gender Studies / 🐈 Tammy & Marty / 📖 Student Officer of DiGRA
Eric M. Dillon @ericmdillon.com Graduate Teaching Assistant, MA in English, Marshall University
MPhil in Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge
Juan F. Belmonte Ávila @juanbeaumont.bsky.social Cultural, Queer & Game Studies. PhD. Associate Professor (Prof. Contratado Doctor).
Webpage: https://t.co/CecoZJEsAZ
Recent publications: https://shorturl.at/TKFAB ; https://shorturl.at/Gqj6i ; https://shorturl.at/laRGx ; https://shorturl.at/ZGrl9
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Patrick Fiorilli @patfio.bsky.social writer, critic, & theorist; games & literature; bylines in the LA Review of Books, Gamers with Glasses, Bright Wall/Dark Room; he/him; read my newsletter, "Critical Theorycraft," at www.patf.io
Ingrid Mendes @ingrid-kiki.bsky.social PhD Student, Msc Computer Applied, BCS (Tech MacGyverism in Amazon), Absolute nerd, Game Developer and QA CTFL 4.0 / ISTQB || Ela / She / Her || 🇧🇷+🇺🇸 talks
https://bento.me/ingridmendes
Gustavo Duarte @duartegfd.bsky.social "Sapere aude!"
Lume @luizameira.bsky.social Gestora cultural (IFSul), jornalista (PUCRS), comunicadora violenta, guerreira mágica cansada e futura hokage. Queria ser legal, mas sinto raiva o tempo todo e não tenho repertório ♿ 日本人学生
http://linktr.ee/luizameira
Stasi DeMaio @thelalilulelo.bsky.social Archaeologist. Museum writer. Union. My opinions are my own and don't represent any employer.
PatTheElder @patmanforever51.bsky.social twitch.tv/pattheelder
Jak Frost @jakfrostastuto.bsky.social 
JoojMan @joojman.bsky.social Engenheiro da Computação e Corinthiano que faz lives e vídeos as vezes. Gosto de jogos retro e indies, com foco em platformers, rpgs e jogos de luta!
https://joojman.neocities.org/
https://youtube.com/@joojmanstreams
https://www.twitch.tv/joojmanstreams
Niema Moshiri @niema.net Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, consulting for PlayStation and Blizzard, Bioinformatician by training, SD-raised. https://niema.net
O Colírio do Corman Me Deixou Doido Demais 🇧🇷 @ofelipelee.bsky.social Ludophile, neoluddite, japanese learner, animal lover, chef&mixologist wannabe, government employee and beach tennis amateur athlete and instructor. Former lawyer and former game journalist for O Povo Online.
Cronista formalmente informal.
🍄 Will 🦇 @poptire.itch.io I'll make you an art or two.
Small time game dev, pixel artists, writer for Pixel Dive, AV systems engineer by day. Opinions are my own.
J. @orthopraxy.bsky.social Dyslexic educator, hiker, and TTRPG writer.
Deputy Editor at Sprigs and Kindling.
Blogs at https://orthopraxy.bearblog.dev/
Check out my modules 'Raven's Loft', 'The Yaksha's Sigil', 'Thrown Voices', and 'For Every Flower, A Garden'
DRobson @drobson.bsky.social An academic librarian who manages a game collection and spaces that support scholarship and recreation at an academic university. 
Caio Martins @caio-m.bsky.social Fugindo do twitter.... e futuramente serei um psicólogo
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)