Pritika 💖 @pritikasachdev.bsky.social Social Producer, Community Manager, all things online ✨ works with @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social ☕️ 1/5 of @frostygamesfest.com ❄️
Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social Historian.
Ghost stories as historical method.
Public history theorist in the streets, archive critic in the sheets.
Expert at petting cats and responding to bruh.
Sometimes funny.
Noble Steed Games @noblesteedau.bsky.social Your game's best friend.
✨Indie game studio & consultancy in Sydney
✨Website: https://noblesteedgames.com/
✨Our Discord: http://discord.gg/Ka8suskKcs
Trans Gamer Prof. 🏳️⚧️ @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.
dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social video game screenshots //
dvlsblsh.com //
patreon.com/dvlsblsh //
James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social Dread Delusion etc
he / him
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Kinda Funny @kindafunnyvids.bsky.social Best friends talking video games and more on YouTube, Twitch, and Patreon. We're supported by the best community on the Internet!
Epic Creator Code: KindaFunny
Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT NOW!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com Creators of narrative-led, character-driven games. Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. 🎶 MALYS OUT NOW!🕯️
http://bit.ly/playmalys 🕯️
http://bit.ly/getstraygods 🎮
Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Julek ploski @julekploski.bsky.social Make music : https://julekploski.bandcamp.com/
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
Intarsia Interactive @intarsia.studio Handcrafting weird little games with weird little guys
https://intarsia.studio/
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Tom Byers @tom-byers.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Assistant @UniMelb
Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com not a spy.
investigative journalist.
President, SJAA.
Co-founder, CONTINUE magazine
i write about people, science, integrity, dodgy stuff, video games, art
newsletter: nobreakthroughs.com
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | Hugo, BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
Unwinnable @unwinnable.com A place for stories | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1VQ9omB | Pitch: http://bit.ly/3oBCo5z
Pierre-Yves Hurel @pyhurel.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
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).
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
ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social 🪷just here for attention🪷 making games.
RMIT Games @rmitgames.bsky.social News from RMIT's Bachelor of Design Games program from students, instructors, and researchers.
🧚♂️🧩🎲🎨
📍 Melbourne, AU
DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social NOT JORDAN, IM STEVE
HE/HIM
CHICAGO
CATHODE RAYS FOR DAYS
geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social Game studio from Louisiana.
https://linktr.ee/geographyofrobots
Jessica Balanzategui @jkbalanzategui.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media and Cinema
@RMIT University
Editor, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures @amsterdamupress
Australian Research Council Industry Fellow
Myka @puzzledpolygon.bsky.social Senior Hard Surface Artist @ Remedygames
Pan, ND - They/Them
GER/ENG/FR
https://justmyka.carrd.co/
I make music:
tobuildtheirbeacons.carrd.co/
northexit.bandcamp.com/music
whitelakemusic.bandcamp.com/
Views and opinions are my own!
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Jade Fae Britzman @jadefae.bsky.social https://jadefae.com
She/They/Fae. QA at a large game studio. I make Video Games, and write about a variety of media. RMIT University class of 2024 Game Design Grad. Melbourne/Naarm.
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.
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Brandon Franklin @sagasstudios.bsky.social Game Designer currently making Canvas, a painting exploration game.
Based in Seattle, Cascadia.
CAT🦈✨ @juiceboxcat.bsky.social Journalist - Game Dev - Currently studying Masters of Media Communications at Deakin!
https://binkycatblog.wordpress.com/
Gianni Di Giovanni @gdig.bsky.social Games journalist and Radio Broadcaster.
Views are my own and not representative of my employer
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Emily Flynn-Jones @finalfinalgirl.bsky.social Award-winning multimedia storyteller. Horror fiend. Feminist killjoy.
Author of IS IT ENOUGH YET?
https://shorturl.at/CIhyD
Creator of CURSES game
https://shorturl.at/8d2r4
Arthritis. ADHD. Anxiety. No DMs
Girl Geek Academy @girlgeekacademy.bsky.social 👩💻🌟 Girl Geek Academy: Achieving gender equality in tech! 🚀 Bringing 1M women & girls into tech careers by 2030 through games, startups, 3D printing & more
www.girlgeekacademy.com
Peak @peakr.bsky.social Born to be a court jester | forced to live as a disgraced wizard | he/him
🐀 Art Director for Ratmouse Games
i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social writer @kotaku.com | the 🏳️🌈 one @normandyfm.bsky.social | he/him | nyc | kshepard@kotaku.com
ears still ringing, arms still swinging
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom, gender studies. Queer (pan/demi), feminist, Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
Emma Whatman @emmawhatman.bsky.social She/Her. Academic @ UniMelb 🫠 I am a feminist media studies researcher who examines postfeminism, young people, & pop culture.
Dr Jennie Gouck @jenniegouck.bsky.social WiRe Fellow at University of Münster 📚 Researches girlhood in American YA 🤓. ChLA Membership Committee 👥. Reviewer for Kids Books Ireland 🇮🇪. She/her.
Corinne Matthews, Ph.D. @corinnekathryn.bsky.social Scholar of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Dr Leah Phillips @lephill.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Programme Lead at @marjonuni. MA Lit for Social and Environmental Justice launching in ‘25 (pending final approvals). Author of Female Heroes in YA Fantasy & Founder of @YAStudiesAssoc. Views my own. Also, I read banned books.📚
Gumbo Collective @gumbonyc.bsky.social 
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/
Sasha Soraine @sashasoraine.bsky.social HCI and Games Researcher. Postdoc @ UniMelb. Software Engineering PhD
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social 🍹 an aperol spritz in human form 🍹
📝 senior reporter @ digiday 📝
📚 The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 📚
(views expressed are mine alone)
Danfriedz - Cyberpunk uber driver feat bees 🐝 @danfriedz.bsky.social Wishlist NEON EXPRESS https://store.steampowered.com/app/2952840/Neon_Express/
https://danfriedz.itch.io
Discord: https://discord.gg/CGER3nDv8e
| He/Him
Joe T @animboy90.bsky.social Principal Animator at Beethoven & Dinosaur - Working on Mixtape
Fenn+Milosoft :: BLM☼🇵🇸 @milosoftfen.bsky.social Fentine : They/Them : 22
[Games as Milosoft] [Music as Earth Treader Fen] [Infinite RNA L○ve W○rlder]
: : : https://heosao.net/
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Morgan, Occasionally 🌙🐀 @volanare.bsky.social Games & Arts Producer. Solium Infernum.
NB. Wurundjeri land. They/them.
https://morganlittle.dev/
Oli Potter @olipotter.bsky.social indev & games at @screentasmania.bsky.social. opinions infrequent but still not reflective of employer. he/him 📼
Bryn Welch @noneforsome.bsky.social I'll give you something for nothing, only I've got none for some
Lead Game Designer @ Thought Farm & Studio Head @ droptable.games. Making Dungeon Breakers
Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social Lecturer in Media at Monash University
Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
Trey Bishop @nightbellows.bsky.social Director, Designer, and Artist
+ Game Director of SCP: 5K at @affray.co
+ Making dinosaurs @chronocat.games
Marc E.G. ★ Loc Madman @mittovac.bsky.social ❍ Game localization mercenary
❍ Director @fromthevoid.net
❍ Chaotic insane
❍ he/him
❍ eybertguillon.tr@gmail.com
Bonicle - WISHLIST DUSTPOCALYPSE @bonicle.bsky.social Naarm/Melbourne based unity generalist/vfx artist | He/Him | 22
WISHLIST DUSTPOCALYPSE ON STEAM -> https://bit.ly/4xhFrTq
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio sunsetvisitor.studio makes diverse narrative games through the lens of speculative fiction.
1000xRESIST | s.team/a/1675830/
Prove You're Human | s.team/a/4533950
DISCORD: discord.gg/sunsetvisitor
Sabby @sabbygallery.bsky.social A place that belongs to everyone, where everyone can belong.
Sabby is gathering place for artists, game makers, crafters and zinesters in Narrm (Melbourne). Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/5uRbFg2QXa
Amanda Schofield @amanda.studiodrydock.com Creative Director @studiodrydock ~ designed Wylde Flowers
Lisa Bode @lisabode.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, UQ. Author of Making Believe: screen performance and special effects in popular cinema (Rutgers UP, 2017). interests: film and technology history; AI aesthetics and culture; silent cinema; animals, food
T-Dog eXtreme @tdogextreme.bsky.social Game dev making a game about clowns, just here to have a good time | Prev. EA and Weta
https://linktr.ee/tdogextreme
Press Start Australia @pressstartau.bsky.social Bringing the best of gaming to Australia! 🎮 https://press-start.com.au/
Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social Journalist/presenter for hire, video game and TTRPG freak, big sandwich day advocate, and general menace.
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Reloader @reloader-au.bsky.social Australia’s newest outlet covering video games, tech, and entertainment
reloader.com.au
Jacob Janerka @jacobjanerka.bsky.social Making comedy adventure game 'The Dungeon Experience' with Bone Assembly
Made the game 'Paradigm'
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Big Walk is out now: bigwalk.game
househouse.com
Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz Dean Walshe:
3D Art lead on Wild Bastards and Void Bastards
Past games I have worked on include Stellar Warsy things and the Borderlands Interquel doodad.
https://deanw.xyz/
(He/Him)
Jeremy Bratetich @jeremy.minimap.com.au Managing Editor of @minimap.com.au He/They
Jeremy@minimap(dot)com(dot)au
Obiwanjezz most other places
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
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.
ICAGames.bsky.social @icagames.bsky.social Official account of the International Communication Association's Game Studies Division. #videogames #avatars #VR #boardgames
https://icagames.org/
Alex @partiallydisassembled.net Programmer @studiodrydock.com, previously EA Melbourne. Also on https://twitter.com/AHolkner
Jack Dunphy @jackdunphy.bsky.social Game Developer/3D Artist 🎮
Working on Catto's Post Office
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2908050/Cattos_Post_Office/
Madeline Hunter (she/her) @madelineandraia.bsky.social Weird geeky broken chick.
Is 37, 🇨🇦, and v socialist + agnostic.
AuDHD, white, she/her, queer AF.
About 50% Angrily Queer Socialist Hissing by volume.
As seen on the Light Blue Hellsite.
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. 🇳🇿 Pākehā, currently based in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
Anders @andersg.bsky.social 🇳🇴in🇦🇺 Award winning audio designer, synthesiser and whiskey person. Delverium, Wild n Chill, TFC2, Cozy Caravan, Memory’s Reach, Windbound, Rohingya Boy
Hummus Boy 🏳️🌈 🤼 🎮 📺 @boymeetshummus.bsky.social 30yo man melbourne - gay nerd - lover of wwe and nxt wrestling, video games, comic books and dogs! Here to make other nerdy pals, especially queer folk :)
Milovan Savic @nav0lim.bsky.social Research Fellow at Social Innovation Research Institute & ADM+S
@Swinburne University. Interested in youth, digital media, social connections, digital inclusion, privacy, AI.