Uehiro Oxford Institute @uehiro.ox.ac.uk Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford. Facilitating ethical progress through research, teaching, and real-world application.
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Géraud Zucchini - SOL CESTO 🌞 @docgeraud.bsky.social I make games!
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Done work on: Sable, GoNNER, Dome Keeper, neverway , Tiny Glade, Townscaper, Manifold Garden
11 bit studios @11bitstudios.bsky.social A video games company devoted to creating and publishing meaningful games. Join our discord! http://discord.gg/11bitstudios
Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social moreblueberries | Award-Winning Game Designer | Artist | Co-Founder & Executive Producer at Many Sided Media | He/Him
sadvampiregame.com
hornywizards.com
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jess @jjerion.bsky.social writer, narrative designer, game developer, professor, etc.
currently @ UAlbany & Red Thread Games, formerly @ Hampshire College, Studio Chyr, NYU Game Center, Harvard University Press
Ben Davies-Romano @bendaviesromano.bsky.social UX, Product, AI 🪐 Currently a Group AI Content Design Lead in FinTech. Opinions are my own and questionable.
Found in central London, wearing velvet clothing, and spilling coffee everywhere. 🏳️🌈 and 😴
#contentdesign #productmanagement #ux #tech
Mars Buttfield-Addison @themartianlife.com Academic in radio telescope instrumentation by day, game dev tools + scicomm by night
📍 lutruwita/Tasmania
💚 Skeets as @yarnspinner.dev
Find me at https://themartianlife.com
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Alex Flint @alexlflint.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher @ IGGI PhD | Narrative playtesting & democratisation of #GamesUR • Prev Research Operations @ PlaytestCloud
Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social "Where no crawly is creepy"
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Anna Megill @annamegill.com Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
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Fox Hollow Games @foxhollowgames.bsky.social Helping people find roles in the video games industry.
UX Designer, Gameplay Designer, Content Creator, Prototyper
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Noor Amin @noorjamin.bsky.social game design @ riot games
Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com UI/UX Director at Respawn (prev Star Wars: Zero Company, Jedi: Survivor), award-nominated, GDC speaker, custom LEGO designer, black cat guardian, they/them
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Alex Trowbridge @falextrowbridge.bsky.social Dad, and Senior User Experience Research Lead at Epic Games, he / him
Geo @georgethlyver.bsky.social she/her • UX Designer @ Epic Games 🎮
Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social Ope. Peabody and BAFTA awarding winning writer. Currently a Senior Writer @ Compulsion Games | Subnautica | Naughty Dog |Yet another social media platform.
Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social
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Maker & Distributor of Fine Games
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Pat @ur-pat.bsky.social "It is not sufficient to see and know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it." - Voltaire
❤️🐈🎮📖🎨❤️ | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | 🇵🇭 | 25+
Games User Research at Activision | Call of Duty & Crash Bandicoot | Opinions are My Own
Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social Musings about Design & Product. Currently at Zillow, Design Tech & AI.
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Into Games @intogames.bsky.social We are a UK charity that helps people get the skills and support they need for a career in game development, particularly if they are from a working-class or under-resourced background. Find us here: https://intogames.org/
Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social UX Lead @ Rift | ⏳Prev: The Outsiders, Funcom, EA, King
Time Person of the Year 2006 | Keynote Speaker | IGDA Next Gen Leader | Eyeroller in Chief | 🌍TCK 🧠ADHD 🩻EDS 🌈bi 🤘metalhead 🤓LoL dork 🔪Feminazgûl
Views are mine & you can't have them
she/her
Nida✨ @nidaahmad.bsky.social Game UX ✧ Founding Team @POCinPlay ✧ @LBMentorship Committee ✧ @MCV_DEVELOP 30 under 30 ✧ @GIBiz Game Changer ✧ @BAFTA Connect ✧
StefanieGD @spac3gh0s7.bsky.social lead ux game designer @ Fortnite✨| co-facilitator @ Hitchin’ Bitches Mtl🪢 | she/they | opinions are my own | 🇮🇷🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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Stacey Jenkins @hereliesstacey.bsky.social 🎮♿ Senior Accessibility Design Specialist @ Ubisoft • #TGA Future Class '22 • Retired Twitch Partner • Disabled • Queer • Spooky Goblin • they/them
Erik Ortman @erikortman.com Game UX Director @ GOALS. Ex. Fall Damage, EA DICE. Travels far for food
Julie but Summer Ready 🌅 @sparklyjulie.bsky.social UX Director @ Escape Velocity Entertainment • Prev Bungie, Riot, Epic • Mom friend + mom • Swears a lot but cares a lot • She/her
Vivianette Ocasio @vocasiod.bsky.social Twitter Refugee • Staff UX Designer on Marathon at Bungie • Prev at Riot Games & Phoenix Labs • She/her • 🇵🇷 • 💍 @thelegendlarry.bsky.social
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Player Research @playerresearch.bsky.social Video game research ◐ Enabling game developers to gain meaningful insights from real players ◌ A Keywords Studio • #GamesUR #UX ◍ Signup to try new games!
Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social UX Researcher & Strategist, Inclusive Designer in Enterprise UX. Speaker, Author, Mentor & Teacher.
Chaotic neutral tea & CSS lover.
Complaining = being alive.
She/Her 🌈
https://stephaniewalter.design/
http://neurospicy.agency/
Cait Goodale ✧ @caitgoodale.bsky.social principal UX designer ✦ Glowmade & Mythmatch & other secrets prev: DREST, King, Memrise, Minecraft ✧ printmaker and creative dilettante
🏴 in LDN ✦ she/her
📬 designcaitlin.substack.com
Seb Long @seb-long.bsky.social MD at Player Research. Inspiring creatives and empowering gamedev leaders with research that makes great games.
BAFTA. IGDA. A11y.
James Berg @jamesbergcanada.bsky.social Gamedev - Research & Accessibility
(Prev. Research @EA, Accessibility @EA/Xbox)
Disabled (ADHD, Autistic, TBI, Aphasia, etc)
He/Him
Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social Accessibility specialist, helping studios avoid excluding disabled players. DMs are open, if you prefer email i_h@hotmail.com
Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social Speaker. Storyteller. Director @MountSinaiNYC, Philosopher. Writer. Aspiring Iron Man. Guy trying to make the world better. Views my own.
Steph Chow @stephchow.bsky.social ✨Exploring all these new spaces and places, and unsure what to do here!✨
Founder of XAMA: Game & Gamification UX Consulting • Previously Supercell & Disney Games | She/her
Andrew Rennie 🏳️🌈 @nerdy4tw.bsky.social Senior UI/UX Designer at Respawn - Star Wars Jedi Team • Accessibility Advocate • Co-Founder @wecanfixitinui.com • Scottish • My Opinions • He/Him
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Currently studying video game crimes for a PhD at City University of Hong Kong
JewelsVerne 🏳️🌈 @jewelsverne.bsky.social Email: jewelsvernetv@gmail.com. Psychology PhD. Sr User Researcher. Previously Gearbox. LG(B)TQ+ 🦢
Becky Hofstein Grady @bofstein.bsky.social Product Manager for the DMP Tool. Formerly UXR and PM in games industry. PhD in social psychology from UCI.
Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net Kiwi, Dad, Human Factors Psychology PhD, & Games User Experience Research.
Director of Intended Experience: https://intendedexperience.nz/
Formerly Epic Games, Player Research, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Te Manatū Waka, & Hamilton Zoo.
Mila Pavlin - Accessibility Game Dev @missfire.bsky.social Director, UX Design at Wizards of the Coast #WotCStaff. Previous:Zenimax Online Studios - Design Director UX, and accessibility for Monolith Productions on Wonder Woman - UX Lead, God of War Ragnarok. Opinions expressed are my own.
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing
Andrew James @axxxj.bsky.social Associate UX Director @Rareltd, formerly @NosyCrow. Child Herder of 4! Trying to Follow. Never Knowingly Turned Down a Cup of Tea...
Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners.
I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA.
I post insights about the video games industry, as well as thoughts on tech, politics, history, science and public transit.
Nat 🃏 @ngedeon.bsky.social Researcher, game developer, magician. | Opinions are my own | ENG/한국어/日本語 🆗 | @nogamesforgenocide.com | linktr.ee/ngedeon
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Dachshund Maven. Bearded Lady. Retired Cowgirl.
she/her
UX, UI, IA, && Accessibility for the games you like. Enforcer at PAX.
Seattle — Duwamish Territory
joeycarpenter.design
Simon Brewer (bunnybb) @bunnyballball.bsky.social Principal UI/UX Designer at Supermassive Games
@supermassivegames.bsky.social
Author: The Pocket Mentor for Video Game UX UI
https://tinyurl.com/pocketmentoruxui
https://www.artstation.com/bunnyballball
#GameAccessibility / #GameA11y / #UIUX / #GameDev
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
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Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
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Raymond Dosono @rjdos1.bsky.social User Researcher formerly Gearbox and Epic Games.
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 🩷💜💙
Lissanna @lissanna.bsky.social Elisabeth Whyte, PhD. Senior User Researcher. Opinions are mine and don't reflect my employer.
Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social Games Research @ 2K | Making games since 2008 | Amazon, Bethesda, and Volition alum | Midwest is Best | Opinions expressed are my own | She/Her
Steve Bromley @stevebromley.bsky.social 🎮 games user researcher, author of books about user research | led playtests for some games you’ve heard of, many you haven’t. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
@boristhebrave.bsky.social @boristhebrave.bsky.social Hobbyist procedural generation guy
Made Tessera, a Unity plugin for #wavefunctioncollapse
https://discord.gg/Enzu2rrJFD
http://www.boristhebrave.com
Tyler LaGrange @buzzjive.bsky.social Tech Director at Studio Chyr. Made Manifold Garden with a VR title next. Wrangling 8 chickens, 6ish cats and a couple kids in Central Vermont. Love electronica, burritos and progressive politics. He/Him.
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
GamifEYE @gamifeye.bsky.social We’ve turned the world into an incentivized game-board! Visit https://gamifeye.com to learn more!
Dr. J (not that one) @biggray.bsky.social East Alabama, born and raised.
Opinions my own.
Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, enjoyer of things. Always learning.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. In the midst of job search. carolinerpitt.phd
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social They used to call me The Drift King back in college.
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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 |
Afriel 🧡 @afriel.bsky.social ✨ orangeyart ✨
Hi I am a freelancer artist 🧡✨
I like to draw and meet new people
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Geoffrey Ernault @exphrasis.bsky.social Founder & Creative Director at Black Rust llc
Currently working on "Tides of Tethys", wishlist now on Steam!
Sr. concept artist and game dev.
Professional croissant eater.
Worked for Riot, Guerilla Games, airship syndicate etc.
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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net Interested in bounded rationality, trust, discrimination, fair compensation, labor economics, quantitative methods, dataviz, rstats, open source
1stgen Professor of Economics (2005-2022)
Senior Economist at the Stepstone Group
https://economicscience.net
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press Creator of the ENNIE-nominated Exclusion Zone Botanist. Writer at Skeleton Code Machine: https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com 💀 #MÖRKTOBER
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Ava Liao @4va.bsky.social ux designer @ playstation; BAFTA member; enthusiast
avaliao.com
Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com Freelance Tool Design Director, Workflow Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/
Previously Hytale, Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC.
I get really excited about workflows!
Celia Hodent @celiahodent.com Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science • Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi • Phd psych • She/Her 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
celiahodent.com
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