Kenney @kenney.nl โจ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com I make games - co-op games - Left 4 Dead, portal, etc - now The Anacrusis.
Predrag Gruevski @predr.ag Querying (Almost) Everything // Frontier Systems @ OpenAI // Author of cargo-semver-checks & Trustfall // https://predr.ag/blog // ex Kensho // MIT alum // https://hachyderm.io/@predrag // not from around here ๐ฒ๐ฐ // he-him
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Dr. Marc-Andrรฉ Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | ๐จ๐ฆ Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net BLIND GAMER | Creator/Host | Available for Accessibility Consulting | Twitch Ambassador | #AMDAmbassador | Future Class 2020 | Biz: steve@stevesaylor.net
stevesaylor.net/links
Manda Farough ๐ GCAP | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca Dir. of Production, Causeway. Exec. Prod. & Writer (Truck-kun, TMNT: Tactical Takedown), Strange Scaffold. Principal narrative (Terrible Lizards, GNAW). Award-nominated Multiclasser. @virtualeconcast.com cohost. Queer mama. amandafarough.ca ๐จ๐ฆ
Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta.bsky.social reporter covering video games and digital culture for Bloomberg News
www.cecianasta.com
Discord: ehvee
Signal: Cecilia.01
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz Dir of Ops and Publishing, Causeway Studios. Producer, Strange Scaffold. Founder, F-Squared LLC, consultant, co-host of @VirtualEconCast.com. Author, The GameDev Business & Budgeting Handbooks
Mike@causewaystudios.com / mike@fsquared.biz
michaelfutter.com
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social ๐น an aperol spritz in human form ๐น
๐ senior reporter @ digiday ๐
๐ The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 ๐
(views expressed are mine alone)
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life ๐ค
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 ๐ฉท๐๐
Celia Hodent @celiahodent.com Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science โข Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi โข Phd psych โข She/Her ๐ซ๐ท ๐บ๐ธ
celiahodent.com
โ๐พ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Saffista, PhD๐๐น๏ธ๐๏ธ @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
Io Dodds ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโพ๏ธ @iododds.bsky.social Freelance reporter in Silicon Valley covering tech, politics, & LGBT. ISO 8601 stan; tabletop gamer; lowercase = shitposts. Formerly @the-independent.com
Signal: @iohazard.01
Email: laureniododds@gmail
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Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
Kelli Dunlap, PsyD @kellidunlap.bsky.social aka Dr Goose. Clinical psychologist. Game designer. Research Affiliate at AU Game Center. She/her.
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Mary Beth Oliver @olivermb.bsky.social Bellisario Professor of Media Studies, Penn State University. Former President, International Communication Association. Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, Penn State.
Media Psychology, Media & Emotion, Media & Social Cognition
Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social Game Studiesโ Feminist Killjoy | she/her
Nicholas Andriani @nicholasandriani.bsky.social Storyteller, Poet, Worldbuilder. Iโm a writer & narrative designer of educational multimedia including games, animation, & screenwriting. Story Doctor. ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK.
Former archaeologist specializing in Story Theory, Folklore & Performance
Keith Burgun @keithburgun.bsky.social Game designer living in Brooklyn NY.
Christopher Leech @chrislpsych.bsky.social He/Him
Lecturer of Psychology.
PhD Psych - video games & mental health.
Person with Albinism.
Friends with: Take This, Safe In Our World, Limit Break Mentorship, and Impact & Many Cats Studios.
Views mine.
https://linktr.ee/BlindPsyche
Dr. Elizabeth Kilmer @PAX East @doctorkilmer.bsky.social Researcher with Take This. Clinical psychologist using games in therapy with Respec Psychological Services. Opinions are all mine. (she/they)
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Kate Edwards @geogrify.bsky.social ๐ฎ33+ year Award-Winning Game Industry Veteran
๐Geographer & Culturalization Innovator at Geogrify
๐ฌCXO & CoFounder at SetJetters
๐Former Executive Director of the IGDA & the Global Game Jam
โ๏ธEvent/Keynote Speaker, Traveler, Cosplayer, Geek
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.
Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist |Professor at Ohio State
Samuel @technomancersam.bsky.social I'm an Indie game developer focusing on family friendly games you can play from the couch!
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Andy Boyan @boyan.bsky.social real special kid
Gary @garywells.bsky.social PhD UC Irvine โข University of Edinburgh โข UC Santa Barbara โข GameBoy.- L Lars de Wildt @larsdewildt.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media & Cultural Industries @ University of Groningen. he/him.
Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social Digital Play Journalist for Forbes, BBC, Guardian. Brings games to unusual spaces, festivals and cathedrals. Makes cool stuff:
๐https://mybook.to/whatwashidden
๐https://mybook.to/taminggaming
๐ฏhttp://www.ludocene.com
๐http://www.familygamingdatabase.com
Tanja Adamus @darktiger666.bsky.social 
John Sutherland @sutherjohn.bsky.social Writer, story structure wonk, patriarchy saboteur, currently writing and directing from Seattle for Tactile Games in Copenhagen and Buenos Aires. 
Mark Danger Chen @mcdanger.bsky.social Games scholar, academic editor and coach, book cover illustrator, webmaster, PC builder, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Appalachian State U. Need input on a project? Hire me!
Letters to students: https://markdangerchen.net/letters/
Bubba Gaeddert @bubbagaeddert.bsky.social ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ @ ๐๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ | ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ด๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ & ๐๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐
๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐๐ผ๐๐, & ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐น๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฅ๐
Josuรฉ Cardona @josuecardona.bsky.social 
Jane McGonigal @janemcgonigal.bsky.social Futurist, game designer, author
Kat Schrier @katschrier.bsky.social Educator | Designer | Researcher | Author | Inspirer | Innovator | Director of Games | NEW from Oxford UP: #WetheGamers http://gamesforcivics.com ๐ฎ ๐ She/They
Esther MacCallum-Stewart @neveahfs.bsky.social 
Steph Orme, Ph.D. @stephorme.bsky.social Ex-professor now working in UX. Games and games culture scholar. I love martial arts, gaming, Star Wars, and boba tea.
stephanieorme.com
For fandom chat, follow me on Threads @steph.orme
Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | University Professor of Game Development | Writer and Game Designer @ YES! Inc. | she/her
Linktree: http://linktr.ee/jpperkin
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
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
Lennart Nacke, PhD @lennartnacke.com ๐ง Tenured brain, fresh daily takes. Maximum citations but sanity questionable. The prof your prof follows for daily advice. University Research Chair & Tenured Full Professor.
The read that returns your rigour โ https://go.lennartnacke.com/newsletter
M. Rohangis Mohseni @romohseni.bsky.social Media psychologist | Intersectional humanist
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm) 
James "Pigeon" Fielder @drpigeon.bsky.social PhD Pol Sci | studying politics of game worlds at CSU | retired USAF | TEDx speaker | Mobius Worlds Publishing birb | Pagan & synth fan | pigeons rock!
https:\\www.jdfielder.com
Frans Mรคyrรค @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Platinum @platinumparagon.bsky.social PhD in Mental Health Research and creator of Psychology and Video Games. Video game lover and dog enthusiast. She/Her. contact@platinumparagon.info
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Dr. Sarah Hays, PsyD @drhayspsyd.bsky.social Games Non-Profit Connoisseur, Queer & ADHD advocate | Therapist - Game to Grow | Clinical Contributor - Take This | โAn effervescent disaster Iโd protect with my lifeโ - Dr. Jared Kilmer 
*Raymond Vermeulen @crapcyborg.bsky.social ๐๏ธ ๐ฎ Story-type games person ๐ซ๐ก๏ธ Game Narrative & Roleplaying Researcher ๐ฅ Narrative Designer/Writer ๐ฅ WGGB Games #BAFTAConnect @LBMentorship ๐ฅ
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social โจThings and Stuffโจ
anitasarkeesian.com
Josh Boykin @wallstormer.blacksky.app Founder, @intelligame.us. Head of Curation, @gdocexpo.com. Narrative Director, Lancer Tactics. #ThoughtfulPlay
For work/opps: josh@intelligame.us
Nick Bowman (ๅ
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) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Mikko Merilรคinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Allison Eden @aeden.bsky.social Comm Prof|Michigan State|Entertainment media|Well-being|Morality|CommNeuro
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social Accessibility specialist, helping studios avoid excluding disabled players. DMs are open, if you prefer email i_h@hotmail.com
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
George Farmer @cybergamepsych1.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster
Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects.
LinkedIn - https://tinyurl.com/3bkcuud7
Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Professor of Online Communication. Researching the transformation of communication and society. Critical optimist.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@reganmandryk.bsky.social @reganmandryk.bsky.social Canada Research Chair, Professor of Computer Science researching HCI and HCAIโspecifically games.
Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Musicology via game studies. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com
Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge
Ryan Lange @langeryan.bsky.social Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.
.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social :: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit๐ฑ
๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
๐ podcast: directional.show
โ๏ธ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
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
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.
Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social Creators of Hades, Pyre, Transistor, and Bastion.
ยท Merchandise: https://supergiant.games/merch
ยท Discord: http://discord.gg/supergiant
Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social Long-time production artist/illustrator, horse fancier and animation history buff
Double Fine @doublefine.com Official source of Action Posts from Double Fine Productions, creators of Psychonauts, Brรผtal Legend, Broken Age, RAD, and Keeper
https://www.doublefine.com
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. โ๐ฝโ๐ฟโ๐ผโ๐พ Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
Rami Ismail (ุฑุงู
ู) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Emi @coppolaemilio.com ๐ผ Executive Director @godotengine.org
โ ๏ธ While I post a lot about Godot, this is my personal account!
coppolaemilio.com
๐ฑ #Vegan โ๏ธ #StraightEdge #OpenSource #GodotEngine
Whatever Works @whtvrwrks.io Solo game dev in the process of learning and making whatever works.
๐ whtvrwrks.io
๐ฎ whtvrwrks.itch.io/
๐บ youtube.com/@whtvr-wrks
โ https://ko-fi.com/whtvrwrks
Play SHUNNED LAND: whtvrwrks.itch.io/shunned-land
Famifawx @famifawx.bsky.social 2D, Pixel, 3D artist, mediocre music and covers | learning indie game dev, hobbyist but can do pro work | DOB: 9/21/1998 | any pronouns | risk of being suggestive.
https://youtube.com/@famifawx98
The Havoc Channel ๐บ @tryfivehundred.bsky.social Mystery visual novel game called The Havoc Channel! Demo out now: shorturl.at/QEPAs ๐บ
Also made:
โค๏ธ Pinball Crush: shorturl.at/KDn8e
๐ Tead: shorturl.at/70ilK
CompromiseDev | Wishlist Compromised Investigator @compromisedev.bsky.social Solodev developing Compromised Investigator.
Please wishlist if it seems interesting:
https://s.team/a/4346850/
Cups of coffee would be greatly appreciated:
https://ko-fi.com/compromisedev
Little games I've made before:
https://compromisedev.itch.io/
Fuz - Froggonit free game coming soon! @fuzgames.bsky.social #gamedev ๐ป Made: Restless Soul, Dino Market, The Organized Capy God and Froggonit! ๐ธ
Working on MINEROOMS - Wishlist on Steam!
โจ https://linktr.ee/fuz_games
ForgottenBloodGame @forgottenblood.bsky.social Maruko | Solo dev behind Forgotten Blood a dark exploration adventure game, wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4130560/Forgotten_Blood/
My Artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/erriuk
Tetriser | Puzzle and Racing Game Advocate @tetriser.bsky.social A 29-year-old manchild who loves cute things and being super creative.
Creator of the Smitty series (Smitty's Journey and Smitty 2) and the hero himself, as well as Grid Swarm and others.
https://tetriser.carrd.co/
https://alternativeplanet.itch.io/
Kelvin van Hoorn | wishlist Oniros! @kelvinvanhoorn.com ๐น Wishlist Oniros now! https://s.team/a/4332670 ๐ค
๐ง Indie developer @smallleapstudio.com
Mastadon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@KelvinvanHoorn
Website: http://kelvinvanhoorn.com
#GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #Shader #VFX #TechArt
polte @polte.bsky.social Indie Game Dev ๐ฏ๐ต
#BLUENIGHTLAUNDROMAT
#PLEASE_KNOCK #ใใชใผใบใใใฏ
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46085582-PLEASE-KNOCK/
Kan ๐ฎ Indie Game Developer @kan-kikuchi.bsky.social ๐ฅJapanese solo indie game developer๐ป
ใLife of a Lonely Indie Game Developerใ
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139290
โจWISHLIST NOW!โจ
Presskit : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k1jPJ-7fKRJMEOsmQKAoxOYy01oI0M32?usp=drive_link
Otto Ojala @ottoojala.com Making good old freeware games.
Sign my guestbook: https://ottoojala.com/guestbook
Jakob Scott @jakobscott.bsky.social fantasy developer | CHASM SHIFT | MONUMENTUM
jakobscottdesign.com