Max Altmeyer @maltmeyer.bsky.social Professor of CS @htwsaar / interaction experience group
#HCI #UX #games #gamification #health
https://interaction-experience.de
he/him
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social 🌍 Cities & social justice activist, creative technologist, designer, researcher, educator, learner @ UNESCO
💡 Communications officer @ecreaeu.bsky.social
🛜 Social media editor @ Nexus Network Journal
💬 Writing: PT, ENG, ES, FR, CN
🔗 https://dph22.github.io
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social Playing video games since 1976.
Writing about them since 1983.
Massiveface @massiveface.bsky.social Thanks for looking at my weird art, I have prints and T-shirts available here: linktr.ee/massiveface
Letian Wang @letian-wang.bsky.social PhD Researcher @JKU Linz | Game Computing | #Cosplayer & #Gamer | #gamesUR, #GameAnalytics, #infoviz | https://www.wang-letian.com/
replaylab @replaylab.bsky.social The rePLAY Lab is committed to the advancement of digital games & entertainment technology through user research. Director:
@wallnergue.bsky.social
#gamesUR #gameAnalytics
Mike Preuss @skapedin.bsky.social 
André Rodrigues @androdgiues.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
Game Researcher| HCI | Accessibility
Researcher at Tech & People (techandpeople.github.io) at LASIGE.
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Interacting with Computers journal @iwcjournal.bsky.social Official account of the Interacting with Computers journal (Oxford University Press). Follow for journal announcements on special issues, new publications, online HCI/UX seminars or policy changes.
Website: https://academic.oup.com/iwc
Alex Flint @alexlflint.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher @ IGGI PhD | Narrative playtesting & democratisation of #GamesUR • Prev Research Operations @ PlaytestCloud
Bendik Stang @bendikstang.bsky.social Creative Director @SnowcastleGames, Research Fellow on Narrativity in Games @NorwegianFilmSchool, TechGeek. Husband & father of 4 evolving neural networks
@mvbirk.bsky.social @mvbirk.bsky.social 
Heinrich Lenhardt @lenhardt.bsky.social Journalist, translator, podcaster.
www.lenhardt.net
www.spieleveteranen.de
https://pixelkino-podcast.com/
@gameuxsummit.com @gameuxsummit.com This is the official account for the #GameUXsummit, managed by Celia Hodent.
Adam Riddle @realtimeriddle.bsky.social Independent games researcher (he/him)
realtimeriddle.com
@triskaluxr.bsky.social @triskaluxr.bsky.social 
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Johannes Kepler University Linz @jku.at Official account of Upper Austria's biggest education and research institution 🦋 www.jku.at
Cursor @cursortue.bsky.social The independent news medium of Eindhoven University of Technology
www.cursor.tue.nl
Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists.
Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
Wolfgang Hochleitner @hochleitner.bsky.social University assistant and researcher at FH OÖ. All things #games and #web with a special love for PHP. he/him/his. Mastodon: @hochleitner@mastodon.online
Bieke Zaman @biekezaman.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media + Human-Computer Interaction | Director of the KU Leuven Digital Society Institute
Researching how we shape digital media & how digital media shape us. | Interests: video gaming, gambling, children, participatory design, art
iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social Based at Uni of York, Queen Mary Uni of London, Goldsmiths, and Essex, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (iGGi) is the world's largest PhD programme for research in games.
More info: https://www.iggi-phd.org/
Vero Vanden Abeele @verovandenabeele.bsky.social HCI professor at KU Leuven, SC Chair of ACM CHI PLAY, Interaction designer of the first hour, UX consultant of Cuez.app, and proud co-founder of TinkerList
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Glasgow creating interactive and internet-enabled systems for animals. www.ilyena.com
Oliver Withington @owithington.bsky.social Game AI Research, Game Dev & Videos about games. he/they
🌐 owithington.co.uk
📹 youtube.com/@Bard_Hard
Alena Denisova @sevenfridays.bsky.social Associate Professor @ the University of York, UK.
Research: HCI, video games, research methods.
Interests: travelling to see places I miss out on calling home, making crappy art, playing weird video games.
Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social 💻Computer Scientist🖼Art Historian👨🏫Prof in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
IGDA @igda.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
Carine Lallemand @carilall.bsky.social Professor in HCI/design @ TU Eindhoven, Author Méthodes de design UX, Deputy Editor Interacting with Computers
Executive Editor Cyber Defense Review
🎈Hot air balloon pilot
In 2025: TPC CHIWORK, GC SportsHCI, SC chair DIS & CHI, Steering Comm. EduCHI
Johannes Fürnkranz @juffi-jku.bsky.social Researcher Machine Learning & Data Mining, Prof. Computational Data Analytics @jkulinz.bsky.social, Austria.
Sven @svencharleer.bsky.social 🕹️ Video game researcher @ AP University of Applied Sciences & Arts
~ https://svencharleer.com
🎹 I make video game and 80s inspired music as HaezrDrive
~ https://linktr.ee/haezrdrive
🏷️ #synthwave #videogamemusic #futurebass #gameux #esports #research
Nat 🃏 @ngedeon.bsky.social Researcher, game developer, magician. Currently @Netflix.com and @whatnotgames.bsky.social. | Opinions are my own | 🇵🇸🇦🇲 | ENG/한국어/日本語 🆗 | @nogamesforgenocide.com | linktr.ee/ngedeon
Timo Bertram @timobertram.bsky.social PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence for Game Playing @ JKU Linz
Board games(Magic) and Powerlifting
@reganmandryk.bsky.social @reganmandryk.bsky.social Canada Research Chair, Professor of Computer Science researching HCI and HCAI—specifically games.
Cliff Lampe @clifflampe.bsky.social 
Luigi De Russis @luigidr.bsky.social Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy | #HCI, Digital Wellbeing, Human-centered AI | #SIGCHI Executive VP | Love coffee and sci-fi
Anna L Cox @annahci.bsky.social Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at University College London | Research interests: productivity; work life balance; breaktaking & recovery
Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com Science mercenary and magical thinking rock enthusiast. I mostly talk about data, AI, and games.
Consulting inquiries: https://www.warpefelt.com/
ACM CHI @chi.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain 🎨 April 13 -17.
Content managed by Social Media Chairs.
RetrogamerDaz @retrogamerdaz.bsky.social I’m the editor of @retrogamermag.bsky.social and a collector of far, far too many things, from retro games, to trading cards and 1/6 and 1/12 action figures. He/him, autistic.
Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com Covering cancelled/unreleased video games and prototypes across a variety of consoles and home computers. Preserving unreleased video game history online since 1999, and longer offline.
Check out our archive and more at: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Gorm Lai @gormlai.bsky.social Making games since 2004.
Co-Founder https://globalgamejam.org/ https://nordicgamejam.com/
Personal site: https://gormlai.github.io/
Working on Fugl - https://bit.ly/3st8vLs
BAFTA Member & Winner
PhD Student in AI & Games at @IGGI
Lapsed Demoscener
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Ayman @shamur.ai AI+HCI Scientist.
Instructions: place in direct sunlight, water daily. 
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
Douglas Brown @dougjustdoug.bsky.social Associate Professor of Games and Story, also Dean of Screen, Technology and Performance at Falmouth University in the UK.
Evan Peck @peck.phd 🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof
Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public.
📊❤️ PI: https://infovisions.github.io/
Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD
🔗 https://peck.phd/
Dr. Kate Ringland @kateringland.bsky.social Assistant Prof at University of California Santa Cruz in Computational Media. PhD. HCI & Accessibility. I study the intersection of people, play, & tech. she/they, opinions own
https://kateringland.com
The Terry Pratchett Estate @terrypratchett.bsky.social Official account of the Terry Pratchett Estate. The first place for Discworld, Good Omens & Terry Pratchett news.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Jess @kleenestar.bsky.social It's Jess Hammer!
CommodoreBlog @commodoreblog.uk Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
#commodore #c64 #amiga #atarist #zxspectrum #videogames #retrogaming #70s #80s #90s 👾🕹
Vinny Mainolfi | FREEZE64.com | Commodore 64 @freeze64.bsky.social FREEZE64® - The world’s best selling #Commodore64 printed ‘zine featuring interviews|reviews|cheats Buy/Subscribe @ http://FREEZE64.com #C64 #C64Mini 🕹📺
Retro Gamer @retro-gamer.de Die Bluesky-Präsenz der deutschen Retro Gamer.
Www.retro-gamer.de
Retro Gamer @retrogamermag.bsky.social This is the official editorial account of Retro Gamer magazine. All posts are from the mag team. Get a sub at bit.ly/subto_Retro_Gamer
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social Associate professor @ University of Alberta and Canada CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social Researcher in Interaction Design, AI, Games & Robots 
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social 🎮 Game UI/UX Designer (Freelance)
🎨 Creator of http://gameuidatabase.com
📘 Author of The Game UI Bible with Lost in Cult!
🎭 BAFTA Member
🏆 Future Class 23, GDH Design Hero 21, Guinness World Record Holder
🎵 Composer on Piece By Piece by Gamkat
Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com That Scottish AI and games guy...
__
Founder of @aiandgames.com
Game AI Programmer & Consultant
Public speaker, educator, nuisance
BAFTA Connect
He-Him, PhD
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Weekly Newsletter: aiandgames.com
YouTube: youtube.com/@aiandgames
Jason Schklar 🔜 GDC @jackalshorns.bsky.social CEO of UX is Fine.
For 24 years I've been helping folks find the fun, remove the suck, and build memorable games.
I still love it.
Pin this Games UX Feed ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xvrnhouybvtbnubekvvevhjn/feed/gameux
#gameux #gameuxr #gamesux
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; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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!
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.
Lennart Nacke, PhD @lennartnacke.com 🧠 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 ➜ https://go.lennartnacke.com/newsletter
Nikki 'Gazelle' Crenshaw @gaiazelle.bsky.social [she/they]
Associate Principal User Researcher, Warcraft Franchise
#a11y; PhD; Druid; Social Justice Waluigi
shitposts are my own.
PFP: @flamingomymango.bsky.social
Timea Farkas @timeafarkas.bsky.social Senior Games User Researcher @ Square Enix | PhD in Player Experience | Previously @ Player Research | 👾 video games 🎲 board games ⚡️pokemon tcg ☕️ coffee & possibly other things | she/her
Laura Levy, PhDemocracy 👾🔬✨ @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
🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
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
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
John Hopson @johnhopson.bsky.social Games research and analytics. Chair of the IGDA Analytics SIG. He/him. Opinions are my own.
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
Currently working on some #ttrpg research to better emergency management workforce development in #wargames and #seriousgames
AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social Official account of the AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
Annika Waern @wanais.bsky.social Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Larp scholar, Music lover and Musician.
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.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Juho Kim @juhokim.bsky.social Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST. HCI and Human-AI Interaction researcher. Director of kixlab.org. juhokim.com 
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
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 🩷💜💙
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
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
JD Hassel (He/Him) @jandavidhassel.bsky.social Private account, mostly Warhammer;
Senior Game Designer for EA DICE;
Worked on games you know and on games precious few played.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jandavidhassel
martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social 🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Pietro Guardini @pietroguardini.bsky.social Games User Researcher - Believer in the Science of User Experience - https://stopguessing.it - Ph.D. & Lecturer @Unimib
Alexandra T. @alexandrato.bsky.social Associate Prof @Northeastern | CMU HCII, Stanford SymSys alum | Racial Justice, Transformational Game Design, Identity, Critical Design, and Human-Computer Interaction | she/her | mixed | 🩷💜💙
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.
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Sahar Mirhadi @saharmirhadi.bsky.social Heard before being seen
Magic: The Gathering Eternal Format specialist
PhD Researcher on Video Games, Coping and Wellbeing @iggi-phd.bsky.social
linktr.ee/saharmirhadi
inquiries: sahar.mirhadi@gmail.com