Rani Tesiram @ranitesiram.bsky.social * endlessly fascinated by stories and how we tell them *
PhD loading at UQ || Transmedia Concept Albums
Still yapping about video games on Zed Games || They/Them 🖤💛♥️ 🤟🏽
Max Kearney @kearneymax.bsky.social 🎶 Audio Generalist 💻
🔊 Prev: Sound Designer @ iRacing 🏎
📍 Naarm Australia, he/him, queer 🏳️🌈
🥦 broccoli's biggest fan 💚
Tom Byers @tom-byers.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Assistant @UniMelb
Ziran Zhao (Brandon) @zhaoziran258.bsky.social PhD student at @Monash_Arts👨🏻💻focusing on digital culture & game platform
Dr. Nikolas Matovinovic @apparatchnik.bsky.social Sessional Academic
Screen Studies, Media Studies
https://nikolasmatovinovic.neocities.org/
Haron Walliander @haronwalliander.bsky.social PhD student studying Finnishness in digital games and side hustling graphics designer. Games and nerds ftw! And peace on Earth. That too.
K. @kellyli.bsky.social 
Wing Kuang @wingkuang.bsky.social Freelance journalist, audio producer, NAATI interpreter for Cantonese.
📻: Little Red Podcast, NüVoices, Initium Reports, All The Best, SBS News, etc.
📰: The Saturday Paper, Al Jazeera English, Guardian Australia, etc.
📧: wingkuang.journalist@gmail.com
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Chrysanthe (Sankee) @sankee.bsky.social 23• naarm • they/she • Game Designer, Esports & Game Cultures Researcher • PhD Candidate at RMIT
https://linktr.ee/chrysantheliontis
Josh Trigg @joshltrigg.bsky.social #Health | #Risk | #BehaviouralScience | #Horror Enthusiast | #PublicHealth Researcher/Educator | FlindersHMRI | Assoc Editor Health Prom J | #FirstGen | on Kaurna Land | Views own | flinders.edu.au/people/joshua.trigg
Kim Barbour @kjbarbour.bsky.social Persona studies + digital media researcher and lecturer at Uni Adelaide, Kaurna country. Current special interest = Hermitcraft. Views mine unless otherwise attributed.
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social Political communication and media scholar. Macquarie University postdoctoral research fellow. Researching: the far right, media, populism, fascism, and democracy 🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WfjJQqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
✨ 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
Rhys Elliott @superhys.bsky.social Head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics.
Ex-Newzoo & Nielsen. Analysis in IGN, BBC, Giant Bomb, The Guardian, GameSpot, GIBiz and more.
Lives on a canal in the Netherlands, but spends most of the time looking at screens instead.
Very Welsh.
Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social academic researching comms, history, gender & social justice
Rory Manning Graham @publicfacingrory.bsky.social PhD candidate @ USYD - researching how we make sense of scale in videogames
Guido Zurstiege @zurstiege.bsky.social Prof. Media Studies, University of Tübingen (private account)
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Will Mu @willmuge.bsky.social PhD student at USYD MECO.
Exploring how animation can reshape things.
Former creative producer in the film industry.
With a keen interest in the future.
Travis Holland @travish.co untethered researcher, writer, and podcast host. thinking about science, media, dinosaurs, birds, space, LEGO
Annabel @annabelblake.bsky.social They/Them 🌱 AI PhD Candidate @Usyd 📚Principal AI design research @canva 🚀 kidslit author 📖Ex: @google Creative Lab &
@owi_aus shadow Olympic freeski team
@lucyamsparrow.bsky.social @lucyamsparrow.bsky.social 
Matthew Harrison @hattdesigns.bsky.social 🔬🎮🧠 Associate Professor/researcher #neurodiversity #digital games-based learning & Co-lead Neurodiversity Project @UniMelb (https://www.unimelb.edu.au/neurodiversity). Co-founder Next Level Collaboration (https://nextlevelcollaboration.com)
Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social Digital Game Literacies - Critical Pedagogies - English Language Arts - Youth Literacies - Critical EdTech - Postdigital research. The University of Melbourne.
Jess Rowlings @jessrowlings.bsky.social Next Level Collaboration CEO & Co-Founder | UniMelb Researcher/PhD student
AuDHD neurodiversity advocate | Video game enthusiast
Games are for everyone! 🎮
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
oddgoo @oddgoo.bsky.social Play. People. Places.
www.oddgoo.com
MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social MAGPIE (Melbourne Academic Games, Play and Interactive Entertainment) is an interdisciplinary games research initiative at The University of Melbourne, launched in 2024.
www.linktree.com/magpiegamesresearch
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
Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social PhD Candidate in medieval literature at CUNY Grad Center | writing a dissertation on medieval romance, game studies, and premodern race
She/her
🌺 Okinawan/Ryukyuan diaspora
✨Professional Yapper
👩🏫 Dork Academia
John Hedge @johnthehedge.bsky.social 🤸Circus & Parkour teacher. Part time firefighter.
🔹TTRPGs | Writing | Podcasts
🔹Serious about Play
🔹Seriously Silly
(he/him) 🏴 🇸🇪
MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,☪️,🌈, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
jenn sutcliffe 🔜 Serious Play Conference @jennsutcliffe.bsky.social Ed Psych/Tech Ph.D. student, MSU | Instructional Designer | TTRPG writer/designer, @ImmaterialPlane | Georgia (US) Wikimedia affiliate rep | Research: Game studies, social learning, learning communities, digital literacies ~ she/her
Dylan Grinder is making Erstwild @anarisis.dylangrinder.com Game designer, artist, & all-around nerd. Co-Lead on Plotweaver: Erstwild. Author of Become: Artificial Investigation & Spoken Magic/Legends. Explaining design & narrative through play at twitch.tv/anarisis
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She/He
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📧 contact@dylangrinder.com
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Brian_Cooksey.gif @vaklam.bsky.social Gamer, podcaster (Infectious Enthusiasm - @iepodcast.bsky.social), editor
#TTRPG system analyst. Curling fan.
He/him. I make jokes for 12 people at a time.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights are human rights.
I have friends everywhere.
kieran cutting @kierancutting.bsky.social Writer of queer horror and weird fiction. Service designer, researcher, and games designer. Former indie publisher at EXIT Press. they/them
https://kierancutting.substack.com
AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance
Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social A ttrpg actual play podcast focusing on indie worldbuilding and storytelling games. Building a single world one game at a time!
Part of the One Shot Network!
Account run by TTBenjamin (he/him)
Find us on Megaphone: https://megaphone.link/OSPN8559272961
Hermione Khan @h3yatlas.bsky.social Community Manager 🩷 Panda Cat Games
Host & Editor 🌶 GoChuChats K-pop Podcast
Applying to full time UK roles ✅️
Sarah Farooqi @sadiekate.bsky.social Into art, illustration, writing, and board games. Favorite subjects to draw or photograph are buildings and landscapes, and I like writing about the possibility that everything could turn out even better than we imagine. (she/her)
#art #photography #wip
Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social SFF/horror #TTRPG + #WritingCommunity (see #AgentGuide). Wants #FriendPromotionFriday to be a thing
Writing: https://jklafondwriter.wordpress.com/
GM profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/julia_lafond
Calenmir's RPGs: https://www.calenmirsrpgs.com/
Megan @meganbeetle.bsky.social Books, Games, Games about Books, and Books about Games
Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social Quechua runa on O'odham land. Writer (fantasy, TTRPGs, nonfiction). Rabbinic student. Editor & sensitivity reader. Designer @koboa.bsky.social. #LandBack. He/him.
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/danieldelgado
Editing: https://www.siriusprose.com/
TTRPG Rising Tide @risingtide.bsky.social We're a peer support community for those working toward becoming professional creators within any niche of the TTRPG space.
Join us: https://discord.gg/n6EyyrDhqJ
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TTRPGRisingTide
#TTRPGResources
Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice reform, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Phil. A. Ménard (AKA The Chatty DM) @chattydm.bsky.social Dynamically-priced Gen X Gamer Dad. 42 years as a GM, sober 24 hours at a time. Ex narrative designer@VibrantStudios (D&D: The Immersive Quest. Looking for Work. Retired award-winning freelance #TTRPG designer. He/Him. FR/EN
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social Expert in horror and video games
Making video essays and livestreaming
Master's Degree in Media and Culture
business inquiries: jenna.stoeber (at) gmail (dot) com
pronounced stee-bur, she/her
www.JennaStoeber.com
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Emily Loney @emilylylo.bsky.social Visiting Asst Prof in English. Early modern literature | gender & sexuality studies | disability studies. Also reality tv, genre fiction, board games, and knitting. She/her
percival hornak @percivalhornak.bsky.social he/him
theater, TTRPG, trans stuff ✨ 
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Volko @volko.bsky.social Historical boardgame designer. Ⓥegan.
https://phalanx.co.uk/1943-race-to-rabaul-a-new-game-by-volko-ruhnke/
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1162-drachen.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1102-coast-watchers.aspx
https://www.fortcircle.com/the-hunt-for-blackbeard/
Brian Croxall @briancroxall.bsky.social How to do things with words and computers. Assoc. Prof of Digital Humanities at BYU. Formerly at Twitter, ProfHacker, ello, and The Aquabats.
Photo by https://instagram.com/marktwhitney/.
Matt Schneider @mattlaschneider.bsky.social Former academic; current library web admin. Probably gonna be saying something about Warhammer or Interactive Fiction. Tá cúpla focal agam—labhair Gaeilge liom, le do thoil.
He/him; sé/é
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social Writer, game designer, podcaster. Winner of the Diana Jones Award, 8 Gold and 5 Silver ENnies. Translated into 11 languages.
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long early modern period | Gothicist | Shakespeare+ | she/her
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social Early career psychologist researching: Do RPG players know if anyone is having fun? (No)
RPG writer & editor, brewer, big data, various bits and bobs. Irish childhood survivor.
He/him
ICQ - 5434131
Buddy Toledo @jessefuchs.bsky.social the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social 🍐 SU&SD 🍐 / kinda on hiatus
Amy Norgard @amynorgard.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Classical reception in film, TV, digital and analog games. Lover of Star Trek.
Ross Thompson @itsrossthompson.bsky.social Often found playing games, painting miniatures, travelling to conventions and hitting friends with sticks | he/him
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Ethan @glyphtide.games Channeling arcane currents into small tabletop games | PREQUEL, Chain×Link, Fetch My Blade, Estate of Play | glyphtide.games
NOW CROWDFUNDING
🗡️🐕 Fetch My Blade: fetchmyblade.com
Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
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.
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney @blueskynoise.com editor for gamespot | obsessed with horror | vegan, straight-edge, atheist, wife guy from Boston, and as annoying as that sounds | letterboxd: https://boxd.it/aA7G7
Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
Bonfire Sit: https://player.gg/publications/bonfire-sit
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
Instagram: instagram.com/tamoorh
Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
Tom Marks @tomrmarks.bsky.social Associate Reviews Director at IGN by day, pie maker and card slinger by night. Formerly at PC Gamer. He/Him (tmarks@IGN.com)
Miranda Sanchez @havokrose.bsky.social Executive Editor of Guides at IGN and Podcast Unlocked member
Into books, beer, stationery, cats, video games, and writing.
She/her
Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social words @ new york times, the guardian, rolling stone, the verge, wapo, npr, vulture, pitchfork, edge, gamespot, av club, game informer, polygon, paste, fanbyte, game developer, & more
founder @ into the spine • diego6arguello6@gmail.com • he/him
Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social Editor at GameSpot. No, not the store in the mall, the other one. (he/him)
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Unwinnable @unwinnable.com A place for stories | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1VQ9omB | Pitch: http://bit.ly/3oBCo5z
Into The Spine @intothespine.bsky.social Stories about video games and what they leave behind /// Patreon: http://patreon.com/intothespine /// Founder: @diegoarguello.bsky.social /// Email: contact@intothespine.com /// https://intothespine.com/
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Justin Clark @justinofclark.bsky.social Literal/figurative giant blerd. Throws words at you from Kotaku, Slant Magazine, Gamespot, et al. Boston Society of Film Critics member. Occasionally, there's wrestling posts. Sorry about that in advance. He/Him
youtube.com/@justinofclark
Jeffrey Gerretse @gerretse.bsky.social Writer, pc gamer, ttrpg game master
(he/him)
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social Tall man, weird little telly boy
Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing, TTRPG design with Handiwork Games and Taleturn, taking action, discussing NZ political nonsense. Usually walking the dogs. #FiveEvil is out!
(mr_orgue at the bird site)