Stephanie Boluk
@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
@gasmoney.bsky.social
Asst. Professor, Digital Media Worker-Owner - Obvious Agency - https://www.obvious-agency.com/ I study game development tools and how that shapes whose stories we tell and how we tell them. I also make interactive, game-based theater.
@kbuse.bsky.social
I study science fiction, cultures of science and technology, environmental & digital media. Assistant Prof. at University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies and CEGU. Speculative Planetology! 🪐🌍🌔
@sisypheanpc.bsky.social
I post videos of NPCs that will never accomplish their tasks. Main Account @LFSandrin, AAA Tech Designer, catch me on the Beyond the Pixel YT Channel and Podcast: https://youtube.com/@beyondthepixelYT?feature=shared
@andrewcampana.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press! コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの助教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
@davidmpickett.bsky.social
Words, systems, games, etc. Senior Content Designer at @civicactions.com davepickett.co youtube.com/brick101
@altice.bsky.social
Game designer, researcher, and archivist. Synth destroyer. Makes old things new. Teaching Professor of Computational Media at UCSC. Wrote I AM ERROR.
@buttplug.engineer
Teledildonticist, Arctic Fox, Cube 🍑🔌 @buttplug.io 🌐 @good.as.hell.domains 💼 nonpolynomial.com 💵 patreon.com/qdot | ko-fi.com/qdot76367 🐘 buttplug.engineer/@qdot 👾 twitch.tv/qdotfm 💻 github.com/qdot 🎶 last.fm/user/qdot he/him art by @gavbat.bsky.social
@stcymsn.bsky.social
❧ Interactive narrative research & innovation ❧ Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2 ❧ Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit ❧ PhD: Responsive Narrative Systems ❧ Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade ❧ Opinions mine ❧ More: staceymason.info
@epikt.bsky.social
Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard. Views not those of my employer except by accident.
@pdmcdonald.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Design, Informal and Creative Education, UW-Madison. Game and play scholar, potter and dog friend.
@bartsimon.bsky.social
Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
@hlywa.bsky.social
🔍 Game Scout @ Spiral Up Games 🧮 Producer @ Strange Scaffold 🎮 Obsessed with deep systems and strategies
@chadtoprak.bsky.social
experimental game designer, independent curator he/him Games Investment Manager @ Screen Australia https://mr-chad.com
@lauralaa.bsky.social
PhD'ing on bodily and cultural techniques of computer game play. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin @ HfG Offenbach. Editor @ Paidia. Game Studies, Media Culture Studies. Header is a screen grab from The Red Strings Club.
@gua-le-ni.com
Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/ WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
@monitorlizard.bsky.social
Reptile. Socialist. Green Party voter. Marathon Runner How strange it is to be anything at all.
@radiatoryang.bsky.social
artist, game dev // https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand (nz) making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about an underdog rugby club; "wishlist on steam now" https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
@doktornick.bsky.social
Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
@rogerwhitson.bsky.social
lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
@inqualia.bsky.social
other spatial mediations | media studies & japan studies | books: ambient media, the immersive enclosure | proquet.mit.edu
@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him
@eyesack.bsky.social
they/them | composer | accordionist | tech user/hater | gamedev? | professor | parent
@selmaleh.bsky.social
games x performance. acting, directing, consulting, forever advocating for joyful collaboration & sustainability for all. @eggplantshow, queer vox, indiecade, sagaftra etc.
@apparentraisin.bsky.social
'love and cherish me... from a distance' | small game maker | rmit games tutor | white water kayaking | he/they | bi | Email @ [email protected]
@mut.media
@kalonica.bsky.social
3D Artist + Game Developer . she/her 🌿 Currently: Mars First Logistics with Shape Shop Big Walk with House House
@danielvella.bsky.social
Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Organizing DiGRA 2025 in Malta // Debut novel out 2026!
@philsalv.bsky.social
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
@ethanplaut.bsky.social
Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him. ethanplaut.com
@jackperse.bsky.social
(they/them) queer game maker, games are bodies phd candidate in media studies https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
@mohammadrasoul.bsky.social
Film Director x Game Designer working on Middle Eastern cyberpunk film/game DUNEOPOLIS • Featured in Rolling Stone/Variety/Bloomberg • Sheridan College alum • Dubai
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
@see-wing.bsky.social
@tigershungry.co.uk
Creative director and playful curator. Rethinking exhibitions & experiential design. Studio lead at http://goodafternoon.uk you might also recognise me from W/Mild Rumpus, the V&A, a party in a shared google doc & the grannies
@rodkin.online
Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs 🐘 idlethumbs.social/@ja2ke 🕸️ rodkin.online Avatar by @michaelfirman.bsky.social