Emma Westecott
@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).
@tanyaxshort.bsky.social
Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
@sarahstang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Brock University. Lab Director of STAR Lab. At-Large Rep for CGSA and former Secretary for ICA Game Studies Division.
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she) ✨Asst Prof (LTA) of Digital Media & Game Studies, U of Toronto Mississauga ✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy ✨PhD(c) U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com/
@cheeflo.bsky.social
Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
@halfrobot.com
Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others) Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ ) Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, Brooklyn Queer Country drummer, strap-on.org etc. https://metasynthie.itch.io/
@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
@saganyee.bsky.social
Media arts, animation, games, speculative fiction. UCLA Design Media Arts MFA '26. He/they. www.saganyee.com
@tltaylor.bsky.social
Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see. Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney). tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books, that are OA) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
@omarieclaire.bsky.social
@shirachess.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA Current projects: 1. The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse (MIT press, 2026)💫 2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century digital culture (Strange Attractor with RU Sirius)
@maresheppard.bsky.social
Designer, Artist, 1/2 of Metanet Software Inc www.maresheppard.com / www.metanetsoftware.com She/her
@nowplaythis.bsky.social
A festival of experimental game design and playful arts. Every Spring at Somerset House, as part of London Games Festival. www.nowplaythis.net
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@blackgamesarchive.bsky.social
Black Games Archive is a multimedia, public-facing database of games, digital resources, accessible scholarship, and designer interviews that are relevant to the intersections between Black culture, games, and play. Blackgamesarchive.org
@stevewilcox.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
@koefoed.bsky.social
Dansk/english. Feminist mind and a curious soul. Danish academic (digital things, art, and design) @AarhusUni.bsky.social Opinionated. Here to learn from others. She/her. Pondering being more active here. Århus, København, Mols, Møn, Allinge: 🧡
@babyghosts.fund
We build and support cooperative and worker-led video game studios in Canada. Cofounded by eileen & jennie. 👻 babyghosts.fund
@verybrinteresting.bsky.social
creative things all the time. exec producer and advisor for humanist tech & immersive environments. keynote speaker. in london. https://linktr.ee/sarah.brin
@dmgtoronto.bsky.social
A community of marginalized game professionals and artists who want to make, play, and transform games on their own terms.
@aftermath.site
Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture. www.aftermath.site
@madelineashby.bsky.social
I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
@icagames.bsky.social
Official account of the International Communication Association's Game Studies Division. #videogames #avatars #VR #boardgames https://icagames.org/
@nyugamecenter.bsky.social
We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form. https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
@indiecade.bsky.social
Game Submissions are now open for IndieCade Festival 2025! https://www.indiecade.com/submissions/
@aakoo.bsky.social
Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
@pixellesmtl.bsky.social
Nonprofit empowering more women & other underrepresented genders in game development. Volunteer-run and based out of Montréal (Canada), we organize free career development opportunities — in-person and online. ℹ️ http://pixelles.ca ✉️ [email protected]
@criticalreflection.no
Critical Reflection is an artzine that explores the artistic and cultural aspects of video games It is neither an academic journal nor a blog, but somewhere in the middle.
@klast.bsky.social
External lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and Roskilde University. Digital media scholar, part-time nerd, full-time mum, born again catlover and impatient IPhone-photographer. Trying to update a book (in Danish) on social media.
@janethmurray.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Views are my own. Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
@andrewrbailey.bsky.social
SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him. 📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
@katcizek.bsky.social
Tkaronto-based documentarian, researcher, author. Artistic Director and Research Scientist at Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab.
@adrishaw.bsky.social
Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive, professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
@poww.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
@mitukhandaker.com
Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Former co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • if you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
@dmgregory.ca
Game design professor, math and science geek. Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)
@kaho.bsky.social
Game designer & media artist who makes physical, digital multiplayer games, and custom controllers to play them with. 向き合い、触れ合いながら遊ぶデジタルゲームとカスタムコントローラーを制作するゲームデザイナー・メディアアーティストです。 🇯🇵🇺🇸 🏠 https://kahoabe.net
@mblytheadams.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
@sabha.bsky.social
°• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
@gblekkenhorst.bsky.social
does things with stuff. experimental narrative. course director of game design and prototyping and York University. Graduate student Digital Futures at OCADU. Making Renter's Market game as @scaredcreature, blackmail your landlord. http://blekkenhorst.ca
@messhof.bsky.social
We changed the name of our game, here's the trailer, please check out Wheel World at https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/wheel-world
@julian0liver.bsky.social
critical engineer / educator / infrastructure activist / artist Occasional announcements only Art: https://julianoliver.com Infrastructure: https://nikau.io Socials: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver Resilience: https://wiki.collapsible.systems
@lnakamura.bsky.social
Researcher and prof. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. New book on women of color and the internet in the pipe. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
@felantron.bsky.social
@ocadfa.bsky.social
The official BlueSky feed of OCAD University Faculty Association (OCADFA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://linktr.ee/ocadfa
@dipaola.bsky.social
scientist, artist using AI / code to find the ghost in the machine research lab: ivizlab.org art site: dipaola.org