Games and community researcher, teacher. Constantly grading, when not distracted by funny dog videos.
@aporta.bsky.social
Communication Sciences PhD at @uji.es. I'm interested in #GameStudies: ludonarratives, ludomusicology, childhood and moral dilemmas. https://linktr.ee/albertoporta
@johnh18.bsky.social
Based in HK, sometimes in MT / CN // asst prof @HKBaptistU on player-based design and board games, I make stuff sometimes too. Mostly EN || Some MT / 中文
@digrabelgium.bsky.social
DiGRA Belgium is the Belgian chapter of the international association for academics (and professionals) who research digital games and associated phenomena. Posts by @alexvandewalle.bsky.social
@kierannolan.bsky.social
Artist, Researcher, Lecturer. / PhD, MA x2, BDes(Hons). / Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT. / kierannolan.com
@federicoalvarez.bsky.social
Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches. Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
@romchip.bsky.social
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org FEB 22ND TWITCH FUNDRAISER: https://donate.romchip.org/ GET OUR NEWSLETTER: http://eepurl.com/crCul1 Editors: @lainenooney.bsky.social @daveparisi.bsky.social Henry Lowood Soraya Murray
@robinzingarelli.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games 🏳️⚧️🎮 l game designer l ☕️ London based coffee enthusiast
@doktornick.bsky.social
Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
@poppywilde.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
@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
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Maker of @mobydickatsea.bsky.social and @clipart.bsky.social. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Other things I've made: https://samplereality.itch.io
@pietervdheede.bsky.social
Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
@marcuscarter.com
Professor in HCI @ USYD, Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
critic | games | science fiction. Discussing culture on podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Used to write a lot. Growing things outdoors. Working on books: Assassin’s Creed and Magic: The Gathering.
@appliedgames.bsky.social
Zentrum für Angewandte Spieleforschung | Center for Applied Game Studies | University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria 👉 donau-uni.ac.at/ags
@coegamecult.bsky.social
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland.
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@renatadrlove.bsky.social
Game Researcher and Designer interested in Love and Death. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/
@rainforestsb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ✒️ @ Tampere University 🇫🇮 Comms Officer 🎤 @cgsaacej.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Currently researching games and exhaustion.
@anhthu.bsky.social
PhD student in Kyoto • traveling IRL and in games • will ghost this platform at any given moment because i have fish levels of memory • en/de https://kaydenuen.com/
@professthor.bsky.social
Shelter academic looking for a forever home and family. Writes academic stuff and then random video game blogs. Some of it is good. Speaks golden retriever. https://markkretz.com
@davidkocik.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies from UW-Milwaukee | Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
@caitlinveal.bsky.social
@investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡 Social Sciences AA and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
@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!
@socstudygames.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports.
@crazyblue.bsky.social
Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth. PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023) Transnational Education Lead: Digital Design. Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form. www.relativenostalgia.com www.about.me/sweeting
@michaeliantorno.com
PhD researcher studying videogame history, industry labour, and IP law. 🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking. 🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games. 🕹️Game industry research with Game Arts International Network.
@simondor.com
Prof in game and media studies @ UQAT Montréal, author of StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy (UMichigan Press, 2024), ed. @ Kinephanos & collection ed. @ PUQ. Power & control in strategy & management games. Leftist. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
@alinejob.bsky.social
Independent Researcher. Game Studies/ Decoloniality/Narrative. Non-binary. ela/elu/she/they
@drstevemallory.bsky.social
Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant professor of Design Most recent publication: https://playstorypress.org/books/well-played-v14-n1-for-the-love-of-games/
@mattknutson.bsky.social
Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports. Pronouns: he/him
@hollynielsen.bsky.social
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her
@andreizanescu.bsky.social
PT Faculty in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro Postdoc @Concordia Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press) www.andreizanescu.com
@nonadecimal.com
Making social impact games like: 🪐 episodic systemic narrative Jovian Nights 💾 cyberPUNK open world RPG Black Ice 🌊 cellular automata RTS about feedback loops nonadecimal.com
@languageatplay.de
#GameStudies aus der Linse von Sprach-, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften. Since 2017. #ludolinguistics https://languageatplay.de/ GER and ENG articles. Gründer: @indieflock.bsky.social
@pouchmouse.com
Indie gamedev and Moby Dick stan account. Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, and more recently Edmus - the world’s largest one-finger MMO. #gamedev #indie
@agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social
Game scholar, therapist in training, mental health advocate. Makes art on the side.
@juanbeaumont.bsky.social
Cultural, Queer & Game Studies. PhD. Associate Professor (Prof. Contratado Doctor). Webpage: https://t.co/CecoZJEsAZ Recent publications: https://shorturl.at/TKFAB ; https://shorturl.at/Gqj6i ; https://shorturl.at/laRGx ; https://shorturl.at/ZGrl9
@sonomiogames.bsky.social
Games. Carefully crafted. Creators of Lone McLonegan. Sonomio Games are Verónica Rodríguez and Antonio Carlón.
@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.
@videogamehistorian.bsky.social
Videogame historian extraordinaire FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation CGSA Francophone Rep Creator of Deadplay podcast
@historygamesnet.bsky.social
HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
@carrythezero.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven
@indigitalgames.bsky.social
Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: http://game.edu.mt | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
@bonzos1979.bsky.social
Doctor en Historia Contemporánea. Investigador sobre propaganda, GCE, SGM, cultura digital, política internacional, videojuegos. Profesor de CCSS en Secundaria desde 2006. Antiguo docente en la UCM. Acreditación ANECA a la figura de Profesor Titular.
@jimaroonie.bsky.social
Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Board Member, Freeplay.net.au. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.