Peter McDonald
Assistant Professor of Design, Informal and Creative Education, UW-Madison. Game and play scholar, potter and dog friend.
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@dancingstickman.com
www.oopsallwitches.com ☝🏻Like, follow, subscribe, rate, review 🙏🏻 Tell your mom 'n' your aunties, tell granny, tell your friends
@meganreilly.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Lighting Design at UW Madison Lighting & projection designer, immersive theatre researcher, writer, traveler, hiker, book lover, cat lover. IATSE USA 829 www.meganreillydesign.com
@kathrynfedchun.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Communication at Carleton University. RoCCET Lab Fellow. Interested in queer game studies, comic studies, cosplay harassment at conventions, & affective media 💅🏻 https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/ Raccoon image from artist Lily Seika Jones 🎨
@casmudde.bsky.social
Dutchman in the South 🇺🇸 | Politicoloog 👨🎓 | European politics 🇪🇺 | far-right parties ✋ | soccer & politics ⚽ | punkrock 🎸 | movies 🎥 | columnist ✍️ | he/him/his 🚹 the “populism guy” who just wants to talk about soccer and politics 🤷♂️
@davidmchugh.bsky.social
Teaching Faculty | Information School | Also: geeawards.com, playmakelearn.org. Talk to me about games, pedagogy, libraries, and AI.
@simonetranchina.bsky.social
Freelance character artist - animator - art director // TenderClaws Stranger Things VR // Ustwo Games Wildlife Alba // Co-founder @spacebackyard.bsky.social
@xenosns.bsky.social
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Citizen archivist of Nova Scotia video game development history. Sometimes hobby game dev. - He/Him https://linktr.ee/XenosNS https://xenosns.itch.io
@drkylemcphail.bsky.social
they/them Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art I'm bad at social media
@dvstudies.bsky.social
The Center for Digital Visual Studies (DVS) is an innovative interdisciplinary laboratory exploring the intersection of Computer Science and Art History, a part of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History – hosted at the UZH (CH)
@ccary-beckett.bsky.social
PhD candidate at UChicago | writing about 18- & 19-century transatlantic print cultures
@cc-chapman.bsky.social
http://CC-Chapman.com Boston area professor, creator, digital dad. I'm trying to leave it better than I found it. Amazing Things Will Happen, Content Rules, Accident Hash, Managing the Gray, The Advanced Guard & more...
@geoffreylong.bsky.social
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
@mease19.bsky.social
Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.
@cathieleblanc.bsky.social
The enemy within likes games, movies, books, cats, bikes, walks, and astrophotography. Game studies faculty member at a small public university in central NH, USA. (she/her)
@herr-wetzel.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Game Design at DePaul University; PhD; Serious Games; AR/VR; HCI; design ideation; he/him. https://hexlab.cdm.depaul.edu/
@austinwalker.bsky.social
Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
@jumpovertheage.com
Writer, game designer, artist | Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | BAFTA, IGF, DICE, nominee | Poetics PhD | they/them | Jumpovertheage.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 Renters Marker game, blackmail your landlord. http://blekkenhorst.ca
@iccit-utm.bsky.social
The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
@garrettmartin.bsky.social
Senior editor at Paste. TV, games and travel editor. Writes about that stuff and music, theme parks, movies, wrestling, and more. Atlanta is better than your city.
@sethgiddings.bsky.social
Out now: Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play (MIT) Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton https://www.microethology.net Living with motor neurone disease #mnd #als
@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" .
@n-w-f.bsky.social
UC Santa Cruz professor; Expressive Intelligence Studio co-director; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming Fall 2025, in the U Chicago Press Replay series
@adriennemassanari.bsky.social
Assoc Prof@AmericanU. 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.
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
@whkchun.bsky.social
new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only. banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@schwbby.bsky.social
🕹️ Spent ten years as game design professor. 💽 Now making games for novel hardware. 🎢 Still a theme park scholar. 👑 Queen City resident.
@alterego95.bsky.social
Studio Director @FlatPonies. Part-Time Lecturer @IT University of Copenhagen. Co-organizer of TAGS and CPH:GDT. Shipped AkiRobots and Rebots. Working on unannounced.
@konstantinosd.bsky.social
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
@gamestudies.bsky.social
_Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU) _Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN) _Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin) _Editor "Replay Value" (LORA München) _Podcast Host "Die letzten Detektive" & "Pilot Pickups" _Xbox: Inderst1978 _PhD Stud. Uni Vechta
@jzagal.bsky.social
Game scholar, academic, professor at University of Utah's Division of Games Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/ https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
@penixtadsen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Spanish, Chair of Game Studies & Esports at the University of Delaware Author of 'Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America' + Editor of 'Video Games and the Global South' https://sites.udel.edu/ptpt
@myrnamoretti.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | Instructor @ OCAD | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
@unsurprisinglee.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
@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.
@personofcon.bsky.social
Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
@profmikesell.bsky.social
English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him