Peter McDonald
Assistant Professor of Design, Informal and Creative Education, UW-Madison. Game and play scholar, potter and dog friend.
@silphcolapras.bsky.social
PhD Student at UArk in "what if history, but video game?" (Cultural Studies, but predominantly DH and Archaeology) MA DH Melodic Death Metal Leftist #TesticularCancerSurvivor they/them
@amyahn.bsky.social
PhD @Univ. of St Andrews | English, Game Studies | Contemporary Literature, Affect, Video Games, Technology
@jagreview.com
Writing about video games for fun. Find more at our website: https://jagreview.com/ Find us elsewhere online: https://jagreview.carrd.co/
@sidequesting.com
Your favorite video game website, and stuff! Check us at SideQuesting.com We promise we won't byte.
@meredithbak.bsky.social
Asso. Prof. of Childhood Studies Film History | Toys | Media Archaeology www.meredithabak.com https://ninthletter.com/journal/volume-21-issue-01/
@docfarber.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist. NEW! The Well-Read Game a.co/d/6oAphWV
@joeyprink.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science | Director GameLabGraz GameDevDays | #GameDev Research Science Tech VR AI | @TUGraz | past LMU ETH MIT EA | Forbes 30u30 Science | mountains ⛰️ twitch.tv/JoeyPrink youtube.com/@JoeyPrink jpirker.com
@otomedoctor.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
@smgrimes.bsky.social
Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
@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
@pippinbarr.bsky.social
Game maker. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Half of GAMETHING. https://pippinbarr.com https://gamething.life
@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
@courtneyblamey.bsky.social
professional overthinker PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design she/her courtneyblamey.com
@cloobot.bsky.social
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
@professorspacegames.com
Kevin, he/him 🤖 #GameDev 😱 Asst. Professor, Digital Media Arts Things Too Ugly ⏰ #indiegame Midwestern, psychological horror, corporate labor, science-fiction, 1986, story-rich, puzzle game Play on Steam: https://tinyurl.com/ThingsTooUgly
@shanedenson.bsky.social
Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
@psjournal.bsky.social
Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies. Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
@jarona7.bsky.social
Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment - Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries - Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions - PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea - Editorial Board @ Multiplay
@jsbryan1.bsky.social
Digital Arts Teacher, Games Researcher, Play Scholar, and Karaoke Enthusiast PhD Candidate and instructor @ UCI Adjunct Professor @ USC games
@kipress.bsky.social
Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
@mdphd.bsky.social
ACLS Leading Edge Fellow 20+21 c. literature, culture, media, critical AI, data 🌬️Chicago mariadikcis.com
@ap.brid.gy
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@pzlr.org
Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun. Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
@drtanenbaum.bsky.social
I write stories, poems, essays, and music. I make audiobooks, actual play podcasts, undefinable games, & magical ink. Loudly trans, queer, & disabled. Pro mutual aid, anarchy, kindness & witchcraft. Anti capitalism & TERFs https://linktr.ee/MothMother
@brookebennett.bsky.social
AAS - Austin Community College // BA - U Of Arkansas // MA - USC 🤓 ——— future Minnesota PhD student fall 2025 // feminist media studies // see also: horror film, pop culture, & identity // neurodiverse & dis/ability queen // she/her 🌈🍿🐕🦴🏈👾📚
@kenzitronic.bsky.social
Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme. She/her
@patfio.bsky.social
writer, critic, and theorist; games and literature; lecturer in media arts and design at the university of chicago; he/him/his; www.patf.io
@sebomat.bsky.social
(he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Book: http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
@n1ckfg.bsky.social
Experimental animator in Toronto. SIGGRAPH 2024, SXSW 2010. https://fox-gieg.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
@vogontheater.bsky.social
Wordsman, gameswright. MDes @ Concordia. || Making a game about the Bronze Age Collapse and also a game about 15th Century Venice || Youtube: Vogon Theater || Writing @ Blood Knife and itch.io || He/him
@burnedprof.bsky.social
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info. my passport says i am 183cm tall. when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere. ça que c'tait.
@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/
@videogamehistorian.bsky.social
Videogame historian extraordinaire FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation CGSA Francophone Rep Creator of Deadplay podcast
@srirachanikorn.bsky.social
📟 Sociologist: nostalgia, video games, and social pain. Co-founder of @nostagain.bsky.social 🚀 Learn more about me at https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home 🏡 Based at the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre
@marclaj.bsky.social
Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though! krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who... connectingtogame.ca
@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.
@mattjwells.bsky.social
• Post-PhD, itinerant instructor, digital games, history of computing • Self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective • Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux. Publisher of Loading... Journal. gamestudies.ca
@barnfeline.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6 #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FreePalestine #LandBack
@makopowered.bsky.social
Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
@scottdejong.bsky.social
Making and studying games about disinformation. Fulbright scholar. PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar. scottbdejong.ca
@rainforestsb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ✒️ @ Tampere University 🇫🇮 Comms Officer 🎤 @cgsaacej.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Currently researching games and exhaustion.
@hanine.bsky.social
here we go again! anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł communication PhD student at Concordia game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social arabic localisation at Side https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
@alexcustodio.com
PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
@jeanketterling.bsky.social
she/her ✨ PhD in Legal Studies ✨ Assistant Teaching Prof (LTA) at UNB Dept of Culture and Media Studies ✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/porn🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨
@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.
@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