Games Studies and Research Pack
An academically biased starter pack for people who wish to connect with practitioners within academia, game development and adjacent disciplines.
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@rossfifield.bsky.social
@sevenfridays.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ the University of York, UK. Research: HCI, video games, research methods. Interests: travelling to see places I miss out on calling home, making crappy art, playing weird video games.
@t0mm7.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
@hkoenitz.bsky.social
Scholar, designer, artist. Working on interactive digital narrative and how to understand our complex world. Professor and student in the subject of life President of ARDIN. book: Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative (2023): https://amzn.to/3OUEj32
@clarafv.bsky.social
NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler. https://clarafv.com
@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!
@sebomat.bsky.social
(he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Curator: http://bit.ly/2SwyXBK. Book: http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
@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
@fransmayra.bsky.social
A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas.
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@codingconduct.cc
Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor @ Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College. Editor-in-Chief, games.acm.org. @codingconduct@hci.social on Mastodon. https://codingconduct.cc
@phoenixperry.bsky.social
researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
@bigbearscot.bsky.social
Head of Games at Falmouth University. Teach Game Prototyping and Production. Boardgame and cake aficionado. Scot living in Cornwall.
@whuber.bsky.social
Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
@neveahfs.bsky.social
@dougjustdoug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Games and Story, also Dean of Screen, Technology and Performance at Falmouth University in the UK.
@lennartnacke.com
🧠 Tenured brain, fresh daily takes. Maximum citations but sanity questionable. The prof your prof follows for daily research & AI takes. Quality wins. University Research Chair & Tenured Full Professor. ➜ www.lennartnacke.com
@cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects. LinkedIn - https://tinyurl.com/3bkcuud7
@gameassistyt.bsky.social
We are a collective standing for transformative justice & liberation through videogames. Find us on YouTube for video essays making political analysis of games accessible to all 💜 Art by knellbelles + @fionacreates.bsky.social
@mutanttheorist.bsky.social
Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies.
@soupdragonbea.bsky.social
sparkle emoji semantics fan | games researcher at Abertay University but also still a linguist | @IGDAFoundation '23 Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | she/her
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@retroali93.bsky.social
Senior QA at No Brakes Games, prev: Embedded Art Tester CIG, Game Dev Tutor Bradford College, QA tester TT Games (all views my own)
@dorukb.bsky.social
tending gardens, playing with tools, making games and toys iggi phd student @ uni of york researching game design & player creativity fuzul.itch.io
@citesandsounds.bsky.social
Making accessible audio navigation tools for video games! Weird and wonderful PhD Researcher with ADHD. Nerdfighter. Proud West Midlander. Mon the Biff. St Helens RFC and McLaren 🔴⚪🟠 Neighbour to all ♥️ citesandsounds.com
@sarah.games
📚 Doctoral Researcher in Games @UniofYork @iggi-phd 🌿 Researching Green Game Design by Making Games 🌸 Boutique Games Studio at @flora.games she/her/they/them https://sarahdotgames.itch.io/ https://sarah.games/
@robinjss.bsky.social
Professor of Game Design & Culture, Abertay University | Own views & musings on being a : researcher👨🔬 maker 🎨 teacher 👨🏫 gamer 🧑💻 sports fan 🏉 Scot 🏴 dad 👨👧👦
@martinlynagh.bsky.social
Game Maker, Lecturer in Game Production at Abertay University (Professional Projects Module Lead). Glasgow. Former Molecule. This is not a place of honour.
@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
@thevideogamelibrary.org
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️ New books added daily. • Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n • Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
@owithington.bsky.social
Game AI Research, Game Dev & Videos about games. he/they 🌐 owithington.co.uk 📹 youtube.com/@Bard_Hard
@elisamekler.bsky.social
sullen assoc prof @itu.dk Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory; ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027); I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
@liedra.net
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games Content co-lead #EMFCamp Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic https://liedra.net
@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
@carrythezero.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven
@rossfifield.bsky.social
Game Designer. Lecturer. User Researcher. PhD Researcher iGGi York. www.rossfifield.com