Welcome to the frantic, desperate ramblings of a PhD student approaching a deadline.
https://www.noahkleiter.com/
MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
Dad, husband, drummer, and DevOps/Platform/Data engineer. Play testing indie retro games in my spare time.
He/him
Writer, scholar, game maker. Researching feminist gameplay, queer play, and digital culture.
Digital Humanities MA @ University of Alberta
Instructor @ MacEwan University
Proud dev of https://bsky.app/profile/chickensinmyhead.bsky.social
A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system. Created by @chrismaltby.com
Artist, Game Developer, Forest Hag, Dino Fiend. Lots o' hobbies. Marketing Strategist @hitpointpress.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
https://allisonmacalister.com/
🇨🇦🏳️🌈
she/they
Phd candidate in Psychology @unisevilla.bsky.social
Bert of Psicodigitalizadas
#FanStudies #GenderStudies #DigitalActivism #CulturalPsychology
Editorial Collective advancing #LeftMMT, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
(posts do not reflect the views of my employer)
Hybrid Media Artist - Professor - Author - Fulbright Scholar
Game culture journalist ✍️ Radio person 📻 Presenter 🎙️ Researcher 🧐 Pinball enthusiast 🪩 Pac-Man runner-up 🟡 Indie- & retrogames celebrator 👾
• Podcast 💬: sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/fm4-game-podcast
• Pinball ⚪: https://TheBallisWild.net
Vienna, Austria
Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
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
Book Dragon | 40+ Mess | Taken 💕| Chicago 🌈
Your friendly, neighborhood redhead. I like puppies, hope, and the occasional swordfight. #resist They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️
Vice-president for research at University Bordeaux Montaigne.
Comics scholar, writer, player of games, teaching American culture. My latest book: Moebius (UP Mississippi in 2025)
https://cv.hal.science/nicolas-labarre
(elle • she/her)
Québécoise /// 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 rights defender
Law nerd (LL.B.). Féministe. Antifasciste. I document anti-trans policy and legislation in Canada (and beyond). Empathy is a human value. Views are my own.
web: celeste.lgbt
I made GameHistory.org and you can too
Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
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).
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
professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
Wordsman, gameswright. || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || subrosagames.itch.io || He/er/il
🇨🇦 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.
🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is here!!! 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue
Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
• Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
• Post-PhD, 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
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Women's and Gender Studies at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/pornography🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨ Current work: The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com
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.
professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
aspiring Doctor of D&D @ YorkU (on leave) • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Coms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
Applied Data Science Librarian+Multilingual Digital Humanist+Computational Community Building+++
Takes classes for fun. Gushes about cool papers. Views my own.
the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface
Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Queer PhD student in Quebec exploring care ethics in community-based participatory design research with the queer/disabled community through textile arts and e-textiles.
https://linktr.ee/brockorama
✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨TT Asst Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of Soft Chaos Cooperative. 🌈35. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
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
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
📟 Sociologist studying people who are nostalgic for a past that has never happened, and a future that will never arrive.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
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.
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
@ Intersectional Tech Lab (U. Michigan)
Comms Officer 🎤
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Writing a book on games and exhaustion that's under contract with Duke University Press!
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
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!
PhD'ing on bodily and cultural techniques of computer game play. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin @ HfG Offenbach. Editor @ Paidia. Game Studies, Media Culture Studies. Header is a screen grab from The Red Strings Club.
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
🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Artist-Researcher-Curator @𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴
Creator 𝗈𝖿 ↯ @wwwtxt.bsky.social
Core Areas: Computing Arts • Net Cultures • Media Histories • Cyberfeminism
⌭ she/her ＊ KEER•ah ♡彡
kyraocean.com
past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
calendar & open house hours: https://mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
(account monitored by all lab staff)
Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
Official account of the Independent Video Design program at Dawson College in Montreal. Home of the only recurring #indiegame #playtest event in Montreal!
https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/aec/programs/independent-video-game-design/
Cell biologist: Microscopy, cilia, fibrosis, and planaria | Postdoc in Toronto | Hailing from VT | Advocate for Postdocs 🇨🇦 | (she/her)
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, voluntarily de-convenienced.
this is the most professional account i have.
if i block it's because your profile reads like a bot.
she/they/anything but he.
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Hollering about games, narrative, RPGs & horror. Too much D&D??? Social Justice Warlock. She/Her
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
✉️ info@pixelles.ca
Chair of the Open Hardware Summit 🔧 + @oshwassociation board member + Radio Snack Executive Director 📻🥨 PhD in space stuff 🌌🚀
artist. cyborg. professional enthusiastic weirdo.
leecyb.org
they/he/iel + accords masculin 🏳️⚧️⚧️
En/Fr
🦯🦮
Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
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).
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 WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @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
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Post-doc at the University of Waterloo. Game history and labour scholar.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
