Casey O'Donnell [he/him]

They/them. PhD Student, cooking enjoyer, haunted by affordance theory and generally interested in the history of game studies, queer theory and other chthonic topics.

Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | jschreier@gmail.com

Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/

Respect. Fairness. A Voice. We are UTSF, the Union of Tenure-System Faculty at Michigan State University. #UnionStrong

Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi

Academy Research Fellow & Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Tampere University (Finland). Akatemiatutkija ja pelitutkimuksen apulaisprofessori Tampereen yliopistossa.

OA, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of social media and its implications for society. Follow for cutting edge trends in this emerging field. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/home/SMS

Subscribe: superjoost.substack.com (over 14,000 subs!) Academic and entrepreneur with expertise in video games • Author of ONE UP • Advisor @ Makers Fund • Teaches @NYUStern • Hosts @UNBOXINGpod

💾 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

I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/

host and founder, Post Games co-host, The Besties https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames https://postgame.substack.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711 Signal: plante.01

Social Cognition and Media Psychology Lab run by David Ewoldsen and Nancy Rhodes @ Michigan State https://www.scamp-lab.com/home

Researcher into game studies, game histories, motivation for play, ethics of game design, creativity and world-building. Capoeirista, HEMA practitioner, larper, TTRPG designer/publisher. HE teacher and UCU activist but my views represent only me.

Associate Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University

Assistant Professor at CMU HCII | Director of https://techsolidaritylab.com/

🔭 Science in Solidarity co-founder | 🗞️ newsletter: https://buttondown.com/scienceinsolidarity/#subscribe-form | 🚨 action hours: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wxnDlXzhQHypIwScvcnRNg?utm_source=scientistsinsolidarity&utm_medium=email#/registration

Audio Implementer at @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social Sound designer. REAPER nerd. @Gameaudioboston.bsky.social organizer. Berkshire County, MA. 🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈 [ [ opinions are my own ] ] { he/him } https://bolttracks.com

#InternationalRelations, #ScienceDiplomacy, #ExchangeDiplomacy | CEO Fulbright Finland Foundation

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

Game Designer | Narrative Design Professor at NAD-UQAC Research-creation, inclusive games, and cultural citizenship. 🎮🧁 🔗 laulgame.itch.io 🔗 https://cltrs.start.page ☕ support me: https://ko-fi.com/laurelinemhc

Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism

📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK ✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature 🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu 🌐 https://cozymedia.net/

Research Asst Prof at Morgan State University - social scientist who studies discourse, masculinity, and disparities, specifically in male-dominated subcultures (like game communities and social media). Army veteran. UMBC grad.

Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)

proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män

Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.

Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad. Every billionaire is a policy failure. davidhprice.com

Non-binary queer disabled artist/designer who loves performing weddings. Pronouns: xey/xem/xeirs

Hi. I’m your nice friend.

Taiwan-based anthropologist. 人類學家與台灣新住民。 https://kerim.one My Triptych newsletter: https://triptych.oxus.net/

Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.

http://paoloruffino.com Senior Lecturer at Dept. Digital Humanities - King's College London / Artist at IOCOSE / Current project: Videogames for the Post-Anthropocene

Educator, researcher, grad department director. Maximizing benefits and minimizing harms of technology. Human factors of cybersecurity. Views are my own.

Host of "The Bobby Blackwolf Show" podcast about the Video Game Industry since 2005, recording LIVE Sundays 8PM ET/5PM PT on VOGNetwork Twitch Twitch Affiliate Panel Moderator and Event Host Software Developer (not in gaming) biz at bobbyblackwolf dot com

Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Husband, father of two. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge

Hi, I’m Mark Maletska (he/him), game studies scholar working in queer game studies!

Associate Prof at UNC Charlotte; Gremlin-raiser; #firstgen college graduate; digital inequality researcher

I help people make games DevPods.gg GameDev since 97. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor. Formerly IGDA LA, IndieCade, Extra Credits. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 170k podcast DL. Vegan 24 years. Mask😷 he/him

flâneur, bricoleur, professor of wisdom, master of none, seeker of autonomy

• The official Valheim account • Available on Humble, Microsoft, Mac, Xbox & Steam • Made something? #ValheimFanart #ValheimBotM

Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal

Technology Writer, Videogame Researcher, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd. (He/Him)

Game researcher (Doctor of Arts) at Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä. Researching migrants in the game industry and gamer & game dev culture in Korea and Finland :)

I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t. Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought. Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙 2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee

We offer an interdisciplinary and energetic learning environment united by a passion for media and information. In our state-of-the-art labs, we research new avenues of communication technology and computer-centered interaction. https://mi.msu.edu

Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.

Horror, thriller, and fantasy author, future ghost, and film and video game nerd. Next: LIVINGSTON GIRLS | she/her 💖💙💜

Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play & Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Games writer, narrative designer, game design tool developer. Occasional waster of time on social media. @haikus_by_KN in the bad place. J'habite en région parisienne; parfois je m'exprime en français.

Knight Chair and professor, artist, author, speaker, designer…lover of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Comments are my own, not employers. ProfessorGrace.com

Games scholar, academic editor and coach, book cover illustrator, webmaster, PC builder, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Appalachian State U. Need input on a project? Hire me! Letters to students: https://markdangerchen.net/letters/

Geospatial computing, user studies, emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech. The spaces between these domains contain insights we have forgotten.

Serial iterator. Musical orchestrator. Library game collector / services promulgator. Streaming the Game Studies Guild at twitch.tv/gsgmsu

Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.

Associate Professor of Spanish and 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

Assoc Prof@AmerU (views mine). 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.

Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Larp scholar, Music lover and Musician.

Collector of academic degrees and chronic illnesses. Mom. Creator of dust-gathering wonders. Cripplingly incapable of participating in capitalism.

Anthropologist of Innovation (and all the hype that entails) | Asst Prof of Anthro, TXST | Director of InnoAnth Lab | CASTAC Web Producer | She/Her | ak.vbroek.org | All Opinions My Own

Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others) Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ ) Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc. https://metasynthie.itch.io/ Opinions are only my own!

Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games

Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.

Neurospicy disabled anarchist trans lady, making art, music, stories, poetry, and trouble. Recovering academic. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Patreon: patreon.com/MothMotherTess Moth Mother Studios: MothMother.com/ Consulting: TessTanen.com Everything Else: linktr.ee/MothMother

Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture. www.aftermath.site

Game spaces & production environments, DEI, players of games, media anthropology. Game Scholar & Instructional Designer From: 🇩🇪 - Currently: 🇫🇮

Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter

Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).

PHD student at Tampere University Game Research Lab. Freelance writer. Feminist. Antifascist. Comp Age of Sigmar player. Warhammer researcher. Poly Lesbian. Part-time Mancunian. She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️ 33 https://medium.com/@aasa.timonen4 https://throne.com/aasat

Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University

Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962. Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the U Chicago Press Replay series

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.

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!

The Finnish society for game research. Posts FIN/ENG. Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura on monitieteinen pelitutkimusta edistävä yhdistys. Tältä tililtä jaamme ajankohtaista tietoa pelitutkimukseen ja pelikulttuureihin liittyen. www.pelitutkimus.fi

Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.

Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog @Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc

Snacks, sneakers, Seattle, sideo games.

Game Studies’ Feminist Killjoy | she/her

Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist. Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour

Researching diversity in the game industry for work and learning traditional renovation techniques for fun. Chopping wood when thinking is too much. Work: https://projects.tuni.fi/pegasus-fi/ https://coe-gamecult.org/

Play scholar, among other things

Game culture researcher, teacher, mother, neurodivergent, she/her. Academic interests: game jams, learning and games, co-creativity, ttrpgs, actual play, streaming, game communities, board game design. Other: coffee, chocolate, fantasy, silence, politics.

Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA Books: 1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫 2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius) https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet

Professor Bridget "Why wouldn't I open the Ark of the Covenant and look directly into it?" Blodgett, personal Tumblr curator. Games, Feminism, and Design Scholar.

PhD. Game scholar and designer out for new opportunities. Game studies, game design, games and learning, board games, TTG, 4x, pc, ps4, crpg, ttrpg, history, politics, geeking, music, djing, goth, post-punk

📖Research: planetary boundaries, apples, orchards, sustainable food systems 🌍Interests: European heatwaves, deep ecology, biodiversity loss, GCR and ER, ecological economics 🚶‍♂️Outside: Scandinavia, archipelagos, glaciers 🍰Food: lussekatter, semla, tosca

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

|Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)

STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Professor of Communication, Cornell https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io

NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler. https://clarafv.com

Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️‍⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop

Taking the scenic route through life. Formerly: PhD in the history of science @Harvard. Currently: exchanging crappy US fascism for crummy UK fascism Tarot, historical research, writing & editing, tutoring & consulting at drturners.com

Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people. Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion

Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.