writer, editor. ✍️ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
https://www.nicoleaclark.com/
Narrative Designer at Ho! Games
Currently working on Am I Nima and working towards publishing my first novel.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3224600/Am_I_Nima/
seattle area micro collective making games for the hell of it
Creative Director @crowhop.dev
"my wife" of @ohpoorpup.bsky.social
formerly Game Designer at Outerloop Games & CAPY
Dosa Divas | Thirsty Suitors | OKKO Let's Play Heroes
talk to me about mahjong and tokusatsu!
日本語 OK
Coming soon...
https://validategame.com/
Tumeke Studio is a Māori owned, independent R&D-driven game and systems studio building the tools and stories of tomorrow.
https://www.tumekestudio.com
Video games & deals. I post deals which may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Epic Creator Code: Wario64
Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
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.
artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
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.
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
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 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
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
Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
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.
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
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
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.
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
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/
Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
• 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
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.
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
📟 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
Nancy Drew nerd, pop culture prof, bookaholic.
Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
✨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
🔥 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
Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
Wordsman, gameswright. || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || subrosagames.itch.io || He/er/il
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
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
MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
Assistant Professor of Design, Informal and Creative Education, UW-Madison. Game and play scholar, potter and dog friend.
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
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
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
Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
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).
Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
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 🏳️⚧️
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.
Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
he/him | Game design prof🏅 | Game Designer 🕹️ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon)
linktr.ee/aaronlangille
DM for Podcast guest and/or public speaking info.
Playing to Save the World: Videogames and Environmental Humanities (2024)
The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (2017)
Representations of Poverty in Videogames (2022)
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
Humanités numériques, game studies, études japonaises | Professeur @Université de l'Ontario français | Co-editor (English) @Journal of Replaying Japan | 日本語でOK!
Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Associate Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Raccoon image from Lily Seika Jones 🎨
PhD student at University of Alberta, combining Critical ADHD Studies and Game Production research; Grad Rep for the Canadian Game Studies Association
Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Brock University. Lab Director of STAR Lab. At-Large Rep for CGSA and former Secretary for ICA Game Studies Division.
Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Wandering the mountains, lakes, trails, & waterfalls of NE Georgia...soon.
I use #AltText.
Banner: Yellow flowers with brown centers covered in ice.
PFP: A brownie with the word GA_Brownie written in white on top.
🇨🇦 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.
Graduate student. Former Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU Library. Interactive fiction writer and Mormon literary scholar wannabe. https://rwelean.itch.io/
Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
Assistant Prof. RPI ARTS/GSAS music + environment, sound studies, digital media & game studies Co-organizer @SwiftCon2021 & Music & the Internet 2023
Associate Professor of Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
I am the features editor at Edge magazine and one of the co-founders and co-editors of Bullet Points Monthly.
I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions.
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
Was @afterclimate on Twitter
Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
www.rosacarbo.co.uk
🎮 Creative Design Lead
💖 Pro-social design
🍊 Spanish in UK
👗 Sewist
💼 Prev Improbable, LoveShark, Nexus Studios, Games for the Many
🏆 30u30 2016, IGDA Next Gen Leader 2020, Campaigner of the Year 2018, BAFTA juror
✌🏼 she/her
Magazine killer, podcast maker.
Co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast.
Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Writer and editor. bylines at New York Times, Vulture, IGN, Esquire, Scientific American and more. ex-WaPo and CNN
shannonliao.substack.com for bespoke games journalism delivered to your inbox
Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Wrote Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses & etc. Now: research, podcasts, journalism, weird fiction.
BessLovejoy.wordpress.com
Writer of comics (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration coming 2029, NYT bestselling BOWIE, more), short stories, and film essays. Was an answer on Jeopardy. Repped by Markus Hoffmann. Cheesy movie writing here: https://mst3k.fan
Associate Art Director at That's No Moon. 🌖
Making a lil spooky game called TIDALFLATS for fun.
🇳🇱✨️Creative Director & Founder @veelpoot.com | Senior Game & Narrative Design: Marvel's Avengers, Lordbound. | Prev: Nixxes
Currently making Legacy of Orsinium, a quest expansion for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
la màquina és tan música catalana com la sardana
Award-nominated writer looking for work | Opinions my own | Narrative for Hindsight | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
senior writer and narrative designer 🎮📝
prev Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
personal account 🍞🌹 20th century lit phd 🎓🗡
she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
Creator of @observableradio.com
Freelance Writer and Narrative Designer
fmr: Avengers, Tomb Raiders, Star Warses
pod: observableradio.com
biz: cameronsuey.com
fic: thejosefkstories.com
(he/him)
Your local cryptid, best friend, & words guy. They/them.
🖊 Game Writer / Narrative Designer - Freelance Hire Me!
🌟 Portfolio: https://gameswriting.coffee
🌎 https://rebeccam.carrd.co
🌟 Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics / Yooka-Replaylee
I do small/micro consultation work for indies! Contact me.
I wrote Bury Me My Love, Haven, Road 96 - Prologue, Wednesdays and many more. https://pierrecorbinais.com/
Currently looking for work!
~Wednesdays is out!~
https://buttondown.com/Wednesdays
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/Wednesdays
✏️ Writer, Artist, Narrative Designer (scripts, stories, games and other stuff)
👻 Lover of all things weird
📺 Channel 4 New Writers 24/25
📚 Trustee Manchester City of Literature
🎬 BAFTA Connect
✍️ WIP: spec fic collection
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mickeypip
Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📗📕📘
⚠️Looking for Work 💼📚
README: http://jisaacgadient.com
🌐🔗 https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
