@npr.org correspondent reporting on how elections, the census and the U.S. Postal Service work • signal: hansi.01 • email: hwang@npr.org • newsletter: hansilowang.com/stay-in-touch
Hype-free analysis and deep-dives into AI for game development.
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information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Discovering the arcade's past!
A journey through the history of coin-op. Games, jukeboxes, vending, and more from the 1st century to the 20th!
Also @playhistory.bsky.social
All-tech enthusiast and total retro/Linux geek | She/Her 🏳️⚧️ | Former host/writer @linusmediagroup.com
📺 YouTube
youtube.com/@emily-young
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New York Times Bestselling Author, world creator, consultant and games developer specialising in SF and Fantasy. Proud daddy. Whitecishet. He / him.
#Author at Black Library, Solaris, Tor.com and Angry Robot. Ex-journalist and editor. Screenwriter, world-builder, ponderer. Angry goblin in a human world. Interested in far more things than I can possibly list in this puny box.
Senior Developer and UX designer at Learnbeat.nl + Researcher of PCG & Computational Creativity. Passion for art, technology, games and science.
Personal website: nielspoldervaart.nl
Serial lurker.
Never had the opportunity to punch a Nazi, but boy, it's getting more likely.
ML, Gen AI, Expressive Technologies, and Games! @Google sites.google.com/view/sherol
President of DiGRA, NYU Game Center Prof, gamer, author, mom, cosplayer, RPG nerd.
Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists.
Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
Senior Technical Designer @ Playtonic, ex Sumo, ex Rare | 💜 #Epilepsy Awareness 💜 | #Childfree | #Atheist | Mod Author | Physicist | Views are my own!
Dad, Gamer, Technologist. Head of Technology @ Riot Games
PhD in AI/ML | Consultant | Data & Strategy Enthusiast | Columnist @ElFinanciero | Exploring the intersection of AI, business, and innovation | Gamer & Book Lover
creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. 🏆Deloitte Fast 500 🏆Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
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.
Canada Research Chair, Professor of Computer Science researching HCI and HCAI—specifically games.
Associate Professor in Game Design at DePaul University; PhD; Serious Games; AR/VR; HCI; design ideation; he/him. https://hexlab.cdm.depaul.edu/
CEO of UX is Fine.
For 24 years I've been helping folks find the fun, remove the suck, and build memorable games.
I still love it.
Pin this Games UX Feed ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xvrnhouybvtbnubekvvevhjn/feed/gameux
#gameux #gameuxr #gamesux
🔥 making playful things
🐦⬛ he/him
🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Assistant Professor in Interaction, Multimedia @Utrecht University | HCI, AI, Games, Esports | Dr. Rer.-Nat.
Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
Private account, mostly Warhammer;
Senior Game Designer for
Electronic Arts Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment;
Worked on games you know and on games precious few played.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jandavidhassel
Assoc. Prof. Masaryk University, @hcilabmuni | Visit. Prof. at University for Continuing Education Krems |Researcher at AIT Austrian Insititute of Technology | Research: #HCI #Games #GamesUR #Visualization
💻Computer Scientist🖼Art Historian👨🏫Prof in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
From SLAM to Spatial AI; Professor of Robot Vision, Imperial College London; Director of the Dyson Robotics Lab; Co-Founder of Slamcore. FREng, FRS.
Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
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.
Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play &
Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
Machine learning, D&D, music
Currently at The Coalition studio, Vancouver.
Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer.
Views my own.
Player experience researcher, crafting XR experiences and Games, Co-design, Immersive Data Visualisation.
Spent more than 35 years exploring the worlds of Warhammer & Warhammer 40,000.
The home of #RandomWhiteDwarfCover
You can also find me on YouTube https://youtube.com/@wargamesmodelsandotherhobbies
he/him
Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 news, conversations, and updates!
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Atlanta. Content Strategy Guy. I like bike rides & movies & comics & my sweet Elizabeth. Steven Soderbergh directed me to eat cake on the big screen and I NAILED IT. 🍰
I’m el_gray on most other sites.
indie game dev
Assault Android Cactus🔋, Unpacking📦, Tempopo🌷
Senior Games User Researcher at Amazon Games/ ex Bethesda ex Daybreak ex Scopely ex Volition/ my opinions are my own/ Golden retriever gamer boyfriend/ #foreverDM
SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences. In the past: Maven CEO, Lead at OpenAI, head of basic/core research at Uber AI, professor at UCF.
Stuff I helped invent: NEAT, CPPNs, HyperNEAT, novelty search, POET, Picbreeder.
Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Plann
AI and Games Enthusiast, Researcher & Educator
comp media phd student @ ucsc
Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Postdoctoral researcher. #Physiotherapy #Epidemiology #Sex #Gender #Hypertension #Pain
🇵🇷 Asst. Prof. of AI, CogSci, Interactive Narrative, Game Design, & VR in the Division of Games at the University of Utah. He/They.
https://mkremins.github.io
I run the Narrative Intelligence Lab at U Kentucky where I do research and teach about storytelling, old school symbolic AI, and game dev. http://cs.uky.edu/~sgware
Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Visiting scholar at Imperial College |
foaad.net
Games / Computational Media, Music. American University. Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
(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.
Play scholar, among other things
Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
Researcher in Interaction Design, AI, Games & Robots
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
science, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
Just a they/them programmer | VAP at University of Richmond
Github: http://github.com/MasterMilkX
Itch: http://mastermilkx.itch.io
Procedural generation researcher. Currently making games.
https://procedural-generation.tumblr.com
#procgen #gamedev
Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
He/him. Assoc. Professor of Games and Digital Media, UCF. Co-PI NSF Virtual Experience Research Accelerator. VR, AI, Interactive Narratives, Authoring Platforms. Co-author of Flash: Building the Interactive Web, Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider
Assistant Professor IGM at RIT. AI for games and storytelling.
He/Him. PCG Person -- @ CD Projekt Red, formerly a professor at Cal Poly Pomona
HCAI @ GU
Check out our podcast where we try to understand what human-centered artificial intelligence actually means. Every episode features a new guest and a new perspective on HCAI.
https://hcai.se
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
Game designer. Lead dev for Bane, Unexplored 2, and Unexplored. Also dabbles with board game design.
Teaches game studies, generative narratology, and game design at Leiden University.
Phd in Procedural Content Generation in games. Ex game engine developer. Level design mad scientist.🤘🏳️⚧️🇫🇷
PREORDER The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: http://bit.ly/49gyZmp
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Head of User Research @ Amazon Games | Making games since 2008 | Bethesda and Volition alum | Midwest is Best | Opinions expressed are my own | She/Her
Games User Researcher studying player behavior & game design. May post about GamesUR, bad mashups, Undertale/Deltarune, Guilty Gear, or pro wrestling. He/They.
🎮 Games User Research Consultant, author of “How To Be A Games User Researcher” | Make games players love: http://gamesuserresearch.com 👾
Gamedev - Research & Accessibility
(Prev. Research @EA, Accessibility @EA/Xbox)
Disabled (ADHD, Autistic, TBI, Aphasia, etc)
He/Him
[she/they]
Associate Principal User Researcher, Warcraft Franchise
#a11y; PhD; Druid; Social Justice Waluigi
shitposts are my own.
PFP: @flamingomymango.bsky.social
Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science • Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi • Phd psych • She/Her 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
celiahodent.com
Director of IMGD at WPI. Game design, generative AI, computational craft, generative design, feminist tech, mom stories. she/they
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
MD at Player Research. Inspiring creatives and empowering gamedev leaders with research that makes great games.
BAFTA. IGDA. A11y.
Founder of Psychgeist. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Professor @JKU Linz | Game Computing | Ass. Prof. @TU Eindhoven | Adj. Prof. @Ontario Tech | head: replaylab @JKU | editor of "Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment" | #gamesUR, #GameAnalytics, #infoviz autoteles.org
Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Working on a new FPS with a great team. Game designer, programmer, Indigenerd. We're hiring! He/Him. Discord: http://discord.gg/romero
