Assistant Prof @Northeastern | CMU HCII, Stanford SymSys alum | Racial Justice, Transformational Game Design, Identity, Critical Design, and Human-Computer Interaction | she/her | mixed | 🩷💜💙
Game designer. HELLCOUCH, With You, Exploding Kittens: Good vs Evil, & lots more.
🃏 Board games: bit.ly/carolsBGG
🎮 Indie videogames: carolmertz.itch.io
🌱 Sustainable games: PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
she/her | st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (pixel art)
artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
One of those creative types: Word-y, geek-y, game-y (oh wait).
I've been making games, stories, media, books, jazzy products for oodles of clients for decades. Come see: hoppingfun.com
Game dev, writer, editor, consultant. Mass Effect Legendary Edition Community Council. The Game Awards Future Class. Accessibility Pro. Queer disabled Black superhero. she/her jay@jayjustice.net 🇯🇲♿🏳️🌈 in 🇹🇭 jayjustice.net/links
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
Take This is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization decreasing stigma and increasing support for mental health in games.
https://linktr.ee/takethisorg
ED of Take This: Mental Health & games, food, dogs, and probably politics. All views are mine, not those of any entity.
Narrative Designer at Remedy Entertainment | Your Queer Goth Mom™ | She/Her or They | I write, I doodle, I'm glad you're here | Thoughts are my own | https://briwilliams.co/
Researcher with Take This. Clinical psychologist using games in therapy with Respec Psychological Services. Opinions are all mine. (she/they)
I talk about my dogs a lot. 🐕🐕 Games stuff 🍎. MBA but mad about it, kinda Chinese, rickety millennial. She/They | catwendt.com
Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science • Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi • Phd psych • She/Her 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
celiahodent.com
aka Dr Goose. Clinical psychologist. Game designer. Research Affiliate at AU Game Center. Executive Director at Take This. She/her.
Visiting scholar at Imperial College |
foaad.net
Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism/UNESCO Chair in Communication, founder/director Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication, School of Journalism and Media
Professor, Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern University’s Medill School. Formerly Washington Post, NatGeo, Poynter+
Big Local News; for Knight Chair ASU & Duke; WaPo and NYT alum
Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
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 designer, educator, parent.
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
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 Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
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!
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
Play scholar, among other things
Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
(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.
Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
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/
Professor in HCI @ USYD, Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
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 scholar, academic, professor at University of Utah's Division of Games
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
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
Senior Technical Project Manager @weareagog.bsky.social, Founding Advisor @anima-interactive.com, Former Director of Production at Games for Change
I produce games/XR to support my cooking habit. 🎲🍲🍘🎮
Banner image from SABLE by Shedworks
Helping you make parenting, learning, & tech less overwhelming
Gaming Dad | EdTech | Failed Pro Wrestler
📍Baltimore
Worked with HP, Microsoft, Intel, Meta, Games for Change, Code.org, and more
#Parenting #TTRPG #Gaming #Wrestling
Founder of Psychgeist. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
The official Bluesky of Vanity Fair
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 9-13, 2026, in San Francisco!
President, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS/DICE Summit, etc). Hates coconut. Likes robots. Needs coffee.
Founder of https://fathom.info, co-founder of https://processing.org, lecturer at https://mit.edu
Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com
Exploring the Potential of Play -- http://gamelab.mit.edu/
Games / Computational Media, Music. American University. Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
(Anthropologist/Researcher of)Game Developer(s)
NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
Prof @ Parsons NYC, game designer, lapsed bagpipe player. Colleenmacklin.com
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist.
NEW from The MIT Press w/ Tracy Fullerton: “The Well-Read Game” a.co/d/6oAphWV
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
Professor at @AU_SOC, Director at @AUGameCenter, President at @theHEVGA. Personal acct. he/him
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
official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
![Casey O'Donnell [he/him]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:xdm45dlgh43t4nlv3biqc5we/bafkreihhgdzht4thr6ktjkkrq47q4dnuez4jlhu55wyp5ln5wjcz5oe6gi@jpeg)
