SCMS Video Game Studies
scmsvideogames.bsky.social
SCMS Video Game Studies
@scmsvideogames.bsky.social
The Official Blue Sky account for the SCMS Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Introducing our VGSSIG grad student rep for this year, @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social! A PhD candidate at Carleton University, she is researching the queer indie game scene(s), game bundles, and queer survival on itch. She's played 1700+ hours (yikes) of League of Legends. Indie fave: Sword & Sworcery.
October 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A warm welcome to one of our VGSSIG graduate student reps, Caleb Ward!! Caleb is a PhD student at Georgia State University interested in the political economy of game platforms. His most played video game is Marvel Rivals with 300 hours, and indie fave is Sorry We're Closed. Welcome aboard, Caleb!!
September 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next up is our VGSSIG Secretary, @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social. Evan is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include role-playing games as ideology, self-reflexivity, and adaptation. Over 200 hours on Cobalt Core(!!) and one of his fave indies is Itras By.
September 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Meet our VGSSIG Co-Chair, @thejimfleury.bsky.social!! Jim is a senior lecturer @ Washington University interested in video game history, licensed video games, and retrogaming. Another big Legend of Zelda fan (Breath of the Wild, this time) and indie favourite It Takes Two 👯
August 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excited to introduce one of our VGSSIG Co-Chairs,
@davidkocik.bsky.social!! David is an asst. prof at Quinnipiac University interested in discourses of identity in the circulation of Japanese video games to the US. Catch him playing The Legend of Zelda: TotK or maybe role-playing in Disco Elysium 👾
August 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM