Our names are Emrys Brandt, a PhD student, and Travis Wagner, an Assistant Professor, both within the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We are conducting a research study to assess users of the Bitsy game engine for its role as a site of queer knowledge production. 

Participants will be interviewed for roughly 1 hour about their use of Bitsy. Participants must be 18 years or older, queer-identifying, US-based, and have used the game engine Bitsy and/or actively participate on social media and web platforms related to Bitsy (such as the Bitsy community forum!). Should you agree to participate in this survey your identity will be kept confidential. The study has received an exemption from the University of Illinois’ institutional ethics board (IRB Package Number IRB26-1147).

If you are interested, please fill out the recruitment survey, and the research team will be in touch: https://forms.gle/KpidL8XAcqUWKsvq5