Pierre-Yves Hurel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and part of the SNSF-Sinergia-research project “Confœderatio Ludens: Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design.” His work focuses mainly on amateur game-making and regional video game history. He is a collaborator at the GameLab UNIL-EPFL and cofounder of the Liège Game Lab (Belgium).

Sophie Bemelmans is a PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and part of the SNSF-Sinergia-research project “Confœderatio Ludens: Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design.” Her research focuses on the social, cultural, practical, and technical history of Smaky microcomputers—manufactured in Lausanne between the 1970s and the 1990s—and their ludic software.