Pierre-Yves Hurel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and part of the Swiss National Science Foundation–Sinergia research project Confoederatio 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.

Adrian Demleitner is a researcher at the Institute of Design Research HKB (Switzerland) whose work is situated at the intersection of critical code studies, visuality, and video game studies. As part of Confoederatio Ludens, which examines the history of video games in Switzerland, he is currently engaged in research for his dissertation. His research explores the intricate relationship between code and visuality in video games, with a particular emphasis on the code practices employed in early video games.