Today's gaming ethusiast is older than you might think, finds OU research student. My first press release on my PhD work, with a bit of ...
Being more open about my research
As I mentioned in the last post, my recent part-time work where I've been looking at digital scholarship at the OU, has got me thinking ...
ECGBL 2011 - Athens
After rearranging flights to avoid the air traffic control strike, I made it to Athens last week for the 5th European Conference of Game Bas...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
conference
engagement
game design
gender
meaningful experience
research
DiGRA 2011: Hilversum (Part 2)
The next day started just as well as the first with a keynote from Suzanne de Castell and Jen Jenson titled "Playing with fire: Liber...
DiGRA 2011: Hilversum (Part 1)
I recently got back from the 5th DiGRA conference - it was held at the Utrecht School of Arts in Hilversum, and has seriously given me a lo...
EARLI 2011: Exeter
Hmm, can't believe it's been two years since the last EARLI! This time it was held at the University of Exeter, so a little easier t...
Sunday, April 3, 2011
emotional engagement
Humour
meaningful experience
open-ended gameplay
RPG
shared
Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
I want to talk about Mass Effect 2 because it's the first seriously long game in ages that I've been thoroughly engrossed in and wa...