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...
GameCity 5 and Jonathan Blow's commentary on Braid
So like I said I was in Nottingham last week for a couple of things, as well as the ITAG conference there was the GameCity 5 . I went along ...
ITAG conference
I was in Nottingham last week for a couple of things, including the Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and Game s confe...