Another successful Games Lab! This November marks our third year running the lab at Aesthetica Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who came along!👾🩷 #ASFF2025

🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day! 🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾

Thank you to everyone who submitted to present this year! I am so excited to be able to run the event again and looking forward to meeting and catching up with everyone!✨

investigate.games @ YSJ@investigatedot.bsky.social · last yr.

The third I.G PGR Conference is in little under 2 months and the submission portal is still open to accept submissions, with an amended deadline of Friday 6th June! 🧡 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

Games studies PhD and Masters students, please check this out! A free event hosted by investigate.games at York St John University💫🌟excited for this years conference✨

investigate.games @ YSJ@investigatedot.bsky.social · last yr.

The third I.G PGR Conference is in little under 2 months and the submission portal is still open to accept submissions, with an amended deadline of Friday 6th June! 🧡 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

The third I.G PGR Conference is in little under 2 months and the submission portal is still open to accept submissions, with an amended deadline of Friday 6th June! 🧡 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

We (Xuechen Xu, Jen Beeston, and I) are conducting a short online survey 📄 (~10 minutes) to learn about how players experience agency in video games 🎮. 🔗 lnkd.in/eNRGsgn7 If you've played a game recently and are willing to share your thoughts, we’d really appreciate your participation 🌸

Just a reminder… We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference! 📍 York St John University 📆 Friday 18th July Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

Don’t forget, we are hosting our annual PGR conference for those studying everything games! Check out the details below. A month left until the submission deadline 🧡

investigate.games @ YSJ@investigatedot.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference! 📍 York St John University 📆 Friday 18th July Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

An amazing conference for PGRs in video games! Find the dates and submission details below! 🎮⭐️

investigate.games @ YSJ@investigatedot.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference! 📍 York St John University 📆 Friday 18th July Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

I’ll be honest, absolutely bricking it showing off Ascend as a Demo to the public but I also can’t wait! We’ve worked so hard to get here too like every other indie devs and it’s going to be awesome seeing what people think 🥹 Any advice please send my way! 😁 #indiedev #gamedev

Miami Avalon - ✨Ascend Out On Steam✨@miamiavalon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our demo for Ascend comes out in 2 days! Wishlist now ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1944260/... #gamedev #indiedev #Ascend #ue5

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference! 📍 York St John University 📆 Friday 18th July Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

We loved seeing so many people having fun playing Cabbie! at Yorkshire Games Festival! Thank you @investigatedot.bsky.social for everything throughout the week! What an amazing location as well at the National Science and Media Museum 💛 #cabbie #indiedev #gamedev

Last day of the Games Lab as part of the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum 🕹️👾 it’s been a great week with thousands of attendees popping by to play a range of games created by Yorkshire based game developers! 🧡

It’s the last weekend of our Games Lab at the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum! This weekend we have a whole host of developers in attendance to showcase and talk you through their games - so come and take a look! 👾🧡

This edited collection on affect in fandom will be published soon in March. I contributed by writing a reflective chapter on affect and Genshin Impact and its romance mechanic. One of the greatest things about this collection is that the PDF version be freely available!

Nicolle Lamerichs@nicolleness.bsky.social · 2y ago

Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

This week we are at the Yorkshire Games Festival showcasing 23 games by Yorkshire based games developers at our Games Lab!The Lab is based at the National Science + Media Museum in Bradford from 15-23rd February, so do come down and take a look!👾

So excited to have had my submission accepted for the PhD Consortium as part of this year’s DiGRA Conference in Malta!🇲🇹 My first external and international conference, really looking forward to it ✨

We are happy to announce the History of Games 2025 conference will take place on September 3-5 in Kraków, Poland, organized by joined effort of the Jagiellonian University and the SWPS University www.history-of-games.com/call-for-pap...

@investigatedot.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow to keep up to date with the going’s on in the research group, events, publications and research opportunities. Exciting things coming very soon!!🧡

Currently in the process of moving from Twitter to BlueSky. Stay tuned 👾

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