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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!✨

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✨

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 🧡

Thank you so much for sharing, Beth! ✨🧡

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

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

Call for Papers! Are you a postgraduate researcher researching video games, board games or any other type of play? We are looking for submissions by PGRs for 10 minute presentations at our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference. Location: York St John University Date: Friday 18th July, 2025 Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May, 2025 Submit your presentation proposals through the attached link. Any questions contact Caitlin at c.veal@yorksj.ac.uk.

🚨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

It was so great to meet the team! We had a great week 😊🧡

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!

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...

Thank you! Starter pack followed - please do let us know if there are any other important starter packs out there!!

@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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