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Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value ๐Ÿ‘พ ๐ŸŒ http://investigate.games โœ‰๏ธ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk ๐Ÿ“ York St John University, UK

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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!๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿฉท #ASFF2025

11.11.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿงก If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!

๐Ÿงก 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 day๐Ÿ‘พ

11.07.2025 11:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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!โœจ

10.06.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Games studies PhD and Masters students, please check this out! A free event hosted by investigate.games at York St John University๐Ÿ’ซ๐ŸŒŸexcited for this years conferenceโœจ

21.05.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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! ๐Ÿงก

๐Ÿ”— Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

21.05.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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We (Xuechen Xu, Jen Beeston, and I) are conducting a short online survey ๐Ÿ“„ (~10 minutes) to learn about how players experience agency in video games ๐ŸŽฎ.
๐Ÿ”— lnkd.in/eNRGsgn7

If you've played a game recently and are willing to share your thoughts, weโ€™d really appreciate your participation ๐ŸŒธ

21.05.2025 11:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just a reminderโ€ฆ

We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!

๐Ÿ“ York St John University
๐Ÿ“† Friday 18th July

Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
๐Ÿ”— Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

07.05.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Donโ€™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 ๐Ÿงก

21.04.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for sharing, Beth! โœจ๐Ÿงก

05.03.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An amazing conference for PGRs in video games! Find the dates and submission details below! ๐ŸŽฎโญ๏ธ

27.02.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ll be honest, absolutely bricking it showing off Ascend as a Demo to the public but I also canโ€™t wait!
Weโ€™ve worked so hard to get here too like every other indie devs and itโ€™s going to be awesome seeing what people think ๐Ÿฅน

Any advice please send my way! ๐Ÿ˜
#indiedev #gamedev

26.02.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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! 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.

๐ŸšจCALL FOR PAPERS๐Ÿšจ

We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!

๐Ÿ“ York St John University
๐Ÿ“† Friday 18th July

Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
๐Ÿ”— Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

25.02.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

It was so great to meet the team! We had a great week ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿงก

25.02.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ๐Ÿ’›

#cabbie #indiedev #gamedev

24.02.2025 21:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last day of the Games Lab as part of the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿ‘พ itโ€™s been a great week with thousands of attendees popping by to play a range of games created by Yorkshire based game developers! ๐Ÿงก

23.02.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™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! ๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿงก

22.02.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

20.02.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!๐Ÿ‘พ

18.02.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So excited to have had my submission accepted for the PhD Consortium as part of this yearโ€™s DiGRA Conference in Malta!๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡น My first external and international conference, really looking forward to it โœจ

11.02.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are happy to announce the History of Games 2025 conference will take place on September 3-5 in Krakรณw, Poland, organized by joined effort of the Jagiellonian University and the SWPS University

www.history-of-games.com/call-for-pap...

10.02.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

02.02.2025 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@investigatedot.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow to keep up to date with the goingโ€™s on in the research group, events, publications and research opportunities. Exciting things coming very soon!!๐Ÿงก

31.01.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Currently in the process of moving from Twitter to BlueSky. Stay tuned ๐Ÿ‘พ

31.01.2025 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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31.01.2025 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0