Associate Professor @ the University of York, UK.
Research: HCI, video games, research methods.
Interests: travelling to see places I miss out on calling home, making crappy art, playing weird video games.
CS4FN is currently an EPSRC funded project to inspire and educate about interdisciplinary computer science in a fun way. Read our blog at cs4fn.blog. Posts by Paul Curzon. Views are my own.
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. Sharing news, opportunities and events for students, staff, alumni and friends - https://www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/
Game designer. Lead dev for Bane, Unexplored 2, and Unexplored. Also dabbles with board game design.
Teaches game studies, generative narratology, and game design at Leiden University.
Professor @JKU Linz | Game Computing | Ass. Prof. @TU Eindhoven | Adj. Prof. @Ontario Tech | head: replaylab @JKU | editor of "Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment" | #gamesUR, #GameAnalytics, #infoviz autoteles.org
Director of Studies at Goldsmiths, UoL • Senior Lecturer • Game AI • Game Developer • Shader Master • Content Creator
Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
Indie studio making lil games that make you think and wonder
LOK Digital: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2207440/LOK_Digital/
1 Billion Spells, Constellations
Join our discord! https://discord.gg/RjjnkbvT
Game dev & miscellaneous creative
PhD: Seriously casual games
https://lugossian.com/
Postdoc at the Oxford Internet Institute - video games, mental health, open research, theory generation.
Lecturer in Psychology at LJMU and PhD student at Uni of York researching persistent low mood and gaming habits. Professional book reviewer, amateur tea lover
Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
Postdoc at Uni of Lincoln | Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2025 | HCI researcher studying emerging tech + ethics 🎮 | London, UK 📍 | find me at the cinema 🎦
Senior Games User Researcher @ Square Enix | PhD in Player Experience | Previously @ Player Research | 👾 video games 🎲 board games ⚡️pokemon tcg ☕️ coffee & possibly other things | she/her
Games researcher, larper, occasional pixel artist
Currently building Cellular City
Heard before being seen | PhD Researcher on Video Games and Wellbeing @iggi-phd.bsky.social | Magic: The Gathering eternal formats enthusiast | linktr.ee/saharmirhadi
Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College. Editor-in-Chief, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
