New research highlights how game makers can design for trans-inclusivity – because if we want trans joy in the world, we will have to design for it.
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Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.
Cosy, personal games, as I discovered, can change the lives of the people who make them and those who play them.
Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on December 7.
Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
I’m a game design researcher focused on creating systems that allow games to be played by anyone. There cannot be a better example of that than The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
A former video game executive offers advice on how to land a job in the industry.
Far from fading away in the digital age, board games are enjoying a boom time because they are social, challenging and tangible. And designers are using technology to create new ways to play.
As Netflix plans additional choose-your-own-adventure TV movies, a game designer explains how they’re made and the long history of audience-directed fiction.
More innovative teaching and learning is needed to disrupt the current techno talk about the fourth industrial revolution.
Obesity and malnutrition now coexist across sub-Saharan Africa thanks to a transition to Western diets. “Gamifying” nutrition programs can help nudge youth towards healthier eating patterns.
The federal government should set the country on an innovation path that takes account of where some of the strongest job growth is occurring.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth
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Senior lecturer in Games and Visual Effects, University of Staffordshire
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Professor and Dean of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of the West of Scotland
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Game developer and research fellow, University of Southampton
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Casual Academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Creative Writing PhD Candidate
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Lecturer in Games Studies and Game Design, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor in the School of Film, Trinity College Dublin
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Lecturer in Digital Film & Television, Department of Film and Television, University of Bristol
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Lecturer, School of Computing & Information Systems/Interaction Design Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Game Design, Texas A&M University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor and Director, School of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology