Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre member Rob Gallagher has two new(ish) publications out: a chapter on the Hitman series in the edited collection Video Games and Comedy and an open access article on autobiographical videogames for Convergence….
Read MoreIf you couldn’t make it to Multiplatform 2022, or just want to rewatch any of the fantastic talks, you can now find a playlist on YouTube with recordings from both days.
Read MoreSubmissions are invited for a volume on Ancient Egypt in Video Games edited by Man Met Game Centre member Jennifer Cromwell.
Read MoreMan Met Game Centre co-director Chloé Germaine has recently published an original TTRPG, The Bureau of Irregularities, via the indie community publisher, The Gauntlet. The Bureau of Irregularities is inspired by and emulates the sorts of stories told in the British science fiction television show Sapphire and Steel (Peter J. Hammond, 1979 - 1982).
Read MoreLast month, Man Met Game Centre member Charlotte Gislam organised a postgraduate symposium focusing on the idea that board games can be made to explore research projects and provide creative ways to visualise aims, methodologies, goals, and findings.
Read MoreLéa Martinez, Game in Lab/Asmodee PhD student, works on the impact of board gaming on the development of cognitive functions and academic learning, in adults and teenagers. In the context of her PhD, she has developed an online survey about players’ experiences.
Read MoreManchester Metropolitan Game Centre member, Jennifer Cromwell, has recently published research on the video game Persona 5 (Atlus and P Studio, 2016). The article explores the representation of the Ancient Egyptian world in the game and is available in the open access online journal, Thersites (Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date).
Read MoreThis week we made the first of a series of visits to St Peter’s RC High School in Belle Vue where we’re working with pupils on the Game in Lab/Libellud Foundation funded ‘Games Imagining the Future’ project. The project investigates the ways in which board games might be used to support young people’s understandings of the crisis; to evaluate games as a tool through which they can explore and share their ideas about the climate crisis; and to identify the ways in which games mobilise individual or collective action.
Read MoreThe Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre are extending our call for papers for inclusion in Multiplatform 2: Corporealities, a two-day conference on bodies and embodiment in games, supported by Game in Lab and the Centre for Creative Writing, English, Languages and Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Read MoreThis video is a recording of a panel hosted by the Game Centre on current trends in LARP research with Michaël Freudenthal and Evan Torner, chaired by Chloé Germaine.
Read MoreIn this blog post, Man Met Game Centre member Jennifer Cromwell reviews Role-Play as a Heritage Practice by Michał Mochocki.
Read MoreUtrecht University is hosting a summer school on ecogames, bringing together researchers in the field from across Europe.
Read MoreIn this blog post, Man Met Game Centre member Dylan Yamada-Rice reviews A Playful Production Process by Richard Lemarchand.
Read MoreThe Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre is pleased to invite submissions to Multiplatform 2: Corporealities, a two-day conference on bodies and embodiment in games.
Read MoreMMGC Visiting Professor Dr Colin Harvey has written and presented a programme for BBC Radio 4 entitled The Origins of the Metaverse, which aired at 8pm on Saturday 12th March as part of the Archive on 4 strand and is now available online on BBC Sounds.
Read MoreIn this video, Tabitha Nikolai and Rob Gallagher talk about Tabitha's performances, installations and virtual environments. They discuss discuss the relationship between gameplay, roleplay, history and magic, to understand the forms of trans becoming and transphobic radicalisaition occurring in online spaces and gaming communities today.
Read MoreIn this video Paul Booth shares his thoughts on the research process of Board Games as Media, considering how the situation of the researcher constructs the communities being investigated. Aaron Trammell takes a historical view of hobby gaming, tracing its roots in white supremacy. Tanya Pobuda shares her ethnographic and participatory research on player experiences of exclusion, and makes the provocation that the games industry is only willing to consider these issues through the lens of profit, rather than engaging in empathy.
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