Mixed-Realities Playkit to help children undertake an MRI scan
An interdisciplinary team that included academics in design and health, along with radiographers at Sheffield Children's NHS Trust set about working with the digital studio, Dubit to produce a playkit to help children aged 4-10-years-old prepare for an MRI scan without a general anaesthetic. The initial R&D project funded by Innovate UK and led by MMGC member Dylan Yamada-Rice, a Senior Lecturer in Immersive Storytelling in the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, produced a mixed realities playkit to help children prepare for different elements of the MRI experience. These are (1) physical play to learn about an MRI scanner, (2) augmented reality play to learn about the job of a radiographer, and (3) virtual reality play to explore the journey of having an MRI scan from entering the hospital to completion.
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New Publications HUMOUR IN HITMAN AND (POST)HUMANITY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL GAMES
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….
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Multiplatform 2022: Video Playlist
If 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.
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'Ancient Egypt in Video Games': Call for Papers for Edited Volume
Submissions are invited for a volume on Ancient Egypt in Video Games edited by Man Met Game Centre member Jennifer Cromwell.
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New TTRPG Publication: The Bureau of Irregularities
Man 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).
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Play, Hack, Collaborate: Games as Methodology
Last 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.
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Games Imagining the Future: Project Update #2
In our final two visits to St Peter’s RC High School, we asked the students to hack Orchard and Ecosystem to remake the games with different rules, mechanics, and materials and tell new stories about the environment and climate change.
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Board Game Survey - Participants needed!
Léa 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.
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New Publication: The Egyptian World in Persona 5
Manchester 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).
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Games Imagining the Future: Project Update
This 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.
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Multiplatform 2: Extended Call for Papers (New Date: 27th May 2022)
The 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.
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Emergent Paths: Current Trends in LARP Research
This 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.
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Role-Play as a Heritage Practice
In this blog post, Man Met Game Centre member Jennifer Cromwell reviews Role-Play as a Heritage Practice by Michał Mochocki.
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Utrecht Summer School 2022: Ecogames
Utrecht University is hosting a summer school on ecogames, bringing together researchers in the field from across Europe.
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A Playful Production Process
In this blog post, Man Met Game Centre member Dylan Yamada-Rice reviews A Playful Production Process by Richard Lemarchand.
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Call for Papers: Multiplatform 2
The Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre is pleased to invite submissions to Multiplatform 2: Corporealities, a two-day conference on bodies and embodiment in games.
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The Origins of the Metaverse
MMGC 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.
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New Video! Street Fighters, Sexologists & Suburban Cybermages: A Conversation with Tabitha Nikolai
In 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.
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