Fancy diving into the cultural impact of pen-and-paper RPGs? Then join James Bennison, @adders.blog, Esther MacCallum-Stewart and myself for a chat in Brighton's Wagner Hall on April 21. Details 👇

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dice-that-changed-the-world-tickets-1982955757049

With a very academic delay of only 3 years, I get to give my inaugural lecture as professor at Imperial College London on May 14, 5:30pm BST, in-person & live-streamed.

Titled "Making things that move us", it reflects on what games taught me about design, motivation, & life.

Do join!

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/191284/making-things-that-move-us-a-gaming-lens-on-design-motivation-and-everything-else/

Prescient? Outdated? Very now?

#2 in a loose series of liberating old talks of mine from Slideshare:

Ruling the World: When Life Gets Gamed from lift 2012.

Or: How offloading social life into automated rule systems creates a Kafkaesque everyday and invites gaming the system.

https://speakerdeck.com/codingconduct/ruling-the-world-when-life-gets-gamed

It's out! 🎈 🎉

▶️ Ethical Games,

the first special issue of @acmgames:

https://dl.acm.org/toc/games/2024/2/2

13 excellent articles on the ethics of game design and development, ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, to microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the games industry, based on the first Ethical Games Conference.

Thanks to @CeliaHodent and Fran Blumberg for leading this initiative!

As Scribd took over Slideshare, they rapidly ad-enshittified the site to utter uselessness. So I decided to rescue and resurface some of my oldie-but-I-think-goodie decks to Speakerdeck.

#1 in a loose series: Un-Boring Meetings from Alibis for Interaction 2016.

Or: Why lack of shared known ground and accountability makes meetings unavoidable & unavoidably boring – and how we can design around that.

https://speakerdeck.com/codingconduct/un-boring-meetings