Six recipients of InGAME R&D innovation vouchers have been announced, covering a broad range of gamification and applied games projects.
InGAME: Innovation Voucher Winners
The Captured Actor
The Captured Actor is a 2019 documentary, created by writer Iain Lowson, for the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow. The film is an exploration of the opportunities being created for performing arts and drama students within the rapidly evolving videogames industry.
Game Doctor Developing Covid19 Education Game
Glasgow-based Game Doctor has secured £50,000 of Innovate UK funding to develop a mobile game, to help children prevent the spread of coronavirus as they return to school. Game Doctor will be working with Covid-19 researchers from the University of Glasgow and Queen’s University Belfast on the game, while a health psychologist from the University …
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8-Bit Bleeps
Researchers from Edinburgh Napier and Manchester Mentropolitan Universities are looking into how gamers listen to audio while playing. Please help by sharing your own experiences and preferences for game audio.
Abertay Digital Graduate Show Pulls Through with Some Stunning Computer Arts
Abertay’s School of Design & Informatics is no stranger to success. This March, their undergrad games degrees were named best in Europe - for the sixth year in a row. And now, their entire Graduate Show can be viewed online.
The Future Of Games
The Computer Games Journal has opened a call for papers exploring The Future Of Games
RPGLite: Roleplay Research Required
RPGLite is a free mobile game created by PhD students to help gather data into the way people play and learn games.
Help them out and try the game now - for Apple & Android phones (it's ad-free too!)
Glasgow School of Art: Open Evening
The Glasgow School of Art is holding a (virtual) open evening for it's amazing range of postgraduate courses focusing on areas of gaming including: medical & heritage visualisation, VR and serious games.
Abertay Ranked Best In Europe For Games Degrees
Dundee's Abertay University has been ranked the best in Europe for its videogames degrees, for the sixth year in a row. The Princeton Review, which rates colleges and universities around the world, has rated Abertay as number one in Europe for its undergraduate games education and in the global top 10 for its postgraduate courses. …
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Designing With Data Event Reveals Full Speaker Lineup
The full speaker lineup for next month's Designing With Data: The Future of Videogames event has been announced. The keynote presentation will be from Dr Luke Dicken, the Director of Applied AI at Zynga, where he leads a team driving innovation at the intersection of AI, Analytics, Game Development and Computational Creativity. Luke’s long term …
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