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investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Another successful Games Lab! This November marks our third year running the lab at Aesthetica Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who came along!👾🩷 #ASFF2025

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...

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Keynoting at the Interactive Games PGR Conference – BCMCR

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Really looking forward to this year’s event!

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investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day! 🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

There is roughly a day remaining to sign up to attend this years Interactive Games PGR Conference 2025! 🧡 (programme to follow when I return from DiGRA) Sign up and register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactiv...

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

So glad to have pushed through the anxiety to present my findings at the DiGRA 2025 PhD Consortium! I was genuinly terrified but the feedback and discussion was so valuable and the whole conference has been a real highlight of my PhD journey so far! So excited for the rest of the week! ☀️✨🇲🇹

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Lovely first afternoon in Malta ahead of DiGRA 2025! Really looking forward to the PhD Consortium tomorrow, and so excited to explore Valletta over the next week!! ☀️✨

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thank you to everyone who submitted to present this year! I am so excited to be able to run the event again and looking forward to meeting and catching up with everyone!✨

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Last chance for PGRs to submit to this year’s Interactive Games PGR Conference! ⬇️✨

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

ARK: Survival Ascended is best played in the company of your own mini dinosaur 🦎💚

A TV screen showing ARK: Survival Ascended game play. A leg is visible, on top of it sat a leopard gecko

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Games studies PhD and Masters students, please check this out! A free event hosted by investigate.games at York St John University💫🌟excited for this years conference✨

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Dr Bethany Thomas (she/her) @brthomas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

An amazing conference for PGRs in video games! Find the dates and submission details below! 🎮⭐️

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investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference! 📍 York St John University 📆 Friday 18th July Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May 🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

Call for Papers! Are you a postgraduate researcher researching video games, board games or any other type of play? We are looking for submissions by PGRs for 10 minute presentations at our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference.

Location: York St John University
Date: Friday 18th July, 2025
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May, 2025

Submit your presentation proposals through the attached link. Any questions contact Caitlin at c.veal@yorksj.ac.uk.

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investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It’s the last weekend of our Games Lab at the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum! This weekend we have a whole host of developers in attendance to showcase and talk you through their games - so come and take a look! 👾🧡

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investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This week we are at the Yorkshire Games Festival showcasing 23 games by Yorkshire based games developers at our Games Lab!The Lab is based at the National Science + Media Museum in Bradford from 15-23rd February, so do come down and take a look!👾

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So excited to have had my submission accepted for the PhD Consortium as part of this year’s DiGRA Conference in Malta!🇲🇹 My first external and international conference, really looking forward to it ✨

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Couldn’t come all the way to Edinburgh without paying a lil visit to Greyfriars Bobby, and Greyfriars Kirkyard 🐶⛪️💀

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

@investigatedot.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow to keep up to date with the going’s on in the research group, events, publications and research opportunities. Exciting things coming very soon!!🧡

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello to my new followers on here! I am looking for a few more participants to take part in my PhD study. In this instance I am particularly interested in speaking to participants who identify as female. See the poster below & sign up here: forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk Any reposts appreciated 👾💜

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

One of my favourite things to do on a city break is visit the cemeteries for the social history and architecture. Had a day in Paris so paid a visit to some of my favourite scholars: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard ✨

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The grave of Pierre Bourdieu and his wife Marie Claire Bourdieu in Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. There is a couple of pots of flowers placed on the grave.

The grave of Jean Baudrillard in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. The grave is comprised of many bunches of flowers and vines and the memorial is inscribed on a small plaque placed within the flowers.

A path covered with autumnal leaves and autumnal trees in Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Graves and mausoleums line the sides of the path.

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Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Next week in Luxemburg in "History @ Play" with a talk on "Horror – Game – Politics: A History of Ideas in the Horrific" #GameStudies #HorrorStudies #HistoryOfIdeas www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Hello - I am looking for a few more participants for my PhD study! Please see the poster and link below, & any reposts would be greatly appreciated 🧡 forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #645,999!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #645,999, Caitlin Veal 👾 ‪@caitlinveal.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 19, 2023"

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Pleased to share my first first-author paper, available to read now in Games and Culture! 👾🧡 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Hello Game Studies friends: if you're working on a topic related to Transformative Games, please consider submitting to this special issue CfP, led by Kristine Jørgensen Doris Carmen Rusch and yours truly: www.gamejournal.it/n122024-tran...

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n.12/2024 – Transformative Games Revisited « G|A|M|E

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Our latest paper is finally out! This paper looks at the value of video games in dealing with loss and grief during the pandemic 👾 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Write to your MPs, be loud. There’s the also Games For Gaza bundle on itch, Neurocracy 2.049 is part of it 256 games by 140 creators, all for $10, with proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians itch.io/b/2120/games...

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Games For Gaza by Oak Grove Games by Esther Wallace and 140 others

Games For Gaza: 256 items for $10.00

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Very pleased to have passed my 12 month PhD transfer assessment today! I am officially a second year PhD student!

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Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Back in the north after nearly a month away and reunited with Pumpkin 🧡

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