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🧡 And that’s a wrap on #BiGGiCon2026 🩵 Three days of talks, workshops, panels, games, conversations, new connections, and familiar faces. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, contributed, helped behind the scenes, and made BiGGi Con 2026 what it was! Until next time ✨

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🎮 Ending #BiGGiCon2026 on a high! We’re at 📍 NQ64 Shoreditch for our final social 🕹️🍹 A chance to unwind, play some games, and enjoy one last evening together 💃🪩🕺

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🎭 And now for something a little different… It’s time for the premiere of "iGGi The Musical" at #BiGGiCon2026! 🎶🎙️✨ Created by iGGi PGRs, staff, and alumni - five songs, one micro musical, and yes, audience participation is encouraged! 🎤🪩 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

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🎓 It’s time for the final talk of #BiGGiCon2026! We’re closing out our talks with iGGi alum James Goodman, Director of Tabletop R&D 🎲 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

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🎤 It’s keynote time at #BiGGiCon2026! We’re welcoming Ben Ackland and Thomas Keane from Meaning Machine to the stage for our last keynote! 🤖🎮 meaningmachine.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

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🤖 Up next at #BiGGiCon2026: iGGi PGR Talks on Game AI 🎤 Dien Nguyen 🎤 Toby Best Join us for our next two talks! 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

🛠️ Four workshops happening now at #BiGGiCon2026! 🤖 Agentic AI for Games 🎤 Simon Lucas 📍 GC 201 ✍️ Collaborative Writing with Typst and Jujutsu 🎤 Daniel Gomme 📍 GC 204 🎮 Designing Seriously Casual Games 🎤 Luiza Gossian 📍 GC 114 ⚙️ DevOps for Games Researchers 🎤 Nathan John 📍 GC 103

🎮 Up next at #BiGGiCon2026: two iGGi PGR Talks on Live-Service Games 🎤 Lauren Winter (laurenmakesgames.bsky.social) 🎤 Tamsin Isaac (tamsinisaac.bsky.social) Join us for our next two talks! 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

🎓 Day 3 of #BiGGiCon2026 is underway with our first Alumni Talk of the day! We’re welcoming back iGGi alum Carlos González Díaz! ✨ 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

🤝 It’s time for Alumni Speed Networking at #BiGGiCon2026! A chance for our alumni to meet, make connections, and squeeze plenty of conversations into one fast-paced session! ⏱️ 📍 GC 114

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That’s a wrap on Day 2 of #BiGGiCon2026! 🎉 Time to unwind with a light buffet, social, and games night! 🍕🎮✨ 📍 Foyer and Outside Graduate Centre

📣 Three tracks happening now at #BiGGiCon2026, take your pick! 🎮 Responsible Game Design: Panel 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre 💼 Careers in Game Design: Panel 📍 GC 201 💡 Research Ideas: Workshop 📍 GC 101 Which one are you heading to? 👀

🎓 It’s time for our third #BiGGiCon2026 Alumni Talk of Day 2! We’re welcoming back iGGi alum Jozef Kulik (gungjoe.bsky.social), Senior Research & Accessibility Lead at PlaytestCloud ✨ 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

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⚡ It’s Buzz Talk time at #BiGGiCon2026! Our PGRs have just one minute each to give us a whirlwind introduction to their research. ⏱️🎤 Quick, sharp, and a lot of research packed into 60 seconds! 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

🎮 Up next at #BiGGiCon2026: three PGR Talks on Players 🎤 Nicole Levermore 🎤 Dominik Jeurissen (dominikjeurissen.bsky.social) 🎤 Lauren Winter (laurenmakesgames.bsky.social) Join us for our next three talks! 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

🎓 It’s time for our second #BiGGiCon2026 Alumni Talk of Day 2! We’re welcoming back iGGi alumn Nick Ballou (nballou.bsky.social), Research Fellow at Imperial College London ✨ 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

🎓 It’s time for our first #BiGGiCon2026 Alumni Talk of Day 2! We’re welcoming back iGGi alum Cristina Dobre, Applied Scientist Researcher at the University of Augsburg! ✨ 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

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🎮 Up next at #BiGGiCon2026: PGR Talks on Game Design 🎤 Alex Flint (alexlflint.bsky.social) 🎤 Doruk Balcı (dorukb.bsky.social) Join us for our next two talks! 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre

Day 2 of #BiGGiCon2026 is kicking off with our second keynote! 🎤🎮 We’re delighted to welcome Constance Steinkuehler (c0nstances.bsky.social)) and Kurt Squire, Professors of Informatics at the University of California and Co-Directors of the Games+Learning+Society Center. A great start to Day 2! ✨

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That’s a wrap on Day 1 of #BiGGiCon2026! 🎉 Time to unwind, grab some food, and catch up after a packed first day. 🍕🍻✨ Join us at 📍 Market Halls Paddington!

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📣 Up next at #BiGGiCon2026! Building an Alumni Network: Have Your Say in Its Legacy, led by Nicole Levermore 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre Come along and help shape what the iGGi alumni network could look like! 💬

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🎤 Our first #BiGGiCon2026 keynote is underway! Jackie Mulligan, Co-Director of Game Republic Ltd., is taking the stage right now. 🎮✨

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📍 Happening now at #BiGGiCon2026 - two tracks to choose from! 🤖 Working with AI: Panel 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre 🎮 Gamifying Citizen Science: Workshop - chaired by our PGR, Philip Smith 📍 GC 101 Which one are you heading to? 👀

Our second Alumni Talk for Day 1 is here! The Case for Board Games by Joseph Walton-Rivers #BiGGiCon2026

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We have kicked off with our first Alumni Talk by Nathan Hughes. Join us for An Alumn's Journey from Games Research to Safety Science! 🐨 #BiGGiCon2026

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wait is over - BiGGi Con 2026 is here! 🎮 Doors are open, banners are up, and we’re ready to get started. See you at #BiGGiCon2026! 💙

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👀 Things are coming together… We’re busy getting everything ready for BiGGi Con 2026... and there’s just 1 DAY TO GO! 🎮🎉 We can’t wait to welcome you tomorrow! #BiGGiCon2026

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Toby Best as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Toby Best. His talk is titled “‘Journeys in the Dark’: Exploring Procedural Content Generation for Descent”. The graphic includes a portrait of Toby Best and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Dien Nguyen as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Dien Nguyen. The talk is titled “JSON-Bag: Game-agnostic Automatic Feature Extraction”. The graphic includes a portrait of Dien Nguyen and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’re excited to announce another talk by our iGGi PGR speaker Lauren Winter (laurenmakesgames.bsky.social)! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Lauren Winter. The talk is titled “Why Pugging in World of Warcraft is Awful (and What You Can Learn from It)”. The graphic includes a portrait of Lauren Winter and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Tamsin Isaac (tamsinisaac.bsky.social) as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Tamsin Isaac. The talk is titled “Playing Against the Clock: A Cross-Platform Taxonomy of Limited-Time Events”. The graphic includes a portrait of Tamsin Isaac and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Lauren Winter (laurenmakesgames.bsky.social) as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Lauren Winter. The talk is titled “The Jingle of Contrasting Constructs: Comparing Measures of Immersion and Challenge from the PXI and IEQ-SF”. The graphic includes a portrait of Lauren Winter and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Dominik Jeurissen (dominikjeurissen.bsky.social) as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Dominik Jeurissen. The talk is titled “What Should I Do? An Experimental Onboarding Advisor for ‘Total War: Pharaoh’”. The graphic includes a portrait of Dominik Jeurissen and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Nicole Levermore as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Nicole Levermore. The talk is titled “What We Can Learn About the Brain: Through Tetris”. The graphic includes a portrait of Nicole Levermore and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Doruk Balcı (dorukb.bsky.social) as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Doruk Balcı. The talk is titled “Playerly and Designerly Games: Structural Interpretation and Play”. The graphic includes a photo of Doruk Balcı presenting and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re excited to announce Alex Flint (alexlflint.bsky.social) as one of our iGGi PGR Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/pgr-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

iGGi PGR Talk announcement for BiGGi Con 2026 featuring Alex Flint. The talk is titled “How Gamification Took Flight in Birdwatching”. The graphic includes a portrait of Alex Flint and notes that BiGGi Con takes place during 15-17 September.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re excited to announce Joseph Walton-Rivers as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details! Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGi Con 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring Joseph Walton-Rivers, Lecturer at Falmouth University. His talk is titled “AI for Board Games”. The graphic includes a portrait of Joseph Walton-Rivers on a purple conference-branded background.

iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re excited to announce Nathan Hughes as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details! Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGi Con 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring Nathan Hughes, Research Associate at the University of York. His talk is titled “The Quality of Safety is... Games? An Alumn's Journey from Games Research to Safety Science”. The graphic includes a portrait of Nathan Hughes on a purple conference-branded background.

iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re excited to announce Nick Ballou (nballou.bsky.social) as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details! Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGi Con 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring Nick Ballou, Research Fellow at Imperial College. His talk is titled “Open Play: Findings and Lessons from 2 Million Hours of Public Video Games Data”. The graphic includes a portrait of Nick Ballou on a purple conference-branded background.

Game Republic @gamerepublic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Game Republic's Jackie Mulligan will be attending the @iggi-phd.bsky.social iGGi 2026 Conference as a keynote speaker🔥More information on the event found here: buff.ly/6r1mGRV. #gameresearch #conference #education

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’re excited to announce Carlos González Díaz as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details! Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGi Con 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring Carlos González Díaz, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Augsburg. His talk is titled “Eye-tracking in Social VR and What to Take Away for Game Technology”. The graphic includes a portrait of Carlos González Díaz on a purple conference-branded background.

iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’re excited to announce Cristina Dobre as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details! Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGi Con 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring Cristina Dobre, Applied Scientist Researcher at the University of Augsburg. Her talk is titled “What’s Happening with VR Games: The Impact of Social Nonverbal Cues and Embodiment on VR Entertainment”. The graphic includes a portrait of Cristina Dobre on a purple conference-branded background.

iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We’re excited to announce @gungjoe.bsky.social as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details! Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGi Con 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring Jozef Kulik, Senior Research & Accessibility Lead at PlaytestCloud. His talk is titled “A Bird’s Eye View: How Remote User Research Affects Hundreds of Games”. The graphic includes a portrait of Jozef Kulik on a purple conference-branded background.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We’re excited to announce James Goodman as one of our Alumni Speakers for BiGGi Con 2026! Check out www.iggi2026.org/alumni-talks for more details. Planning to attend the conference? Please remember to register here: www.iggi2026.org #BiGGiCon2026

BiGGiCon 2026 alumni speaker announcement featuring James Goodman, Director of Tabletop R&D. His talk is titled “What Has Game AI Ever Done for the Romans?”. The graphic includes a portrait of James Goodman on a purple conference-branded background.

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are in full swing at the iGGi booth! Come by and ask about games research! #DevelopConf #research #games

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iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

All setup! See you all tomorrow at Develop Expo, Stand B12