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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is the last week where Playful Paths will have display posters up on campus! You can find us at the following locations: • The South Lawn • John Medley • The Systems Garden • The Student Pavilion • The Science Gallery

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The prize for completing Playful Paths has been updated! If you complete the game before next Friday the 30th of November and show the epilogue to Science Gallery staff, you can receive a special prize bag.

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

MAGPIE has made a little game! It is called Playful Paths and it is playable from TODAY as part of the Being Human Humanities festival at the University of Melbourne. It will be running from the 14th of November to the 30th.

Promotional image that reads 'Playful Paths: A MAGPIE Campus Adventure' 14-30 November. Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative.

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

To coincide with Melbourne International Games Week, MAGPIE has put together a special report with @unimelb.bsky.social's Pursuit talking all about the effects gaming is having socially and culturally on the world around us. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/special-repo...

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All the world's a game

Around eighty per cent of Australians play video games – but the term 'gamer’ can exclude as much as it includes. From cosplay to LARPs, from exposing racism to storytelling, University of Melbourne e...

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

All the world's a game

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

MAGPIE is going to have a small table all through Freeplay Angles showing off some of the amazing research of our members (and also our Bird RPG Discord game). Come say hi!

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Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This week @mahliann.bsky.social and I released a white paper report looking into ways to make games more available for teaching in Higher Education. Report can be found here! arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-cu...

Screenshot of the front cover of the white paper report. It reads 'Making Games Available in Higher Education' by Dr Cassandra Barkman (Chief Investigator) and Dr Mahli-Ann Butt (Co-Investigator).

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

MAGPIE is thrilled to announce that we are going to be part of the Science Gallery Melbourne’s latest exhibition DISTRACTION. Showing at Science Gallery at the University of Melbourne, 26.07.25 –09.05.26. Learn more about the exhibition: melbourne.sciencegallery.com/distraction

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DISTRACTION | Opening 26 July — Science Gallery Melbourne

This free Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition plugs into the streaming torrent of content and explores creative ways we can find meaning within it.

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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi everyone! We are a new research initiative at the University of Melbourne interested in games, play and interactive entertainment. We have put together an starter pack of people involved in MAGPIE - feel free to share, and if you're involved and want to be added let us know! go.bsky.app/CimEnwF

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