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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Don’t know if any of the folks adamant that generative AI will boost games businesses by fully automating the technical aspects of production have watched Star Trek. Captain Picard isn’t an ideal consumer. He gets his match 3 game by entering his Holodeck and saying “make it so!”

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing is Animal Crossing for dads in their 40s.

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A selection of 2024 sporting highlights! 1. Rahm, Fleetwood and Macintyre on the green at the Open in Troon 2. Van Gerwen vs Littler at World Matchplay in Blackpool 3. Scotland vs the Springboks at Murrayfield 4. The furthest l've ever travelled to watch East Fife, in Stranraer!

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

And my Load Doot Doot series of acrylic paintings of photographs from the 1980s depicted only in the 8-colour palette of the ZX Spectrum

An acrylic painting of a school photograph, using only the colours red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, magenta, black, and white

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

This includes my ongoing DGenerations series of observational oil paintings in which I represent Nintendo d-pads …

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

As well as traditional research, I am also a practitioner who explores research ideas through creative practice in art and games. In recent weeks I’ve been experimenting with oils and acrylics to explore how traditional art media can be used to represent digital and technological memories of games.

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Lastly, I also have interests in inclusion and inclusive practices within games, play, and production. I recently presented at the RNIB Inclusive Design for Sustainability conference on this topic.

A photograph of a stage at a conference. On the stage is assembled a panel of speakers. One speaker is stood at the podium presenting a talk entitled Embedding Inclusive Design within Games Education.

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

For the past few years I have been involved in R&D in collaboration with industry and international partners, through the Dundee-based creative cluster InGAME. My focus here has covered experimental games, applied games, and transnational collaboration, e.g.

rke.abertay.ac.uk

Transnational development cultures: navigating production, market, and cultural difference within Eu...

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

As a researcher I have many interests across game creation and the culture of games. My work tends to focus on nostalgia and cultural memory in games, both in terms of how society remembers gaming and how cultural and mediated memory is represented within games.

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

A little about me for the new community: I am a Professor of Game Design & Culture at Abertay University in Scotland. I’ve been teaching games and computer arts for over 15 years, having previously worked in games both in art and in post-production. My PhD focused on game character animation.

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Hello Bluesky! I’m hoping to rebuild over here with the aspiration of curating a less chaotic feed, one which will once again be reset to the interests in my bio! Happy to follow and be followed by anyone who works in, researches, or studies games, art, or education 🎮🎨📖

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Robin JS Sloan @robinjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Most of the things I’d like to read are still on Twitter, but I’m not allowed to read them. Now waiting patiently for everyone to move over here…

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