@robinjss
Professor of Game Design & Culture, Abertay University | Own views & musings on being a : researcher๐จโ๐ฌ maker ๐จ teacher ๐จโ๐ซ gamer ๐งโ๐ป sports fan ๐ Scot ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ dad ๐จโ๐งโ๐ฆ
Donโt 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 isnโt an ideal consumer. He gets his match 3 game by entering his Holodeck and saying โmake it so!โ
Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing is Animal Crossing for dads in their 40s.
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!
An acrylic painting of a school photograph, using only the colours red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, magenta, black, and white
An acrylic painting of a school photograph, using only the colours red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, magenta, black, and white
An acrylic painting of a school photograph, using only the colours red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, magenta, black, and white
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 oil painting of a Nintendo d-pad
An oil painting of a Nintendo d-pad
An oil painting of a Nintendo d-pad
An oil painting of a Nintendo d-pad
This includes my ongoing DGenerations series of observational oil paintings in which I represent Nintendo d-pads โฆ
As well as traditional research, I am also a practitioner who explores research ideas through creative practice in art and games. In recent weeks Iโve been experimenting with oils and acrylics to explore how traditional art media can be used to represent digital and technological memories of games.
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.
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.
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.
Examples of some of the research I have published in this area include:
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.
A little about me for the new community:
I am a Professor of Game Design & Culture at Abertay University in Scotland. Iโve 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.
Hello Bluesky! Iโm 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 ๐ฎ๐จ๐
Most of the things Iโd like to read are still on Twitter, but Iโm not allowed to read them.
Now waiting patiently for everyone to move over hereโฆ