Design & Development

How might we advance game-making with new design and development insights, methods, tools, and techniques?

Project areas include:

Integrating the physical and the digital in games
Co-designing games with players who lack technical expertise
Designing and understanding the impact of persuasive games

iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme:

Dr Maximilian Croissant

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Design & Development

Rory Davidson

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Player Research, Applied Games, Design & Development

Prof. Sebastian Deterding

Supervisor

Applied Games, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov

Supervisor

Design & Development, Game AI, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Joe Cutting

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

Player Research, Applied Games, Design & Development

Callum Deery

iGGi Alum

Design & Development, Player Research, Accessibility

Prof. Anders Drachen

Supervisor

Player Research, Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

Alex Flint

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Design & Development, Player Research

Tania Dales

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Alena Denisova

Supervisor

Applied Games, Player Research, Design & Development

Dr Abi Evans

Supervisor

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Charline Foch

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Design & Development

iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme:

POD/Post-anthropocentric design: World Oceans Day 2022

D Barrios-O'Neill, C Jarvis, N Binyamini Ben Meir, C Ramirez-Figueroa

Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir

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Tired and Wired: Sleep Deprivation Prevents Affective Renormalisation During Exposure to Ambiguous Threat

E Sullivan, C McCall, M Croissant, LM Henderson, G Schofield, S Cairney

Sleep Medicine 138, 107678, 2026

Dr Maximilian Croissant

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Player Discretion is Advised: Designing for Rule-Changing Play

D BALCI, J Iacovides, B Kirman

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Doruk Balcı

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Beyond the Spotlight: Co-Designing AI for Theatre Audience Communication

A Pedrassoli Chitayat, S Carter, BA Robertson, J Hook

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

Steph Carter

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Post-anthropocentric design lab (PADLab).

D Barrios-O'Neill, M Pauzner, O Kutok, O Stadnuk, N Binyamini Ben Meir, ...

Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir

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Toward an Ontology of Wargame Design

L Ouriques, CE Barbosa, J Kritz, G Xexéo

IEEE Access 13, 78928-78958, 2025

Joshua Kritz

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