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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 Sarah West

Dr Sarah West

Supervisor

Player Research, Accessibility, Design & Development

Dr Oliver Withington

Dr Oliver Withington

iGGi Alum

Available for post-PhD position

Game AI, Creative Computing, Design & Development

Dr Matthew Whitby

Dr Matthew Whitby

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Design & Development

Dr Andrew James Wood

Dr Andrew James Wood

Supervisor

Applied Games, Design & Development, Game Data

Lauren Winter

Lauren Winter

iGGi PG Researcher

Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Poonam Yadav

Dr Poonam Yadav

Supervisor

Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

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

Applying machine learning to enhance esport broadcast narratives

A Pedrassoli Chitayat

University of York, 2025

Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Influence of Sleep Deprivation on In-the-Moment Arousal During Exposure to Prolonged Threats

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

JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH 33, 2024

Playing NetHack with LLMs: Potential & Limitations as Zero-Shot Agents

D Jeurissen, D Perez-Liebana, J Gow, D Cakmak, J Kwan

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00690, 2024

Climate Club: A Group-based Game to Support Sensemaking of Climate Actions

P Sandbhor, J Hook

FDG '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Article No.: 32, Pages 1 - 12, 2024

An appraisal-based chain-of-emotion architecture for affective language model game agents

M Croissant, M Frister, G Schofield, C McCall

Plos one 19 (5), e0301033, 2024

Use of Technology in Brief Interventions

L Gega, MJ Saiger

Brief CBT and Science-Based Tailoring for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adolescents, and Young Adults, Springer, pp 293-309, 2024

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