And realised I spend have been tagging my #BDigra posts as #BDiGRA25

#BDiGRA25 - the British chapter of the Digital Games Research Association's conference - wrapped! A massive thank you to my co-chair @doktornick.bsky.social, our amazing local organising committee, and everyone who came, shared, listened, discussed, and was part of the event 💜 It's been a good 'un!

Had an amazing time at #BDIGRA25 filled with new and inspirational talks and conversations. Huge thank you to the organisers and the awesome local team at @bcmcr.bsky.social (among others @poppywilde.bsky.social @doktornick.bsky.social @harriresearches.bsky.social @andrewbell.bsky.social).

Had a fab couple of days at #BDiGRA25 and now have to look down the barrel of all the marking it let me escape from for a couple of days 🥲🥲🥲
Thanks folks for a fantastic time. Really enjoyed the exchange of ideas!

A man in black and a blond woman in a black and white dress around a brown couch with words in the background.

That's all from us for British DiGRA 2025! Thank you to all the speakers, attendees and - of course - the local organising committee for an incredible event. #BDiGRA25

I should have brought more tea towels #BDiGRA25

Final paper (starting with obligatory reference to being the final paper) is @bettibo.bsky.social on cozy driving games and petroculture.

#BDiGRA25

Now we have @sturrock.bsky.social (and @t0mm7.bsky.social in spirit) presenting on the British Game Design revolution in the early days of Games Workshop (pre-40k) and others #BDiGRA25

Day 2 of #BDiGRA25 kicked off with 6 lightning talks, covering queer readings of game ads, representations of Victorian London, critical posthumanism and games (me!), games representation in Chinese TV, the Video Games Research Framework, and stereotypes and Britishness in videogame magazines.

Time for a #BDIGRA25 session on countering hegemony with games research. Esther Wright and Iain Donald getting us started with GTA and a Scottish lens on the American Dream.

Outliers by Far Horizons CoOp A Researcher Alone

@doktornick.bsky.social @ben.kirman.org
I was trying to remember Outliers far-horizons-co-op.itch.io/outliers from @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social modelling the bell of postdoc research ecosystems that aren’t desirable #BDiGRA25

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Fun tour of the emerging irreverent voice in UK games magazines in the 80s from Robin Bootes at #BDiGRA25 . Tag urself im a wally/gremlin

Our final lightning talk is Robin Bootes on the creation of the identity of the British gamer in early gaming magazines #BDiGRA25

Now @leonxiao.com breaks down the UK Govt's Videogame Research Framework - www.gov.uk/government/p... and its biases and preconceptions #BDiGRA25

Next up we have @charstevens.bsky.social talking about applying Hall and Williams-inflected British Cultural Studies to Chinese Television and the representation of games in them. #BDiGRA25

Esteemed host @poppywilde.bsky.social steps in last minute for an emergency presentation on what Critical Posthumanism means for Britain and British Game Studies research #BDiGRA25

Joanne Mills joins us virtually to lightingly talk about representations of Victorian London in Alice: Madness Returns and Assassins Creed: Syndicate #BDiGRA25

@jamskigames.bsky.social I think you might be interested in the work of @harriresearches.bsky.social who just gave a lightning talk at #BDiGRA25

Man in black shirt and woman with blonde hair behind a white podium, with words on the screen behind them including the phrase 'heterosexual male gamers'.

After a busy and fascinating first day, the second day British DiGRA conference is kicking off with more lightning talks! #BDiGRA25

Full programme available here: bdigra.co.uk/what-is-brit....

Back for day 2 of #BDiGRA25 - looking forward to answer day of UK games research discussions.

Harrison Charles kicking off the day with a lightning talk on Edge magazine's 'the girl issue' (2003) and what it tells us about paratexts and gender in British gaming media #BDiGRA25

A photo of small groups of people around tables playing board games, at the board game cafe Chance and Counters in Birmingham.

Great end to day one of #BDiGRA25, playing board games at Chance and Counters! Tomorrow we have a final session of lightning talks, parallel panels on "Global Perspectives" and "Countering Hegemonies", and then our workshop on building our intellectual project followed by the AGM and board elections

Oi that's me! #Bdigra25

Birmingham Board game bar-cafés in Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff & Leeds.

That's a wrap on Day 1 of British DiGRA! For those joining us for the social event, this will be at Chance & Counters from 18:30. There will be a walking group from the university campus meeting at 18:00, or you can meet us there! #BDiGRA25

Venue info: www.chanceandcounters.com/birmingham/?...

End of the first amazing day at #BDIGRA25. Looking forward to tomorrow for another round of talks!

A slide being presented at a video games conference with a photo of Black Annis at the Hastings Jack in the Green festival

Not very often you see your Morris Dancing team show up on a slide as part of a case study for genius loci in games #BDiGRA25
www.blackannis.org for those curious!

Daniele Monaco traces the genius loci in British culture through literary and architectural history to modern festivals and videogame worlds #BDiGRA25

David Cumming talks about how optional skins and the game logics behind them can help us conceptualise digital fashion #BDiGRA25

Rhianedd Collins explores the use of co-production and co-play of historical games in building intergenerational community in Cardiff. #BDiGRA25

Oliver Bates and @ben.kirman.org talk about Research through Game Design, here showcasing Meal Deal, their board game about bicycle couriers and the gig economy - ben.kirman.org/projects/mea...

#BDiGRA25