Just in time for #UKGE2026 the new website for PLaY group is up at play-group.org !

In less than 12 hours I'll be heading South West for #GamesInEdu26 at UK Games Expo. Looking forward to meeting @yescic.bsky.social who looks to be doing some amazing work around games education and community building.

#LoveLD - love #creativeHE - and love the look of this new open book from #UCL - edited by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Wendy Sims-Schouten and Jack Tsao: uclpress.co.uk/book/transdi... #LTHEchat #EdChat #studychat

Thanks to @lizcable.bsky.social, our Lead for External Engagement, Playful Learning Association will be there!

I think blogging will have a renaissance. Any format where the source can be traced and trusted.

Press release for my #empire #augmentedReality project. gsamediacentre.co.uk/empire-retol... Apps are now public (search for "Empire Retold: Bellahouston" and loads more useful resources/links on the website: sit.gsa.ac.uk/project/deco... #Glasgow #history #decolonisation @hauntedplanet.com

Are you interested in the #history of Bellahouston Park, #Glasgow ? A new app provides augmented reality stories about heritage, identity, and the 1938 #Empire Exhibition. Android link below, iOs available soon. See the park in a whole new way. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Please share. #gbl

Your joy is here with us @stuffbybez.bsky.social. First session of the conference and spending all day in the Spotlight session (next to the coffee and biscuits!) #PlayLearn25

Excited to be heading to #PlayLearn25 this week where I'll be running a workshop on "Game-based Learning as Business as Usual" talking about how to collaborate across teams to create games for learning, and lessons learnt.

Herald: Complete Edition is OUT NOW as part of #LudoNarraCon! Our high-seas narrative adventure represents almost a decade of work from our team, and we are thrilled to finally share it. We truly hope you find meaning in the story we've crafted. #indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame

New article on Building a playful learning community published by me, Susannah Quinsee and Sara Reimers: www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/article/id/1...

Despite 8+ hours in the car, realising the venue has moved since my last visit, & a disagreement about parking at my AirBnB, I am awake, alert, and looking forward to @voidspacezine.bsky.social live events this weekend. Who will become the Sixth Suspect? #voidspacelive #thevoidpsace

If you missed @ukge.bsky.social this year, but would like to get involved in all the game-based learning and #GamesinEdu goodness, you can sign up here: bit.ly/GamesinEdu #UKGamesExpo #UKGamesExpo25

I’m pleased to share the Call for Papers for a special edition of The Journal of Play in Adulthood to celebrate 20 years of #UKGamesExpo. bit.ly/UKGECFP #GamesinHE #LTHEchat #CfP #CallForPapers #GamesinEdu

Mine and @nicwhitton.bsky.social 's 'unconventional' case for playfulness in HE leadership: wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ca...

Seize the Power! In playtest with @mattcowardgibbs.bsky.social at 2-113 (at the back of the Playtest zone). #GamesinEdu #UKGamesExpo

“Seize the Power” play-through tomorrow at #UKGamesExpo stand 2-113 10AM for an hour. Come along sharpish if you’d like to play rather than watch.

Liz King dropped by our stand 2-113 to pitch her boardgame about lab work. Brilliant stuff. So I invited Liz to show it off at the #GamesinEdu networking & demo at 12.30 Sunday in the Pizza Suites at #UKGamesExpo

Playtesting some puzzles from our Immunology game with @immunojo.bsky.social. Three very happy players - that was fun! So clever! Would definitely recommend. Drop by stand 2-113 if you’d like to play and/or playtest some mini escape games. #UKGamesExpo #GamesInEdu

Standing here 🎶 on the street 🎶 where you live… 🎶

There’s a proliferation of games based on a chessboard. Somehow extending the game to a different world with theming. Chess is having a renaissance. Anna Taylor-Joy started it. #UKGamesExpo #GamesinEdh

And we are on our way! #UKGamesExpo #GamedinEdu25

Our UK Games Expo panelists are here! Join Lyssa of @slovenlytrulls.com as she hosts a panel discussion with these 4 incredible women from across the TTRPG space. See you there! Add it to your schedule: www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/2414-... #WomenOfTTRPG #SlovenlyTrulls #UKGE #UKGamesExpo #TTRPG

Heading to UK Games Expo at the NEC at the end of the month? Come and join us at the first ever academic track on Sunday 1st June. This link is to the first of three events on the Sunday: www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/2871-... #UKGE25 #UKGamesExpo #GamesinEducation #LTHEchat #HigherEd

It's the 1 May. Happy #InternationalWorkersDay Remember we are always #StrongerTogether

Extra this year is the Games in Education track, so I will be busy with the stand and the seminars. Am immensely excited and expecting to top my personal best step count over four days of 57,000!

We are delighted to announce the speakers for the Game-Based Learning strand at The Playful Computing Conference 2025. For more information on the talks and to buy tickets, go to zurl.co/cKHmh #PCC2025 #PlayfulComputing #GameBasedLearning #ComputingEducation #STEMeducation #UKEdChat

It’s like exploring the TARDIS - we just found the pool room! Loving playing the game - has replaced watching TV with my daughter. Would like to win a copy for a friend.

15 days remain until this year's Narrative Design Awards kicks off. It's a much smaller, cosier jam this year, but we're still in need of writers, programmers, 2D and 3D artists, designers and everyone else in the game dev circle! itch.io/jam/nda-25 #art #jam #itch #gamedev #ttrpg #indie

Loving @nowplaythis.bsky.social so far. Currently listening to @annablackwell.bsky.social and being inspired to write a solo RPG about angels.

Interested in Lego for education and training?

Very much looking forward to this. Will you be there?

Big announcement, friends! My book on #ttrpgs in education will be published soon from @mcfarland.bsky.social! For more information, visit the new "Books" page at the #kyedrpg site: sites.google.com/view/kyedrpg... #ttrpgcommunity #dnd #gamebasedlearning #kygoplay #KyLchat #EduSky #TTRPGsky

Booked my spot. We’re going to use Daisy’s research game in our research skills module next academic year.

One of my papers on #Games4Research is all about gamification of research skills training. Did it work? Find out here! radar.gsa.ac.uk/9317/ #GBL #GameStudies #AcademicSky #research #EduSky #EdTech #LoveLD

Latest update from the Playful Learning Association is out - if you want to keep up to date with lovely playful stuff (for grown-ups, not children), sign up to the Jiscmail list! (playfullearningassoc.co.uk/sign-up/) playfullearningassoc.co.uk/march-update/

CALL FOR PEACE GAMERS Are you a young person based in Scotland who is interested in peacebuilding, and in how people resolve and transform conflict? Apply to join the CEASEFIRE! Project as a volunteer ‘Peace Gamer’. For more information contact: Dr. Rebecca Sutton, [email protected] #GBL

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/passiontid... Passiontide is a protest novel. We need protest more now than ever. Come join me at The Wanstead Tap, 15 May for the paperback launch of Passiontide. #books #protest #uprising #femicide #women

I've been obsessed with trying to figure out how people can learn well even in alienating systems. My book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell 2024) is my latest thinking about it. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

@drntasler.bsky.social what’s your favourite boardgame?

What’s your recommendation for educational boardgames for adults, please? Especially keen on games that aren’t made to be educational. Doesn’t have to be knowledge, could be thinking skills, social skills, etc. What springs to mind? #EduGames #Gamebasedlearning #GamesinHE #HigherEd

Writing a simple card game with a chasing mechanism for tomorrow about dark patterns in real world retail and website design. Shall I teach the ethics first THEN play the game, or have the students play the game, THEN tell them how unethical they have been? #yearofteachingplayfully

Games and play are innately good. And with proper framing, can be powerful tools for structured education aimed at specific outcomes. Google 'game based learning' to learn more.

Heading to @aireconuk.bsky.social in Harrogate today to run some of my educational escape rooms for the public and an evening workshop on how to write puzzle-based games. #gamedesign #escaperoom #gamebasedlearning #yearofteachingplayfully

I so rarely see #Disabled folks centered in the #AI conversation, so I appreciate this. #HigherEd #AcademicSky cdt.org/insights/bui...

Looking forward to playtesting some educational escape games, running an old favourite, and a workshop on how to make your own at home. All on the Saturday of @aireconuk.bsky.social. Who’s going to be there? #yearofteachingplayfully

Join us for #LTHEchat today at 8PM GMT to explore podcasting as assessment, with Jonatan Berhane @jonatanberhane.bsky.social and Nicole Blythe @njblythe18.bsky.social. Review the blog post for more information: lthechat.com/2025/03/02/l...

Taking my Deck of Worlds into class today to inspire my Interactive Storytelling students. #yearofteachingplayfully

👀 FREE Webinar this afternoon at 4 pm - YouTube Live Streamed: How Teaching and Learning Happens: Retrieval Practice with Drs @carlhendrick.substack.com and @hugheshaili.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/Y87zYYx... #LearningScience #CogSci #HigherEducation pls share

What educational games are people making? #EduGames