First publication from my PhD project up for early viewing online in the European Journal of Dental Education. Very thankful for the supervision and collaboration from Jaya Jayasinghe, @daisyabbott.bsky.social, George Cherukara, & Paul Bond. doi.org/10.1111/eje....

Breathing a huge sigh of relief this morning as my #twine upload to #itch seems to work fine in browsers on PC, android and iOS. One week until I sit down some participants to test my #seriousgame

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, & writing for games: 17) Harold Halibut by @slowbros.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/924750/H... Visually impressive stopmotion-like characters in a slow-paced tale about finding your place amongst the stars.

That conference poster feeling! My poster on a narrative review of empathy games that may be of use in healthcare education clinical empathy training. Up on the wall at the Global Symposium on Empathy in Healthcare at the The University of Leicester. @empathy-centre.bsky.social

Arrived in Dublin for #adee 2025. Looking forward to the dental education talks today and tomorrow. My turn to present some of my research into dental student attitudes to communication skills, empathy, and digital games on Friday. #empathy #healthcare #dentistry #gbl

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, & writing for games: 16) Without a Dawn store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... by @jessemakkonen.com A tale of anxiety, depression, and a tortured soul. Wonderful ASCII-style graphics and great sound design.

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, & writing for games: 15) passage.toolness.org by @jason-rohrer.bsky.social A game about attachment, aging, and bereavement said wordlessly.‬ Easily worth 5 mins of your time!

Easy to forget sometimes just how spectacular the views from random housing estates in Inverness can be.

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, & writing for games: 14) A Butterfly by @alienmelon.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/... Very interesting approach to telling a poem about rebirth by embedding verses in a 3D world.

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, & writing for games: 13) Doki Doki Literature Club by @dansalva.to store.steampowered.com/app/1388880/... A subversive take on the visual novel romance game. Without spoiling, does present mental health issues.

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 12) Venba by @visaigames.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/... Uses cooking games to tell a story of the complexity of cultural identity in a new place.

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 11) www.quandarygame.org by learninggamesnetwork.org A serious game for teaching school children critical thinking and perspective-taking, ethics, and practicing empathy

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 10) Chestnut Grove by @philipdrobar.bsky.social philip-drobar.itch.io/chestnut-grove Pandemic media walking sim. Useful for preserving & sharing what the experience of 2020 was like for many.

Amazingly, had a second abstract accepted for a conference presentation in the space of a week! I'm off to ADEE '25 to talk student attitudes on communication skills training, empathy in practice, and games for education & leisure. #gbl #empathy #dentaleducation #adee2025 #universityofaberdeen #phd

Games I have played this year* as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 9) store.steampowered.com/app/1350200/... by @halfmermaid.co Rebuild the narrative of what happened to Marissa Marcel by diving into footage from 3 lost films and question what identity is.

Had an abstract accepted for a poster presentation at the Global Empathy in Healthcare Network Symposium! I'll be sharing findings from a review that compares commercially available & serious games and their potential for developing empathy in healthcare students. @empathy-centre.bsky.social #gbl

Games I have played this year* as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 8) Fractured Minds by Emily Mitchell store.steampowered.com/app/688740/F... A game about the haunting effects of anxiety that sufferers cannot seem to escape. @wiredproductions.com *Replayed

Happy CITIZEN SLEEPER DAY! 🥳 The series is 3 years old today! To celebrate I just released SPINDLEJACK a free, print and play solo TTRPG about zero-g bike couriers! 🚴‍♀️Grab it here: jump-over-the-age.itch.io/citizen-slee... We also have new series art, and some fun stats below too 👇

New @who.int global report shows within-country health inequities are widening and the health gap targets will be missed, largely due to a lack of political will to tackle the structural drivers of poor health @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @sudhvir.bsky.social #AllforEquity bit.ly/3SdE4lo

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 7) Blackhaven by @historiated.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/1668610/... Walking sim which shows how racism distorts the presentation of history. It's free, play it!

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 6) Runo by runogame store.steampowered.com/app/1642130/... Walking sim about finno-karelian folkore hiding beneath the joy of taking a traditional Finnish summer retreat.

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 5) A Highland Song by @inkle.co store.steampowered.com/app/1240060/... Journey through the hills and glens learning Scottish folklore along the way. Trad music score is a bonus.

Games I have played this year* as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 4: 1000x Resist by @sunsetvisitor.studio store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/... A narrative sci-fi game that considers the effects of trauma on familial relationships in a search for truth.

Meet the Viruses - explore the 3D gallery of viruses, free in your browser: sit-gsa.itch.io/meet-the-virus - work with @uofglasgow.bsky.social @cvrinfo.bsky.social #virology #virus

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 3) Year Unknown by @julianh.dev store.steampowered.com/app/2565520/... Walking Sim about the world millennia after the last human has left. What is knowledge without the life that created it?

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 2) A Space for the Unbound store.steampowered.com/app/1201270/... by @mojiken.bsky.social Themes: processing grief against the backdrop of an abusive parent and the pressures of teenage life.

Another video abstract for one of my #GBL papers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3UO... Full paper is: Abbott, Daisy (2020) Beyond Vicarious Learning: Embedding Dialogic Learning into Educational Games. radar.gsa.ac.uk/7343/ #Games4Research

Games I have played this year as research into serious games, empathy development, and writing for games: 1) Brukel - store.steampowered.com/app/1073900/... by @bobdeschutter.be A walking sim about civilians under occupation in WW2. Novel method of sharing firsthand history to promote empathy.

Today's reading has been all about constructivisim in #gamebasedlearning. Distilling this down into: Explore, interact, get new info, get rewards, repeat, reflect, use in real world.

PhD work isn't all bad. About to dive into this tome! @hannahnicklin.bsky.social