This s
ummer, the Bristol Digital Game Lab is pleased to welcome Dr Michael Samuel from the Department of Film and TV as a co-director.
Michael has been heavily involved in the Lab’s activities for a while now, participating in game jams and co-hosting interviews with James Vaughan of Ndemic Creations, the creator behind the gaming phenomenon Plague Inc., and Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim, the creators behind Assess.Masses at The Watershed.
Since 2023, Michael has pioneered the Department of Film and TV’s first video game unit along with Dr Lawrence Kent, Approaching Video Games.
This summer (2024), Michael, along with collaborators Dr Richard Cole and digital artist Daniel Bacchus, were awarded seed corn funding from the Narrative Technologies initiative to develop the concept for a game that explores postnatal depression in new fathers (read more about this in our other blog entry).
And, in November, Michael will be bringing the lead writers from Larian, who are responsible for Game of the Year 2023 Baldur’s Gate 3, to Bristol to lead an exclusive writing workshop for our students.
Welcome!