In the following sound bite, recorded with Dr Sarah Jones as part of a series for the Humanities Learning and Teaching Network, Dr Richard Cole talks about his experiences using virtual …
Teaching Ancient History with Games and VR
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‘On a Quest to Learn’: Creating an AI-powered Quest System for the Heritage Sector
As AI rapidly approaches ubiquity, what role should it play in the heritage sector? How might AI affect the museum experience? What might it do for the museum experience? These are the questions behind CultureQuest: an interactive, AI-powered ‘quest experience’ …
Reflections on a Blueprint: the Bristol Digital Game Lab’s Larian Studios Workshop
Conceived originally as an exclusive masterclass with award-winning Larian Studios, creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 (Game of the Year, 2023), the Bristol Digital Game Lab’s November 2025 workshop – Your Choices Matter: How Larian Writers Tell the Player’s Story …
Can Games Teach? Recap
This January, with the support of the Cabot Institute for the Environment Community Event Fund, Dr Lewis Alcott and Dr Richard Cole organized the “Can Games Teach? Games and the Environment” symposium. Bringing together industry experts and leading scholars alongside …
Grand Stimuli: The Game Lab and The Museum of Languages Game Jam
In June 2025, the Game Lab was invited to participate in Bristol Data Week, organized by the Jean Golding Institute. Data Week is a springtime platform pursuing research and interdisciplinary collaboration on the subject of data science and …
A Spotlight On: Antiquity Games Night
As one of the more recurrent projects supported by the Bristol Digital Game Lab, Antiquity Games Night, co-ordinated by Dr Richard Cole (Bristol) and Dr Alexander Vandewalle (Ghent), very much merits a retrospective. For going on two years, the pair …
Recap: Dead Meat Player Study
This spring, the Bristol Digital Game Lab, in collaboration with Meaning Machine, held playtests for Meaning Machine’s forthcoming “first-person talker” game, Dead Meat. Drawing upon the murder-mystery genre, Dead Meat deploys Game Conscious™ technology to allow players to …
Games for Good
Nick Riddle at Bristol Mix has written a profile of Dr Michael Samuel, co-Director of the Bristol Digital Game Lab, focusing on his personal and academic relationship with videogames, his work with the Lab, and collaboration with Richard Cole…
Postnatal Depression Game Update
In summer 2024, the Bristol Digital Game Lab co-directors Dr Michael Samuel and Dr Richard Cole, along with digital artist Dr Danny Bacchus, were awarded seed funding from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Narrative Technologies fund …
University Enterprise Fellowship Award
We’re delighted to announce that co-Director of the Bristol Digital Game Lab, Dr Richard Cole, has been awarded a University Enterprise Fellowship for academic year 2025/26.
Richard will make use of the Fellowship to develop the Lab’s pioneering work …