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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
If we imagine 2024 as an open world game, and the Bristol Digital Game Lab as player, then there’s lots to celebrate in terms of achievements (although there have also been challenges!).
In 2024, we brought in over £300,000 of …
Are you an early-mid career creative technologist, designer, or creative working in immersive media or the games industry? We invite you to join a workshop series organized by the AI Tools for Games and XR Storytelling project at the University …
This summer, 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 …
We are overjoyed to announce that we have been awarded seed corn funding as part of the Narrative Technologies initiative to develop a proof of concept for a game exploring the complex topic of postnatal depression.
According to the National …
Your Choices Matter: How Larian Writers Tell the Player’s Story
On Wednesday 6 November 2024, the Bristol Digital Game Lab is delighted to be hosting a game writing workshop with the writing team from award-winning Larian Studios, creators …
On 3rd – 4th June 2024, the Lab hosted a conference on New Directions in Classics, Gaming, and Extended Reality, organised by Dr Richard Cole (Lecturer in Digital Classics, University of Bristol) and generously sponsored by the University …
