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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
