My wife, Emma, and I had a wonderful time at AireCon this year. It was a special convention for me as it marked a year since I’d begun my fieldwork. I had the pleasure of giving a seminar on UK Tabletop Gaming Communities. It was fantastic to be able to Read more…
For the past year, Ruth Penfold-Mounce and I have been working on the development of the York Death & Culture Walk. Our intention was to create a walking tour of the city of York which allowed both students and the public an opportunity to consider the histories of death, dying Read more…
Onwards to Perth for the first ever Tabletop Scotland! I’d arrived in Perth on Friday, the day before the convention commenced to lend my support in any way I could. For the most part, this meant moving a large quantity of rather heavy wooden tables and laying down tablecloths. A number Read more…
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ben Porter from The Unlucky Frog to talk about my research with the gaming community and the wider issues of inclusivity within tabletop gaming. Check out the episode below!
I got back from the UK Games Expo last night (3 June 2018). A fantastic weekend in all, but I ache all over. I’ll get an important part out of the way first – what games I came away with. New Century: Eastern Wonders (Emerson Matsuuchi, 2018) The Networks: Telly Read more…
I decided to take a trip up to the beautiful city of Edinburgh for the day to attend Conpulsion 2018, a student-led convention held at the University of Edinburgh’s Student Union. The convention is primarily focused around play and, although it welcomes all forms of analog gaming, it is primarily Read more…
I don’t think of myself as a collector of board games but, I do have a collection. A collection that keeps expanding. Here, though, I’m half tempted to write a list of what I own. I must own around 100 games (including expansions, that is). Since Christmas 2017 the following Read more…
This past weekend my fieldwork took me to AireCon. A fantastic and diverse analog gaming festival based in Huddersfield. This is my first convention as a ‘researcher’ so it was great to speak to so many passionate gamers who were excited about what the hobby is and the future it Read more…
I will be beginning my fieldwork for this project over the next month and will be conducting interviews, focus groups, attending conventions and playing games until the end of February 2019. If you would like to find out more information about the project or get involved with the research, please Read more…
I’ve been doing a pretty intensive literature review over the past couple of weeks looking at what the academic research says about tabletop gamers. Some of this research is nearly forty years old and is definitely in need of some updating. I do not think that these claims are in Read more…
