Games and Gaming Lab

Do you want to explore #RobertBurns' farm at #Ellisland in #Minecraft ?✍️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Now you can! Thanks to a project led by @UofGGamesLab's @DrTimPeacock & @hatii_matt, in partnership with @UofGMinecraft & @Burns_Ellisland @SScotDAlliance @InterfaceOnline. #PlsRT gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

Please see below the sign up link with further details for the Wednesday 28 January workshop on gamifying railway flooding resilience, hosted at Crichton Campus, Dumfries: eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-great-wor…

Are you interested in games? Are you worried about our changing environment? Do you have an interest in trains and the rail network? Join us for a workshop on gamifying railway flood resilience at @ResilienceScot on Wednesday 28 January, 2-3.30. Details/sign up in the next post.

Happy Holidays from everyone at the College of Arts & Humanities! 🎄✨ It’s been another brilliant year of creativity, curiosity, and achievement. A huge thank you to our students, staff, alumni, and wider community for making it so special. We'll be back on 5 January. 🎓💛

2025 is coming to an end… and we’re getting ready to celebrate our 10th anniversary with you! Happy holidays and best wishes for the year to come! More information about GamiFIN: gamifinconference.com/call-for-paper…

What happens when gaming meets nuclear diplomatic history? 🎲 Find out in the latest episode of our award-winning Stories From Glasgow podcast with @DrTimPeacock. @UofGGamesLab @UofGWarStudies Listen online or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 ow.ly/KuLQ50XGIwu

The Total War series of games is good. I played Medieval, Medieval 2 and Empire for ages when I was younger. They just had a few key things missing. No realistic command and control or operational level maneuver. You just order giant doom stacks around, they go where you tell them and you usually just march directly towards the enemy army or their main city. Not much emphasis on skirmishes, raids, foraging and the other things that these armies actually spent their time doing. It wasn't all big set-piece battles. In fact these were rare. I get that they're more "cinematic" but they weren't the norm. Still, the Total War series was probably the best we history fans could hope for in a PC game for the time.

For a long time I've wanted to write something that talks about the connection between gaming and hip hop, and how that childhood console was a pure escapism that kept many working class boys safe + away from trouble. Beyond proud I've finally done it with this one.

I interviewed @CurrenSy_Spitta at length about his love for the Sega Genesis & Ecco the Dolphin. This is Part 1 of the 'Device That Made Me', my new interview series for @backmarket where the famous reflect on a life-changing electronic. Read here: backmarket.com/en-us/c/tech-e…

It's National Play Monopoly Day! The battleship token in the classic version of Monopoly was modeled after USS Indiana (BB-1). The game piece was also used in the board games Conflict and Diplomacy. The Indiana was commissioned in 1895 and decommissioned in 1919. #monopoly

@scottishgames annouces inaugural Hello World! Scottish Students Startup Summit, addressing a key question facing all young innovators: “Is starting my own games business in Scotland right for me?” Read more: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_… @UofGGamesLab @DrTimPeacock #GameDesign

@scottishgames announces “Hello World!” - A Startup Summit Aiming To Ignite The Next Generation of Games Entrepreneurs. Working with @UofGGamesLab they are addressing the key question: “Is starting my own games business in Scotland right for me?” digitalnation.scot/hello-world-su…

Conflict resolution experts at UofG have developed an alternative to traditional wargaming. 💻 CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by @UofGLaw, @UofGGamesLab and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully. Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr

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The link to the newly-released UofG UNESCO RIELA podcast on Peacegaming is: bit.ly/Peacegame We would also, separately, like to encourage any interested to come to the launch of Rebecca Sutton's game CEASEFIRE, this Friday, 7 November, in @UofGARC at 2-3pm. All welcome.

📣New #podcast episode out from UNESCO-RIELA! Listen to @DrTimPeacock & Prof Rebecca Sutton talk about @UofGGamesLab & about their work on Peacegaming. Inspired by their workshop at the @UNESCO RIELA Spring School @UofGARC May 2025. Podcast link in the next post. #Peace #gaming

❄️ Maker Mondays Winter Season is here! Hands-on sessions at ARC MakerSpace: 🧵 Nov 24: Crafting 🖨️ Dec 1: 3D Printing 🔦 Dec 8: Laser Cutting 🔌 Dec 15: Electronics Open to all @UofGlasgow staff & students! 👉 eventbrite.com/e/creativity-t… #MakerMondays #Innovation

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🎉 The Statistics Group took part in the Festival of Data Science and AI, organised by @UofG_CDSAI. We hosted: 🎲 Solving Real-World Problems with Statistics and Data Science 🧩 Stats in Action: Games of Chance, Change, and Creation Proud to share creative, impactful stats!