CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference by ACM SICHI for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and HCI.
📍 November 2-5, 2026, York, UK
@iggi-phd.bsky.social PhD Candidate @york.ac.uk | Emergent Communication, Language Grounding & (Multi-Agent) Reinforcement/Imitation Learning
GitHub: https://github.com/Near32
Website: https://kevindenamganai.netlify.app/
The Righeira of Video Games. https://www.santaragione.com
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/rsuwh9HbPJ
Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value 👾
🌐 http://investigate.games
✉️ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
📍 York St John University, UK
Associate editor at Eurogamer. Writes, sometimes podcasts, talks a lot. I'd rather live in a fantasy land. (He/him)
Develop:Brighton 2026 - 14-16 July | The UK's biggest game developer conference. Bringing together the European game dev community from global superstars to micro indies - since 2006
Postgraduate Researcher @ IGGI PhD | Narrative playtesting & democratisation of #GamesUR • Prev Research Operations @ PlaytestCloud
Making games since 2004.
Co-Founder https://globalgamejam.org/ https://nordicgamejam.com/
Personal site: https://gormlai.github.io/
Working on Fugl - https://bit.ly/3st8vLs
BAFTA Member & Winner
PhD Student in AI & Games at @IGGI
Lapsed Demoscener
Aficionada of architecture, art, books, cake, coffee, dance, games, linguistics, music, saxophones, science, shoes, typewriters, zeitgeist.
Manager of iGGi - Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence @ Queen Mary Uni of London
Based at Uni of York, Queen Mary Uni of London, Goldsmiths, and Essex, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (iGGi) is the world's largest PhD programme for research in games.
More info: https://www.iggi-phd.org/
PhD Researcher on Video Games, Coping and Wellbeing @iggi-phd.bsky.social. Magic: The Gathering Eternal Format (Legacy/Vintage) specialist. Heard before being seen.
linktr.ee/saharmirhadi
inquiries: sahar.mirhadi@gmail.com
Wishlist Moth Terra: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4086570/Moth_Terra/
📚 Doctoral Researcher in Games @york.ac.uk
🌿 Researching Ecogames
🌸 Boutique Games Studio at @flora.games
https://linktr.ee/floragames
she/her/they/them
https://sarah.games/
the statues are bleeding green
iggi phd student @ uni of york
researching game design & player creativity
[games & zines] fuzul.itch.io
[other links] linktr.ee/dorukb
Game Designer. Lecturer. User Researcher. PhD Researcher iGGi York.
https://linktr.ee/rossfifield
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