Workshops

In February 2019 I designed and ran a workshop at the V&A Museum, London, with James Wood. We ran the family workshop for a week in the Raphael gallery, which was open and free to the public, and was inspired by the V&A's Design, Play, Disrupt exhibit on Video Games.

In February 2019 I helped to organise and run a series of workshops and an algorave (code-generated music) in celebration of Processing Community Day in Bristol.

In early 2019 I helped to run a series of workshops for girls learning to code with Grrrl Games. The workshops are part of a project called 'Deeds not words', in celebration of 100 years since women won the right to vote. More details can be found at Grrrlgames.org.

In 2017 I wrote a tutorial for Adam Le Doux's tool for making small games, Bitsy. I had really lovely feedback from the Bitsy community about this, which prompted me to start running Bitsy workshops. So far I've helped run them at universities, games festivals, local game development meetups and childrens' technology events.

Talks

I gave a talk at A MAZE festival in 2018 about making games using small tools (video below!).
I've also given scientific talks throughout University, including one about clams at the Molluscan Forum at the Natural History Museum. That's right, a whole forum about molluscs.





Fuse Jam

I co-founded and co-organise a game jam, the Fuse Jam (Twitter @fusejambristol), in Bristol with Alex Birke and Eriol Fox. The jam was founded from our wish for more game jams with a physical get-together to meet new people, and for a desire to experiment with the traditional jam format, particularly the theme and the way in which it can drive creativity.
We had a very successful first jam in November 2017 with around 30 people, hosted by Aardman Animation.
For our second jam in September 2018 we were hosted by DbS Music and had an exciting musical theme overall!


Alt Play Space

I run a games/playful media event Alt Play Space (Twitter @altplayspace), in Bristol with my partner, James.
We were really inspired by events such as Games Are For Everyone by We Throw Switches and wanted to run a games event that focused on non-violent, playful games that encourage creativity and collaboration.

Bristol Small Games

I run a small meetup in Bristol with my friend, Mark, which is a space for people to get together and talk about small games and small tools such as Bitsy and Twine.

If you are interested we have a mailing list sign-up page here!