Saturday @sarmac2025 (8:45am; Boardroom 1) I'll be contributing to Teaching About Research in Memory & Cognition (TARMAC) Dept of Psych UAlberta U of A Centre for Teaching and Learning 'Assessing the replicability of Cognitive Psychology during remote experiential learning via mobile phone technology' Neurobehavioral Systems, Inc.

Two new books have just been published in my series Guides To Tabletop Game Design! Worldbuilding from Steve Dee and Playtesting Best Practices from Chris Backe both give nuanced, and insightful coverage from experts. Please check them out! routledge.com/CRC-Press-Guid…

My prototype Takoyaki is a 2025 Canadian Game Design Award Finalist! CGDA is hosted by FallCon and I'm looking forward to visting Calgary again, playing all the 2025 CGDA Finalist games and meeting all the designers in Prototype Alley #FallCon25 Time for a Takoyaki teaser?

My Canadian Game Design Award 2025 Finalist prototype 'Takoyaki' is now on its way to the CGDA judges. And not a moment too soon according to the file status of my rule book... FallCon

Received Playtesting Best Practices by Chris Backe as part of Geoff Engelstein Guides To Tabletop Game Design Nice to see the concept of 'double coding'- in Cognitive Psychology we call this 'redundancy gain': better discrimination when objects differ on 2 (rather than 1) features

Tenure Track is live at Table 16 in Prototype Alley at #BerlinBrettSpiel25. Come by and say hi!

Some huge games of Tenure Track going down at #BerlinBrettSpiel25! Thanks to all the fantastic playtesters who came by today.

WHOdunnit is one of my all time favourite tables but getting hard to find. So very happy to hear it's getting the superb Pinball FX treatment. See you on the roof (or the basement)!

All table reservations for fine Takoyaki dining FallCon are fully booked! #FallCon25 Although our restaurant is at capacity for scheduled opening hours, walk-ins may be accepted- just come by and say hi!

Applications for MA, MSc and PhD programs in Psychology University of Alberta UAlbertaScience Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta are now open! For application information and FAQ, please visit our website below. Deadline December 1st. Join us! ualberta.ca/en/psycholog...

We are live at @ualberta Open House! Lab tours at 10am and 2pm, Psychology presentation at 12 noon. Come by and say hi!

A highlight of this year was being invited by the Esker Foundation to write a piece on Babak Golkar's recent exhibition When Sound Becomes Unsound. You can read 'Please Do Not Touch The Artwork Beyond This Point' below Dept of Psych UAlberta …rmanentcollection.eskerfoundation.com/essays/please-…