I am a firm believer in making research open and accessible to everyone, and so I provide as many links as I can below.

Visualising Queer Indie Games. Pride at Play, FDG 2022, GCAP 2022.
My research aims to make indie games more accessible to the public, and tell their stories. I am the lead curator for Pride at Play (2023) that aims to put queer indie games on the map for games made in Oceania and the Asia Pacific. The Arcade (2014) is a University of Sydney Union initiative where I curated Australian games for them. My research has been wonderful spending time doing this work. Publications and talks include Public Books, The Conversation AU, MSU Digital Humanities 2021, and interviews (Monash 2022, Monash 2023, Critical Distance: Keywords in Play).
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Inspiration Networks in Game Design. PhD Thesis, DiGRA Journal, Roguelike Universe.
‍I studied game jams both big and small to understand how ideas were remixed, linked, and manifested in videogames, and then applied what I call an "inspiration network" to map roguelike games. Publications, demos, and talks include Global Game Jam, ANSAC 2018, ICGJ 2017, Meaningful Play 2016, DiGRA Australia 2016, DiGRA Queensland 2016, DiGRA 2015, DiGRA Australia 2014, and Meaningful Play 2014.

I have given over 70 public talks since 2013 in both academic and industry events, and have organised 7 conferences including DiGRA 2017, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, ICGJ 2020, FDG 2021, VIS4DH 2022, VIS Arts Program 2023, and Games Symposium for Oceania and the Asia Pacific. I also ran 'Computer Graphics on the Web' meetup in Melbourne in 2016-2018.

Other notable publications include 'Passionately resilient beyond disciplines' (in press, Edited Book on Asian Design Education), chartjunk for visualisation (led by Dr Phil Gough), and remote sensing (led by Dr Tim Malthus).

I work across queer studies, video games, and creative technologies across multiple fields of practice. My current project, Visualising Queer Independent Games, seeks to critically examine authentic representations of gender and sexuality. As a researcher and designer, I am interested in supervising higher degree research working with LGBTQ communities and giving back to them in tangible and intangible ways.

Academic Services

• Games Symposium for Oceania and the Asia Pacific - General Chair
• IEEE VIS Arts Program 2023 - General Chair
• VIS4DH 2022 Workshop - Organising Committee, Communications and Lab Talks Chair
• FDG 2021 Conference - Organising Committee, Communications Chair
• ICGJ 2020 - Organising Committee, Online Chair
• SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 - Demoscene Co-Chair
• DiGRA 2017 Conference - Organising Committee, Web Chair
• SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer (2011-2017)

Monash University

• MADA Education Comittee (2021-)

• 2023—Present: CDS2523 Creative Visualisation (Chief Examiner and Lecturer)
• 2020—Present: CDS2704 Web Design (Chief Examiner and Lecturer)
• 2020—Present: CDS2601 Digital Audio/Video (Chief Examiner)
• 2020—2022: VCM4029 Designing Interactive Systems (Chief Examiner and Lecturer)
• 2022: MDC5210 and MDC5310 Interaction Design Studios 2 & 3 (Lecturer)
• 2021: CDS2001 Communication Design Studio 3 (Lecturer)