Brendan Keogh
About Speaker
Dr Brendan Keogh is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, where he researches videogame development skill transferability across informal, formal, and embedded sectors. His previous research has focused on the phenomenological and textual aspects of videogame play and culture. He is the co-author of The Unity Game Engine and The Circuits of Cultural Software (with Benjamin Nicoll), and is the author of A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames and Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops The Line. He has written extensively about the cultures and development practices of videogames in for outlets such as Overland, The Conversation, Polygon, Edge, and Vice.