Category: Research

Chandler, B. (2017) ‘Using contrast to affect visibility’, 304, 17 March. Available at: https://ben304.blogspot.com/2017/03/using-contrast-to-affect-visibility.html (Accessed: 7 February 2025) Ellis et al. (2017) Games accessibility guidelines Full List. Available at: https://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/full-list/ (Accessed: 20 February 2025). Palmquist, A., Jedel, I. and Goethe, READ MORE

To help me with this project, I decided to visit a Tim Burton exhibition in the Design Museum in London. As Tim Burton is a prolific horror artist, I thought that looking at what makes his artwork scary would benefit READ MORE

User Testing & Accessibility in Games Games Accessibility Games accessibility is important, especially since games are incredibly important in creating a space where disabled people can have fun and create community at a lower barrier of access. This can be READ MORE

The Charnel House Trilogy I played The Charnel House Trilogy, a horror point and click game, in order to get a feel for the genre since I am mostly unfamiliar. This game would give me most of my inspiration for READ MORE

Born Free (2018) Wild Animal Ban for Circuses in England. Available at: https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/news-wild-animal-ban-for-circuses-in-england/ (Accessed: 08/01/25) Davis, J. (2002) Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States: The University of North Carolina Press. READ MORE

Over Christmas I visited Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park to see two Circus shows there: Zippos Circus ‘Candyland’ and Cirque Berserk ‘Thunderbolt’. The goal of this trip was to discover more about how Circuses actually function, and what kinds of READ MORE

One of the most famous American Circuses was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. They were such a phenomenon that their arrival was anticipated to the extent that shops closed, schools were cancelled and factories shut down (Davis, READ MORE