{"id":1640,"date":"2025-03-31T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:56:52","slug":"update-free-games-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2025\/03\/31\/update-free-games-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"[Update] Free games talk!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Friday (4th April), I&#8217;ll be doing my usual annual talk for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ac.uk\/\">University of Surrey<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.surrey.ac.uk\/2024-5\/module\/ELIM051\">Writing Gaming<\/a> module that I co-designed, and runs across a few of their creative degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference this time? It&#8217;s with the lovely Alyx from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscriptgames.com\/\">Silverscript games<\/a>, and open to the public&#8212;and for free! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the area, I&#8217;d love to see you there. <br><br>And if you&#8217;re not, stay tuned: I have a few more talks coming up around the country to announce soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"622\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?resize=880%2C622&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?resize=1024%2C724&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?resize=768%2C543&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?resize=1536%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?resize=600%2C424&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?w=1760&amp;ssl=1 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday (4th April), I&#8217;ll be doing my usual annual talk for the University of Surrey&#8216;s Writing Gaming module that I co-designed,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2025\/03\/31\/update-free-games-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Update] Free games talk!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,18,282],"tags":[312,135,177,119],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-updates","category-writing-workshops","tag-career-help","tag-games","tag-narrative-design","tag-writing-help"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Writing-Gaming-Annual-Guest-Lecture-2025.jpg?fit=2000%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}