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Employment

Abertay University

Programme Lead BA (Hons) Game Design and Production

Aug 2026 - Present

Lecturer in Game Design

DES205 - Level Design & Scripting (Module Lead)

DES207 - Media Production

DES402 - Critical Design Practice

DES404 - Honours Project (Supervisor)

JUL 2019 - Present

DES311 - Game Design Practice (Interim Module Lead)

2020 - 2024

Research

Thesis

[2026] Tarvet, A (2026) Playable Realities: The Design of Lived Experience Games as Authentic Narratives of Ill-Health, PhD Thesis, Abertay University. Available at: Coming Soon

Publications

[2022] Tarvet, A (2022) The Longest Walk: A Retrospective of Biographical Game Design. CHI PLAY’22: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p.351-356. Available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3505270.3558386

Conferences, Exhibitions, Talks, etc.

[2025] Presentation - MAKE/PLAY (Nov 2025) - Abertay University, Dundee

[2024] Exhibition & Night Mode Event - Game On | National Museums Scotland (Jun-Nov 2024) - National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[2024] Exhibition - Aesthetica Short Film Festival: VR Lab (Nov 2024) - The Hospitium in York ‘s Museum Gardens, York

[2024] Exhibition - Scottish Games Frenzy (Oct 2024) - Eagle Labs, Glasgow

[2024] Exhibition & Presentation - Mindset XR: Roadshow (Jun 2024) - ARC Research Hub, Glasgow

[2024] Presentation - Design Lab with Now Play This (Jun 2024) - Abertay University, Dundee

[2024] Exhibition - Avant Beetle Mixtape #1 (Feb 2024) - Atlanta, Georgia

[2023] Exhibition - Aesthetica Short Film Festival: Games Lab (Nov 2023) - Spark*, York

[2023] Exhibition - Belfast XR Festival (Nov 2023) - The Black Box, Belfast

[2023] Fireside Panel - Innovators Assemble (Jan 2023) - ARC Research Hub, Glasgow

[2023] Discussant - Book Launch: ‘Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research’ (Jan 2023) - Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

[2022] Exhibition & Lightning Talk (Pitches SGDC & Interactivity) - Chi Play: The Longest Walk (Nov 2022) - Congress Centrum, Bremen

[2022] Exhibition - Scottish Games Expo (Oct 2022) - Eagle Labs, Glasgow

[2022] Exhibition - DCA: Drop in and Play (Oct 2022) - DCA, Dundee

[2022] Exhibition - Gaming for Good, ARCade Night (Sept 2022) - ARC Research Hub, Glasgow

[2022] Research Poster & Exhibition - iGGi Conference (Sept 2022) - Ron Cooke Hub, York

[2019] Co-organizer - Ludic Literature: The Converging Interests of Writing, Games and Play (Jul 2019) - University of Glasgow, Glasgow