The Amatryx Lab is thrilled to partner with Jacoby Loury (UB Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology) and Buffalo Game Space to host a youth summer workshop in August! The workshop will be a 3 day event training high school students in game development with no prior experience required. The workshop is open to all Buffalo and WNY high school students.

Details and registration form available through the QR code on the flyer! Email Jacoby Loury (jaloury@buffalo.edu) or Cody Mejeur (codymeje@buffalo.edu) with any questions, and please spread the word!

The Amatryx Lab had another great year in 2025-2026 with our game nights, various research and game dev projects, and community programming. I (Cody) have been bad about posting our end of semester lab meeting selfies, so I’m including a couple of those here to celebrate the awesome people and the work we’ve all done. We have our biweekly lab meetings on Discord, and these are screenshots of a couple recent semesters.

The lab has a number of ongoing projects we’ll be working on this summer, including hopefully some exciting announcements soon! Stay tuned for more updates!

Dr. Cody also had the honor of being a Contemporary Narrative plenary speaker at the Narrative 2026 conference, where they also launched their professional robe attire. Their talk, “Trans/Narrative/Queer/Play,” was drawn from their monograph project of the same title, and focused on narrative as a meaning-making and reality-building process with emergent and quantum possibilities. Below are a couple of images from the talk and the pedagogy lunch, which Dr. Cody also spoke at.