The Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL) has selected Cat Royale as one of the recipients of the 2025 Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award.

Each year, the Digital Dozen honours twelve projects from around the world that push the boundaries of narrative, technology, and culture. The 2025 awards celebrate new forms of storytelling that challenge conventions and open up new possibilities for how stories are created, shared, and experienced.

Cat Royale was made possible as part of Blast Theory’s role as Cultural Ambassadors for the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub. The work was created as part of an extensive collaboration with Professor Steve Benford and researchers at the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, along with Professor Clara Mancini at the Open University and Professor Daniel Mills at the University of Lincoln.

Visit the Digital Dozen Cat Royale page where Nick Tandavanitj – second year PhD student at Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training talks about his work which focusses on developing creative approaches to computing.

Details on the full Digital Dozen 2025 line up can be found here.