The Week of the Game: experience game research and education at Utrecht University
The yearly Week of the Game, organised by the Center for Game Research, takes place on 15 to 19 April and is filled with events like workshops, seminars, book launches, and more.
Research and education
The Week of the Game showcases activities that take place at Utrecht University related to research and education in the areas of games and play. The programme consists of a wide range of activities, spanning topics such as games and sustainability, game music, games and education, and extended realities (VR) for good.
A brief overview of the programme can be found below. For the full programme including all events, times, locations, speakers, and registration links, please see the Game Research website.
About the Center for Game Research
The Center for Game Research was founded by the game-related teaching and research groups at Utrecht University in 2014 to develop an integrated approach to scientific and social questions, by linking academic excellence and fundamental research to the university’s social mission.
It is their mission to employ games to help solving large societal challenges. Games are pre-eminently suitable to inform, motivate, appeal to emotion, and influence behaviour. Games do that better than other types of media. The Center for Game Research provides the multidisciplinary expertise that is necessary for top level research into developing and studying games: game mechanics, technologies, player-game interaction, as well as the context.
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