Utrecht Center for Game Research

Games play an increasingly important role in many societal areas by allowing users to practice, play, experiment, research, and learn in a safe and motivating environment.

The Utrecht Center for Game Research performs interdisciplinary research on serious gaming and playful interaction with a focus on the following domains:

  • Games for Learning
  • Games for Health
  • Games for Change 

It is our mission to employ games to help solving large societal challenges. Games are pre-eminently suitable to inform, motivate, appeal to emotion, and influence behavior. Games do that better than other types of media. Learn more about our projects in our magazine

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Picture made during the 2017 ecogames symposium
Environmental impact of games

In the symposium Ecogames: Game Research meets Sustainability, game designers and scholars from a variety of disciplines came together to discuss the impending impacts of climate change and possible ways to counter this.

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Screenshot of the explainimation about Game Research
HU students make Game Research explainimation

HU students Walter Drega, Jens Weidenaar, Eileen Heijs and Sara Moree from the minor Datavisualisation and Infographics have created and animation for the Utrecht Center for Game Research. In the animation it is explained, hence the name "explainimation", what the Utrecht Center for Game Research does and who is involved.

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Magazine Game Research

In October 2017 our new magazine was published. The magazine highlights several research projects of the Utrecht Center for Game Research, and features interviews with affilliated researchers. Click below to read it online!

Magazine

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20 February 2019
Student game jam explores complex sustainability problems
Utrecht University and HKU University of the Arts Utrecht students developed applied games addressing complex and deeply uncertain sustainability issues.
Cover of the book "The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture"
19 February 2019
Out now: The Playful Citizen. Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture
The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture is an addition to the new Games and Play book series from publisher Amsterdam University Press.
20 December 2018
DiGRA 2018: Games for Learning
Games for Learning Symposium, Dutch DiGRA Chapter, 20th December 2018
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