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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Spotlight
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!

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News

7 December 2018
Easier to save energy by playing a game
Households are better able to follow tips to save energy by playing a game than using a standard dashboard with instructions.
26 November 2018
Games and Scenario Planning: at a crossroads
"We are turning analogue games into digital forms, but we still don’t know what potential such conversion has to offer."
13 November 2018
RAGE project goes to the European Parliament
The RAGE project will be presented on 20 and 21 November at a meeting of the European Parliament in Brussels.
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Events

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20 December 2018 14:00 - 17:00
DiGRA.nl - Games for learning
Meeting for Dutch Game researchers
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