Geoff Engelstein is an award-winning table-top game designer and educator. His game titles include Space Cadets, The Expanse, and the Super Skill Pinball series, and book titles include Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Achievement Relocked, and The Universe Explained with a Cookie. Podcast credits include the long-running GameTek series on The Dice Tower, and […]

Hannah Boeijkens is a researcher at the Participatory Innovation in the Youth Landscape research group of the Centre of Expertise Perspective in Health at Avans University of Applied Sciences. She has a background in neuroscience and psychology. She specialises in co-creation with children, their social-emotional development, and the use of serious games to learn, motivate, […]

Hanneke Scholten is an assistant professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology at Erasmus Medical Center, and co-director of the Games for Emotional and Mental Health (GEMH) lab. Her mission is to understand the world young people live in and to create or streamline digital experiences that matter to youth and improve their […]

Regan Mandryk is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Prior to moving to UVic, she was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan for 15 years and was a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Digital Gaming Technologies and Experiences there. She pioneered the area of affective physiological evaluation for […]

You are cordially invited to submit papers to the 14th Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA Conference 2025). GALA Conference 2025 is an international conference organized by the Serious Games Society in collaboration with Utrecht University. The conference will take place in the historic city-center of Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 19th November to 21st November. The objective of the conference is to […]

🎉 GOOD NEWS and SAVE THE DATE! 🎉 It is with great pleasure that we announce that Utrecht University will host the GALA 2025 conference, on November 19-21, 2025! 📆 Save the date everyone and hope to see you all at Utrecht in 2025! #education #learning #games #seriousgames

We would like to thank the community for the great engagement and contributions to the GALA 2024 conference. This year, the competition had 57 submissions! 🎉 22 academic 9 business 26 student The shortlisted games will be announced soon and the results will be presented during the conference. Hope you’re all excited about that and […]

We can proudly announce Jan L. Plass and Eric Klopfer as our confirmed Keynote speakers at the GALA 2024 conference at The Berlin School of Economics and Law. They will also co-host our serious games design & research workshop. Dr. Jan L. Plass is the founding director of the CREATE Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technology […]

GALA Conference 2024 is an international conference organized by the Serious Games Society in collaboration with the Berlin School of Economics and Law | HWR Berlin. The conference will take place in Berlin (Germany) from 20th November to 22nd November 2024. The objective of the conference is to provide an international forum for the dissemination […]

And it’s a wrap! Thank you to all who have attended our 2023 edition. In 2023, the Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA) was hosted in Dublin, Ireland, in collaboration with the Technological University Dublin (Faculty of Computer Science and Digital Media). So far, the 2023 conference had: 36 paper presentations 14 posters 15 games […]