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ECGBL 2024

Aarhus University, Denmark 
Stakladen,
Universitetsparken 423, 8000
Aarhus

03-04 October 2024

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Winners at ECGBL 202

PhD winners

Golden, USA Gamification Powered by a Large Language Model to Enhance Flipped Classroom Learning in Undergraduate Computer Science
Kathleen Kelly with Christine Liebe, Colorado School of Mines,

Poster Winner

Indie Games Ethical and Socioemotional Development in Secondary Education
Jorge Oceja, Júlia Vilasís-Pamos, and Jesús Salinas, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Competition Game Winners

Games in Development 

1^st Place
Rahee
Jyothi Krishnan and Bhavya Agarwal

2^nd Place
Guardians of Tomorrow
Brian Nelson, Diane Jass Ketelhut, Luis Perez Cortes, Jeremy Bernier and Lin Yan

Joint 3^rd Place
Eelemental Home
Antonio Joaquín Franco-Mariscal and Maria Jose Cano-Iglesias

MADZI
Alan Devins, Stephen Farley, Mary Coogan, Paul Keating, John Hannafin and Daria Kravtosova

Fully Developed Games, Digital

1^st Place
T.E.G. Solutions
Anita Dahlberg and Simon Egenfield-Nielsen

2^nd Place
Till Next Bill
Julien Schekter, Nicolas Heredia and Frederic Cerchia

Joint 3^rd Place
Climate Smart
Anna Davies and Stephen Hugel

DEGRADATOR
Natalia Szulc et al

Fully Developed Games, Non-Digital

1^st Place
Terrible Workers
Lawrence Zheng, Archana Ramakrishnan, Simran Chawla, Manvi Gupta and Jenny Liu

2^nd Place
Water Champions
Stathi Paxinos and Annisa Hasanah

3^rd Place
Games of Games
Caroline Archambault

Student Games

Morning
1^st Place
Numerico
Neel Umesh Mantri

2^nd Place 
TheraBuddy
Isa Ozgur Ozer and Onur Sezer

3^rd Place      
New Heart, New Life
Lu Ka Hei, Cheung Ho Chun, Kwan Pak Hang, Chan Ching Man, Mak Sin Mei and Siu Ching Yiu

Afternoon

1^st Place        
The Policy Maker
Shuyin Zheng and Victoria Fischer

2^nd Place     
Blackout
Stella Stefany and Rickman Roedavan

3^rd Place     
Body of Knowledge
Stephanie O’Dell Daugherity

Escape Rooms

1^st Place
Escape from Building 7041
Sarah Campbell

2^nd Place
The Chest of Lord Maxwell
Ladislav Janiga and Viera Haverlikov

3^rd Place
The Hidden Hospital
Jenny Moffett and Harold Bok

Conference Executives

Conference Co-Chairs: 
Dr. Ton Spil 
Dr. Guido Bruinsma
Dr. Luuk Collou

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Sara de Freitas
Gamechangers: Transforming agency, engagement and communities with digital game trails

Jan Willem Huisman
The loss of Personal Play Space Undermines our Society: Playing is the Foundation for the Human Scale

Message of Thanks

We extend our thanks to all participants at the conference, both presenters and attendees and gratefully acknowledge the support of University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, and the assistance provided by the Conference and Programme Chairs and keynote speakers. The stream and mini track chairs are to be applauded for their efforts in ensuring that timekeeping requirements were respected by all participants and the chair and discussants of the PhD Colloquium are thanked for their invaluable contribution to this important part of the conference.

Finally, we value and unreservedly acknowledge the essential role performed by the executive and programme committees in respect of the double blind review process.

We trust that that overall the conference exceeded your expectations; we welcome your feedback

Previous ECGBL Conferences

ECGBL 2023

Hosted by:
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede The Netherlands

Website :  https://www.utwente.nl

05-06 October 2023

Winners at ECGBL 2023

Conference Executives

Conference Co-Chairs: 
Dr. Ton Spil 
Dr. Guido Bruinsma
Dr. Luuk Collou

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Sara de Freitas
Gamechangers: Transforming agency, engagement and communities with digital game trails

Jan Willem Huisman
The loss of Personal Play Space Undermines our Society: Playing is the Foundation for the Human Scale

Competition game winners

Escape Room Games

Winner
Escape the Infected: Brighton’s Last Stand
Deeksha Bhushan, Surbhi Arora, Jugneet Singh Chhatwal and Shailaja Prasad, University of Brighton, UK

Student Games

Runner up
Ominous Stew
Alexander Bob, Jonas Wehling and David Dorian, Julian Becker, Lisa Hofmeister and Pascal Janssen, Hochschule Harz Wernigerode, Germany

Winner
Roaring
Deng Cheuk Man, Man Wai Hou, Wan to Hui Ho Yin Lam and Ching Yee Mok, Man Kwan Pak Kau College, Hong Kong

Student Games

Winner
The Viscious Worm Board Game
Feyza Ercos, Ghent University, Belgium

ECGBL 2022

Hosted by:
Lusófona University
Lisbon
Portugal

06-07 October 2022

Winners at ECGBL 2022

PhD winners

Joint 1st

Vera Pradiante, Lusofona Uniersity/CICANT, Lisbon
‘The Contribution of Game-based learning: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dyscalculia’

Astrid Patricia Marin Jimenez and Francis Dube
‘Pedagogical Foundation to Promote Students’ Engagement and Creativity while Co-creating a Music Learning Game’

Poster Competition

Joint 1st

Tomas Havlik et al, University of Defence, Czech Republic
Wargaming Simulator MASA SWORD for Training and Education of Czech Army Officers

Fredrik Rusk and Matilda Stahl, Abo Akademi University, Finland
eSports: The new “white boys” Club? Problematizing the Norms Limiting Diversity and Inclusion in an Educational Gaming Context

Tone Vold, Norway University of Applied Sciences, Rena, Norway
Using an Outdoor Quiz Game to Support Student Socialisation.

Conference Executives

Conference Co-Chairs: 
Conceição Costa, Filipe Costa Luz & Nuno Fachada, Lusófona University, Portugal

Keynote Speakers:

Patrícia Gouveia, Lisbon University, Portugal 
Eco gaming: How feminism and play are key to changing the world

Petros Lameras, Coventry University, UK
Designing Serious Games through Research: A Relational Perspective

Competition game winners

Fully developed games

1st Place, Vit Sisler, Svoboda 1945

2nd Place, Beata Mierzwa, Microscopya 

3rd Place, Luana Silveri Luana, Youtopia 

Games in Development 

1st Place, Adam Barnard, LINA 

2nd Place, Gloria Mittmann, Hygiene in the Course of Time

3rd Place, Olga Sowa, Diversity Game

Student Games 

1st Place, Sabina Sirca, Officer Ollie to the rescue  

2nd Place, Miha Medved, HTML-Dash 

3rd Place, Karl Wien, AEON: The Emergence of Life 

ECGBL 2021

Hosted by: University of Brighton
Moulsecoomb Campus
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT
UK

23-24 September 2021

Winners at ECGBL 2021

PhD winners

Mifrah Ahmad, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Teacher’s Contemplation Towards Selecting and Evaluating Games for Classroom

Commendations for:

David Bar-El, Northwestern University, Evanston, and Kathryn Ringland, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Teachers Designing Lessons with a Digital Sandbox Game: The Case of Minecraft Education Edition

Poster Winner

Chiara Piazzalunga, Linda Greta Dui, Simona Ferranti, Matteo Matteucci, Politecnico di Milano, Cristiano Termine and Marisa Bortolozzo, University of Insubria, Italy
A Serious Game to Anticipate Handwriting Difficulties Screening Through Visual Perception Assessment

Commendations for: 

Asge Frederik Matthiesen, Mærsk McKinney Møller Institute and Lasse Juel Larsen, Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, Odense Denmark
Facing your Fears: Design of a VR Tool for Usage within Exposure Therapy for Patients with Social Anxiety Disorders Combined with Selected Game‐based Elements

Conference Executives

Conference Chair:
Panagiotis Fotaris, University of Brighton, UK

Programme Co-Chairs:
Dr Cate Grundy and Dr Marcus Winter, University of Brighton, UK

Keynote Speakers:
Pete Jenkins
Seven Steps to Gamification Success

Diana Laurillard

Competition game winners

Non-Digital Games: 

Wu Mi-cha and Chen Yenjui
Seek and Search –National Palace Museum, Seek and Search - Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tours

Games installed on a device 
Iza Marfisi
TurtleTablet 

Web-based Games:

Julien Schekter 
CoronaQuest 

Special mention to Antonia Schorer with the Nemesis Game 

Student Games presented in the Pecha Kucha style:

Gloria Mittmann 
School can be a Nightmare 

2^nd place: Jiaqi Yu and Andre R. Denholm 
The Nomands 

3^rd place: Mary Ann Comunale 
Hep B-Ware 

ECGBL 2020

Hosted by: University of Brighton
Moulsecoomb Campus
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT
UK

23-25 September 2020

Winners at ECGBL 2020

Non-Digital Games

1st Place
Reef Stakes®
Yew Aun Quek

2nd Place
WinWin Insurance Plus
Huei-Tse Hou and Chih-Chen Kuo

3rd Place
Brave New World
Helen Hall, Tom Lewis and Javier Garcia Oliva

Digital Games

1st Place
Wired   
Diarmid Campbell

2nd Place
Welcome Rookie: A Game of Ethics
Omar Elsayed

3rd Place
Little Fish Lagoon
Evan Rushton

Conference Executives

Conference Chair:
Panagiotis Fotaris, University of Brighton, UK

Programme Co-Chairs:
Dr Katie Piatt and Dr Cate Grundy, University of Brighton, UK

Keynote Speakers:
Prof Nicola Whitton, University of Durham, UK
From games to play: what's the difference?

Dr Alex Moseley,  University of Leicester, UK
Playful Learning, Teaching and Researching

Student Games

Joint 1^st Place
FABE Mathematics scrabble game 
Dr Foluke B.Eze

Lathe Safety Simulator (VR)
Michael Callaghan and Niall McShane

Runner up
Cyberspace Invaders
Antonia Stylianou

Runner up
Institute Senra
Tugo-Tijaš Štrbenc and Oskar Težak

In Development Games

1^st Place
Hex on Turtle Islands
Diane Jass Ketelhut and Anthony Pellicone

2^nd Place
NEMESIS Game
Antonia Schorer

“More advanced” Commendation
GramMars Wars 
Johan de Bruin

LifeLab+
David Farrell

ECGBL 2019

Hosted by: University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
DK-5230 Odense M 

3-4 October 2019

Winners at ECGBL 2018

Joint Best PhD Papers
Digital Game-Based Learning for Early Childhood: Guardians’ Attitudes in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Lauri Pynnönen

Promoting 21st Century Skills with Game-Based Learning in Interdisciplinary Fisheries Education  
Jørn Weines  

Best Poster
Time to Walk Thomas Wernbacher, Natalie Denk, Mario Platzer and Sylvia Titze

7th International Educational Game Competition Winners
Finished Games

Conference Executives 

Conference Chair:
Lars Elbæk, University of Southern Denmark

Programme Co-Chairs:
Md. Saifuddin Khalid, Gunver Majgaard (PhD), University of Southern Denmark and
Andrea Valente, Torino University, Italy

Keynote Speakers:
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Serious Games Interactive
Social Gamification in Blended Learning Games

Helle Marie Skovsbjerg, Design School Kolding
Playful Play-Design: Balancing Danger and Safety in Children's Full Body Play

Games in Development Winners

Joint 1st Place:
Homeless Monopoly
Jackie Calderwood

Maths Duel
Pierpaolo Dondio

Student Competition Winners

1st Place
Solar Race
Michael Callaghan

Joint 2nd Place
Once Upon a Maths
Mariana Rocha

Hunt for Human Rights
Stephen Farley, Jaia Alexandra Kavanagh, Laura Ann-Marie Masterson, Molly Carolanne Egan, Ellen Kearney, Willemijn Bosschaert, Lucy Edgeworth and Eve Ellen Mathews

ECGBL 2018

Hosted by:  SKEMA Business School,
Sophia Antipolis,
France

4-5 October 2018

Winners at ECGBL 2018

Best PhD Paper
Game Co‐Creation with Young Music Students: A Pedagogic Approach to Promote Creativity and Engagement
Astrid Patricia Marin Jimenez, Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Best Poster
Learning and Identity Construction through Gamification in Visual Art Education: A Student Perspective
Matilda Ståhl, Åbo Akademi University, Vasa, Hannah Kaihovirta, University of Helsinki and Minna Rimpilä, Vasa övningsskola, Finland

6th International Educational Game Competition Winners
Overall Joint Winners 
and Winner of the Computer and VR Game Category
The Chantry
David Moore, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

and winner of the Non-Digital Games Category
Crabs & Turtles
Katerina Tsarava, Leibniz Institut fuer Wissensmedien and Luzia Leifheit, University of Tübingen, Germany

Winner of the App Based Category
MathemaTIC
Tanja Trobok, Vretta Inc., Canada

Winner of the Web Based Category
Treasure-HIT
Miky Ronan, Faculty of Instructional Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology  

Conference Executives 

Conference Chair:
Dr Melanie Ciussi, SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis, France

Programme Co-Chairs:
Dr Sophie Gay Anger, Sophia Antipolis, France and 
Dr Margarida Romero, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Sylvester Arnab, Coventry University, UK
The Magic Circle of Playful and Gameful Co-Creation

Dr Jacob Habgood, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Do Books Work? (and other questions we probably shouldn’t ask)

Dr Eric Sanchez, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Don’t Forget the Beans!

2nd Games in Development Competition Winners

1st  Place
Project Honduras
Stephen Farleyand Jen Murphy, Trócaire, Ireland

2nd Place
Oir
Antonio Zimmerman, UNTREF, Argentina

3rd Place
Marketemy Chak

Hei So, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong  

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