About the Proceedings

The European Conference on Game-Based Learning has been run on an annual basis since 2006. Conference Proceedings have been published each year and authors have been encouraged to upload their papers to university repositories. In addition the proceedings are indexed by a number of indexing bodies.

Since 2022 the publishers have made all conference proceedings fully open access. Individual papers and full proceedings can be accessed via this system.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU WISH TO SUBMIT A PAPER TO THIS CONFERENCE YOU SHOULD VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ THIS PORTAL IS FOR AUTHORS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS ONLY.

The European Conference on Games Based Learning was established in 2006. It has been held in Austria, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Norway and France to mention only some of the countries that have hosted it. ECGBL is generally attended by participants from more than 40 countries and attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners, game designers and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of games-based learning and serious games. Among other journals, the Electronic Journal of e-Learning publishes a special edition of the best papers presented at this conference.

The conference is also host to The International Educational Games Competition.

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Current Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2026): The Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Games Based Learning
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THIS IS VOLUME 1 of 2. For volume 2 see: https://papers.academic-conferences.org/index.php/ecgbl/issue/view/67 

These papers represent the work of researchers who participated in the 20th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Hosted by Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany on 1-2 October 2026.

Edited by Stefan Gobel and Christian Hoppe

eBook: 978-1-917204-95-8

Print: 978-1-917204-96-5

Published: 2026-09-30

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