Vol. 20 No. 1 (2026): The Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Games Based Learning

Academic Papers

• Investigating the Role-Play Technique in Educational Game Designing Process

  Mifrah Ahmad

  1-10

• Localized Leaderboards Improve Motivation, Engagement, and Skill Learning in Employee Training

  Mohammed Alnuri Alanazi, Mihai Boicu

  11-19

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• Designing a Digital Game on Ratio and Proportion Concept: Integrating Environmental Awareness Through Contextualized Problem-Solving

  Selçuk Alkan, Ayça Akın, Zübeyde Er

  20-28

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• From Cultural Game Jams to Applied Jam Models: A Longitudinal Evaluation

  Wilson Almeida, Filipe Luz, Maria Fonseca

  29-38

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• Usability Evaluation of an LMS-Notion Integrated Badge-Based Learning System

  Beyza Altuner, Muhtar Çağkan Uludağlı, Esin Çağlayan

  39-48

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• Gender Differences in Italian Teachers’ Readiness and attitudes Towards Game Integration in the Classroom

  Massimiliano Andreoletti, Andrea Tinterri, Anna DIpace

  49-60

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• Prompt’n’Play: Improving Teachers’ AI literacy through Secondary Learning Outcomes of a Serious Game

  Massimiliano Andreoletti, Andrea Tinterri, Maria Concetta Carruba, Anna Di Pace, Maria Clara Dicataldo, Marika Lamacchia, Francesco Facciorusso

  61-69

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• Rapid Academic Levelling Through Artificial Intelligence Role Play Escape Room

  Carlos Astengo-Noguez, Mario Caudillo

  70-78

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• Gamifying Place-Making in Architectural Design Studio: A Workshop Model Based on Place, Territoriality and Appropriation

  Yüzyıl Nevin Aydın

  79-87

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• EduColorVR: A Virtual Reality Serious Game for Enhancing Color Vision Deficiency Awareness in Educational Settings

  Masiar Babazadeh, David Braile, Alessandro Puiatti

  88-97

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• From Feedback to Features: A Two-Year Comparative Study of Iterative Gamification Design in Engineering Education

  Sylwia Babicz

  98-104

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• How Can Mechanics Stimulate Behaviour, Motivation, And Engagement Levels in Learning and Training Applications?

  Phillip Benachour, Carina Chang

  105-110

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• Learning by Game Design: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Participatory and Innovative Higher Education

  Matteo Bisanti, Cristina Castracani, Roberto Di Paolo, Emanuela Maio, Mariangela Scarpini

  111-117

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• Balancing Attention in an Immersive Augmented Reality Multiplayer Game for Museum Education

  Jessica L. Bitter, Lorena Müller, Leonie F. E. Ferdinand, Ulrike Spierling

  118-126

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• Learner‑Centered Design in Practice: The Impact of Non‑Learning Elements on Engagement and Learning Experiences

  Wolfgang Brabänder, Geeske Kemper, Kaja Langer, Lisa Scharrer, Josef Wiemeyer, Stefan Göbel

  127-136

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• From Prototype to Pitch: Learning Entrepreneurial Communication Through Gameplay

  Nicholas Brady, Michael P. O'Brien

  137-145

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• Play to Protect: Evaluating Cyber Threat Defender in South African Cybersecurity Education

  Lance Bunt, Michael De Jager, Luke Coetzee

  146-155

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• Arcademia: A Global Game Ecosystem for Learning, Research and Community

  Lance Bunt, Michael Lowen, Matthew Freeman

  156-163

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• A Board Game Approach to Hospitality Career Education in Schools

  Leonard Busuttil, Jonathan Barbara

  164-172

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• AI-Supported Feedback, Team Dynamics and Coaching in Hospitality Management Simulation

  Maria de Lurdes Calisto, Victor Alves Afonso

  173-180

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• A Longitudinal Experiential Learning Design for Negotiation Education Through 谈判 Megagame

  Aline Castillo, Mario Caudillo

  181-189

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• Designing an Integrated-Reality Megagame for Lifelong Learning Competency Development

  Mario Caudillo, Aline Castillo, Marco Aurelio Santos Basurto

  190-197

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• Fotonica in Gioco: A Game-Design Contest for Science Communication in Italian High Schools — Results from the Fifth Edition

  Fabio Chiarello

  198-202

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• Off-Course: The Mystery of Teaching Higher Mathematics to Vocational Aeronautic Students.

  Daniel Creed, Evgenia Anagnostopoulou

  203-212

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• From Games to Consequences: Scaffolding Professional Accountability through Game‑Based Learning and High‑Fidelity Simulation

  Matthew Daniels

  213-220

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• Playing for Quality: A Competitive Educational Game for Teaching Unit Testing in Computer Science Education

  Alia El Bolock, Caroline Sabty, Gordon Fraser, Slim Abdennadher

  221-230

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• Children in Digital Movement – Facilitating Exergame-based Learning

  Lars Elbæk, Nanna Jacobsen

  231-239

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• Fun Tac Toe: A Multi-Platform Game-Based Learning Approach Integrating Trivia with Classic Gameplay

  Mohammad Ali Eljinini

  240-247

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• Playtest Planning and Reporting Toolkit for Game Design in Academic Contexts

  Mikhail Fiadotau, Peadar Callaghan, Leonardo Sorrentino, Laura DeCarli, Martin Sillaots, Anni Hõ, Juhyung Shin

  248-257

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• From Vibe Coding to Playable Educational Escape Rooms: Extending Room2Educ8 for AI-Assisted Prototyping

  Panagiotis Fotaris, Theodoros Mastoras

  258-266

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• A Design and Development of Serious Game for Raising Awareness About Human Trafficking

  Lanlan Gao, Wen Hu

  267-274

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• Playful Pedagogy: Student Perceptions of Academic Skill Development Through Board Games

  Jordana Garbati, Nicole Skrepnek

  275-281

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• Playing About, Through and with Language. Two Educational Games to Explore Endangered Languages and Language Change: Phonetics Pursuit and Ludolecte

  Christopher Gledhill, Florian Delcourt, Amélie Elmerich

  282-289

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• Racing to Learn: A Formula 1–Inspired Gamification Framework that Sustains Motivation Through Repeated Competitive Cycles

  Cristina Veronica Gonzalez Cordova, Claudia Marcela Solis Garza

  290-299

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• Game-Based Learning for Integrated Care Implementation

  Ginevra Gravili, Grazia Dicuonzo

  300-307

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• Countering Hindsight Bias and Memory Decay During Debriefing Through Dual-Track Simulation Game Design

  Ajay Gupta

  308-316

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• Tiers of Engagement III: The Psychological Learning Engine in Online Business Simulators

  Martin Guttormsen, Jørn Weines

  317-326

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• Leben in Deutschland: An Intelligent Tutoring Game for the German Citizenship Test

  Felix Haase, Kemal Tanirak, Johannes Langer, Shamim Miroliaei, Jochen Mehlich, Ute Schmid

  327-336

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• Game-Based Support for Vocational Teachers’ Competence Reflection in Professional Development Search

  Sabrina Hänsel, Lydia Stark, Michelle Pippig

  337-344

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• Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between HEXAD Player Types and Cognitive Learning Objectives

  Sarah Hase

  345-352

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• Challenges of Simulations and Serious Games Embedded in Emergency Preparedness Platforms and Ecosystems for Educational Use

  Ilona Heldal, Rashika Tasnim Keya, Daniel Patel, Tord Frøland

  353-361

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• The Impact of the Educational Game “Castle of Emotions” on the Social–Emotional Learning of Third-Grade Students

  Fatemeh Jafarkhani, Saba Damabi, Ali Shirkarami

  362-369

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• Quiz-Based Mechanics for Long-Term Retention in Game-Based Learning

  Trishala Jain, Zhenhua Yang

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• From Player to Level Designer: Exploring Design Thinking Through Mario Maker 2

  Jennifer Jenson

  379-386

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• Integrating Real Work Systems into Educational Escape Games: A Human-Centred Requirements Analysis in the Context of Industrial Maintenance

  Laurids Käding, Maximilian Hentschel, Marc Schwarzkopf, Angelika C. Bullinger

  387-394

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• Designing VR Games for Emotional Intelligence: Participatory Design Insights from Children

  Shreya Kamath, Ruby Anne Thomas, Himavanth Reddy Vemula, Ekaterina Muravevskaia

  395-403

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• Exploring Teachers’ and First-Grade Students’ Perceptions of a Game Friendly School Project in a Primary School Context

  Merve Kara, Enisa Mede

  404-412

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• Students as Game Designers: Fostering AI Literacy through Project-Based Learning and Design Thinking

  Vasiliki Karampa, Vagia Kakava, Ageliki Mellou, Foteini Paraskeva

  413-421

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• Who Tells the Better Math Story? Exploring Gen AI in a Digital Algebra Game

  Kubra Kaymakci Ustuner, Effie Lai-Chong Law, Frederick WB Li

  422-430

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• AI-Supported Adjudication in Educational Wargames: Integrating LLMs for Strategic-Level Simulations

  Thorsten Kodalle, Ugur Uysal, Sven Holger Brünner, Anna Wagner

  431-439

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• Finding the Target Solution and its Concentration: A Chemistry Escape Room

  Michaela Kroeppl

  440-449

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• LOOP: A Transversal Framework for Game-Based Learning Analysis and Design

  Jérôme Legrix-Pagès

  450-458

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• Designing Educational Games in Higher Education: A Convergent Mixed-Methods Pilot Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Course on Game Design

  Elwira Lewandowska, Martin Kuruc, Dušan Damián Brezány, Klára Zubková, Monika Cihlářová, Magdaléna Švecová

  459-467

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• Designing a Non-Digital Game for Entrepreneurial Education – A Case Study of Biznes na medal

  Mateusz Lewandowski

  468-476

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• Comparing Flow, Narrative, and Spatial Immersion in an HMD-AR Serious Game for Museum Learning

  Yu Liu, Michael Lurz, Ulrike Spierling

  477-486

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• Cuenta Cuentos: A Co-designed Board Game for Preserving the Language of the Comcaac

  Edgar Ludert, Fany Muchembled, Rene Corella, Innan Rojas

  487-494

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• Playing with Misinformation: A Game-Based Approach to Children's Critical Digital Literacy

  Patricia Bianca Lyk, Jonas Nygaard Blom

  495-504

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• Learning AI Ethics through Game Design as Ethical Inquiry

  Fuji Lyu

  505-511

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• Designing with Unpredictable Narrators: Tensions in AI-Mediated Game-Based Learning

  Julie Madelen Madshaven, Christian Robere Simonsen, Christian W. Omlin

  512-521

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• Competition as Playful Pedagogy: Student-Led Evaluation and Learning in the ESEIC International Design Challenge

  Dominic Mahon, Dan Catlin, Muhibuddin Fadhli, Richard Harrison, Rochmat Aldy Purnomo

  522-529

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• Gamification Elements (Points, Achievements, Ratings) and Their Relationship with Creative Motivation in Higher Education: An Empirical Investigation

  Dilnoza Makhmudova

  530-538

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• Masterpolis: Simulating Urban Planning Decisions Through a Boardgame Learning Environment

  Lina Margarita Marrugo-Salas, Diviana Arevalo, Isabella Gómez, Isabel Quiñones, Alba Zulay Cardenas-Escobar, Natalie Morales-Londoño

  539-549

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• Flujo de Bolsillo [Pocket Flow]: A Board-game Simulation for Financial Decision-making

  Lina Margarita Marrugo-Salas, Alba Zulay Cardenas-Escobar, Lukas Tadeo Casseres Morales, Valeria Yanez Londoño, Natalie Morales-Londoño

  550-561

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• Play While you Wait: Analog Serious Games in Gastronomic Contexts

  Lina Margarita Marrugo-Salas, Natalie Morales-Londoño, Juliany Pacheco, Sharick Molina, Alba Zulay Cardenas-Escobar

  562-572

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• Evaluating a Game-Based Workshop for Youth Urban Design Using Open-Source Tools

  Léo Martial, Hiroyuki Kubono, Shino Miura

  573-580

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• A Serious Game Series for Learning NICU Care

  Yukihide Miyosawa, Noa Takeda, Yu Miyazaki, Shunki Ando, Yasutaka Kimura, Yuko Miyosawa

  581-590

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• Challenges in Implementing Game-based Learning in Accounting Education: A Scoping Review.

  Sky Mkuti, Sthabile Mbonambi

  591-597

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• Tempus Alatum: Playing Through the Branches of the Timeline

  Peter Mozelius, Andreas Hellerstedt

  598-604

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• Collaborative Learning in the Caribbeans: Onboarding the Math Pirates

  Peter Mozelius, Tim Kreuzberg, Jimmy Jaldemark, Rasmus Pechuel

  605-611

• Learning Through Consequence: Entrepreneurial Learning in a Games-Based Simulation

  Michael O'Brien, Yvonne Costin, William Hogan

  612-620

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• What Makes a Video Game “Good”? A Case Study with Secondary Students

  Jorge Oceja, Purificación Martínez, Santos Urbina

  621-628

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• Sortica: A VR Serious Game to Teach Scheduling Algorithms to Undergraduate Students

  Frank A. Oldfield-Montilla, Luke Beveridge, Manuel J. Gomez, Marco Gilardi

  629-637

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• Designing Adaptable Playful Experiences for Climate Engagement: Lessons from NEUROCLIMA Play Ecosystem

  Kemi Oyesola, George Kalmpourtzis, Lazaros Vrysis, Saint-Clair Lefèvre, Ifigeneia Tsolaki, George Ketsiakidis

  638-645

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