What Constitutes an “Atmosphere” That Enables Learners’ Deep Involvement in Games as Learning?: An Analysis of English Learning Using the Marshmallow Challenge

Masahiro Ohyama, Mayumi Tanaka

Facilitator–Actor Synergy as an Epistemic Instrument: Ontology, Validity, and Evidence in Teacher-Education Clinical Simulation

Orna Levin, Libby Ophir, Tali Hagshoury

Development of an Urban Planning Dilemma Learning Gaming System Integrating a Board Game and Digital Population Estimation

Shintaro Fujita, Saki Okabe, Kaede Fujita, Manabu Ichikawa

“DREAMING AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE: UTILIZING IMAGE-BASED SERIOUS GAMING TO MITIGATE COGNITIVE OVERLOAD AND ENHANCE LEADER RESILIENCE IN HIGH-STAKE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS.”

Bonnie Buckner, Anna Nowicka, Jagoda Gandziarowska-Ziołecka

From Public Game to Research Tool: A Versatile Simulation for AI Ethics and Deliberative Resilience

Yann GENSOLLEN, Cedric PONTET, Daniel LAROSE

Feedback Systems in Serious Games: Design Constructs, Psychological Mechanisms, and Implications for Learning Effectiveness and Behavioural Change

Marcin Wardaszko, Willy Kriz

From Serious Games to Facilitated Interaction: Null-Games and the Design of Simulation under Interpretive Uncertainty

Steven de Rooij, Derek Kuipers, Ivo Wenzler, Jelle Prins, Jean-Pierre Pierie

Rethinking how to Specify Simulation

Elyssebeth Ellen Leigh

Embedding the Tutorial as a Design Methodology for Analogue Serious Games: Hurricane Game Case Study

Micael Sousa, Francesca De Rosa, Alayna Wilson

Profit Ports: Experiencing Strategy Through a Facilitated Business Simulation

Haytham Alfiqi

Instead of Trying to Solve It, Try to Understand It – Ethics in Simulation Games

Elyssebeth Ellen Leigh, Heide Lukosch, Michaela Fenakel Fiedelman, Heemi Ateremu McNeill, Derek Wade, Marcin Wardaszko

Speaking for the Absent: From Value Expression to Hidden Goals in Two Gaming Simulations

Junkichi Sugiura, Toshiko Kikkawa

The Assembly: Designing a Role-playing Intervention to Foster Skills in Democratic Deliberation

Sarah Lynne Bowman, PerOla Öberg, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, Josephine Rydberg

Designing Radically New Systems

Weronika Zuzanna Szatkowska, Jakob Bandelin

Experiential Learning of Food Supply Chains through an Extended Beer Game Incorporating Food Waste Considerations

Mizuho Sato, Hajime Mizuyama

Training Crisis Management Resilience through Repeated Play of the Same Scenario: Design, Play and Facilitation challenges

Joeri van Laere, Towe Lindqwister, Joanna Davis

Games Must Better Address Real Crises: A Manifesto

Weronika Szatkowska, Jakob Bandelin, Elyssebeth Leigh

Developing a Training Programme to Increase Resilience Potential and Measuring its Educational Effects

Shigeru Haga, Toshiko Kikkawa

PhoneImpact: A serious game to explore the environmental and social impacts of smartphones

Aurelie Lagarrigue, Laurence Farhi, Sherazade Djeballah, Madeline Montigny, Benoit Rospars, Elise Taillant

From Positioning Game Science to Designing Game-Based Research: Aligning Epistemology, Enactment, and Empirical Design

MARIEKE Wijse, Sebastiaan Meijer, Jan Klabbers

SocioBalance: A Network-Based Simulation Game to Rank Links' Impact Strength in a Complex Social System

Arsineh Boodaghian Asl, Jayanth Raghothama, Michel Gokan Khan, Adam Darwich, Sebastiaan Meijer

Scientists and the Science-Policy Interface. What competencies are utilized when scientists play a wickedly challenging energy transition game?

Swen Bos, Jessica Schneider, Conner Malone, Brenden Lee, Rayken Zhuang, Leila Schuh

Towards a Pan-African Business Simulation Framework: A Bachelardian Epistemological Analysis of the PALOP Context

GILDO COSSA, BRÁULIO ALTURAS, ANA CALADO PINTO, LICINIO ROQUE

Micro Tools for Better Simulations: Boosting Social Skills Through Interactive Interventions

Maren Schaal

“What if…” simulation is a science, an occupation, a tool, a process and a profession, all at once?

Elyssebeth Ellen Leigh, Marieke de Wijse

Astronomy, Women in Science, and Play: A Scientist-Led Prototype for Inspiring the Next Generation

Alissa Pott, Daniel Larose

Megagames as Socio-Cultural Learning Systems: A Comparative Study of Distributed Meaning-Making in Complex Societal Games

Björn Johansson, Peter Berggren, Emily Hofstetter

Experiential Simulation of Mobility Policy Futures for Research-Informed Service Planning

Ewa Zielińska, Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska, Rafał Szymanowski, Piotr Magnuszewski, Katarzyna Szewczyk

Development of Web Application Development Experience Gaming Materials Based on the New Backward Design Method

Toshikazu Yamaguchi, Kazue Tamada, Toshiki Matsuda

Embodying Quantum Dynamics: A Life-Size Simulation for Navigating Organizational Uncertainty

Cédric Pontet, Yann Gensollen, Daniel Larose

Training collaborative resilience: the payment disruption game

Joeri van Laere, Joanna Davis, Towe Lindqwister

Learning Experience as Relevance-Making – Exemplified by a Serious Megagame about Sustainability Transformations

Ola Uhrqvist, Ann-Sofie Kall

Tactical Decision Trajectories in Educational Naval Wargaming: An Interactional Analysis of Gameplay

Ulrika Bennerstedt, Björn Sjöblom

Enhancing project management competencies through a simulation game

Małgorzata Ćwil, Marcin Opas

Virtual Reality–Supported Simulation Gaming for Education: Findings from a Prototype-Based Focus Group Study

Ulrike Mascher, David Fernes, Alexander Tillmann

Exploring Complex Societal Systems Using the SocioBalance Gaming Simulation

Arsineh Boodaghian Asl, Michel Gokan Khan, Jayanth Raghothama, Adam Darwich, Sebastiaan Meijer

The Disaster Risk Reduction Game; a design workshop

Pieter van der Hijden, Antonio de Jesus Anaya Hernandez, Silvestr Tkáč

Trust Game Experiments with Active Inference: Modeling the Integration of Social and Economic Values

Yoshiko Arima, Susumu Ohnuma

Congestion-Based Slot Pricing in a Railway Auction Game

Bill Roungas, Sebastiaan Meijer

Serious Games for Corporate Sustainability: Integrating Structured Review Results with an Exploratory Assessment of Practice-Oriented Simulations

Marcin Opas, Marcin Wardaszko, Yulduz Alimova

Library of Emotions: A Live Reflective Playtest of a Mobile Game for Emotional Literacy

Tania Catherine Olarte Avila

Jam for the Planet: An AI-Assisted Game Design Sprint

Miranda Verswijvelen

Climate change simulation/games: What we have and what we still need

Pimnutcha Promduangsri, Nicolas Becu, David Crookall

Ideal or Obligation? How Societal Development Moderates the Effect of Thinking Style on Environmental Behavior in Simulated Society

Toshikatsu Kakimoto, Kaori Ando, Yoshiko Arima, Fumio Hosono

Playing with fire – assessing a serious game for climate awareness and risk preparedness in the cultural heritage sector

Eva Stegmeijer

From Language Games to Crisis Resilience: Co-Constructing Semantic Alignment for Emergency Response

Thomas Merland, Marion Charreau, Daniel Larose

When Simulations Fall Short: Facilitator Decision-Making in Simulation-Based Learning

Michaela Fenakel Fiedelman, Yael Caplin

The Negative Effects of Wording in Facilitation on Participants

Mieko Nakamura, Toshiko Kikkawa

When Boundaries Flexibly Adapt: The Weeping Willow Model for Actor-Based Simulations in Contexts of Conflict

Michaela Fenakel Fiedelman, Yael Caplin

Experience-Based Complexity Processing in Serious Games: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the World Climate Game

Rouven Kaiser, Matthias Mittelberger

Simulation as Rehearsal - performance appraisal as play

Elyssebeth Ellen Leigh, Roger Putzel

Via Futura: The Cards You're Dealt — Power and Inequality in Local Sustainability Tran-sitions

Jessica Schneider, Swen Bos