On 11 Aug, Open Game Data office hours welcomes Shahbaz Khan, founder of Bottomline, for a discussion about game simulations that can help organizations with AI adoption. Register here: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
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Calling educators, researchers, and game developers! The Serious Play conference is coming up! Join us 5-7 August to explore how the power of play, games and gamification are transforming education, training, and knowledge mobilization.
Homepage - Serious Play Conf
5-7 August
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ICYMI here is the preview of the draft OGD event schema for the learning games community, aimed at enabling capture of player actions and system response events. The schema blends structure, features, and dialects from PBS KIDS, Experience API, Field Day, and Datashop. youtu.be/J23dakdkDiw
20260714 Open Game Data Event Schema Project Update (Luke Swanson and Erik Harpstead)
Welcome to Open Game Day office hours! In this session, recorded on 14 July 2026, Erik Harpstead of Carnegie Mellon University and Luke Swanson of the University of Wisconsin Madison previewed the…
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A major issue in game analytics is the lack of a shared standard for recording player actions. Join us 28 July at 2pm ET / 8pm CET for a discussion with Artem Vartanov and Baltasar Fernández Manjón about integrating their serious game Conectado into OGD. Register: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
Did you know? Open Game Data hosts the code and gameplay data for Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case, a learning game developed by PBS Wisconsin and Field Day Studio. This award-winning game turns kids into history detectives! Check it out at:
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This award-winning game turns kids into history detectives! In this point-and-click adventure, players use the methods of real historians to uncover the story behind each mystery artifact.
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Congratulations to the 2026 Gee Award winners: For learning games for use in formal school contexts, "Do I Have a Right", iCivics; For Analog Games: "Reactor Rescue", Labbox Education; and Small and Indie Studios, "Elfie: A Sand Plan", Pressed Elephant. See www.geeawards.com for game links.
GEE! Learning Game Awards
The GEE! award recognizes excellence in educational game design. The award is judged by international leaders in the field. Winners are announced at the Play Make Learn conference in Madison, WI.
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Sometimes we forget about the infrastructure that makes our work possible. Like standards, schema, lexicons, tagging.... So boring, so invisible. What do you find most helpful (or wish for??) in your learning game research and game development work. Add your comments here. We're listening!
Join us at The Games for Change Festival in New York, 20-21 July, where Dave Gagnon, Open Game Data Steering Group member, will be presenting on developing infrastructure for a new public media to ensure every kid has access to the best learning media possible. festival.gamesforchange.org
What is Open Game Data office hour? A space for researchers interested in understanding how we can use data generated in and around games to advance scientific understanding of thinking, learning, and decision making. Learn more and register here. sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
Coming next week to Open Game Data office hours: game event schema! Erik Harpstead and Luke Swanson preview the game event schema they've been working on, and are eager to hear your comments and suggestions. Join us on 14 July, 1pm CT. sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
How does a researcher go about sharing gameplay data? Here is a great example: the Conectado game developed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid has been loaded into OpenGameData. Read more here:
Conectado: Connecting games, data, and research
Serious games have proven to be educational tools with numerous positive effects, capable of promoting learning, changing behavior, or improving training and skills development, among other effects. A big challenge is our ability to translate complex player activity into meaningful insights, both a data collection and processing problem. We spoke with Artem Vartanov, a fourth-year student in the e-learning group at La Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), led by Antonio Calvo Morata and Baltasar Fernández Manjón about work he did as an intern to explore these issues using the serious game Conectado.
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Coming soon! The Games for Change Festival in New York, 20-21 July. Join us there, where Dave Gagnon, Open Game Data Steering Group member, will be presenting on learning games as a public good. festival.gamesforchange.org
2026 Games for Change Festival | July 21-22 NYC
Join the global games for social impact community July 21-22, 2026, at The Glasshouse in NYC. Explore how play drives learning, builds community, and creates change.
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Join us next week at Play Make Learn! Sarah Gagnon, an Open Game Data steering committee member, will be presenting on designing games that teach scientific practice. web.cvent.com/event/3559d2...
Calling educators, researchers, and game developers! The Play Make Learn conference and Gee! Awards are right around the corner. Join us in Madison 9-10 July for collaboration and discovery in the design, research and practice of games for learning. dpi.wi.gov/play-make-le...
Join Open Game Data office hours on 30 June at 2 pm ET for a conversation with Frank Elavsky of CalPoly for a discussion about interactive visualization + accessibility, systems, and tools. More about Open Game Data office hours and a registration link available here: edugames.design/ogd
We hear about sharing research data, but what good is it really? Here is a great example of how sharing the Shadowspect learning game extended the reach and duration of a research project, even after the grant funding ended. Learn more in this case study.
Shadowspect: The Power of Sharing Games — Open Game Data
Jenn Scianna started working with Professor YJ Kim on a project investigating how teachers understand persistence in the classroom. They used Shadowspect , a learning game designed by YJ to measure…
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For learning game researchers, metadata schema are about events: the raw information that comes out of a game as players interact with it. “We need to capture the raw material that downstream analytic processes can use,” explains Erik Harpstead.
Event Data Standards: Building Community — Open Game Data
For a game to be used for learning research, data on how it is played needs to be collected. Event data is the raw information that comes out of a game as players interact with it. “If you want to…
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ICYMI: Here is a link to the recorded Open Game Data office hour discussion with Field Day Studio about embedding research questions into the design of educational games.
20260616 Sarah Gagnon and Amelia Moser - Integrating research questions into game design OGD OOH
Welcome to Open Game Day office hours! In this session, recorded on 16 June 2026, Sarah Gagnon and Amelia Moser of Field Day Studio previewed a game they are building for IEEE. They hope to embed…
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Game developers have a friend in @trezy.codes, who has been improving - and opening up - the lexicons used to describe games. Great presentation at ATmosphere 2026.
ATmosphereConf 2026
ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.
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Join Open Game Data office hours on 16 June at 2 pm ET for a conversation with Field Day Studio about upcoming educational games, and share your ideas and priorities for how you could use game data from these games in your own research projects. Register here: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
With all of the learning games available online, how can you tell what is best for your classroom? One way is to improve the way games are tagged. Learn more in this Open Game Data office hour recording, with Rosie Killian of PBS KIDS.
20260407 Rosie Killian Game genre classification at PBS Kids OGD OOH
Welcome to Open Game Day office hours! In this session, recorded on 7 April 2026, Rosie Killian of PBS Kids joins us to discuss approaches to classification of educational games by genre. The Open…
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On Open Game Data office hours, we recently previewed a new visualization and analytics dashboard for exploring complex game data with LukeSwanson and Yuheng Chen of Field Day Lab. We'd love your feedback!
Visualization Dashboard: A New Open Game Data Tool for Exploring Game Data — Open Game Data
Up to now, Open Game Data infrastructure has made it possible to convert anonymous game play from educational games into events and use aggregators to process the events into features at session,…
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Open Game Data office hours are a space for researchers interested in understanding how we can use data generated in and around games to advance scientific understanding of thinking, learning, and decision making. Register here to join us. sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
ICYMI: Here is a link to the recorded session with Jeremy Roberts and the Open Game Data office hour discussion about Petri net game telemetry. youtu.be/9FZ426bv2s8
20260602 Jeremy Roberts - PetriNet game telemetry and synthetic learning game data OGD OOH
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Reminder! Tomorrow we welcome Jer Roberts for a discussion about Petri net game telemetry. More information about Open Game Data office hours and a registration link available here. sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
Join us for a presentation on Petri net Game Telemetry with Jeremy Roberts. Jer is Managing Director of The Incredible Pear and serves on the Open Game Data steering group, He was formerly the Senior Director of Learning Technology for PBS KIDS Digital. Register: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
