Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play: Partners

GAP participates in the focus area Cultures & Identities.
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GATE funds several research projects.
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NWO funded the research project Playful Identities: From Narrative to Ludic Self-Construction.
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TNO participated in the research project Playful Identities: From Narrative to Ludic Self-Construction.
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Waag Society (Creative Learning Lab) participates in the research project Mobile Learning.

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    7scenes participates in the research project Mobile Learning.
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New Media Studies is our master on digital media and games.
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GAP is an institutional member of DiGRA. We organized the first DiGRA conference Level Up (2003).
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Word of welcome

“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play” (Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga, 1938)

At the Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play (GAP) we examine digital games as well as the role of play in our contemporary culture. Produced by one of the main creative industries for digital entertainment, digital games have been continuously at the cutting edge of developments in new media for the last decades. Studying these games, the way they are played, as well as the culture that formed around them, thus provides insight in past and contemporary media use. More info...

Recent Publications

- Glas, René (2012). Battlefields of Negotiation: Control, Agency, and Ownership in World of Warcraft. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. More info...
- De la Hera Conde-Pumpido, Teresa (2012). "Visualizing Persuasive Structures in Advergames". In: Nordic DiGRA 2012: Games in Culture and Society Proceedings. More info...
- De Andrade e Silva, Suen (2012). "Buy and Share! Social Network Games and Ludic Shopping". In: Nordic DiGRA 2012: Games in Culture and Society Proceedings. More info...
- Goldstein, Jeffrey (2012). Play in Children's Development, Health and Well-Being. Toy Industries of Europe. More info...
- Lammes, Sybille (2011). " Breaking Reality: Exploring Pervasive Cheating in Foursquare". In: Think Design Play: DiGRA 2011 Conference Proceedings. More info...
- Glas, René (2011). " Breaking Reality: Exploring Pervasive Cheating in Foursquare". In: Think Design Play: DiGRA 2011 Conference Proceedings. More info...
- van Meurs, Richard (2011). "And Then You Wait: The Issue of Dead Time in Social Network Games". In: Think Design Play: DiGRA 2011 Conference Proceedings. More info...
- Dubbelman, Teun (2011). "Playing the Hero: How Games take the Concept of Storytelling from Representation to Presentation". Journal of Media Practice. Vol. 12(2). More info...

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