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This course introduces you to core concepts and theories within the field of game studies, game jams and game design.

Assistant Professor in Educational Design and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. Rikke holds a PhD in Game Studies and Game Design and she has for the last 10 years been researching and teaching digital games and design. Rikke works at the intersections of digital humanities, design, educational development and future higher education. A focus of her research is within higher education philosophy and theory on design, thinking and configuration of higher education institutions with a special focus on the future of the Arts and Humanities. She has also led and participated in several projects on developing educational materials, modules and formats for students and teachers, exploring how higher education can be transformed through digital humanities pedagogy, student-society partnerships and leveraging the potentials of design and technology within the Arts.

Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Claus is an avid gamer, holds a PhD in media and game studies, and has been researching digital games and game cultures for more than a decade. His research focuses on digital games with a specific interest in games and fan studies, game genres and gamers wider transmedia engagement, as well as a focus on the intersections of gameplay, gaming practices and gender. Parallel to this, he has also been teaching numerous courses on game studies, theoretical perspectives on games and gaming, as well as digital games and learning.

PhD fellow at Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University. During her PhD project, she has researched how design processes are influenced and accelerated by both game jam and hackathon formats. She uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to gain insights into these accelerated design processes, including participating in game jams and hackathons herself. Her work has included studying how game jam and hackathon formats can be adapted to facilitate creativity and support academic processes, such as teaching, learning and researching. Her research interests include how processes of imagining, designing and developing technology can be democratised for example via formats which accelerates design processes, and via maker materials which lowers the barrier to technology development. She is also one of the founders of an Aarhus-based game development meet-up group, called GOLD.

MA Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is currently involved in developing teaching and learning platforms at the Centre for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University where he focuses on programming and front-end development of educational materials and platforms. Mikey’s MA Thesis focuses on hybrid learning and work spaces and how technologies can be utilized to support new hybrid communication, collaboration and community formats. He is also chairperson of Coding Pirates Aarhus, where he leads and organises game jams and game design processes in partnerships between students, youngsters and the creative industries. Coding Pirates Denmark is an association with many local chapters, hundreds of volunteers (many of them HE students) and thousands of youngsters and children.

Claus Toft-Nielsen

Game.Play.Design in the Arts and Humanities

Claus Toft-Nielsen

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Game.Play.Design in the Arts and Humanities