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JCSG - Joint Conference onSerious Games

From 2010 to 2014, two international conference series addressed the grand challenges of Serious Games: Serious Games Development and Applications (SGDA) and the International Conference on Serious Games (GameDays). In 2015, these conferences merged into JCSG: the Joint Conference on Serious Games. This page serves as portal and provides information related to these conference series.

JCSG - Joint Conference on Serious Games

Next conference:

JCSG 2026 - Joint Conference on Serious Games 2026

03rd - 04th December 2026, Valletta, Malta
University of Malta

Important Dates

Submission of full and short papers

31 May 2026 (extended deadline)

Notification of Acceptance

30 June 2026

Camera ready

03 August 2026

Past conferences

The JCSG conference is the only conference which is fully dedicated to the multifaceted characteristics and nature of Serious Games. This covers interdisciplinary approaches for the development and evaluation of Serious Games in a broad spectrum of application domains as well as appropriate game design issues, models, algorithms and technologies matching the needs of individual users and user groups in specific application areas. Hence, JCSG brings together scientists, domain experts and practitioners from academia and industry.

Steering Board Members

  • Stefan Göbel

    Stefan Göbel

    Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

  • Minhua Eunice Ma

    Minhua Eunice Ma

    Ministry of Culture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

    KTH, Stockholm

  • Tim Marsh

    Tim Marsh

    Griffith Film School (GFS) | Griffith University, Australia

  • Mads Haahr

    Mads Haahr

    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  • Heinrich Söbke

    Heinrich Söbke

    Hochschule Weserbergland, Hameln, Germany, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

  • Jan L. Plass

    Jan L. Plass

    New York University, New York

  • André Thomas

    André Thomas

    Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland

Imprint

Provider of this website

Technical University of Darmstadt
Serious Games
Merckstraße 25, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Represented by the head of the Serious Games group

Dr.-Ing. (habil.) Stefan Göbel

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Technical University of Darmstadt
Serious Games
Dr.-Ing. (habil.) Stefan Göbel
Merckstraße 25, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Concept & Design

Philipp Achenbach & Florian Horn

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