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.
03rd - 04th December 2026, Valletta, Malta
University of Malta
31 May 2026 (extended deadline)
30 June 2026
03 August 2026
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.

December 4-5, 2025
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Rotkreuz, Switzerland

November 7-8, 2024
New York University, New York City, USA

October 26-27, 2023
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

September 22-23, 2022
Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

January 12-13, 2022
Virtual Event

November 19-20, 2020
Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

November 11-15, 2019
Arequipa, Peru

November 7-8, 2018
Darmstadt, Germany

November 23-24, 2017
Valencia, Spain

November 26-27, 2016
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

June 3-4, 2015
Huddersfield, UK

October 9-10, 2014
Berlin, Germany

September 25-27, 2013
Trondheim, Norway

September 26-29, 2012
Bremen, Germany

September 19-20, 2011
Lisbon, Portugal

Derby, UK

April 1-5, 2014
Darmstadt, Germany

September 18-20, 2012
Darmstadt, Germany

September 12-13, 2011
Darmstadt, Germany

March 25-26, 2010
Darmstadt, Germany

Stefan Göbel
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Minhua Eunice Ma
Ministry of Culture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
KTH, Stockholm

Tim Marsh
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Griffith University, Australia

Mads Haahr
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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

Jan L. Plass
New York University, New York

André Thomas
Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland
Technical University of Darmstadt
Serious Games
Merckstraße 25, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
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
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