2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World
The 3rd Geogames Symposium (3GGS) provides an international forum for researchers, developers, and game enthusiasts to present, exchange, and advance knowledge in the field of geogames. The symposium examines the potential of analogue and digital geogames as catalysts for understanding and transforming communities, environments, and societal practices. This year’s theme focuses on the role of geogames in fostering awareness, responsibility, and care for our planet. In particular, the symposium highlights how geogames can be employed to explore Earth as a complex, living system of interdependent actors and self-regulating processes, thereby inspiring more sustainable ways of living and informing the reshaping of human–environment interactions.
Editors: Alenka Poplin (Iowa State University), Ítalo Sousa de Sena (University College Dublin), Arghavan Akbarieh (Eindhovel University of Technology)
Student Forum
CyClash: A Campus Exploration Geogame for Freshman Orientation
Aidan Flagel
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 9-12
Virtual Reality Frameworks for Collaborative Environmental Simulation and Workforce Training
Gabriel Vald, Yusuf Sermet, Uditha Mudiyanselage, Ali Rahmani, Ramteja Sajja and Ibrahim Demir
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 13-15
Student Project: Muckraker
Dawson Glawe, Hope Austin, Maddy Rupp and Samuel Coventon
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 16-18
Immersive Serious Games for Environmental Education and Disaster Preparedness
Gabriel Vald, Yusuf Sermet, Bekir Demiray, Eveline Gonzalez, Eslim Emiroglu and Ibrahim Demir
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 19-21
Ancient Warfare
Michael Kasno, Malcolm Wei, Sarah Jefferson and Jasper Vinge Hanson
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 22-25
A Theoretical Framework for a Behavioral Simulation Game on Multimodal Decision-Making in MaaS
Claire Anderson, Valeria Cairati and Soora Rasouli
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 26
Geogames, Participatory Planning, and Emotions
Pins, Pendulums and Pearls (3P)—A Board Game for Public Transport (PuT) and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
Todor Stojanovski
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 27-31
Hybrid Geogaming as a Process for Engaging Children in Designing Public Spaces
Ítalo Sousa de Sena and Chiara Cocco
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 32-36
Co-Creating a Geogame for Climate Adaptation and Engagement
Xu Liu
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 37-40
The Emotions Geogame: Mobile Location-Based Game for Mapping Emotions and Places
Niall Sharma, Alenka Poplin, Chiara Garau and Kumar Siddharth
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 41-44
Geogames for Playful Learning and Teaching
Learning Through Play: The Development of a 1:1 Scale Board Game in an Outdoor Space at a Rural School
Ariane Magda Borges, Raul Isaias Campos and Vitor de Almeida Silva
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 45-48
Quiz-Based Learning in Serious Games for Cybersecurity Education: A Preliminary Review
Trishala Jain and Zhenhua "Aaron" Yang
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 49-53
Translating Geogames into Local Contexts: Energy and Biodiversity Board Games to Strengthen Environmental Awareness in Community Homestays, Nepal
Shankar Tiwari, Deepak Marahatta and Jiwnath Ghimire
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 54-57
Game Demonstrations
Meliponários: Pollinating Knowledge
Ariane Magda Borges, Raul Isaias Campos and Vitor de Almeida Silva
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 58-59
Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge and Skills through Analogue Games
Deepak Marahatta and Jiwnath Ghimire
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 60
Save The Cyberverse
Ana Bull, Ryan Schlesinger and Zhenhua "Aaron" Yang
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 61-63
Friend or Enemy: An Urban Design Card Game
Christopher Craig
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 64-65
The Emotions Geogame: Testing the Prototype and Exploring Emotions and Places in Ames, Iowa
Alenka Poplin, Niall Sharma, Chiara Garau, Kumar Siddharth, Arti Fitch, Elizabeth Kendell and Samuel Coventon
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 66-67
Engaging Children, Storytelling, and Simulation
Serious Games as Outreach Activities: A Case Study of a Children’s Educational Escape Room on the Circular Built Environment
Arghavan Akbarieh and Qi Han
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 68-73
Geogames for Reconnecting Children with Nature in Urban Environments
Eszter Tóth and Anna Szilágyi-Nagy
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World
Tell Your Story Through Games (TYS): Preliminary Guidelines for Mixed-Migrant Participatory Game Jams
Kseniia Harshina
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 79-82
The Multiplayer Trap Game: A Web-Based Strategy Simulation of the Sustainability Paradox
Matthew Fisher
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World
Workshops
Geogames for Community Engagement: Learning and Experimentation for Climate-Responsive Planning and Community Health
Joshua Peery, Celen Pasalar and Yanhua Lu
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 85
Developing Geogames for Disaster Preparedness in Iowa, US
Deepak Marahatta and Jiwnath Ghimire
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 95-98
Mapping the Critical Zone: A Living Lab MLE for Collaborative Geogame Design
Maroun C. Tabbal and John F. Barimo
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 88-89
Fora.ai: Reshaping collaboration for climate and social impact
Moira Zellner
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 90-91
Geogames for Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis
A Multiplayer Computer Game to Train Emergency Management Professionals
Cameron MacKenzie, Alex R. Renner, Eliot H. Winer, Abram D. Anders, Michael C. Dorneich, Sri Sritharan and Brett McIntyre
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 92-94
From Play to Preparedness: Behavioral Change and Community Resilience Triggered by Geography-Based Serious Games in Kathmandu Valley Schools
Deepak Marahatta, Jiwnath Ghimire and Alenka Poplin
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 95-98
A Game Based Participatory Approach to Walkability
Hakan Ilikoba and Nesip Omer Erem
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 99-103
Community Co-Design & Social Engagement with Geogames
Spatializing Participatory Budgeting: Testing Municipal Facilitators in a Housing Policy Game
Micael Sousa
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 104-107
From Prompts to Progress: Interactive Learning on Energy Transitions through an LLM Prompt-Based Game
Ana de Boon, Arghavan Akbarieh and Dujuan Yang
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 108-114
Compete, Collaborate, and Co-Create Your Circular City (C6) Serious Game
Arghavan Akbarieh, Qi Han and Alexander Klippel
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World
Communicative Practices in Landscape Development: A Comparison of a Public Meeting and the Deliberative Geogame Urbanity
Anna Szilágyi-Nagy
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 122-125
Enhancing Urban Realism in GeoGames: An Unreal-Based Framework for Multi-Source Building Data and Dual-Database
Ziyu Tong and Qi Wen
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 126-131
Geogames Technologies, Platforms and Social Innovation
The Use of Location-Based Games in the Dissemination of Cultural Heritage
Ariane Magda Borges and Natalie Johanna Groetelaars
2026-06-29 2026 • Proceedings of the 3rd Geogames Symposium: Games and Play for a Better World • 132-137