Big news! We are delighted to announce that members of Uppsala University are partnering with larp practitioners and academics in a new EU-funded project in Horizon Europe, ‘Larpocracy: Developing Spaces for Deliberation and Democratic Skills through Role-playing’. UU’s Informatics and Media, Political Science, and the Transformative Play Initiative at Game Design are participating. Larpocracy aims… Read more: Horizon Europe Larpocracy Project

Dates: June 12-13, 2025 Times: 9-5pm both days Location: Visby, Sweden, on the island of Gotland The Transformative Play Initiative at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design is co-hosting a two-day seminar on Games, Conflict, and Education directly following the Gotland Game Conference (GGC) in Visby, Sweden together with the Erasmus+ ROCKET Consortium. The seminar… Read more: CFP: Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education

We have created an archive that contains games developed for transformative purposes by students in the Transformative Game Design Certificate Track. Click this link to browse the games.    

This poster presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to preserving intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through games. From combined game studies and heritage studies perspective, role-playing games (RPGs) have a unique advantage that immerses the… Read more: TPI Seminar 2022: Experience China’s Intangible Cultural Heritages in Role-playing Games — Yuqiao Liu

This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Playing games is at the heart of the workshop “Serious Games for Intercultural Learning” offered by the Intercultural Learning Lab at Goettingen University. Leisure games, improv and games designed to take perspective all aim… Read more: TPI Seminar 2022: ‘Make It Urgent’: Prototyping Role-play Design for Intercultural Trainings — Alexandra Schreiber