During the webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for June 24, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Ilaria Truzzi will present a talk titled: A corpus of gaming items from the Museum's Collections of the Southern Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia
During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for June 13, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Francesca Berti will present a talk titled: Teaching social science modelling through games
During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for June 06, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Pijus Krūminas will present a talk titled: Traditional Games and Heritage Education: connecting the past, the present and the future
During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for May 30, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Tiago Hirth will present a talk titled: Single player token games and n-player mancalas for computational and mathematical thinking
GameTable's WG3 will meet at Gothenburg, Sweden, on the 26th and 27th of May 2025.
During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for May, Friday 23, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Marco Tibaldini will present two talks titled: Games as educational tools in Antiquity
During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for May, Friday 16, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Nur Akkuş Çakır && Eleni Meletiadou will present two talks titled: Using Frameworks for Structured Game Integration in Teaching && Enriching Heritage Management Students’ Cross-Cultural and Multilingual Communication: The Serious Play Approach Utilizing Lego as Serious Play Figures in terms of Tabletop Games in Higher Education
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for April, Thursday 15, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Branislav Kovar will present
GameTable will hold a Graffiti Games Documentation Training School in Athens from 10-12 May 2025
The 52nd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) International Conference is set to take place from 5 to 9 May 2025 in Athens, Greece. Among the diverse sessions planned, the "GameTable: Bridging Disciplines for Heritage Games" session (Session S49) stands out as a platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of gaming and cultural heritage.
As part of her STSM, between March 22nd and April 1st 2025, Ilaria has been working as a visiting researcher at the University of Alicante.
During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for April, Friday 25, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Dorela Kaçauni and Eriola Qafzezi will present a talk titled: Engage and Inspire: Gamified video creation for interactive learning in higher education
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for April, Tuesday 25, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Hélène Valance && Fatih Parlak will present talks titled: Playing history: teaching national history through games in the long 19th century && A reappraisal of game space and sacred space: graffiti board games in Ottoman mosques
During the weekly webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for April, Friday 11, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Elias Stouraitis will present a talk titled: Teaching history through digital games: learning challenges and boundaries
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for April, Friday 04, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Mike Cosgrave will present a talk titled: Game Design as an assessment tool
Starting in April, WG5 will be hosting a series of webinars. You can view the current schedule here.
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for April, Tuesday 01, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Thierry Depaulis will present a talk titled: Yupana, taptana: abacus or gameboard? An interesting case study for AI application
Applications are invited for the Summer School Mathematics in Games, taking place in Glasgow from June 30 to July 3, 2025.
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG4, scheduled for Monday, March 31, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Véronique Dasen & Jérôme Gavin will present a talk titled: Playing and calculating on lines in Ancient Greece
GameTable's WG5 will gather in Rome, Italy, on March 24th and 25th, 2025. The meeting will take place at the Ex-Cartiera Latina, Via Appia Antica, bringing together key WG5 stakeholders to strengthen collaboration across all GameTable working groups and review progress on ongoing WG5 projects.
The recent WG2 meeting held in Baku, Azerbaijan, received attention from local media outlets. This highlights the visibility and impact of our work in the region.
GameTable's WG2 will meet at Baku, Azerbaijan, on the 12th of March 2025. The various WG2 stakeholders will convene at the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan to discuss ongoing projects and explore new emerging ideas.
A new GameTable tool to develop more collaborations within the network.
The next Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar continues with a two-for-one deal this time: Tiago Hirth - What has Recreational Mathematics ever done for us? Ilaria Truzzi - Playing in Ancient Iberia: overview
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for Wednesday, January 29, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Marco Tibaldini will present a talk titled: Board Games in Classic Literature: What We Know Thanks to Lexicographers
A special GameTable session on Monday, January 27, 2025 from 14:00 to 18:20 (WET, Lisbon time) at the Recreational Mathematics Colloquium 8 | Gathering 4 Gardner Europe
The second in-person meeting for Working Group 1 on Search, Planning, Learning, and Explainability is planned to take place on January 20-21, 2025, in London, UK
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for Tuesday, December 03, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Walter Crist and Aslan Gasimov will present a talk titled: Cultural heritage of games in Azerbaijan
Applications are invited for the archaeological gameboard recording school, taking place in Athens from May 10-12, 2025.
The Second Grant Period (GP2) of GameTable kicks off now, welcoming 250 official members to the journey!
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG4, scheduled for Monday, November 25, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Georg Grasegger will present a talk titled: Mathematical Qwirkle
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for Tuesday, November 12, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Ivan Nikolov and Georgi Markov will present a talk titled: Building VR games with LLM-power NPCs for boosting visitor engagement in a Danish Viking Museum and Meddling with chess variants
An overview of all grants awarded during the initial grant period, including detailed reports.
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Samuel Pizelo will present a talk titled: Rival complexities: How game models helped to craft the complexity sciences
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG4, scheduled for Monday, 21, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Martijn Boussé will present a talk titled: Calculus Legacy: A Narrative-Driven Board Game Experience to Discover the World of Calculus
GameTable's WG5 will meet at Santorini, Greece, on 10-11 October 2024.
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG2, scheduled for Tuesday, September 24, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Tim Penn will present a talk titled: Floor markings and boardgames in Roman, Byzantine, and post-antique North Africa: a regional perspective on personal leisure in the past
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG4, scheduled for Monday, September 23, 2024, from 18:00 CET, Miloš Stojakovic will present a talk titled: Positional games on graphs
We are excited to announce the launch of a Kaggle competition focused on Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and games, using the Ludii General Game System with a $50,000 Prize Pool.
Starting in September, WG2 will be hosting a series of monthly webinars. You can view the current schedule here.
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG4, scheduled for Monday, June 10, 2024, from 16:30 to 17:30 CET, Yannick Rochat will present a talk titled: Teaching the mathematics of games in a faculty of arts
Working Group 2 of GameTable is starting a monthly webinar series focused on the Cultural Heritage of Games! We are seeking GameTable members to give a talk about your work with games.
Miloš Stojaković, a member of Working Group 4 from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, completed a Short-Term Scientific Mission from March 3rd to March 9th, 2024. He visited the Discrete Mathematics Department at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Poznan, Poland. The focus of this STSM was on "Client-Waiter Games on Graphs".
GameTable's WG2 will meet at Mustafapaşa, Turkey, on the 03rd of May 2024. The different actors will continue exploring the opportunities and challenges that started to emerge during the kickoff meeting.
GameTable will organise a panel on how to explore games with AI during the 26th Board Games Studies Colloquium at Tampere, Finland.
During the monthly webinar hosted by WG4, scheduled for Monday, April 15, 2024, from 16:30 to 17:30 CET, Emin Durmishi will present a talk titled: Digital Topology and Board Games
The GameTable COST Action: Kickoff Report has been published in the International Computer Games Association journal, IOS Press.
YouTube Channel is now live! Find us on our: GameTable Youtube channel.
GameTable's WG3 will meet at Valletta, Malta, on the 25th of March 2024. The different actors will meet each other and identify advenues for collaborations.
GameTable's WG4 will meet at Aveiro, on the 15th of March 2024. Researchers from the group will be presenting their work and communications on relevant fields to the study of mathematics and games within the scope of the project.
1st Calls for STSM, ITC and Dissemination Grants.
GameTable's WG1 will meet at Leiden, on the 31st of January 2024. During this meeting multiple discussions on the main WG1 topics will happen.
GameTable will meet at Leiden, on the 29th to 30th of January 2024. The different actors will meet each other and identify advenues for collaborations.
GameTable's WG4 will convene online, on the 24th of January 2024. This first meeting will serve as an initial introduction for the WG4 members to learn about the research of their fellow members.
GameTable's WG5 will convene online, on the 04th of January 2024. This first meeting will allow the members to define the working tasks.
GameTable's WG2 will convene online, on the 14th of December 2023. This introductory meeting will allow the members to connect.
GameTable's Management Committee will convene online, on the 24th of October 2023. The core group positions and the budget/work plan will be voted.
Action Chair: Dr. Éric Piette
Start Date: 24 October 2023
End Date: 23 October 2027
Approval date: 16 May 2023
Grant Holder: UCLouvain
Email: eric.piette@uclouvain.be
