ECGBL 2025 - Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Games Based Learning VOL 1 & 2

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 19th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2025), hosted by Nord University, Levanger, Norway 1-3 October 2025. The Conference Co-Chairs are Helga Dis Isfold Sigurdardottir and Robin Isfold Munkvold, both from Nord University, Norway.

ECGBL is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 19th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research.

The opening keynote presentation is given by Elin Festøy from Teknopilot speaking on “Game Development to Teach Mental Health Literacy and Best Practice Trauma Treatment”. On Friday the conference begins with a keynote address from Tim Lanning from Grendel Games, who will talk on the topic of Laptitude: Advancing Global Surgery Education & Training through good game design

With an initial submission of 233 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 104 Academic research papers, 8 PhD research papers, 6 Masters Research papers, 5 Non-academic papers and 9 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, México, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, the Netherlands, Tunisia, Türkiye, UK, and the USA.