Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸

@jaredchansen.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor Game Design, Iowa State University Gamer, scholar, author, hobbyist dev. Research interests include game cultures, video game history, and archeogaming. Gen AI is theft. 🏳️‍⚧️🤝🏳️‍⚧️

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A colorful flyer that reads: "Games and play for a better world, 3rd Geogames symposium May 3-6, 2026, Iowa, USA. The 3rd Geogames Symposium 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. It 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. Key research topics include and are not limited to: geogames and community engagement, envisioning the future with geogames, geogames applications, emerging technologies and geogames, Geogame design and evaluation. Submission types: short paper, workshop, game demonstration and game play, students' forum. Deadlines: first submission for peer-review (December 19), reviews completed (January 30); acceptance letters sent to the authors (February 15); Upload the final contributions (March 16). Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=3ggs Conference website: geogameslab.net