Public presentation and live meta-ideation playtests at BolognaFiere GiX Stand.
[ DISSEMINATION → ]2026.11.26 // WP4Academic workshop and educator training session hosted by Centro GiX in Florence.
[ WORKSHOP → ]2026.12.12 // WP2Semester integration of LUNA into Game Studio and Tabletop Game Design curricula in Istanbul.
[ CURRICULUM → ]
In the first week of May 2026, DE:HIVE ran a five-day hands-on game design workshop at HTW Berlin’s Culture and Design (CuDe) Week. Using the LUNA Structures stack without Frame cards, 12 interdisciplinary students transitioned from rotating ideation to three playable tabletop prototypes.
[ READ FULL FIELD REPORT → ]“A deliberate twist: removing Frame cards entirely allowed non-designers to project playable loops organically through Structures.”
From 22 to 24 May 2026 at BolognaFiere, the European Game Science Lab presented the LUNA Framework at the GiX research booth — conducting live meta-ideation playtests with international festival visitors, educators, and designers.
HTW Berlin joined Bahçeşehir University (BAU) in Istanbul for the kickoff of two full-semester university courses — Game Studio and Tabletop Game Design — embedding the LUNA Framework directly into international game design curricula.
Supervised by Prof. Leonardo Boncinelli at the University of Florence (UNIFI), this five-session educational module guided political economy and social science students to build four-player analogue prototypes addressing common-pool resource management.
Luleå University of Technology (LTU) invited HTW Berlin to Arctic Sweden for a three-day academic exchange combining a student Gradshow, an industry conference, and a hands-on LUNA ideation workshop in Skellefteå.
In a dedicated studio mechanics session with Berlin indie studio Toukana Interactive (Dorfromantik), the LUNA Framework served as both an analytical lens for deconstructing existing titles and a rapid ideation tool for new game concepts.
In a collaborative research session with Prof. Simone Kühn and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the LUNA Framework was applied to design game concepts that motivate younger audiences to engage with natural outdoor environments.
Over two intensive days, DE:HIVE students stepped into the LUNA-Framework to explore how social frames, mechanics, and decision-making intertwine in playful design practice.
At Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, the LUNA-Framework was put to the test in a vibrant exhibition setting — enabling visitors with no prior game design experience to generate complete game concepts within two hours.
A focused playtest with DE:HIVE students demonstrated how the four-card constraint and Situation Cards empower autonomous, self-regulated game ideation with minimal facilitator intervention.
The EGSL Summer School for Game Design tested the first alpha of the LUNA Framework: 18 game concepts conceived in 8 hours, traded in an auction-style Market of Ideas, and built into 6 playable prototypes over 8 days.
Organized by BUG Game Lab at Bahçeşehir University and HTW Berlin's DE:HIVE, this synchronous hybrid game jam connected over 100 participants in Berlin and Istanbul to examine biases in game rules and algorithms.
Spanning PLAY Festival in Bologna and DE:HIVE in Berlin, this two-part workshop series brought together researchers and students from UNIFI, IMT Lucca, and HTW Berlin to investigate systemic bias in game rules and generative AI.
From April 4 to 6, 2025, HTW Berlin, IMT Lucca, and the University of Florence presented the European Game Science Lab with a joint exhibition booth and workshop program at PLAY – Festival del Gioco in Bologna.
The first joint international workshop of the European Game Science Lab at IMT Lucca defined Game Science as a multidisciplinary bridge combining quantitative behavioral models, qualitative cultural inquiry, and modular game design building blocks.
At a hybrid kick-off meeting hosted by IMT Lucca coinciding with Lucca Comics & Games, all five European consortium partners aligned their three-year roadmap and presented lectures on Ludo-Narrative theory and AI in game development.
On 1 October 2024, the European Game Science Lab (EGSL) Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership officially launched across Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Lithuania to unite game theory and game design in higher education.