(Some of) DiGRA Belgium et al. at #DiGRA2025! 😀 Been having a great time in beautiful, sunny Valletta.

A snapshot of Belgian game studies (loosely defined) at #DiGRA2025 - and a nice showcase of the variety of games research being done in our little country! Really looking forward to the conference.

Thanks to @evagrosemans.bsky.social for the infographic! 👏

We're excited to announce Alexander Vandewalle as the new co-chair of DiGRA Belgium!

Together with Pierre-Yves Houlmont, Alexander aims to strengthen the visibility and accessibility of Belgian game studies, and make DiGRA Belgium a more dynamic space for researchers, students, and industry alike.

Yesterday, Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com (University of Malta) came to Ghent University for a talk on Conceptual Games, or how games can communicate philosophical ideas!

Thanks, Stefano, for this great presentation, and thanks to Marco Caracciolo for organizing this!

Some snapshots of our DiGRA Belgium symposium at Ghent University last week, featuring presentations by Larian Studios on Baldur's Gate 3, Jan-Noël Thon on games and narratology, and hands-on demos of Baldur's Gate 3, Black Myth: Wukong, and Hades II!

Thank you to everyone for joining!

So starts our third DiGRA Belgium symposium, this time at
Ghent University and focused on games and narrative!

Congratulations to dr. Eva Grosemans for defending her multi-method PhD research on gaming and gambling! 🎉🥳

Busy week for Belgian #gamestudies, as both Maarten Denoo and @alexvandewalle.bsky.social defended their PhD theses: the former on games and gambling 🎮🎲, the latter on games and Greco-Roman antiquity 🎮🏺!

Some snapshots of our live VR drawing session this afternoon!

Now, Ekaterina Muravevskaia discusses the use of game design as an educational aid to foster empathy among primary school children.

After a short break, Yiling Hu describes her work on experimental game design, philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze.

Next, Steven Malliet presents the Meaningful Play research cluster, and how games can be studied via the lens of artistic research. A call to experiment with games and game concepts!

The day opens with a presentation by Robin Gielis on the Game Design and REPLAY Master programmes at LUCA School of Arts.

And so starts the second DiGRA Belgium symposium, at C-Mine in Genk! Looking forward to an interesting day on games and artistic research!