Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): The Challenges of Making Games for Contemporary Societies

The International Journal of Games and Social Impact is a semiannual open-access publication for games research and critique on social change, inclusion, education and Human Rights. IJGSI was established in Lusófona University to research, discover, and foster links between games studies in academia and civil society through educational and knowledge exchanges.

This Journal is supported through HEI-Lab (https://hei-lab.ulusofona.pt/; https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/05380/2020) and CICANT (https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/; https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/05260/2020) research units as a strategy to foster multidisciplinary, fundamental, and applied research approaching the intersections between games and human activities. It is also supported by the GameIN Project (2022.07939.PTDC; https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.07939.PTDC).

This edition is dedicated to papers presented at the Leiriatalks, held on March 16, 2024, at LeiriaCon and explores the challenges of designing and creating games for contemporary societies.