Foundations of Digital Games 2026 is organized by:
General Chairs
Alessandro Canossa [acan@kglakademi.dk]
Jesper Juul [jjuul@kglakademi.dk]
Program chairs
Max Birk [m.v.birk@tue.nl].
Anastasia Salter [anastasia@ucf.edu]
Proceedings Chairs
Phil Lopez [phil.lopes@ulusofona.pt]
Foad Koshmood [foaad@calpoly.edu]
Keynote Chair
Jichen Zhu [jicz@itu.dk]
Industry Chair
Ahmad Azadvar [ahmad.azadvar@activision.com]
Discord Coordinator
Lucas Fellner [tsurello@outlook.com]
Technical Game Development Track
Mehmet Kosa [kosam@marshall.edu]
Game Design, Studio Practices, & Novel Experiences Track
Annakaisa Kultima [annakaisa.kultima@aalto.fi]
Rilla Shabnam Khaled [rilla.khaled@concordia.ca]
John Healy [john.p.healy@tudublin.ie]
Game Analytics and Visualization Track
Emily Chen [echen920@usc.edu]
Alex Bisberg [abisberg@calpoly.edu]
Game Artificial Intelligence Track
Johannes Pfau [j.pfau@uu.nl]
Mike Preuss [m.preuss@liacs.leidenuniv.nl]
Game Criticism and Analysis Track
Carly Kocurek [ckocurek@illinoistech.edu]
Bo Rodda [wrodda@illinoistech.edu]
Games Beyond Entertainment Track
Scott Bateman [scottb@unb.ca]
Aaron Tabor [aaron.tabor@unb.ca]
Allan Fowler [allan.fowler@auckland.ac.nz]
Ticianne Darin [ticianne@virtual.ufc.br]
Games Pedagogy Track
Erik van der Spek [e.d.v.d.spek@tue.nl]
Jingya Li [10090@bjtu.edu.cn]
Abstract Track
Pawel Grabarczyk [pawg@itu.dk]
Generative AI Track
Oguz Buruk [oguz.buruk@tuni.fi]
Marco Scirea [msc@mmmi.sdu.dk]
Jiangnan Xu [jiangnan.xu@tuni.fi]
Late Breaking Short Papers
John Murray [jtm@ucf.edu]
Games and Demos
Dooley Murphy [dojo@itu.dk]
Doctoral Consortium
Casper Harteveld [c.harteveld@northeastern.edu]
Workshop Proposals
Emil Lundedal Hammer [elh@hum.ku.dk]
Competition Proposals
Jialin Liu [jialin.liu@ln.edu.hk]
Panel Proposals
Ticianne Darin [ticianne@virtual.ufc.br]
Ferran Altarriba [ferran.altarriba@eram.cat]