Another winter semester is over and five new prototypes have been successfully developed by the more than 70 students on the "GamesLab: Video Game Development and Game Studies" course . The students spent a semester diligently learning everything they needed to create five creative prototypes in five teams over the course of a weekend. Under the theme "(It's just a) Phase" (without platformers), the participants were allowed to submit game…

On Wednesday, 8 October, it celebrated the reopening of the GamesLab and the establishment of the VR Lab - an experimental playground for virtual reality (VR). The labs focus on the potential of innovative media in the context of science and education in the areas of game studies and development. Find out more here.

On 26 and 27 September, the third Paderborn Game Lab GameJam took place at bib International College. This time, several very creative games were created on the theme of "Out Of Order". The participants were provided with plenty of pizza and a relaxed atmosphere. Have a look at the results! To the games.

"There is a boom in game labs. These game labs are used to research playful phenomena and enable games to be developed and analysed as part of academic teaching." Read the report "GamesLab and VR Lab between student participation and free labour. A lab report" by Jakob Cyrkel and Sebastian Krois! Click here.

The 2nd Paderborn Game Labs GameJam took place from 21-23 March 2025 in cooperation with bib International College at the Gameslab. Seven teams with 11 students from Paderborn University and 13 students from bib International College participated. The theme was "Think inside the Box". Click here for the games.

Last winter semester 2024/25, 116 students created a total of seven video games over the course of one weekend in our course "Project management in the computer and video game industry". Throughout the semester, workshops led by the members of the organisation were offered to prepare students for the game jam at the end of the semester as part of the seminar. In the 2D workshop, students were taught various aspects of digital art and…

In the summer semester 2024, 54 students took part in the GamesLab class, who also took part in the winter semester 2023/24 and now deepened their knowledge and practice of computer game development. The 54 students came from the fields of Media Studies, Computer Science, Comparative Literature, Literature, Pop Music, Management, Linguistics, Education Studies, Art, Fashion, Textiles and Design and Philosophy. They worked in three development…

In the winter semester 2023/2024, 91 students took part in the GamesLab classes. They came from the study programmes of Media Studies, Computer Science, Sports Economics, Management, Pop Music, Comparative Literature, Education Studies, Art, Fashion Textile Design, Linguistics and Literature. It was one of the largest classes in the GamesLab in recent years.A total of seven computer game prototypes were produced in development teams:Penny to the…