20260324 Erik Harpstead Game Developer Conference Debrief OGD OOH

Welcome to Open Game Day office hours! In this session, recorded on 24 March 2026, Erik Harpstead of Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to provide an overview of the 2026 Game Developer Conference (GDC) Festival of Gaming, where he participated in the "Educator Game Research Download" session, which provided an overview of research of interest to the games industry. The Open Game Data Community is an NSF-funded research incubator focused on advancing the use of game-generated data to better understand learning, thinking, engagement, and decision-making. Open Office Hours sessions provide a public space where researchers, developers, and educators share works in progress, discuss emerging ideas, and receive feedback from the community. These sessions are designed to showcase research and make expert reasoning and inquiry visible to others in the field. Open Game Day Open Office Hours are hosted by Erik Harpstead of Carnegie Mellon University, Magy Seif El-Nasr of UC Santa Cruz, and Dave Gagnon of University of Wisconsin. For more about Open Game Data, see opengamedata.io