Foundations of Digital Games 2026 (FDG'26)

The Royal Danish Academy hosts the 21st annual Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) conference. Bringing together researchers, educators and practitioners from around the world, FDG is a leading international conference dedicated to digital games research. 

Under the theme Research through Games; Research for Games, the conference explores games as both subjects of research and tools for generating new knowledge through presentations, workshops, panels and exhibitions.

Keynotes

• Valentina Nisi, Professor of Design Thinking at Tecnico, Lisbon University, Portugal: Who’s Playing? Making kin through Game Design
• Tim Garbos,Creative Director & Co-Founder at Triband: What the Studio? How to run a Studio and Generate a 1000 new Ideas
• Miguel Sicart, Professor of Digital Play at the IT University of Copenhagen: Playing in their world – play design in an agentic world

Masterclasses

• Alexis Jolis Desautels: Designer and Creative: The Rational Concept Process
• Graham McAllister, organisational psychologist, creator of Vision4D: Vision4D: The Psychology of Game Vision
• Erwin Kho, Art Director of COCOON: From Artist to Art Director – Thematic Development for Indie Game Visuals

About FDG26

The conference is organised by Associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy Jesper Juul and Associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy Alessandro Canossa.