The Games Institute

The Games Institute (GI) is a multidisciplinary research centre located at the University of Waterloo. At the GI, we support games-related research in any way, shape, or form, including: narratology (stories in games), interactive technologies, digital media, culture, and AR/VR. What makes the GI unique is that we embrace innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that redefine traditional views of these fields in order to keep pace with the quickly evolving games industry. The GI provides equipment and space for research activities. Although membership is restricted to graduate students and faculty, this does not mean that undergraduates cannot become involved with the GI. The community provides opportunities to collaborate with like-minded researchers across disciplines, work with industry partners, and be a part of multidisciplinary research groups for faculty run projects. To have GI membership means that researchers can leverage our broad network, use high-end research equipment, work in a fully collaborative interdisciplinary research space, experience regular opportunities for research sharing and cross-dissemination with like-minded researchers, work with highly influential industry partners, and boost their portfolio of research activity by collaborating on projects with our multidisciplinary research labs.