The University of South Carolina's Center for Digital Humanities is proud to bring you a three-week Humanities Gaming Institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. With the generous help of luminary experts and emerging innovators in game studies and development, our institute will...

Investigate the cognitive components of games that inform and enable successful gameplay, including immersive structure, rule governance, interactivity, and simulation.

Provide hands-on research into existing serious games from a variety of fields, including history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, and economics.

Produce, under the guidance of experienced game developers, games that can scale to meet participants’ research and teaching needs in the humanities.