WW 2025 Wargame Design Workshop

The Wargaming Network is pleased to announce we will be holding a wargame design workshop during our Wargaming Week 2025 event.

At the 'Wargame Design Workshop' individuals who are curious about wargaming but have no prior experience with the method will have an opportunity to crash build a game linked to their research interests in a single day. Led by Dr David Banks, and based on his experience teaching MA modules on wargaming principles and design, individuals will be introduced to the foundational features of wargaming as a method, and given instruction on how to connect their intellectual interests to a playable game. To apply to participate in this event, individuals need to be students or scholars who have a research or teaching puzzle they wish to translate into a game.

Applicants should submit a short (250-500 word) proposal outlining the phenomenon they wish to gamify and the motive behind this no later than 12 May 2025. Final participants will be announced on 19 May 2025.

Wargaming Week 2025: Wargaming the Future will feature a range of activities that support the Wargaming Network's core mission of the expansion and democratization of wargaming as a method of inquiry. Events will showcase the educational wargaming work taking place at King's, including wargames designed by the graduates of Dr David Banks's "Designing Wargames for Education & Analysis" MA modules and wargames designed by Dr David Banks, Anna Nettleship and Network staff to inform dissertation and policy research and to support the institutional goals of partner organizations. Panels and moderated discussions will feature researchers and practitioners in contemporary wargaming and workshops and working groups will showcase the wargame design and academic expertise being developed at King's and external institutions.

Dr David Banks, Academic Director of the Wargaming Network, will run this workshop.

This event is part of the King's Wargaming Network NATO ACT Wargaming Week 2025: Wargaming the Future.