Game Research & Development Lab
PLAY ISA RESEARCHMETHOD
MOGLAB explores the intersection of games, technology, learning, and human experience. We bring together researchers, designers, developers, and students to experiment with new ideas, create meaningful game experiences, and investigate how games shape the way we learn, interact, and understand the world.
- Active projects
- 1
- Founded
- 2025
01/About the lab
A lab where research and production share a table
We treat games as both an object of study and a way of studying. A prototype is an argument. A playtest is an experiment. A shipped game is a result that reached people outside the building.
Our work runs from controlled studies of player cognition to production-grade games released to the public, and everything we learn on one side feeds the other. Researchers sit with designers, designers sit with engineers, and students work on real projects from their first week.
01
Investigate
Empirical studies of how people learn, decide, and relate to one another through play.
02
Prototype
Fast, disposable builds that turn a research question into something you can hold and play.
03
Produce
Finished game experiences built to a public standard, not just a demo standard.
04
Teach
Students join real projects and leave with a portfolio, not just a transcript.
02/Research areas
What we investigate
R-01
Games & Learning
How play produces understanding that instruction alone does not — and how to measure it without flattening it.
Learning sciencesAssessmentSerious gamesTransferR-02
Player Experience & Interaction
The moment-to-moment texture of play: attention, difficulty, feedback, frustration, and flow.
HCIAccessibilityTelemetryFlowR-03
Social & Civic Play
What happens when games become shared spaces: cooperation, conflict, community norms, and civic imagination.
MultiplayerCommunityModerationCivic techR-04
Emerging Technology in Play
Procedural systems, mixed reality, and machine intelligence — evaluated as design material, not as spectacle.
Procedural generationXRAI in gamesTools
03/Selected work
Projects
In development2025A Design Framework for Hybrid Tabletop Strategy Games Using Projection-Supported Digital Twins
This project explores a design framework for hybrid tabletop strategy games that combine physical game components with projection-supported digital twin technologies. The framework aims to enhance strategic decision-making, spatial interaction, and player engagement by dynamically connecting physical game states with responsive digital information and visual feedback.
In development2025Interactive Evacuation Scenarios in Virtual Reality: A Digital Twin-Supported Serious Game Prototype
Interactive Evacuation Scenarios in Virtual Reality: A Digital Twin-Supported Serious Game Prototype
In development2025Enhancing Visualization Processes for Animated Character Integration in Game Design
Enhancing Visualization Processes for Animated Character Integration in Game Design
04/The lab
People
1 researchers, designers, developers and students.
Dr. Hüseyin Kutay Tinç
Lab Director
Work with us
We take on graduate researchers, undergraduate assistants, and collaborators from outside the university. If you build games, study players, or want to do both, tell us what you are curious about.