Prof. Gordon Calleja

Prof. Gordon Calleja

Prof. Gordon Calleja

  B.A.(Hons.), Ph.D.

Professor

20 Triq l-Esperanto
University of Malta
Msida
  +356 2340 3500
Gordon Calleja is Associate Professor of Game Studies at the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta. He is author of In-Game:From Immersion to Incorporation (2011) and Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design (2022), both by MIT Press (USA). He is a game designer at Mighty Boards, a board game design studio based in Malta. He has published Will Love Tear Us Apart (2013), a game adaptation of Joy Division’s track that was nominated for several international awards. He has also designed and published several board games: Posthuman (2016), Vengeance (2018), Posthuman Saga (2019), Vengeance: Roll and Fight (2022) and Excavation Earth (2021).
  • Game Studies
  • Player Experience
  • Game Narrative
  • Digital Literature
  • Boardgame Design
  • Boardgame Experience
  • IDG5201 - Formal Properties of Games
  • IDG5202 - Analysing Player Experience
  • IDG5304 - Foundations of Game Studies