Dracon Rules Design Studio

18/06/2026

Day 1 of the Game Design for Education mobility 🎲🇪🇺
We started the mobility with an inspiring first day dedicated to teamwork, exchange, and project planning 🤝✨
The consortium came together to discuss the project details, align the next steps, and prepare for the activities ahead 💻📚
Afterwards, participants explored the contents of the GDE handbook through an interactive presentation, with time for questions, discussions, and case study examples connected to each topic 🧩💡
A great start to our mobility — full of ideas, collaboration, and educational game design in action! 🚀🎲

12/06/2026

Game Design for Education is no small task. The interest in it is great, both by professional game designers who want to offer something more to the world, to aspiring game designers (especially from the educational sector) who want to create games for education, inclusion, socialization.

🇪🇺 Our project Game Design for Education - A handbook to detail experiential methodologies and strategies to adapt and design games for Education with code 2025-1-EL01-KA210-VET-000357836 under the Erasmus+ fold is now progressing to the first "testing" stages!

🇵🇹 The team will assemble in Portugal, accompanied by members of the target groups, and will take advantage of the resources of Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Lisboa to approach students of the game design and relevant departments, and test out how the handbook is received!

This project aims to develop a practical handbook for game designers and educators, supporting the transition of game design into education while promoting inclusion, diversity and innovation across Europe.

Stay tuned for updates from Lisbon 🙏 and follow our social media and the website for more updates! (link in comments)

12/06/2026

🏅 Our project "GreenChef: Gamifying sustainable cooking and environmental education" with code 2023-2-HU01-KA210-VET-000181362 which was conducted as part of the Erasmus+ Programme, was awarded the "Good Practice" label by the National Agency of Hungary.

The project was the combined work of the coordinator & sustainability leader Climate Smart Elephant in Hungary, the experts in the culirary arts HRC Culinary Academy in Bulgaria and the game designers Dracon Rules Design Studio in Greece.

The project had many stages:
🔍 the research phase, where the sustainability and culinary partners produced the necessary educational and constrictual elements of the topic.
🎲 the game design phase, where the game design partner created the draft of the game, and the consortium tested and refined it.
🎓 the implementation phase, where the consortium partners presented the game to relevant stakeholders to increase impact.

Throughout all stages, the consortium did:
📣 dissemination actions such as attending or organizing conferences and the project's Multiplier Events
📝 evaluation actions such as promoting the game to cullinary stakeholders or game stakeholders such as Epitrapezio contest, where the early stage feedback allowed for the improvement of the final version.

💡Are you interested in finding out more about the project or the uses of board games as tools in Education/Socialization/Inclusion? Follow us and visit our website for more (link in comments).

03/06/2026

On the 26th-28th of May, Dracon Rules Design Studio attended the Erasmus+ project "Erasmus+ learning programme provided by an invited expert" with code 2024-1-IT02-KA121-SCH-000227497 of USR Marche – Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per le Marche, as an invited expert on the topic of the use of board games as tools in education, socialization, inclusion.

We had the honor to discuss and present the topic of game design and game-based learning in education as well as our most relevant projects to educators, staff and students of educational facilities in IIS Corinaldesi Padovano in Senigallia, POLO3 Istituto Tecnico e Professionale in Fano and IIS Vanvitelli Stracca Angelini in Ancona.

Additionally, our work and projects were discussed with the director and inspectors of USR Marche in Ancona, Italy, members of Académie de Normandie in the region of Normandie, France, member of the Inspectoratul Școlar Județean Dâmbovița in Dâmbovița, Romania and Berufliche Schulen Bretten in Bretten, Germany.

We presented past projects and their results, including EcoTrade, Green Chef, Tethics, Sciborg in physical and digital form, and had some hands-on game sessions with students from relevant departments.

Additionally, we had the chance to promote the work on our projects Playcracy project with the coordination of Asociatia Share Education who created this example activity from the project's handbook, and GDE - Game Design for Education, a project aiming to deliver a handbook with tips and tricks on game design for education, socialization, inclusion.

Follow our page for more, or visit our website to explore the path to download for free our print-and-play Erasmus+ games.

31/05/2026

🎲🗳️ PLAYCRACY has officially rolled the dice in Arad! 🚀
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On 27–29 April 2026, Dracon Rules Design Studio joined Share Education and DYPALL Network in Arad 🇷🇴 for the International Training for Youth Workers of our Erasmus+ project:

During these three days, we worked together on the next level of the project:
🎯 how to use board games in youth work
🎲 adapting games for democracy education
💬 facilitation methods for civic dialogue
🧠 critical thinking and decision-making through play
🤝 testing ideas, exchanging methods, and preparing local activities

PLAYCRACY is about making democracy education less “sit and listen” and more “play, discuss, decide, and act.” 💡

Through board games, teamwork, and non-formal learning, we aim to create inclusive spaces where young people can develop:
💬 communication
🧠 critical thinking
🤝 cooperation
🗳️ active citizenship
🚀 confidence to participate
Huge thanks to our hosts in Arad and to all partners for the energy, ideas, and great teamwork! ✨
Next step: taking the games from the training room to young people in local communities. 🎲🚀

✨ PLAYCRACY – Game-based approaches for strengthening youth participation in democracy
📌 Project No. 2025-1-RO01-KA210-YOU-000358042
Funded by the European Union 🇪🇺

27/05/2026

🎲🏉 GAME2GROW has officially entered the field! 🚀🇪🇺

On 7–8 May 2026, Dracon Rules Design Studio joined Rugby Guidonia Montecelio ASD in Rome 🇮🇹 for the Kick-off Transnational Project Meeting of our new Erasmus+ project:

✨ GAME2GROW – Building youth skills through rugby & board games
📌 Project No. 2025-2-IT03-KA210-YOU-000386988
Project coordinator: ASD Rugby Guidonia Montecelio

During these two days, we worked together on the foundations of the project:
🎯 project objectives and next steps
🏉 the connection between rugby values and game-based learning
🎲 the first ideas for the educational board game
🤝 co-creation methods with young people
📣 dissemination, evaluation, and future activities

GAME2GROW is about giving young people real-life skills — not only information. 💡
Through rugby, board games, storytelling, and teamwork, we aim to create inclusive learning experiences where young people can develop:

💬 communication
💪 resilience
🧠 creativity
🤝 cooperation
🌍 inclusion

For Dracon RDS, this project is an exciting new challenge: bringing our experience in educational board game design 🎲 into dialogue with sport-based learning 🏉.

Because sometimes learning happens on the field. 🏟️
Sometimes around a table. 🎲
And sometimes when people from different countries decide to build something meaningful together. 🇬🇷🇮🇹

Next stop: co-creation workshops in Greece 🎲🇬🇷✨

Stay tuned — the game is just beginning. 🚀

25/05/2026

Dracon RDS leads a consortium on the creation of a handbook for game designers and educators, which aims to provide examples on game design and game design for inclusion, socialization, education through real examples and case studies to accompany the theory.

To do so, the partners conducted a serries of surveys (online and in person) to gather information on the opinions and expectations of members of the target group.

One of them signified the project's kick-off, and was held at the very beginning of the project, in December 2025, during AthensCon of 2025.

Soon, the project reaches another milestone as the work has progressed.

Are you going to design for education?

Follow the progress of the (G)ame (D)esign for (E)ducation project with code 2025-1-EL01-KA210-VET-000357836 of the Erasmus+ programme and find out more.

07/05/2026

Ανακοίνωση θέσεων Erasmus+ (επαγγελματίες/ερασιτέχνες σχεδιαστές επιτραπέζιων παιχνιδιών)

Η Dracon Rules Design Studio διαχειρίζεται το σχέδιο GDE – Game Design for Education με κωδικό 2025-1-EL01-KA210-VET-000357836 του προγράμματος Erasmus+. Το σχέδιο έχει ως σκοπό τη δημιουργία ενός εγχειριδίου για το σχεδιασμό επιτραπέζιων παιχνιδιών, με περισσότερη έμφαση στα παιχνίδια-εργαλεία στην εκπαίδευση, κοινωνικοποίηση, συμπερίληψη.

Στις 15-16-17-18 Ιουνίου 2026 θα πραγματοποιηθεί διακρατική συνάντηση στη Λισαβώνα της Πορτογαλίας, με σκοπό την πειραματική χρήση των περιεχομένων του εγχειριδίου και στόχο τη βελτίωσή του και την έναρξη της διαδικασίας ολοκλήρωσης.

Η Dracon ανοίγει πρόσκληση για δύο (2) θέσεις για σχεδιαστές παιχνιδιών που θα συμμετέχουν στο ταξίδι (πτήσεις 14 & 19 Ιουνίου). Η τελική επιλογή θα γίνει από την Dracon βάσει και κριτηρίων συμπερίληψης, ισότητας, στήριξης και άλλων.

Παρακαλούμε όπως επικοινωνήστε στα μέσα δικτύωσης και τα τηλέφωνα της εταιρείας έως και το Σάββατο 09.05.2026 για περισσότερες ερωτήσεις και εκδήλωση ενδιαφέροντος.

Call for Erasmus+ slots (professional or aspiring board game designers)

Dracon Rules Design Studio is managing the GDE – Game Design for Education project (project code 2025-1-EL01-KA210-VET-000357836) under the Erasmus+ program. The project aims to create a handbook for board game design, with a greater emphasis on games as tools for education, socialization, and inclusion.

On June 15–16–17–18, 2026, a transnational meeting will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, with the aim of experimentally applying the handbook’s contents to improve it and begin the finalization process.

Dracon accepts applications for two (2) positions for game designers to participate in the trip (flights on June 14 & 19). The final selection will be made by Dracon based on criteria of inclusion, equality, support, and others.

Please contact Dracon via social media or phone by Saturday, May 9, 2026, for further questions or to express your interest.

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07/05/2026

The beginning of May is also the beginning of something new.

🇪🇺 Our new Erasmus+ project GAME2GROW: Building Youth Skills Through Rugby & Board Games has officially started!

What if learning didn’t feel like learning?
What if it looked like a game…
or felt like being on the field? 🏉🎲

The idea is simple:
👉 take the values of rugby — teamwork, respect, resilience
👉 combine them with the creativity of board games
👉 and turn them into tools for young people to grow

Through GAME2GROW, young people will co-create, test, communicate, collaborate, and learn by doing.

Because skills aren’t just taught.
They’re built.

And we’re ready to build something that matters.

Stay close — this one will be fun. 🚀

04/05/2026

Discussions with caregivers, trainers, volunteers of persons with Intellectual disability on all topics; including their needs, their wishes, and problems they face, in addition to discussing their viewpoint and experience on the conducted activities with their wards.

Project "OneWorld - Design for Inclusion" 2025-1-EL01-KA122-ADU-000340947. Co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme. Hosted and facilitated by Asociatia Share Education in Arad, Romania. With the collaboration of Integra Arad Ong.

"Paperback"
Music I use: Bensound
License code: CBW9N0UNCNT6LCVT
Artist: : Diffie Bosman

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