To mark the 100th anniversary of quantum science, this year was the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. On November 15, 2025, the Qunatum100 event officially closed the series of events organized by the German Physical Society in Münster.
Exciting and innovative ideas and quantum technologies were once again presented to the general public. We were also there to give an opportunity to the people of Münster and surrounding regions to take a look at game Qookies and our motivation and goals for the project.
Spielwiesn, an annual games fair, took place in Augsburg from November 7 to 9, 2025. In addition to classic board and card games, educational games and activities related to STEM topics had their own place in the Science Playground [German]. This is also where the GALaQSci booth was located and where four tablets with our mobil game Qookies were in constant use. Children in particular, but also adults, engaged into adventures in a secret quantum lab, solved puttles, and succeeded on the quantum challenges together with Yuki, the AI-based game companion. They played and played and played — and ate a cookie or two, Yuki’s favorite treat.
The day of Quantum Physics [German] where LMU’s different research groups in the field of quantum sciences presented themselves in form of booths, talks, and lab tours, took place on November 8, 2025, in the main building of LMU. We were at the play area to present our project GALaQSci and our mobil game Qookies. We had a lot of fun with many interested children and adults.
On October 18, 2025, the Mega Gaming Day [German] took place at the Munich Public Library at the Motorama. Our game Qookies was also played enthusiastically at one of the gaming stations set up there – everyone from young to old was involved.
We are delighted to have been part of the event, and we’re already looking forward to taking part again next year.
From October, 10 to 12, the ‘Münchner Wissenschaftstage mit dem Entdeckerreich der FORSCHA‘ [German] (Munich science days FORSCHA) took place at Forum Schwanthalerhöhe in Munich. There were numerous experiments, science and technologies to experience. One of which beeing our mobil game Qookies.
At our booth, many children and families played the lates demo and study version of Qookies and solved engaging quantum riddles together with quantum scientist Yuki. It has been clearly confirmed: No prior knowledge is required—curiosity is enough!
We are delighted that so much interest has been shown in the various areas of our project, from the underlying research to the didactic implementation and programming, as well as in our product, the game Qookies, itself. We would like to thank you for the interesting discussions on future quantum technologies, for your interest and for your feedback on our game Qookies!
Our project partners Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) and Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) took part in the second DPG Fall Meeting ‘Quantum25’ from September 9 to 11, 2025. We had many interesting discussions about quantum science and technologies and, of course, our project GALaQSci.
On July 21, 2025, all of our GALaQSci team members gathered once again in Munich at the Chair of Physics Education at LMU to discuss the current status of the project.
Over the past six months, our main focus has been on developing and presenting our game Qookies, and preparing for the next study. To achieve this, we brought our NPC Yuki to life, added a central theme to the game’s background story and created lots of new levels to introduce you to quantum sensor technology. And now the next study is already waiting in the wings.
We also took part in many events such as other Quantum Tuesdays, the World of Quantum trade fair on quantum technologies, and an AI festival, where we presented Qookies. We are also planning to take part in various events over the next six months, where you can talk to us and try out our game.
This year, our project status meeting focused on further developing the background story for even more mystery and excitement while playing. All team members played diligently and gave feedback, regardless of their usual roles within the project. We were able to gather a lot of ideas and had constructive discussions, so we are now looking forward to starting work on the new missions full of motivation.
On July 19 and 20, an AI festival [German] took place in Heilbronn as an educational event where everyone had the opportunity to get to know more about artificial intelligence.
Fabian Schroth, one of our AI developers and owner of Quantum Gaming GmbH, was on site with a tent and of course had our game Qookies with him. The visitors, including many families with children, got to know Yuki, our non-player character, and enjoyed trying out our game. The fact that Yuki is based on an AI that learns as it plays and grows together with the players was a frequently discussed topic that met with great interest.
From June 24 to 27, 2025, we were at the World of Quantum fair 2025 at Messe München. We presented the GALaQSci project and, of course, our upcoming game “Qookies” at the joint booth of the “Quantum aktiv” projects [German] , funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).
We had many exciting conversations with people from a variety of different backgrounds, so the topics at our booth were wide-ranging. These included questions about how we can turn such a complex topic into an appealing and intuitive game, where it should be used in the long term and the programming and functions of the AI, Yuki. We also explained the basic quantum mechanical concepts and the three planned quantum technologies of the game: quantum sensing, computing and communication. Of course, we supported our explanations with a demo version of Qookies.
Stefan Küchemann, the GALaQSci project manager, also presented the project and its goals to a broad audience at the BMFTR’s Quantum-Aktiv joint booth.
