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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.

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.

On 15 April 2025, we again presented our project GALaQSci at the Quantum Tuesday [German] at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. 

After an introduction to the topic of serious games and why they are important for quantum technologies given by our physics didactics expert Caroline Wehrmann, the visitors had the opportunity to try out the latest version of our game Qookies for two hours. We had many interesting conversations and a lot of fun.

This year’s spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) of the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK) took place from March 31 to April 4, 2025 on the campus of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. This conference was also used by the physics education departments of various universities to meet and exchange information about their research and projects.

In this context, Caroline Wehrmann, a didactician in our project, presented some results of the study contucted within GALaQSci. The focus of her presentation was on the effect of AI-controlled NPCs (non player characters) on cognitive load and learning effect of the players.

The Quantum Effects trade fair for application-oriented quantum technologies took place in Stuttgart from October 8 to 9, 2024. At a joint booth of our partners Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) and the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MQCST), visitors were able to try out our game resQ (now Qookies) and ask various members of our team questions.

As part of the lecture program, there was also a panel discussion with our game developers, Fabian Schrodt and Nikola Merkas. This was about linking quantum technologies with artificial intelligence. Among other things, the social perspective and acceptance of this promising combination were discussed.