LabJogos offers multiple courses in the Specialization on Games in Instituto Superior Técnico and holds several Master Thesis and research projects in the fields of Games and Interactive Experiences.
About Us

Mission
LabJogos promotes the values of Games, bridging the gap between Academia, Industry, and Society. As a continued mission to help spread knowledge on game development in and out of Instituto Superior Técnico, LabJogos promotes a range of events throughout the year.

Inovation
At LabJogos we support innovation in game creation by offering multidisciplinary teams to develop games with the help of Fine Arts students.
Our CoursesOur Courses

Little Garden
Little Garden is a single player, RPG with turn based combat where you control a group of insects.

Unroll
A boy and his playing ball depart on a journey to find roundness, in a world where there are no round objects.

Boiling Blood
Escape through a hell of blood and blades. Make the pain of others your own strength.

Void Champions
Void Champions is a single or multiplayer rogue-lite, where up to 4 players compete to try to reach the top and win their freedom.

Off The Grid
Survive being sent to an unknown planet to collect information by fighting, hiding, gathering resources and exploring.

DeparmantX
As special agents, you have to face paranormal, and supernatural events in a 2D action game.

Fetch Them Bones
Fetch Them Bones is a 2D top down shooter where you play as a young boy who staves off monsters with the help of his dog.

Circuit Slimes
As an Electrical Slime Engineer trainee, your job is to repair and complete circuits by deploying

Barren
Barren is a 3rd person exploration game where the player is able to change between three different states: body, mind and soul.

Captivity
Captivity is a co-op adventure, roguelike-ish game with some puzzle elements!

Global Game Jam
2024 ··· 2025
Global Game Jam brings together programmers, artists, musicians, game designers and other video game lovers with the goal of developing a game in 48 hours.

MOJO
2020 ··· 2024
Montra de Jogos (MOJO) is an annual game showcase of what is best produced in the area of games by the IST community.

Alumni Meeting
2016 ··· 2020
Alumni Meeting brings the alumni closer to their colleagues and school, to share experiences and visions in the area of games.

Talk N' Play
2020 ··· 2021
Talk n' Play is our most frequent event where we invite students to participate in a discussion of anything and everything games related.