Gonzalo Frasca, PhD

Hey! I'm Gonzalo.
I'm a designer.
I do learning research & development at Kahoot!
I'm also a speaker, writer and academic.

Speaker

Frasca often keynotes at industry and academic events.
He has given lectures and exhibited in over 30 countries.
Topics include games & learning, math learning games, political games, game design and game studies.

Designer

Currently leading the design of HelloStorm.com
Frasca co-designed DragonBox School, a full curriculum math solution used in Finland, Norway and France.
He has designed games for Cartoon Network, Disney, Pixar, WB.

Game Studies

Gonzalo Frasca is an internationally-renowned game studies scholar.He holds a PhD in game rhetoric from the IT University of Copenhagen.
His focus is on learning games, political games, and play.

Writer

Frasca has written 10 children's books that has been published in Spanish, French, Norwegian and Finnish.He's also a former Editor of Science and Technology at CNN en Español.Hi new book, "Uruguay y las galletitas danesas" was published in 2023.

• It's available as a Kindle ebook.

Looking for my research?

Here you'll find link to my dissertations.

• Play the Message. Play, Game and Videogame Rhetoric. Ph.D. dissertation. IT University of Copenhagen, 2007

• Videogames of the Oppressed: Videogames as a means for critical thinking and debate. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.

• El videojuego como medio para una ficción interactiva. Notas para una poética del joystick. Universidad Católica del Uruguay, 1997.