The Italian Gaming Lab is a digital hub where students and faculty work together to adapt and/or create games for language learning – specifically, for learning Italian. On this website, you will find some examples of commercial board games that have been customized for language learning, as well as original games created by students and faculty, accompanied by text and video instructions tailored for L2 learners. 

Planétes is a micro language-learning tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) created with the goal of exploring how this type of games could encourage and structure interaction in the target language, and which affordances of tabletop role-playing games are most effective in fostering language learning. In the game, players will create cities and communities and will become Dwellers and Wanderers. While shaping and exploring their communities, players will discuss and compare their values, and decide whether to stay in their cities or explore new ones.

Planétes is currently available in English and Italian. 

Codenames is a popular commercial tabletop card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition in 2015. The online edition of the game is free to use and can be set to different languages, including Italian. 

Scrabble is a classic commercial tabletop board game in which players compete by forming words in a specific language. The online version of the game is free to use and it is possible to select different languages to play (by looking at “dictionary” on the left menu), including Italian. 

This website offers a selection of small digital gamified activities, mostly to review and practice vocabulary in Italian. 

Kahoot! is a Norwegian online game-based learning platform. It has learning games, also known as "kahoots", which are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot! App. 

Quizlet makes AI-powered learning tools that let you study anything with online flashcards and games.

Wordwall is a platform to create custom activities for your classroom, such as quizzes, match ups, word games, and much more. 

Gimkit is a platform to create custom activities for your classroom. It's similar to Kahoot but it allows users to also create an open question with several options of correct answers, without paying for a premium subscription. The study sets can be imported from an exported Quizlet set and Gimkit is also crowdsourced, so you can duplicate and edit other teachers' already created sets. There are also options for multiple choice or text input responses. 

Duolingo is one of the most well-known gamified apps to review and practice Italian, from vocabulary to grammatical structures. It uses point systems, levels, badges, streaks, and rewards to encourage frequent practice.