Joan Josep Pons López

Graduate in History, Master’s degree in Libraries and Heritage Collections, and PhD in Humanities and Communication (Ludic Narratives and Role-Playing Games). He has completed various studies in video game design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT). In parallel, he is pursuing degrees in Psychology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and in Anthropology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).

Professor of Game Design and Level Design at Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Video Game Design and Production and the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Information Systems Computing / Video Game Design and Production. Professor of Game Design in the UOC’s Online University Master’s Degree in Video Game Design and Programming and professor of Video Game Imaginaries at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC). He has also taught in these fields at the Centre de la Imatge i la Tecnologia Multimèdia (CITM) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Escola de Noves Tecnologies Interactives (ENTI) of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and the UPC’s Master’s Degree in AAA Video Game Development.

Research lines:

The generation of procedural, interactive, and emergent narratives
Analog and digital role-playing games
Reward systems and dark patterns and their effects on younger players
The creation of fantasy worlds and their digitalization
Audiovisual narrative