Foreword to the 8th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering (GAS 2024)

The evolving expectations within gaming communities drive ongoing research and development efforts to devise innovative methods for constructing intricate gameful systems. These methods incorporate cutting-edge technologies like AI, AR/VR, and biometrics, to meet the needs of gaming communities. Gameful systems encompass three main categories: entertainment games, which offers captivating user experiences aimed at immersing and retaining players; serious games, which combines the entertainment aspect of gaming with specific goals in domains such as education, training, and healthcare; and gamified applications, which augments non-entertainment applications, like learning management systems, by integrating game elements.