Category: Conferences and Seminars

There’s special interest in game-related proposals. See more below the fold.

This conference is organized as a collaboration between the Japanese Studies Department and the Japan Games Research Initiative at Leipzig University, the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies and the University of Alberta. The conference is the fifth collaboratively organized event focusing broadly on Japanese game culture, education and industry. It aims to bring together a large…

The ECREA Section Digital Games Research (www.digital-games.eu) is organizing an exclusive two-day workshop on the methodological challenges facing current empirical digital games research. Its goal is to identify focal areas, gather best practices and develop a strategy for further action. It provides a platform for researchers with different backgrounds and perspectives to exchange ideas and…

Computer games not only offer a killer application for computational intelligence (CI), machine learning and search but also provide a compelling domain where problem solving and decision making meet artifact creation; both of which can be experienced via a highly immersive, complex and rich interaction. Additionally, methods from computational intelligence promise to have a big…

JUST GAMES? ICA Games Studies Division Preconference 8 June 2016 – Nihon University – Tokyo, Japan Navigate to the following link to view a PDF of the call for papers:

The deadline for proposals for our session In and Out of Art History: the Video Games Conundrum is coming up soon. Details can be found here:

For the first time, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Foundation of Digital Games (FDG) will partner in an unprecedented gathering of games researchers. We invite researchers and educators within game research, broadly construed, to submit their work.

This conference brings together academics whose research in one way or another deals with the myriad concerns that exist in and around video games: addiction, violence, misuse in online games and how to moderate, filter, block, and report misuse, how to adapt current laws to video games, how to measure and describe game concerns, how to…

For our workshop, which is set for March 11-12, 2016, we would like to invite international master’s and doctoral students from the different fields of the humanities to come to Cologne to share ideas, present findings and discuss concepts concerning worlds of play and the playing of worlds. Contributions may include, but are not limited…

Different Games invites participants for its 2016 edition at NYU’s Polytechnic School of Engineering, located in Brooklyn, NY, on Friday April 8 and Saturday April 9.

The field of Interactive Digital Storytelling has largely underexplored the wealth of narrative theories. Therefore, this workshop aims at gathering both AI researchers and narratologists, with the shared goal of shaping the field towards what we have called “narratologically-inspired” models and systems.