Category: Conferences and Seminars

This year’s Videogame Cultures will be devoted to exploring the various ways in which videogame culture and genres develop within the framework of five thematic tracks. Because of the complexity and variety of videogame culture and the overlapping of issues across themes, we are inviting participants of various and all backgrounds (academic, developer, producer, player,…

This minitrack will provide a forum for researchers to discuss the design, use and impact of digital games in various contexts. We are specifically interested in research on the information systems concepts of digital games. In general, topics of interest for this minitrack include: game design, psychology of games, game business models, virtual digital economies,…

The School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester and the Department of Media Art and Production at the University of Bedfordshire are hosting a Gamification and Education Symposium on 12th May 2015 at the University of Winchester.

Link to full CFP: http://gamification-research.org/2015/03/cfp-hicss2016-gamification/

With this symposium of Simulation & Gaming, we call on authors to prepare and contribute original and unpublished articles exploring temporality in simulation gaming.  Research on time in gaming is becoming more common, but is still rare.

Michael Cook writes: I know there’s been a lot of deadlines recently, but I have some exciting news for you: the International Conference on Computational Creativity is hosting its first workshop, and it’s about games! It’s a great opportunity to get involved in ICCC, discuss the future of games and computational creativity, and mix up…

Jeroen Linssen writes: As organizers of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Serious Games and Social Simulation (SSSG), we would like to invite you to consider submitting a paper for our special session at the 2015 Social Simulation Conference (SSC). This will take place from September 14-18 in Groningen, The Netherlands and the current deadline…

The Games and Literary Theory Conference Series addresses the scope and appeal of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of games and games’ impact on other fields in the Humanities.