Category: Conferences and Seminars

The Ludomusicology research group will be hosting a two day conference on video game audio to take place on the 9th and 10th of April, 2015 at Utrecht University. We are seeking proposals for papers on the topic of video game music and sound. Papers may contain interdisciplinary import of any type. Paper proposals are…

The Spring Thing is a long-running online event in the interactive fiction community, newly revamped this year to focus on celebrating new works and bringing authors and games from different communities together.

People of all ages engage in play activities, yet play is still easily associated with children. The rhetorics of play are often tied to ideas of progression; play prepares and teaches children and playing is beneficial for adolescents specially when doing so outdoors with a Soft Play Wall Padding. Adults, in turn, are expected not…

In IT and technology-related fields at large, diversity has been a longstanding and troubling issue. Particularly, girls, women and minorities continue to be underrepresented in these fields; few engage in STEM-related classes or enter IT professions. What can we do to address these challenges? What do we know about interests, images, and intersections around gender,…

We are pleased to be holding the Third International Competition on Educational Games at the European Conference on Game-Based Learning (ECGBL), which is being held in Steinkjer, Norway on 8 -9 October this year. The aims of this competition are:

Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat (DBMK) – A workshop on gender, diversity and serious games The interest in serious gaming has increased exponentially in the last ten years as evidenced by the number of policy initiatives, conference meetings and publications in industry and academia. More importantly, many large-scale efforts supported by industry and foundations are…

Different Games, the first conference on inclusivity and diversity in games, invites participants for its 2015 edition at NYU MAGNET, located in Brooklyn, NY, on Friday April 3 and Saturday April 4. After a hugely successful 2nd year that welcomed 40­ some speakers, dozens of original games and more than 300 attendees, Different Games is…

Over the last two decades, a substantial amount of research has addressed the fan culture phenomenon, particularly in relation to film and television; the focus has centred on the impact that fan communities can and have had on the ‘official’ creative works that are released by film and television studios. More recently, researchers have examined…

The Games+Learning+Society Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are excited to announce that the 11th annual Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference will be held on July 8-10, 2015, in conjunction with the GLS Playful Learning Summit and the GLS Doctoral Consortium on Tuesday, July 7.

The graduate students in the MA in Communication and New Media at McMaster University are pleased to invite the submission of research and artistic presentations for our inaugural graduate conference: Protocol. Protocol might refer to the intricate technical protocols that underlie contemporary electronic communications. But protocol also refers us to descriptions and prescriptions of the new…

The GET 2015 conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and the nature of play.