Category: Conferences and Seminars

The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada the 14-18th of August 2015.

It’s a pseudo game jam. It’s not located anywhere and you don’t have to program anything. We’re looking for written descriptions of the processes and procedures that make up a game. We call them procedural poems. Here’s what you need to know: there’s a grand prize valued at $170, submissions are due July 31st, 2014,…

Workshop in conjunction with the IFIP 13th International Conference on Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014, Sydney, Australia

‘HiStories 2014’, an interdisciplinary workshop on Video Games and History, organized by the University of Rostock, Germany, November 29 &30. This year’s topic is  ‘Playful reflection – Narrative simulation’. Abstracts (1 page only, short CV and publications list added) may be sent in until October 31 to mario.donick@uni-rostock.de. At the moment, the CFP is in…

The German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies present the Nineteenth Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference to be held 10-12 October 2014 at the University of Cincinnati.

24-25 November 2014, METZ, FRANCE CREM / LORIA, University of Lorraine

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group invites all game scholars to propose papers on game studies and related topics for the SCMS 2015 conference, Wednesday, March 25th to Sunday, March 29th at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Information about the general call for papers can be found…

The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. The Area is also offering a three hour workshop titled “Empathy Game Design: A Quick Introduction” on the first day of the conference.

Over the past decade, the diversity, reach and influence of games have expanded to new heights. Between the ever-mounting profits of the mainstream video game industry, the explosion of “casual” and mobile games, and the emergence of independent game development, gaming culture has witnessed a rapid proliferation of new voices, genres, demographics, and markets worldwide.…

This workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for research and practical applications involving Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Games. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can contribute to games research and vice versa. For example, games…