Category: Conferences and Seminars

This workshop will focus on Characters can be described as Playful.  We focus onnarrative characters that can be part of a story or standalone characters and have history, goals, rich complex personality, and attitudes. The workshop will borrow from theatre improvisation and Live Action Role-Playing games (LARPs) to define playful virtual characters and situate the context for a rich interaction about what…

The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing is the primary forum for disseminating and showcasing research results relating to the creation, development and use of digital entertainment. The conference brings together practitioners, academics, artists and researchers interested in design, practice, implementation, application and theoretical foundations of digital entertainment. We solicit paper, poster and demonstration submissions,…

Scholars, designers, players, and artists are invited to participate in PLAYING LIFE: GAMIFICATION BEYOND GAMING, a special issue of Screencity Journal entirely dedicated to the the topic of gamification, i.e. the use of game design elements and game mechanics in non game contexts.

The Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity will be held from June 10 to 13, 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. We have accepted 37 high-quality full papers for presentation at the conference, which ensures that the event will be broad, lively and thought-provoking. We seek to supplement this with some late-breaking papers describing cutting edge research from the field. Please…

Those wishing to present papers, or hold a workshop should prepare abstracts, to a maximum of 500 words and those hoping to exhibit or produce a poster, a 300-word abstract is required. The deadline is 28 April. Check the information below or visit http://itag.gamecity.org

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is pleased to announce the First IEEE Games, Entertainment and Media (GEM) Conference. The venue will provide an opportunity for the demonstration and study of the ways in which games and game technologies are transforming the educational and cultural landscape. The exhibition area will allow researchers, developers and industry professionals…

ACE – the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing is inviting the submission of papers, posters, creative showcases and workshop proposals to its 11th conference to be held in Funchal, Madeira, 11-14 November, 2014.

The awareness of digital games has evolved rapidly in recent years, recognizing an activity earlier considered a practice for narrow and specialized audiences to be mainstream media entertainment for the masses. Since the mid nineties researchers have engaged in studying games as platforms for social interaction and as unique channels for exploration, experimentation and entertainment…