Last weekend the Values at Play research project launched its website, http://www.valuesatplay.org, which offers a wealth of game design ideas and scholarship about games and values. Valuesatplay.org has also begun accepting submissions for its Social Impact Game Contest. The Values At Play project, a collaboration between Hunter College’s innovative Tiltfactor Lab (http://www.tiltfactor.org) and New York University, is an inquiry into the ideas and belief systems latent in video games.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL for PAPER

International Conference on Entertainment Computing ICEC 25-27th September 2008

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/icec2008/

There were a bug in bibtext and endnote converters, and the names were in wrong format. That issues is now corrected. Please. let me know if you notice anything odd in exporters or in dl in general.

/Petri

Call for Papers: Game Studies Seminar, Tampere 10-11 April, 2008

The Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University in Copenhagen is pleased to announce/ The [Player] Conference/, a conference for games researchers taking place August 26th - 29th 2008.

Digital Games Research Conference 2009
www.digra.org | www.gamesconference.org

The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) has as a central goal the support of an international conference on digital gaming. Three world conferences have taken place, the first in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2003), the second in Vancouver, Canada (2005) and the third in Tokyo, Japan (2007).

This document is a call for proposals for a committee and location to host the next of DiGRA’s international games research conference for 2009.

Institutions wishing to put themselves forward should consider the following aims of DiGRA when putting their proposal together and highlight how the event they would organise would achieve these:

• To support digital games research as an interdisciplinary field
• To encourage dialogue between researchers, practitioners, commercial organisations and policy makers
• To support digital gaming students and curriculum development
• To disseminate work produced by the association’s community

DiGRA is keen to receive proposals that tackle these issues in an innovative manner and build upon established conference practices.

It is envisaged that DiGRA conferences will each have a central theme but that this will in no way compromise the inclusiveness of research into digital gaming from a wide range of researchers, disciplines and empirical domains. The official language of the conference will be English.

The Journal of Game Development is now accepting submissions.

The Journal of Game Development (JOGD) is a journal dedicated to the dissemination of leading-edge, original research, as well as the underpinnings that detail the most recent findings in related academic disciplines, hardware, software, and technology. This will directly affect the way games are conceived, developed, produced, and delivered. The research in the journal will come from both academia and industry.