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News - April 2009
After some discussion and numerous contributions on the DiGRA mailing list, the Games Research Map has finally been adapted to the DiGRA website.
It is available here: http://www.digra.org/shared/games-research-map
Please note that the page is editable by website members, so updates, corrections, and new additions are welcome! Thanks to Michael Liebe who initiated this project and graciously allowed us to host the results of his work.
The biannual Digital Arts & Culture conference takes place in California in December 2009 (http://dac09.uci.edu).
The abstract submission deadline is coming up soon - May 1st!
This year, the conference is theme-based (ie paper proposals have be to submitted to a theme) and a calling for submissions from game researchers, has recently been added:
A few important points regarding DiGRA 2009 submission and conference.
The submission for papers and abstracts closes 17th April. Please have your submission posted before 5pm GMT.
The deadline for full papers for inclusion in digital proceedings is Friday 26 June 2009 5pm GMT
Notification of acceptance is June 1 2009
Deadline for booking on-campus accommodation is June 30 2009
The conference Dates: 1-4th September 2009
Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 April 2009 Maison Ludger-Duvernay (82, Sherbrooke West, Montreal)
This international conference unites scholars who all study a corpus that has been left out up to now: horror video games. Considering the relatively slow progress of generic studies among the recent surge of academic interest towards video games, this event represents a major first step. In order to map out the realm of horror video games, the conference favors an intermedial study of manifestations of horror in other cultural practices (literary and cinematographic).
We are happy to announce that the new edition of "Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture." <http://www.eludamos.org> is now online.
The strong "perspectives" section offers intriguing observations on learning through passion, game competence, serious games and biographical aspects of gameplay experiences. Articles explore games' specific characteristics of self-imagining from a comparative media studies point of view, and alternate reality gaming. The academic game reviews are again informative as well as entertaining, ranging from insightful analyses of game classics to the latest AAA blockbuster.
SIGGRAPH announces the launch of GameJam!, a new international videogame competition to be held at SIGGRAPH 2009, the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Teams of three people will compete for 24 consecutive hours to create, design, and implement their best effort at a comprehensive videogame in the allotted timeframe. Each team must contain at least one Programmer, Artist, and Sound Designer. Individuals and teams are welcome to apply. Contestants will be provided with a pre-designated theme as well as the necessary tools and software to complete the challenge. All work must take place on site within the 24-hour period.
In partnership with DIGRA 2009, Women in Games are honoured to issue a general call for papers to be presented at this year*s DIGRA event at Brunel.
All information about submission available at http://digra2009.newport.ac.uk.
Women in Games is an international conference which focuses both on games research and the games industry with particular attention paid to issues relating to women. We are currently searching for a partner to hold a Women in Games conference in February 2010 (exact date to be decided). Women in Games will not be holding a standalone conference in 2009 but is planning to hold shorter events during other UK game related conferences over the year. We have confirmed involvement with DIGRA 2009 and are talking to Develop.
SIGGRAPH Asia has a special track for Games in Emerging Technologies this year. Emerging technologies is a demonstration track in SIGGRAPH focussing on much more than 'new improved graphics' - games toying with RFID, positioning, AR, biometrics etcetera fit very well into this track.