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Informations

Date du colloque : 16/09/2008
Pays / Ville d'accueil : UxBridge, London, Angleterre
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Description

The 2nd Brunel University Annual Postgraduate Games Conference

16th September 2008

Keynote Speakers: Peter Molyneux, Lionhead Studios and Barry Atkins, Univesrity of Wales.

The Digital Games : Theory & Design postgraduate conference will be held atat
Brunel University in Uxbridge, London on  on 16/09/2008. The aim of the
conference is to provide a forum for postgraduate games studies students to
present work or work-in-progress to their peers and more experienced games
researchers. There will also be keynote speeches from Game design legend
Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios and games academic Barry Atkins. Last
year's conference was a great sucess and we hope to repeat the achievement
this year with similar high quality submissions from a wide variety of
fields sharing a focus on Digital Games.

All students or other interested parties are welcome to attend the
conference, which promises to showcase some interesting new takes on the
study and design of videogames from many different angles.

The theme of the conference is "Theory & Design", and some sample areas of
interest are listed below: history of games, game theory, combat systems,
socio-cultural issues, community, gaming culture, game genre, design
possibilities for the next generation, ethnicity, sound, character,
immersion, play, widening markets, sex, casual games, agency, time & space,
education, economic and industrial analysis, narrative, game auteurs,
graphical styles, empirical analysis, gender, intermediality &
transmediality, localisation, violence, political/serious games

Mots-clés : game design, game studies

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