Archives par mot-clé : videogames

Symposium: “Archiving Videogames: Creation, Localisation & Intersectionality” (University of Liège)

Symposium: “Archiving Videogames: Creation, Localisation & Intersectionality” (University of Liège)

18-19 août, 2025

Val Benoît – University of Liège, Allée Zoé Gatti de Gamond, 4/11, 4000Liège (BE)

Organisé par Anna-Maria Trefois (Liège Game Lab)

On August 18th and 19th, the Liège Game Lab will be organizing the two days symposium “Archiving Videogames: Creation, Localisation & Intersectionality”, with the aim of examining the conservation of video games in an academic context.

We plan to explore different axes during these two days.

  1. We will examine the ways in which different institutions manage to conserve video games, including BnF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), SVGA (Swiss Video Games Archivist), KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), ULiège, and others. What does it mean to set up a video game research center in a university or library? What are the different methodologies?
  2. In a subsequent session, we will address some questions about how we should look at the process of archiving and showcasing video games. This process raises important issues, particularly in terms of resources and choice of work, which can be influenced by gender bias. What knowledge does a gender study approach produce about these objects? How can we take a committed look at a collection that, at first glance, is not?
  3. Lastly, we’d also like to highlight some thoughts on how to approach a collection housed in a different place from its origin. Most video game archiving initiatives focus on local production. For example, Pixelvetica, a SVGA initiative, is committed to preserving Swiss video games. At the Liège Game Lab, we have the project to write a history of Belgian video games. However, our lab has received a loan of 4832 japanese video games from Ritsumeikan University. This context raises questions about the potential link between production and organization of an archive and the culture of a country. In our case, we are also questioning the specificity of the so-called “Japanese video game”, and the criteria on which we should base our efforts to preserve this object. These reflections invite us to rethink the notion of territory in the conservation and study of video games. What does it mean to preserve video games relating to a geographical area (e.g. Japan)? What are the particularities if this collection is not preserved in the geographical area concerned?

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Call for papers: The Journal of Replaying Japan – Vol. 8

“Hobbyist games, hacks and (other) homegrown activities”, The Journal of Replaying Japan, vol. 8

Deadline for proposals: September 17th, 2025 (JST)

Scheduled publication: March, 2026

Call for papers

The Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies (RCGS) is pleased to call for submissions to the 8th issue of the academic journal Replaying Japan, which covers a wide range of topics around Japanese videogames, gaming culture and related media and invites contributions from researchers, developers and practitioners working in related areas. 

For this issue, the editorial committee will particularly welcome proposals on the subjects of hobbyist games, hacks and (other) homegrown activities.  

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Call for papers – Game and Monetisation (Acta Ludologica, special issue)

Game and Monetisation

Acta Ludologica, special issue

Deadline for proposals: May 31, 2025

Publication date: Autumn 2025

Edited by Jana Radošinská (University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius)

Call for papers

The term monetisation is a contemporary concept that covers the various direct and indirect methods of generating revenue from games, thus monetising them (Mago, 2022). The monetisation in the creative industries has evolved to include diverse revenue models and strategies, reflecting shifts in technology and consumer expectations. Within games and digital games, traditional models have hybridised, combining various approaches including in-game purchases, subscriptions and advertising formats. These are based on an adaptation of media monetisation strategies in general, balancing current consumer demands for affordable access with revenue generation (Pravdová et al., 2023). By blending immersive experiences with monetisation tactics, the games industry demonstrates how creative sectors are continually reshaping monetisation to meet evolving market dynamics, however, sometimes even to the point of malpractices within the grey areas of legality (Mago, 2020). Continuer la lecture de Call for papers – Game and Monetisation (Acta Ludologica, special issue)

Call for papers: Replaying Japan 2025 – “Homebrew: hobbyist games, hacks and (other) homegrown activities” (RMIT University, Melbourne)

Replaying Japan 2025 – The 13th International Japan Game Studies Conference: “Homebrew: hobbyist games, hacks and (other) homegrown activities”

Dates: September 1(Mon)-3(Wed), 2025

Location: Melbourne City Campus, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Deadline for proposals: Feb 14th, 2025

Organized by: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), in collaboration with the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the University of Alberta, the University of Delaware, Bath Spa University, DiGRA Japan, Liège Game Lab and l’Université de l’Ontario français.

Call for papers

This conference, hosted by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), is organized in collaboration with the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the University of Alberta, the University of Delaware, Bath Spa University, DiGRA Japan, Liège Game Lab and l’Université de l’Ontario français. This conference, the 14th collaboratively organized event, focuses broadly on Japanese game culture, education, and industry. It aims to bring together a wide range of researchers and creators from many different countries to present and exchange their work. Continuer la lecture de Call for papers: Replaying Japan 2025 – “Homebrew: hobbyist games, hacks and (other) homegrown activities” (RMIT University, Melbourne)

Rencontre avec Julien Mailland (Indiana University Media School) autour de son ouvrage “The Game That Never Ends” (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Rencontre avec Julien Mailland (Indiana University Media School) autour de son ouvrage The Game That Never Ends (MIT Press, 2024)

Date : 16 décembre 2024 de 18h à 19h30

Lieu : Amphithéâtre BR06 (120 places) à la Sorbonne Nouvelle (site Nation)

Organisé par Alexis Blanchet

Présentation

Julien Mailland est l’auteur d’une étonnante recherche en histoire des jeux vidéo portant sur les questions juridiques traversant ce secteur depuis les débuts de son histoire commerciale. Fort d’un travail sur des sources méconnues et d’une enquête historique menée auprès des acteurs de l’histoire des jeux vidéo, Julien Mailland apporte une lumière nouvelle sur des points aveugles de l’histoire du secteur.

Conférence en français animée par Alexis Blanchet (département Cinéma et Audiovisuel, IRCAV)

L’ouvrage The Game That Never Ends (MIT Press, 2024) est disponible en open edition sur : https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5819/The-Game-That-Never-EndsHow-Lawyers-Shape-the

 

 

 

Colloque interuniversitaire francophone d’études ludiques – CIFEL (UQAT)

Colloque interuniversitaire francophone d’études ludiques – CIFEL : “Pouvoir et vulnérabilité”

Dates : 13, 14 et 15 juin 2024

Lieu : Campus de Montréal de l’Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (625 avenue du Président-Kennedy, 8e étage)

Organisé par : Université de Montréal, Concordia, Université du Québec à Montréal et Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Programme

International conference: “Leisure electronics and the emergence of video games” (University of Lausanne)

Leisure electronics and the emergence of video games

International conference: “Leisure electronics and the emergence of video games”

2 and 3 May 2024

On-site: in room Amphimax 414 on UNIL Campus, Lausanne, Switzerland
On-line: on Zoom and discord (links to come)

Co-organized by the GameLab UNIL-EPFL and the research project Confoederatio Ludens, with the support of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lausanne

Conference program

DAY 1 – 2 May 2024

08:30 Welcoming and registration – in front of the conference room

09:00 Opening speech – Pierre-Yves Hurel & Sophie Bémelmans

09:30 OPENING KEYNOTE:

Alex Wade (Birmingham City University) – Genealogies of videogame production, consumption and distribution in the English Midlands (Online) – Moderator: Yannick Rochat

10:30 Coffee Break – in front of the conference room

10:45 PANEL 1: Local contexts – Moderator: Guillaume Guenat

  • A. Gabrielyan (Université de Lausanne) and T. Vaillancourt (University of Konstanz / Paris Nanterre) – The intermedial and cultural genealogy of Nu, Pogodi! in the USSR, or why a clone is not just a clone (On-site)
  • R. Seiwald (University of Birmingham) – Happy Birthday, Tetris! Tracing the Game’s History within a Genealogy of Ludic Practices (On-site)
  • M. Conrad (University St. Gallen) – United by Code: The Cultural Impact of BASIC as a Glocalized Coding Language for Gaming Communities in East and West Germany during the 1980s (On-site)

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Call for papers: GAME-ON Conference 2024 (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul)

GAME-ON Conference 2024 on Simulation and AI in Computer Games

September 9-11

Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul

Call for papers

The aim of the 25TH annual European GAME-ON® Conference (GAME-ON®’2024) on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and game developers in order to exchange ideas on programming and programming techniques, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos to the gaming industry.

The conference will concentrate mostly on the programming of games, with special emphasis on simulation, AI and fuzzy sets, and physics related computer graphics. Next to that, all of this will be fused in the topic of computer game design in stand-alone and networked games. Software providers will be able to show their latest packages and give hand-on tutorials for the participants.

Companies will also have the opportunity to seek new talent at this unique event.

GAME-ON®’2024 consists of five core tracks (Game Design, Game Play and Game Applications) subdivided into a number of suptopics, which cover, Gaming Methodology, Game Theory, Gamification, Artificial Intelligence and Simulation, Game design linked topics, like 3-D scalability, facial and skeletal animation, 3D in-game animation etc, Mobile Gaming and Gaming Applications such as Serious games and Gamification in different sectors; Organizational issues when implementing games; Designing games for learning; Technologies, tools and platforms for developing games for learning; Games to teach arts, science, or business; Social and collaborative aspects of game-based learning; Multi-modal aspects of game-based learning (e.g. audio, augmented reality, virtual reality, etc); Motivational aspects of game-based learning, Board Games, Deep Learning Evolutionary (Genetic) approaches combined with Deep Learning. Procedural Generation, Real-Time Ray-Tracing (RTRT), Real-Time Path-Tracing (RTPT), Hybrid Rendering and Mesh Shaders. Continuer la lecture de Call for papers: GAME-ON Conference 2024 (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul)

Call for papers : Game-based learning for lifelong learning – ECGBL 2024 (Aarhus University, Denmark)

ECGBL 2024 – 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning : Mini Track on Game-based learning for lifelong learning

Date : 3-4 October 2024

Place : Aarhus University, Denmark

Deadline for proposals : 13 March 2024

Organized by Nour El Mawas (University of Lorraine, France)

Call for papers

The term Lifelong Learning holds the idea that learning should occur through a person’s lifetime and that it involves formal and informal domains (Cropley and Knapper, 2021). This is also supported by the European Lifelong Learning Initiative, which defines this term as a “continuously supported process which stimulates and empowers individuals to acquire all the knowledge, values, skills and understanding they will require throughout their lifetimes and to apply them with confidence, creativity and enjoyment in all roles, circumstances and environments” (Watson, 2003).

The use of game-based learning in teaching, learning, and training improves learning outcomes and increases learners’ motivation and engagement (Abdul Jabbar and Felicia, 2015). There are 2 different game-based learning methods (Kafai, 2006): instructionism (gameplay-based learning) and constructionism (game design-based learning). In the instructionist approach, learners play a serious game to learn, whereas in the constructionist approach, they learn by designing their own game.

This mini-track will be an opportunity for trainers, teachers and researchers from schools, universities, colleges and companies to share and discuss gameplay-based learning and game design-based learning approaches that enhance lifelong learning. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

  • The design of games for lifelong learning;
  • Theoretical frameworks and/or practical strategies on how games can be used to enhance lifelong teaching and learning;
  • The assessment of games for lifelong learning perspectives;
  • Learning analytics and educational data mining for lifelong learning games;
  • Adaptivity and personalization in lifelong learning games.

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Séminaire : “Histoires de jeux vidéo en Belgique” (Université de Liège)

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Séminaire : “Histoires de jeux vidéo en Belgique”

Dates : 29 février – 11 mars – 03 avril 2024  (13h)

Lieu : La Grand Poste – plateau central, Quai sur Meuse, 19, 4000 Liège 

Organisé par le Liège Game Lab

Diffusion en direct sur Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/liegegamelab

Inscriptions obligatoires pour faire partie du public (nombre de places limitées à 20)

Présentation

Le Liège Game Lab lance son premier séminaire thématique dédié aux histoires de jeux vidéo en Belgique. 

En tant que laboratoire de recherche sur le jeu vidéo de l’Université de Liège, le Liège Game Lab organise depuis sa fondation des séminaires de recherche centrés sur des thématiques multiples des sciences du jeu, domaine scientifique de nature pluridisciplinaire et brassant de nombreuses problématiques et méthodologies. Dès lors, ces rencontres sont souvent l’occasion d’échanger avec des collègues et invité·es issu·es de traditions thématiques, disciplinaires voire épistémologiques différentes. Continuer la lecture de Séminaire : “Histoires de jeux vidéo en Belgique” (Université de Liège)