Top Serious Games Conferences

[playle...@gmail.com]

Hello!

I am looking for advice on Serious Games related conferences which come highly recommended. I am based in the U.S. so certainly suggestions here are needed, but I am also interested in international conferences. Thanks for any help!

[Carrie Heeter]

Meaningful Play

Oct 11-13, 2018

http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/

Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more "serious" purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players' beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior.

Meaningful Play 2018 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes.

Conference Audience and Themes

The conference is primarily for:

• industry and academic game researchers
  
• industry and academic game designers and developers
  
• game educators
  
• students
  
• government and NGOs interested in games
  

The three primary themes of the conference are:

• exploring meaningful applications of games
  
• issues in designing meaningful play
  
• learning, education & games
  

The first theme includes an examination of games (of all types) from primarily an academic research perspective.

The second theme focuses on much more practical knowledge from the front-line of actual design, development, and use of games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality experiences for meaningful purposes.

The third theme is developed in partnership with the IGDA Learning, Education & Games Special Interest Group.​

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:55 AM, <playle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

I am looking for advice on Serious Games related conferences which come highly recommended. I am based in the U.S. so certainly suggestions here are needed, but I am also interested in international conferences. Thanks for any help!

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Thanks Carrie! I attended the conference in 2012 I believe and loved it. I am planning on going this year again. :)

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[Jen Helms]

A new conference on games for learning and social impact is the Intentional Play Summit. This year will be the second event on September 21st, 2018 in Mountain View, CA. It ran for the first time in 2016 with Noah Falstein and James Paul Gee keynoting. The full day conference includes breakout sessions, round table discussions over lunch, a happy hour, and an arcade.

http://intentionalplaysummit.com/