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My GDC Canada Experience – Day Two

Panelists: Mike, Tad, Regan, Alessandro, Lennart. Read about day one. Having survived day one of GDC Canada, filled with meeting great people and listening to excellent talks, the next day would even top my experience. First, of course, I went to see the keynote by Bioware founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk about [...]

My GDC Canada Experience – Day One

Photo by Lennart (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License) Just came back from joint conferences GDC Canada and Future Play, a combination of events that I would like to call the perfect game-industry-academia cocktail mixed by some very talented Canadians. I had the pleasure to speak at both events about the subject I am passionate [...]

Three Eye Tracking Conferences for Professionals and Researchers in 2009

Only time for a short post: Three eye tracking events you should watch out for in 2009 The 15th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2009) takes places from 23rd – 27th August 2009 at the University of Southampton in the UK. Definitely more an industry event, abstracts of only 200 words have to be [...]

Next DiGRA 2009 conference in the UK

Word got out that the next DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) conference 2009 will take place in the UK, hosted by Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom. It is themed “Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory” and the first Call for Papers goes as follows:

Game Conference Planning 2008

After receiving a travel budget from my University for the first time, I came to sit down and have a look at potentially interesting conferences for the young game academics among us. Now, with so many different focus areas within games your planning might differ. Nevertheless, I though it would be nice to share some [...]

GDC 2007 Day One Roundup

Sunday, March 4 After a horribly long flight through Sweden, Denmark and Germany, we finally reached San Francisco Sunday night after spending more than a day in total for all traveling. While all the flights went very smooth in terms of connections, it still was a canned feeling especially on the flight to the US, [...]