Future Play @ Vancouver Digital Week 2010: The International Academic
Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology
May 6-7 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center

Call for Papers

Overview
Future Play 2010 will be held alongside Game Developers Conference®
(GDC) Canada during Vancouver Digital Week 2010. Vancouver Digital Week
includes a series of events for top creative minds and business leaders
working in Digital Media. We are pleased to present Future Play at the
Vancouver Convention Center, in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, May
6-7 2010.

Since 2002, Algoma University has been hosting Future Play, an
international conference to advance game design and technology. Future
Play features cutting-edge peer¬-reviewed academic research and
discussion on creative and experimental game design and development.
Future Play brings together researchers, developers, and government
partners for formal and informal engagement and examination of emergent
features of computer game development for entertainment, for
learning/teaching, for serious purposes and to impact society. Future
Play also provides an important forum for future game development talent
to gain perspective on the knowledge, skills and attitude required to
succeed in the game development world. Beginning with Future Play 2007
Algoma University has teamed up with the Ontario University Institute of
Technology to give Future Play attendees the chance to interact with
some of the most talented people in the games world today.

GDC® Canada is a forum for Canadian developers to share best practices
for fostering ingenuity and quality games within their region and
distributed globally. This event emphasizes studying the challenges and
opportunities of creating games with long production cycles, large
development teams, and multi-platform releases.

Scope of the Conference
Future Play addresses issues in Game Design, Art, and Technology by
enabling thought ¬provoking presentations from leaders in academia and
industry, peer ¬reviewed research presentations, workshops (including
design, technology, and career workshops), and exhibitions of posters,
games, and the latest game technologies and systems available from
industry ¬leading vendors.

Topics of interest to Future Play include, but are not restricted to,
the following:

Design and Human Factors:
Social and ethical issues for games
Interdisciplinary issues
Gender issues
Narrative Design

Innovations in Technology:
Software engineering for games
Artificial intelligence for games
Innovative rendering algorithms
Game engine design
Networking and multiplayer support

Innovations in Art and Production:
Animation and motion capture
Modeling & Rigging Methodologies
Sound and music Design/Production

Education and Serious Games:
Games for Education
Games for Health
Game-based Learning
Game-based Curriculum
Bridging the academia-¬industry gap

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research. Papers
under review elsewhere must not be submitted to Future Play. The
following categories of papers will be accepted:

Full papers (8 pages):
Should present original reports of substantive new work - eight page
maximum. Accepted full papers will be presented in the form of a 20
minute presentation at the conference. Individual presentations will be
grouped by topic into sessions by conference organizers.

Short papers (4 pages):
Should present interesting recent results or novel thought-provoking
ideas that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. Four
page maximum.  Accepted short papers will be presented in the form of
either a poster or 20 minute presentation at the conference.

Extended Abstracts (2 pages):
Late-¬breaking advances and work ¬in ¬progress reports from ongoing
research are encouraged to be submitted as extended abstracts – two
pages maximum.  These will be presented in the form of a poster
presentation throughout the conference.
Papers must adhere to ACM formatting — Portable Document Format (PDF)
formatted in two-column conference style. LaTeX and Microsoft Word
templates will be made available from the Future Play website
([1] http://futureplay.org ).  Further details regarding ACM formatting are
available via the following ACM URL:
[2] http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on
originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness,
relevance to the conference, contributions, and readability. All
accepted papers (full, short, and poster) will be included in the
distributed conference proceedings and the online ACM digital library.

Since 2007 proceedings of the Future Play conference have been included
in the Association for Computing Machines (ACM) digital library. The
Program Committee is currently working with ACM to ensure
“in-cooperation” status for Future Play 2010 and we are confident this
will be granted this year again. Pending ACM approval, accepted
submissions will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

Please submit your paper via the EasyChair conference system available
via the following URL:
[3] https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=futureplaygdccanada2010

Conference Chairs
Bill Kapralos, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Andrew Hogue, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Simon Xu, Algoma University
Jay Rajnovich, Algoma University (Chair Emeritus)

Important Dates (TENTATIVE)

Submission deadline:            March 5, 2010
Notification:                   April 9, 2010
Final paper submission:         April 23, 2010

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For Further Information
For further Information, updates, and to register please consult the
official Future Play 2010 website at [5] http://www.futureplay. General
inquiries about Future Play 2010 can be directed to futureplay@algomau.ca.