Topics include

• Game studies, social science (games, players, and their role in society and culture)
• Game studies, humanities (aesthetic, philosophical, and ontological aspects of games and play)
• Game design (methods, techniques, studies)
• Serious games (building and evaluating games for a purpose, learning in games)
• Game education (preparing students to design and develop games)
• Artificial intelligence (agents, motion/camera planning, navigation, adaptivity, procedural content generation, dialog, authoring tools, general game playing)
• Game technology (engines, frameworks, graphics, networking, animation)
• Interaction and player experience (game interfaces, player metrics, modeling player experience)