Topics include:

• Development methodologies
• Design issues
• Controversial issues – we welcome debate and dissension, for example; games as art, entertainment as purely for monetary returns etc
• Special Effects
• Animation
• Mobile and ubiquitous games and entertainment
• Serious Games –applications, critiques
• Philosophical issues
• Prototypes
• Social and cultural uses of/for Play
• Tools and technologies
• Skills, strategy, rules and chance
• Genre
• Immersiveness and engagement
• Research methodologies in creative practice
• Usability and playability
• User/player centered design
• Psychological, social, and cultural differences in perception and participation
• Communities, networks, social interaction and social capital
• Cross-cultural and intercultural approaches
• Assessment of exploratory learning approaches
• Emerging practices