SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED - This page is still available for reference only!

Submissions are sought from games researchers, professionals, and practitioners in academia and industry. Graduate students are also encouraged to submit either jointly with an academic/member of industry or alone.

Important Dates

Jun 12, 2024: Submission Deadline
Jul 12, 2024: Decision Notification
Sept 14, 2024: Camera Ready Deadline

Submission Types

Full Papers
Games and Prototypes (both analog and digital)
Microtalks
Hosted Sessions (Panels, Roundtables, and Workshops)
Posters

Specific requirements for each type of submission are available below.

Conference Submission Topics

While any topic related to games for entertainment and learning is appropriate for submission to Meaningful Play, topics of particular interest include:

Exploring meaningful applications of games

Games to change attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors
Games for health
Social impact games
Games to stimulate creativity or innovation
Games to build social skills
Games to advertise and persuade
Games to exercise specific cognitive functions
Games to explore personal beliefs and help make decisions
Games to build knowledge and skills (games for learning)
Serious games for history and cultural heritage learning
Games to promote civic, social, and humanitarian organization and participation
Spectatorship, eSports, and streaming

Issues in designing meaningful play

Game design for specific audience segments
Player types and play styles
Story and storytelling in games
Diversity in games (gender, race, sexuality, etc.)
Characters and avatars in games
Competitive and cooperative play (single player, multiplayer and massively multiplayer)
Balancing entertainment and serious goals
Repurposing entertainment games for serious purposes (and vice versa)
Unintended and unexpected effects of games
Using psychology and neuroscience to design and understand games
Emerging design research methods to help create better games
Measuring game impacts
Innovative techniques and technologies for the design of meaningful play (e.g. game mechanics, reward systems, and user interfaces)
Gamification
Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality

Learning, Education & Games

Demonstrations of game technology or design frameworks that are grounded in pedagogy
Research on games that support empathy and inclusion in education
Co-creating games, art and technology with students
Civic engagement and citizenship education through games
Practicing skills through games, such as media literacy, STEM, argumentation, or writing
Humanistic education through games