DPG 2012 - Workshop on Design Patterns in Games (DPG 2012)

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Category DPG 2012

Deadline: March 05, 2011 | Date: May 29, 2012

Venue/Country: Carolina, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-11-22 19:32:32 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

with next year’s Foundations of Digital Games conference. There is

more info on our website (http://dpg.fdg2012.org/) or you can contact

me directly.

CFP follows:

Workshop on Design Patterns in Games (DPG 2012)

Co-located with FDG 2012 ? Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ? May 29, 2012

Call for Participation

OVERVIEW

A design pattern is a means of formally describing a solution to a

design problem in a particular domain or field. Design pattern

approaches have long been used in diverse fields such as architecture,

software engineering, and interaction design. With the emergence of

game scholarship, there has been interest in applying design patterns

to aspects of game design. There are many potential benefits to design

pattern approaches, including generation of frameworks for teaching

and communicating about game design and practical usage in

brainstorming ideas and tuning designs. Furthermore, deeper

understanding of the patterns implicit in their games can help

designers explore previously untried ideas and expectations of player

behavior.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 5 March, 2012

Notification to authors: 26 March, 2012

Workshop held: 29 May, 2012

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

The DPG workshop would feature a half day of research paper

presentations, followed by a half day of hands-on activities

concluding with short presentations of activity results.

The research paper program will consist of short papers (4 pages in

ACM format) and full papers (8 pages) selected via a peer-reviewed

process. Since the workshop is intended to explore new ideas and

directions, submission of incomplete and in-process results are

encouraged. Selected authors will be invited to submit an expanded

version of their paper to a special issue of the journal Game

Studies.

The hands-on activity will consist of a group discussion identifying

the challenges and opportunities in discovering patterns, teaching

them, and applying them in game design practice. We expect that many

of these issues will follow from the presented papers, but

participants are also encouraged to prepare short position statements

if they have specific issues they would like to see addressed.

Participants will then be divided into groups of 4-5 to select an

issue and explore it in-depth. At the end of the workshop, we will

re-convene and present results. Each breakout group will select a

representative to present their findings, which may include a detailed

exploration of their selected issues and proposals for solutions and

new research directions.

RESEARCH AREAS

Submissions to this workshop are encouraged from, but not limited to,

the following areas:

How game design practice can benefit from a design pattern approach

Case studies of design pattern usage

Teaching game design using patterns

Methods for discovering design patterns in existing games

Methods for representing and communicating design patterns

Methods for evaluating design patterns

Design patterns as input to procedural game or level generation systems

Design patterns in different game genres

Design patterns in different aspects of game design, including levels, quests/objectives, NPC interactions, or multiplayer

Relationship between player behavior and design patterns

Understanding designer intent through design pattern analysis

Methods of tuning/improving games with design patterns

Design patterns in analog games

Use of design patterns in procedural content generation (we have discussed to possibility of a joint session with PCG if we accept papers of interest to both workshops)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions should follow ACM SIG conference formatting guidelines.

Papers may be submitted using the Easychair submission system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=dpg2012

PROCEEDINGS

We are requesting that all papers be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Co-Chairs:

Kenneth Hullett, UC Santa Cruz

David Milam, Simon Fraser University

Committee:

Staffan Björk, Göteborg University & Interactive Institute

Gillian Smith, UC Santa Cruz

Jose Zagal, DePaul University

For more information, please visit http://dpg.fdg2012.org

Questions regarding the workshop can be sent to khullettsoe.ucsc.edu