Designing & Studying Games that Matter
Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more "serious" purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players' beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior.
Meaningful Play is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.
The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes.
The conference is primarily for:
The three primary themes of the conference are:
The first theme includes an examination of games (of all types) from primarily an academic research perspective.
The second theme focuses on much more practical knowledge from the front-line of actual design, development, and use of games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality experiences for meaningful purposes.
The third theme is focuses the use of games for learning and education, as well as the teaching of game making and game studies within academia.
Meaningful Play 2024 is taking place October 16-18, 2024 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. It will be hosted by the Center for Transformational Play at CMU.
View details on previous Meaningful Play conferences.
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