Philosophy of Computer Games στις 2011-04-06 , 2011-04-07 , 2011-04-08 , 2011-04-09 σύνδεσμος

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5th International interdisciplinary conference on Philosophy of Computer Games
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Program

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

08.00-9.30	Registration
09.30-10.00	Introduction Yannis Scarpelos and Gordon Calleja
10.00	Keynote lecture: The Metaphysics of Avatars and Their Relation to Players Eric Olson
11.00	Invited speaker: Driving Miss Ryan. Telepresence and Diegesis in the Action-Adventure Rune Klevjer Chair: Yannis Scarpelos
12.00	Lunch Break
13.00	Darn it, “I” Keep Dying! The Metaphysical Self in Computer Games Peter Day Chair: Gordon Calleja
13.30	Living Two Lives: Conflicts in Player-Avatar Identities Adam Russell
14.00	Becoming Zerg - The Machinic Embodiment of the Starcraft Player Mark Butler
14.30	Coffee Break
15.00	The Joy of Doing Rikke Toft Norgaard Chair: John Richard Sageng
15.30	Identity and Simulacrum: Thank you Mario, but your Identity is in Another Castle Mario Rubio Mendez and Euridice Cabanes Martinez
16.00	The King of Quake – is there an Avatar in MMOFPS? Nino Tolic and Dijana Magđinski

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

10.00	Keynote lecture: Animals and Avatars: Reflections of a biological naturalist. David Myers
11.00	Break Coffee
11.30	In the Domain of Optional Rules Felan Parker
12.00	What is it Like to be a (Digital) Bat? Stefano Gualeni
12.30	Desire, Enjoyment and Lack: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Computer Games Graham Matthews
13.00	Lunch break
14.00	Re-membering and Dismembering: Memory and the (Re)Creation of Identities in Videogames Souvik Mukherjee
14.30	Spatialised Memory: The Gameworld as ‘Embedded Narrative’ Daniel Vella
15.00	Deconstructing the Time-travelling Identity Samir Passi and Ranjit Singh
15.30	Coffee Break
16.00	“A Man Chooses; A Slave Obeys” – Player Identity and Manipulation in Video Game Narrative Sean Kennedy
16.30	Choice and Player Identity Bryan Suchenski
17.00	Blizzard will Soon Reveal Your Real Name: Identity and Governance in WoW Elina Roinioti
21:30	Official Dinner

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

10.00	Keynote: Players and Avatars: Against Identification Mia Consalvo
11.00	Coffee Break
11.30	(Re-)Positioning the Senses: Perceptions of Space in 3d Gameworlds Alisson Gazzard
12.00	Self-Spatialities of Gaming Experience Angeliki Malakasioti and Spiros Papadopoulos
13.00	Lunch
14.00	What’s Love Got to do with it? Sebastian Möring
14.30	To Be and not to Be, that is the Quest. Ontology of rules and Identity in Computer-based Games Ivan Mosca
15.00	Coffee Break
15.30	Identity and Choice: Rhizomic and Binary Understandings of the Self in VideogamesJuan Belmonte Avila
16.00	Mimkry Offers and Agonal AppealsNiklas Schrape
16.30	Closing session

Hellenic Game Developers Association program

10:00 – 10:35 Henning Ludvigsen & Adamantios Oikonomopoulos
Aventurine SA,
“Designing Monsters for Games”

A presentation about game design, and specifically about monster designing. Designing a monster for a game is not as
simple as it sounds. It is not just about making a monster look big and scary, or adding a terrifying roar to it. The presentation
intends to show how much work and though is put into designing one monster. From all those questions asked before
designing a monster such as ‘why it is needed in the game”, to how it will finally delivered to the players and experienced by
them. It will also try to show how many people and departments are involved into making a monster, and how it effects many
other aspects of a game, from various combat mechanics to aesthetic designing decisions.

The presentation of designing monsters will be made with two parallel examples. One of a difficult end-game monster
(Ragaizan), and one of a mid-game family group of monsters (the Arthain), both of which will soon be implemented in
a future expansion of the mmorpg game “Darkfall”.

The presentation will be divided in chapters that will cover all the stages of the creation of a monster for a game.

10:35 – 11:10 Petros Ioannis
“Shadow Descent”

11:10 – 11:25 Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:00 Dimitrios Bendilas, Software Engineer/Game Designer , Total Eclipse,
“Designing good logic puzzles: From concept to play”

This is a game design presentation of interest to game designers, programmers, and interface designers who want to create engaging logic puzzles. The presentation analyzes all aspects of designing good puzzles that provide a great experience for the player and a manageable asset for the game developer. Various examples of puzzles designed for The Clockwork Man 1 & 2 are shown and evaluated, explaining both good and bad attributes. The following topics will be discussed:

Introduction to logic puzzles – What is considered a logic puzzle; examples of various implementations.

Core aspects – What a puzzle consists of; key components.
Conceptualizing an idea – Where to seek inspiration and how to create basic mock ups.
Puzzle mechanics: Identifying game play parameters – The relationship between math, logic and puzzles. What the
player can affect, system complexity, player freedom and restrictions.
Interface mechanics and usability – What the player sees, user interface controls, visual & other feedback.
Innovation – Creating unique and fresh experiences.
Contextual puzzle design – What makes a puzzle contextual and part of the overall game experience.
Prototyping – Tools to help you create puzzle prototypes.
Balancing – How to make a puzzle challenging and fun. Difficulty, game length, number of solutions.
Localization issues – Language elements in puzzles and the issues of localization.

12:00 – 12:35 Kostas Anagnostou, Game Developer/Adjunct Lecturer at the Ionian University,
Rotten Fish Games
“Data-driven game development:Empowering the Artist

In this presentation we discuss the need to decouple game code and game data in current games. Viewing games as
data-independent, data-processing systems can empower the designer and artist to easily add new content and to
experiment and fine-tune the game mechanics potentially leading to better and more expandable games. To put the
discussion into context we present the way we have structured the data-driven system in Space Debris and the flexibility it
provided during level design.

12:35 – 12:50 Break

12:50 – 13:25 Evaggelos Georgiou, Music and Game Audio Producer,
“Introduction to the music for video games”

13:25 – 14:00 Anestis Kokkinidis & Marina Kokkinidou (Ph.D. in Philology), Anima-ppd Interactive
“Being Nick Delios or The creation of the FMV adventure games Conspiracies & Conspiracies II”

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 – 15:35 Tasos Flambouras, Vice president of Aventurine,
“Social Gaming”

15:35 – 16:10 Kostas Diamantis,3D Artist,
“The illusion of detail in video-games”

How to create details in an object inside Zbrush, then extract it to 3D Studio Max as low polygon geometry, with a texture that keeps that high level detail for usage in computer games.

16:10 – 16:30 Break

16:30 – 18:30 HGDA panel

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Program

Hellenic Game Developers Association program

10:00 – 10:35 Henning Ludvigsen & Adamantios Oikonomopoulos Aventurine SA, “Designing Monsters for Games”

The presentation of designing monsters will be made with two parallel examples. One of a difficult end-game monster (Ragaizan), and one of a mid-game family group of monsters (the Arthain), both of which will soon be implemented in a future expansion of the mmorpg game “Darkfall”.

The presentation will be divided in chapters that will cover all the stages of the creation of a monster for a game.

10:35 – 11:10 Petros Ioannis “Shadow Descent”

11:10 – 11:25 Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:00 Dimitrios Bendilas, Software Engineer/Game Designer , Total Eclipse, “Designing good logic puzzles: From concept to play”

Introduction to logic puzzles – What is considered a logic puzzle; examples of various implementations.

Core aspects – What a puzzle consists of; key components.

Conceptualizing an idea – Where to seek inspiration and how to create basic mock ups.

Puzzle mechanics: Identifying game play parameters – The relationship between math, logic and puzzles. What the player can affect, system complexity, player freedom and restrictions.

Interface mechanics and usability – What the player sees, user interface controls, visual & other feedback.

Innovation – Creating unique and fresh experiences.

Contextual puzzle design – What makes a puzzle contextual and part of the overall game experience.

Prototyping – Tools to help you create puzzle prototypes.

Balancing – How to make a puzzle challenging and fun. Difficulty, game length, number of solutions.

Localization issues – Language elements in puzzles and the issues of localization.

12:00 – 12:35 Kostas Anagnostou, Game Developer/Adjunct Lecturer at the Ionian University, Rotten Fish Games “Data-driven game development:Empowering the Artist