Developing a New Major

board & card game cons

• Ubercon (the ultimate gaming experience) – they have card games, board games, LAN games, console games, LARP, RPG, miniatures – URL: http://www.ubercon.com – sponsored by popcap games too, held in Edison, NJ – 4/25-27/08 – the conference hotel sold out
• GameDays – URL: http://gamedays.gamesclubofmd.org/- open gameplay, game masters available to teach games, held in Timonium, MD, 5/1-4/08, registration fee
• World Boardgaming Championships – URL: http://www.boardgamers.org/ – 8/5-10/08 in Lancaster, PA, seminars, gameplay – looks good, about 100 milesfrom WilkesBarre
• ConnectiCon – URL: http://www.connecticon.org/index.php?menu=Registration– In Hartford, CT in late July or early August, games, webcomics, anime
• MEPACon – URL: http://www.mepacon.com/ – in Scranton,PA – has 2 cons a year, fall and spring (early april), lots of rpg stuff

Videogame conferences

• MMOG-Fest 08, Multiplayer Online Games 2 Day conference, With a focus on oth the Player and the Technology, 5-6th June 2008, Staffordshire University, UK, http://www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/mmog-fest08/
• Augmented Reality and Human Computer Interface (ARHCHI 08) 2 Jan 2008. Ben-Gurion, Israel. http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Efrankel/ARHCI2008/index.html
• Virtual Worlds, Real People 15 Jan 2008. Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Israel. http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/schools/Communications/research/Virtuality/Pages/Events.aspx
• GDC 18-22 Feb 2008. San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.gdconf.com/
• IGDA Education Summit. 18-19 Feb 2008. San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.gdconf.com/conference/edusig.htm
• The Nordic Conference of Serious Games 28-29 Feb 200. Jyvaskyla, Finland. http://ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/nsg-conference/
• Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE’08) 28 Feb – 3 Mar 2008. Miami, FL, USA. https://www.msadgd08.net/main.aspx
• Mind the Games 2008 DIGRA Israel 1 March 2008. Rannana, Israel. http://www.digra-il.org/event-mindthegames
• The Future of Interactive Technology for Peace 2-3 April 2008. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. http://www.etc.cmu.edu/peace2008/
• GAMEON-Asia May 2008. Shiga, Japan. http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/71
  The Philosophy of Computer Games 8-10 May 2008. Potsdam, Germany. http://emw.fh-potsdam.de/users/gamephilosophy/
• ION Conference Seattle, May 13-15, http://www.ionconference.com/agenda.php
• Play Conference 23-24 May 2008. Edinburgh, UK. http://forum.llc.ed.ac.uk/play/
  Canadian Game Studies Association Conference 31 May 2008. Vancouver, Canada. http://contagion.edu.yorku.ca:16080/cgsa/events.php
• June 10-11 SMU Campus-Dallas http://www.gameeducationsummit.com
• Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer Conference 7 Jun 2008. Bedford, UK. http://www.bedfordshire.ac.uk/research/rimad/underthemask
• Social Gaming Summit, San Francisco, CA, 6/13/08, http://www.socialgamingsummit.com/
• Edutainment 25-27 Jun 2008. Nanjing, China. http://edutainment2008.eegame.cn/
• Games:EDU 08 South:, July 29th, Brighton, UK, http://www.gamesedu.co.uk, North took place in Manchester earlier in the year
• Future and Reality Gaming (F.R.O.G) 17-19 Oct 2008. Vienna, Austria. http://www.bupp.at/frog
• Sandbox 4-7 Aug 2008. Los Angeles, CA, USA. http://sandbox.siggraph.org/
• GAMEON-NA 13-15 Aug 2008. Montreal, Canada. http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/556
• Digital Interactive Arts and Media (DIMEA) 10-12 Sep 2008. Athens, Greece. http://www.dimea2008.org/
• Women in Games 10-12 Sep 2008. Warwick, UK. http://www.womeningames.com/
• Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG’08) 16 Sep 2008. Amsterdam, Netherlands http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ECAG08
• International Conference on Entertainment Computing 25-27 Sep 2008. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. http://www.etc.cmu.edu/icec2008/
• Mindtrek 8-9 Oct 2008. Tampere, Finland. http://www.mindtrek.org/
• Meaningful Play 9-11 Oct 2008. East Lansing, MI, USA. http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/
• Netgames 2008, the seventh annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, in cooperation with ACM (SIGMM and SIGCOMM).
  (http://netgames2008.cs.wpi.edu/, October 21-22, 2008)
• Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 22-24 Oct 2008. Stanford, CA, USA. http://www.aiide.org/
• Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP08) Nov 2008. Queensland, Australia http://www.gameconnectap.com/
• FuturePlay 3-5 Nov 2008. Toronto, Canada. http://www.futureplay.org/
• IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, 17-19 Nov 2008. Banff, Canada. http://www.ask4research.info/digitel/2008/
• Living in Game Worlds 1-2 Dec 2008. Atlanta, GA, USA. http://gameworlds.gatech.edu/
• Interactive Entertainment (IE2008) 3-5 Dec 2008. Brisbane, Australia. http://ieconference.org/ie2008/
• OZCHI: Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference 8-12 Dec 2008. Cairns, Australia. http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_2008
• DIGRA2009. http://www.digra.org/digra_conference

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