Chania, Crete, Greece. FDG 2013, the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay, and game design. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational uses, and modes of play. For more information, see the Call for papers and participation.

FDG 2017 is organized in-cooperation with ACM SIGAI. The goal of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games.

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We Make Things That Make Things. We write software to be independently creative and produce thought-provoking and entertaining artefacts. We study videogames as important art forms for the 21st century, and game design as a major creative activity. We take procedural content generation to the next level, by getting software to produce entire videogames. We build tools to enable designers of all abilities to quickly and easily make enjoyable videogames. Game design is an imp.