From: Vadim Zaytsev 
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:02:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: SEM 9 Mar 2012, 11:00, L017: Riemer van Rozen
To: SWAT

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to a SEM Colloquium presentation this
week on Friday, at 11:00 (the usual time, usual place). Riemer will
give an overview of his research domain.

   Date: 9 March 2012
   Time: 11:00
   Room: L017 (CWI)
   Speaker: Riemer van Rozen
   Title: Language-Centric Approaches for Game Development
   Abstract: see below

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     Language-Centric Approaches for Game Development

Game production is a multi-disciplinary field, which lacks software
development techniques that enable early quality assurance.
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) can help to increase software quality
early in the game development process, because they are better suited
to the needs of domain experts than the general-purpose languages that
are commonly used.

Although DSLs have been successfully applied to various problem
domains, their application to computer game development has not been
extensively documented. Scientific publications describe the use of
DSLs for games in science and education, but their application in the
game industry and the validation of theoretical results in practice
are scarcely reported.

The EQuA (Early Quality Assurance) project aims to research how the
application of DSLs in the development of computer games can help to
increase software quality and developer productivity. In this talk, we
give an introduction to the project agenda and present the first
findings of a survey on DSLs and other language-centric approaches for
game development. The survey classifies languages, describes problems
to be addressed and relates these to opportunities for future work.
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Yours,
         Vadim.