Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:55:16 +0200
Subject: 25 October 2012, 11:00, L017: Engineering Tools for Game Design
 (Joris Dormans)
From: Vadim Zaytsev
To: PEM
Cc: Joris Dormans, Riemer van Rozen

Dear environmentalists,

Let me kindly remind you that there will be no PEM/SEM this week.

Due to the fact that many SWAT members participate in ICT Open and/or
ICT Delta, the PEM Colloquium presentation of the next week will
happen on Thursday (contrary to the usual Friday and also contrary to
previously announced Monday!). I apologise for any confusion I might
have caused you. The final date is the 25th of October, which can be
found in this email, on the PEM website and on the "stiki" by L225.


 Date: 25 October 2012 (Thursday!)
 Time: 11:00-12:00
 Room: L017
 Speaker: Joris Dormans (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
 Title: Engineering Tools for Game Design
 Abstract: see below

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            Engineering Tools for Game Design

Game design is a young field that is maturing fast. The increasingly
frequent application of formal methods and tools is one sign of this
development. However, the multidisciplinary and creative nature of
game development, and the dynamic nature of the games themselves pose
a number of challenges to the advancement of formal methods for game
design. Gameplay is the key to successful games, but is also an
elusive emergent property of game rules. This makes the task of the
game design inherently paradoxical.

In this lecture Joris Dormans will discuss the game design methods he
developed as part of his PhD thesis. Dormans will discuss how model
driven engineering seems to be a suitable conceptual framework to
advance the field further and demonstrate the Machinations design tool
he developed to support his research and features prominently in the
book “Game Mechanics” he recently co-authored with game design veteran
Ernest Adams.
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Yours,
     Vadim.