ABWFA Gaming 2010

Playing is a fundamental tool of learning as children and as adults, playing takes on a different role known as gaming. Video games have been around since the 1970′s beginning with systems such as Odyssey and Atari, but have expanded into colorful and realistic gaming systems such as Playstation, Nintendo, and XBox360. Gaming allows us to step outside of our daily lives and discover new worlds as characters that we choose and develop.

This 1st Global Forum Session on Gaming is an open dialogue forum where the greatest minds of our times come together to discuss topics of interest. Please choose one of the topics below to base your abstract and subsequent full length (8-10) page paper. You may wish to choose a topic of your own that compliments any of these.

1. The History of Video Games 2. Role Playing Games 3. Technological Advancements in Gaming 4. Gaming System Comparisons 5. Gaming Engines 6. Games to Movies and Vice Versa 7. Open Sandbox Games 8. The Future of Games and Gaming 9. Board Game Popularity 10. Gaming and Media

Call For Papers Deadline: August 1, 2010 Read through the material and use the booking FORM link below. You may pay for your forum disussion participation before you submit your abstract. Once paid, you will be sent a link to which to send your abstract. Please send an email to us at abetterworldforall2010@yahoo.com for additional questions or comments. This is also the address for which to send your abstract once completed.

Use this FORM to book your participation in the forum and submit your abstract. Your abstract should be about 300 words in length and give the overall feel for your full-length paper that will be submitted. For more information on this procedure, see our RTP Goals page.

Once your abstract and payment is received, your abstract will be published on this website under the corresponding session page. You will receive confirmation of the receipt of your abstract.

Upon the deadline, all abstract posts will close for new entries and the next deadline becomes due. This is for the presentation of your 8-10 page paper based on your abstract. This is the paper that will become a part of the full-length eBook which contains all papers from all participants.

Next, you will be expected to provide a discussion on at least one of the other papers that is presented in the forum by the next deadline. Don’t worry, we’ll help you keep track of all of this by sending you an email that the deadline is approaching.

Lastly, we will send you the evidentuary package that includes transcripts from forum discussions, a copy of your paid invoice, and a copy of the eBook. These eBooks will be available for download for the public on this site as well, but as a participant, your copy will be free of charge. Within this evidentuary package you will be also asked to participate in the production of a hard copy version of this forum proceeding. You will need to supply an expanded version of your 8-10 page paper that is 16-24 pages in length.

Download Abstract Guidelines (.pdf)

Download Booking Form (interactive .pdf form file)