Future Game On (FGO) is a new professional European event aiming to showcase the largest number of the latest innovations in the video game sector!

FGO will be held September 9 – 10, 2010 preceding the Paris Game Festival in Pavilion 7 of the Paris Exposition Center

Introduction – Future Game
Future Game On – FGO is a series of conferences that will present the highest quality technical and scientific papers and addressing a mixed audience from industry and academia. The event will highlight the state of the art of European video game research and will be an opportunity for major video game actors to present their latest innovations in different fields.
After the event, a scientific journal will regroup the FGO conference proceedings; it will be published in partnership with ACM SIGGRAPH. This journal will be a way to share a synthesis of our regions’ advance in digital content research.
FGO 2010 is co-organized by the business clusters Cap Digital and Imaginove in collaboration with Capital Games and with the cooperation of ACM SIGGRAPH.

Paper Submissions
• Deadline
Papers must be submitted between May 19th and June 22nd, 2010 at 11:59pm (Central European Time) at the latest, on the FGO website: www.futuregameon.com.  We strongly recommend you do not wait till the last minute. A template is available online.
June 22nd: deadline for submissions.
July 6th / 7th: Committee meets
July 10th: Decisions announced
July 15th:  temporary program of FGO ’10 online
July 31st: final versions deadline
Aug 1st: final program of FGO ’10 online 

• Speakers
Anyone whose research addresses innovation in video games may submit one or several papers. Future Game On must become the meeting point for innovation in academic and industrial sectors. With the audience and the speakers, these worlds will be brought together in order to promote video-entertainment innovation on a European professional level.

• Format
Paper submissions must include all of the criteria listed below. Incomplete proposals will not be considered. Applications must be filled out in French or in English. To that effect, two templates are available online (www.futuregameon.com), and should be used for submissions. Be sure you familiarize yourself with the expected contents.

Domains
This list is not exhaustive.

• Hyper-reality: Real-time rendering engines, emotional rendering, sound, animation, relief, etc.
• Interactivity / Human-Computer Interaction
• Programming / Multiprocessors / Indexation / Interoperability
• Artificial Intelligence / Automatic Generation
• Game design
• Team management, production
• Innovative middleware
• Games of the future

Paper selection
The papers will be evaluated by a technical papers committee of video game professional and academic experts. The experts will be selected by the FGO organizers, taking into account their experience and their knowledge of the sector.
The final result of the call will be communicated July 10th.

Quality Criteria
The jury will be particularly attentive to the innovative aspect of the research, to the resolution of technological or scientific problems depending on the domain, to implications, in terms of direct application to industry, to taking into account of the current state of the art, and to the quality of experience feedbacks.

Commitment
Candidates will be notified July 10th of the decision made regarding their submissions. If your submission was conditionally approved, you will be assigned a referee and possible required changes. Anyhow, all changes must be approved by your referee. You may bring further modifications to your final paper, although their approval is not guaranteed.

Upon submitting, speakers guarantee that they will present their paper at FGO 2010 if their submission is approved. They will be given a free two-day pass for FGO 2010, but all other costs are not covered by FGO.

If their papers are approved, submitters also authorize their publication and communication within ACM SIGGRAPH community or elsewhere, as long as its content remains unmodified.
If the submission contains contents that the submitter did not personally create, its sources must be acknowledged within the submission. Speakers should be the authors of the majority of the content of their submitted papers.

Further Information
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact:
Richard Duport
Tel: +33 (0) 1.40.41.11.60
Email: richard.duport@capdigital.com