Aims and scope

Journal of Games and Animation is an international refereed journal publishes quarterly online open access by KMF that covers all aspects of video game creation, implementation, testing and deployment as well as education. Video games continue to open new frontiers in entertainment as well as more serious computing. The academic and industrial interest in the design, development, and education of video games has been witnessing an ever-increasing growth and this trend is expected to continue. The aim of this journal is to bring out the latest developments in all aspects of video game development and education in a timely manner. Original, previously-unpublished research, development, and review articles are solicited on the following topics including but not limited to:
 Game design (scripts, arts & crafts, gameplay, animation, motion capture, interface)
 Game engine (architecture, algorithms, and other implementation issues)
 Physics based modeling in a video game
 Optimization issues in a video game
 Testing and testability issues in video game development
 Software engineering issues in video game development
 Learning and adaptability issues in a video game
 Serious games (creation, deployment, and usage for training)
 Education and curriculum issues related to video game
 Impact of video game on well-being of society as well as adverse effects
 All aspects of entertainment computing and edutainment

KMF Publication Ethics Statement

Journal of Games and Animation is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. KMF takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. KMF takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use latest software to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal’s News & Announcements section.

Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Journal of Games and Animation will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Law. The copyright is retained by the author(s). KMF will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

© 2020 by the authors; licensee KMF. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Law.

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