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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The article is an original work, and he/she is the author or co-author of the material. The sender of the article is authorized and has the right to represent his co-authors.
  • The necessary parts taken are properly referenced, and all references used are listed in the article, and therefore he/she is not in conflict with plagiarism. Full Internet addresses (URLs) for links are provided.
  • This material has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted for review and publication in another journal (or an explanation is given in the Comments for the editor).
  • The file with the material is presented in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF document format.
  • The text is typed according to the magazine template; the font is Times New Roman, 10 kegel; italics are used for highlighting, not underscores (except for URLs); all illustrations, graphs and tables are located in the appropriate places in the text, not at the end of the document.
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in The Guide for authors, which can be found on the "About the journal" page.

Author Guidelines

The manuscripts for the «Gamedev and Creative Industries» magazine are accepted only in electronic form. The authors are invited to prepare the manuscript using a Microsoft Word template in English or Russian. For quick access of readers to accepted manuscripts, they are published in the form in which they were submitted, so it is important to adhere to the provided templates. Please note that manuscripts that do not match the required format are automatically rejected. Only a pdf file of the manuscript is required for reviewing. After accepting the article, the authors are invited to send the final version of the article along with the source files (doc files).

The length of a full article is usually 6-8 pages. Letters about inventions, achievements, and innovations should be short, accurate, and contain basic information about the problem under consideration, and should not exceed 4 pages.

For articles in Russian, you must add the last page with the title, authors, keywords and an abstract (180-200 words) in English.

Download the article template in Word format.

Research

Research section: the main scientific articles on game design, technology and aesthetics.

Industrial reviews

The «Industrial Reviews» section includes articles by development teams, innovation reports, and studies of monetization models and user experience.

Cultural aspects

Section «Cultural aspects»: reviews of trends in creative industries, transmedia research, social effects of gaming platforms.

Points section

Section «Points of intersection»: interdisciplinary projects where games meet with education, healthcare, and other fields.

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