IEEE CHILECON 2025 Video games Track
28-30 October 2025
Valparaíso, Chile

IEEE CHILECON 2025 will be held in Valparaíso, Chile, from 27 to 31/October. The IEEE CHILECON conference is celebrating 50 years of research and innovation (IEEE CHILECON 2025, chilecon2025.pucv.cl/), and promotes the advancement and exchange of knowledge and experiences to foster discussion of problems and establish cooperative ties across all areas of academic, professional, and student knowledge. It brings together professionals whose technical interests are related to electrical and computer science, engineering, and related disciplines, promoting cooperation and friendship. This year, IEEE CHILECON will be co-located with CLEI (Latin American Center for Informatics Studies) and SCCC (annual International Conference of the Chilean Computer Society). In this edition, a key space for discovering innovations in the video game industry is the CHILECON 2025 Video Game Track, held in conjunction with the TZEPIRC Workshop: Fostering Cooperation between Academia and Industry in Video Games.

The Video games track of the IEEE CHILECON 2025 invites submissions of papers that thoroughly present innovative theoretical and/or practical findings that enhance the state of the art, as well as applications and case studies in the field of video games and gamification..

** TRACK THEMES
The IEEE CHILECON 2025 Videogames track invites submission of papers, with
scientific-technical rigor, that address open problems by illustrating
the conceptualization, design, construction, evaluation or application
of techniques, methods, tools or systems.
Key topics include (but not limited to):
* Artificial intelligence and videogames.
* LLM and videogames.
* Video game design and development
* Gamification in education, health and other sectors
* Virtual and augmented reality in game experiences
* Narrative and storytelling in videogames
* Video game industry and market
* Ethics and social responsibility in videogames
* Technical and performance aspects in videogames

** SUBMISSION FORMATS
IEEE CHILECON 2025 will accept three submission formats:
(1) Full papers: up to 10 pages, reporting completed or consolidated
work; in particular, this type of work must include some kind of validation.
(2) Short papers: 3-5 pages long, either (1) a report of work in
progress or preliminary results, or (2) a position paper on new areas or
perspectives of disciplinary work.
(3) "Journal first”: articles already published, in 2023 or 2024, in a
Scopus- or WoS-indexed journal, with topics relevant to CLEI 2025.


** PUBLICATION AND INDEXING
IEEE CHILECON 2025 Proceedings will be published by IEEE, and will appear in the
IEEE Xplore Digital Library (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/), which is
normally indexed by Scopus.
* Full and short articles: for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings,
each accepted article must: (1) have at least one of its authors
registered as an author at the conference; (2) be presented in person at
the conference; (3) respect the suggested format and maximum number of
pages; (4) incorporate the evaluators' recommendations for improvement.
* Articles "Journal First": will be included in the conference program
and cited in the chairs summary, but not included in the proceedings,
respecting the copyright policies of the journal where it was published.

Presentation of Articles: accepted articles will be presented in
thematic sessions, consisting of 15-minute oral presentation for each
article, plus a panel of 15-20 minutes for questions and discussion on them.


** PAPER SUBMISSION AND SELECTION
* Submission: Papers must be sent via EasyChair
(www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cleijccchilecon2025), indicating
the Software Systems track.
* Language: Papers must be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
* Format: (1) Full and short articles must be in PDF, using the IEEE
conference format
(www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html);
(2) Journal First submissions must include an abstract indicating (i)
DOI, (ii) journal where the article was published, and (iii) its impact
factor and quartile.
* Integrity: Authors of full and short articles must accept the CLEI
Code of Conduct for Authors
(www.clei.org/codigo-de-conducta-para-los-autores/). In particular,
these articles must not have already been published or be under review
in any other national or international conference or journal (but may
have been published as a preprint in an open repository).

* Review: Each submission will be reviewed anonymously ("single-blind
review") by at least three members of the Program Committee, in
accordance with the CLEI Code of Conduct for Reviewers
(www.clei.org/codigo-de-conducta-de-los-revisores/).


** AWARDS FOR BEST ARTICLES AND SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATION
* Best Article: The Program Committee will select one article in the
track as Best Paper.
* Extended versions: The Program Committee will recommend several
articles for publication in one of the journals associated with the
event, in which case the authors must submit an improved and extended
version (in English) and that will have a new evaluation process,
specific to the journal.
* Journals associated with the conference: The journals associated with
the event are:
- CLEI Electronic Journal (open access, free, indexed by Scopus,
LATINDEX, DOAJ, DBLP, etc) (www.clei.org/cleiej)
(Additional journals in the works.)


** ORGANIZATION

* Track Chairs
- Lorena Martinez Elizalde
- Mario Bruno


A workshop will be held:

TZEPIRC: Promoting cooperation between academia and industry in video games.
Carlos Astengo, Lorena Martinez, Daniel Lopez
TEC Mexico

Description:
The objective is to introduce participants to the TZEPIRC methodology, a structured approach to writing argumentative texts as scientific articles in the field of video games. The essential elements of the methodology are the Title (T), Problem (P), Approach (E), Purpose (P), Information (I), and Conclusions (C).
Furthermore, the workshop will highlight how this methodology promotes collaboration to address complex challenges at the intersection of technology and creativity, within the framework of REDIVJ (International Network on Video Game Development and Production) and the IEEE Task Force on Gamification Research and Education.

Target Audience:
*Undergraduate and graduate students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and humanities fields.
* Early-career researchers seeking to improve their academic reading of scientific articles and their writing skills.
* Educators, practitioners, and game developers interested in improving argumentative writing and fostering deeper collaboration between academia and industry.