Registration is now open from January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2013 or when all spots are full.  Before you register for THATCamp Epic Play 2013, please note:

• The date and location of the event: University of Washington at Seattle on Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25.
• We can accommodate no more than 70 people. We encourage you to register as soon as possible, but please do not register unless you know for sure that you are able to participate.
• To attend, you need to complete and submit a brief registration application.  Once you’re accepted, you will receive a message confirming your registration.  If you decide that you can no longer attend, please let us know so we may give the seat to another participant.
• We will email acceptances to participants as soon as possible (definitely by the end of March).
• To keep up with THATCamp Epic Play news, you might want to follow @critgame and the #thatcamp hashtag on Twitter.

To register, please email , with subject line “REGISTRATION <Your Name>,” the following information and material:

• Name:
• E-mail:
• Website:
• Twitter handle:
• Job title/Position:
• Organization:
• Bio (less than 300 words):

Please answer each in just a few sentences (no more than a paragraph):

• Why do you want to attend THATCamp Epic Play?
• Are there any specific games, game experiences, or aspects of gaming that you want to discuss?
• Have you attended a THATCamp before and how can we make THATCamp both accessible and worth your time?

Please also indicate your privacy preference:

• ___ I agree that the information provided may be published to the open web on the THATCamp Epic Play website.
• ___ I would like my information to remain private.

THATCamp Epic Play is an unconference and year-end colloquium hosted by the Keywords for Video Game Studies graduate interest group.  THATCamp Epic Play invites digital humanists, game scholars, teachers, artists, librarians, students, designers, developers, and enthusiasts to participate in roundtable discussions; lightning presentations of individual and collaborative work; research, scholarship, and pedagogy on games of all sorts; and of course, play.  Building on previous years’ colloquia, this year’s THATCamp, broadly themed by the keyword “EPIC,” is the capstone event to a year-long series of workshop sessions on violence, history, fantasy, bodies/sex, and close/distant.  THATCamp Epic Play hopes to foster the growing engagement with what it means to study or make or play games.

THATCamp Epic Play will be hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at University of Washington in Seattle on May 24 & 25, 2013.

For more information, if you’d like to help plan THATCamp Epic Play, or if you would like to lead a workshop, contact thatcampepicplay(at)gmail(doc)com.

For announcements, follow us on Twitter: @critgame

There is no registration fee for THATCamp Epic Play but you must be registered to attend.  We will begin accepting registration applications on January 1, 2013.  Applications will be accepted until January 31, 2013 or until all spots are full.

The Keywords for Video Game Studies working group, in collaboration with the Critical Gaming Project at the University of Washington, is supported by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.  For more information about the Keywords group, go to: depts.washington.edu/critgame/wordpress/keywords/

There’s a new THATCamp being planned! The details will be published here when known. Meanwhile, read more about the THATCamp movement and browse other THATCamps at thatcamp.org.