14th Vienna Games Conference
Online, the Internet
Saturday, 21st November & Sunday, 22nd November 2020
The international conference brings together scholars, players, students, game designers, game developers, educators and experts from various disciplines to discuss the Future and Reality of Gaming. Due to the current Covid-19 situation and the cancellation of “GAME CITY Vienna”, the FROG will take place in the virtual space (online via Zoom).
This year’s FROG is will specifically address the following key challenges facing our society:
- Game, Play and Identity (Importance and challenges of games and play for the LGBT community / Gender and diversity related question on games and play / identification and identity transfer | etc.)
- Game and Play in Times of a Crisis (What impact do crises have on players? What does this mean for the Triple-A Industry? How do Indy developers deal with crises? | etc.)
- Game! Crime? (Fraud with microtransactions / illegal sale of in-game items / cyber-grooming via games / sexting within game chats / youth protection |etc.)
- Game, Play and Politics (Representation of history in games / conveying political messages through games / influence by politics on the games industry |etc.)
The call for speakers and the call for contributions to the planned anthology “A ludic society” (working title) is now open!
Call for Abstracts | Download
Abstract submission
Submission deadline: October 31, 2020
