FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

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FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming 2021

15^th Vienna Games Conference
November, 26^th & 27^th 2021

Location: online, via Zoom

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. This year the conference addresses “The Magic of Games” in its many forms and invites game scholars and creators from around the globe to discuss the ways in which their work is infused by a kind of magic.

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Hashtag for the conference: #FROG2021

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FROG Week

Monday, 22^nd – 25^th, November 2021

During the FROG Week from November 22rd to 25th, expert talks and workshops for the target groups students, parents and educators will take place. The FROG Week will be held in German language.

More details and registration

Please note that all times are in CEST (UTC+1).

FROG 2021 takes place virtually via Zoom. The Zoom access link will be sent to all registered participants the day before the conference. Registration is open until Nov 24th.

Click on the authors’ names to read the abstracts in our “Blog of Abstracts”.

Friday, 26 November 2021
13:45	Welcome FROG \| Day 1
I: REPRESENTATION OF MAGIC IN GAMES
14:00	Doris C. Rusch / Andrew M. Phelps	Uppsala University	The Magic of The Witch’s Way
14:25	Sarah Lynne Bowman	Uppsala University	Liminal Intimacy: Role-playing Games as Catalysts for Interpersonal Growth and Relating
14:50	Mario Donick	ueberstrom.net	Doing Magic for a Living: About the "Mages Guild" in The Elder Scrolls as Professional Organization
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15:30	Sonja Gabriel	KPH Wien/Krems	The magic of serious games for learning
15:55	Hossein Mohammadzade	Independent Researcher	Revisiting Schools in Magic Gameworlds: Political Magic Representing Politicized Science
16:20	Miłosz Markocki	Independent Researcher	Magical and Magic Identities in Games
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17:00	Angshuman Dutta	Jadavpur University	Designing Space: Outer Wilds and its non-linear immersion
17:25	Damiano Gerli	Freelance journalist and gaming historian	Xyzzy - the magic word that changed everything
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18:00	Katarzyna Marak	Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun	Magic as Mechanics and Narrative in Independent Horror Games
18:25	Pascal Marc Wagner	Goethe-Institut München, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” – How Semantics Produces Science from Spellcasting
18:50	Closing Day 1
19:00 - 21:00	Socializing & Exchange: FROG ONLINE LOUNGES remain open
Saturday, 27 November 2021
10:00	Welcome FROG \| Day 2
II: THE MAGIC OF IMMERSION IN GAMES
10:10	Christin Reisenhofer	University of Vienna	"But without games it would have been somehow even grayer”. About computer games, adolescents, and the question of opportunities for magic in the corona crisis.
10:35	Markus Meschik	Universität Graz	"And for my next trick, I'll make your wallet disappear!" Adolescents' use and perception of "free-to-play" games in Austria
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11:15	Mark R Johnson	University of Sydney	Procedural Content Generation and Game World Immersion
11:40	Aviv Heilweil	Shenkar College of Engineering and Design	Killem all. A unique VR experience
12:05	Ivo Antunic	Danube University Krems	Playerism - A broken Magic Circle, when the whole world is a game.
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III: MAGIC OF CREATING THROUGH GAMES
13:30	Alexis Ibarra Ibarra	Erasmus Mundus Media Arts Cultures Programme (Donau Universität Krems, Aalborg University, University of Lodz, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore)	The Magic of Videogame Art Curation: Remediating Videogames to Physical Exhibitions
13:55	Clio Montrey	Independent Researcher	Building Fantasy Worlds Through Music
14:20	Alesha Serada	University of Vaasa	Each Monster Has Its Own Voice: Creativity, Alienation and My Singing Monsters
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15:00	Alexander K. Seewald	Seewald Solutions	Ten Years of Magic Mirror: I and My Avatar
15:25	Tamer Aslan	City Games Vienna	Blurring the Borders of Magic Circle: Urban Games as a Method for Fusing Game Worlds with the Real World
15:50	Frank Pourvoyeur	Danube University Krems	Intention based random number generator in games
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IV: MAGIC CIRCLES IN GAMES STUDIES
16:15	Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin	Université du Québec à Montréal	The Survival of Huizinga’s “Magic Circle”
16:40	Benjamin Hanussek	Klagenfurt Critical Game Lab, Alpen-Adria University	Dis/enchanted by Moral Complexity: The Magic of Moral Engagement in Videogames
17:05	Jeremiah Diephuis	Playful Interactive Environments, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus	Co-located Game Design and the Cauldron of Emergence
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17:40	Jonas Linderoth	University of Gothenburg	Don’t break the circle - The ”evil" design of the ball game Four square
18:05	Tobias Unterhuber	University of Innsbruck	A magic dwells in each beginning? – Game Studies, its rhetoric rituals and mythos of being a young field
18:30	Closing of the Conference Socializing & Exchange: FROG ONLINE LOUNGES remain open.

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