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FROG 2021 takes place virtually via Zoom. The Zoom access link will be sent to all registered participants the day before the conference. Register here.
Click on the authors’ names to read the abstracts in our “Blog of Abstracts”.
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| 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 | ||
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| 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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