FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

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See you at FROG 2023!

FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming 2022

“Freedom | Oppression | Games & Play”

16^th Vienna Games Conference
University of Krems | hybrid event

25.11.2022 | FROG Workshops (on-site only)
26 & 27.11.2022 | FROG Conference (hybrid)

The annual 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 we invite the FROG community for the first time to the University of Krems, where the FROG 2022 conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participation remotely or on-site.

Location:
University for Continuing Education Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, Austria
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Hashtag for the conference: #FROG2022

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Thank you for joining FROG 2022! You find all talks in our YouTube Playlist. Enjoy! 🙂

See you at FROG 2023!

25.11.2022 | 13:00 – 17:30 | FROG Workshops (on-site only)
26 & 11.2022 | 09:30 – 18:30 | FROG Conference (hybrid)

Location: University for Continuing Education Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, Austria

Please note that all times are in UTC+1/CEST! (Austrian Time)

Food and drinks will be provided for all registered participants.
Please register here for free.

The programme is subject to change. Please check again shortly before the conference.

Friday, 25 November 2022
13:00-13:30	Registration & Welcome Room: SE 2.6, Campus Krems, Tract I, 2nd Floor
13:30-17:30	FROG Workshop 1: "Spiel Macht Politik" Alexander Preisinger Room: SE 2.6 (on-site only) This workshop is aimed primarily at educators and is dedicated to teaching politics in, with, through and about games. More Details Please note, that this workshop is held in German language.	FROG Workshop 2: "Cultural Mediation through Play & Games" Nicole High-Steskal & Natalie Denk Room: SE 3.6 (on-site only) In this workshop we will focus on play-based approaches in the field of art and culture. After an introductory lecture we will explore the old town of Stein with a guided tour and engage in a lively discussion about cultural mediation & game design. More Details
END OF FRIDAY'S PROGRAM

Saturday, 26 November 2022
	TRACK 1: Talks on-site (+ streamed online) Room: Audimax	TRACK 2: Talks online (+ streamed on-site) Room: SE 2.6, Tract I, 2nd Floor
9:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-10:30	Welcome Notes
10:30-11:30	Keynote \| Harald Koberg (Austria): For Play’s Sake: What makes us play and how we can fight it
11:30-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Rudolf Inderst (Germany): A certain kind of "freedom" - the in-between-state of Game Studies in Germany	Fiona Schönberg (Germany): All Work and No Play - The Narrative Potential of Formal Gameplay Elements and Economic Alienation in Neo Cab
12:15-12:45	Ralph J. Moeller (Austria): Divergence: Incoherences in Transmedia Storytelling - The Gamer's Perspective	Hossein Mohammadzade (Iran): Democracy or “Tyranny by Morons”? Oppression Through Exploiting the Undereducated
12:45-13:45	Lunch Break
13:45-14:15		Nikita Stulikov (Russia): Is there a rise of totalitarian propaganda in Russian game culture?
14:15-14:45	Nils Bühler (Germany): Game Regulation Between Oppressing and Facilitating Freedom	Katrina HB Keefer (Canada): Freedom and Slavery: Navigating Player Experiences in the 18th century Sierra Leone Estuary
14:45-15:15	Ivo Antunic (Austria): Gambling for Freedom -How Casinos have empowered Native American tribes	Samuel Poirier-Poulin (Canada): Trust, Confidence, and Hope in A Summer’s End—Hong Kong 1986
15:15-16:30	Exploring Campus Krems Coffee Break
16:30-17:00	James Baillie (Austria): From Vardzia to Val Royeaux: Identity, Oppression and Power between Medieval Caucasia and Modern Games	Juan Carlos Ponce Reyes (Mexico): Agency and codephagy in video games, four study cases in the Mexican context
17:00-17:30	Wolfgang Rebernik (Austria): Wherever I Go Is My Future	Daria Balakina (Israel) & Alesha Serada (Finland): Vicious Circles in Women’s CS:GO Scene: Tournament Economy and Professional Requirements
17:30-18:30	Keynote \| Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (USA): Slave Revolt on Screen: Video Games on Haitian Slave Resistance
END OF SATURDAY’S PROGRAM

Sunday, 27 November 2022
	TRACK 1: Talks on-site (+ streamed online) Room: Audimax	TRACK 2: Talks online (+ streamed on-site) Room: SE 2.6, Tract I, 2nd Floor
9:30-10:00	Sunday Welcome
10:00-11:00	Keynote \| Simone Kriglstein (Czech Republic / Austria): Bullying Is NOT a Game – But Games Can Help Preventing It
11:00-11:30	Rebekah Tumasus & Alon Kfir (Israel): Further Discussion on Companion NPC Design: Narrative Hierarchies, Ludic Affordances, their Evolutions and the In-Game Impact	Stephanie Wössner (Germany): Let‘s play! Future-oriented learning with games
11:30-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Felix Schniz (Austria): A Walk in the Park? Designing a Very British Gaming Experience	Sonja Gabriel (Austria): The potential of serious games in training people to become better citizens
12:15-12:45	Kübra Aksay (Germany): Work, Play, Escape: Freedom and Submission in Video Games about Office Jobs	Chris Binder (Germany): Future-oriented learning with the sandbox game Minetest and BLOCKALOT, a web dashboard for learning partners
12:45-13:45	Lunch Break
13:45-14:15	Wolfgang Hochleitner (Austria): Designing Game-based Moral Courage: A Postmortem	Mario Donick (Germany): Playing differently. How to escape the limitations of Designed Games
14:15-14:45	Gunnar Gräsbeck (Finland): Nonlinear Pedagogy in Olympic Fencing - do video games offer a new dimension for its elaboration?	Lulamile Mohapi (South Africa): Video Games and the New Apartheid: Algorithmic Toyi-toyi; Press “T” to Toyi-toyi; Theorizing vernacular game design frameworks from the virtual margins
14:45-15:30	Poster-Session Luana Silveri (Italy): A science teacher in the game designer shoes – the YouTopia game experience, a journey through ecology concepts, didactic needs, and game design. Michaela Wawra (Austria): The freedom of choice: looking at the game mechanics of lootboxes through the eyes of FIFA 22 (Ultimate Team). Jonathan (Jono) Barel (Israel): Game Night: Examining group cohesion through cooperative video games Alexander Pfeiffer (Austria): Case Study: Ownership of Story Elements - Retrospective of the Twitter improv theater piece 'FSMCOTAARSDG'.
15:30-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-16:30	Poster-Session Swen Körner (Germany): The violence of violence: Reflexive violence and its pedagogi-cal potential in video games using the example of "The Last of Us 2" Xavier Aranda Arredondo (Mexico): Game as a constituent unit of meaning Paula Goerke (Germany): (Un)restricted play – how prospective game designers view the boundaries of games Ricarda Goetz-Preisner (Austria): Oppressive mechanisms for women in the game development culture
16:30-17:30	Keynote \| Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin (Canada): Hierarchy, Discrimination and Inequality in the Video Game Industry
17:30-18:00	Closing Remarks
END OF FROG22

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