FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming 2023

17^th Vienna Games Conference
Vienna City Hall | hybrid event

Friday, 13 – Sunday, 15 October 2023

“Money & Games”

While thousands of enthusiastic players are gathering annually at the Game City in the Vienna City Hall, the FROG invites to an academic discourse on the subject of games and play. This year the conference addresses issues of “Money & Games” in the field of play & games and invites game scholars, creators, youth workers, activists and enthusiasts from around the globe to come together and “follow the money” by discussing the traces it leaves on the field of games & play.

Call for Abstracts (Submission closed)

Conference Location:
Vienna City Hall
Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 1
1010 Wien
Austria

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Practical Information

Hashtag for the conference: #FROG2023

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Friday, 13 October 2023
15:30 - 16:00	Registration
16:00 - 16:15	Welcome & Introduction
16:15 - 17:30	FROG Deep Dive Panel Fostering Financial and Economic Literacy through Play and Games	Panelists: Karina Kaiser-Fallent (BuPP, Federal Chancellery of Austria) Sonja Gabriel (KPH Vienna/Krems) Theresa Graf (Three Coins GmbH) Joerg Hofstaetter (ovos media) Moderation: Laura Peter
17:30 - 18:00	Break
18:00 - 19:15	FROG Deep Dive Panel Game-based Career Paths - Perspectives on the Gaming Scene as a (new) Working Environment	Panelists: Rafael "Veni" Eisler (YouTuber & Streamer) Stefan "Don Esteban" Kuntner (Cosplayer) Arianusch Riesner (Nerd Sisters Podcast) Yvonne Scheer (ESVÖ, Austrian Esports Federation) Moderation: Laura Peter
19:15 - 19:30	Closing

Saturday, 14 October 2023
09:15-09:45	Registration
09:45-10:15	Welcome Notes Claudia Plakolm, State Secretary for Youth and Civilian Service, Federal Chancellery of Austria Natalie Denk, Head of the Center for Applied Game Studies, University for Continuing Education Krems
10:15 - 11:15	Keynote \| Aphra Kerr Maynooth University & ADAPT Research Centre, Ireland Making and Banking Value in Digital Games
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00	Ralph Moeller Möller KG Monetizing Minors - When kids spend their parent’s income on gaming conten
12:00 - 12:30	Eduardo Luersen University of Konstanz, Germany How to grow crops while gaming: heat as an economic asset of cloud-based infrastructure services
12:30 - 13:00	Maximilian Stefan Mohr Leuphana Institut of Advanced Studies in Culture and Society, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany Monetising Nostalgia - Artificial scarcity of retro games and how it “forces” players behaviour.
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:15	Keynote \| Markus Meschik University of Graz & enter - Fachstelle für digitale Spiele, Austria Insert Coin to Continue: In-game spending by adolescents and the convergence of gaming and gambling
15:15 - 15:45	Juergen Smutek Österreichische Lotterien GesmbH, Austria A Gamer trapped in the Gambling Industry. What I learned from working 25 years in the gambling business
15:45 - 16:15	Markus Wiemker Hochschule Fresenius, Köln, Germany The Interconnection between Games & Gambling
16:15 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00	Margarete Jahrmann Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Experimental Game Cultures, Austria KOPFGELD: Dark Play in an AI based individualized money game.
17:00 - 17:30	Sonja Gabriel KPH Vienna/Krems, Austria Play to Prosper: Teaching Financial Literacy Through Games
17:30 - 17:45	Coffee Break
17:45 - 18:15	Wilfried Elmenreich University of Klagenfurt, Austria Exploring Accessibility Enhancement in Printable Board Games through 3D Printing with a Heist Board Game Case Study
18:15 - 18:45	Simon Huber Die Angewandte, Abteilung für Kulturwissenschaft, Austria Game Culture between Fine Arts and Crude Economies
18:45 - 19:15	Rudolf Inderst IU Internationale Hochschule, Germany Gaming Capital - the Ludo-Dividend of Digital Game Research
END OF SATURDAY’S PROGRAM

Sunday, 15 October 2023
9:30-10:00	Registration
10:00 - 10:15	Welcome Notes
10:15 - 11:15	Keynote \| Jan Švelch Charles University, Czech Republic Tracked and Monetized: On the Interconnectedness of Game Monetization and Player Surveillance
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee Break
	TRACK 1: Talks on-site (+ streamed online)	TRACK 2: Talks online (+ streamed on-site)
11:30 - 12:00	Ricarda Goetz-Preisner University of Vienna, Austria The role of in-game purchases for character customization in games	Pratama Wirya Atmaja University of Pembangunan Nasional "Veteran" Jawa Timur, Indonesia How Informative Narrative Game Experts Make or Break Future Society
12:00 - 12:30	Max de Baey-Ernsten Universität Erfurt, Germany Roblox - It's the economy, stupid!	Benjamin Hanussek Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland Brace Yourselves, AI Is Coming: How Artificial Intelligence is going to increase revenue and transform jobs in the games industry
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30	Keynote \| Celia Hodent - Online Talk Independent Consultant and Author, USA Implicit Bias and Inclusion in the Workplace
14:30 - 14:45	Coffee Break
	TRACK 1: Talks on-site (+ streamed online)	TRACK 2: Talks online (+ streamed on-site)
14:45 - 15:15	Linda Rustemeier Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Diversity-sensitive agile software development with Scrum as a simulation game: SimScumPlan saves time and costs	Fiona S. Schönberg Regensburg University, Germany Life is Cheap - The Cycle of Profit, Investment and (Self) Improvement in Roleplaying Games
15:15 - 15:45	Lukas Galinski INSTINCT3 GmbH, Germany How Responsible Gaming Influencer Marketing Can Shape The Future	Mario Donick Germany The role of money for atmosphere in public transport vehicle simulations
15:45 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30	Stefan E. Huber University of Graz, Austria Will human-AI interaction promote new career paths in game development and education?	Chris Binder Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg, Germany Abundant Bricks: Exploring economic systems and decision-making in the sandbox world of Minetest
16:30 - 17:00	Lea Stella Santner University of Klagenfurt, Austria Incorporating Monetary Systems Into Text-based Adventures	Kevin Mercer Southern Illinois University, USA The Socio-Spatial Currency of Dark Souls & Death Stranding
17:00 - 17:15	Coffee Break
17:15 - 17:45	Klemens Franz atelier198, Austria Real. Fake. Analogue. – The joy of playing with real people and fake money.
17:45 - 18:15	Andreas Wieser Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria The Meaning of Money made visible in ANNO 1800. From a Video Game to a Board Game
18:15 - 18:45	Jeremiah Diephuis University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: Developing Economic Ideologies for Games about Climate Change
18:45 - 19:00	Closing Remarks
END OF FROG 2023

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