FROG 2024 Shows How Game Studies Must Cooperate With Game Development
Game development played a significant part of Austria's important game studies conference Future and Reality of Gaming. Game studies and game development seem to grow together. This is a good development for both fields. But: it also brings problems that other media encountered as well. An event report and commentary by Pascal Wagner.
This weekend, during Austria's biggest B2C gaming fair Game City Wien, one of the halls of Vienna's impressive council hall was taken by a game studies research conference, called Future and Reality of Gaming, or FROG. The conference is organised by the Center for Applied Game Studies of Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (University for Continuing Education Krems), but is traditionally part of the Austrian capital's gaming festivities. In general, the conference is an illustrious gathering of ...