Felix Schniz @ FROG Conference, Vienna (Future and Reality of Gaming 2024)

From 11 to 13 October, ITEC’s Felix Schniz participated in the annual FROG (Future and Reality of Gaming) conference in Vienna. It is Austria’s biggest, (video) game dedicated academic conference, which attracted 50 speakers from 12 countries this year. Under this year’s topic of “Gaming the Apocalypse”, Felix delivered the talk “Scales of Apocalypse: Space and Affect in Dystopian Video Games between Sacred and Profane”.

Also presenting at the conference were AAU’s Kseniia Harshina and the Game Studies and Engineering master students Tim Sanders and Elli Chraibi, showcasing the diverse research interest and academic expertise produced by Game Studies and Engineering staff and students in the field.

The conference proceedings are expected to be published next year Summer.