The recordings of the talks from our #FROG22 conference are now online on YouTube!
Enjoy! 🙂🍿
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tGZX8RCQreIzMequx-BsITi6nmlU_nK

#gamestudies

My talk "From Vardzia to Val Royeaux" from the 2022 Future and Reality of Games conference in Krems is now out and on YouTube :) Thoughts welcome - it deals with some tricky topics in places about how we approach pseudo-culture communities and state power in "medieval" games and how we could use alternative views of the middle ages to give a grounded but different idea of cross-cultural interactions.

Boosts welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_Ot16tw-I

#FROG22 #GameDev @medievodons #Medieval @histodons

It was a great pleasure to host #FROG22 with the most lovely, diverse and open minded #gamestudies community! 🤩

Our conference photo impressions are now online: https://www.frogvienna.at/frog-gallery-2022/
Enjoy! 😊

Thanks to everybody for joining and our speakers for their amazing contributions.

See you again at #FROG2023! ❤️🎮🐸

Next #FROG22 paper, the excellent Katrina Keefer on the Bunce Island slave fort in Sierra Leone: emphasising the changes in occupation and frequent collapses of the fort - the shambolic, barely defensible and brutally inefficient as well as cruel nature of it being crucial to its development over time and its impacts on the surrounding region.

@histodons #history

Now lunch is done, more #FROG2022 / #FROG22 talks from here in #gamestudies land.

Fascinating paper from Nikita Stulikov, a Russian scholar speaking from Montenegro, on rising totalitarian propaganda usage in Russian game cultures and media. Particularly depressing/interesting use of game images in popular militaristic videos (mask images from games used to hide identities of mercenaries by Russian pop-propaganda groups as one interesting example).

At #FROG2022 (possibly #FROG22) - The Future and Reality of Games conference - this weekend. Ironically given the conference title, I'm here to talk about history later.

So far had a good though very broad keynote giving a view of games as both part of & escape from supermodern/neoliberal society. Unsure I'm sold on the view of game character levelling being an essentially neoliberal (a term I often find sits awkwardly with me) self-improvement paradigm but there was much good food for thought.