A rare me actually doing my kinda stuff post: I was able to pick up the Future and Reality of Games anthology for 2022 at #Frog2023 this past weekend.
The title is Freedom, Oppression, Games and Play, and it includes a chapter by me on reimagining medievalisms in computer RPGs using a less western European societal model.
Also, the whole text is available as a fully open access creative commons release, and you can find it here:
https://doi.org/10.48341/ttmb-rz82
Another one from #frog2023: the problems of mobile games as de facto gambling can in part be summed up with this dramatic statistic: a twentieth do 2/3 of the spend. Profits require small numbers of players spending damaging sums.
In a study of young Austrian players (10-19) more male players spent on in app purchases and those who did spent much more: ca 180eur per annum versus ca 100 for girls. The "high rollers" with super high spending were 80 percent male.
This graph is absolutely wild, from a #frog2023 talk on data centres. Heat use for efficiency is talked about a lot with the data centres for gaming, cloud computing, and generative models, but there's minimal evidence that this will slow this curve: we need radical decreases in how much power computing is using, and we need urgent legislative action to achieve that.
Don't forget to register for our #FROG2023 conference (13. - 15.10.2023, Vienna City Hall & hybrid). 🙃
Check out the programme packed with intriguing contributions on the topic of "Money & Games" 👉 https://www.frogvienna.at/programme/
Registration:
https://www.frogvienna.at/registration-2023/
Please purchase your Full Conference Ticket (49€, including meal vouchers, coffee/tea, snacks and a goodie bag) until 8.10.2023 💰🎮🐸🕹
One more month to submit your abstract for #FROG2023 on the topic of "Money & Games". 🎮💎💰🎩🎲
https://www.frogvienna.at/call-2023
We are very much looking forward to your submissions! 🤩
FROG will be back in the Vienna City Hall (13. - 15. October 2023 during Game City)! This year the conference invites you to “follow the money” by discussing the traces it leaves on the field of games & play.
💎🎩⭐️🃏🎰🪙🐸
https://www.frogvienna.at/call-2023
Possible topics for #FROG2023 include:
💎 Money in Games & Game Economies
🎩 Games about Money
🃏 Game Theory & Economy as a Game
💰 The Business of Gaming
🎮 Game-based Career Paths
🎰 Playing for Money
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! ❤️🎮🐸
James Baillie
Natalie Denk