FROG 2010 - 4th Vienna Games Conference - Future and Reality of Gaming 2010 FROG 2010

Vienna’s annual Games Conference FROG offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, education professionals and gamers from around the world. The main objective of FROG 10 is to explore the relations between gaming, society and culture and to discuss insights into how to think ahead and beyond common limits of theory and practice of game and play. FROG 2010 is jointly organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, the City of Vienna, wienXtra, the University of Vienna and the Danube-University Krems.

The Vienna Games Conference is a key element of the “Game-City”. In 2010 the City of Vienna hosts the high profile event “Game-City” for the fourth time, bringing together representatives of the games industry, non-profit organizations, academia and the general public to enjoy and discuss the current state of computer games, digital youth cultures and games research. The background and framework programme of the Game-City offer the unique opportunity for the speaker, contributors and visitors of FROG to meet and discuss in the magnificent Vienna city hall.

The FROG is held in partnership with the 3rd International Games Conference Cologne "Clash of Realities", 21-23 April 2010.