Call for „PLAYING ART“ Game Ideas Exhibit your games at FROG conference and win the first “Austrian Impact Game Idea Award”! Eligible participants: Students, Hobbyists, Solo Devs, Teams, Studios based in Austria Deadline: 30 Sept. Details and registration: subotron.com/15294-call-f...
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#FROG2026 is calling! theme: PLAYING ART 📅 Nov. 20–22 📍 Belvedere21, Vienna 📢 We invite scholars, educators, artists, curators and developers to discuss games, play, art, culture and education. 📝 Submission deadline Sept. 15 www.frogvienna.at @appliedgames.bsky.social @belvederemuseum.bsky.social
Next in our arcademy is @marlenedelrive.bsky.social on how an student team balanced subtlety with drama and designed an emotional first-person narrative game about alzheimer´s. Plus panel on how games can enable patient-centred solutions in the healthcare sector. RSVP: subotron.com/event/as-lon...
We´re happy to welcome #PlayPraxis founder @breshansi.bsky.social at our arcademy next week, who will share learnings during the development of a shared language for tools of complex topics addressing complex players and emerging patterns in the process Details and RSVP subotron.com/event/play-p...
next game jams ahead! join at @tuwien.at this weekend and pick a @gamesforchange.bsky.social theme just in time for the deadline of their student challenge or choose art and develop a prototype based on the open content collection of the @belvederemuseum.bsky.social! subotron.com/14862-game-j...
Our arcademy is a back! Join Cyrus Nemati (Little Bat Games), Julia Murczek (Lost in the Garden) and Felix Bohatsch (Broken Rules) on 12 March at MQ discussing chances and challenges of developing, funding and marketing games beyond entertainment. New: RSVP please! subotron.com/event/impact...
Es ist #SteamNextFest! Game Devs aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, postet eure Steam-Demolinks hier drunter 👇 und ich teile sie und bringe sie auf @gamesmarket.global 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 Und gerne teilen, damit es auch andere Devs sehen 😘
hello world! next level! all details and updates at subotron.com/14862-game-j... letsago @gamesforchange.bsky.social @belvederemuseum.bsky.social @nataliedenk.bsky.social
next levels
Game studies conference FROG - Future and Reality of Gaming will continue independently of Krems' closed Center for Applied Game Studies. Natalie Denk will take it with her to Vienna and make it happen in Autumn 2026 with @subotron.bsky.social's Jogi Neufeld. www.gamesmarket.global/future-and-r...
we are supporting fresh viennese game dev talent in their gamescom adventures again. apply for financial support and on-site guidance until 9 march: subotron.com/14271-open-c...
Attention Austrian Game Developers! We are awarding the SAGA again this year to the most amazing games from Austria at the button Festival in Graz. Prize Pool: 1500€ Submit your game to the SAGA 2026 (free) docs.google.com/form... #gamedev #austria but wait there is more...
join our 400th event since 2004! as every year, our final event reflects on chances and challenges of local game dev & education in a panel. tomorrow 7pm at MQ with @microbirdgames.bsky.social, @bongfishofficial.bsky.social, @pgda.at, @cyangmou.bsky.social, #FHSalzburg subotron.com/event/panel25/
this friday 21 nov, our annual live pitch competition for student projects is live for the 12th time! 4pm: playtest the projects & talk to the devs 7pm: live pitches jury: @philomenaschwab.bsky.social @reginatown.bsky.social @rattenhirn.bsky.social all details here: subotron.com/event/live-p...
our arcademy continues fri. 17 october 7pm with @byterockers.games´ rocker jan halwe. headbang your thoughts with us! all details here: subotron.com/event/pitchi...
two sleeps til game dev days graz! @gamedevgraz.bsky.social congrats to 10 years! they grow up so fast! thank you for your vital work for the austrian scene! 1up @joeyprink.bsky.social and team! #GDDG25
our coop with #ExperimentalGameCultures at #angewandte continues 08 oct. 5pm: #SusannaPollack, president of @gamesforchange.bsky.social is calling to embrace games as a force for hope, connection, and real-world change. discuss with us! subotron.com/event/games-...
Wed. 08.10.25 Powering Change Through Play: The Future of Games for Impact | SUBOTRON
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ships ahoi! our jury of local experts handpicked five finalists for our annual live pitch competition for austrian student projects. all details here: subotron.com/14602-live-p... next port: a workshop with jan halwe of @byterockers.games fame. final island: live competition 21 november
the SUBOTRON arcademy returns next week with zurichs´ @mariov.ch on design and development processes, his collaborations at @playables.net and his upcoming game "pocket boss", a data-bending remote career simulator. subotron.com/event/playab...
Thu. 18.09.25 Time Flies: 15 Years of Interactive Animation | SUBOTRON
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our live pitch competition winner (some moons ago 😬) lifts off!
We Are Screwed! is now… 🔥Hyperspaced📷! Together with @headup.bsky.social, we’re launching on July 22 for Switch, Xbox, Steam & Epic! New name, same chaotic co-op madness! #indiegames #games #nintendoswitch #xbox
Remembering 2021 to look forward to tomorrow - see you at the Vienna Gamedev Meetup at Auer von Welsbach Park - tomorrow (Tue, 15.7) around 6:30 pm
last SUBOTRON arcademy before summer break on thu. 26 June: together with @wearemuesli.bsky.social, we explore the path of a possible fresh and innovative ‘interactive neorealism’, based on values of empathy, social impact and the transformative potential of game design subotron.com/event/neorea...
Thu. 26.06.25 The New (Ab)normal: Everyday Life as Interactive Experience | SUBOTRON
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Our annual LIVE PITCH COMPETITION FOR STUDENT PROJECTS returns for the 12th time! Students in Austrian can apply with their projects, diploma, bachelor’s or master’s thesis. 5 projects attend a workshop and pitch in front of an international jury on Nov 21st. Details: subotron.com/13947-open-c...
our partner #ViennaBusinessAgency is offering support for games or other creative digital projects made in vienna again and calls to enter the 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 competition for digital design 2025. win €10,000 in production grants as well as special prizes here: viennabusinessagency.at/current-fund...
Content Vienna: competition for digital design
Submit your project now! We support new creative, digital ideas.
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collecting local #oralhistory #gamehistory for #softwareLAB, the dept. for archiving & collecting software at @tmwpress.bsky.social part 5: harald riegler, entrepreneur and founder of the largest austrian studio in the early 21st century #sproing info on the series at subotron.com/14322-tmw-so...
we start a new lecture series together with #ExperimentalGameCultures at the #UniversityOfAppliedArtsVienna about games in museums/collections. our first guest on 22 march 4pm is laura schmidt from #ZKM / Karlsruhe experimentalgamecultures.uni-ak.ac.at/collecting-p...
Collecting, Preserving and Exhibiting Games at ZKM / Karlsruhe
Ludic Method Soirée Date: 22.05.2025 Time: 16:00 Guest: Laura C. Schmidt Location:…
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we return to amazing @amazefest.bsky.social in the maze of / BERLIN next week 14-16 may and would like to talk to you about your talk for our arcademy series, game preservation, and of course art. let´s meet on the meadow! 2025.amaze-berlin.de
A MAZE. / Berlin 2025
Get your early bird tickets and save the dates for A MAZE. / Berlin 2025 on May 14 — 17, 2025.
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our AI in game dev-workshop with Daria Radu on may 15th during #CreativeDaysVienna is almost fully booked. last slots available via registration email until thursday may 8th here: subotron.com/event/ai-cre...
Thu. 15.05.25 Why You Should Integrate AI In Your Game Dev Workflow – And Why You Shouldn’t | SUBOTRON
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Special! In einer besonderen Ausgabe des @fm4.orf.at Game Podcast spreche ich mit dem dänischen Spieletheoretiker @jesperjuul.bsky.social: sound.orf.at/collection/2...
#159: Spezial: Interview mit Gamesforscher Jesper Juul
In diesem FM4 Game Podcast Spezial spricht Robert Glashüttner ausführlich mit dem dänischen Gamesforscher Jesper Juul. Dieser hat um die Jahrtausendwende das sich damals formierende, interdisziplinäre...
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