FROG 2024 | FROG Deep Dive Panel 2 | Old World Blues. Fallout und das Spiel mit der Postapokalypse

OLD WORLD BLUES ›Fallout‹ und das Spiel mit der Postapokalypse
with:
Björn Blankenheim, Tanja Hojahn, Pascal Marc Wagner & Thomas Wernbacher
Moderation:
Arno Görgen & Rudolf Thomas Inderst
Abstract
The panel centers upon the academic volume “OLD WORLD BLUES ›Fallout‹ und das Spiel mit der Postapokalypse” (release: July 2024 - Büchner Verlag). Since the late 1990s, the US digital role-playing game series Fallout has not only been characterized by the popularity and economic success of its five-part main series and its five series spin-offs. It also features profound and complex narratives, depicts moral dilemmas, presents alternative histories and allows players to explore extensive post-apocalyptic scenarios. This volume is the first German-language digital game studies classification of the Fallout series and represents the overdue and promising prelude to a specialist study.
The panel is hosted by the volume’s editors Arno Görgen and Rudolf Thomas Inderst, and will begin with a short talk on the cultural history of Fallout. This is followed by a panel discussion with the authors Tanja Hojahn, Marc Pascal Wagner and Thomas Wernbacher on various aspects of the series. At the end, there will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and take part in the discussion.
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This talk was part of the conference "FROG - Future and Reality of Gaming" 2024 | "Gaming the Apocalypse" | 11 - 13 October 2024 | www.frogvienna.at
FROG 2024 is organised by the Center for Applied Game Studies (University for Continuing Education Krems) and funded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Sektion VI - Families and Youth).

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Was für eine schöne Erinnerung - vielen Dank an alle, die es möglich gemacht haben!