WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.420 So this is my official complaint to Scrooge about being part of the exit strategy. 00:06.580 --> 00:07.660 I don't think this is cool. 00:08.280 --> 00:12.900 But with that I give over to the ghost of the past, which is Huey Schultz. 00:13.980 --> 00:18.300 And after that the present will be Jens-Uwe Hahn. 00:18.640 --> 00:22.440 And then the beautiful bright future will be Martin Fuchs. Thank you. 00:23.420 --> 00:24.560 Okay, thank you Sabia. 00:25.400 --> 00:28.860 We would shortly like to introduce to you the Institute of Four Games, 00:28.860 --> 00:34.100 which is not very old. We've started this really about six years ago at this university, 00:34.300 --> 00:39.080 and I would like to give you at least a short overview of what we are doing. I will not 00:39.080 --> 00:45.600 do it myself alone, but Jens and Martin will also do some parts, and then we come to the 00:45.600 --> 00:51.220 sad part, but that's okay. I mean, that's life. Okay, we founded this institute about 00:51.220 --> 00:56.880 six years ago. Why did we found it in the first place? Well, the guilty man is right 00:56.880 --> 01:02.840 here in the in the audience it's the rector it's the president of our university who called 01:02.840 --> 01:09.540 together several people and said why are we not teaching or why are we not having games in our 01:09.540 --> 01:15.280 curricula and we said well we have games we have all everything which is needed to produce games 01:15.280 --> 01:22.560 we are teaching the techniques we are teaching the the arts part and everything else but we 01:22.560 --> 01:30.560 We came together with him and we quickly realized that it would not make sense to have a curriculum of games as such. 01:30.560 --> 01:40.560 But we needed to have the games somewhere located in the university and then our president said, well, then make an institute. 01:40.560 --> 01:46.560 Our question was, what is an institute? And his answer was, well, it's a website and that's all. 01:46.560 --> 01:50.560 And we were naive enough to believe that. 01:50.560 --> 01:54.560 So that's his trick. 01:54.560 --> 01:58.560 Sounds like it's always his trick. 01:58.560 --> 02:02.560 So we started this and we started with 02:02.560 --> 02:06.560 bringing up some ideas and it was Joachim Czachinski, I don't think he's here, 02:06.560 --> 02:10.560 who gave the first presentation on it. And we very quickly 02:10.560 --> 02:14.560 realized that we had to bring together the people from different curricula, 02:14.560 --> 02:25.560 not only the students, the students they work together very easily, but it's a bit harder to bring back, to bring together the staff from different curricula. 02:25.560 --> 02:35.560 And that was really the key, bringing together people like me and like Sabia, which are quite different in terms of, not only in terms of sex, 02:35.560 --> 02:41.560 but also in terms of where we come from, our background, what our skills are. 02:41.560 --> 02:46.880 and bringing those people together we needed to be closely together we needed 02:46.880 --> 02:51.560 to have a place at the University and this was really the big advantage that 02:51.560 --> 02:55.060 we got also from our president that we got the room over there in the games lab 02:55.060 --> 02:59.920 where we could sit together talk together meet quickly without having to 02:59.920 --> 03:03.800 make an appointment I can just walk over to Jens I can just walk over to Sabia 03:03.800 --> 03:08.440 and we can get things straightened out that usually would take more than a week 03:08.440 --> 03:11.620 and sometimes we do it in 15 minutes and that was really the key. 03:11.780 --> 03:15.440 So we started this institute and... 03:15.440 --> 03:19.320 This is not my computer. Oh, there we go. 03:20.520 --> 03:25.800 Let me first of all talk a little bit about what we do in terms of games. 03:26.800 --> 03:32.420 A games institute must produce games and this is really the fun part 03:32.420 --> 03:34.420 because that's what our students love to do 03:34.420 --> 03:37.220 and that's what we can show to the audience 03:37.220 --> 03:40.320 and that's where we can really show our skills. 03:40.840 --> 03:42.380 And you see some of these games, 03:42.480 --> 03:44.840 and probably many of you recognize some of these games. 03:45.540 --> 03:47.900 Some of the prominent ones are, for instance, 03:48.600 --> 03:53.380 some of the ones that we see outside here is the game 40. 03:53.480 --> 03:55.740 You can play it outside in the hallway. 03:57.280 --> 03:58.760 Then we are doing something, 03:59.040 --> 04:01.680 we did something for the Kamo Orchestra in VR, 04:02.400 --> 04:06.380 and Finn's Journey up here is something you can also see in the hallway. 04:06.380 --> 04:09.660 so this game is also shown outside. 04:10.360 --> 04:12.460 Oh, you can see this, right? Yeah, there it is. 04:13.460 --> 04:16.400 And so these are some of the recent games we have done, 04:17.220 --> 04:21.120 and some of our colleagues have enough skills 04:21.120 --> 04:23.200 to teach the students to the point 04:23.200 --> 04:27.000 where they can really get these games into the market. 04:27.580 --> 04:30.200 So some of our games have been in the market 04:30.200 --> 04:33.220 and have been marketed and even made a little bit of money. 04:33.220 --> 04:34.720 We won't get rich. 04:34.720 --> 04:41.560 I mean we kind of promised our president that we will get the university rich with these games, but there was a trick too 04:46.160 --> 04:48.300 So we're we're tricky sometimes too 04:49.260 --> 04:51.960 Anyhow, for instance, which one was? 04:52.680 --> 04:54.680 Where is it? 04:55.760 --> 04:57.760 Yeah, next next slide, right 04:58.540 --> 05:04.240 Yeah, this is one of the games that we produced which is on Steam and which had 05:04.720 --> 05:11.340 Some success on Steam. I think we sold several thousand copies of this and even though there was a little bit of money involved 05:11.780 --> 05:14.940 It was a game that was originally designed not for VR 05:15.340 --> 05:20.880 so one semester long the team worked on the game, it's a game where you are immersed in a room and 05:21.820 --> 05:26.580 as the game proceeds you kind of find out that a person is missing and 05:27.100 --> 05:34.720 Something happened to a person very misty and in the end you find out that you yourself are this person who was killed in a car 05:34.720 --> 05:51.400 accident. Anyhow, in a second semester the same team went on and did this in VR, which is quite a 05:51.400 --> 05:57.280 transition as you know, and in a third semester we finally put it up on Steam and finished it and 05:57.280 --> 06:02.800 polished it in a way that we could really publish it. And it's important for us and for our students 06:02.800 --> 06:08.020 to learn this complete transition, not only having an idea and implementing it, but also 06:08.020 --> 06:10.160 bringing it into the market. 06:10.160 --> 06:13.780 And I hope we will have at least one more game this semester that we can also bring 06:13.780 --> 06:15.580 into the market. 06:15.580 --> 06:21.060 And this final step is a lot of work. 06:21.060 --> 06:26.760 And this work is usually totally underestimated, what it takes to finally produce the game 06:26.760 --> 06:33.700 in such a way that it's relatively error-free, that you produce some things around it, 06:33.720 --> 06:39.320 like a video that explains the game and all these things, and finally put it and publish it on Steam, for instance. 06:40.040 --> 06:46.260 So Eleanor was pretty successful, and it also made the second place in the Newcomer Award 2016. 06:47.440 --> 06:50.820 So we are kind of proud of this, and it was a very nice team to work with. 06:51.140 --> 06:56.340 Another interesting game that also made it to Steam and also had quite a success there 06:56.340 --> 06:58.120 is this game. 06:58.380 --> 07:02.000 It's basically an endless running game 07:02.000 --> 07:03.360 and it's pretty hard. 07:03.440 --> 07:05.180 I usually don't get over the second level, 07:05.640 --> 07:07.340 but that maybe has to do with my age. 07:07.400 --> 07:07.780 I don't know. 07:08.380 --> 07:09.480 But anyhow, 07:10.740 --> 07:13.840 you try to jump in different ways 07:13.840 --> 07:15.460 and it gets more and more challenging 07:15.460 --> 07:16.480 as it goes on. 07:16.980 --> 07:20.460 And it's practically an endless evolving game. 07:21.240 --> 07:21.840 And again, 07:22.060 --> 07:23.920 we've went through the whole process 07:23.920 --> 07:24.640 with the team 07:24.640 --> 07:28.720 and this also was, I think it was more than four semesters, right, 07:28.800 --> 07:31.900 that we used to really bring this game up. 07:32.620 --> 07:35.580 So this is very important for our students, 07:36.160 --> 07:38.080 and it's also for us important. 07:38.660 --> 07:39.760 Why do we do this? 07:39.940 --> 07:41.740 Because games is a huge industry. 07:41.940 --> 07:44.120 This university comes from the printing. 07:44.840 --> 07:47.520 For a long time, this was a pure printing university, 07:48.320 --> 07:51.620 and then in 1997, I think, 07:51.620 --> 08:00.500 it went to become the University of Print and Media and finally in 2000 or 2001 the university 08:00.500 --> 08:06.380 was the University of Media but the printing technology and the printing industry is not 08:06.380 --> 08:11.360 any driving industry anymore so it was the film industry for many of our students for a long time 08:11.360 --> 08:19.220 but in in reality it's now the game industry which is really making a lot of revenue in Germany you 08:19.220 --> 08:23.000 see it's not really growing this has to do with the fact that many games 08:23.000 --> 08:28.520 nowadays are produced in the in the East you know many of the teams that are 08:28.520 --> 08:33.260 producing games are not even not even in America and not in Europe but but in the 08:33.260 --> 08:41.960 East anyhow it's a it's a huge and growing growing market and it's very 08:41.960 --> 08:50.960 important that we are in this market games are for everyone believe me I'm 08:50.960 --> 08:58.520 looking forward to make to play more games when I'm retired and not only 08:58.520 --> 09:03.140 young people are playing games you can see that older peoples are playing games 09:03.140 --> 09:09.900 as well older people and I'm sure that when you are growing old you the people 09:09.900 --> 09:15.180 that have been working with computers from very very young age on we'll be 09:15.180 --> 09:20.700 playing a lot of computer games and we all know it's fun and what is 09:20.700 --> 09:29.520 interesting that is that the the amount of people which are always is constantly 09:29.520 --> 09:35.100 growing which are playing games and things like especially the smartphones 09:35.100 --> 09:38.700 are important in that respect. 09:42.280 --> 09:45.280 Games is not only a huge industry, as I already said, 09:45.620 --> 09:51.040 but they pervade human history from the very, very beginning. 09:51.340 --> 09:53.880 I mean, even in ancient history, 09:53.880 --> 09:57.320 if we think about Egyptian history or Romans, 09:58.020 --> 10:01.260 games are a very important aspect of life. 10:02.700 --> 10:04.580 And in fact, when you play games, 10:05.100 --> 10:08.020 it is a mirror of life. 10:08.020 --> 10:11.660 You do many things that you have to do in real life as well. 10:11.660 --> 10:15.840 You have to work with challenges, 10:15.840 --> 10:17.860 you have to achieve goals, 10:17.860 --> 10:20.980 you have to think a lot, you have strategies. 10:20.980 --> 10:25.620 The only thing that games are not, they are not real. 10:26.520 --> 10:29.920 I mean, a game can be anything, but it's not real life. 10:29.920 --> 10:41.600 So all games, not even computer games, they are important for the evolution, 10:41.600 --> 10:47.360 for the evolution of the individual and for the evolution of mankind as such. 10:47.360 --> 11:01.360 As we more and more make computer games now, we integrate all of the technologies that we have today, 11:01.360 --> 11:06.360 especially the smartphones and the virtual reality stuff. 11:06.360 --> 11:10.360 As we see in this university, we need practically all departments we have, 11:10.360 --> 11:17.360 and all curricula we have in this university to do the game development. 11:19.360 --> 11:26.360 So it's very diverse. We need people from art department, we need business people, we need designers, we need engineers, 11:26.360 --> 11:31.360 we of course need programmers and storytelling and much more to create a good game. 11:31.360 --> 11:36.360 And that's why we need this institute to bring all these skills together. 11:36.360 --> 11:43.580 Now our mission is that we educate everything in a cross-disciplinary way. 11:44.800 --> 11:50.580 And so we have several curricula and degree programs in our institute that work together. 11:51.160 --> 11:53.860 So it's the audiovisual media from which I am. 11:53.920 --> 11:55.320 It's the computer science media. 11:55.760 --> 11:57.920 It's the mobile media department. 11:58.500 --> 12:06.240 It's the master engineering programs, audiovisual media, the master of science of computer science. 12:06.360 --> 12:11.760 and we have several PhD students working in our institute right now. 12:11.760 --> 12:17.760 And of course across department boundaries, this is I guess the key point. 12:17.760 --> 12:23.160 Okay, we founded this institute relatively late really, 12:23.160 --> 12:27.560 because when I came to this university in 1997, 12:27.560 --> 12:34.160 one of the very very first studio productions that I managed was a game. 12:34.160 --> 12:45.020 It was a game called Rado Z and it was made by basically four students and one of these students, his name was Simon Wiest and he is now a colleague. 12:47.140 --> 12:56.340 Then in 2011 we focused more on games and shortly after that we had two professors which really know gaming. 12:57.040 --> 13:01.240 Basically they are right now here because that's Sabia and Stefan. 13:01.240 --> 13:09.000 and finally in 2013 we found that the Institute as I already pointed out and 13:09.000 --> 13:15.820 started to collaborate and in 2015-16 finally we got not only the games lab 13:15.820 --> 13:20.680 but we also got the space up there where our offices are and where we work 13:20.680 --> 13:26.800 together and that really was the key point to getting things done and now we 13:26.800 --> 13:33.800 I think we have created way over a million euros of third-party money 13:33.800 --> 13:37.800 and we have now, right now, nine people working on projects like that, 13:37.800 --> 13:41.800 which is quite a fine success, I think. 13:41.800 --> 13:46.800 And at this point, I think I turn over to Jens. 13:48.800 --> 13:50.800 So, thank you. 13:56.800 --> 14:10.200 So I want to talk a little bit about third party funded projects running right now or which are just finished. 14:10.200 --> 14:34.860 okay so in vira was a project funded by the median and film gesellschaft in baden-württemberg 14:34.860 --> 14:46.860 the main idea was to explore the possibilities of interaction in virtual reality. 14:46.860 --> 14:59.860 So explore and do some research, look around what concepts are already published, which possibilities do we have. 14:59.860 --> 15:06.860 Then there was a project with the Mercedes-Benz Museum. 15:06.860 --> 15:11.860 So it was basically done with groups of students. 15:11.860 --> 15:23.860 So a game was created for the museum where the young visitors are led through the museum. 15:23.860 --> 15:31.860 they can collect coins through quiz questions and small fun games. 15:31.860 --> 15:43.860 So increase the user experience in the museum and also play the game after you left the museum 15:43.860 --> 15:52.860 and open the mind, open the doors for museum content for young people. 15:52.860 --> 16:00.860 Then one project was done with the United Bank of Switzerland. 16:00.860 --> 16:08.860 The idea here was to use games for security trainings of employees. 16:08.860 --> 16:19.860 So there's a law that employees have to go through security trainings in a certain frequency. 16:19.860 --> 16:24.020 but in practice it works like this. 16:24.460 --> 16:26.160 The people don't like the trainings 16:26.160 --> 16:28.360 but they must do it 16:28.360 --> 16:31.320 and then they sit in front of a computer, 16:32.240 --> 16:34.600 go through the web-based trainings 16:34.600 --> 16:36.880 with some test questions 16:36.880 --> 16:39.580 and when they sit in front of the computer 16:39.580 --> 16:43.340 they turn a switch in the brain 16:43.340 --> 16:45.200 so now I'm in training mode. 16:46.340 --> 16:47.760 And then if there is a question 16:47.760 --> 16:54.840 you come to work in the morning a nice lady with two cups of coffee in the hand asks you to open 16:54.840 --> 17:02.140 the door would you do it but since you are in training mode you say no and then if it happens 17:02.140 --> 17:07.760 the next day you come to work and the lady is there and then you want to be nice and you let 17:07.760 --> 17:15.760 him in so because you are not in training mode anymore you are in real life mode and the idea 17:15.760 --> 17:24.760 was to enrich the training with fun and to do it in a way that the people do not 17:24.760 --> 17:33.400 feel that it's I'm educated now I have fun now and the idea is that you realize 17:33.400 --> 17:42.220 that you yeah that you transport the information to real life and and the 17:42.220 --> 17:52.720 correct do it correctly then then there was a project bio games lab the idea was 17:52.720 --> 17:59.640 to bring together two completely different branches the games industry 17:59.640 --> 18:07.000 with the ideas of game design gamification and then the life sciences 18:07.000 --> 18:17.200 with very strict rules everything a lot of things without any fun and make some 18:17.200 --> 18:23.900 workshops bring together these people to make gamification coming into the life 18:23.900 --> 18:36.980 sciences then a project which started this year reality the idea is here to 18:36.980 --> 18:43.480 to do therapy of stroke patients with games in VR. 18:44.480 --> 18:49.980 So stroke patients usually have, or very often have, some disabilities. 18:49.980 --> 18:52.980 For example, they cannot move an arm. 18:53.480 --> 18:57.480 And the therapy is done with physiotherapy. 18:57.980 --> 19:03.480 And it's very boring, very exhausting, very demotivating. 19:03.480 --> 19:14.480 and only some few weeks of therapy are paid by the health insurance and then it's over. 19:14.480 --> 19:25.480 And the idea is to do the therapy with games, such that patients will have fun doing the therapy. 19:25.480 --> 19:45.940 And then there's one more point. So it's already proven that if the brain gives the command to move a disabled arm, for example, and the visual system reports success to the brain, this will trigger a rehabilitation process. 19:45.940 --> 20:01.460 And now the idea is to use an EEG and take the intention of movement directly from the brain and in VR the patient will have this success. 20:01.460 --> 20:07.980 So the patient will be able to move the disabled arm in VR and trigger this rehabilitation. 20:09.640 --> 20:20.660 And this rehabilitation works, good or bad, dependent on the activity cycles of the two halves of the brain. 20:20.660 --> 20:31.140 And with the EEG, it's possible to realize in which situation is the patient now. 20:32.560 --> 20:39.760 Will the rehabilitation process be promising or not? 20:40.480 --> 20:48.800 And the game should trigger the movement of the patient at these points of time where it's most helpful. 20:48.800 --> 20:55.180 So that's the basic idea. 20:55.180 --> 21:00.020 Then a project, Nature World. 21:00.020 --> 21:14.340 So the idea is also similar to the Mercedes-Benz Museum. 21:14.340 --> 21:19.620 I'm missing my notes. Doesn't matter. Sorry. 21:19.620 --> 21:29.460 So the idea is to improve the experience for the museum, 21:29.460 --> 21:34.500 give the people more fun. 21:34.500 --> 21:43.620 and yeah a project with a similar focus artification with the state gallery in stuttgart 21:45.300 --> 21:56.020 they are already yeah two games yeah they are already playable where one makes research 21:56.020 --> 22:05.720 tangible and the other one also should increase the experience for the people 22:11.140 --> 22:11.900 okay 22:15.120 --> 22:24.020 and one more project it's in cooperation with the University of Tübingen with the Hector Institute 22:24.020 --> 22:35.840 for empirical research in education so do education research in VR so in reality it's 22:35.840 --> 22:44.060 not possible to repeat education situation without any change completely the exact way 22:44.060 --> 22:53.360 and in VR it's possible to repeat and change just single parameters to make things comparable 22:54.020 --> 23:07.020 And in VR it will be possible to prove results which are not so easy or not possible to prove in reality. 23:12.020 --> 23:19.020 Then a project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 23:19.020 --> 23:37.080 The idea is how can material for 3D scenes, for games, for VR be created and a huge library 23:37.080 --> 23:42.740 of materials should be collected by crowdsourcing. 23:42.740 --> 23:49.480 So create a little game where all the people run through the streets and everywhere around 23:49.480 --> 24:00.900 similar to Pokemon Go but with a different goal where people take photos and the materials 24:00.900 --> 24:08.740 of the objects on the photos will be collected and collected in the library for the research. 24:12.740 --> 24:17.640 Okay, and now I'm going to hand over to Martin. 24:17.640 --> 24:18.980 Thank you. 24:18.980 --> 24:26.600 So there is a game that you can play. 24:26.600 --> 24:31.580 You put a number of coins on the table, and then people take turns taking the coins, and 24:31.580 --> 24:34.900 they can choose how many coins they take. 24:34.900 --> 24:36.980 And the last person to take a coin loses. 24:36.980 --> 24:40.240 There's a variation you can play. 24:40.240 --> 24:46.960 give a talk with three people and the one-two-one over time loses and we are 24:46.960 --> 24:53.020 about to see that happen very soon but the good news is I have a superpower and 24:53.020 --> 24:56.500 the students in this audience who have been my students or are my current 24:56.500 --> 25:00.040 students know I have the superpower because whenever my time runs out I can 25:00.040 --> 25:05.620 just keep on talking so no problem still I try to be brief anyways before I can 25:05.620 --> 25:09.040 talk about future ideas and what you want to do next I'd like to talk about 25:09.040 --> 25:11.320 about outreach projects and actually there's lots of topics 25:11.320 --> 25:14.260 that you are very active in so it should feel familiar 25:14.260 --> 25:16.200 even though weirdly presented. 25:16.200 --> 25:18.540 Things we do outside of direct research, 25:18.540 --> 25:20.060 which you've just seen and teaching 25:20.060 --> 25:23.360 what was the first part of the talk, we do workshops. 25:23.360 --> 25:26.720 For instance, we contribute to Vega Camp every second year 25:26.720 --> 25:29.580 when there's no games day or when there's no large games day, 25:29.580 --> 25:31.420 there's short games days every year. 25:33.020 --> 25:37.140 We also do individual workshops and several different kinds. 25:37.140 --> 25:46.700 So in the bottom right you see my former colleague Melanie Beiswanger giving a workshop where we present ideas to others and teach on games and try to find a wider audience for them. 25:47.500 --> 25:55.680 But we also have workshops of this kind in 2014 where we invite people to come here and share their great ideas with us. 25:56.920 --> 25:59.960 A very important type of outreach is the game zone. 25:59.960 --> 26:02.060 Sabir has been curating since 2012. 26:02.060 --> 26:13.060 We provide equipment, tutoring, content and as you can see here there's lots of people seeing us there, engaging with us, taking part in projects and trying things out. 26:13.060 --> 26:22.060 One of the components that popped up every once in a while there is the HelGAR. I forgot what HelGAR stands for because I just now have a first name. 26:22.060 --> 26:24.060 first name. It's a... 26:24.060 --> 26:26.140 Of course. 26:27.440 --> 26:28.140 Hohschul Elektronischer 26:28.140 --> 26:28.820 Gaming Automat. 26:29.680 --> 26:32.140 They will be sparked in a while later, and after you've had some, 26:32.240 --> 26:34.240 we will test whether you still remember. Hohschul Elektronischer 26:34.240 --> 26:34.980 Gaming Automat. 26:35.960 --> 26:38.080 That's a device that has been completable 26:38.080 --> 26:39.600 from scratch by students 26:39.600 --> 26:42.020 that we can use to show our games 26:42.020 --> 26:43.900 the way they are meant to be played, to riff 26:43.900 --> 26:45.300 on the slogan of the manufacturer. 26:46.080 --> 26:47.960 And there's, of course, Games Days. The large 26:47.960 --> 26:50.040 Games Days happen every two years since 2013, 26:50.860 --> 26:51.920 and they coincide 26:51.920 --> 26:53.220 with milestones that we have. 26:54.260 --> 26:55.440 For instance, in 2013, 26:55.680 --> 26:56.760 the institute as an institute 26:56.760 --> 26:57.600 got instituted 26:57.600 --> 26:58.680 and as an institute 26:58.680 --> 26:59.860 it's opened and it's there. 27:00.700 --> 27:01.460 And sometime later, 27:01.540 --> 27:02.380 the Games Lab opened. 27:02.580 --> 27:04.180 Now, we've already said 27:04.180 --> 27:05.340 that we love our Games Lab 27:05.340 --> 27:06.260 and we love it a lot 27:06.260 --> 27:06.980 and it seems that we have 27:06.980 --> 27:08.140 opened it several times 27:08.140 --> 27:10.540 because what I remember 27:10.540 --> 27:12.660 is that I was there in 2016 27:12.660 --> 27:13.240 when it happened 27:13.240 --> 27:14.600 and we are also kind of sure 27:14.600 --> 27:16.240 that we opened it in 2015 already. 27:16.660 --> 27:18.220 So the Games Lab is open 27:18.220 --> 27:18.920 and that's wonderful. 27:18.920 --> 27:25.980 In 2017, you have to think about that, only four years after opening the Institute, we've 27:25.980 --> 27:31.300 been already doing games for 20 years at the AFCM, and that's also a bit of a glimpse in 27:31.300 --> 27:36.160 the future that what we like to do when we are happy about things, or sad as today. 27:36.160 --> 27:41.640 And 2019 is also very important here because you guys are here, wonderful. 27:41.640 --> 27:44.000 Let's talk about the future. 27:44.000 --> 27:48.380 When we discussed how to do this talk and what to talk about, we decided that we would 27:48.380 --> 27:51.640 not go the business way and say five years from now we want to have three 27:51.640 --> 27:56.600 more buildings and try 200 more students and 10% more masters and five PhDs and 27:56.600 --> 28:02.980 so much more money that the school is giving us even though that would be nice 28:04.120 --> 28:12.200 we talk about this later what we want to talk about is the topics that are going 28:12.200 --> 28:17.300 to move us in the years to come and there's a selection of topics and these 28:17.300 --> 28:20.620 These topics are not really one of the same kind, 28:20.620 --> 28:24.860 rather they exemplify and embody what we really find 28:24.860 --> 28:27.840 most interesting in games and what moves us. 28:27.840 --> 28:30.260 One of that is the technology perspective. 28:30.260 --> 28:32.600 In the last year since it was founded, 28:32.600 --> 28:35.640 we've become quite competent in virtual reality. 28:35.640 --> 28:38.380 Virtual reality where you can program what happens 28:38.380 --> 28:41.600 and with an intensity that was never possible before, 28:41.600 --> 28:44.840 interact with people and let them have experiences. 28:44.840 --> 28:47.700 That's something that we want to continue doing. 28:47.700 --> 28:51.500 But as we've heard this morning, I think in several talks, 28:51.500 --> 28:53.460 I remember the one by Professor Chalk, 28:53.460 --> 28:58.460 that when we have an augmented reality situation, 28:58.780 --> 29:00.680 where you're not so much where a device 29:00.680 --> 29:03.440 that feels artificial, where you immerse yourself 29:03.440 --> 29:06.560 in a far and different, far away virtual world, 29:06.560 --> 29:09.160 but the virtual world breaks through your wall 29:09.160 --> 29:12.720 and is in your living room, this changes interaction. 29:12.720 --> 29:15.340 This changes how we interact with people, 29:15.340 --> 29:17.820 how we interact with ourselves, 29:17.820 --> 29:20.060 what is our avatar, do we see ourselves, 29:20.060 --> 29:22.100 what impact does that have, 29:22.100 --> 29:24.120 and what does it mean for rooms? 29:24.120 --> 29:26.940 When in the middle of my room, 29:26.940 --> 29:29.680 you know, I Skype with my parents every week, 29:29.680 --> 29:32.100 and that means we have a little small window in the room 29:32.100 --> 29:33.940 where I can see my parents and we share a coffee 29:33.940 --> 29:35.800 and my daughter talks with grandparents 29:35.800 --> 29:37.380 and it's all wonderful, 29:37.380 --> 29:39.900 but what does it mean when your insurance consultant 29:39.900 --> 29:42.220 tries to say it's your insurance in your room? 29:42.220 --> 29:44.520 or when people become part of your room, 29:44.520 --> 29:47.600 or experiences become of your very personal space. 29:47.600 --> 29:49.640 There's lots of things to discover there, 29:49.640 --> 29:51.180 and these things get more intensive 29:51.180 --> 29:53.860 as we leave the traditional ways of interacting, 29:53.860 --> 29:55.860 that is a mouse or a keyboard, 29:55.860 --> 29:59.360 or now a piece of glasses that you wear, or goggles. 29:59.360 --> 30:01.100 What happens if you can really touch things? 30:01.100 --> 30:03.660 So these are pictures from a master thesis 30:03.660 --> 30:05.540 that happened recently, 30:05.540 --> 30:08.340 by Tim and Stephen, and colleagues. 30:08.340 --> 30:10.760 And what you can do there is, 30:10.760 --> 30:13.640 you can interact with the sphere in virtual reality 30:13.640 --> 30:15.060 that you can touch. 30:15.060 --> 30:17.380 None of a sudden you have a haptic interaction 30:17.380 --> 30:18.840 with the programmed world. 30:18.840 --> 30:20.280 And this is going to change things. 30:20.280 --> 30:22.820 And it's one of the topics that we are going to follow 30:22.820 --> 30:25.220 and contribute to and develop in the next years. 30:26.700 --> 30:30.180 Then there's the perspective of transformative games. 30:31.060 --> 30:32.860 And transformative is a big word. 30:32.860 --> 30:37.600 What we are thinking of here is games that change the player 30:37.600 --> 30:39.440 in interesting ways. 30:39.440 --> 30:42.760 One of the things you can do is you can enable experiences 30:42.760 --> 30:45.800 that would be too dangerous or too expensive 30:45.800 --> 30:49.160 or plenty too forbidden to do in the datum reality 30:49.160 --> 30:50.340 that we have to share. 30:50.340 --> 30:52.960 One of the things that has to go in every one 30:52.960 --> 30:55.720 of our presentations is SkyTouch, upright. 30:55.720 --> 30:57.580 What you can do in SkyTouch is you sit down 30:57.580 --> 30:59.940 in this harness and you take on your goggles 30:59.940 --> 31:02.440 and then you go, what do you call it, hang gliding? 31:03.340 --> 31:04.180 Paragliding. 31:04.180 --> 31:06.420 So you can make the experience of paragliding 31:06.420 --> 31:08.740 through a city or through a landscape 31:08.740 --> 31:12.500 And even though the simulation aspect is still very minimal, 31:12.500 --> 31:15.220 you get moved left and right when you move, 31:15.220 --> 31:16.960 but it's a very immersive experience, 31:16.960 --> 31:20.040 partly because there's a big fan blowing air into your face 31:20.040 --> 31:24.200 and you can feel the flying in Skytouch. 31:24.200 --> 31:26.300 There's games that transfer knowledge, 31:26.300 --> 31:29.940 like the UBS game or the Digital Path to the Museum project, 31:29.940 --> 31:33.800 where you have something that you want people to know 31:33.800 --> 31:35.560 and instead of giving them the side presentation 31:35.560 --> 31:38.820 saying you need it in the exam, as I usually do, 31:38.820 --> 31:41.660 you let them play a game and get the experience 31:41.660 --> 31:42.500 through the game. 31:43.840 --> 31:47.920 There are games that should make people better, 31:47.920 --> 31:49.420 that should heal them in a physical way 31:49.420 --> 31:51.440 or support their well-being. 31:51.440 --> 31:54.080 A game that intersects these two things is Sugarbrand. 31:54.080 --> 31:57.200 That's for diabetic children and it should help them 31:57.200 --> 31:59.580 regulate their blood sugar levels 31:59.580 --> 32:01.840 and lead a healthier life that way. 32:01.840 --> 32:04.000 There's the reality project where we want to work 32:04.000 --> 32:07.060 with the Uniklinik Tübingen 32:08.160 --> 32:11.800 in order to support the rehabilitation of stroke patients 32:11.800 --> 32:15.460 because there's exercises that are known to be beneficiary 32:15.460 --> 32:17.300 but painful, difficult to do, 32:17.300 --> 32:18.640 and if you can motivate them with a game 32:18.640 --> 32:21.700 to do these exercises, we can make people better 32:21.700 --> 32:23.840 and that way have a meaningful games 32:23.840 --> 32:26.440 that contributes to changing the world. 32:26.440 --> 32:28.620 And finally, serious games. 32:28.620 --> 32:33.620 a game is serious when it's not made to be entertaining. 32:36.340 --> 32:38.260 In the sense not that it's not entertaining, 32:38.260 --> 32:40.400 if a game is not entertaining it doesn't work. 32:40.400 --> 32:43.000 But that has a secondary purpose 32:43.000 --> 32:45.580 that it's made for beyond entertaining. 32:45.580 --> 32:47.840 In this project that Jens already presented, 32:47.840 --> 32:51.320 the idea is we need to have lots and lots of data sets 32:51.320 --> 32:53.280 of what materials look like so that we can make 32:53.280 --> 32:55.980 better material models and make better games that way. 32:55.980 --> 32:58.980 and we would not get the DFG to fund us several years 32:58.980 --> 33:01.580 of recording things in a lab just to build one model. 33:01.580 --> 33:06.340 But what it could give us funding for is invent games, 33:06.340 --> 33:09.820 invent interaction mechanisms, gamification aspects 33:09.820 --> 33:13.440 that help people have fun doing that for free for us. 33:13.440 --> 33:15.680 There's been a recent master thesis by Thuban Buiti, 33:15.680 --> 33:18.040 I don't see her in the room right now, 33:18.040 --> 33:20.220 who investigated on how to make that right, 33:20.220 --> 33:22.460 because in order to record a material model, 33:22.460 --> 33:24.140 you have to be very precise in what you do. 33:24.140 --> 33:25.620 You have to have controlled light conditions, 33:25.620 --> 33:27.420 you have to have a very steady hand, 33:27.420 --> 33:29.620 and you have to connect these recording aspects 33:29.620 --> 33:33.440 with the game to make it interesting and playable. 33:33.440 --> 33:36.340 Another completely different aspect is serious games 33:36.340 --> 33:39.440 that are intended to develop the society 33:39.440 --> 33:44.140 and to make people playing it interact 33:44.140 --> 33:46.660 with the development of society as a whole. 33:46.660 --> 33:51.660 One satirical approach to that is Twitter, Democracy 2.0, 33:52.280 --> 33:54.060 where people do something bad, 33:54.060 --> 33:56.020 they build a wall, I've learned, 33:56.020 --> 33:59.320 and they use social media to do that in a way, 33:59.320 --> 34:01.560 and playing this game, even though it's satirical in nature, 34:01.560 --> 34:03.820 makes you reflect on the meaning of democracy 34:03.820 --> 34:04.880 in a digitized world. 34:07.020 --> 34:08.600 These are topics on games, 34:09.600 --> 34:12.680 but when we come down to it, we won't stop teaching 34:13.660 --> 34:14.500 for several reasons. 34:14.500 --> 34:17.120 One is games intrinsically teach. 34:17.120 --> 34:19.220 I learned that after years of playing games 34:19.220 --> 34:21.000 only by reading a book by Ralph Koster, 34:21.000 --> 34:22.380 A Theory of Fun, 34:22.380 --> 34:24.420 A game that doesn't have a teaching component 34:24.420 --> 34:26.280 where you don't have to learn anything by playing it 34:26.280 --> 34:28.140 is completely boring. 34:28.140 --> 34:30.060 Every game teaches you something. 34:30.060 --> 34:31.700 Super Mario teaches on one level 34:31.700 --> 34:33.340 that if you ever want to rescue a princess 34:33.340 --> 34:34.980 and all you are is a plumber and have a hammer, 34:34.980 --> 34:37.660 you should jump over the turtles, well, fine, 34:37.660 --> 34:39.300 and eat all the mushrooms you find, 34:39.300 --> 34:40.900 that's a bit dangerous. 34:40.900 --> 34:42.620 But this game also teaches you other things. 34:42.620 --> 34:44.340 It teaches you planning ahead, 34:44.340 --> 34:46.740 teaches remembering complex actions 34:46.740 --> 34:50.560 and timing these actions precisely so that they work out. 34:50.560 --> 34:53.260 And making games is incredibly instructive. 34:54.660 --> 34:56.220 I've been here for three years, 34:56.220 --> 34:58.360 and for three years I've been marveled 34:58.360 --> 35:00.680 at how much effort our students put 35:00.680 --> 35:04.440 into making their games reality, making them happen. 35:04.440 --> 35:06.460 And on the way they learn how to program, 35:06.460 --> 35:09.340 how to do convincing game art, how to use modeling tools, 35:09.340 --> 35:11.780 how to work with engines that crash 35:11.780 --> 35:13.400 and how to recover data that they lost 35:13.400 --> 35:14.760 because the version somehow didn't work 35:14.760 --> 35:16.060 the way they expected to. 35:16.060 --> 35:22.560 And that is wonderful and games are also very instructive because they bring together people with 35:22.960 --> 35:27.120 a totally different set of skills and it's wonderful about the games lab. 35:27.120 --> 35:33.860 You can walk in there and there's people from different degree programs from different departments working on tables together to build their games. 35:34.300 --> 35:35.980 That's wonderful. 35:35.980 --> 35:40.100 So let me conclude. This is the Institute for Games 35:40.720 --> 35:44.340 because the Institute is a website and it is rooms and it's money but 35:44.340 --> 35:51.060 more than that it's people and most of the people that are us on this slide. 35:51.060 --> 35:58.560 Our school has a very good motto. On English it reads, I believe, study, understand, do. 35:58.560 --> 36:05.220 And I think for us gamers I can put this a bit more compactly and say let's play. Thank you. 36:14.340 --> 36:24.840 so I'm between you and the champagne now so I make make the things short three small aspects 36:24.840 --> 36:34.020 from me first aspect you didn't mention is this is my part talking to politicians what's digital 36:34.020 --> 36:44.220 media for politicians mostly it's Facebook fake news and ego shooters we 36:44.220 --> 36:53.620 really bad things and this is what this Institute is really could be proud of 36:53.620 --> 37:00.060 is yeah we do all kind of games and gaming yeah and gaming is a big business 37:00.060 --> 37:05.060 as you mentioned, but we can do all this wonderful transfer. 37:05.060 --> 37:09.060 We can do things like the reality project, 37:09.060 --> 37:13.060 we can do gamification for different businesses, 37:13.060 --> 37:17.060 which are very helpful for our state of Baden-Württemberg, 37:17.060 --> 37:20.060 and this is convincing for politicians. 37:20.060 --> 37:26.060 And I think for me this is a really important part of the institute, 37:26.060 --> 37:29.580 that we can do this transfer, that we can prove, 37:29.580 --> 37:31.140 yes, we can do it. 37:33.040 --> 37:35.540 The other thing I wanted to mention is, 37:36.400 --> 37:41.400 yeah, years ago, something happened you can't imagine. 37:43.040 --> 37:48.040 Being rector of a university, imagine the door opens 37:48.360 --> 37:51.620 and colleagues come in and tell you, 37:51.620 --> 37:53.180 we are willing to work together. 37:56.060 --> 38:06.800 this sounds strange here and they told you we are willing to sit together in 38:06.800 --> 38:22.700 office and the third thing we don't want money this was the starting point 38:22.700 --> 38:34.420 point but a little bit of space and maybe some computers and maybe some okay 38:34.420 --> 38:43.280 but it was a great start and still it's unbelievable for me this is what happens 38:43.280 --> 38:49.400 very very very solemn at universities that we find colleagues which work in 38:49.400 --> 38:52.140 in this way really interdisciplinary together. 38:53.240 --> 38:54.340 Where can you find it? 38:55.220 --> 38:58.600 This is really, this is the big, big, big success story 38:58.600 --> 39:02.700 and we as HDM, we can be very proud of this. 39:02.700 --> 39:05.500 And it's the starting point what we can see now 39:05.500 --> 39:07.600 that other colleagues say, yeah, 39:07.600 --> 39:10.780 this is the big success story, the Gains Institute, 39:10.780 --> 39:13.400 let's try it with artificial intelligence, 39:13.400 --> 39:17.460 let's try it maybe with cybersecurity to do the same thing, 39:17.460 --> 39:23.760 to find colleagues from different disciplines working together and build similar institutes. 39:23.760 --> 39:27.380 And this is really the big, big story. 39:27.380 --> 39:35.360 So thank you all very much, the founders and all the drivers of this institute. 39:35.360 --> 39:38.700 And last but not least, Uwe Schulz. 39:38.700 --> 39:41.080 He is an aerospace engineer. 39:41.080 --> 39:42.880 He is an IT guy. 39:42.880 --> 39:45.180 He is an organizer. 39:45.180 --> 39:53.680 He is always convincing, he is enthusiastic in bringing in students in such projects, 39:53.680 --> 39:59.060 and maybe the most important thing for me, he is the really reliable guy. 39:59.060 --> 40:06.900 He's always 100% reliable and this is what makes many things happen. 40:06.900 --> 40:13.560 So this was the success factor of the past and of the present, but I'm deeply convinced 40:13.560 --> 40:20.520 you found the right persons and we will see this success in future and we will 40:20.520 --> 40:26.460 have maybe what will be not billionaires with the Institute but we do the great 40:26.460 --> 40:33.120 stuff in future and transfer our ideas from gaming industry into other 40:33.120 --> 40:39.560 industries relevant for this area into the health sector in name it and it will 40:39.560 --> 40:50.900 be still a great success thank you yes thank you very much well we're coming to 40:50.900 --> 40:58.640 the end now I think it's getting a little bit emotional now so I will switch 40:58.640 --> 41:03.860 switch to German now I have to switch to German we're werden 41:03.860 --> 41:08.860 We are now the head of the institute, so we are two heads of the institute. 41:08.860 --> 41:13.860 It was always good to have a double-edged sword, not only because you can totally rely on each other, 41:13.860 --> 41:16.860 but because it makes the work much, much easier. 41:16.860 --> 41:22.860 But I will now leave this double-edged sword and pass it on to my very, very dear colleague Martin Fuchs. 41:22.860 --> 41:28.860 And at this point I would like to thank everyone who actually made this success possible. 41:28.860 --> 41:32.460 Especially Jens. I have worked with Jens Hahn for six years now. 41:32.460 --> 41:34.660 We have worked incredibly well together. 41:34.660 --> 41:37.260 You are someone you can really rely on. 41:37.260 --> 41:40.460 He was always there. He never hesitated to work. 41:40.460 --> 41:42.260 We have written many applications together. 41:42.260 --> 41:44.860 Many of the applications really brought in money. 41:44.860 --> 41:46.260 So it was really a great thing. 41:46.260 --> 41:49.460 Thank you very much for this great time, Jens. 41:49.460 --> 41:54.860 But there are still a whole lot of other people that I must not forget, that I do not want to forget. 41:54.860 --> 41:58.860 First of all, our rector, who has put a lot of trust in us. 41:58.860 --> 42:00.860 I have to say that. There were a lot of foreshadowing, 42:00.860 --> 42:02.860 and this trust was important. 42:02.860 --> 42:05.860 He gave us these rooms up there. 42:05.860 --> 42:08.860 These rooms were really the key to success. 42:08.860 --> 42:10.860 I have to say that very clearly. 42:10.860 --> 42:15.860 And he also supported us when it was a bit unconventional. 42:15.860 --> 42:18.860 But also our chancellor. 42:18.860 --> 42:21.860 The rector is the one who always says to us, 42:21.860 --> 42:25.860 and said, do great things and develop new ideas. 42:25.860 --> 42:29.860 Then they went to the Chancellor and said, we don't have the resources, we don't have the money, we have nothing. 42:29.860 --> 42:33.860 We can't do it and we still have to do it. 42:33.860 --> 42:37.860 But our Chancellor has always supported us a lot and 42:37.860 --> 42:41.860 I think he has jumped over some shadows. 42:41.860 --> 42:45.860 I am very grateful to him for that. Joachim Czacinski is the one who 42:45.860 --> 42:49.860 brought the whole thing into the spotlight. He had the right, driving idea 42:49.860 --> 42:56.860 I remember his lecture before the university council, where he said we are founding this institute. 42:56.860 --> 43:02.860 Mathis Felten, who is unfortunately sick today, who wrote the first applications with me. 43:02.860 --> 43:07.860 One of these applications made sure that we got two new positions. 43:07.860 --> 43:13.860 One of the positions is yours and that is the real success that we have Martin here today. 43:13.860 --> 43:19.860 Yes, then Sabia. No one could resist your charm anyway. 43:19.860 --> 43:26.860 Working with you is just incredibly fun. You are convincing, you are a great person. 43:26.860 --> 43:29.860 So thank you very much for the nice time. 43:29.860 --> 43:40.860 Stefan is the one who understands games the most among all of us. 43:40.860 --> 43:43.860 He can really bring the students close to Games Engines. 43:43.860 --> 43:47.860 And he is always there. He has organized a lot for us. 43:47.860 --> 43:50.860 It's a lot of fun to work with him. 43:50.860 --> 43:52.860 Then there is Beate Schlitter, for example, 43:52.860 --> 43:55.860 whom I probably know the longest from all of these universities. 43:55.860 --> 43:59.860 I have already done a project with her in 1997, when she was still a student here. 43:59.860 --> 44:03.860 We won a great prize there and drove to Vienna. 44:03.860 --> 44:09.860 That was illegal. I drove to Vienna with the HdM bus with some students. 44:09.860 --> 44:13.860 When I came back, it was like, hey, he's not insured abroad. 44:13.860 --> 44:19.860 At first, the former chancellor pulled my ears, but it was okay. 44:19.860 --> 44:33.860 Above all, I would like to thank my young colleagues, Sandra, Stefan, Linda, Axel, Matthias, Selina. 44:33.860 --> 44:36.860 It's just great to work with you. 44:36.860 --> 44:42.860 You guys with your enthusiasm, your joy, your humor. 44:42.860 --> 44:45.860 You keep us old-fashioned, just really under steam. 44:45.860 --> 44:47.860 That's fun. That keeps us young. 44:47.860 --> 44:49.860 It's just nice that we have you. 44:49.860 --> 44:52.860 We couldn't do these projects anyway. 44:52.860 --> 44:55.860 We're not innovative enough and young enough to do that. 44:55.860 --> 44:57.860 But that's the nice thing about an institute like this, 44:57.860 --> 45:00.860 that young and old work so well together. 45:00.860 --> 45:02.860 Thank you very much for that. 45:02.860 --> 45:08.860 One I must not forget at all, who has actually become a friend in all these years, is Robin. 45:08.860 --> 45:15.860 Robin is someone you can rely on incredibly, who is called by the students on Sundays when the server is not working 45:15.860 --> 45:24.860 or when one of our students has put the cable as U in one of the switches and then the network has broken down. 45:24.860 --> 45:26.860 That has not only happened once. 45:26.860 --> 45:31.860 AM engineers, okay, that's a different topic. 45:31.860 --> 45:33.860 Robin, thank you very much. 45:33.860 --> 45:35.860 Yes, over there, yes, exactly. 45:35.860 --> 45:38.860 Thank you very much, it's really great how you're engaging this. 45:38.860 --> 45:44.860 And I will miss your Sauerland humor very much, I have to say. 45:44.860 --> 45:50.860 And then, finally, someone who came to us about three years ago, 45:50.860 --> 45:53.860 a colleague who is really a smart fox, 45:53.860 --> 46:05.860 who really knows a lot, has an incredibly fast perception, is very, very intelligent and is still incredibly social. 46:05.860 --> 46:14.860 He has an incredible sense of humor, it's fun to work with him and I'm glad that I can hand over this leadership of the institute to you, 46:14.860 --> 46:18.860 because I'm sure you will do it much better than you have ever done. 46:18.860 --> 46:24.860 So, thank you very much to everyone, also to the students. I also see some here who are doing their final work with me. 46:24.860 --> 46:28.860 For someone my age, it's just great to be able to work with young people. 46:28.860 --> 46:32.860 It's just a great, great thing. But at some point it has to be over. 46:32.860 --> 46:38.860 It's not quite over yet. I'll be 68 next year. I'll be doing it for another year. 46:38.860 --> 46:46.860 But if I do it for longer, then I'll be divorced at my old age, because my wife then says, no, now it's over. 46:46.860 --> 46:48.860 Now it's over. 46:48.860 --> 46:54.860 But it was very important to me that I don't give up the institute at the end of my career, 46:54.860 --> 46:58.860 but that I do it earlier and that I can support Martin a little bit. 46:58.860 --> 47:03.860 We are sitting in the same room and he can now delegate tasks to me. 47:03.860 --> 47:07.860 That's good, he's already happy about it. 47:07.860 --> 47:12.860 So thank you all very much and now we have decided to... 47:12.860 --> 47:14.860 Oh, you wanted to say that, right? 47:14.860 --> 47:18.860 You can stay up there. 47:18.860 --> 47:28.860 I can only thank Uwe Schulz for all he has said. 47:28.860 --> 47:32.860 One thing you haven't said, I still have to say, namely to thank you. 47:32.860 --> 47:38.860 We also heard a lot about the success story institute for games, 47:38.860 --> 47:42.860 also why it worked, just because a few people said, 47:42.860 --> 47:45.860 We said we want to do it and we are doing it now. 47:45.860 --> 47:50.860 No matter where the limits of the institutes or the studies are or what else it is. 47:50.860 --> 47:52.860 We are doing it completely pragmatically. 47:52.860 --> 47:57.860 And your contribution to the success was huge. 47:57.860 --> 48:00.860 You have made very essential contributions. 48:00.860 --> 48:04.860 It was a lot of fun working with you. 48:04.860 --> 48:06.860 And it will be fun again. 48:06.860 --> 48:09.860 I am glad that you are not making a cut in pieces, 48:09.860 --> 48:13.860 but the exit strategy has been going for a few years. 48:13.860 --> 48:16.860 But still, thank you very much. 48:16.860 --> 48:20.860 Mr. Roos has already mentioned a few of your characteristics. 48:20.860 --> 48:22.860 I would like to add one more. 48:22.860 --> 48:24.860 Friend. You are a friend here. 48:24.860 --> 48:27.860 I think we all feel that at the institute. 48:27.860 --> 48:30.860 And we will stay that way. 48:30.860 --> 48:33.860 And then we will just stay here to say 48:33.860 --> 48:36.860 I am also looking forward to working with you in the future 48:36.860 --> 48:38.860 in the same way. 48:38.860 --> 48:42.860 and I am convinced that the success will continue. 48:42.860 --> 48:44.860 Thank you. 48:44.860 --> 48:46.860 Now we can do this. 48:46.860 --> 48:49.860 For tonight or for now? 48:49.860 --> 48:51.860 Before we leave. 48:51.860 --> 48:53.860 Yes, he is doing it now. 48:53.860 --> 48:58.860 So this is not a farewell gift from the HdM or the institute, 48:58.860 --> 49:03.860 but just a small thank you for what you have done as a teacher at the institute. 49:03.860 --> 49:10.860 and we hope that you will stay with us. 49:24.860 --> 49:26.860 So, maybe I can say something short. 49:33.860 --> 49:35.860 Thank you. 49:35.860 --> 49:39.860 We are going to do a little more music in the institute in the evening. 49:39.860 --> 49:41.860 After the first beer, we can start. 49:41.860 --> 49:44.860 Yes, if the lecture is around 8 pm or so. 49:44.860 --> 49:46.860 Thank you. 49:46.860 --> 49:52.860 My name is Martin Fuchs. I am the head of the Institute for Games. 49:52.860 --> 49:54.860 I think so, yes? Am I? 49:54.860 --> 49:56.860 You are the head of the Institute for Games. 49:56.860 --> 49:59.860 Wow, and for several seconds now. And I have a problem. 49:59.860 --> 50:05.360 The problem is this. We thought about how the evening could go. 50:05.360 --> 50:11.360 We made a plan. I wrote it down. The plan was, the director says something, Uwe says something, Uwe says thank you. 50:11.360 --> 50:14.360 Jens says thank you and I say, let's go have a drink. 50:14.360 --> 50:19.360 And there is a problem now. The problem is, first of all, this is a scientific lecture. 50:19.360 --> 50:24.360 You can't end a lecture with, we're going to have a drink now. You have to end it with, thank you. 50:24.360 --> 50:29.760 Second problem, I am also very grateful that I can become a student advisor in this wonderful institute, 50:29.760 --> 50:32.160 where you can have so much fun, as we had this morning again, 50:32.160 --> 50:35.160 when printing the last name sign that we got, 50:35.160 --> 50:38.160 when writing the lecture over the weekend and yesterday, 50:38.160 --> 50:40.160 during our collaboration. 50:40.160 --> 50:43.160 And the problem with that, I can say now, of course, 50:43.160 --> 50:45.160 but Uwe has already formulated it much better, 50:45.160 --> 50:47.160 he thanked himself at the university, he thanked himself at the rector, 50:47.160 --> 50:49.160 he thanked himself at the faculties, 50:49.160 --> 50:51.160 thank you very much deans as representatives for the faculties, 50:51.160 --> 50:53.160 great that you are there and have made it. 50:53.160 --> 50:58.160 He thanked all the employees and if I do that all over again, 50:58.160 --> 51:03.160 it's all right, but it's very repetitive and boring. 51:03.160 --> 51:09.160 Okay, next question. I can thank Uwe. Uwe does a great job and did a great job, but Jens already said that. 51:09.160 --> 51:12.160 It's difficult. 51:12.160 --> 51:15.160 I'll do it anyway. I can thank you both. 51:15.160 --> 51:21.160 Jens, I want to thank you for the simple thing that you're letting me alone with the load. 51:21.160 --> 51:28.160 I am looking forward to working with you. 51:28.160 --> 51:35.160 We have surprisingly met a professor, a PhD student who has actually become a professor. 51:35.160 --> 51:37.160 That is a success story. 51:37.160 --> 51:44.160 I am looking forward to working with Jens and to be able to hang on to him a little bit in this role. 51:44.160 --> 51:46.160 I would like to thank Uwe. 51:46.160 --> 51:48.160 Uwe, you have invited a lot of praise to me. 51:48.160 --> 51:50.160 You will get it back. 51:50.160 --> 51:54.160 Besides the many good qualities I appreciate, there is one special one. 51:54.160 --> 51:57.160 You are an incredibly successful optimist. 51:57.160 --> 52:00.160 Being an optimist is theoretically easy to say, yes, that works. 52:00.160 --> 52:03.160 It's okay, we'll do it, we'll make it. 52:03.160 --> 52:08.160 Uwe says that often, but from my experience, if Uwe says that, then it happens. 52:08.160 --> 52:15.160 He says, yes, that's okay, that's okay, we'll make it, we'll do it, that's enough, and it works. 52:15.160 --> 52:20.160 And I am incredibly happy and grateful that you are still with us for a few months, so that I can maybe still learn from you. 52:20.160 --> 52:26.160 Thank you very much, Uwe. Thank you very much to all of you. I'm thirsty, let's go and drink something. 52:45.160 --> 53:15.140 Thank you.