Benjamin Beil (PhD) is professor of media studies & digital culture at the Department of Media Culture & Theatre at the University of Cologne. Gundolf S. Freyermuth (PhD) is professor of media and game studies and a founding director of the Cologne Game Lab at TH Köln-University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany. He also teaches comparative media studies at the ifs international film school Cologne. Hanns Christian Schmidt (PhD) works as a research assistant at the Department of Media Culture & Theater at the University of Cologne and within the project Literacy of Play / Literacy of Games at the Cologne Game Lab.