Playful Materialities The Stuff That Games Are Made Of
Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld
transcript Verlag
2022
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| Series: | Bild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (404 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783837662009 9783732862009 9783839462003 |