Studies of Digital Media Culture #: Playful Materialities

The Stuff that Games Are Made Of

Studies of Digital Media Culture #: Playful Materialities
Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt, Raven Rusch
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15 Aug 2022 GE
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9783837662009
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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.

Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II
Playful Materialities: The Stuff that Games Are Made Of

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ISBN-13: 9783837662009
Published: 15 Aug 2022
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback
Height: 23mm
Width: 15mm
Pages: 404

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