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Playful Materialities

The Stuff That Games Are Made Of

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Benjamin Beil

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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 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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Titre: Playful Materialities
Sous-titre: The Stuff That Games Are Made Of
Langue: Anglais
Auteurs: Benjamin Beil
Éditeur: Transcript Verlag
Publié: 2022
ISBN10: 3837662004
ISBN13: 9783837662009
Mots clés: Sciences sociales, Sciences politiques & Politique
Description: 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 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.