Playful Materialities : The Stuff that Games Are Made Of
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies of Digital Media Culture
ISBN-10
3837662004
ISBN-13
9783837662009
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Imprint
Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2022
Print length
404 Pages
Weight
618 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.40 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studies
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An exploration of the intricate links between game culture and material culture, examining the objects of gaming and the playful phenomena that they create.
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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