Playful Materialities : The Stuff That Games Are Made Of
(eBook)

English

10.1515/9783839462003

Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 unrestricted online access star

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.The contributors examine this playful materiality from various angles.

funded by BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002

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In English.