Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of
Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform…
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Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of
Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards.
They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals.
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