Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of by

Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837662009)

Vendor: Benjamin Beil
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Format: Paperback
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Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of by

Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of

$60.00
Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of by

Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of

$60.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Benjamin Beil
ISBN-10: 3837662004
ISBN-13: 9783837662009
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2022
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
By Benjamin Beil
By Benjamin Beil
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Benjamin Beil is a professor for media studies and digital culture at the Department of Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne.
Gundolf S. Freyermuth is a writer, media producer, and co-founder of the Cologne Game Lab of the Technical University Cologne (in 2010, together with Prof. Bjn Bartholdy).
Hanns Christian Schmidt is a professor for Game Design at Macromedia University for Applied Sciences (Cologne) and a research assistant at the Institute of Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne.
Raven Rusch is an artist, musician and game developer. He
is co-ceo of the start-up neoludic games, and works part-time as research assistant at the Cologne Game Lab of the Technical University Cologne.

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