{"product_id":"playful-materialities-9783837662009","title":"Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made of","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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Beil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3837662004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783837662009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Transcript Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Benjamin Beil","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44129330200831,"sku":"9783837662009","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25e5407f-9aca-4bad-b2a9-93c2976bec55.jpg?v=1687463304","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/playful-materialities-9783837662009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}