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      Playful Materialities: The Stuff that Games Are Made Of

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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 magic...

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      Product ID:9783837662009
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:Studies of Digital Media Culture
      Title:Playful Materialities
      Subtitle:The Stuff that Games Are Made Of
      Authors:Author: Benjamin Beil, Raven Rusch, Hanns Christian Schmidt, Gundolf S. Freyermuth
      Page Count:404
      Subjects:Cultural studies, Cultural studies
      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.
      Imprint Name:Transcript Verlag
      Publisher Name:Transcript Verlag
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2022-08-15

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      Weight618 g
      Dimensions147 × 224 × 30 mm