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An Introduction to Game Studies is a core textbook for game studies as an academic discipline, and is the comprehensive guide to the field. It introduces the student to the history and character of games studies as an analytical study of games in culture, and then moves to provide an overview of games as signifying and dynamic cultural constructs. This book shows how to analyze games by introducing the core analytical concepts in the contexts of games and game cultures of four periods. It covers the prehistory of games, the 70s, 80s, and 90s and also contemporary developments. Students will be introduced to both the theoretical core and the essential genres and classics of the subject.
Introduction: What is Game Studies?
Introduction: What is Game Studies?
If we apply to science our definition of play as an activity occurring within certain limits of space, time, and meaning, according to fixed rules, we might arrive at the amazing and horrifying conclusion that all the branches of science and learning are so many forms of play because each of them is isolate within its own field and bounded by the strict rules of its own methodology. (Johan Huizinga, 1938/1971, Homo Ludens)
Making Sense of Games
Playing games can be interesting and fun, but also challenging in many ways; game studies shares the same characteristics. The aim of this book is to guide its readers into the path of analytical appreciation and enhanced understanding of games. This ...
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