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Dice, Cards and Boards. Material Elements of Games and the Play-Form

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dc.creatorClüver, Claudius
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-21T15:12:24Z
dc.date.available2022-11-21T15:12:24Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe study of dice games, card games and board games shows that similar material objects as well as the specific moments of attraction attached to them evoke similar games. These objects therefore have the affordance to play those games with them. Dice, for example, lend themselves to games with a component of randomness; Card games have historically undergone a change from luck-based to skill-based games, while the mathematical principles underlying them are developed; Boards invite competition for the space on their geometric surfaces. On the basis of these findings, I propose the notion of a play-form for these object-affordances, which are characterized by being stable, recognizable and functionally related to the game context. In addition to these object-like forms of play, practices such as gestures or infrastructures related to games can also have a formal character. If several forms of play come together and the combination in turn has formal qualities, meaning the combination is also stable, recognizable and functional, I speak of game formats, such as board or card games, that draw on a common inventory of forms. In more modern games it is common to use the entire range of play-forms, whereas stronger format delineations are characteristic of traditional games.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19002
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.gamescoop.uni-siegen.de/spielformen/index.php/journal/article/view/17/19
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20165
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMedienwissenschaftliches Seminar Uni Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2748-6001
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSpiel|Formen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subjectAnalog gameen
dc.subjectBoard Gameen
dc.subjectCard Gameen
dc.subjectDiceen
dc.subjectAffordanceen
dc.subject.ddcddc:794
dc.titleDice, Cards and Boards. Material Elements of Games and the Play-Formen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-11-21T16:30:48
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.gamescoop.uni-siegen.de/spielformen/index.php/journal/article/view/17/19
local.source.epage51
local.source.issueTitleLudomaterialities
local.source.spage29
local.source.volume2

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