IAT 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Role-Playing Game
14 Feb 2018
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Playful activities (including games) can be places along a continuum between paidia= unstructured and. Games can be understood according o their position relative to these two extremes (caillois, 1961). A game = is a system in which players engine in an artificial conflict, designed by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome (salen and zimmerman, 2003). Common elements = game designers, philosophers, etc. tend to agree on at least two elements: 1) games have rules 2) Attitude: why do people accept a games rules? usually, simply to make the game possible. Rules are treated as if they are real and have real consequences. Games- some concepts main game scholars: roger caillois man, play and games (1961) & johann huizinga, homo. Game = a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome common elements > games have rules & games have a goal.
