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Playful Materialities
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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 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.
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Benjamin Beil ist Professur für Medienwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Digitalkulturen am Institut für Medienkultur und Theater der Universität zu Köln
--- Contributor: Gundolf S. FreyermuthGundolf S. Freyermuth (Prof. Dr.) ist Professor für »Media and Game Studies« und Co-Director des Cologne Game Lab an der TH Köln. Außerdem ist er außerordentlicher Professor für Vergleichende Medienwissenschaften an der ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln.
--- Contributor: Hanns Christian SchmidtHanns Christian Schmidt is a professor for Game Design at Macromedia University for Applied Sciences (Cologne) and a research assistant at the Institute of Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne.
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»Der Sammelband ist ein beeindruckendes Beispiel dafür, wie holistische Spieleforschung, die gängige Diskurse überdenkt und ausweitet, aussehen kann.«
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgments
7 - PLACES
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Vegas, Disney, and the Metaverse
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Augmenting Materialities
99 - EXHIBITS
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Let’s Play the Exhibition!
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To Craft a Game Arts Curators Kit
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On Chainsaws and Display Cases
159 - MODIFICATIONS
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Unpacking the Blackbox of ‘Normal Gaming’
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Being a Child Again Through Gameplay
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Lego Level Up
253 - PIECES
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Beyond Pawns and Meeples
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Have We Left the Paperverse Yet?
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Keep the Innovation Rolling
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Immateriality and Immortality
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Contributors
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