Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made Of

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Playful Materialities

The Stuff That Games Are Made Of

Edited by: Benjamin Beil , Gundolf S. Freyermuth , Hanns Christian Schmidt and Raven Rusch
Funded by: BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002

Volume 14 in the series Bild und Bit

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462003

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.
The contributors examine this playful materiality from various angles.

Author / Editor information

Benjamin Beil is a professor for media studies and digital culture at the Department of Media Culture and Theater at Universität zu Köln.
Gundolf S. Freyermuth is a writer, media producer and co-founder of the Cologne Game Lab (in 2010, together with Prof. Björn Bartholdy).
Hanns Christian Schmidt works as a research assistant at the Institute of Media Culture and Theater at Universität zu Köln.
Raven Rusch is an artist, musician and game developer. He is co-ceo of the start-up »neoludic games,« and works part-time as research assistant at the Cologne Game Lab.

Reviews

»Der Sammelband ist ein beeindruckendes Beispiel dafür, wie holistische Spieleforschung, die gängige Diskurse überdenkt und ausweitet, aussehen kann.«
Jakob Andriamaro, [rezens.tfm], 1 (2023)

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface and Acknowledgments Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt and Raven Rusch Open Access Download PDF	7
PLACES
Vegas, Disney, and the Metaverse On the Material Anticipation of Virtual Worlds and Virtual Play in the Second Half of the 20^th Century Gundolf S. Freyermuth Open Access Download PDF	17
Augmenting Materialities A Case Study of MASCHINENKLANGWERK Isabel Grünberg, Raven Rusch and David Wildemann Open Access Download PDF	99
EXHIBITS
Let’s Play the Exhibition! Radiohead’s KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION, Virtual Museums, and Games Isabelle Hamm Open Access Download PDF	123
To Craft a Game Arts Curators Kit A Collective Record of How to Publicly Exhibit Video Games Around the Globe Rene G. Cepeda and Chaz Evans Open Access Download PDF	145
On Chainsaws and Display Cases Exhibiting Video Games Benjamin Beil Open Access Download PDF	159
MODIFICATIONS
Unpacking the Blackbox of ‘Normal Gaming’ A Sociomaterial Approach to Video Game Controllers and ‘Disability’ Markus Spöhrer Open Access Download PDF	187
Being a Child Again Through Gameplay Playable Child Perspectives and the Sitting Simulator BACKSEAT Cordula Heithausen Open Access Download PDF	223
Lego Level Up Game Literacy and Playful Materialities Hanns Christian Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	253
PIECES
Beyond Pawns and Meeples Material Meanings of Analog Game Figures Peter Podrez Open Access Download PDF	279
Have We Left the Paperverse Yet? Maps, Boxes, and other Paper Objects as Imaginative Devices of Unfulfilled Desires in Early Gaming Michael A. Conrad Open Access Download PDF	315
Keep the Innovation Rolling A Modern Board Game Review of Dice Usages and their Mechanisms Micael Sousa Open Access Download PDF	351
Immateriality and Immortality Digital Toys in Video Games Emma Reay Open Access Download PDF	379
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	399

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 404
Keywords: Play; Materiality; Media; Culture; Popular Culture; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Media Studies

eBook

Published: August 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839462003