The Ludologist: Game Definition Again

Ancient Greece: Victory at any cost is an entgry in Jesper Juul’s blog The Ludologist which also deals with definition. Jesper has a paper online that has a topography of games, The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness. Why is defining games so important? Why do we continue doing it after Wittgenstein’s Investigations.

See previous posts on Defining Games and Espen Aarseth: (What) Can the Humanities Contribute to Game Research?

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