Half-Real
Video games as both a departure from and a development of traditional games; an analysis of the interaction between rules and fiction in video games.
A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul examines the ...
Video games as both a departure from and a development of traditional games; an analysis of the interaction between rules and fiction in video games.
A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul examines the ...
