Les jeux et les hommes
Citations
15 citations
Cites background from "Les jeux et les hommes"
...Theorists such as Huizinga (1955) and Caillois (1958) have been proclaimed to be the true fathers of the field and quite often analog and digital games are treated as two sides of the same coin....
[...]
15 citations
Cites background or methods from "Les jeux et les hommes"
...They denote games based upon competition, luck, make-belief, and intoxication or willful loss of control (Caillois 1958, p. 27), a much larger range of activities than covered in other theories of games, which tend to identify all games at least partially with what Caillois calls agôn, i.e. games…...
[...]
...This ‘espace pur’ (Caillois 1958, p. 19) is constituted by a common belief, rituals, and voluntary obeisance and could therefore be called a holy environment.3 According to Caillois, the game environment comes into existence when players agree on rules....
[...]
...…of describing the perceived properties of games – e.g. the number of players and the required equipment – Caillois categorizes the motivations of playful behavior and identifies two radically different ways of playing, the unstructured paidia and the structured ludus (Caillois 1958, pp. 52–53)....
[...]
...Apart from their voluntary nature (Caillois 1958, p. 17–18), the defining characteristic of all games is their detachment from the real world....
[...]
...This is congruent with one of Caillois’ definitions of games: their outcome is neither predetermined nor completely predictable, because it results from player action (Caillois 1958, p. 20)....
[...]
15 citations
15 citations