Playful Materialities : : The Stuff That Games Are Made Of.

• Superior document: Bild und Bit Series ; v.14
• Author: Beil, Benjamin.
• TeilnehmendeR: Freyermuth, Gundolf S.; Schmidt, Hanns Christian.; Rusch, Raven.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Transcript Verlag,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Bild und Bit Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Places -- Vegas, Disney, and the Metaverse -- I Understanding Anticipation: Non-Synchronism &amp -- Future Places -- II Framing Las Vegas: Disney &amp -- Digital -- III Anticipating Augmented Realities: 1950s -- IV Anticipating the Ultimate Display: 1960s -- V Anticipating Virtual Worlds: 1990s -- VI Anticipating Virtual Design: 1990s -- VII Anticipating Virtual Agency: 1990s -- VIII Anticipating Virtual Play: 1990s -- IX Re-Framing Las Vegas: Anticipating the Metaverse -- Literature -- Filmography -- Gameography -- Augmenting Materialities -- Introduction -- Ludifying Materialities -- Merging Materialities -- Designing Materialities -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Gameography -- Exhibits -- Let's Play the Exhibition! -- Introduction: What Is a Museum Experience? -- The Kid A Mnesia Exhibition -- Project Biography -- Let's Play the Exhibition! -- Spatiality -- Context: Games and Virtual Exhibitions -- Conclusion: Digital Materiality -- Literature -- Gameography -- To Craft a Game Arts Curators Kit -- The Assembly of Contributing Video Game Curators -- A Snapshot of Video Game Curation in the 2010s -- Intentions Behind the GACK -- Structure of the GACK Writing Process -- The GACK in Summary -- Analysis and Themes of the GACK -- Conclusion -- Literature -- On Chainsaws and Display Cases -- Prologue: The Chainsaw Controller -- Digital Media at the Museum -- Medium Exhibition -- Video Game Exhibitions I: Beginnings -- Video Game Exhibitions II: -- Differentiations (in Germany) -- Video Game Exhibitions III: -- Challenges and Opportunities -- Computer Game Exhibitions IV: -- Praise of the Display Case -- Epilogue: Display Cases, Again -- Literature -- Gameography -- Modifications -- Unpacking the Blackbox of 'Normal Gaming' -- Introduction.

Silencing the Controller and Unpacking the Blackbox of 'Normal Gaming' -- Controller Research: From Problematic A Prioris to En-/Disabling Practices -- Intermezzo: Hacking and Working Around -- Many Modes of Play: Dennis Winkens' Adaptive Control -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Being a Child Again Through Gameplay -- Introduction: (The Lack of) Child Perspectives in Video Games -- Dark, Playful, or Blended- -- Different Approaches to Playing a Child -- Position, Perception, Projection- Making Playable Child Perspectives Relatable -- Childlike Positioning -- Childlike Perception/Comprehension -- Projection Surface vs. Individual Experience -- Nostalgia and Retro -- Approaches and Relatability -- BackSeat-Sitting Simulator with Child Perspective -- Plot Structure -- Aiming for Relatability -- Mini-Games and More-Playful Materialities in BackSeat -- Concluding Thoughts -- Literature -- Filmography -- Gameography -- Lego Level Up -- Introduction: How to Read a Game? -- Panofsky in the Post-Apocalypse: -- Game Literacy Models in Formal Learning Environments -- The Lego Level Up Workshops -- Focus 1: Storytelling, Games, Game Mechanics -- Focus 2: From the Analog to the Digital Labyrinth -- Findings from the Workshop I: Gender -- Findings from the Workshop II: Game Diversity and Media Literacy -- Findings from the Workshop III: The Role of the Game Material -- Dario's Box -- Outlook: Postdigital Building Blocks of Game Literacies-in the Distortion Mirror of Participatory Culture -- Literature -- Gameography -- Pieces -- Beyond Pawns and Meeples -- Introduction: Why Analog Game Figures? -- Actors, Agency, Affordances: Game Figures in Ludic Networks -- The Stuff That Games Are Made Of: Materiality as Prerequisite of Play -- The Politics of Materiality: Cultural Dimensions of Game Figures.

What Does a Chocolate Knight Taste Like? Aisthetic Experiences with Game Figures -- Destructions and Creations: Transformations of Game Figures -- Conclusion: Why Not Analog and Digital Game Figures? -- Literature -- Gameography -- Online Resources -- Have We Left the Paperverse Yet? -- At the End of the Paperverse? -- The Development of the First Paper Games in the Late Middle Ages -- Endless Paper: Alan Turing and the Computer -- Paper Prototypes in Game Design -- The Limitations of Experience and Moore's Law -- No Game is an Island: Mapping -- The Infocom Era of "Feelies" -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Gameography -- Keep the Innovation Rolling -- Introduction: Toward a Culture of Dice Games -- The Material Fascination Of Dice -- Finding Information About Dice Games -- Finding Innovative Dice Usages in Games -- The Top-Ranked Games Related to Dice at BGG -- Complementing the Tables: Other Dice Games Identified by Hobby Gamers -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Gameography -- Immateriality and Immortality -- Dolls, Plushies, and Plastic Figurines -- Tactile Nostalgia -- Playing as Possession: Haunted Dolls in Video Games -- Toys as Materialized Fictions -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Gameography -- Contributors.