Lesson 2: Play & Games

Question 1

Why are simulation games interesting, and what do they have varying levels of?

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Question 2

What’s interesting about the french word for game/play, the latin, and english?

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Question 3

Describe Huizinga’s Magic Circle-Define it. A place… where participants agree to… only certain activities… suspended?-What happens when you break the rules of play, to Huizinga?

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Question 4

What must any definition of a game consider?But, What is not considered a requirement of being a game?

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Question 5

What is a taxonomy?

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Question 6

What did Huizinga say about play’s significance for culture? How does culture development take place?

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Question 7

How did Huizinga define play?

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Question 8

How did Callois define play and games?

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Question 9

How did Kampmann define play and games?

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Question 10

What did Huizinga say about spectrums and play?

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Question 11

What did Callois say about play/game and spectrums?

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Question 12

What did Mallaby say about play/game and spectrums?

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Question 13

How did Huizinga think play related to daily life?

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Question 14

How did Callois believe play/games related to daily life?What did Callois say about seriousness and play? When did he believe game was no longer a game?

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Question 15

What did Huizinga say about the agonistic impulse? What was Callois’ perspective?

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Question 16

List Crawford’s game taxonomy

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Question 17

List Brian Moriarty’s taxonomy.

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Question 18

Describe Callois 4 game subtypes and examples of each.

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Question 19

In what 3 ways did Kampmann believe games were distinguishable from play?

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