TY  - CONF
A1  - Juul, Jesper
T1  - The magic circle and the puzzle piece
N2  - In a common description, to play a game is to step inside a concrete or metaphorical magic circle where special rules apply. In video game studies, this description has received an inordinate amount of criticism which the paper argues has two primary sources: 1. a misreading of the basic concept of the magic circle and 2. a somewhat rushed application of traditional theoretical concerns onto games. The paper argues that games studies must move beyond conventional criticisms of binary distinctions and rather look at the details of how games are played. Finally, the paper proposes an alternative metaphor for game-playing, the puzzle piece.
Y1  - 2008
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2554
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24554
ER  -