TY  - CHAP
A1  - Möring, Sebastian
A1  - Aarseth, Espen
T1  - The game itself?
BT  - Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games
T2  - International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’20)
N2  - In this paper, we reassess the notion and current state of ludohermeneutics in game studies, and propose a more solid foundation for how to conduct hermeneutic game analysis. We argue that there can be no ludo-hermeneutics as such, and that every game interpretation rests in a particular game ontology, whether implicit or explicit. The quality of this ontology, then, determines a vital aspect of the quality of the analysis.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/0.1145/3402942.3402978
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
PB  - ACM
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Möring, Sebastian
A1  - Aarseth, Espen
T1  - The game itself?
BT  - Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games
T2  - International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’20)
N2  - In this paper, we reassess the notion and current state of ludohermeneutics in game studies, and propose a more solid foundation for how to conduct hermeneutic game analysis. We argue that there can be no ludo-hermeneutics as such, and that every game interpretation rests in a particular game ontology, whether implicit or explicit. The quality of this ontology, then, determines a vital aspect of the quality of the analysis.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402978
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
PB  - ACM
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Aarseth, Espen
T1  - Locating the Game in Computer Games : from game structure to game semantics : Ringvorlesung 2009-12-03
N2  - The talk will focus on a few central problems in Game Studies: The question of where to locate game meaning, game defintions and how to avoid them, and the conundrum of games vs stories. In all these problems, the choice of ludic perspective (e.g. are games artifacts, systems or activities?) limits our ability to discuss games across disciplinary boundaries. What is needed is a metaperspective that will offer the field a chance to move on.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://info.ub.uni-potsdam.de/multimedia/show_projekt.php?projekt_id=79
PB  - Univ. Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Aarseth, Espen
T1  - Define real, Moron!
BT  - Some remarks on game ontologies
JF  - DIGAREC Series
N2  - Academic language should not be a ghetto dialect at odds with ordinary language, but rather an extension that is compatible with lay-language. To define ‘game’ with the unrealistic ambition of satisfying both lay-people and experts should not be a major concern for a game ontology, since the field it addresses is subject to cultural evolution and diachronic change. Instead of the impossible mission of turning the common word into an analytic concept, a useful task for an ontology of games is to model game differences, to show how the things we call games can be different from each other in a number of different ways.
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49810
SN  - 1867-6219
SN  - 1867-6227
IS  - 6
SP  - 50
EP  - 69
ER  -