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 - 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 -