Devil’s Plaything: On the Boundary between Playful and Serious

Authors

  • Kristine Jørgensen

Keywords:

playfulness, seriousness, deep play, brink play, positive negative experiences, the bleed

Abstract

With point of departure in the concepts of positive negative experiences (Hopeametsä 2008; Montola 2010), deep play (Geertz, 1973, 432-433; Schechner 2013, 118-119), brink play (Poremba 2007), and the bleed effect (Montola 2010; Waern 2010), this paper discusses how games tackle serious and controversial issues in the context of play. The paper’s central argument is that seriousness is not only possible in games and play, but that seriousness is a prerequisite and a necessary aspect of all play activities.

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Published

2014-01-01

Bibtex

@Conference{digra700, title ="Devil’s Plaything: On the Boundary between Playful and Serious", year = "2014", author = "Jørgensen, Kristine", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/700}", booktitle = "Proceedings of Nordic DiGRA 2014 Conference"}

Proceedings

2014: Proceedings of Nordic DiGRA 2014 Conference

Section

Papers

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