Play and Games
Nietzsche contra Caillois: Beyond play and games
... Huizinga devotes an entire chapter of Homo Ludens (1971) to the meanings of play in various languages and cultures around the world. Etymologically many equivalents of the English word ‘play’ are associated ...
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Different Reasons to Play Games in an English Language Class
... use games as they “are highly motivating since they are amusing and at the same time challenging (Mubaslat, 2012, ...4).” Games allow students to learn while at the same time have ...through games by ...
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Screening Play: Rules, Wares, and Representations in “Realistic” Video Games
... “all games are simulations, but not all simulations are ...all games have simulative aspects, but there may be significant differences between simulative games and what may be thought of as “pure” ...
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The convergence of fictitious play in games with strategic complementarities: A Comment
... Fictitious play (FP) was introduced by Brown (1949, 1951) as an algorithm to calculate the value of a two-person zero-sum game and now serves as a classical example of myopic belief learning (see Fudenberg and ...
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Imitation and the emergence of Nash equilibrium play in games with many players
... equilibrium play emerges in the long run. Our main results provide a family of games for which the learning dynamic will indeed converge to an approximate Nash ...
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A simple axiomatics of dynamic play in repeated games
... of play that can arise in a repeated game given its stage ...stage games into the set of infinite sequences of action ...of play that demonstrate that the players could make themselves strictly ...
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Explaining how to play real-time strategy games
... The study session began after a brief paper tutorial, in which the partici- pants were familiarized with units, resources, and basic game-playing instruc- tions. The experienced users were asked to play the game ...
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The Philosophy of ‘Playing’ Games: A Lusory Introspection of the Sincere Player and the Meaning of Play Amidst the Moral Morass of Contemporary Sport
... themselves. Play can also be described as the thing which one is engaged for example climbing trees, building sandcastles, or simply hitting the baseball without the presence of ...Similarly games are also ...
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Re play : Interactive Playground Games To Motivate Playing
... to play games on an Interactive Playground Platform. These games are created for Graduation Project called “Re-play – interactive playground games to motivate ...of games that ...
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The High Cost of Free To Play Games: Consumer protection in the New Digital Playground
... free-to-play games operate, and an understanding of the business model, user inter- face, and common game mechanisms of free-to-play games is a requisite for the remainder of this ...
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Skin Games: Fragrant Play, Scented Media and the Stench of Digital Games
... to play a role, and thus participates in the mimetic quality of play and fantasy (Callois ...of play, luck, risk, victory, and failure, perfume can be seen as a metaphor” (Stamelman 2006, ...into ...
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Investigating the Continuance Intention To Play Massively Multi-Player Online Games
... online games (MMOGs) have been one of the fastest growing online entertainments and have attracted a great sum of venture ...to play MMOGs by integrating motivations for playing MMOGs into the information ...
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Time for play – An exploratory analysis of the changing consumption contexts of digital games
... digital games and the demographics of the people that play them ...people play does exist, it is typically either too vague to have relevance, or it is very specific and lacking ...that play ...
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A hidden Markov model for the detection of pure and mixed strategy play in games
... The experiment was conducted with a Java software application created at the Georgia State University Experimental Economics Center (E x CEN) that allows humans to play normal form games against ...
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Fictitious play in 3 x 3 games : chaos and dithering behaviour
... to play one ahead of player ...of games which generalize Shapley’s example by introducing an external parameter, and prove that there exists an abundance of periodic and chaotic behavior with players ...
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Learning to play approximate Nash equilibria in games with many players
... that play may converge to a strategy proÞle that is not a Nash ...adaptive play (similar to an innovation dynamic) need not converge to a Nash equilib- rium are provided by, amongst others, Young (1993, ...
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Coming to play or coming to win : participation and success at the Olympic Games
... recent Games: 1976 (many African nations), 1980 (many Western nations) and 1984 (Eastern and Central Europe with the Soviet ...these Games, the analysis does not include participation data for nations which ...
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The Gay Games : the play of sexuality, sport and community
... This includes: the social context of the society in which they are hosted; how the Games have been organised, developed and changed; how the intemational Gay Games movement has develop[r] ...
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The social context of school playground games: Sex and ethnic differences, and changes over time after entry to junior school
... to play with each other and engage in games like football and other ball ...ball games more generally), which often causes problems for schools, and about which school policies regarding the use of ...
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One-Dimensional Creativity: A Marcusean Critique of Work and Play in the Video Game Industry
... is play a ped- agogical and embodied terrain for cultivating ardent player-workers (Yee 2006; Dyer- Witheford and de Peuter 2009) but also a very productive skill (Charrieras and Roy- Valex 2008) to possess as a ...
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