[Air-L] fake play, foul, bending the rules

pmgazz pmgazz at gmx.co.uk
Mon Feb 2 03:32:15 PST 2009


Ooops, once again can't tell the reply from the forward button, sorry!

pmgazz wrote:
> This was also in my inbox, thought it might be of interest.
> 
> Jill Walker Rettberg wrote:
>> Also check out Torill Mortensen's article "Humans Playing World of
>> Warcraft: or Deviant Strategies?" in Digital Culture, Play, and
>> Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader, MIT Press 2008 (edited by Hilde G.
>> Corneliussen and myself)
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>> you might wanna look into T.L. Taylor's "play between worlds" or Mia
>>> Consalvo "Cheating" - both are excellent accounts of how players bend
>>> rules or "work around the system" for in-game or beyond game purposes.
>>> in regards to "bending the game"  for achievement beyond game play see
>>> also: Thomas Malaby's games and culture journal article "parlaying
>>> value: capital in and beyond virtual worlds."
>>>
>>> hope that helps,
>>> Silvia
>>>
>>>
>>>>      Hi,
>>>> did anyone look into
>>>>    fake play, foul, bending the rules in online games? Salen and
>>>> Zimmerman did, any other ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for a hint.
>>>> Mathias
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Mathias Fuchs
>>>>  Programme Leader MA Creative Technology and MSc Creative Games
>>>>  Salford University, School of Art & Design
>>>>
>>>>  http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs
>>>>  phone: +44 161 2956157
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Silvia Lindtner
>>> Ph.D. Student
>>> University of California, Irvine
>>> Department of Informatics
>>> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lindtner
>>>
>>>
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