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

[Jill Walker Rettberg]

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
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>> Mathias Fuchs
>>  Programme Leader MA Creative Technology and MSc Creative Games
>>  Salford University, School of Art & Design
>>
>>  http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs
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> Silvia Lindtner
> Ph.D. Student
> University of California, Irvine
> Department of Informatics
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