What is a game?
Channel: Search Your Library
Date: 2021-03-19

Magic is a game, but what does that mean? I'll go over some of the historical definitions of games and play, then break down how modern minds in play would update those definitions to better reflect the reality of play as a social construct.


Content Warnings (CW): Descriptions of historical racism, physical/verbal/online abuse

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Search Your Library is a series of video essays exploring Magic: the Gathering from an academic perspective. It features summarizes of historical literature and interviews with the next generation of scholars.

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Dr. Trammell is an assistant professor of informatics and visual studies at UC Irvine. He can be found at @aaromtram on Twitter. His work is available at www.aarontrammell.com. For those interested in research in analog games, see www.analoggamestudies.org.The article mentioned in the video is available here:
https://www.gamejournal.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/I9_GAME_03_TRAMMELL.pdf

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