Cracow, Poland

Designing the Game of Digital Games

Projektowanie rozgrywki gier cyfrowych

Bachelor's
Field of studies: Game Design
Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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University website: english.swps.pl
Digital
Digital usually refers to something using digits, particularly binary digits.
Game
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).
Game
Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, WarGames (1983)
Game
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech (1899) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 177.
Game
Consider Wittgenstein's paradigmatic question about defining "game." The problem is that there is no property common to all games, so that the most usual kinds of definition fail. Not every game has a ball, nor two competing teams; even, sometimes, there is no notion of "winning." In my view, the explanation is that a word like "game" points to a somewhat diffuse "system" of prototype frames, among which some frame-shifts are easy, but others involve more strain.
Marvin Minsky, in reference to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, in "Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious" (1980)

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