【02.10.2015】 Contextual Studies

    Here is a grid showing Caillois’ classification of games. I put 12 games I admire most into the grid according to the classification.



Notes:

---League Of Legends---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player, Player leaderboard
Alea(chance): Random enemy
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo):Potential enemies

---Dungeon And Fighter---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player
Alea(chance): Random articles
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo): x

---Elsword---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player
Alea(chance): Random articles,
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo):Angle change

---ZWEI!!---
Agon(conflict): x
Alea(chance): x
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo):Angle change

---World Of Warcraft---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player, Player leaderboard
Alea(chance): Random articles, Random enemy,
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo): Angle change

---Star Craft---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player
Alea(chance): Random enemy (sometimes)
Mimicry: Different camps
Ilinx(vertigo):Potential enemies

---Sims---
Agon(conflict): x
Alea(chance): Character characteristical
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo): x

---Hearthstone: Heroes Of warcraft---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player
Alea(chance): Random articles, Random enemy
Mimicry: Character characteristical
Ilinx(vertigo): Enemy moves

---Plants Vs. Zombies---
Agon(conflict): Player leaderboard
Alea(chance): Random articles, Random enemy
Mimicry: x
Ilinx(vertigo): x

---Final Fantasy---
Agon(conflict): x
Alea(chance): Random articles, Random shops, Random enemy
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo): Potential enemies, Enemy moves

---Resident Evil---
Agon(conflict): Player versus player
Alea(chance): Random articles, Random enemy
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo): Potential enemies, Enemy moves

---The Binding Of Isaac---
Agon(conflict): x
Alea(chance):Random articles, Random enemy
Mimicry: Role playing
Ilinx(vertigo): Potential enemies, Enemy moves

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Johan Huizinga (Dutch pronunciation; December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945), was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

Huizinga had an aesthetic approach to history, where art and spectacle played an important part. His most famous work is The Autumn of the Middle Ages (a.k.a. The Waning of the Middle Ages) (1919). He here reinterpreted the Late Middle Ages as a period of pessimism and decadence rather than rebirth.
Worthy of mentioning are also Erasmus (1924) and Homo Ludens (1938). In the latter book he discussed the possibility that play is the primary formative element in human culture. Huizinga also published books on American history and Dutch history in the 17th century.

Info link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Huizinga

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Roger Caillois (French, 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games, play as well as the sacred. He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Ángel Asturias to the French public. After his death, the Roger Caillois French Literary Prize was named after him in 1991

He provides strict and distinct categories of games which he describes 4 distinct game categories.

• Agon, or competition. E.g. Chess
• Alea, or chance. E.g. Playing a slot machine
• Mimicry, or mimesis, or role playing. E.g. Playing a MMORPG
• Ilinx (Greek for "whirlpool"), or vertigo, in the sense of altering perception. E.g. taking hallucinogens, riding roller coasters, children spinning until they fall down.

Caillois also provides a continuum between two opposite poles which the four categories can be divided into:

• Paidia or uncontrolled fantasy. E.g. Concert, festivals
• Ludus which requires an ever greater amount of effort, patience, skill, or ingenuity. E.g. GO

Info link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Caillois

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