Beschreibung:
Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola
"A joyful look at understanding the rules of games, from Magic The Gathering to ski jumping. The authors discuss five broad categories of rules: formal rules, internal rules, social norms, external regulation, and materially embodied rules"--
Contents On Thinking Playfully vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Formal Rules 21 2 Internal Rules 57 3 Social Rules 83 4 External Regulation 113 5 Material Rules 141 Conclusions 173 Notes 195 References 217 Index 235