#wivgf2022

[citeifoucault]

[D]issonances in games (where devices may have different conflicting motivations) should not be ignored as faulty game design but rather explored and exploited as interesting ways in which players are confronted with preconceived ideas about how games frame ludic action, tell stories, reference other works, etc.

Vught, 2022, p. 294.

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[I]t is the critic’s task to establish the work’s dominant on the basis of its difference from or resemblance with other works in its historical context to see which devices become foregrounded.

Vught, 2022, p. 294.

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[T]ypical ludically motivated devices [...] only become poetic gameplay devices once the ludic functionalityconnects to another functionality

Vught, 2022, p. 293.

[citeifoucault]

A ludically motivated device facilitates play as a competitive process of winning and losing; it allows players to devise a strategy and execute it.

Vught, 2022, p. 292.