Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds

by Jesper Juul

Book Overview

Video games as both a departure from and a development of traditional games; an analysis of the interaction between rules and fiction in video games.

A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul examines the constantly evolving tension between rules...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516519
• ISBN13: 9780262516518
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher