{"id":2172,"date":"2015-11-10T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2015-11-10T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:29:30","slug":"new-issue-of-analog-game-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2015\/11\/10\/new-issue-of-analog-game-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"New issue of Analog Game Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

For your analog interests, here is Volume II, Issue VII of Analog Game studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Manipulating Environments in American Freeform \u2013 Jason Cox<\/a><\/p>\n

Playing With Portals: Rethinking Urban Play With Ingress<\/em> \u2013 Kyle Moore<\/a><\/p>\n

The Eurogame of Heterotopia \u2013 Devin Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n

The First Nations of Catan: Practices in Critical Modification \u2013 Greg Loring-Albright<\/a><\/p>\n

In this final issue of the year, we are exploring material components of analog gameplay. The materiality of games is important to consider as it lends insight into the ways that games can be located within the clear parameters of space and time\u2014often despite the best efforts of players and designers to otherwise construe them as timeless or nostalgic media. Additionally, materialities help to remind us of the limitations of play. Our bodies must navigate black-box theater rooms and city spaces, as manipulate\u00a0pawns, chits, meeples, cards and other trappings of board games. These deliberate, sometimes awkward, yet often\u00a0tacit negotiations help to remind us of the always-present stakes of materiality.<\/p>\n

Jason Cox\u2019s essay \u201cManipulating Environments in American Freeform\u201d<\/a> offers a starting point for those curious about\u00a0the ways in which\u00a0emerging practices of larp design offer more to players than just narrative\u2014they tell stories about spaces as well, and attend to\u00a0how environments affect our bodies. This is also what is at stake in Kyle Moore\u2019s essay, \u201cPlaying With Portals: Rethinking Urban Play with Ingress<\/em>,\u201d<\/a> a theoretical sketch of the ways that the game, formerly a Google product,\u00a0compels players to experience urban space in new and often challenging ways. Finally, the last two essays in this issue, Devin Wilson\u2019s \u201cThe Eurogame as Heterotopia,\u201d<\/a> and Greg Loring-Albright\u2019s \u201cThe First Nations of Catan: Practices in Critical Modification\u201d<\/a>\u2014both\u00a0in dialogue with last year\u2019s AGS essay by Will Robinson<\/a>\u2014take up critiques of the abstracted representations characteristic of\u00a0Eurogames.\u00a0Wilson\u2019s piece argues for a new and less oppositional reading of abstract game materials, positioning them as a space of polysemic and potentially revolutionary interpretation. In contrast, Loring-Albright moves forward from the problematic of abstraction established by Robinson by offering a new critical ruleset for Catan<\/em> that accounts for the erasure of indigenous peoples in the game\u2019s narrative. And, in the spirit of materiality: we\u2019ve included the rules as a bonus to our readers.<\/p>\n

Thank you, readers, for an excellent year, and keep an eye out in the coming months for more exciting content!<\/p>\n

-The Editors
\nNovember 9, 2015<\/p>\n

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For your analog interests, here is Volume II, Issue VII of Analog Game studies. Manipulating Environments in American Freeform \u2013 Jason Cox Playing With Portals: Rethinking Urban Play With Ingress \u2013 Kyle Moore The Eurogame of Heterotopia \u2013 Devin Wilson The First Nations of Catan: Practices in Critical Modification \u2013 Greg Loring-Albright In this final … Continue reading “New issue of Analog Game Studies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}