{"id":386,"date":"2007-10-10T00:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=386"},"modified":"2007-10-10T00:13:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:13:36","slug":"new-paper-posted-a-certain-level-of-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/10\/10\/new-paper-posted-a-certain-level-of-abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paper Posted: A Certain Level of Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have posted my conference paper from September’s DiGRA 2007<\/a> conference in Tokyo:<\/p>\n

The paper A Certain Level of Abstraction<\/a> discusses abstraction in games. This is the paper’s abstract:<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

This paper explores levels of abstraction: Representational games present a fictional world, but within that world, players are only allowed to perform certain actions; the fictional world of the game is only implemented to a certain detail.<\/p>\n

The paper distinguishes between abstraction as a core element of video game design, abstraction as something that the player decodes while playing a game, and abstraction as a type of optimization that the player builds over time.<\/p>\n

Finally, the paper argues that abstraction is a related to the magic circle of games and to rules as such.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Games referenced include Cooking Mama<\/em>, Diner Dash: Flo on the Go, Karate Champ<\/em> and The Marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n

The paper is a bit of a follow-up to some of the rules & fiction discussions in Half-Real<\/a> – you think you are finished, but you are not.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/acertainlevel\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have posted my conference paper from September’s DiGRA 2007 conference in Tokyo: The paper A Certain Level of Abstraction discusses abstraction in games. This is the paper’s abstract: ABSTRACT This paper explores levels of abstraction: Representational games present a fictional world, but within that world, players are only allowed to perform certain actions; the … Continue reading “New Paper Posted: A Certain Level of Abstraction”<\/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":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-half-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}