“The conceptual and methodological framework I will be developing approaches children’s folk games not as sets of game rules, but as highly situated social contexts in which real players collectively construct a complex and richly textured communal experience.
I will begin by describing three different rule systems that are implicated whenever games are actually actually played: rules, social rules, and higher-order gaming rules governing the interplay between game structure and social process. I will then contrast several qualities of games with qualities of the social episodes in which they are embedded in the playing. Throughout, I will draw on my own observation of how one group of girls playing the common ball-bouncing game foursquare to illustrate implications of the framework being developed for actual studies of child culture” (Hughes 94).
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.@gamestudies101 I wish I had read Linda Hughes work when I first started looking at EQ [EverQuest] #gamestudies101
— T.L. Taylor (@ybika) March 23, 2015