A Game Concept Mapping

• Autor(a) principal: M. F. Coelho, Patrícia
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista GEMInIS
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistageminis.ufscar.br/index.php/geminis/article/view/54
• topic: jogos; games; advergames; mapeamento; lúdico; plays; games; advergames; mapping; ludic aspects

This paper can be considered the initial result of my postdoctoral course in development next to the TIDD Program/ PUC-SP as a FAPESP postdoctoral fellow. This study will present a mapping of the concept of plays and games in order to understand: 1 – some differences between human plays/ games and animal plays/ games, 2 – what characterizes a play/ a game, and 3 – which kind of plays/ games can exist. This paper also intends to understand a play/ a game by means of its ludic aspects. When perceived from this perspective, a play/ a game is strongly marked by the act and impulse of a player that intends to play. This preliminary text does not claim to make a chronological study of plays and games’ history – what would be an infinite research. On the contrary, it presents a conceptual mapping from the moment where a play/ a game starts and can be understood as an analytical corpus for researches, that means, from the moment that some authors and thinkers started to think about plays/ games andcreate a “theory” to explain them, thus forming concepts and observing their operation in a society and even through human relations.