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Half-real

by Jesper Juul

2005 233 pages eng

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 and fict…

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