An Ontological Meta-Model for Game Research

Espen Aarseth; Paweł Grabarczyk

An Ontological Meta-Model for Game Research

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Abstract

The subfield of game ontology has seen many models and structural hierarchies, but few that actively build on each other, or even attempt comparisons. This paper introduces a meta-model, which in addition to being an ontological model of its own, also offers a method for comparison between competing or isolated models and concepts. It does so by treating games as mechanisms (Craver 2007) with multiple levels of description, and differentiates between four main layers of the game-mechanism. In the first part of the paper we present the model in detail. In the second part of the paper we show applications of the model - we present how some of the existing approaches to game ontology can be compared within it and how it can be used to describe two case examples: the ancient Egyptian funeral game Senet and the difference between game mechanics and game rules. © 2018 Authors & Digital Games Research Association DiGRA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018
Publisher	Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018 - Turin, Italy Duration: 25 Jul 2018 → 28 Jul 2018 http://www.digra.org/digital-library/forums/digra-18/

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Name	11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018

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Conference	11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018
Place	Italy
City	Turin
Period	25/07/18 → 28/07/18
Internet address	http://www.digra.org/digital-library/forums/digra-18/

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Game ontologies
games classification
methodology
ontology

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Aarseth, E & Grabarczyk, P 2018, An Ontological Meta-Model for Game Research. in 11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018. 11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018, Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018, Turin, Italy, 25/07/18. <https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/973>

An Ontological Meta-Model for Game Research. / Aarseth, Espen; Grabarczyk, Paweł.
11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018. Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 2018. (11th Digital Games Research Association International Conference, DiGRA 2018).

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