TY - CHAP
T1 - Ontology
AU - Aarseth, Espen
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PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - In game studies, ontology is the study of the nature of games: their mode of being or existence, and of variation within their domain. However, this is vastly complicated by the fact that game studies is constituted of a great variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches, many of which do not study the same type of phenomenon (e.g. an ethnographic vs. a technological approach). So the preliminary steps of any game ontology must be to first establish a meta-ontology (or more precisely, a meta-game-ontology), and then place itself within it. Since a comprehensive list of approaches (and due discussions of these) would demand much more space than can be allocated here, this approach will be fairly general, with many omissions and simplifications. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
AB - In game studies, ontology is the study of the nature of games: their mode of being or existence, and of variation within their domain. However, this is vastly complicated by the fact that game studies is constituted of a great variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches, many of which do not study the same type of phenomenon (e.g. an ethnographic vs. a technological approach). So the preliminary steps of any game ontology must be to first establish a meta-ontology (or more precisely, a meta-game-ontology), and then place itself within it. Since a comprehensive list of approaches (and due discussions of these) would demand much more space than can be allocated here, this approach will be fairly general, with many omissions and simplifications. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780203114261
DO - 10.4324/9780203114261
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 9781136290510
SN - 9780415533324
SP - 484
EP - 492
BT - The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -