Players aspire for it to be an ‘ilynx-type’ game of rhyming ideas:

"... based on the pursuit of vertigo and which consist of an attempt to momentarily destroy the stability of perception and inflict a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind. In all cases, it is a question of surrendering to a kind of spasm, seizure, or shock which destroys reality with sovereign brusqueness."

#Caillois #play #game #ilynx #poetry #fluxus #SubjectRhyme #kenning #haiku #parallelism #analogy

Why #MMORPG is not a #game at all.

In 1952, Roger #Caillois defined the game activity with six core characteristics (see Man, #Play and Games book). Will consider these characteristics in relation to MMORPG.

https://hackmd.io/s/H1a0qtg6V

* Free translation from Russian of the part of Belozerov Sergey’s scientific work VIRTUAL WORLDS OF MMORPG: PART I. DEFINITION, DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION
* Thanks coolcono for the corrections.

#sociology #sci_culture #markdownIt