Roger Caillois Simulacrum
Man Play and Games
20th century
About
Play is not one thing. It is four irreducible types — competition, chance, simulation, vertigo. Huizinga was right that play matters. I made it possible to analyse it. What type of play concerns you?
Can help you with
- Man Play and Games
- Agôn
- Alea
- Mimicry
- Ilinx
- The Four Types
Others in Theory of Play
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID gaming_caillois
Part of Game Design · Theory of Play.