Game Studies & Game players

The Game theory and the magic circle.

The game theory are rules of how a game is played and how you switch into a zone of how you feel best to play or concentrate. This could be shutting out any other piece of technology out of the way. E.g. Phone, TV.

When people games an immediate magic circle is created this could either be with them self and the game. (Depending if its multiplayer or not). When playing games such as Mario Karts you have an opponent so you try to concentrate on how you’re going to race ahead so you can win the game.

‘A play community generally tends to become permanent even after the game is over. . the feelings of being “apart together” is an exceptional situation, of sharing something important, of mutually withdrawing, from the rest of the world and rejecting the usual norms, retain its magic beyond. the individual game’

How you gain your concentration to get the magic circle varies, this can be anything from locking yourself away. To playing music really loud, anything which you believe can’t distract you.
When whatever is being played or been given an interest to is done, you’re un-attached again, whilst the circle has lost its orbit.

Other games such football have a magic circle only they interact with other people on their team and they’re able to communicate with each other.

The main focus on this rule is that anything you feel can distract you from concentration of what is being played is removed from sight.

If you do fall into the magic cirlce and forget about things, why DO they need to be removed from where you are? Surely your parents screaming for your attention when in your own world can be seen as a distraction, but even then is that blocked out?

Game studies

Importance when playing games vary, not all games require the same attention or focus. I don’t play computer games what so ever but just the games that come on my Blackberry. Brick break breaker, it doesn’t require much skill that’s why it could be seen as a tactical immersion.

Either way there is still some sort of magic circle. But why? Why would a game which doesn’t require much attention still have a magic circle? People still find themselves shutting out the world when playing such basic games.

Nintendo DS games such as Cars are not as basic, but need more attention as more focus is needed. it includes a POV driver and slight concentration, as you drive past other cars avoiding getting into an accident with cars coming from the opposite direction. As you reach the next level the speed which you cant control becomes faster, more cars are appearing from other directions. Slowly but progressively this creates the magic circle as you get more into the game.