Jeux de marges

Abstract

Confronting the words “game” and “margin” opens a wide field of thinking because the two concepts are polysemous and can maintain complex relationships. If a traditional understanding of gaming regards it as a closed field, separated by a definite frontier of non-game, contemporary evolution sees an expansion of the playful which gains towards its margins and creates new intermediate areas. The notion of margin can also be used to evoke the degree of freedom of action left by a device to the player. Finally, we can be interested in the margin constituted by the distance created between the game and its player.

Keywords

• game
• play
• margin
• border
• video game
• gamification