Playing with Game Time: Auto-Saves and Undoing Despite the ‘Magic Circle’

Typically the time of games played on computer systems is considered as linear and progressive. Those studying games talk this way and often linear time is the idiom by which players make sense of their experiences at play. This article focuses on some recent games that explicitly engage players wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chuk Moran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Humanities Press 2010-07-01
Series:Fibreculture Journal
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Online Access:http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/playing-with-game-time-auto-saves-and-undoing-despite-the-magic-circle/