Containing games

2025/10/20 by Robyn Hope, Christine Tran, Nicholas Taylor · 1 voice
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence in Games #Game Theory and Applications #Digital Games and Media

paper · doi:10.1080/15295036.2025.2599286

Abstract

The foundational premise of this special issue is that systems of containment and storage provide the conditions for digital play. Like other infrastructural arrangements, they are both profoundly ...

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• GOING BOX MODE 📦 Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies." From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunke [bsky, 13 points, 1 comments]

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