| Popis: |
This chapter argues that computer games only became computer games, emerging from a disparate set of undesignated technical and playful practices, when they entered a global network of associations. This chapter traces this history through reference to a study of 1980s magazines and an interview with the designer of Uridium, a game that appears in the archive at a crucial turning point in the development of the form. Combining sociological and aesthetic analyses, the argument identifies the criteriological emergence of ‘gameplay’ in the middle of the 1980s with the production of a new kind of space, which is best understood as involving a brush with (impossible) reverse perspective. Viewed in this way, gameplay is a series of escapes, from places in impossible space. This experience is presented as the appearance of a new, faltering mode of subjectivation. |
