Forty years ago, Gary Alan Fine created the idea of frame analysis to describe tabletop gaming. Frame analysis looks at how engrossed a participant is in the game: 1. The primary frame of the real world, the reference point for all activities 2. The game context, with its rules and structures 3. The fictional world […]
The strange case of Newbury and Maidenhead
Newbury and Maidenhead nestle quietly west of London. Neither has a professional football team, neither is a hotbed of cutting-edge consumer tech, and neither has >100,000 inhabitants. So when my team launched a Facebook football game, we were rather shocked to see them in the list of top 10 places where our players lived. Scoreboard […]