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paragame: a standalone construct

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Game studies

activities that extend or support play outside the formal game itself, such as social practices around a play session.

In game studies, paragame refers to activities that extend or support play outside the formal game itself, such as social practices around a play session. This meaning comes from Carter (2012) in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games.[1]

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metagame1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructorthogame1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructgame2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

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  1. Carter, M., Gibbs, M., & Harrop, M. (2012). Metagames, paragames and orthogames: a new vocabulary. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. https://doi.org/10.1145/2282338.2282346

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