Parties as playful experiences

Parties as playful experiences

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Partying is a widespread, understudied, and playful phenomena.Game Studies has seen great value from defining important concepts related to games since its inception.Foundational play and game scholars urged for a need to analyze parties and celebrations as a form of playfulness, yet there is little empirical Game mel axolotl Studies work enabling a deeper understanding of partying.

Partying bears striking resemblances to games: inefficient use of resources, arbitrary rules, cultural group formation, and ongoing moral panics.There are also practical overlaps: games occur at parties and digital party games are quite popular.This work eagles head coach hoodie contributes to a deeper understanding of parties by analyzing 33 semi-structured interviews where individuals from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds had highly playful experiences at parties.

A new theoretical conception of partying as a form of playfulness is proposed as a “phenomenon that creates an experience of social connection in a group mediated through a shared engagement-prioritizing activity”.This work concludes with a call for party studies to become a sub-field in game studies.