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Authoring of Digital Games via Card Games: Make Playful Play Happen

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Literature and previous studies show that creative play is easy to emerge when children interact with tangible, low-tech toys and games than with digital games. This paradoxical situation is linked to the long-standing problem of end-users (or players) authoring of digital contents and systems. We propose a new scenario in which trading card games help making sense and re-design computer games, to support players express themselves aesthetically and in a highly creative way. Our aim is to look for a middle ground between players becoming programmers and simply editing levels. The main contributions are to show how card games can represent digital games, how playful play can emerge in card games and digital games, and to begin defining a new way to express game behavior without the use of universal programming languages.

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    Minecraft web site: https://minecraft.net/.

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    Magic trading card game’s web site: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/.

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    Pokemon TCG’s web site: http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online/.

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    Description of Super Mario at the Nintendo official web site: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/NES/Super-Mario-Bros--803853.html.

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    Official web site: http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/cardgame/.

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  1. Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Andrea Valente

  2. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Emanuela Marchetti

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  1. Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Anthony Lewis Brooks

  2. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Elif Ayiter

  3. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Onur Yazicigil

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Valente, A., Marchetti, E. (2015). Authoring of Digital Games via Card Games: Make Playful Play Happen. In: Brooks, A., Ayiter, E., Yazicigil, O. (eds) Arts and Technology. ArtsIT 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18836-2_15

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