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Media as Procedures of Communication
Edited by Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 348] 2024
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Chapter 10
Digital play as procedures

Social, technological, and ludic practices in the innovative VR multiplayer co-location game Spacecraft — A New Way Home

| University of Zurich
This article aims to analyse the participants’ multimodal interaction in the innovative technology of Spacecraft: A New Way Home, a co-located multiplayer VR game designed as a master’s thesis artefact at the Zurich University of the Arts in the discipline of Game Design. Using fine-grained sequential analyses, three practices are investigated in particular: first, practices that rely heavily on social rules, providing security and guidance in the unknown virtual space; second, practices that are based on the technological rules of VR, expressed in terms of a certain kind of digital — here, VR — literacy; third, practices that are imposed by the game itself as a rule-based artefact, coining the general frame of the game in which digital play occurs. This amalgamation of the three practices can be understood as a fundamental framework by which to comprehend digital play procedures in general.
Keywords: multimodal interaction, virtual reality, digital games, ethnomethodology, game design
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Digital play as an everyday activity
  • 3.Innovative VR gameplay: Spacecraft — A New Way Home
  • 4.EMCA informed approaches to digital games
  • 5.Analysis of Spacecraft — A New Way Home
    • 5.1Method and data
    • 5.2Analysis: Three examples
      • Example 1: Re-greeting and noticing in the virtual environment
      • Example 2. Giving a “thumbs up” in VR
      • Example 3. “No target” — Co-located branched activities
  • 6.Conclusion: Digital games as procedures
  • Author queries
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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