Simulation as play: A semiotic analysis

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-162

  Myers, David ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer games; Play; Representationalism; Semiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947600081     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104687819903000205     Document Type: Article

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