The Magic Circle Applied To Digital Media
Huizinga's concept was "picked up and applied to digital games” by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman in Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. Salen and Zimmerman note that even though "the magic circle is merely one of the examples in Huizinga’s list of ‘play-grounds,’ the term is used ... as short-hand for the idea of a special place in time and space created by a game." In more detail, they describe:
In a very basic sense, the magic circle of a game is where the game takes place. To play a game means entering into a magic circle, or perhaps creating one as a game begins.Salen and Zimmerman argue that “the term magic circle is appropriate because there is in fact something genuinely magical that happens when a game begins."
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