Preliminary communication

Game as a Lifelong Activity

Ivana Zagorac

Abstract

Game as an omni-present activity hides an exceptional complexity and unattainability below its surface. Its definitions are mostly exhausted in interpreting the purpose and the use of both games and the subject of games for the fulfilment of certain goals. An unquestionable importance of games lies in countless reflections about man, but attempts to define games make them become closed systems that lose their importance by growing up. This paper attempts to touch on the questions of the important features of games with special emphasis on the tendency to limit games to activities appropriate to childhood. In trying to disclose the constitutive elements of games, a foothold is sought in the statement of games as phenomena that follow us throughout the course of our lives.

Keywords

Game theory; purpose; growing up; game elements; freedom; pretend game

Hrčak ID:

4365

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/4365

Publication date:

24.8.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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