Material game culture has received little scholarly attention to date, possibly due to the lack of digitally accessible collection holdings.

Aim of the project is to develop, a concept for an open access research platform for game objects as board games, based on the media-theoretical figure of the apparatus applied to the board game, which is able to create its own world in a living world and thus open up spaces of experience, it is examined how board games fit into a historical context and evolve chronologically along thematic guidelines and in the interplay of narrative and game mechanics.






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