Tag: Markus Montola
Game rules, sport rules, review rules – how hard can it be?
Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games. They all share one thing in common: rules – of which there are only five kinds. Indeed, rules are the one and only thing game scholars agree is central to games. But what, in fact, are rules? In The Rule Book (MIT Press), Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola explore how different kinds of rules work as building blocks of games. Our somewhat reluctant reviewer Bo Carlsson, sport law expert, claims no knowledge of game rules, but his review says otherwise.
