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Rules of Play

Greg Lastowka

Rutgers School of Law-Camden, New Jersey, lastowka{at}camden.rutgers.edu

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) constitute social jurisdictions governed by rules of play. When we consider the work of Johan Huizinga and subsequent theorists of human play activities, we find that ludic rules differ from legal rules in important ways. The goals of play also differ from the goals of law. In applying law to MMORPGs and other virtual worlds, it is important to recognize that jurisdictions of play are structured in ways that are fundamentally different from the ways traditional legal rules are structured.

Key Words: rules • law • play • Huizinga

This version was published on October 1, 2009

Games and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 4, 379-395 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1555412009343573
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