ERC Consolidator Grant · 2017
The Digital Ludeme Project: Modelling the Evolution of Traditional Games
The development of games goes hand in hand with the development of human culture. Games offer a rich window of insight into our cultural past, but early examples were rarely documented and our understanding of them is incomplete. While there has been considerable historical research into games and their use as tools of cultural analysis, much is based on the interpretation of partial evidence with little mathematical analysis. This project will use modern computational techniques to help fill these gaps in our knowledge empirically. I will represent games as structured sets of ludemes (units of game-related information), which will allow the full range of traditional strategy games to be…
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