“Tap, tap, flap, flap.” Ludic Seriality, Digitality, and the Finger
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This article tries to answer the question, “What is ‘digital’ about digital media?” Building on the concept of ludic seriality as proposed by Shane Denson and Andreas Jahn-Sudmann and taking as an example the popular mobile Game Flappy Bird, it discusses the serial character of gameplay, in particular the intra-ludic serialization of in-game and operator actions. The article argues that the principle of digitality relates to the fingers of the human hand and the corresponding cultural techniques, from the ancient art of finger-counting which brought forth the abstract number concept to our current every day use of buttons and keys to operate digital devices.
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The mechanic of time being still outside dialogues is common to adventure and detective games and functions as an inter-ludic element of the genre pattern.
“This mechanic is common to adventure and detective games (Hansen 2018: 139), and functions as an inter-ludic element of the genre pattern (Denson, Jahn-Sudmann 2013;Heilmann 2014).”
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The “Ludic Seriality” section (page unavailable) describes inter-ludic seriality as occurring between games and says patterns of repetition and variation characterize genres. It does not discuss time standing still outside dialogues or identify that mechanic as an inter-ludic element. The claim that the mechanic is common to adventure and detective games is cited to Hansen, not Heilmann. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Heilmann, T. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Siegen (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Heilmann, Till A.
- ORCID
- Heilmann, Till A.
- Venue
- Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
- Publisher
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Published
- 2014-12-12
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 33-46
- ISSN
- 1866-6124 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1520360049
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 5.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Eludamos Journal for Computer Game Culture (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Eludamos Journal for Computer Game Culture (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Digital Media and Philosophy
- Keywords
- digitality, Flappy Bird, gameplay, finger, touch interaction, mobile games, finger counting, number concepts, human hand
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