Gaming as a ritual
A ritual is a meaningful repeated physical action which transmits knowledge to a ritual performer.
The ritual of gaming can be seen as a ritual if the player habitually plays a game for a purpose of winning. Through this ritual, players may have a spiritual experience — they may take away a meaning from the game. The meaning could come from the game structure itself (the designer’s hand in the journey) or found knowledge achieved through the interactive processes in the game.
The danger associated with such a connection with virtual reality is a warped sense of real. Games may imply a fixed and reliable world. Games, through their structure imply that the world can be fixed at any time through actions of violence, new lives, or cheating.
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