Index
L
The Landlord’s Game, 520, 522
Langton, Christopher, 169, 170
language, 306
Lantz, Frank, ix–xi, 9, 167, 450
See also Ironclad
Laramée, François Dominic, 450, 484
LARPscore mechanic, 389–390
cultural environment, 578
forbidden play, 481
player changes, 552
social play, 466
touching, 579
Laurel, Brenda, 58, 62, 67, 379, 511, 522–523
learningcultural, 507–508, 513, 534
perceptual patterns, 316
LeBlanc, Marc, 128, 138, 218–219, 224, 228, 334–335, 383, 446–447
Leonard, George, 528
Leonardi, Alfred, 425
levels, 261, 386–387, 391
Levy, Steven, 161
The L Game, 357–359
Liar’s Paradox, 449–450
Life, The Game of, 161–163, 170
limitationsboundaries, 94–95, 573–581
and pleasure, 330–331
and simulations, 440, 442
of social play, 485
of time, 129, 474, 600
Linux, 545
Littlejohn, Stephen W., 50–51, 58, 96, 160, 192–193, 200, 214–215, 226
Little Max, 467–468
location, 104
exercise, 17
logic, 237
long-distance play, 89
long-shots, 186
Looney, Andy, 546
LOOP, 259–261, 318, 391–393
Lord of the Rings Board Gameconflict, 432
design of, 22–24
iteration, 26–27
simulation, 427, 432
testing, 24–26
and zero-sum games, 240
Los Disneys, 562
loss, 261, 265
lottery games, 180, 518–519
luck, 110, 186
See also chance; uncertainty
ludic activity, 303–309
See also play
Ludology.org, 603
ludus, 308, 309, 311
Lupton, Ellen, 46
lusory attitudebasic concept, 77, 97–99, 574
and cooperation, 255–256
and implicit rules, 574
and noise, 197, 201
and pleasure, 331