Game is activities where people interact with each other, base on Kramer (2002) “Games are objects which consist of components and rules and have certain criteria: rules, a goal, always changing course; chance; competition; common experience; equality; freedom; activity; diving into the world of the game; and no impact on reality” this opinion from Kramer consist with Wittgenstein ideas of game where it has various factors and it is not having fix boundaries.
Wittgenstein explain that game has no precise boundaries game could evolve from one to another and being changed to adapt with the needs, e.g. the game of basketball have certain rules and regulations, but it the rules will be changed if the player is handicap player as they could not cope with normal rules, so in Wittgenstein opinion game is a wide activities, it is not a activity that is fixed even tough there is rules in every game. Therefore game is unique situation where people immerse in it.
Wittgenstein also explain that there is family term among games, this refer to the similarities that occur in different games, in my experience playing Final fantasy 7 and Legend Of Dragoon, has lot of similarities where the each character in the games has their specialty in skills, some character has the skill of heal while other have the skill of attack, and both games have story line and goals to be achieved: beating the boss in order to continue to the next stage.
Other games that share similarities is Tomb Rider and Prince of Persia, where both games having character that have fixed path and goals, in tomb rider the character have limited health and in prince of Persia the character has the power to control time.
There are different rules in every game but just like Wittgenstein opinion all of them have similar pattern.
Kramer (2002). What is a game, really. Retrieved on 1st march 2007 from world wide web: http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/WhatIsaGame.shtml
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