The dancers at the end of time: exploring the future of research through the world of MMORPGs
Nick GadsbyWardle McLean Strategic Research Consultancy
“...in myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All are rooted in the primeval soil of play.” Johan Huizunga
INTRODUCTION
I'll begin this paper with an apology for what is probably (and hopefully) the least catchy paper title of the conference and I promise, or hope again, that by the time you've worked your way through...