The Saga of ISAGA

Jan H. G. Klabbers
Additional contact information
Jan H. G. Klabbers: KMPC, the Netherlands, jklabbers@kmpc.nl

Simulation & Gaming, 2009, vol. 40, issue 1, 30-47

Abstract: This article sketches the emergence of gaming and simulation associations in the 1960s and 1970s with a particular interest in ISAGA, the International Simulation and Gaming Association. It elaborates on the prospects to shape a meta-science of design, constituted by communities of practice and nourished by communities of observers. It is partly a transdisciplinary review on gaming and simulation methodology and partly an elaboration of current methodological questions. One reason for taking a dual position relates to the fact that members of gaming and simulation associations represent two distinct branches of science: the design and analytical sciences. The basic idea of the design sciences is to build and assess artifacts. The scientific method of the analytical sciences aims at developing and testing theories. Each pays attention to different notions of causality and different criteria for success.

Keywords: analytical science; communities of observers; communities of practice; design science; evaluation methodology; game; gaming associations; normal science; post-normal science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1046878107310604 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:simgam:v:40:y:2009:i:1:p:30-47

DOI: 10.1177/1046878107310604

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Simulation & Gaming
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().