MMORPG in the light of the gaming concept of culture

Abstract

Looking at Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) from a cultural perspective, it’s worth considering the gaming concept of culture, which was most thoroughly formulated by the Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga in his work “Homo Ludens” (1938). He regarded humans as beings who play, presenting all human culture as a system of games and internal rules regulating game reality. According to the scientist, human existence, creative development and the emergence of cultural phenomena represent a kind of a game. The ability to implement all aspects of life playfully becomes evidence of human creative impulse.