Meanings
- uncountableThe study of games and other forms of play.
It also included Gonzalo Frasca's paper, “Ludologists Love Stories Too: Notes from a Debate that Never Took Place”, in which he comes out in defence of ludology and rejects the most extreme critiques by arguing that ludology's raison d'être is not at all to reject stories, but to focus on games.
2009, Amelia Sanz, Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis, page 56
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe study of games and gaming, especially video games.
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Catalan ludologia
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Dutch ludologie
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Finnish pelitutkimus
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French ludologie
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German Ludologie
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Icelandic leikjarannsókn
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Italian ludologia
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Polish groznawstwo, ludologia
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Portuguese ludologia
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Spanish ludología
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Swedish ludologi
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Ukrainian лудоло́гія
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Cite this entry
ludology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ludology
“ludology.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ludology. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ludology,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ludology.
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