This talk is an introduction to the often subtle and therefore unnoticed colonial biases in games and conceptions of play. Play as a cultural phenomenon is often seen only through a western lens and especially so with the coming of digital games. On a deeper unpacking, however, some of the most basic assumptions of play - especially in digital games - emerge as deeply problematic. Therefore, re-viewing these games from a Postcolonial lens and rethinking the ways in which they engage with the Subaltern. are going to be strategies deployed by this paper to address this lacuna.
This talk is an introduction to the often subtle and therefore unnoticed colonial biases in games and conceptions of play. Play as a cultural phenomenon is often seen only through a western lens and especially so with the coming of digital games. On a deeper unpacking, however, some of the most basic assumptions of play - especially in digital games - emerge as deeply problematic. Therefore, re-viewing these games from a Postcolonial lens and rethinking the ways in which they engage with the Subaltern. are going to be strategies deployed by this paper to address this lacuna.