Przywództwo, cykliczność i zmiany w społeczności gier bitewnych
Leadership, circuition, and shift in tabletop wargaming community

Summary/Abstract: he following paper seeks to address the idea of a player community’s life cycle in a holistic way by shedding light on key issues related to the creation of wargaming groups, sustaining these groups and their mechanisms of decay. It encompasses a variety of ethnographic data, gathered from the communities of: Flames of War, Warmachine & Hordesas well as the Star Wars franchise. Bearing in mind that the research is on-going, the paper incorporates various data gathered in the course of the last three years, including participant observation, fieldwork notes, player interviews, and online discussions.

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