How do rules and Magic circles affect the way we play games?

When we play a game, we are expected to follow the rules given to us in order to play it successfully. We are expected to follow these rules inside the magic circle - that is the boundary in which you play the game.
So, for example, the magic circle in a real life football game would be the football pitch. A common real life magic circle is the workplace - the office, where we are conforming to the different rules that we must abide by. We can also say that we are magic circles, as we act one way with our friends, and another way to our parents.

The magic circles in a game could change depending on the genre of the game, whether it is single or multiplayer or what hardware the game is being played on e.g Computer or offline.

If we compare a miniature game with the pacman game we can see the differences. Pacman is a single player game which is normally played on a screen and the magic circle is the maze. The apihany vs Euphoria in this game is to avoid the ghosts from eating you, while managing to eat the fruits which will slow down the ghosts, giving you more time to eat the yellow dots and gain extra points by eating the ghost. The ghosts are aware that you are there. Whereas in the minature game, again, the maze is the magic circle, however, unlike pacman, you are competing against other people to get to the middle of the maze first and trying overcome being blocked in your path by the Grey blocks.

The dice is an important part of the game because it controls the way you and the way your opponents move. You are also restricted by the dice because 6 is the maximum times you can move in one time, unlike pacman where you have freedom to move within the maze. There are different levels in pacman which increase in difficulty suggesting that the game never really ends as there are more problems to face in each level. Whereas, in the minature game, there are no levels, but the game can be seen to go on for a long time depending on what is rolled on the dice and waiting for the last time to reach the middle of the maze.