The Aesthetic of Play
The Aesthetic of Play A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative.The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural…
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The Aesthetic of Play
A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative.The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. And yet we still lack a critical language for thinking about play. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs.
In this book, the game designer Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play--how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Game designers are better at answering small questions ("Why is this battle boring?") than big ones ("What does this game mean?"). Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, Upton develops a framework for understanding play,
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