The Ambiguity of Play
By: Brian Sutton-Smith
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of a…
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1. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
By: Johan Huizinga
3.80
Format: None pages,
Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western soc… read more
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2. Play Matters
By: Miguel Sicart
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposit… read more
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3. Man, Play and Games
By: Roger Caillois , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it… read more
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4. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
By: Bernard Suits , Thomas Hurka
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
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5. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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6. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
By: Ian Bogost
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined … read more
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7. On the Aesthetic Education of Man
By: Friedrich Schiller , Reginald Snell
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
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8. Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games
By: Tracy Fullerton
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Master the craft of game design so you can create that elusive combination of challenge, competitio… read more
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9. Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
By: C. Thi Nguyen
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be a… read more
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"Games let us flirt with such seductive agencies in a protected context. Here is the hope: if you spend a lot of time engaged in aesthetic striving play, you will have plenty of practice losing yourse…"-C. Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
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10. The Ambiguity of Play
By: Brian Sutton-Smith
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of a… read more
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