[PDF.17oa] The Aesthetic of Play (MIT Press)

The Aesthetic of Play (MIT Press)

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 | #960785 in Books |  2015-03-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.69 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| And now I want all my friends to read it.|By Kaylo|I just now finished reading this, and I really really enjoyed it. I wish I'd had it on hand when I was teaching a game design class a few years ago. I heard about it on "The Big Idea" section of Scalzi's blog (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/03/17/the-big-idea-brian-upton/). Neuroscience? Microsemiotics? Applications to literar| ||This book blasts through the sterile dogmas of game studies with a model of play that unites stories, games, and criticism into diverse unity. Upton offers a unique and invigorating perspective on humanity's love affair with the aesthetic experiences of playi

The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a critical language for thinking about play. Game designers are better at answering small questions ("Why is this battle boring?") than big ones ("What does this game mean?"). In this book, the g...

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