Games
Book description
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. Thus, the fact that we play games demonstrates…
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1 author picked Games as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Though I wrote a book of games, I have never been an avid (or competent) game player. I’ve never understood why. Now I have a theory: it’s because I am an anti-Nguyen.
I read this philosophy book as a kind of self-portrait. Nguyen seems to be the perfect example of an admirable type of play he calls striving: attempting to win in a committed but temporary way to give oneself a particular experience of play. In most of life, the means are disposable, and the ends are what matter; in striving play, it’s just the reverse.
Such play requires…
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