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. 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 gam The Aesthetic of Play - Brian Upton od authora Brian Upton a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Brian Upton |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
336 |
| Rok vydání |
2021 |
| Nakladatelství |
The MIT Press |
