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Ian Bogost - Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games - 9780465051724 - V9780465051724
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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

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Description for Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, TBD. BIC Classification: JFCA; JMR; UDX; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 242 x 30. Weight in Grams: 514.
Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know. u- Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter ife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun . But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities.The key to this playful mindset ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465051724
SKU
V9780465051724
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a founding partner at Persuasive Games, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. Bogost lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Follow him @ibogost

Reviews for Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
Proposing an aesthetic of play, [Bogost] draws on myriad examples, from golf to the task of watering his lawn to his daughter's self-directed rules of 'step on a crack, break your mother's back.' ...[the] idea-driven prose of PLAY ANYTHING might remind you of the applied-philosophy tactics of an Alain de Botton... demonstrate[s] the importance of thoughtful, serious criticism on gaming ... Read more

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