November 2010
12 posts
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Play is manipulation that indulges curiosity.
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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To truly understand game design is to understand an incredibly complex web of...
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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Surprise is a crucial part of all entertainment — it is at the root of humor,...
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don’t...
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Q1. Games are entered willfully.
Q2. Games have goals.
Q3. Games have...
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude.
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...
– Harvard Mark
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When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru.
– Ram Dass
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Procedural rhetoric is a general name for the practice of authoring arguments...
– Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something!
– Thomas Edison
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People who come up with clever solutions are almost always the same people who...
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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It does not make much difference what a person studies. All knowledge is...
– Hypatia