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The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy by Bernard De Koven (Hardcover,...
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The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players-as well as game designers, educators, and scholars-a guide to how games work. De Koven's classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and player modification. The digital game industry, now moving beyond its emphasis on graphic techniques to focus on player interaction, has much to learn from The Well-Played Game. De Koven explains that when players congratulate each other on a well-played game, they are expressing a unique and profound synthesis that combines the concepts of play (with its associations of playfulness and fun) and game (with its associations of rule-following). This, he tells us, yields a larger concept- the experience and expression of excellence. De Koven-affectionately and appreciatively hailed by Eric Zimmerman as our shaman of play -explores the experience of a well-played game, how we share it, and how we can experience it again; issues of cheating, fairness, keeping score, changing old games (why not change the rules in pursuit of new ways to play?), and making up new games; playing for keeps; and winning. His book belongs on the bookshelves of players who want to find a game in which they can play well, who are looking for others with whom they can play well, and who have discovered the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262019170
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158363338
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Well-Played Game: a Player's Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Computer Science, Indoor Games
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
404g
Additional Product Features
Topic Area
Sociology of Sport
Series Title
The MIT Press
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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