The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (Playful Thinking)
Brand: The MIT Press
Color: White
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Mit Press

Dimensions: 5.38 x 0.4 x 8 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0262529952
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262529955
Publisher: The MIT Press
Print length: 172 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2016
subtitle: Paperback – September 2, 2016
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review: Editorial Reviews Review Juul's essay is lean, pleasingly bold, and follows through on an intriguing premise.— Slate — So it's a fascinating time to examine the concept of failure in video games, and luckily the gaming academic Jesper Juul did just that in The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games , which was released in February by MIT Press as part of its Playful Thinking series.... Maybe the interesting question here isn't what failure in games does—as Juul acknowledges, it does different things for different people—but rather what creative new approaches developers can take to one of the oldest, most universal parts of the human experience. — Jesse Singal , Boston Globe — Review Frankly, I hadn't expected to enjoy a book about failure nearly as much as I did. Jesper Juul brings many different fields of study to the table and provides an engaging learning experience. ― Brenda Brathwaite Romero , game designer, COO and Co-Founder of Loot Drop About the Author Jesper Juul is Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He is the author of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds ; A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players ; and The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games , all published by the MIT Press. Read more