The art of failure
Subtitle: an essay on the pain of playing video games
By: Jesper Juul
Series: Playful thinking
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780262019057
Subjects: Philosophy; Failure (Psychology); Video games; Psychological aspects
Description: Argues that video games are not fun but actually lead to feelings of frustration and incompetence and that video games are one of the few mediums that allow us to experience and experiment with failure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-147) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the paradox of failure; title: The paradox of failure and the paradox of tragedy; title: The feeling of failure; title: Designing failure; title: Fictional failure; title: The art of failure.