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Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
๐ฒ Philosophy of Games
- C. Thi Nguyen argues that games uniquely manipulate human agency, allowing players to engage in actions with defined goals and constraints.
๐ Point Systems in Life
- Nguyen highlights how point systems in games (like grades or social media metrics) can distort our values, leading us to prioritize scoring over genuine
... See moreThe greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well itโs measured.
New York Times โข A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
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โAnd Suits offers the following definition of what it is to play a game. He says, โTo play a game is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles for the sake of making possible the activity of overcoming them.โ โฆ
And the way I think of [games] sometimes, after Suits, is that games are
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