Software for Play: Beyond games
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Software for Play: Beyond games
But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find most meaningful and fulfilling. The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and inter
... See moreI hope to demonstrate the value of adopting a play-centric, rather than game-centric, perspective.
Chaim Gingold • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine (Game Histories)
from standing in opposition to each other, play and work are mutually supportive. They are not poles at opposite ends of our world. Work and play are more like the timbers that keep our house from collapsing down on top of us. Though we have been taught that play and work are each the other’s enemy, what I have found is that neither one can thrive
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