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Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out that almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.
Jane McGonigal β’ Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
This desire is at once wedded to a passionate love of the real primary world, and hence filled with the sense of mortality, and yet unsatisfied by it. It has various opportunities of βFallβ. It may become possessive, clinging to the things made as its own, the sub-creator wishes to be the Lord and God of his private creation.
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we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and overworked labor. The effort doesn't disappear; it just moves.
Kyla Scanlon β’ The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.