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The Well-Read Game
On Playing Thoughtfully
ISBN: 9780262552233
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response.
Playframes
How Do We Know We Are Playing?
ISBN: 9780262550819
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
An exploration of how we know we're playing and what happens when we don't.
Toy Theory
Technology and Imagination in Play
ISBN: 9780262548212
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2024
A novel interpretation of the history and theory of technology from the perspective of toys, play, and play objects.
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
ISBN: 9780262547925
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
The Infinite Playground
A Player's Guide to Imagination
ISBN: 9780262543866
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 21, 2022
A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.
Locally Played
Real-World Games for Stronger Places and Communities
ISBN: 9780262043489
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How games can make a real-world difference in communities when city leaders tap into the power of play for local impact.
Herewith the Clues
ISBN: 9783956794421
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: July 2, 2019
An investigation of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game— an entirely new manifestation of gamified literature—developed in the interwar period.
Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
ISBN: 9780262039352
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2019
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.
A Play of Bodies
How We Perceive Videogames
ISBN: 9780262037631
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 6, 2018
An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other.
Play Matters
ISBN: 9780262534512
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 27, 2017
Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.

The Well-Read Game
On Playing Thoughtfully
ISBN: 9780262552233
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response.
Playframes
How Do We Know We Are Playing?
ISBN: 9780262550819
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
An exploration of how we know we're playing and what happens when we don't.
Toy Theory
Technology and Imagination in Play
ISBN: 9780262548212
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2024
A novel interpretation of the history and theory of technology from the perspective of toys, play, and play objects.
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
ISBN: 9780262547925
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
The Infinite Playground
A Player's Guide to Imagination
ISBN: 9780262543866
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 21, 2022
A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.
Locally Played
Real-World Games for Stronger Places and Communities
ISBN: 9780262043489
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How games can make a real-world difference in communities when city leaders tap into the power of play for local impact.
Herewith the Clues
ISBN: 9783956794421
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: July 2, 2019
An investigation of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game— an entirely new manifestation of gamified literature—developed in the interwar period.
Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
ISBN: 9780262039352
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2019
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.
A Play of Bodies
How We Perceive Videogames
ISBN: 9780262037631
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 6, 2018
An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other.
Play Matters
ISBN: 9780262534512
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 27, 2017
Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.