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        The Beauty of Games

        The Beauty of Games

        The Beauty of Games

        by Frank Lantz

        ISBN: 9780262552950

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 4, 2025

        How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.
        Playing Place

        Playing Place

        Playing Place

        Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

        Edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky

        ISBN: 9780262047838

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space.
        Playing Oppression

        Playing Oppression

        Playing Oppression

        The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

        by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson

        ISBN: 9780262047913

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 28, 2023

        A striking analysis of popular board games' roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it.
        Unboxed

        Unboxed

        Unboxed

        Board Game Experience and Design

        by Gordon Calleja

        ISBN: 9780262543958

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 4, 2022

        An in-depth exploration of the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience.
        Characteristics of Games

        Characteristics of Games

        Characteristics of Games

        by George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield and K. Robert Gutschera

        Foreword by Eric Zimmerman

        ISBN: 9780262542692

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 8, 2020

        Understanding games—whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports—by analyzing certain common traits.
        Uncertainty in Games

        Uncertainty in Games

        Uncertainty in Games

        by Greg Costikyan

        ISBN: 9780262527538

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 30, 2015

        How uncertainty in games—from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors—engages players and shapes play experiences.
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