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The Beauty of Games

by Frank Lantz

ISBN: 9780262048538

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 3, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Playing Place

Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

Edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky

ISBN: 9780262047838

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 8, 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

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

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

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

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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