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Life Is a Game - What Game Design Says about the Human Condition (Hardcover)
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Life Is a Game - What Game Design Says about the Human Condition (Hardcover)
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What if life is a game? Are you winning? Have you even decided what
'winning' is? Game design could be defined in many ways, but here
the term is used to denote the practice of creating choices.
Designing a game, in this sense, involves crafting limits, rewards,
incentives, and risks in such a way that the person who interacts
with the game - the player - makes choices that have consequences.
Edward Castronova urges readers to think about the fundamentals of
the human condition and compare them to different games that we all
know. In some ways, life is like an idle game: providing
unchallenging distractions that fit easily into a person's daily
routine. In other ways, life is like the game Minesweeper: You poke
in different places to learn about what you don't know, taking care
to avoid big explosions. Or, life is like a role-playing game: You
adopt a persona and speak your part, always seeking adventure.
Bringing together questions relating to diverse fields - such as
politics, economics, sociology and philosophy - Castronova
persuades readers to broaden the scope of game design to answer
questions about life's everyday obstacles. The object of this book
is to take seriously the idea that life is a game. The goal is not
to make readers wealthier or healthier. Its goal is to go on a
journey into the human condition, with game design as a guide.
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