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Fun, Taste, & Games - An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (Hardcover)
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Fun, Taste, & Games - An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (Hardcover)
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Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and
play. "Fun" is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it
pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into
learning? Fun also has baggage-it seems inconsequential,
embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste, & Games, John Sharp
and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool
for understanding and appreciating play and games. They position
fun at the heart of the aesthetics of games. As beauty was to art,
they argue, fun is to play and games-the aesthetic goal that we
measure our experiences and interpretations against. Sharp and
Thomas use this fun-centered aesthetic framework to explore a range
of games and game issues-from workplace bingo to Meow Wolf, from
basketball to Myst, from the consumer marketplace to Marcel
Duchamp. They begin by outlining three elements for understanding
the drive, creation, and experience of fun: set-outsideness, ludic
forms, and ambiguity. Moving from theory to practice and back
again, they explore the complicated relationships among the titular
fun, taste, and games. They consider, among other things, the
dismissal of fun by game journalists and designers; the seminal but
underinfluential game Myst, and how tastes change over time; the
shattering of the gamer community in Gamergate; and an aesthetics
of play that goes beyond games.
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