epub | 1.65 MB | English | Isbn:9780262324212 | Author: Upton, Brian | Year: 2015
Description: A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games...