The art of failure : an essay on the pain of playing video games /

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.We may think of video games as being 'fun', but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Juul, Jesper, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013.
Colección:Playful thinking (Cambridge, Mass)
Temas:
Video games > Psychological aspects.
Video games > Philosophy.
Failure (Psychology)
Jeux vidéo > Aspect psychologique.
Jeux vidéo > Philosophie.
Échec.
GAMES > Video & Electronic.
Video games > Psychological aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the paradox of failure
  • The paradox of failure and the paradox of tragedy
  • The feeling of failure
  • How to fail in video games
  • Fictional failure
  • The art of failure.

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