{"id":26811,"date":"2015-02-25T02:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T02:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tenth-anniversary-edition-of-a-theory-of-fun-for\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T02:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T02:49:29","slug":"tenth-anniversary-edition-of-a-theory-of-fun-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tenth-anniversary-edition-of-a-theory-of-fun-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth anniversary edition of A Theory of Fun for Game\u00a0Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/111963244917\/tenth-anniversary-edition-of-a-theory-of-fun-for\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/dc918528c025ac559c6d88f0be502b8a\/tumblr_inline_nk9i25eDJh1rkw4x1.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/2105ebc8105e4a05074e74d2b5560ac3\/tumblr_inline_nk9i1zhEMU1rkw4x1.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hard to believe it\u2019s been ten years since <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004\/10\/13\/theory-of-fun-unders.html\">the initial release<\/a> of Raph Koster\u2019s indispensable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1932111972\/downandoutint-20\">A Theory of Fun for Game Design<\/a>, a book that does for game-design what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006097625X\/downandoutint-20\">Understanding Comics<\/a> did for sequential art. <\/p>\n<p>Koster and O\u2019Reilly have <a href=\"http:\/\/theoryoffun.com\/index.shtml\">produced a tenth anniversary edition<\/a>,<br \/>\n which updates all the interior art (all-color, now!), and takes account<br \/>\n of the past decade\u2019s developments in psychology and games. The new<br \/>\nedition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1449363210\/downandoutint-20\">comes out on December 5<\/a>. Here\u2019s details on the updated text from  a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2013\/11\/theory-of-fun-revised\/\">Wired Gamelife piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/11\/18\/tenth-anniversary-edition-of-a.html\"><b>Read the rest\u2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: Hard to believe it\u2019s been ten years since the initial release of Raph Koster\u2019s indispensable A Theory of Fun for Game Design, a book that does for game-design what Understanding Comics did for sequential art. Koster and O\u2019Reilly have produced a tenth anniversary edition, which updates all the interior art (all-color, now!), and takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}