{"id":31407,"date":"2011-02-07T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ive-never-seen-a-better-book-about-games-for\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T22:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T22:28:35","slug":"ive-never-seen-a-better-book-about-games-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ive-never-seen-a-better-book-about-games-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve never seen a better book about games for people who have zero interest in games. For intelligent people who can\u2019t understand why these weird amusements compel the allegiance of millions, this is an excellent primer. It won\u2019t make you play any games, but you\u2019ll fully understand why and how they work, and also where they\u2019re going. If you are already a veteran game designer, you might find the book\u2019s coaxing, limpid, rather sing-song approach to be mildly irritating. Jesse Schell is not a guy who normally writes long, abstruse texts, and he might have been more terse. Also, he\u2019s so in love with his industry that he rather soft-peddles its harshness to the labor force. However, if you\u2019re nineteen, and you have no idea why you adore videogames \u2014 you\u2019re just enchanted by them, you can\u2019t help yourself \u2014 dude, is this ever the book for you. You are the core demographic for this particular textual experience. Put down the hand-controller, read the book right now. I can promise you that you will grow in moral and intellectual stature. Instead of remaining a twitchy, closeted, joystick geek, like you are now, you will emerge from this patient master-class as a surprisingly broadminded adult who quotes Herman Hesse and appreciates improvisational theater and Impressionist painting. You will no longer kill off parties with your Warcraft fixation. Instead, other people your age will find themselves mysteriously drawn to you \u2014 to your air of quiet sympathy, your contemplative depth. Wise beyond your years, you will look beyond the surface details of shrieking monsters and into the deeper roots of human experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/beyond_the_beyond\/2011\/02\/a-book-review-of-jesse-schells-the-art-of-game-design\/\">A book review of Jesse Schell\u2019s THE ART OF GAME DESIGN | Beyond The Beyond<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never seen a better book about games for people who have zero interest in games. For intelligent people who can\u2019t understand why these weird amusements compel the allegiance of millions, this is an excellent primer. It won\u2019t make you play any games, but you\u2019ll fully understand why and how they work, and also where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407","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=31407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}