What happens when a player picks up a video game, learns to play it, masters it, and leaves it?
Podcast: Jesper Juul, “Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player”
Jesper Juul on what happens when a player picks up a video game, learns to play it, masters it, and leaves it.
Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player
Jesper Juul: “Video game players are neither rational solvers of abstract problems, nor daydreamers in fictional worlds, but both of these things with shifting emphasis.”