Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

by Ian Bogost

Book Overview

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age

Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465051723
• ISBN13: 9780465051724
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"