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Art of Failure An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

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ISBN-10: 0262019051

ISBN-13: 9780262019057

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jesper Juul

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Every day, hundreds of millions of people around the world play video games -- onsmart phones, on computers, on consoles -- and most of them will experience failure at some point inthe game; they will lose, die, or fail to advance to the next level. Humans may have a fundamentaldesire to succeed and feel competent, but game players choose to engage in an activity in which theyare nearly certain to fail and feel incompetent. In The Art of Failure, JesperJuul examines this paradox. In video games, as in tragic works of art, literature, theater, andcinema, it seems that we want to experience unpleasantness even if we also dislike it. Reader oraudience reaction to tragedy is often explained as…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Jesper Juul, born in Denmark in 1948, is a family therapist. He is the director of the Kempler Institute of Scandinavia, a center for family therapy, and Family Counseling International in Croatia. He divides his time between Copenhagen and Zagreb.

Series Foreword
Preface
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index