{"product_id":"the-infinite-playground-a-players-guide-to-imagination-paperback","title":"The Infinite Playground: A Player's Guide to Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBernard De Koven\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHolly Gramazio\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eCelia Pearce\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his final work, a visionary game designer reveals how a surprising range of play-based experiences can unlock our imagination and help us capture the power of fun and delight.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBernard De Koven (1941-2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the imagination as a playground, a possibility space, and a gateway to wonder. \u003ci\u003eThe Infinite Playground\u003c\/i\u003e extends a play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination. It offers a curriculum for playful learning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDe Koven guides the readers through a series of observations and techniques, interspersed with games. He begins with the fundamentals of play, and proceeds through the private imagination, the shared imagination, and imagining the world--observing, \"the things we imagine can \u003ci\u003ebecome\u003c\/i\u003e the world.\" Along the way, he reminisces about playing ping-pong with basketball great Bill Russell; begins the instructions for a game called \u003ci\u003eReception Line\u003c\/i\u003e with \"Mill around\"; and introduces blathering games--\u003ci\u003eBlather\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGroup Blather\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSinging Blather\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Blather Chorale\u003c\/i\u003e--that allow the player's consciousness to meander freely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelivered during the last months of his life, \u003ci\u003eThe Infinite Playground\u003c\/i\u003e has been painstakingly cowritten with Holly Gramazio, who worked together with coeditors Celia Pearce and Eric Zimmerman to complete the project as Bernie De Koven's illness made it impossible for him to continue writing. Other prominent game scholars and designers influenced by De Koven, including Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, and members of Bernie's own family, contribute short interstitial essays.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernard De Koven was a leading game designer and theorist of fun. He was a codirector of the New Games Foundation, a founder of the Games Preserve, the author of The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (MIT Press), Junkyard Sports, and A Playful Path, and creator of the website deepfun.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.72 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767355506976,"sku":"9780262543866","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/46c386dfd088df7118569a1723ff62ac.webp?v=1780309845","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-infinite-playground-a-players-guide-to-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}