Ian Bogost Quotes About Effort
-
If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.
→ -
With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.
→ -
The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.
→
Related Authors
-
-
Christopher Lee Actor -
Jane McGonigal Game designer -
Paul J. Crutzen Chemist -
Brenda Romero Video Game Designer -
Robin Hunicke Video Game Designer -
Ivan Allen, Jr. Businessman -
Jesse Schell Video Game Designer -
Katie Salen Game designer -
-
Thomas Lux Poet -
-
-
Raph Koster Game designer -
Ralph Merkle Cryptographer