Jesper Juul
(the real*)

About:

• I am a visiting assistant arts professor at the New York University Game Center.

• Read my publications on video games.

• Read The Ludologist, my blog on video games and other important things.
  
  

My Books

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

Why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy?

MIT Press 2013.

Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds

A theory of video games.

MIT Press 2005.

A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players

On casual games, the Wii, music games, and other games for "the rest of us".

MIT Press 2010.