Thank you for your response Jesper! While I have your attention, do you have any suggestions on further literature about failure in games?

Also, I realise that I may be pushing my luck here, but is there anyway that I could get a brief interview with you on failure in games at some point in the next few months? You are an expert on the matter and it would add a lot of authority to that aspect of my paper if I had your voice.

Either way, thank your for your great work.

Hi Marc

Thanks for your comment. I am glad that the book makes it out to audiences and contexts beyond what I envisioned. It sounds like it makes perfect sense for a management context.

Thanks! Jesper

Off topic but i recon this is one of the best ways to get in touch with you. I read your book the art of failure and I absolutely love it. I’m currently doing a masters in innovation management in London at Central Saint Martins and i’m just beginning my dissertation.

I planning to investigate how organisations handle failure in regards to innovation. Furthermore I want to explore if there are lessons to be learnt from well designed games and how they frame failure. In many ways failure in ‘good’ games is a very progressive form of failure. Progressive in a sense that it necessitates learning from failure and not getting discouraged by it but rather accepting it as part of the journey to the point where it can motivate us.

In many ways your book inspired me to follow this rather unorthodox approach and I would love to speak to you about it if there is any chance of doing so.

Best regards, Marc