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My name is Jesper, and I am a\u00a0sore loser<\/b>.<\/p>\nMy name is Jesper, and I am a\u00a0sore loser<\/b>.<\/p>\n
And my new book\u00a0The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games<\/a>\u00a0is fresh out on MIT Press! To wit:\u00a0I hate to fail<\/b>\u00a0in games. I think I\u00a0enjoy<\/i>\u00a0playing video games, but why does this enjoyment contain at its core something that I most certainly do not enjoy?<\/p>\n We tend to talk of video games as being\u00a0fun<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0but in\u00a0The Art of Failure<\/i>, I claim that this is\u00a0almost entirely mistaken<\/b>. When we play video games, we frown, grimace, and shout in frustration.\u00a0So\u00a0why do we play video games even though they often make us unhappy<\/b>?<\/p>\n In the book\u00a0I\u00a0compare game failure to\u00a0tragic literature, theater, and cinema<\/b>. Where stories concern the inadequacies of others, game failure is special in that it concerns\u00a0our<\/i>\u00a0personal inadequacies<\/p>\n The book covers the\u00a0philosophy and psychology of failure<\/b>, as well as the problem of\u00a0interactive tragedy<\/b>, and it shows how different types of game design makes failure personal<\/b>.<\/p>\n Finally, I argue for\u00a0our right to be just a little angry<\/b>, and more than a little\u00a0frustrated, when we fail<\/b>.<\/p>\n Get\u00a0The Art of Failure<\/i>\u00a0from your neighborhood bookstore, your favorite online retailer, or from\u00a0the book’s companion website:\u00a0http:\/\/www. The book is available in both paper and ebook formats.<\/p>\n Official MIT Press page:\u00a0http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/ Thanks to everybody who made this book possible!<\/p>\n -Jesper<\/p>\n My name is Jesper, and I am a\u00a0sore loser. And my new book\u00a0The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games\u00a0is fresh out on MIT Press! (On\u00a0Amazon.com. UK.) To wit:\u00a0I hate to fail\u00a0in games. I think I\u00a0enjoy\u00a0playing video games, but why does this enjoyment contain at its core something that I … Continue reading “My new book: The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-failure","category-games","category-my_publications","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(On\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a>. UK<\/a>.)<\/p>\nWhere to get it<\/h2>\n
Endorsements<\/h2>\n
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\n\u2014Brenda Brathwaite Romero<\/b>, game designer, COO and Co-Founder of Loot Drop<\/li>\n
\n\u2014Jamin Warren<\/b>, Founder, Kill Screen<\/li>\n
\n\u2014Henry Lowood<\/strong>, Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections, Stanford University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"