{"id":1740,"date":"2013-03-04T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:41:47","slug":"art-of-failure-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/03\/04\/art-of-failure-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Failure book launch March 7 in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art of Failure<\/a> book launch w\/ talks and game-playing:<\/p>\n

Join us on Thursday, March 7th at 7PM for a conversation on the pain of playing video games!<\/b><\/p>\n

We tend to talk of video games as being \u201cfun,\u201d but in his new book\u00a0The Art of Failure<\/i><\/a>, Jesper Juul claims that this is\u00a0almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, we frown, grimace, and shout in frustration.\u00a0So why do we play video games even though they often make us unhappy?<\/p>\n

At this book launch event, Jesper Juul will discuss game failure with\u00a0Doug Wilson,\u00a0<\/b>PhD graduate from the IT University of Copenhagen and\u00a0<\/b>indie game designer at Die Guten Fabrik of\u00a0Johann Sebastian Joust<\/i>\u00a0fame, and\u00a0Frank Lantz<\/b>, veteran game designer and Director of the NYU Game Center.<\/p>\n

During the talk, the panelists will play painfully challenging games, and the audience will be invited to share the pain.<\/p>\n

Jesper Juul is an assistant professor at the NYU Game Center. He has been working with video game theory since the early 1990\u2032s. His previous book are\u00a0Half-Real<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0A Casual Revolution<\/i>, also on MIT Press. Jesper is a sore loser.<\/p>\n

This event is free and open to the public. \u00a0Seats are limited, RSVP here:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/YsnWK1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Copies of\u00a0The Art of Failure<\/em>\u00a0will be\u00a0available\u00a0for purchase following the lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art of Failure book launch w\/ talks and game-playing: Join us on Thursday, March 7th at 7PM for a conversation on the pain of playing video games! We tend to talk of video games as being \u201cfun,\u201d but in his new book\u00a0The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is\u00a0almost entirely mistaken. When we … Continue reading “Art of Failure book launch March 7 in New York City”<\/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":[24,22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-failure","category-events","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}