Book description
How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.
Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about games and play in the twenty-first century, but it is fundamentally the wrong question. Instead, Frank Lantz proposes in his…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Beauty of Games as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Frank Lantz’s book opened my eyes to a different and deeper way of appreciating, loving, and talking about games.
All kinds of games, board games, card games, sports, and, yes, video games too. Oh, and best of all, Lantz does so without sounding like a fanboy or a pretentious ivory tower snob. He loves games, just as I do, but is so much more eloquent than I.
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