Book description
More than sixty games in which two to two hundred players can participate all require elements of trust and cooperation
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Why read it?
1 author picked The New Games Book as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
My copy is from 1976. It is a timeless classic that speaks to the human at the center of everything we play together.
This book serves to remind us that games don’t have to be digital experiences. Sometimes exploring ideas and being creative can lead to new paradigms of seeing each other as contributors to our joy and excitement of playing games.
I never tire of reading this book and learning of the scale and scope for being players and playing well together. The games in this book are co-created with a community of players, isn’t that the way it…
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