A Theory of Fun

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Recommended by Alon Lee as the first game design book he ever read.

Mentioned by

Mike Shea

when discussing Soren Johnson's blog post about players optimizing the fun out of a game.

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Laurence Pevsner

, highlighting his arguments on learning from losses and the importance of 'skin in the game'.

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Dr. Ibi

referencing Raph Koster's example of changing Tetris to piling people in a pit which makes the game emotionally different.

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Joe Baxter-Webb

when comparing the narrowness of its ideas about games to the broadness of 'The Art of Game Design'.

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