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Playful Thinking

Authors: John Sharp, Christopher A Paul, David Thomas, Christopher A. Paul, Stefan Werning

The Playful Thinking book series by multiple authors includes books Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art, Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence, Treacherous Play, and several more. See the complete Playful Thinking series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.

11 Books

Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art - Book of the Playful Thinking

Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art

John Sharp

From $12.29

Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence - Book of the Playful Thinking

Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence

Julian Togelius

From $24.69

Treacherous Play - Book of the Playful Thinking

Treacherous Play

Marcus Carter

Out of Stock

How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design - Book of the Playful Thinking

How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design

Katherine Isbister

From $12.99

Uncertainty in Games - Book of the Playful Thinking

Uncertainty in Games

Greg Costikyan

From $13.89

Play Matters - Book of the Playful Thinking

Play Matters

Miguel Sicart

From $17.19

Real Games: What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames - Book of the Playful Thinking

Real Games: What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames

Mia Consalvo, Christopher A Paul, Christopher A. Paul

From $35.74

Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful - Book of the Playful Thinking

Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful

John Sharp, David Thomas

From $20.74

Play Like a Feminist. - Book of the Playful Thinking

Play Like a Feminist.

Shira Chess

From $7.89

Making Games: The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools - Book of the Playful Thinking

Making Games: The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools

Stefan Werning

From $30.64

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games - Book of the Playful Thinking

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

Jesper Juul

From $83.79

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