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Casual Game Design
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Casual Game Design

by Gregory Trefry
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 6m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER THREE
PLAY IS THE THING
and the two reach a moment of attunement. She flaps her arms in excitement and
he hoists her up above his head. The father makes note that next time his daughter
is unhappy he should place her on his knee, bounce her and maybe throw in a few
tickles. Through this playful interaction, both father and daughter begin to establish
a grammar for interacting.
The Dutch anthropologist Johann Huizinga opened Homo Ludens , his seminal
book on play, by declaring, Play is older than culture, for culture, however inad-
equately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited
for man to teach ...
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