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Quotes by Miguel Sicart

Spanish-born game scholar, professor at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University Copenhagen. Author of several books and articles on computer games, game aesthetics and design.

I see play as a portable tool for being.

– Miguel Sicart
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This enlightened attribute of the designer—the capacity to harness, control, steer and produce play for intended purposes—is what makes them culturally respectable.

– Miguel Sicart
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A game designer is not an author. Like a prop master or a stage director, the game designer proposes and deploys an object into the world, letting it speak for itself and be spoken through.

– Miguel Sicart
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To be playful is to appropriate a context that is not created or intended for play.

– Miguel Sicart
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The desire to play is fundamentally the desire to be.

– Miguel Sicart
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