This enlightened attribute of the designer—the capacity to harness, control, steer and produce play for intended purposes—is what makes them culturally respectable.
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.
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.
To be playful is to appropriate a context that is not created or intended for play.
“The rules of a game are absolutely binding and allow no doubt… As soon as the rules are transgressed the whole play-world collapses”. Unlike Huizinga, I’d claim that in many cases when the rules are transgressed, new play worlds emerge.
