I see play as a portable tool for being.
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.
This enlightened attribute of the designer—the capacity to harness, control, steer and produce play for intended purposes—is what makes them culturally respectable.
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.
