To be playful is to appropriate a context that is not created or intended for play.
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.
“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.
Games don’t matter. Like in the old fable, we are the fools looking at the finger when someone points at the moon. Games are the finger; play is the moon.