This argues pretty strongly that if people are to achieve their maximum potential, they need to do the hard work of playing the games they don’t get, the games that don’t appeal to their natures.
Quotes by Raph Koster
Fun is about learning in a context where there is no pressure from consequence, and that is why games matter.
There are many ways we find fun in games, and I will talk about the others. But learning is the one I believe to be the most important.
Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
While metaphors are fun to play with, players can basically ignore them. […] Games, by the very nature of what they teach, push towards this sort of understanding. Since they are about teaching underlying patterns, they train their players to ignore the fiction that wraps the patterns.