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But games are ever-changing, culturally-shaped practices that have more in common with square dancing and […] butterfly collecting than they do with passively consumed entertainment products. And so the more we try to treat games like media, the less game-like they are.

– John Sharp
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Many of you grew up with similar experiences, as games have been part of our lives since the earliest moments of our comprehension. They’re not just a thing we do on occasion for fun—they’re ineffably etched into the way we live our lives.

– Ray Mazza
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The fact that playing games—good ones, anyway—is fundamentally a creative act is something that speaks very well for the medium.

– Raph Koster
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Play. Games. Narrative. Interactivity. What a motley bunch. Honestly, have you ever seen such a suspicious set of slippery and ambiguous, overused, and ill-defined terms?

– Eric Zimmerman
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This is what games are for. They teach us things so that we can minimize risk and know what choices to make.

– Raph Koster
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