“Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.” PlayKidsClothesStructureCome UpPrisonerConstraintsForts Author:Ian Bogost
“The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.” WorldIdeasPlayWholeNaturalFindingsLimitationConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
“The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.” PeopleThinkingIdeasLimitationOur RelationshipConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
“We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."” PeopleThinkingWorldRealSeemsJobsGivenStuffEnjoySituationCircumstancesStructureResponseStuckBoundariesAcknowledgeDoomedConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
