“Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.” ShouldMeanImportantDonePlayStuffTroubleOppositesPhrasesDomain Author:Ian Bogost
“You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?” IdeasDonePlayMightAskingWasting TimeNew IdeasReally Deep Author:Ian Bogost
“If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.” IfsThinkingKindDoneCertainFunEffortStruggleInvolvedDifficultyMiseryBagsAirportsWork Done Author:Ian Bogost
