The art of failure [electronic resource] : an essay on the pain of playing video games / Jesper Juul.

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.We may think of video games as being 'fun', but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial e...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Juul, Jesper, 1970-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013.
Series:	Playful thinking (Cambridge, Mass)
Subjects:	Video games > Psychological aspects. Video games > Philosophy. Failure (Psychology)