Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. — Ian Bogost Copy Share
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility. — Ian Bogost Copy Share
There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun." — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
