The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully

by Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber

How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response.

In The Well-Read Game, Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber explore the experiences we have when we play games: not the outcomes of play or the aesthetics of formal game structures, but the ephemeral and emotional experiences of being in play. These are the private stories we tell ourselves as we play, the questions we ask, and our reactions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026255223X
• ISBN13: 9780262552233
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages