The Art of Failure
Juul, Jesper (Associate Professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)
Every day, hundreds of millions of people around the world play video games and most of them will experience failure at some point in the game, they will lose, die, or fail to advance to the next level. Humans may have a fundamental desire to succeed and feel competent, but game players choose to engage in an activity in which they are nearly certain to fail and feel incompetent. In The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul examines this paradox. In vid...
