Jesper Juul

Base

Country

Denmark

Institutional affiliation

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

Title

Associate Professor

Research interests relevant to game philosophy

Game rules and imagination.
Definitions of games
Player motivations

Publications and presentations relevant to game philosophy

Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. A theory of video games, MIT Press 2005.
A Casual Revolution. Reinventing Video Games and their Players. MIT Press, 2009.
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games. MIT Press, 2013.

Keywords

rules, casual gaming, player motivations

Name

Jesper Juul

Background

Game studies