“[Play is] almost like meditation with a smile. It’s chasing after bliss.”
—Randall Roberts, music critic
Month: March 2018
Mattie Brice on the PlayTime Manifesto
“Play is a context where we practice or live through alternate realities and experiment with new customs and protocols for various forms of catharsis or exploration.”
—Mattie Brice, game designer
Jane Friedhoff on the PlayTime Manifesto
“When I think about play, it’s that pulling back the curtain, just these tiny little moments when you get to embody something else and kind of see another way of being.”
—Jane Friedhoff, gamer designer and creator of Lost Wage Rampage
Tracy Fullerton on the PlayTime Manifesto
“Play is movement within constraints.”
—Tracy Fullerton, director of the Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California
Sam Roberts on the PlayTime Manifesto
“Play is a trust exercise. Close your eyes and fall backwards and hope that they catch you.”
—Sam Roberts, Festival Director, IndieCade
