{"id":347,"date":"2013-10-22T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=347"},"modified":"2013-10-22T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:59:38","slug":"ian-bogost-on-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/ian-bogost-on-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Bogost on Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/74943170\" target=\"_blank\">video of Ian Bogost<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/persuasive_games.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Persuasive Games<\/a> fame) talk at UX Week 2013 about fun. He argues that &#8216;fun&#8217; isn&#8217;t something that can be added to a task (a.k.a. the chocolate-covered broccoli model) but that it is intrinsically related to the structures of an activity and is generated by the feeling of operating in a constrained system. This is exemplified in the following quote from the talk:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;[we believe that] we have to bring something to the table that makes intolerable things tolerable &#8230; but what if we arrive at fun not through expanding the circumstances that we&#8217;re in, in order to make them less wretched, but actually by embracing the wretchedness of the circumstances themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This brings to mind Papert&#8217;s notion of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.papert.org\/articles\/HardFun.html\" target=\"_blank\">hard fun<\/a>&#8216; and the idea that things are not fun\u00a0<em>despite<\/em> being hard, but <em>because<\/em> they are hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw this video of Ian Bogost (of Persuasive Games fame) talk at UX Week 2013 about fun. He argues that &#8216;fun&#8217; isn&#8217;t something that can be added to a task (a.k.a. the chocolate-covered broccoli model) but that it&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/ian-bogost-on-fun\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[114,195],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-thoughts","tag-fun","tag-ian-bogost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-5B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}