On the Manifesto for a Ludic Century

My full response to Eric Zimmerman — The game designer Eric Zimmerman just published a "Manifesto for the Ludic Century," and several folks were invited to write responses to it, including me. You should click through and read both of those links because this post won't make any sense if you don't. When you do, you'll notice that Heather Chaplin commented "I don't know exactly what he's talking about" in response to my response. But! She also only excerpted about a third of it, so, I thought I'd post the whole thing here: When you think about it, it's curious to pen a manifesto for a ludic... (read more)