“The Concept of a Games Consultant Has An Inherent and Palpable Tragic Element“

– Christian Mccrea

 

“But leave the wise to wrangle and, with me

The quarrel of the universe let be:

And, in some corner of the hubbub couch’d

Make a game of that which makes as much of thee.”

-The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 

“Oh my god, he didn’t kill her, but he broke up with her. I hate it when that happens”

-Sean Plott, on Heart of the Swarm 

 

“Play cannot be denied. You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.”

– Johann Huizinga, Homo Ludens