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Jesper Juul is video game theorist and Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy. He has taught at MIT, New York University, and ITU Copenhagen. An occasional game developer and organizer of the first Nordic Game Jam, he is the author of five books about the meaning, joy, and pain of video games.

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	Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds 3.89 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (Playful Thinking Series) 3.65 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players 3.50 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Half-Real in complex Chinese: 電玩的本質

I am happy to share that my first book Half-Real is now out in complex Chinese, titled “電玩的本質 – 遊走於真實規則與虛構世界的藝術”!

Thanks to everybody who made it happen.

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The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design

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“This is what games do: they promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy—an inadequacy that they produce in us in the first place.”
― Jesper Juul, The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

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